The Big WWE Wrestling Thread
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Indeed, but for me WWE is just so boring at the moment. It seems to me to be so very very cynical in the way that the raw matches are so cr@p, so short, so lacking in any emotion, so limited in exciting wrestling skill, flair, heart, moves..... and so obviously written to fit in around advert breaks and (badly) booked reals for the next ppv. The CM Punk revolution from last year started brightly but has totally fizzled out; Jericho's return has amounted to nothing; the Brock thing is too much too soon, and the best wrestlers either aren't getting booked properly, have retired, are too old and knackered or have dropped off the radar. This sort of stuff just goes on month after months with no end in sight.
Agreed, Tna not massively better, and it's quite obvious that the card if very full of hasbeens and ex-wwe wrestlers who were let go, but I get the feeling that they let the wrestlers do much more in-ring in terms of moves and effort, and for this they get a much better athmospere from their audience.This makes for a better overall experience, IMO. Yes, Rick Flare, Hogan and now even Sting are a bit of a joke, but I sit there and watch a tna headliner and feel ive got my proverbial moneys-worth; I watch raw week in, week out, and feel short changed time after time. There have been perhaps a handful of matches and wwe shows over the past three years which have made me go wow, and yet the wrestling of tna consistenly keeps me engaged. So, an occasional big effort, or a consistently interesting, engaging show? I dunno, but the wwe has to REALLY pick up its game to keep me hooked. Tna is obviously trying a bit too hard but it's a lot of fun, and that's what counts.
Agreed, Tna not massively better, and it's quite obvious that the card if very full of hasbeens and ex-wwe wrestlers who were let go, but I get the feeling that they let the wrestlers do much more in-ring in terms of moves and effort, and for this they get a much better athmospere from their audience.This makes for a better overall experience, IMO. Yes, Rick Flare, Hogan and now even Sting are a bit of a joke, but I sit there and watch a tna headliner and feel ive got my proverbial moneys-worth; I watch raw week in, week out, and feel short changed time after time. There have been perhaps a handful of matches and wwe shows over the past three years which have made me go wow, and yet the wrestling of tna consistenly keeps me engaged. So, an occasional big effort, or a consistently interesting, engaging show? I dunno, but the wwe has to REALLY pick up its game to keep me hooked. Tna is obviously trying a bit too hard but it's a lot of fun, and that's what counts.
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Not that I'm a huge wrestling fan, but the other thing TNA seems to have over WWE is a half-decent (apart from some bizarre storylines) women's division. It's not really surprising that Gail Kim, Mickie James and Winter (aka Katie Lea Burchill) all went there from WWE. Awesome Kong\Kharma was there a while too. Even Velvet Sky isn't completely devoid of wrestling ability, despite being more eye candy than in-ring performer.
It's not really a case of them going to TNA from the WWE the way you're suggesting though is it? Apart from Gail Kim none of them left the wwe by choice it was more of a case of the wwe releasing them from their contracts and TNA being the next best place for them to pick up a pay check from.
Sure, but from what I can tell the WWE haven't run a respectable women's (sorry, divas
) division in years. Just toilet break matches as they're often called now...I thought he wasn't cleared due to his spinal injury?
Doesn't look like Mr 619 will be back anytime soon...
http://www.wwe.com/news/rey-mysterio-suspended
http://www.wwe.com/news/rey-mysterio-suspended
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That Brock Lesnar is one scary individual.
lol yep, I know it's all scripted and for all I know he might be a lovely bloke behind the curtain but yeah I'm not sure I'd want to be in a ring with him (that said the majority of them probably have ego's so big that they probably genuinely believe they can take anyone)
Was reading one of the dirt sheets earlier that said the plan was for the Summerslam main event to be Lesnar v Orton, looking forward to that one already (Lesnar v Cena will be interesting but it has been done before)
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shame, I've always been a Mysterio fan
I do hate the fact that Brock just looks fat at the minute though. Tank Lesnar in 2002-2004 was awesome and actually looked like a force. He really knows how to play a heel though, the whole stadium sounded like they were cheering for Cena on Monday because of how well Lesnar plays a heel. I'm also glad to see Cena wearing the chain too, hope the old Cena comes back.
I can't imagine him being the loveliest person in the world
Generally is a bad ass!Hopefully he will muscle up and look like he did back then, like on the game cover above. The speed and strength he has is/was crazy, hell he even did a backflip off the top rope, can't remember seeing that from someone that big!
I agree, is great at playing a heel.
Aye, albeit he did bugger it up big time
. He was known for doing it prior to the WWE though I heard.