w. josh

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Cena miiiiiiight be suffering from some nerve damage.

After you've punted someone in the head, a little shove really shouldn't be a big deal.

That reminds me, they really need to repurpose the Dibiase/Hennig Fortunate Sons team name.

Show at least had a great look on his face when the Bryan chants started - he was stifling a huge shit-eating grin. That's enough character work/continuity for me, I guess.

That Cena promo really was something else. It just makes his obnoxious pee-pee ca-ca material even more infuriating when he shows flashes like that and you remember how good he can be when he's serious. And he's the only one in the ring who knew what to do with the Bryan chants - no, HHH's smarmy "yeah, this is hometown heat buddy, don't get your hopes up" schtick doesn't count. I don't know if HBK's healthy enough to stand on the apron and throw a couple of minute's worth of punches and superkicks, but DX vs. the Urban Outfitters really is the best thing they could do with any of those guys at WM.

That double stomp is just a perfect example of dangerous, reckless, middle of the match spot for no reason except MOVEZ BRO. There 's no way to hit it and land well himself (as evidenced by his double flop to the floor), and he's doing the move at a weird angle while heading toward his opponent lengthwise, which means if he's off at all, he spikes Elgin's head or throat. And it's not even a near-fall. It looks good enough, but what's the point of doing something that runs a much-higher-than-normal risk of hurting you or your opponent when you're going to do twenty other equally stupid/hurty things before you get to the finish anyway? Davey in a nutshell, to me.

They could sign him and then go the Danielson route and change his name to Stylish Alan. Tell me you wouldn't want to see him work whatever that gimmick would be.

...and promptly had a shitty match with AJ Styles at Death Before Dishonor IV. Don't sweat the details. Davey doesn't.

Cena vs. HHH to give The Authority their final comeuppance is the safest, least forward-thinking, most unimaginative, solid B+ at best move they could do. So yeah, that's the one.

Ted Turner did it, obviously.

Why keep the Sin Cara character around at all? Did they really sell that many drippy dick t-shirts? Just bring Samuray up as a new luchador that doesn't have a history of underachievement. Edit: or what he said.

Can we all agree, right now, that when Wade gets future endeavored after yet another half-assed attempt to get him back to a respectable level fails, the first person to use "Bad news, Barrett" as a punchline gets banned and/or tasered?

To be fair, the foot and the peg would make a great pareja increible.

Orton's biggest problem is that he's been around the main event seemingly since he was 13. There's just nothing left to see him do at this point. With the tag team renaissance, I'd say the best bet would have been to pair him up with an NXT guy as the veteran member of a team. Orton/Kruger as psychotic douches going after the PTPs would be nominally more interesting then Orton-Cena Best of 239485, at least.

But there was never a point in WWE history where they refuses to acknowledge Jimmy Snuka's existence. And his story is insider sleaze compared to the Benoit coverage.

No idea where the "Solomon Crowe called up in a tag team" rumor originated, but the odd wording of it makes me think that, if true, he'd be joining an existing group. Like, say, as Roman Reigns' replacement in the Shield, or Erick Rowan's in The Wyatt Family.

Give it six months.

People aren't saying it would glorify anything. People are saying that a company that still pretends Chris Benoit never existed for fear of negative association is very, very unlikely to make a signing that will allow even a 24-48 hour news cycle that puts "former WWE star" and "double murder-suicide" in the same sound bite. They're the number one company in the world and have got more guys than they do roster spots at any given time anyway - it's not like they're starving for either media attention or warm bodies (bad phrasing, I know). Now, TNA, on the other hand, would welcome the attention...

I think I could get behind Brodus/Tensai as a serious monster heel team. Especially if Sylvester LeFort comes up to make some mow-nay with them.

I find it hard to believe that no one from CZW or IWA-MS ever used that - the nickname or the finisher, in fact.

The generic names would be fine if they had nicknames attached. On paper, Ric Flair, Jim Duggan, Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, and Shawn Michaels are all pretty Create-A-Wrestler-y. They just don't give guys memorable nicknames that make them sound like legit fighters anymore. Now we get "The Animal" and "The Apex Predator."

Oh come on, they wouldn't even bark? Live the gimmick, bros.

The in-ring aspect of an OCD gimmick would be my favorite thing in the world. Like, the guy would keep trying to go up top to hit his 720 corkscrew splash finish, but would always have to reposition his opponent's prone body 37 times first and eventually just get small packaged.

Actually going with Terror Risin' at first is just the WCWiest WCW that ever did WCW.