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    JAN 2014 WRESTLING DISCUSSION REBOOT THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    is Axel's finisher worse than my finisher idea of "put the guy in a clawhold while in a front face lock, then give him a neckbreaker while he's still in the clawhold"?

     

    you'd think he'd just use the Perfect Plex, but nope.

    He uses a shitty fisherman's neckbreaker, too. So basically, just enough to remind us of his dad having talent.

     

    And I can't even visualise how to apply your idea. But it reminds me, I once made a Create-a-Finisher in one of the WWE games where the guy doing the move just kept switching setup positions - fireman's carry into a body slam into a torture rack into a side slam, etc etc. The move sometimes took longer to perform than the rest of the match.

    Smackdown Spoilers for 1/24/14

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    Nice show, the Wade Barrett bit sounds awesome.

     

     

    * Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro vs. Big Show and Rey Mysterio kicks off SmackDown. Rey and Show get the win after Rey jumped off Show’s shoulders with a splash. After the match, Paul Heymancomes out and cuts a promo on Big Show about his match with Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble.

    * The Miz vs. Brodus Clay is next. Bad News Barrett interrupts and starts doing commentary for the match from his podium, over the loud speaker. The Miz wins by pinfall and goes after Barrett. Our correspondent says, “Segment of the year. Barrett trolled the IWC.”

    * AJ Lee squashes Cameron.

    * The Shield appear on the big screen and talk about the Royal Rumble match.

    * Ryback and Curtis Axel defeated Los Matadores.

    * CM Punk cuts a promo on the Royal Rumble next. He talks about how The Authority hates him and is out to get him. Kane interrupts and talks about the odds of Punk winning since he’s the #1 entrant.

    * Erick Rowan and Luke Harper squash Darren Young and Titus O’Neil. Bray Wyatt enters the ring after the match and hits Sister Abigail on Young. Bray cuts a promo about how he will not only defeatDaniel Bryan at the Rumble, he will hurt him. Daniel Bryan comes out to a massive pop and talks about how he fears nothing.

    * Emma is shown in the crowd again.

    * Kofi Kingston defeated Fandango.

    * We get a preview for Randy Orton vs. John Cena.

    * The Shield and The New Age Outlaws vs. Big E Langston, The Usos, Cody Rhodes and Goldust is up next. Seth Rollins does a crotch chop to get a pop. The match ends in a disqualification and everyone starts running out from the back. SmackDown ends with everyone brawling in the ring to hype the Royal Rumble match.

    I'm interested to see who's in that smazz at the end, it should be everyone who's in the Rumble. What's IWC?

     

    International Watch Company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Watch_Company

     

    Wade is always sending shots at the Swiss.

     

    It's because he has heat with Cesaro.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    I was gonna say... all that and it turns out the overrun was the highest rated thing on the entire show... which it often is but nowhere in the last hour does it show that people were disinterested in the cage match. They were simply waiting for it and watching other shit in the meantime.

     

    Also, fuck little Billy and his poor taste.

    I'm disappointed, because Little Jimmy was right there.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

     

     

     

    WWE Raw on Monday, January 13 delivered very interesting quarter-hour TV ratings results.

    There were three distinct "peak levels" in each hour of the three-hour show, including the 2014 Hall of Fame announcement. 

    All ratings references below are for the key demographic of males 18-49.

    - Peak #1: 2.33 rating in Q4 (end of the first hour) for the end of Big Show vs. Jack Swagger and New Age Outlaws's ring introductions before their six-man tag match with C.M. Punk against The Shield.

    The actual six-man tag then dipped to a 2.24 rating in Q5 at the top of the second hour.

    - Peak #2: 2.35 rating in Q7 for the Ultimate Warrior's Hall of Fame announcement, which was helped by a pre-commercial teaser.

    - Peak #3: 2.39 rating in Q9 (top of the third hour) for the end of Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston and post-match injury angle involving John Cena, Sr.

    - Over-Run Peak: 2.40 over-run rating for the end of the steel cage main event and Daniel Bryan dumping the Wyatts.

     

     

    Numbers can be made to do wonderful things.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    You should have at least four enemies at anyone time. Ohio, Chicago, Canada and the frozen wasteland of Wisconsin.

    We really don't care about you.

    Are you Canadian?

     

    Yeah. And outside of Windsor, I don't think there's a place in the country that would consider Michigan in the top four 'enemies'. Hell, I'd put Buffalo ahead of you.

     

    EDIT: Just realized you might have thought I was taking a shot at you as an individual. Not the case. Just took me by surprise to see my country cited as an enemy of Michigan.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

     

    TNA released Wes Brisco

     

    I hope there are some unaired PPVs with him on it

     

    Naw, they got the last one with him on it out earlier this month.

     

    Jay Bradley got released too.

     

    Bradley recently tweeted at Dixie about the new talent initiative and how, you know, he wasn't doing anything. I guess she took it the wrong way.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Cena has shown a lot for guys like Cesaro and Rollins so I'm happy to back his judgement.

    In ring, I 100% back his ability to show a lot for folks and put them over. But once the match is over, he's pretty much teflon. That's probably on the bookers (remember the reported company-wide edict of "Don't show disappointment after losing"?), not Cena, but go look at the post-Brock promo being discussed in the Old School Questions thread.

     

    Cena's never had problem giving a lot to his opponents from bell to bell. Once of the more generous "faces of the company" in that respsect.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    The odd thing about Cena -- and you can't blame him for this, it's the way the machine is structured at his point -- is that even when he puts someone over in a match (Bryan, Punk, Lesnar, Rock), he almost never shows weakness elsewhere. Maybe because he's Overcome The Odds so much over the years, but I never feel like he's at a disadvantage in an angle. The "Cena is fired" angle, the loss to Punk at Money in the Bank, the Extreme Rules match with Lesnar - he's right back on top ASAP. Hell, even the loss to Bryan and time off due to injury combined couldn't keep him down for more than a couple of weeks.

     

    It will be interesting to see how upcoming developments affect that.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    If, in ten or fifteen years, it comes out that Cena had been politicking to keep other people's pushes down/himself on top, how surprised would you be?

     

    I'm not saying he's done so - until recently practically all reports were that he was pretty much a company guy - but with talk of him nixing the Nexus, it just got me thinking.

     

    You're on top, you have the ability to politic. He is the company's top drawer and he did the job to Punk and Bryan in important matches. He tried to get something out of Dolph in their feud. But he just can't be jobbing and he has the power to say "I won't job for him, on this show" but that is any top guy.

     

    Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it seems likely that he is. I was just thinking out loud.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    If, in ten or fifteen years, it comes out that Cena had been politicking to keep other people's pushes down/himself on top, how surprised would you be?

     

    I'm not saying he's done so - until recently practically all reports were that he was pretty much a company guy - but with talk of him nixing the Nexus, it just got me thinking.

    JANUARY PRO WRES YAMMERING

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    So was he hacked or did he just lose his mind and decide to ramble?

    Maybe he knew the release was coming and chose to try and burn a few bridges on the way out?

    Some of them actually sound like his past tweets IIRC, but I'm thinking it's someone who "hacked" his account. Maybe he left himself logged in at an Apple store.

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