Wrestling Conspiracy Theories

[just drew]

 

I saw this on the tweeters and thought it might be fun;

Nothing too serious or hard-hitting. More nonsense that you yourself believe with zero empirical evidence to support it. THESE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE SERIOUS. I have some examples;

-Adam Cole fanhood is a government psy-op. He has no feel for laying out a match and is an actively shitty promo, yet legions of fans insist he's an elite-tier performer. It's like when people talk about how great a band or movie is despite them blowing ass. It's another example of "if enough people say this loudly enough, the public will just accept it as truth." See also Banks, Sasha or Rollins, Seth.

-Tony Khan has serious buyer's remorse with Saraya. 

-Originally, John Cena was going to be in the Dolph Ziggler spot at Survivor Series 2014. The change was made arbitrarily. 

-CM Punk is actually a MAGA right-winger. He just plays a progressive on tv. Also, he hasn't been straight edge in years. 

-John Morrison is a Highlander. He won't age or die ever.

-King Kong Bundy started doing the "5 count" after he accidentally pinned Hogan on a house show. Thinking quickly, he demanded the ref count to 5. This gave a reason for Hogan to kick out and eventually win.

[Log]

This will not end well. 

[just drew]

Fair enough. I promise it didn’t start that way but if it needs to be deleted I understand. Also lol.

[Mister TV]

13 hours ago, Just Dave said:

King Kong Bundy started doing the "5 count" after he accidentally pinned Hogan on a house show. Thinking quickly, he demanded the ref count to 5. This gave a reason for Hogan to kick out and eventually win.

Bundy was doing the 5 count gimmick in Georgia and maybe Mid-South.

 

[The Great ML]

Sleaze Thread 2!

[just drew]

1 hour ago, Mister TV said:

Bundy was doing the 5 count gimmick in Georgia and maybe Mid-South.

 

Cross that one off, then.

[madl]

It would be more far-fetched if Tony Khan wasn’t experiencing buyer’s remorse over Saraya’s signing.

I doubt CM Punk is a hardcore conservative (and I’m not sure we would want him), but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn’t lean more to the right or maybe gave up the straightedge thing.  I know a lot of people who were extremely liberal and idealistic in their teens and 20’s but grew more conservative as they got older, had kids, got established in their careers, etc. Honestly, I’d probably find it odd if the (almost) middle-aged millionaire was still the edgy counterculture firebrand he was 20 years ago, Very few of us are the same people we were when we were young.  And the ones that are probably need therapy.

[Technico Support]

I'd love to hear some actual, not made up wrestling conspiracy theories, like "Hall and Nash were sent to WCW to destroy it from within."  As a believer in Hanlon's razor (never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence), I don't go for that one.

[Technico Support]

Just now, madl said:

I know a lot of people who were extremely liberal and idealistic in their teens and 20’s but grew more conservative as they got older, had kids, got established in their careers, etc.

Thankfully, Gen X, or millennials, I forget which, is the first generation where this hasn't happened. 

[just drew]

Yeah, I meant for this to be silly and weird, but if y'all wanna do real ones, I'm certainly game. I 100% believe Daniel Bryan could've dome back from his first long-term injury much sooner than he did, but Vince wouldn't let WWE doctors clear him because he was more over than Roman. I also believe Dean Ambrose's shitty booking was an attempt to undercut him because he was more over than Roman.

[zendragon]

42 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

I'd love to hear some actual, not made up wrestling conspiracy theories, like "Hall and Nash were sent to WCW to destroy it from within."  As a believer in Hanlon's razor (never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence), I don't go for that one.

Arnold Skaaland throwing in the towel when Backlund was in the Sheik's camel clutch was a screwjob

[madl]

1 hour ago, Technico Support said:

Thankfully, Gen X, or millennials, I forget which, is the first generation where this hasn't happened. 

Eh, matter of opinion. I’m not particularly thankful. I don’t have much time or patience with most millennials.

Edited July 3 by madl

[odessasteps]

4 hours ago, Mister TV said:

Bundy was doing the 5 count gimmick in Georgia and maybe Mid-South.

 

Yes, did it in mid south

[Cobra Commander]

who do we blame for every schoolbus having a kid that insisted the Ultimate Warrior died?

[Curt McGirt]

More likely that Johnny and Taya are cyborgs. Taya is clearly some kind of robotic creation.

[just drew]

1 hour ago, Cobra Commander said:

who do we blame for every schoolbus having a kid that insisted the Ultimate Warrior died?

That one kid's older brother in every town that started the rumor, along with the rumor that (insert local summer camp) is where they filmed Friday the 13th...

[Technico Support]

4 hours ago, zendragon said:

Arnold Skaaland throwing in the towel when Backlund was in the Sheik's camel clutch was a screwjob

Now that’s awesome.  Never heard that.

58 minutes ago, Just Dave said:

That one kid's older brother in every town that started the rumor, along with the rumor that (insert local summer camp) is where they filmed Friday the 13th...

Not sure about the real Crystal Lake, but Blair Witch was filmed like 20 minutes down the road from me.

[Ace]

3 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

who do we blame for every schoolbus having a kid that insisted the Ultimate Warrior died?

His barber before WM8?

[Nice Guy Eddie]

23 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

Now that’s awesome.  Never heard that.

Not sure about the real Crystal Lake, but Blair Witch was filmed like 20 minutes down the road from me.

 

Camp Crystal Lake from the 1980 horror film Friday the 13th is located at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick Township, New Jersey.

[BobbyWhioux]

3 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

who do we blame for every schoolbus having a kid that insisted the Ultimate Warrior died?

2 Ultimate Warriors/the original Warrior died can probably be laid at the feet of:

1) Kerry Von Erich looked a lot like Warrior without face paint and joined the WWF shortly before Warrior’s first disappearance, and left around the same time as Warrior’s 2nd departure 

2) Kerry Von Erich actually did die in that same general time frame

3) still mostly no internet to spread “accurate” info

4) little kids are stupid

5) wrestling fans are stupid

[HumanChessgame]

Here's some random thing I thought of recently-

Jim Cornette's constant shit talking of AEW is a work that Tony Khan put him up to. I came up with this as Corny has mentioned a few times how Tony called him when he was first putting AEW together for advice but Cornette had no interest in working there as he doesn't need the money and has no inclination to travel or work in wrestling full time again. He's also made a few passing references to an NDA Tony later made him sign. Cornette is one of those people who doesn't know how to not be in character and him hating most modern wrestling isn't too far of a stretch, but the theory is that Tony knew him bashing AEW every week was free publicity. Even if it leads to hate watching or people talking shit online, there's no publicity and online engagement or trending is bad attention.

 

*Just to clarify, in the original spirit of the thread I don't intend for this to be serious either

[ka-to]

The Montreal screw job was the only finish that Bret Hart would agree to. I was pissed off at Bret when it happened.

[BobbyWhioux]

1 hour ago, HumanChessgame said:

Here's some random thing I thought of recently-

Jim Cornette's constant shit talking of AEW is a work that Tony Khan put him up to. I came up with this as Corny has mentioned a few times how Tony called him when he was first putting AEW together for advice but Cornette had no interest in working there as he doesn't need the money and has no inclination to travel or work in wrestling full time again. He's also made a few passing references to an NDA Tony later made him sign. Cornette is one of those people who doesn't know how to not be in character and him hating most modern wrestling isn't too far of a stretch, but the theory is that Tony knew him bashing AEW every week was free publicity. Even if it leads to hate watching or people talking shit online, there's no publicity and online engagement or trending is bad attention.

 

*Just to clarify, in the original spirit of the thread I don't intend for this to be serious either

it would fit with the booking philosophy I've heard Cornette cite often (which he attributes to Jerry Jarrett, and it's probably even older than that), which is You Tell The Truth at A, B, and C, so that when you work 'em at D and E, they believe it.

[twiztor]

Tekno Team 2000 really was from the future. But they were actually from 2002 (the 2000 gimmick was for marketing purposes), and came back to the WWF because they knew that both WCW and ECW went out of business. Sadly, their lack of skills still doomed them.

 

'Wildcat' Chris Harris was a TNA wrestler. When he signed with WWE, a multiversal rift opened, and his counterpart from a parallel universe, Braden Walker, traded places with him. Neither was able to return to their original universes. We missed out on Chris Harris having a fortuitous run and eventual WWE Title run and instead got the disappointing "Best of Braden Walker" dvd future (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwyFABQX62A). But OUR Chris Harris has had an extremely successful career in his new world.

 

it really wasn't Snitsky's fault.

[SovietShooter]

This is a real conspiracy theory of mine:

Hansen didn't actually break Bruno's neck.  Bruno wanted some time off, so they worked this angle, and the idea was to give the rub to a young Hansen for the injury.