Jump to content
DVDVR Message Board

July 2024 Wrestling Talk

Dolfan in NYC
 Share

Recommended Posts

Shartnado

Shartnado

Posted
Posted
12 hours ago, Eivion said:

 I would just like to remind people that Bron Breakker totally chose his own name, and no one has any idea why he went with that one.

It's probably because he knows that even though he is a phenomenal wrestler for his experience level, he is in no way (and, may never become) worthy of a wrestling name like Bronson Steiner or even Rex Steiner, which was rumoured early on. He's got his head screwed on straight for understanding that. Good on him.

  • Like 1
The Natural

The Natural

Posted
Posted (edited)
34 minutes ago, Shartnado said:

It's probably because he knows that even though he is a phenomenal wrestler for his experience level, he is in no way (and, may never become) worthy of a wrestling name like Bronson Steiner or even Rex Steiner, which was rumoured early on. He's got his head screwed on straight for understanding that. Good on him.

This plus his Dad is a piece of shit.

Edited by The Natural
  • Like 2
  • Haha 3
Zakk_Sabbath

Zakk_Sabbath

Posted
Posted

During COVID, my girlfriend and I got heavy into the WWE 2K games, and purposefully tried to make up the most goofy, NXT-sounding names we could on our CAWs - I swear on my mother's life, we made an old timey heel named Von Wagner - I couldn't believe it when I read there was a real one. We also had a "Brooks Brinden" which is pretty damn close to Jensen, but I lifted that joke from Tom Goes to the Mayor ('These are my stepsons Brandon, Brendan, and Brinden.')

  • Haha 3
hammerva

hammerva

Posted
Posted

I am not sure if this is only going to shown in the PBS around the North Carolina area or everywhere but this looks really good.  Especially given the restrictions that they probably had with using Crockett footage.

 

 

  • Like 2
  • Thanks 2
AxB

AxB

Posted
Posted

Considering YouTube links aren't embedding, and we can't see the thumbnails, could people be labelling them from now on? And not in the "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!" sense. In the "Aja Kong vs Bull Nakano Cagematch 1992" sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpV-gGA4PSk

  • Thanks 2
Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, AxB said:

https://x.com/wweespanol/status/1811846984707272880

Stephanie Vaquer's WWE debut appearances will be on the House shows in Mexico this weekend. 

That was fast.

Probably explains why, even though its not ideal form, she didn't work the San Jose show to drop the title as planned. She probably could have said (like past wrestlers have) "hey I have a few dates to finish up" but since her dream was to work WWE and WWE wanted her to start as soon as possible I can understand her jumping right in.

  • Like 1
twiztor

twiztor

Posted
Posted

just saw on the rumor mill that the Motor City Machine Guns have signed with WWE. disappointed if true. was at least hoping for an FTR match.

  • Like 1
  • Sad 1
John E. Dynamite

John E. Dynamite

Posted
Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, twiztor said:

just saw on the rumor mill that the Motor City Machine Guns have signed with WWE. disappointed if true. was at least hoping for an FTR match.

As much as we want to be bitter old tape traders who damn the Fed in all ways, there are some WWE signings that make way more sense. AEW has plenty of ex-ROH guys and other such 40+ lost generation indie talents - or more generally, too big of a roster to fit into 5 hours of weekly TV. The NIL jockesques in NXT gain way more from working with Shelley and Sabin than a roster who's for the most part already worked with them, MCMG have a small history with NXT and the TNA crossover stuff puts it over the top. AEW doesn't need any more workrate guys on the back end of their career who can produce more snowflakes than storylines.

Edited by John E. Dynamite
  • Like 5
twiztor

twiztor

Posted
Posted
10 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:

As much as we want to be bitter old tape traders who damn the Fed in all ways, there are some WWE signings that make way more sense. AEW has plenty of ex-ROH guys and other such 40+ lost generation indie talents - or more generally, too big of a roster to fit into 5 hours of weekly TV. The NIL jockesques in NXT gain way more from working with Shelley and Sabin than a roster who's for the most part already worked with them, MCMG have a small history with NXT and the TNA crossover stuff puts it over the top. AEW doesn't need any more workrate guys on the back end of their career who can produce more snowflakes than storylines.

i certainly don't begrudge MCMG if indeed this is the choice they made. Everything you said is valid. i just personally wanted to see MCMG/FTR in a traditional tag team match (i know they had a trios match last year or so).

Does the HHH regime treat tag teams better than the McMahon era? it would hard to treat them worse.......

  • Like 2
Norwegian Rudo

Norwegian Rudo

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, twiztor said:

Does the HHH regime treat tag teams better than the McMahon era? it would hard to treat them worse.......

Not really. Tag team wrestling is really struggling in both companies right now.

  • Like 1
Eivion

Eivion

Posted
Posted (edited)
7 hours ago, twiztor said:

Does the HHH regime treat tag teams better than the McMahon era? it would hard to treat them worse.......

Yes, but its still a bit of a mixed bag with tag teams not doing as much as they could outside of maybe factions. Saying that there was a fantastic tag match between DIY and Waller/Theory last Friday that main evented Smackdown. Michaels is doing better in NXT with the teams there constantly wrestling for better positions, doing stories, and getting built up. There was another fantastic tag titles match on Sunday between Chase/Hudson and Axiom/Frazer. 

Edited by Eivion
  • Like 4
Ramo2653

Ramo2653

Posted
Posted
On 7/10/2024 at 8:54 PM, Cobra Commander said:

since the topic of dark matches came up.. I thought up an idea for an angle that may not have been done, or not done often

Babyface A is in a dark match before the show with someone, either someone being tried out or maybe just someone who isn't on TV match. Babyface wins the match, then gets jumped postmatch by the person they're feuding with.

Then on the actual TV show, the footage is aired of the attack that happened "before our show started"

So basically it's the "jumped in the back" angle that has been done over and over, only it's after a dark match. I'm sure there's an appropriate "on-screen" explanation for dark matches too. ("This guy wasn't on the card and wanted to get some action so we put him in a match with a prospective wrestler before our show started"). It would make more sense than having this angle during a house show where the presence of cameras would be a real "ANGLE ALERT" to fans. Meanwhile if anybody wanted to know why the dark matches were being filmed... it's to get the camera crews ready to film the show. Yeah that's the ticket.

I know there's a balance between being too predictable and being unpredictable without reason, but in the scheme of things, it's more fun to kinda keep the fans on the toes that anything could happen, even if it doesn't always happen.

To be fair, WWE does have guys taping stuff at every house show (usually on smaller cameras than the ones they use for TV) so if you wanted to run the angle, you could. I appeared in the front row for a Sami Zayn/Kevin Owens angle once at an NXT show here in Milwaukee. Zayn just beat Chiampa in a match, got on the mic and said someone told him how great it was to wrestle in Milwaukee and then Owens (who was full on a main roster guy at this point) comes in a says "I was the one who told you that" and rushes the ring and Sami beats him up and kicks him out and we're all going crazy. 

Ziggy

Ziggy

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, twiztor said:

 

Does the HHH regime treat tag teams better than the McMahon era? it would hard to treat them worse.......

I remember around the time Sasha, Becky and Charlotte got called up to main roster thinking Hunter would start a tag team wrestling revolution like with the “Women’s Revolution “. You had The Revival, Alpha Academy ,Vaud Villians, Lucha Bros and Enzo and Cass in NXT. They had a really strong division even though you knew most of them had no chance to get over on the main roster because Vince wouldn’t get them. I thought Hunter would push the NXT audience to be more vocal about wanting tag team wrestling like they were about the Women to where Vince would be forced to feature tag teams more prominently. I felt like Hunter could have gotten tag team wrestling over in the same way.

When AEW started , I thought they were going to push for a strong tag team division to where Tag Teams would be main eventing PPVs and TVs just as often as the singles. With the Bucks being EVPs, I thought for sure they’d build a strong tag division like 80s Crockett. 

 

Bischoff wasn’t a big tag team guy either. I never understood why other promotions never really tried to get behind building Strong tag division just for the sake of setting yourself apart from WWF/E. 
 

Shawn started out a tag team wrestler so it’s not really a surprise he would want to treat them seriously. Hunter was a big NWA fan growing up so I wouldn’t expect the same 

  • Like 1
Norwegian Rudo

Norwegian Rudo

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, Ziggy said:

When AEW started , I thought they were going to push for a strong tag team division to where Tag Teams would be main eventing PPVs and TVs just as often as the singles. With the Bucks being EVPs, I thought for sure they’d build a strong tag division like 80s Crockett. 

AEW's tag division really fell apart when they introduced the trios belts. Part of it was coincidental with people suffering injuries, but I think without the Bucks pushing it internally (since they weren't in it anymore) TK lost interest.

  • Like 4
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...