mattdangerously Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 And Lesnar doesn't want to fight anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 What incentive is there for Brock in that little scenario?? Rousey isn't going to be wrestling while she is under contract. People need to just accept that. I said it before, but Dana should just kill this whole thing by calling Vince and saying "Hey I'll let you have Rousey for a WrestleMania match if you give me 25% of the Mania gross." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 These Tough Enough spots are making me think someone really needs to do a Crossfit douche gimmick.Wait.... there are non-douche crossfitters?I love Crossfit. I don't think I am that douchey. I'm a total douche, but I was that way before I started CrossFit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 What's the appeal of a Ronda Rousey match anyway? She has no wrestling experience and being good at MMA does not make one a good wrestler by any stretch. She'd need to be in a tag team match so she could hit her spots and then leave without having to do anything that will expose her as totally green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 What's the appeal of a Ronda Rousey match anyway? She has no wrestling experience and being good at MMA does not make one a good wrestler by any stretch. She'd need to be in a tag team match so she could hit her spots and then leave without having to do anything that will expose her as totally green. Good point. Â I think she will be fine if the use the Snooki formula. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Obviously the appeal is that she single handedly saved the Fast and the Furious and Expendables franchises while being the most famous female athlete in the world. Plus they obviously wouldn't need Austin, Taker, or Sting for Mania next year because Rousey can sell the stadium out by herself. I just wish her totally not pointless segment at Mania would have gone a little longer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 But can she do a missile handspring back elbow? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I'm still impressed at how well Snooki did her flips. I had low expectations for that match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Smarkie Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Obviously the appeal is that she single handedly saved the Fast and the Furious and Expendables franchises while being the most famous female athlete in the world. Plus they obviously wouldn't need Austin, Taker, or Sting for Mania next year because Rousey can sell the stadium out by herself. I just wish her totally not pointless segment at Mania would have gone a little longer. Â I never say stuff like this online because it usually is pointless...but, you really really suck at sarcasm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I never say stuff like this online because it usually is pointless...but, you really really suck at sarcasm. I'm being serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I'm still impressed at how well Snooki did her flips. I had low expectations for that match. Â IIRC, she was a gymnast as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 The only match I really want to see is Rousey vs Eva Marie.  I'm still annoyed we never got Ken Shamrock vs Jamison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorceressKnight Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 What's the appeal of a Ronda Rousey match anyway? She has no wrestling experience and being good at MMA does not make one a good wrestler by any stretch. She'd need to be in a tag team match so she could hit her spots and then leave without having to do anything that will expose her as totally green. Â The appeal isn't in the Ronda Rousey match, but in her opponent. Â The fact that the fans are savvy enough to know the score: Â -If Ronda Rousey fights in a WWE ring, she will WIN her match, as a celebrity. -If Ronda Rousey fights, she is assuredly fighting Stephanie McMahon. -Therefore, since Rousey would WIN her match as a celebrity, and would be fighting Stephanie McMahon- a Ronda Rousey match at Wrestlemania serves as literally the one, and only one, chance we will probably ever have to see Stephanie McMahon lose a match, and thus finally get the actual, conclusive comeuppance that Stephanie has never been able to have since she turned heel and is literally unable to get in any other way (No Diva in the company is even in Stephanie's league to the point where a Diva beating Stephanie would bypass "This suspends disbelief" and goes screaming into "It's a Squirrel Girl-style comedy segment. See, it's FUNNY because Stephanie lost!"...but despite all of this, fans are progressive enough to know "yeah, Stephanie McMahon's character is objectively evil and never gets her comeuppance, but I still don't want to see some guy kick her ass as that comeuppance- that's just WRONG.")Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 SI has put up a pretty cool oral histroy of the WCW NJPW Collision on Korea show from '95. Â http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/04/27/muhammad-ali-ric-flair-oral-history-pro-wrestling-north-korea 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Rick Steiner: It was shaking, rattling, air pockets. There wasn’t much being said except a few prayers.  Is Rick talking about the last days of WCW, or a plane trip? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 It's so fucking smarmy when Bischoff refers his time in WCW as "when I worked for Turner Broadcasting." Â Yes, it's technically true. Â But come the fuck on. Â I often refer to those few months working at Suncoast at the mall as "my tenure with the Musicland Corporation." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I refer to my delivering the NY Post when I was 12 as my time at News Corp. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I think Stephanie McMahon is easily the best in-ring McMahon, no joke. I just don't see any way a one-on-one match with Rousey would be any good. Rousey's whole thing is quick armbar subs and Stephanie's not really quick enough to do the run away and avoid contact deal for very long and she's not believable trading fisticuffs either. A tag with Rock and Triple H would make a lot more sense because I also can't fathom who other than Triple H would want another Rock/Trips match.  Charlotte vs. Rousey's pretty believable to me cause Charlotte once beat up Ric Flair and then fought some cops afterwards. Rousey's never beaten up her father. Cause her dad's dead.  If they really feel the need to do Stephanie McMahon vs. MMA then Gina Carano's right there doing nothing. Plus, she's a lot better looking and more pleasant of a personality than Rousey. They could do Steph/Trips vs. Rock/Carano with Rousey in the corner and Rousey can just make the save at the end and armbar Jamie Noble or something.  Not like any of it really matters cause Paige VanZant's the new hotness and Rousey's gonna be even older news by the time WrestleMania rolls around again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 The idiocy of Scott Steiner is some of the best part of the article. That and everybody lovin' Ali. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 It's so fucking smarmy when Bischoff refers his time in WCW as "when I worked for Turner Broadcasting."  Yes, it's technically true.  But come the fuck on.  I often refer to those few months working at Suncoast at the mall as "my tenure with the Musicland Corporation."  Wouldn't Bischoff have had an office at the CNN Center? I know Bill Watts did. It's not THAT smarmy, he was in their actual corporate headquarters.  Now, it might be smarmy if like Lenny Lane was running around saying "when I worked for Turner Broadcasting." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 "I used to steal Loverboy tapes when I worked for Turner Broadcasting". Â Sounds like Lenny to me! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Â It's so fucking smarmy when Bischoff refers his time in WCW as "when I worked for Turner Broadcasting." Â Yes, it's technically true. Â But come the fuck on. Â I often refer to those few months working at Suncoast at the mall as "my tenure with the Musicland Corporation." Â Oh, that doesn't bother me, but this does: Â Bischoff: "I literally thought we were landing on Mars." Â No, you figuratively thought that you were landing on Mars, damn it! Â (Seriously, though, this was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing it, original poster!) Â EDIT: I've seen Collision in Korea before, but I didn't realize that it has the only Flair/Inoki match ever. I was going to watch it again on WWEN until finding out that it's not uploaded there. I'm increasingly not sure why I pay the ten bucks a month for the Network at this point. Anyway, to the Youtubes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Someone who isn't me got a glimpse of part of the WWE tape library during their summer job as a college student 8 years ago, and can assure you that the master tape exists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 The WCW/New Japan Supershows aren't up there either, which has always annoyed me. New Japan World had the complete shows up for a week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Maybe NJ has clear rights and WWE's via WCW is less clear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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