The Macho Man Randy Savage Wrestling Memorial Thread

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Excellent. I love that he just doesn't give a shit anymore and his point about the Rock was dead on. Every single person in the current roster deserves a Wrestlemania match over the Rock. Its pretty shitty to the other wrestlers that he can just come and go as he pleases and still gets a Wrestlemania match.

I'm beginning to think The Rock at Wrestlemania (for the title no less) was probably the catalyst that pushed Punk over the edge and out the door.

I understand it gets buy rates, just like the same discussion we all had about Snooki in this year's but it still sends the same shitty message that all the day in and day out hard work gets you bumped right out of the way at the drop of a dime.
 
^^While I totally agree on the point about the Rock not deserving to be awarded a title match a year in advance, I think the Snooki thing is a non-issue. WWE has been bringing in celebrities for random one-shot matches at WM for a while now. If anything, Snooki being in a nothing divas match was a good thing. Remember a few years back when we had Floyd Mayweather? Now there was someone who got a lot of attention in an organization were he doesn't mean a thing.
 
It's insulting that they made such a big fuss about Jerry Lawler's first Wrestlemania match only to throw fucking Snooki in there at the last second. Lawler's held more titles than anyone in history, and is apparently worth just as much at Wrestlemania as some ugly skank who's famous just for being famous, does one handspring back elbow and then goes on the news and says "yeah, I could wrestle full time if I wanted." Gag.

/IWC

Having said that, though, I was at Meijer tonight and I'm not sure this is a terribly effective display.

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I can't wait for Saturn's YouShoot. Christ, he was presumed dead for years - I'm sure he's got plenty of stories to tell.
 
really @ the tags? "homo" and "you have a vagina"?

Anyway.. Matt Hardy's pretty sick

Matt Hardy has been very sick as he wrote on Twitter he weighed in at 204 pounds last night and has not eaten in four days. He said that he cannot remember being this sick in his entire life.

Hardy is usually billed at just over 230 pounds.
 
The Rock is allowed to "just walk in" to the main event of Wrestlemania because he's the fucking Rock. WWE is lucky if he dismissively farts in their direction, let alone agrees to participate in a match. This stuff about him not being deserving is hilarious. "He's not here busting his ass in the ring for all of you!" Yeah dipshit, because he already paid his dues 13 years ago, and was far more successful and beneficial to the company's notoriety than you'll ever be.
 
[quote name='Halo05']Not as great as the time Randy Savage saved the Rebellion.
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I just spit half-chewed soft pretzel out onto my monitor...Thanks for this!
 
The show opened promisingly with Bully Ray talking instead of Hogan...then Anderson came out and things went to shit until Steiner threatened to sodomize him and then Sting did his wacky Joker shit in the rafters. The BFG clips just make me wish for the full matches to air - RVD-AJ in particular seems like something I'd want to see in full, and having BRD-Devon TWICE after dropping the on-air feud for months just seemed odd. They built up Crimson as having a SEVEN MONTH undefeated streak and...yeah does it ever not really feel like that. They had something with him when he first came in, dressed all sharp and looked like a star. Now, he doesn't do that, just wrestles, and he's not good at that. He's good enough to be carried to something though, but still needs some intensity behind his moves to make his matches seem more exciting, if they aren't going to be good on their own. Roode is perfect for him though - he made Crimson's moves look good and this is the kind of guy he needs to face if they MUST have him in longer matches.

Enjoyed the new dude's promo, then they went to Abyss freaking out about his mask being gone and instead of doing a reveal of it over time, they just cut to Kendrick in the back wearing it while loud rock music played over this stuff. Built up the PPV match, but in a goofy way. Evan's promo was fine, and then they went back to Kendrick in the ring, being talked over by Tenay explaining shit, and then he talked and it was worse. Seemingly every other word was Abyss' name, he rambled about stuff, and I just wanted Abyss to come out and kill the guy. The beating was good because it shut Kendrick up and set up Kendrick winning with the come out of nowhere win. Sorensen's promo was fine, but they were way too brief with these videos. The first ones were a good minute or two, and tonight's were maybe 30 seconds each.

The 3-way sure was chaotic. Nese looked pretty good, as did Sorensen, while Evans was clearly the guy they wanted to have shine brightest here and...I guess he did. He certainly did more flips than the other guys, and this was a better match than the one with Ion that did nothing for me, but this just seemed like a live-action video game highlight reel, devoid of much substance and lacking any kind of psychology, but fun to watch once. Enjoyed Douglas issuing an open challenge for the PPV, because it'll probably involve someone in the four three ways that was eliminated, like Low-Ki, didn't like the Moore, Robbie, Shelley deal since it wasn't until the end with Shelley that it was HINTED they'd be in the ultimate X. They announced this WAY back when Foley returned, and since then, he's been gone for a month and they never announced WHO WAS GOING TO BE IN THE MATCH. And then Velvet cut a bad promo with "bitch" bleeped. Ever since they had the limited commercial show, they've been muting more swearing, including stuff they'd allowed before - like "tits" being fine on the first run of the show, but bleeped later.

Sting singing "Eye of the Stinger" was funny. This Sting deal is odd, because I both love and hate it. It's freshened up Sting's look, promo, and whole act, but is too much like a Jim Carrey In Living Color skit to take seriously. Taz saying he doubted ODB and Jackie would keep their word was hilarious. The match was about what I expected. Bad, but not dreadful. Just devoid of good. The Devon-Pope promo was okay, but I was distracted by Morgan's robe in one corner of the screen and a CAUTION! DON'T BUMP PLATFORM! notice behind them. AJ-Daniels getting a last-second PURE SPORTZ BUILD was fine, but man was I cringing when Daniels rattled off how fucked up his knee, shoulder, and presently broken neck are. The four corners match was a lot of fun and pretty sound as an actual match. Both AJ-Lynn and RVD-Lynn were given some revisiting here, but in the case of the latter, they didn't give away huge things - just little matwork and stuff to show that Lynn can still go. Loved that Lynn's move led to his PPV opponent winning, and I hope Lynn FINALLY gets his big PPV win over RVD. All this made me want to see Lynn-RVD again, RVD-Lynn, but did nothing to make me want to see AJ and Daniels have a match against each other. EY saying he's the Impact TV champion and real TV stars (like Popeye the Sailor) don't want to lower themselves to either face the TV Champion or appear on Impact, so he'll travel to them in Cousin Eddie's camper. TNA's shitter is definitely full with this angle.

Morgan/Storm vs. Devon/Pope was okay. Why this was on after the two theoretically exciting X division matches, I have no idea. Tenay saying that Morgan is still looking for his first world title, FOUR YEARS INTO HIS QUEST FOR ONE IN TNA, was hilarious. Pope doing the Hayes as guest ref deal throwing Devon onto the cover and give him the points was at least forward movement in a storyline I still don't quite understand, and how could anyone? It was largely built up on Xplosion, which no one in the U.S. watches, and recapped every so often in really brief recaps that they talked over. Anderson's backstage promo annoyed me. He did his usual deal and mentioned A CERTAIN FORMER EMPLOYER! EDGY! They haven't brought up WWE in a while, so this felt like a step back, as did the EY deal. The Hogan-Sting deal was just stupid. Hogan threw things resembling punches that headed in Sting's generation direction that were sold like gunshots and made Hogan's usual stuff seem like stiff PRIDE Cro Cop high kicks by comparison while Sting quoted Nicholson's Joker. Needed some BLAMs and ZORKs on-screen. Might've made it seem more realistic.

Oh, and this built up Angle/Sting vs. Immortal, which I'd completely forgotten about. The Ray-Angle stuff was good, the rest...not. Anderson doing the WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON mystery last-second tag partner deal sucked. It was a blatant BATB '96 homage, but like the shot-for-shot Psycho remake, missed the point of what made the original so great. The show ended begging you to watch NEXT WEEK'S NEWEST BIGGEST IMPACT EVER oh and yeah there's a PPV on Sunday. So while some things changed, a lot of the bad things in TNA stayed the same tonight. They did a great job in every week but this one making the PPV and the X division seem important, but threw the PPV under the bus to close the show building up the TV show, like they always do and they didn't even do a great job with that because all they said on this week's show was say Anderson-Sting would happen and Jeff Jarrett would have a party. They didn't even bring up the stuff they said before would be on it - like the knockouts title match.

Screens -









AJ cheering on his grandpa...






THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES!









Quotes -
Bully - TALK IS CHEAP, ANDERSON, GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!
Anderson - Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure, MISSTTTTERRRR ANDERSSSSOOOON! Anderson.
Bully - I’m not impressed by that stuff, for your displeasure and their displeasure, FROM HELL’S KITCHEN, NEW YORK CITY - BULLLY RAY! You wanna say it the second time?
Anderson - RAY!
Bully - FOR ONCE, SHUT UP AND LISTEN YA JAGOFF! If ya don’t, GUNNA WILL BEAT YA DOWN RIGHT WHERE YA STAND. YER PISSING A LOT OF PEOPLE OFF. HOGAN IS ON HIS WAY AND I’M IN CHARGE NOW, WHICH DOESN’T BODE WELL FOR YOU. Last week, you started to head down the read path when you dropped Sting on his head - good move. THIS WEEK, YOU’LL CONTINUE TO HEAD DOWN THAT PATH WITH US. HAVE YA NOTICED STING LATELY!? THE CRAZED LOOK IN HIS EYES, THE FACE PAINT, AND BEATING THE CRAP OUTTA EVERYBODY WITH HIS BIG BLACK BAT!? WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT HIM!? YOU CAN’T BEAT HIM! YOU NEED US AS MUCH AS WE NEED YOU AND IMMORTAL NEEDS THIS WORLD TITLE! Do the right thing, Ken. IF YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT STING, I’VE GOT A BIRDGE IN BROOKLYN I’D BE HAPPY TO SELL YA. IMMORTAL’S GOT YA BACK - WE’LL BE HAPPY, YOU’LL BE HAPPY, HULK’LL BE HAPPY, ERIC’LL BE HAPPY, EVERYBODY’LL BE HAPPY!
Steiner - IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP! HOGAN HAS LET YOU COME UP WITH A DECISION ON YER OWN, AND YOU’VE BEEN SCREWING AROUND, BUT NOW THAT I’M HERE, I’LL DO THE SCREWING. BY THE END OF TONIGHT, YOU’RE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US AND IF YOU’RE AGAINST US, YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH ME!
Gunner - HOGAN CAME TO US EARLIER THIS WEEK, laid it all out and told us tonight’s main event! Immortal ALL OF IMMORTAL, versus Sting and his newfound friend, Kurt Angle! By the end of that match, you gotta decision to make - we expect you to give us an answer, or Ken, Immortal will make sure you don’t see the light of day on Impact ever again. HIT OUR MUSIC! (Sting’s music hits)
Tenay - THAT’S NOT IMMORTAL’S MUSIC!
Angle - Anderson, Sting and I expect you to make an easy decision tonight - don’t make it hard on yourself.
Roode - It’s you and Morgan? BEER GIANTS!
Storm - Yeah…
Evans - It’s like watching a video game character with me.
Kendrick - Abyss. I have something that belongs to you and I intend on giving it back. What I desire not violence, I desire a word. Abyss, if you’d be so kind, Abyss, to come out here so I can give you your mask back. I know you’re an intelligent man, Abyss, I just want words - not violence. My thoughts on you, Abyss. Only thoughts of violence, I promise you I will return this. Buddha says God moves in 12 directions. Pascal says we’re all God learning a lesson. What these thinkers and thoughts have to do with wrestling? THE X DIVISION IS OFF ITS PATH, MY PURPOSE, RECONNECTION AND PHYSICAL REFLECTION! ABYSS, YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO HAVE THE X DIVISION REACH HEIGHTS ITS NEVER SOARED. ON SUNDAY, IT’S DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH, A TALE AS OLD AS WORDS! You use this mask to hide your pain. IT’S NOT THE TABLES OR CHAIRS THAT HURT YOU, THE PAIN IS COMING FROM YOUR BELLY! YOU NEED TO SHED YOUR EGO, BUT MY MISSION IS NOT TO TEACH YOU TO BECOME A MAN. IT’S TO DEFEAT YOU THIS SUNDAY! HERE IS YOUR SECURITY BLANKET!
Sorenson - I’m here to prove why I SHOULD BE HERE IN IMPACT WRESTLING!
Hemme - From TACOMA, WASHINGTON….JACK EVANS!
Taz - BREAKDANCING! Reminds me of my old high school days, I used to be a big breakdancer.
Tenay - Oh yeah…
Tenay - Sorensen, trained by Team 3D.
Tenay - Jack Evans, trained by the Harts in Calgary.
Tenay - CORKSCREW 630!
Williams - Let’s get the word out that on Sunday, I’m going to issue a challenge to anyone.
Velvet - I’m gonna come off like a huge BEEP here, but I’M GONNA CLEANSE IMPACT WRESTLING OF TWO HOGS!
Sting - RISING UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF IMMORTAL. IT’S THE EYE OF THE STINGER! That was Survivor, early ‘80s, remember that.
Angle - You okay, bro?
Sting - I’M DOING GREAT!? NEXT WEEK! MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE! NIGHTMARE! AND I’M GONNA GET THE TITLE BACK, AND WHEN I DO, THE POWER’S IN MY COURT!
Angle - We have to get through Immortal tonight, AND WE MIGHT ALSO HAVE TO FIGHT ANDERSON! I don’t even know if I can trust you.
Sting - You can trust me! STING, EVERYONE THINKS YOU’RE SNAPPED, BUT I’M NOT - I FEEL GOOD, CUZ I’M GETTING TO HOGAN!
Taz - He’s definitely got the
Hemme - FROM THE BIG APPLE. VELVET SKY!
Taz - IT’S A BIIIIIGGGG APPLE!
Tenay - ODB and Jackie have promised that if they lose, they’ll NEVER return to the Impact Zone.
Taz - I’m not sure if ODB and Jackie will keep their word.
Taz - Velvet’s dealing with two of the toughest women in modern-day wrestling, and I know guys who’ve had their asses kicked by Jackie!
Taz - Can you imagine taking ODB out? Bob Evans is probably one of the high class places for her.
Daniels - Since I’ve been back in TNA, I’ve been lost in the shuffle. BUT I’M GOING TO PROVE WHY I’M THE BEST IN THE WORLD! I have no Acl in my left leg. I have one tendon holding my right shoulder, and I have a broken bone in my neck.
Taz - RVD’s a pioneer - a frontiersman!
Crowd - YOU’VE STILL GOT IT!
Crowd - JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
EY - I’M THE IMPACT TV CHAMPION, AND I KNOW THAT THESE TV STARS DON’T WANT TO DIMINISH THEIR STAR POWER, SO I’M COMING TO YOU!
Pope - COME ON, YOU’RE A 23 TIME TAG CHAMP!
Anderson - DON’T fuckING TALK TO ME LIKE I’M TWO! I’M GROWN! DON’T GIVE ME AN ULTIMIATUM! ULTIMATUMS AND I DON’T GO WELL TOGETHER - JUST ASK MY FORMER EMPLOYER!
Jarrett - Eric, two weeks ago, you told me to look at the glass half-full, AND THAT’S WHAT THE FOUNDER HAS DONE. AND IN ONE WEEK, WHEN WE RETURN TO THE IMPACT ZONE!
Karen - BIG DADDY’S BIRTHDAY!
Jarrett - It’ll be a party no one’s ever seen before!
Karen - HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!
Jarrett - And next week, the whole world sill see how I’ve become THE KING OF MEXICO!
Sting - YOU’RE TRYING TO KNOCK MY TEETH DOWN MY THROAT! OH CRAP!
Taz - Angle is between a rock and four hard places!
Taz - Bully Ray going for the patented Bubba Bomb.
Bully - YOU SON OF A BITCH!
Tenay - ANDERSON LEAPS INTO THE ARMS OF ABYSS!
 
the videos with Punk (finisherpalooze and him showing Cena respect) show that he is being a class act about everything and having fun. Glad the guy goes out on top.
 
oh, ok.

uh oh.

WWE has posted a job opening on their WWE-Careers.com website, looking for a Vice President of Talent Relations.

The position was once held by John Laurinaitis as he is the current Executive Vice President of Talent Relations.
 
Is anyone else tempted to order the PPV this Sunday? Part of me wants to order it and show TNA that this wrestling thing just might catch on. The other part of me just knows they will find someway to shit all over this show.
 
Yeah I thought so too. Really enjoyed the Cody Rhodes/Daniel Bryan and Kidd/Sin Cara matches tonight. Smackdown continues to show why there the superior wwe wrestling program on television(that's not saying much though).
 
[quote name='OnyxPrimal']My buddy, who is a ref, has a try out with ROH tonight... Man I hope he gets it... I can use some comp tickets and free rides to shows. :)[/QUOTE]

Good luck to your buddy. Hope he's able to get in.
 
[quote name='davo1224']Looks fake, especially considering it was posted by a graphic artist.[/QUOTE]

I wish it was, but trademarks were filed for "WWE Brawl" by the WWE back in March 2010 I believe. (according to a quick Google search)
 
If this is how they are going about the WWE brand extension, it should fail epically. There aren't any wrestlers. People who know the WWE brand will expect wrestlers, people who don't know/care about the brand won't care about the game, unless it's the best fighter ever, which it doesn't look remotely close to being. Whether Vince likes it or not, WWE is a wrestling company. If he wants to venture out, 100% away from wrestling, come up with another, completely different brand and market the shit out of it.
 
WWE Studios is in preproduction on Barricade, a supernatural thriller that will star Eric McCormack and, more importantly, no entertainmenters. It'll probably still suck though. It's starting to look like the quickest route to DVD takes you right through WWE.
 
Can't figure out if that's Kelly Kelly or Maryse. I guess this is going to be the "All Stars" style game for 2012.

If it's a fun brawler using some of those mechanics than maybe, but certainly not at 60 dollars.
 
[quote name='neocisco']WWE Studios is in preproduction on Barricade, a supernatural thriller that will star Eric McCormack and, more importantly, no entertainmenters. It'll probably still suck though. It's starting to look like the quickest route to DVD takes you right through WWE.[/QUOTE]

Released in limited theaters Friday; Netflix party on Saturday night.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I wouldn't read much into that at all. WWE likes their yes men.[/QUOTE]

There has been some noise in recent dirt sheets that Laurinaitis' job was in jeopardy because of the departures of Jericho and Punk. It is believed that the company feels he didn't do enough to keep them around.
 
Way to slip off the top rope, english kid.

"I want the wrestling fans that paid for this PPV to listen up.. and I want all of the ones watching on an illegal stream to pay attention too, and I also hope you choke on whatever unhealthy food you're eating." :rofl:
 
[quote name='Scorch']Way to slip off the top rope, english kid.

"I want the wrestling fans that paid for this PPV to listen up.. and I want all of the ones watching on an illegal stream to pay attention too, and I also hope you choke on whatever unhealthy food you're eating." :rofl:[/QUOTE]

:D Who said that?
 
[quote name='diddy310']:D Who said that?[/QUOTE]
Austin Aries.

Pretty close to turning this off. RDV and Jerry Lynn is a match that might've been exciting 5+ years ago, but not so much now.
 
That 4 way match was insane!! Best match I've seen in a long long time. I'm going to mark hard tonight if Brian Kendrick wins the belt tonight.
 
For someone I've never really seen, Zema/Shiima Ion was fantastic and held his own amongst the three veterans. Evans needs a tan badly.
 
The pic I saw of Evans on the Impact Wrestling website the other day looked odd. Has he given up on his obnoxious B-Boy gimmick? I always thought that shit was going to print money for him one day.
 
[quote name='Scorch']Way to slip off the top rope, english kid.

"I want the wrestling fans that paid for this PPV to listen up.. and I want all of the ones watching on an illegal stream to pay attention too, and I also hope you choke on whatever unhealthy food you're eating." :rofl:[/QUOTE]

My respect for Austin Aries just increased tenfold. I salute you, sir.
 
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