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"THE ICON" STING vs. WORLD CHAMPION BOBBY ROODE

"The Charismatic Enigma" Jeff Hardy v. Kurt Angle

X Division Championship Match
Austin Aries (c) vs. Zema Ion

Knockouts Championship Match
Gail Kim (c) vs. Madison Rayne

This thread should have everything you guys wanted - It's a "Road to a PPV" thread and it's got someone pointing at a sign, brother.
 
I thought this was supposed to be a point at the WM sign thread? Did the wrestling regulars get trolled after working so hard to get the last thread to 500 posts?
 
Nope, it's all good. WM is still a month away so there's plenty of time for a "serious" WM thread.

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I'll throw in my vote for Londrick. An exceptionally fun team to watch and the fact that they held the belts for a year in an era when NOBODY holds a title for that long was pretty cool.
 
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I'll throw in my vote for Londrick. An exceptionally fun team to watch and the fact that they held the belts for a year in an era when NOBODY holds a title for that long was pretty cool.
 
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Ugamer_X will just buy a ticket and have his knee pads on, ready to go.

You can't stop this thread, you can only hope to contain it.
 
[quote name='JJSP']Can the GM please saddle UGamer with an explosive diarrhea gimmick?[/QUOTE]I shall now pass the "I.B.S. Man" gimmick to UGamer just as it was passed to me. Everyone, please welcome the new I.B.S. Man to the Wrestling Thread.
 
Just a friendly reminder... there is that Ring Of Honor 10th Anniversary "Young Wolves Rising" iPPV coming up this Sunday. This awesome iPPV will start at 5:00 PM EST for the low low low price of $9.99. Being the nice dude I am here's the card for said show:

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Main Event
ROH World Champion Davey Richards & Kyle O'Reilly vs. "Die Hard" Eddie Edwards & Adam Cole

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jay & Mark Briscoe defend against the Young Bucks

ROH World Television Championship
Jay Lethal defends against "The Dominant Male" Tommaso Ciampa w/ The Embassy LTD.

NO DQ - Grudge Match
Jimmy Jacobs takes on "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare" Kevin Steen

Special Attraction Tag Team Match
The Amazing Red & "Technical Lightning" TJ Perkins vs The House of Truth ("Unbreakable" Michael Elgin & Roderick Strong) w/ Truth Martini

Glory By Honor X Tag Team Rematch
Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) vs The All Night Xpress (Rhett Titus & Kenny King)

Special Attraction
"Notorious 187" Homicide vs "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett w/ Brutal Bob & Maria Kanellis

Also scheduled to appear
- Steve Corino

https://www.rohwrestling.com/live/events/2012/mar/4/10th-anniversary-show-new-york-ny
 
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Okay on a serious TNA note, if the first post is accurate, why is Zema Ion being rewarded with a PPV title shot after he killed that other kid with that botch-sault?

Dixie apparently Tweeted:

"@TNASorenson met w/doctors this wk & is out for up to a yr. We're blessed he will be back at all. He's staying positive. No comment on Zima."

The kid is out for a year and they're pushing the guy who shelved him with sloppy wrestling? And what's the "No comment on Zima" stuff? Is she trying to work the internet? Or is she legitimately not caring to comment on Zema's sloppy ring work and not even care to spell his ring name correctly?
 
The match Ion had with Sorenson was a #1 contender match so there was really no good way to remove him from a spot he won on a televised match. Considering the hot streak that Aries is on right now there is virtually no chance he'll drop the belt to Ion anyway so it's a moot point. Besides, the move wasn't particularly sloppy and the accident wasn't even totally Ion's fault. More than anything, it was an unfortunate accident.

As far as Dixie's tweet (I'm a grown man, why am I typing the word "tweet"? Wait, I watch pro wrestling.)...what was I saying? Oh yeah, she made no comment so who knows? Speculate away.
 
[quote name='Demolition Man']Just a friendly reminder... there is that Ring Of Honor 10th Anniversary "Young Wolves Rising" iPPV coming up this Sunday. This awesome iPPV will start at 5:00 PM EST for the low low low price of $9.99. Being the nice dude I am here's the card for said show:

1319.JPG


Main Event
ROH World Champion Davey Richards & Kyle O'Reilly vs. "Die Hard" Eddie Edwards & Adam Cole

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jay & Mark Briscoe defend against the Young Bucks

ROH World Television Championship
Jay Lethal defends against "The Dominant Male" Tommaso Ciampa w/ The Embassy LTD.

NO DQ - Grudge Match
Jimmy Jacobs takes on "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare" Kevin Steen

Special Attraction Tag Team Match
The Amazing Red & "Technical Lightning" TJ Perkins vs The House of Truth ("Unbreakable" Michael Elgin & Roderick Strong) w/ Truth Martini

Glory By Honor X Tag Team Rematch
Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) vs The All Night Xpress (Rhett Titus & Kenny King)

Special Attraction
"Notorious 187" Homicide vs "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett w/ Brutal Bob & Maria Kanellis

Also scheduled to appear
- Steve Corino

https://www.rohwrestling.com/live/events/2012/mar/4/10th-anniversary-show-new-york-ny[/QUOTE]That looks like a fucking amazing card. If it was on cable TV PPV, I think I'd actually bite at that price.
 
[quote name='BlueSwim']That looks like a fucking amazing card. If it was on cable TV PPV, I think I'd actually bite at that price.[/QUOTE]

By the way many devices like Roku can be used to feed the iPPV to your TV/HDTV. In fact I've watched ROH iPPVs with my Logitech Revue which has worked just fine.
 
[quote name='neocisco']The match Ion had with Sorenson was a #1 contender match so there was really no good way to remove him from a spot he won on a televised match. Considering the hot streak that Aries is on right now there is virtually no chance he'll drop the belt to Ion anyway so it's a moot point. Besides, the move wasn't particularly sloppy and the accident wasn't even totally Ion's fault. More than anything, it was an unfortunate accident.

As far as Dixie's tweet (I'm a grown man, why am I typing the word "tweet"? Wait, I watch pro wrestling.)...what was I saying? Oh yeah, she made no comment so who knows? Speculate away.[/QUOTE]

Well, in my opinion, for what that's worth (nothing), the move was particularly sloppy, especially his body rotation and his unnecessary knee tuck.

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He goes from an angled backflip since he's on the outside corner to somehow twisting his body so that his head is perpendicular to the ring/feet perpendicular to the guard rail or whatever was there.

Even if his body didn't rotate like that and he just did a simple backflip at the correct angle, it looked damn near impossible to catch him with his knees bent in the entire time.

I don't have the images or GIFs handy of other wrestlers performing corner moonsaults where they don't rotate their body position midair and they actually extend their legs so they can be caught, but they exist. HBK has done several "textbook" moonsaults that were easy to catch. Lance Storm also said something to that effect on his Twitter. But its not hard to tell the move was really screwed up.

Even if you want to say Jesse was too close in, at least if Zema didn't rotate and Zema didn't tuck his knees, it probably would have been just a hard crash and bump. There is no way that move and that spot was designed for Jesse to have to face the ring in order to catch Zema properly and avoid Zema's knees and body from breaking his neck. I just don't see how you safely catch Zema with his knees like that unless its a crossbody attack or something.

That's just my take on it from watching those GIFs and YouTube videos of the incident more times than necessary.
 
[quote name='BlueSwim']That looks like a fucking amazing card. If it was on cable TV PPV, I think I'd actually bite at that price.[/QUOTE]

It is a pretty sweet card, inn't it?

Kevin Steen is doing the kind of stuff that would have every-fucking-body in wrestling talking about him a decade ago. His persona, his matches - he's big time, and he deserves a lot more attention than he's getting. His match vs. Steve Corino was one of the finest matches in all of 2011 across all promotions.

Virtually every dirt sheet writer whined and cried and bitched and moaned about the match being unnecessarily brutal. What more evidence do you need than the grandaddies of all smart marks whining like marks about brutality?
 
Oh, for real. Their heel turn on the Briscoes didn't revolutionize wrestling booking, but you know what? It was perfectly set up and executed. Positively fucking textbook.

When I'm in the mood for a burger, sometimes I don't want someone to get all crazy and add avocado, a fried egg, gorgonzola cheese, a turkey, Kool & the Gang, and a herb-and-Cointreau-infused demi-glace made with locally sourced, grain-fed Cointreau. Sometimes I do. But other times I remember why I fuckin' love burgers. Because someone takes the simple equation of (beef + fire) + bun + cheese, and makes my goddamned heart sing.

It's not hard to make a burger. It's not too difficult to make a good burger. It takes attention, care, and knowledge to make a great fuckin' goddamned burger that you tell your friends and family about.

That's how I feel about WGTT heel turn. It's nothing new, but it was never meant to be. It's just a staple, a classic - the sort of reason, angle, persona that got us watching in the first place, done to perfection. It deserves, like Bully Ray in 2011, to be recognized for standing out among its peers for the quality of craftsmanship lying under the hood.
 
There's just so much that went wrong in that situation - but the thing that sticks out most to me is that there's not enough space between the ring and the guard rail.

Looks like Ion was worried about hitting rail with his shins so the knee tucking and under rotation happened..not to say the jump wasn't poorly angled but that's what it looks like happened in mid-air to me.
 
[quote name='BlueSwim']That looks like a fucking amazing card. If it was on cable TV PPV, I think I'd actually bite at that price.[/QUOTE]

So you won't get it because it's on your computer screen instead of your TV screen?

[quote name='diddy310']There's just so much that went wrong in that situation - but the thing that sticks out most to me is that there's not enough space between the ring and the guard rail.

Looks like Ion was worried about hitting rail with his shins so the knee tucking and under rotation happened..not to say the jump wasn't poorly angled but that's what it looks like happened in mid-air to me.[/QUOTE]

IMO, that's a plausible analysis. The situation wasn't helped either by Sorenson tucking his chin into his chest. Mistakes were made by both wrestlers and unfortunately it resulted in a very serious injury.

[quote name='Golden Idol']When did WGTT turn heel?[/QUOTE]

Final Battle 2011.
 
According to an article on GameBandits.com, representatives from THQ recently reached out to former WWE Attitude Era stars, who aren’t currently under contract with WWE, for inclusion in the WWE ’13 video game.


They mentioned Sean “X-Pac” Waltman as one of the names who THQ reached out to and reportedly, Waltman was insulted by the offer.
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To clarify, Xpac was insulted by the amount of money they offered, as he said it was way below what other people with that type of contract make.
 
[quote name='pitfallharry219']To clarify, Xpac was insulted by the amount of money they offered, as he said it was way below what other people with that type of contract make.[/QUOTE]

He should be happy to be getting any form of income right now. Drugs are expensive, mmmkay.
 
So.. uh.. welcome back, Triple H:

WWE has published their 10-K report for 2011 and it includes their wrestling contract with Paul Levesque (a/k/a Triple H). The new agreement went into effect January 1, 2012 and expires on March 30, 2016, when he is 46 years old.

Highlights:

* Levesque will be paid a 'Minimum Annual Compensation' of $1 million for each year under contract.

* Levesque will be limited to 180 dates per year, unless both parties mutually agree to extend beyond that number.

* Levesque cannot work or perform in any capacity for any 'martial arts' organization while under contract.
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Of course, he'll probably be 3 dates into his 180 and tear his quad, then recoup for the rest of the year.. for the next four years.
 
that language suggests the contract is only for him as a wrestler. i.e., he has another, separate executive contract where he probably get so much money that he forgets he makes $1m as a wrestler each year.
 
There's no way to remove a stipulation after a wrestling match? Are you telling me that Tori really spent Christmas with X-Pac?!?
 
[quote name='JJSP']There's no way to remove a stipulation after a wrestling match? Are you telling me that Tori really spent Christmas with X-Pac?!?[/QUOTE]

I'm not saying it couldn't have been removed. I just don't think it needed to be. Besides, for all we know, he may get (relatively) squashed by Aries anyway.
 
I like X-pac's overalls in that clip.

He's like the best heel ever off wardrobe/entrance music alone and that's coming from someone who will absolutely admit to enjoying some of his matches quite a bit.
 
[quote name='Spyder187']Why did another jobber hijack the goddamn thread? This shit is getting redamndiculous.[/QUOTE]

You should walk out of the thread, then. NO CONFIDENCE.
 
Eh, it could have been worse. At least this is a troll thread and not "Crimson: Greatest Wrestler Alive Tribute Thread".
 
Thanks for the idea, I'm already prepping the next thread. Since some people get so pissy over non-WWE threads I can really have some fun with this.
 
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[quote name='neocisco']Thanks for the idea, I'm already prepping the next thread. Since some people get so pissy over non-WWE threads I can really have some with this.[/QUOTE]

Well now you've got me all excited.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']Well now you've got me all excited.[/QUOTE]

I think I just came

to reply to this post.
 
Why is it whenever there's dissension in wrestling threads, not just here, I picture Napoleon and Kip slap fighting?
 
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