2014 Pro Wrestling Thread

[Rockbottom]

Ahoy!

Thoughts on the upcoming Royal Rumble ... With tonight's BIG NEWZ (spoiler alert ... Brock Lesnar returns!), how does that shuffle the deck?

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[KYSportsWriter]

I hate when stuff like that is ruined, simply because the guy was mentioned in a Smack Down taping.

But I'll still mark out when his music hits.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I marked out a lot more when the guy made his first return. Now? He's only been gone a little while, nothing major.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I marked out a lot more when the guy made his first return. Now? He's only been gone a little while, nothing major.

I wonder if they had delayed his last return if he'd have gotten the same reaction?

 

[KYSportsWriter]

And we have our main event for the Royal Rumble: Orton vs. Cena .... again.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Well, they had to get Cena's rematch in there at some point.

 

[Batman]

That F5 to Mark Henry was pretty impressive. He lifted Henry up and held him there like he was holding a 25-pound sack of potatoes.

 

[nietsroob17]

So where does this go now with Bryan and the Wyatts? Do they tie in the Bella twin and their marriage?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Ok, that ending was pretty cool, but I sure as **** don't want Bryan to become a heel. He's the most popular guy they have (sorry Cena lovers). Unless they're planning on doing something totally awesome with him and the Wyatts, I hope they're not trying to do this to bury his popularity.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Did not see that coming at all and I'm also wondering what the heck they're thinking....

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I have no clue where they're going with this, but I'm definitely intrigued. Probably the most stoked about a storyline as I've been in a while.

 

[schiezainc]

Ahoy!

Thoughts on the upcoming Royal Rumble ... With tonight's BIG NEWZ (spoiler alert ... Brock Lesnar returns!), how does that shuffle the deck?

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Boo! You cheated! Everyone knows you can't start the next year's thread until the current year ends. I call shenanigans!

 

[Bradley Guire]

Not worried that Bryan has gone full heel. Punk joined the New Breed in ECW to implode the group from the inside and eventually sided with the Originals. Cena joined the Nexxus, sort of, and the group started falling apart. Bryan moves merchandise now, and I doubt The E is willing to jeopardize that too much. Then again, even Punk moved merchandise during his great heel run of late 2012 and early 2013. There are no true faces or heels anymore anyway. People like who they like.

I think it's a big picture story line, but I also don't believe this will be the end of the Wyatts. This group has a lot more mileage than the New Breed or the Nexxus. Also believe the same of the Shield, but the ship may be sailing after a year.

 

[Bradley Guire]

Tuscaloosa News did a Q&A with Jim Ross for the Alabama/Oklahoma Sugar Bowl later this week. Probably more of interest for me, but thought I'd share if anyone else wanted to read it. It's a good, light read amdist all the pre-game work being done by a fine sports section. I spent a few months as a part-time web guy about a decade ago when I was in college. The T-News folks are good people.

As a fanatic of both WWE and college football, particularly my Tide, I enjoyed it.

 

[Huggy]

Huggy Jr. and I took in the sold-out (probably 8,000) house show in Toronto last night. It was a Christmas present for Huggy Jr. who was attending his first live event, was my first card since WM6. Decent night of entertainment for what we paid.

Pro-Cena crowd went nuts for Cena's DQ win over Orton in the main event. We got an awful, ponderous cage match between Kane and Big Show, Natalya got some pop from the Canuckistanis, pinning AJ in a non-title match, Sin Cara pinned Del Rio in an entertaining opener. Best match of the night for my money was Cody Rhodes pinning Antonio Cesaro. Zeb Colter got some great cheap heel heat by telling the crowd how happy he was to be in Montreal (guaranteed to get Torontonians going) and how the highlight of his trip had been a meeting with one of his fave politicians, Rob Ford.

For comic relief we got Los Matadores and their midget sidekick beating the loathsome 3MB, with the awesome Ricardo Rodriguez replacing Heath Slater.

 

[Gutter]

Favorite fantasy booking I've seen is Bryan joining the Wyatts -- as faces. Bray wants to bring down the machine, right? Kane is the sleeper cell agent after he was brainwashed by the Wyatts earlier. And Erick Rowan did give Michael Strahan a sheep mask ...

You, sir, are the reason I keep coming back to this thread.

Good call. Step 1 partially complete.

 

[JRoyal]

I'm curious to see where the Wyatts-Bryan thing goes from here. This is one where I have no idea what they have in mind. If they screw it up, it could kill a lot of the momentum Bryan has built up (BTW, I love that Bray Wyatt calls him by his real first name instead of Daniel, the WWE's made-up name for him). I hope he doesn't end up being the Perry Saturn to Wyatt's Raven.

 

[ucacm]

This might sound a little crazy, but it seems almost impossible to bury DB. The fans have been revolting against the machine since the Sheamus squash. That fans are still cheering for DB so hard is entirely absurd. He's been squashed at WM, left at the altar, forced to go through group therapy, and screwed out of the title chase, and now potentially aligning with a cult of backwoods yahoos.

The only thing that really makes me feel like the E may still have big plans for him is the clean pinfall over Cena at SS.

 

[clintrichardson]

it is wrong for me to hope that this bryan-wyatts stuff concludes with a beard-vs.-beard match at wrestlemania? bryan has been growing that thing for so long, the stakes would be as high as any title match.

 

[Batman]

Anybody else think it's possible Vince woke up one day, was watching some tape, and said, "Hey, wait a minute. The Wyatts have crazy beards. Daniel Bryan has a crazy beard. Why don't we form ... a CRAZY BEARD FACTION! Triple H, come in here!"