The Wrestling Thread

[DMD]

Just finished watching TNA/Impact. Over all I think this company has really been improving over the past few weeks..

The matches tonight where actually good, I really enjoy seeing Kurt Angle make Robert Rude run a gauntlet of his own Fortune teammates before his title match at the upcoming Bound for Glory pfv. On the other hand, we saw a hint at yet another "one more match" between AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels in the middle of all of it . How many "One More Matches" can these guy have?

Hogan promised a bombshell change the buisness announcment next week, I can only hope it has to do with his leaving the company.And take Bishoff and Hardy with him.

[The Turtle]

Probably gonna announce something stupid...Like he usually does.

[DMD]

I dunno. Rumors are rampent that he is gonna leave for a couple of reasons.
1-Money
2-He litterally can't take bumps so I have no idea how he's gonna get out of this big match with Sting that they've built up for three friggin months now. I can't see him retiring before it and looking like he chickened out or Sting ran him out of town.

3- He's got that new Midget Wrestling on True Tv, so he might be getting fully behind that and washing his hands of TNA. I predict if he does go, that TNA does better than ever without him.

[The Turtle]

Midget Wrestling...Everytime I see that I think: "...Hulk, damn man, what happened?!"

[DMD]

A combination of his divorce, trying to fund his daughter's non-existant singing carrer, and the court / settlement costs for when his son killed that kid in the drunk driving accident a few years ago happened.

[The Turtle]

Point taken...Still...Midgets?

[DMD]

It's Desperationmania, brother!!

Also watching Smackdown right now, and it's funny how the members of the Nexxus/Core have went from the hottest thing running to jobbers one and all.

Shammus has crushed the redhead, can't even remember his name, the one that Cena always called Wendy, and Justin Gabriel and Wade Barret are at the bottom of the card in matches and a fued with each other .

They're really wasting a solid talent in Barret, at least. He should be in the middle of the Intercontinental and US title pictures.

Christian is in a lumberjack match with Mark Henry later for the belt and the right to face Orton at Hell in a Cell? Since when did the champ have to earn the right to defend against the former champ or challanger? That's kind of a headscratcher, WWE writers....

Orton destroyed Cody Rhodes in a match, hit him several times with his own mask, then the time bell, then a RKO on the announce table, most blood I've seen in a  WWE match in years.

The Lumberjack match was decent, nothing to write home about. Christian was sort of between the rock and the hard place of helping Mark Henry look good in ring, wich limited him on he good he could look himself or he would have made Henry look terrible.

They also had Daniel Bryant lose to SinCara(s) again, the second one came out and attacked the first one and stole the win over Byrant. The've got to do something to make those two Sin Cara's stand apart, the only differance now is one is a little taller and heavier built, but not by much and I have no idea wich one either is, the good orignal or bad imposter Sin Cara. And stop squashing Bryant, is he not gonna win another match until he cashes in Money in the Bank at Wrestlemania?!

Air Boom and The Usso's had a fair tagteam match, even if it was on the short side and they didn't get to really work it like those two teams could if they got the chance.

[DMD]

Last night's Raw was probably the best in three months at least, maybe longer. Good matches all around, and we actually saw some storylines move forward, like the official forming of Swagger and Ziggler as a team or stable, and the surprise return and rejection of that stable by Mason Ryan. This new guy has the look, if he has decent moves and any kind of mic skills he could go far.

Gotta feel bad for David Ortanga though, the only way he can get air time is to referance him for his other job, a lawyer in the whole anti-HHH fraction.

And I think this is exactly what this is leading up to , another "rival fraction attempts to take over the WWE" story line, this time the invaders being the wrestlers, mostly heels who HHH has miffed off and John Laringitas or however you spell his name gunning for H's spot.

[The Turtle]

Looks like stuff is going well...Might have to look into Raw again.

[DMD]

Hulk announced it tonight on Impact, next week is the last time we'll ever see him in THIS ring.

While I think he might really be leaving TNA, the word THIS makes me wonder, is it all part of the Hogan/Sting angle?

If the getting choked up and crying he did when he made the comment

"When I lost my wife, when I lost my family, when I lost it all the one thing I never lost was the fans"

was fake, he's a better actor than I ever thought he was.

[DMD]

Man, the ending to Raw might be the worst in ever.

The entire roster, even camera men and refs walked out on HHH in a vote of non-confidence, even good ole JR walking out last. All because they think they have an unsafe working enviroment due to the fact that Mizz and R Truth"broke in" to the Hell In a Cell pfv and attacked Punk and Cena.

Really? That was the best ending they could come up to for HHHs run as CEO? I guess Vince couldn't stand not being the center of attention and this is how he'll come back?

BOOOOOOO

[DMD]

So Imapct just ended and Sting busted Hogan with backstage footage of him and Bitchoff laughing about fooling the fans about his retirement.

Hogan got so mad at Sting he agreed to fight him at Bound For Glory and if Sting wins Hogan gives the company back to him and or Dixie Carter.

I have to wonder how or what they're gonna do here, considering Hogan can barely walk down the ramp and climb in the ring without limping or grabbing his back. How the hell is he gonna do anything close to a match with Sting?

But maybe if Sting does win he might not be retired but at least he'll be out of TNA and considering they demoted Vince Russho from head booker and creative writer and replaced him with Bruce "Brother Love" Prichard the company might turn the tailspin that Hogan, Bitchoff and Russho have put it in....

[The Turtle]

It'd be an upgrade >_>...

[DMD]

I only caught the last hour or so of this week's RAW, but from what I saw it very well might have been the worst I've ever seen.

I would have thought they would have wanted a better showing, being the first ever RAW in Mexico, but apparently not...

A main event tag team match with two announcers involved and then announcing the title match at Vengance would be a Last Man Standing Match...

Does anyone believe for a second that Super Cena won't win that and get the belt back for the uppittyteenth time?

The only vague point of interest is if/who will turn on the other when Punk and HHH team up at the PFV .