travis-dane wrote:Five years Eddie.
We still miss you.
Amen brother, Amen
travis-dane wrote:Five years Eddie.
We still miss you.
Bloo wrote:travis-dane wrote:Five years Eddie.
We still miss you.
Amen brother, Amen
Fried Gold wrote:Bloo wrote:travis-dane wrote:Five years Eddie.
We still miss you.
Amen brother, Amen
You can vote for his greatest match here.
Fried Gold wrote:All other weddings pale in comparison to a wedding announced by The Fink:
Bloo wrote:Jeff Hardy to plead guilty
I would venture to guess he worked out some kind of deal, I'd be curious on the details though.
Fried Gold wrote:Bloo wrote:Jeff Hardy to plead guilty
I would venture to guess he worked out some kind of deal, I'd be curious on the details though.
TNA made that stupid pink title belt for nothing.
bastard_robo wrote:I was at that Raw in Anaheim when the Rock returned...
In all my years of attending live events, I have never, EVER heard a pop like that. I swear to almighty Xenu that I though the roof was going to collapse from the noise that was being made.
Bloo wrote:One of my favorite wrestlers, current WWE Heavyweight Champion, announced that, due to medical issues, he is being forced to retire
bastard_robo wrote:As of tuesday.... every right move that WWE made on Sunday was fulshed down the fucking toilet in a fashion that would make TNA blush and do post 1999 WCW proud.
They took the belt of Christain, and fucking put it on Randy Orton.
Just... what the fuck.
People have been bitching that the prodcut has bes been stale. Part of that problem is that creative is leaning too heavily on Cena and Orton. They're protected to the hill and it's keeping shit from getting interesting. Orton is a SHITTY fucking excuse for an Austin style face. in the Draft, they moved Smackdown's top heel, Del Rio, to Raw to probalby job out to Cena for the next 6 months. Christain finally got the recoinsition he deserved (sadlly it had to be in the way Ray Mysterio got his, by someone being perminatly pushed out, though Edge isnt' dead) and 3 days later it's a giant fuck you and they take the belt off of him.
Ok... Im starting to ramble like a madman.. i'm going to stop here before I write any other un readable rants.
Leckomaniac wrote:Bringing this thread back so I can properly articulate my love of CM Punk.
...he rules.
And I am done.
Bloo wrote:Leckomaniac wrote:Bringing this thread back so I can properly articulate my love of CM Punk.
...he rules.
And I am done.
men Brother, and I REALLY hope he doesn't leave my WWE or I may be forced to quit watching until he or Jericho comes back
Bloo wrote:have you tried the GTS pizza yet?
Leckomaniac wrote:Bloo wrote:have you tried the GTS pizza yet?
Ha! No, but Ian's is right by my apartment. And Punk and I go to the same comic book shop. Haven't run into him yet, but I see Colt Cabana a lot. The owners of the shop are really good friends with Punk. I am trying to worm my way into a night out with them next time it occurs.
King Of Nowhere wrote:You do know this is all just to get Cena over with an older generation (i.e. not 8 year olds), yeah?
Bloo wrote:
it doesn't matter the reason, if that is the reason, it's still an epic promo from Punk, and according the a lot of the former creative people who blog it was very "true to life". It's also got me interested in seeing where this is going.
Bloo wrote:is it better to have a push and then go on a six month losing streak and be saddled with a lame stable and to be a former world champion or to never have been in that position at all? Chavo's got some major gripes, and I don't blame him for leaving, but I also have to wonder why he didn't do this a year ago when he was stuck in a lame ever ending feud with Hornswoggle?
I'll keep watching the 'E but I'm going to limit myself to probably Smackdown if Raw doesn't improve soon. I'm enjoying the matches between Orton and Christian, even if Christian should never have lost the title in the first place. What they should have done there is have Christian keep winning as opposed to Orton. Wrestling is much more interesting when the Face is chasing the title
King Of Nowhere wrote:Bloo wrote:is it better to have a push and then go on a six month losing streak and be saddled with a lame stable and to be a former world champion or to never have been in that position at all? Chavo's got some major gripes, and I don't blame him for leaving, but I also have to wonder why he didn't do this a year ago when he was stuck in a lame ever ending feud with Hornswoggle?
I'll keep watching the 'E but I'm going to limit myself to probably Smackdown if Raw doesn't improve soon. I'm enjoying the matches between Orton and Christian, even if Christian should never have lost the title in the first place. What they should have done there is have Christian keep winning as opposed to Orton. Wrestling is much more interesting when the Face is chasing the title
You buy Orton as a face?
Bloo wrote:King Of Nowhere wrote:Bloo wrote:is it better to have a push and then go on a six month losing streak and be saddled with a lame stable and to be a former world champion or to never have been in that position at all? Chavo's got some major gripes, and I don't blame him for leaving, but I also have to wonder why he didn't do this a year ago when he was stuck in a lame ever ending feud with Hornswoggle?
I'll keep watching the 'E but I'm going to limit myself to probably Smackdown if Raw doesn't improve soon. I'm enjoying the matches between Orton and Christian, even if Christian should never have lost the title in the first place. What they should have done there is have Christian keep winning as opposed to Orton. Wrestling is much more interesting when the Face is chasing the title
You buy Orton as a face?
I hate Orton as a face, he works better as a heel, but "technically" Orton is a face
Marc Graser wrote:What started out as frustration has evolved into a business.
Jeff Katz, a former Fox and New Line exec who worked on "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Freddy vs. Jason," will start lensing "Wrestling Revolution," a 13-episode wrestling series that Image Entertainment has come aboard to distribute via e-tailers like Apple, Amazon, Hulu and Netflix before packaging it as a DVD in North America.
After growing increasingly disgruntled with the plotlines of WWE's TV shows, Katz reached out to wrestling fans on Twitter to gauge whether they'd be willing to help raise $100,000 to fund "WR." Katz hit the mark June 22, receiving coin from 182 contributors after starting to seek pledges May 6 through Kickstarter.com.
Production on the series begins in October in Los Angeles.
Katz says skein will revolve around a group of 22 wrestlers in a storyline with a three-act structure -- something he said has been impossible for WWE to do with its two weekly series, "Monday Night Raw" on USA Network and "Friday Night SmackDown" on Syfy, given that the shows air 52 weeks a year without breaks.
"The actual storytelling and production structure of wrestling today doesn't lend itself to telling complete stories," he said. "People who are willing to sample ("WR") will get something that, at the very minimum, that will have a complete storyline, like a comicbook," said Katz, who has also created graphic novels including "Booster Gold" at DC Comics.
Katz has enlisted music composer Brian Tyler ("Fast Five," "The Expendables") to provide the soundtrack for "Wrestling Revolution," Gary Frutkof ("Shoot Em Up," "Hawaii Five-0," "Prison Break") to handle production design, and Colin Strause, co-founder of f/x shop Hydraulx ("Battle: Los Angeles," "Iron Man 2"), to assist with the visuals.
Project was born "out of my rants on Twitter," Katz said. "I realized that as a longtime wrestling fan, I was watching (WWE's shows) out of force of habit for the past several years."
With a small budget, Katz sees "WR" as more of an indie film than a TV show. The way it will be distribbed will also take advantage of newer digital methods.
"I'll never compete with WWE in terms of their cash reserves, their history or scale," Katz said. "The only way I can do this is by doing something that's creatively different," which has meant "using the tricks that I learned from 12 years in Hollywood."
"I'm not claiming I won't screw it up, but at the minimum it does offer something different from what we get 90% of the time on television."
Katz started his career at Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling, which WWE later purchased, so "anyone who knows me probably will not be surprised that I'm doing this," he said. "I owe my career to wrestling. I'm the guy that had the big Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan belt hanging next to movie posters in my office."
Katz thinks he already has an audience for "WR."
"Wrestling fans are a unique group in that they're hard to get to watch shows before or after wrestling. But if it's wrestling stuff, they're hardcore."
I wrote:
That logo says “we are bold” “We’re the company that’s not afraid to have people say “shit” or “ass hole” and talk about erectile dysfunction”. More than that, it says “We tried red, so now we have to use blue.WCW taught us that only blue and red could be used for wrestling logos”. You can’t blame them for the last one though, Vince did the same thing when he said yes to Smackdown.
Did you know TN- erm, Impact Wresting ran a PPV last week that was better than any other PPV they’ve put on during the Hogan era?
No? I can’t blame you, it’s not like they were promoting it every week on Impact, it’s not like they spent any time building storylines that would come to a head on the show either. Here’s the last 4 weeks of Impact:
AJ/Joe/some other guy who gets constantly looked over by whoever is doing the booking that week comes out & says something about the ppv, the crowd goes wild. AJ/whoever has a match & loses & we also get told they lost a house show match that was part of the Bound For Glory tournament.
TNA jobbed out the people who the PPV would be built around for four weeks in order to promote a PPV happening in October.
OCTOBER!
People on twitter were blaming Russo because it’s easy to blame Russo, but if you look at the cruiserweight cluster-fuck in WCW, it was Bishoff running the show back then. He seems to be the guy who booked Rey losing his mask & the whole Nash angle that went with it, he booked Nash as an ultra-heel (something that used to happen with every big guy) & it worked. People hated Nash, Rey got a big push (at the cost of his mask, but it didn’t stop him from putting it back on when Vince called) and everyone was as happy as they could be during the start of WCW’s downfall.
Bischoff re-used the NWO almost as soon as he got his foot in the door, so it makes sense that he’d try other things that worked back then.
Lets have a look at the ODB thing:
When Raven first showed up on WCW he was in the audience & everyone (well, if you knew who he was) was going crazy. Raven spent about 6 months on WCW programming “without a contract” & would send one of his “lackeys” to wrestle for him if he didn’t feel like fighting. It worked & it not only built Raven, but it gave Saturn & Kidman the push they needed (Van Hammer not so much, but come on, it was Van fucking Hammer). It was one of the great long-winded storylines that WCW let run at the time (the other being the 9 month build up to Sting v Hogan).
The reason the same thing isn’t working with ODB & Jackie? It’s kinda simple
1. Jackie was with TNA 2 years ago, people know who she is & that she’s only getting the push because she’s a former WWF employee. ODB had been off-screen for all of 8 months & she wasn’t much of a name back then either. The story is being wasted on two people who we don’t need to be introduced to, two people who we already know not to care about.
2. Raven would declare that every match he competed in would fall under “Raven’s Rules” (no DQ), people would get excited because they didn’t know what was going to happen. TNA has Mike Tenay say “you know, these two are not under contract, so they may not stick to the stipulation” during the match, flat out telling us the ending & making us waste the next five mins waiting for it to happen.
How do they stop this from happening? Push people who need it & don’t give away the ending of your matches. That’s kinda “Booking 101″ i guess, but maybe they’ll learn from their mistakes.
TNA’s most successful(?) ppvs had 30,000 & 20,000 buys last year. Impact got 1,847,000 viewers at the start of March this year & while i don’t know the buy-rate for any of the recent ppv’s, 10% of 1,847,000 is 184,700.
I’m no business man, but if the number of people complaining about your product = at least 6 x the number of people paying to watch your show, well, it might be worth listening to them, or at least not insulting them online. For all the blandness of WWE, Vince isn’t blogging about how he thinks his viewers are gentlemen.
Which brings me to…
Much like that of TN- erm, Impact Wrestling, WWE’s logo says all you need to know about the product, it says “Attitude, but neutered”.
Randy Orton runs Smackdown as the face who boasts about kicking people in the head for fun & “going to that place only Orton goes” (the cinema that was showing That’s What I Am, i guess)
John Cena rules Raw with an iron fist, iron head, iron chest, iron legs… A recent PPV showcased his ability to survive the A-bomb. With that in mind, i’m going to post potential spoilers. If you don’t want tonight’s main event ruined, you better look away now…
CENA WINS!
I have no source other than the knowledge of how WWE have booked Cena during his career. I like that the R-Truth v Cena & C.M. Punk v Cena feuds have been the same. R-Truth’s version of the feud was more comedic, but his point was much the same as Punk’s during the “shoot” that everyone got hyped up over. R-Truth’s version will work as a parody of the C.M Punk one when it’s all said & done.
I get it though, WWE’s booking team know Cena is boring people & they need to do something to keep them caring until the match with The Rock at next year’s Wrestlemania. Teasing the fans with Cena’s downfall will only work a few times before people get bored with it as well (look at how long everyone has been sick of Immortal over on TNA & we know they’re dragging that angle out until October). After the hugeness (i can’t think of another word to describe it) of the Punk “shoot” I don’t think anyone else on the Raw roster will be able to make us believe they will take Cena down, that’s why they are using Punk to make Cena popular with an older crowd.
As boring as i find it, i cant blame them.
Bloo wrote:Ring Of Honor comes to network television via the Sinclair Broadcasting Corp this weekend
full line up of stations and markets here
NO Wichita or Denver market for me to watch it, but t hey are going to be showing shows on their website for free, I'm assuming, a day or two later
King Of Nowhere wrote:Bloo wrote:Ring Of Honor comes to network television via the Sinclair Broadcasting Corp this weekend
full line up of stations and markets here
NO Wichita or Denver market for me to watch it, but t hey are going to be showing shows on their website for free, I'm assuming, a day or two later
you're on twitter, yeah?
Shoot me a DM when it's about to air & i might be able to help you out.
Also, Craig & i recorded a podcast about WWE Night of Champions.
If you can tolerate the Scottish accent (lots of people on youtube can't, apparently), the link to download it is here.
Bloo wrote:
something I thought I'd never see in the WWE
so sorry wrote:Bloo wrote:
something I thought I'd never see in the WWE
What, mostly naked guys?
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