***Official WWE/wrasslin' Thread***

eeriepadave

Bash in Berlin later today. Surprised there's only 5 matches scheduled though.

igotid88

eeriepadave

Ledbetterman10 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwKm7WM_P8E

Ledbetterman10

I can't wait to watch this later. 

Ledbetterman10

Watched every episode back-to-back. Easily my favorite doc ever. 

PJ_Soul

I'm starting episode 4 of Mr. MCmahon. It's pretty good! I find it so weird that WWF was so fucking huge when I was a little kid - i know way more about it than i ever willingly wanted to. Even then as an 8 year old I thought of it as being a pretty demented form of entertainment, and my view hasn't really changed, and those live arena fans, ugh. Worse than UFC (fwiw, literally the only times i have seen bar fights is on UCF nights, where I went not realizing it was a UFC night. I have never seen a fight break out over WWF, hahaha). I recall judging the boys who were super into WWF in elementary school, LOL. Like, if they were super into it, i thought they were more likely to be annoying little douchebags.  

I can still appreciate the rather dark humor behind it, but the depravity of it totally outweighs any humour it has, especially as time went in and it got way more weird sexually while still marketing to kids. I Shudder to think about the impact it could have on the minds of children.

Sorry of I've offended anyone, lol. Just not my world. But still, great documentary! The "Montreal screw job" part was especially entertaining, lol. 

Edit: now that I'm into episode 5.... omfg. Wtf?!?!?! This guy is disgusting. I don't care hiw much he or anyone is into "it's just business". He's a revolting creep. A true capitalist PIG.

eeriepadave

I think i'm gonna watch it this weekend

Also kinda cool they are bring back Saturday Nights Main Event. Loved watching it when i was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8vzkBzTtJg

eeriepadave

Finished watching it. this morning. Most of the stuff I already knew except parts of his childhood. I see a lot of similarities between him and Trumo though (not a good thing).

HughFreakingDillon

it's kind of sad how the guy can't even connect the dots of his own longing for his dad's attention/love/pride and not giving Shane any love until he risks his own fucking life for the company. Unreal. 

eeriepadave

Kinda sucks Samantha Irvin left WWE. Least Lilian Garcia came back to replace her. I know she wanted to pursue other stuff lire singing, but wouldn't surprise me one bit if she eventuality went to AEW cause of her partner/fiance, Ricochet.

igotid88

Netflix needs to fix their issues before RAW comes. So far every live event they had had issues

eeriepadave

Did not have this on my bingo card for War Games. I can see why he joined though since he was a Paul Heyman guy when he first came to WWE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGQIobrVPHc&t

eeriepadave

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UF1Rp1MBS4g

eeriepadave

RAW premieres on Netflix tonight. Could be as long as 4 hours or as short as an hour and a half since there is no time limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MaVm3e0OA

MayDay10

I watched a random 2001 episode of raw the other day on Netflix.

Man, those shows were perfect.  

HughFreakingDillon

MayDay10 said:

I watched a random 2001 episode of raw the other day on Netflix.

Man, those shows were perfect.  

I watched a couple clips from the attitude era that came up on my facebook feed. well, now my algorithm is going nuts with WWE/WCW stuff from that era. Fuck if I'm not watching every single one, even though I haven't watched rasslin' in two decades. Man, those were the days. The Stone Cold pop when he came out to assist Mankind winning the title from the Rock was next level. 

MayDay10

HughFreakingDillon said:

MayDay10 said:

I watched a random 2001 episode of raw the other day on Netflix.

Man, those shows were perfect.  

I watched a couple clips from the attitude era that came up on my facebook feed. well, now my algorithm is going nuts with WWE/WCW stuff from that era. Fuck if I'm not watching every single one, even though I haven't watched rasslin' in two decades. Man, those were the days. The Stone Cold pop when he came out to assist Mankind winning the title from the Rock was next level. 

Ha, the same thing happens to me and I watch them all the time.

I sat and watched an entire episode yesterday as I was home from work, recovering from a Colonoscopy...  The entire episode was such a nice, neat, exciting package.  They start off with the 'main' story with the McMahons, Stone Cold, Rock, Angle, HHH, etc.  Then go into the side story stuff... which was also great.  Also built up some goofy backstage stuff with McMahon/Steph/Trish Stratus and also Edge and Christian taunting the Dudley Boyz.  They had a hardcore match with Raven vs Blackman.  Raven won, but then Hardcore Holly came out to try to cash in on the 24/7 thing.  Him and Blackman started fighting and Raven escaped and had a driver ready to get him away from the arena.

Jim Ross was also top notch along with King.  

It was 2 hours (netflix its like 1:35) of perfectness.  I wish it was still like that.  Every match and story was interesting on some level.

Also laughed at Dean Malenko sneaking into the shower to stalk Lita.  Probably would get shut down now but it was funny (and he got pummeled by the Hardy Boys)

eeriepadave

Fans booing Hogan on RAW was great!

Ledbetterman10

eeriepadave said:

Fans booing Hogan on RAW was great!

We used to be a proper country. 

SVRDhand13

That RAW looked terrible.  They dropped the Cody/Rock angle just like that!? I was considering going to Summerslam next year, but there's no way I can pay for this product. 

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

eeriepadave said:

Fans booing Hogan on RAW was great!

We used to be a proper country. 

that netflix plug t shirt thing was the lowest of the low for him. 

eeriepadave

SVRDhand13 said:

That RAW looked terrible.  They dropped the Cody/Rock angle just like that!? I was considering going to Summerslam next year, but there's no way I can pay for this product. 

Yeah it wasn't the best. Fans seemed pretty dead during some matches and segments also.

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

eeriepadave said:

Fans booing Hogan on RAW was great!

We used to be a proper country. 

that netflix plug t shirt thing was the lowest of the low for him. 

I think he was also promoting his beer called "Real American Beer" or something like that.

igotid88

WWE & TNA Wrestling announce multi-year partnership
https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-tna-wrestling-announce-multi-year-partnership

eeriepadave

Royal Rumble has been not too bad so far. Women's Royal Rumble was pretty good. Only thing that sucked was the #30 entrant, Nikki Bella. Should have had Becky Lynch, Jade Cargil or AJ Lee (there was a rumor she could have been in it. Alexa Bliss got a huge pop.

Men's RR should be decent. Guessing CM Punk wins but could be just about anyone. Also curious if there a re any surprise entrants.

eeriepadave

eeriepadave said:

Royal Rumble has been not too bad so far. Women's Royal Rumble was pretty good. Only thing that sucked was the #30 entrant, Nikki Bella. Should have had Becky Lynch, Jade Cargil or AJ Lee (there was a rumor she could have been in it. Alexa Bliss got a huge pop.

Men's RR should be decent. Guessing CM Punk wins but could be just about anyone. Also curious if there a re any surprise entrants.

Well doubt anyone had Jey Uso winning it. That was quite the shock. 

igotid88

Alexa Bliss was the best thing about tonight's Rumble

MayDay10

I watched the rumble itself.  It was mildly entertaining.  Better than the past 2 that I watched IMO...

But man, so many of these "star" wrestlers seem so miscellaneous and look the same.  It is hard for a "casual" fan to know the difference between any of them.  
Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre, LA Knight, Damien Priest, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, Uso, etc

They all seem like pieces of the same guy.  Its hard to even differentiate between one or the other at times.  They are all pretty... boring.

I really miss the days that each wrestler had their own look, gimmick, and the royal rumble was super fun putting them on display and getting them to play off each other in the ring at the same time.  Logan Paul is the best thing going and was the most fun part. 

Cena looked super slow and I knew there was no way they can have that headline Wrestlemania.


I do like the fact that they featured a surprise winner.  

igotid88

MayDay10 said:

I watched the rumble itself.  It was mildly entertaining.  Better than the past 2 that I watched IMO...

But man, so many of these "star" wrestlers seem so miscellaneous and look the same.  It is hard for a "casual" fan to know the difference between any of them.  
Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre, LA Knight, Damien Priest, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, Uso, etc

They all seem like pieces of the same guy.  Its hard to even differentiate between one or the other at times.  They are all pretty... boring.

I really miss the days that each wrestler had their own look, gimmick, and the royal rumble was super fun putting them on display and getting them to play off each other in the ring at the same time.  Logan Paul is the best thing going and was the most fun part. 

Cena looked super slow and I knew there was no way they can have that headline Wrestlemania.


I do like the fact that they featured a surprise winner.  

You lost me with Logan Paul. 

MayDay10

He came in and did some cool acrobatic stuff.  Then he did the move where he jumped to the table and hung out for awhile getting humungous heat from the crowd.  Then snuck his way back in.  It was different and interesting, eliciting crowd reaction as opposed to all the miscellaneous that was hanging out in the ring.

My kid was watching with me.  He used to love Prime and hates it, and doesnt like Logan Paul.  He was flipping out that he was "cheating".  It was great.

igotid88

Kofi has been doing that for years at the Rumble