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

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

Man, those shows were perfect.  

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 said:

Fans booing Hogan on RAW was great!

We used to be a proper country. 

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 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.  

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.