They actually mentioned TNA a few times. I guess they’re not a viewership threat.
Brock was supposed to be returning in the Rumble. I guess the whole piss fetish thing put the kibosh on that.
Double hell yeah! All of my picks won tonight.
And later he said, “It’s exciting to just be able to branch out. I’m not gonna use all the cliched terms about what door people go through or anything like that because it’s stupid and silly.” All the fans who get off on the companies sniping at one another are wetting their pants waiting for Tony K to reply.
the men’s rumble was weird … they put the guys in the ring too fast and had 7 or 8 guys dying on the floor for most of the match I mean the one uso was in the corner for like 20 minutes …So are TNA and WWE going to do a few things together?
The Owens match was pure 80s Shinangians all it needed was Bobby Heenan or Jimmy Hart…
The thing about these Quadruple threat matches for the championship belt, the title holder usually retains. The announcers are always “only has a 25% chance of winning” and suddenly remember “oops, it’s a No DQ match” whenever there’s outside interference. Plus, SOLO SIKOA LOOKS LIKE A DAMN LABRADOODLE.
Did anybody seriously think Reigns would not headline WM?
I have to ask, only because it’s been going on for so long: is there a kayfabe reason why guys going up against Reigns don’t simply bring their own entourage ringside to explicitly run outside-the-ring interference? Does this ever get so much as mentioned?
Any number of reasons, including:
- It has happened before, although the main example I can think of (Main Event Mafia to counter Aces & Eights) wasn’t in WWE;
- Usually, the wrestlers Roman would face don’t have entourages of their own;
- When there is a “counter-entourage,” it usually comes in as a surprise.
Where’s the APA when you need it? Chris Jericho knew what was up.
I’m just saying, at WRESTLEMANIA IV, the Million Dollar Man had Andre The Giant ringside and on his payroll, and of course Randy Savage fought for the title by having Hulk Hogan show up back when that meant, like, Face Squared.
The only time I can remember it happening in modern times was when Baron Corbin had the “constable” authority figure angle going on and was booked in a no-DQ match against Braun Strowman, who couldn’t wrestle because of a broken arm and so arranged for all the babyfaces Corbin had screwed over to show up and beat the piss out of him as soon as the bell rang.
In other news, CM Punk tore his triceps (again) at the Royal Rumble and will miss Wrestlemania.
Far be it from me to mock a man’s poor health, even one I dislike as much as Punk, but it’s probably time for him to hang it up.
Heels bring entourages to the ring because they are cowardly rule breakers. As mentioned above, it’s usually a surprise if someone comes down to the ring to help a face. That wrestler often ends up helping the face win but that’s only because his opponent has it coming. It’s hard to portray a wrestler as a face if they go to the ring with a gang to help them out.
Personally I’d love it if at 'Mania Roman makes his grand entrance with the Bloodline, then Cody comes out alone… then the theme music stops and switches up as one by one he’s joined by Sami, Owens, Jey, Cena, Rollins, Styles, Orton, Knight, McIntyre, and anybody else available who’s been cheated out of a win against Roman in the past three years.
The faces beat the piss out of the Bloodline and chase them out the building, they drop the Hell in a Cell into place around the ring, and the match starts.
I take it, though, that the anticipated endgame of all of this is that Dwayne Johnson (a) comes out alone to wrestle Roman, and (b) looks ringside members of the Bloodline in the eye, and, gosh, they just can’t bring themselves to lay a hand on him?
I’m digging Drew McEntyre’s newest foray into villainy. The “Chosen One” gimmick was a stale fart, but this is genuine cheek.
Laurinaitis is claiming that he’s also a victim of Vince’s abuse.
I call BS. There’s no way he’s financially dependent on Vince at this point in life.
The man who scouted talent from Hooters and bikini mags is now claiming to be a victim. My eyes don’t roll far back enough in my head for this. Laurinaitis told his lawyer he’s prepared to flip on McMahon for a plea deal, and this is the first shot fired (supposition, not confirmed fact).
In other news, RIP Carl Weathers (Rocky, Predator, Action Jackson, Happy Gilmore, Arrested Development, The Mandalorian, and more). His connection to wrestling - Meltzer has claimed he was a long time subscriber to WON. And he starred alongside Jesse “Sexual Tyrannosaurus” Ventura.