Two big spoilers from tonight’s NXT tapings;
[SPOILER]
Roderick Strong, who was with ROH from its very beginning until just a few months ago, is now in NXT and is Austin Aries’ partner for the Dusty Classic.
Mickie James, who was Women’s/Divas champion a combined six times and has held TNA’s women’s title three times, will be challenging Asuka for her title at Takeover. [/SPOILER]
Damn, how did a rock star like Billy Corrigan actually wind up being a shrewd business manager and not snort all his money up his nose? TNA might actually wind up having a better self-destruct story than WCW.
I can only assume that Mickey James is in NXT for a brief period while Cena is on his break, and won’t be appearing on Smackdown.
Are you referring to this?
Yuppers. Had forgotten that Kenny was the one engaged to her. And he’s been on TV lately too.
I got to see Jake the Snake Roberts do his stand-up show in Seattle tonight. It was an utterly hilarious set. He mostly told stories about the various pranks he pulled on other wrestlers (and had pulled on him) over the years along with any number of other scatological incidents, including;
He closed the set by saying the opening act had asked him to tell his Ric Flair story. He proceeded to ask the crowd to be perfectly quiet so he could tell the story, which I here present in its entirety;
Flair’s a cocksucker. End of story.
It was a pretty filthy show overall, but I have to admit I couldn’t stop laughing. He posed for photos afterwards (the photo I got with him ended up blurry, but here it isfor what it’s worth), and I got a chance to thank him for something that happened during my childhood. In 1990, when I was 7, my dad took me to a house show at the San Diego Sports Arena. He was walking me back from the bathroom and we saw Jake standing on the other side of a barricade in his ring gear. I waved to him and yelled “HI, JAKE!” and he said hi to me back, and it absolutely made my night. I doubt he remembered it at all, but he smiled and shook my hand after I told him about it.
It was a pretty good show, and surprisingly inexpensive ($18 after the service fees were added). If he swings by your area and you can handle blue humor, he’s definitely worth seeing.
Paige proposed to Alberto El Patron at a WWC show in Puerto Rico tonight. He accepted.
Good for them.
I bet WWE is wondering how they can make money off that.
I must know how this happened. Pray, elucidate.
Cocaine’s a helluva drug…
It’s funny because this weekend Ms. Cups was instagramming and was (presumably) on Paige’s account and said “Del Rio is wearing a wedding ring in this picture…”
You may recall that, back in the day, Rude had the gimmick where he’d pick some women out of the audience, kiss them, and they’d faint. The way it worked was that he and Bobby Heenan would scout the crowd before the show started, Rude would pick out the girls he liked, and the Brain would go talk to them and pay them $500 cash if they agreed to do the spot.
On one occasion (I think Jake said it was in Dayton, OH) Rude had picked the girl Jake was dating at the time. She initially refused to do it and went to Jake screaming about what the Brain had wanted her to do. Jake told her he had an idea (and they needed the money for coke anyway), so he told her to find Bobby, tell him she’d changed her mind, and meet him in the parking lot afterwards. She did as he asked, and in the parking lot Jake told her to perform oral sex on him, but not to swallow - instead, hold his output in her mouth until Rude went to kiss her, them force it into his mouth.
As Jake tells it, Rude nearly threw up in the ring, ran backstage, spotted him, and then started chasing him with murder in his eyes. Jake ran out of the arena, through the parking lot, past the overpass, and back to the hotel, and had almost gotten to his room when Rude caught up to him - and then, for the first time in his life, the cops showed up at exactly the right time and arrested Rude.
I stayed up and watched the full RAM show for the first time in forever because I wanted to see Goldberg.
He looked decent enough up there. Still has his “crazy eyes” when he gives a promo, and gave his promo pretty decent. I’m still super pissed they couldn’t have waited until 'Mania to do this, but it made me happy seeing him back in the ring.
I was kind of “meh” about Goldberg coming in at this point, but I’ll admit, “Brock Lesnar: You’re Last!” was really cool.
So Goldberg’s gonna do one last match, job to Lesnar, and we’ll never see him again?
That seems a bit… wasteful, really. Lesnar certainly doesn’t need the win. And I’d like to see matches such as Cena/Goldberg or Undertaker/Goldberg.
There’s no chance that Goldberg/Taker could be any good: Taker can barely walk.
Outcome is entirely predictable, I’m totally lacking any interest in the match or either guy.
WWE has pretty much ruined Brock by making him this utterly invincible monster, but that is Vince for you. He’s always had this fetish for muscled supermen who beat all comers.
Really, where do we go from here? He destroyed and even legitimately injured Orton. Unless Orton is going to win the rematch, who the fuck cares? And then who? Braun Strowman? I mean, that would fit the pattern of building up an unbeatable monster only to feed him to the existing unbeatable monster. We’ve only seen it with Hogan, Austin, Cena forever, but still, who the fuck cares about Brock anymore?
That’s why I’m kinda hoping for a loss at Slurvivor Series and then a month or whatever later we hear rumors of Goldberg coming back and he says “By my calculations we’re 1-1, that means we need to settle this where it started! Wrestlemania!”
It even kind of makes sense from a storyline purpose.
And yes, I, too, don’t care even a little about Brock anymore. All his matches are terrible , follow the same formula, and don’t actually accomplish anything.
