Rolling 2014 Haunted Rocking Chair Thread

It was probably the importance placed on the Heyman interference that hurt it most

They had Lesnar need Heyman's help to beat HHH and Punk, then he had that weird chairshot-heavy non match with Show then at WM it was suddenly all I'm ending the streak clean btw

If only Taker had been a three stripe jiu-jitsu white belt :(

good match though yeah, fuck it

kenta is debuting on NXT this thursday (Takeover 2). also bayley v. charlotte and fatal 4way adrian neville, sami zayn, tyler breeze + tyson kidd. should be great!

the sign in hebrew says "mah," 4x which means 'what' in hebrew i lol'd

http://i58.tinypic.com/m9rre0.png

cac123ish 3 days ago
I've seen matches where the loser had to have their heads shaved. I was always hoping that Mongo or Jeff Jarrett would lose a match, Debra would have to have her head shaved. I would picture in my mind Debra having to sit in a chair in the middle of the ring and have her crown taken off her head, and have all her gorgeous blond hair shaved off and see her bald and running back to the dressing room crying and covering her bald head while her hair was being thrown out into the audience, and hearing the announcer saying, "Debra is about to lose her beautiful hair!!"

just cutting and pasting this Youtube comment from a Debra Marshall shoot interview for no real reason, thanks

slightly surprised no one at WCW thought to book that angle

btw it is nxt takeover 2 tnite and i highly recommend it. i think the championship four way between sami zayn, tyler breeze, adrian neville and tyson kidd will be really good. i think charlotte v. baylee for women's championship will be really good too. also they're debuting kenta and apparently another new NXT star so that'll be cool

all NXT eps are on hulu the next day, idk if they'll post the takeover too

yeah this should be quite fun.

maaan, checking the NXT roster, it really is about time they brought back the cruiserweight division - zayn, neville, kidd, kenta, devitt, justin gabriel, kalisto, sin cara, zack ryder.... etc. etc.

those guys could be smashing the undercard week-in week-out if anyone was at all inclined to let them do it.

lol Prince Albert has really had a very strange career, how long's he been doing this roving sportscaster bit?

<3 Renee Young a little bit.

they're really working hard to sell these two Ascension schmoes, but does anyone actually want to see these guys on the main show? one of them looks kinda like evil Matt Hardy. can't place who the other one reminds me of. Tomko maybe?

woooooo!

evil Matt Hardy and bigger evil Matt Hardy.

i'll be happy when they go to the main show. there are so many good tag teams in NXT (kalisto + sin cara, vaudevillians, enzo + amare) that are so much more entertaining to watch.

ascension have been the nxt tag champions forever tho

i dunno, i feel like that the one aspect of this NXT experiment that is a wee bit bullshitty is the tag division, although that might just be me being butthurt about how badly they've screwed up the tag division. in most other respects they've pillaged the indys pretty successfully but when you think that at various points over the last however many years they could've been going in for American Wolves, Motor City Machine Guns, the Beer Money Guys, the Briscoes, the Young Bucks etc. etc. etc. i can't help but think 'fuck those Ascension dudes'.

sorry that was all phrased terribly, trying to watch that squash match at the same time

basically ALL of the best tag teams since WGTT haven't gone near WWE and it fucking sucks and it's a bit weak that they try to sell that The Ascension or Amore and that other dude are as exciting as e.g. American Wolves

this is egregious bcuz they really have been signing all of the best talent up outside of the tag division, this was happening even before the current NXT format

yeah you'd know much better than me. i watched some of the tag stuff from chakira and loved it (like those slow motion dudes were hilarious, or the baseball mime) but NXT is generally much more interesting to me than RAW tag which, with the exception recently i guess of star+golddust, has been pretty boring imo.

enzo is hilarious tho. he's a great talker. you don't like that promo they just did w/ the poodle? i lol'd.

"i'll give you a bob"

sawft is admittedly dumb

ok yeah, these guys giving me a kind of alternate universe HBK / Kevin Nash vibe in that promo - little, colourful and obnoxious / big and laidback with ponytail, I actually don't mind it

this Sylvester dude is getting shaved, lol i love hair vs hair stips

so wait, did no one get shaved? well that is some bullshit.

would like to see tyler breeze fight fandango, would be fabulous

yeeeah KENTA squash these hosses

pretty dumb that they'd make such a song and dance over signing "major international sensation KENTA", introducing him as such, getting the fans chanting his name, only to have him 'reinvent' himself and change it to something totally lame and unmemorable within 30 seconds. thought this might've been the one they broke their own rule for

was it just me or did that bull dempsey jump from the ropes look totally ridiculous? omg he did it again. he can't reach him. it's embarrassing.

Bull Dempsey struck me as a less charismatic Rhino.

And they need to stop that diving headbutt. Too Benoit, and associated with a lot of his brain damage.

if they ever wanted to turn Bayley heel she could be loads of fun paired with Bo Dallas

Bayleyve!

the american wolves are really, really bad btw and wwe signing them is probably the wisest indie non-pillaging they've made

wwe NOT signing them rather

each to their own, i really enjoyed some of their ROH stuff a few years back. Had good matches with quite a few already signed guys (Bryan, Rollins, Steen, Zayn)

I've grown to really like Breeze.

i like all those other guys tbh, i'm just being a hater

(this show was a total blast btw)

i'm going to watch the nxt show lataz but just came to say lolz at signing the briscos (nothing like hiring people who are racist and homophobic to your multinational corporation) and the wolves (wrestlers still need to sell and not just drop people dangerously on their head). also iirc when the young bucks were close to being signed, they were such dicks backstage that they never got invited back, was dirtsheet buzz for a while etc. supposedly they really pissed off booker t and holla holla tag match teddy long.

is that one appalling superplex gif representative of Davey Richards' general work? I have never watched one of his matches because of it

http://i43.tinypic.com/2poyw6u.gif

I unironically enjoy the corny fake sport of pro wrestling and this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen

I have watched a lot of the ROH PPVs he was kinda on top for (10-12ish period) and yeaaaaaah... that gif is about right. He takes himself waaay too seriously, he makes Bret Hart look like a guy who knows its fake.

Fair fair fair, I was unaware of much of the backstage shenanigans wrt briscoes and young bucks, I was simply reeling off tag teams where I have watched and enjoyed a couple of matches that came recommended, I am not and never have been an avid fan of independent wrestling

its quite simple for me - generico gave up wrestling, so the indies are pointless now

the bucks might get signed btw, they buried the hatchet w/ booker t

Please tell me that Hideo Itami's gimmick isn't going to be "generic martial arts-loving Japanese guy".

giving away a scheduled 1 on 1 match on tv 6 days before it's due to air on PPV and having the face win clean is maybe the stupidest thing I can remember the WWE booking team doing in several decades worth of doing stupid shit on the regs. not necessarily very important or harmful in the long run, but wtf are these guys thinking

all the PPVs are now going at a fixed monthly rate on the Network, they figure that they're not gonna persuade anyone else to buy into that at this stage as all the likely customers have already got it so why worry about them right, now they're prioritizing TV ratings over non-Network PPV buys to try and draw more casual Raw viewers onto the Network? that's ridiculous and ill-thought out (and i should know cause it's a crap theory i just pulled straight out my ass) and i just do not get these people at all atm

apologies am tired, my posts are about as coherent as WWE's current creative direction

http://grantland.com/features/tna-professional-wrestling-dixie-carter-jeff-jarrett-wwe/

now they're prioritizing TV ratings over non-Network PPV buys to try and draw more casual Raw viewers onto the Network?

This sounds right. They booked RAW to have the important segments during the halftime of Monday Night Football!

this might also be the answer to the question of why monday raw after summerslam had a much better/longer ambrose/rollins fight than summerslam