Rolling 2014 Haunted Rocking Chair Thread

this is fantastic. I'm in the second row wearing a phillies cap and a goat tshirt

recently got 100% way too much back into wwe after years of mostly ignoring it and i watched 1 episode of lucha underground and i'm about ready to abandon wwe forever again

would it be weird to have a LU thread in the WWE board/why is it just a WWE board

Considering there's one active thread and six people in it talk about what you want.

ok

lucha underground is good!

LU is so good btw, u are most otm

i want to talk about chikara - it was so good. it's really goofy and fun and the crowd is amazing - chanting the entire time, cheering. the best match i saw was the Devastation Corporation tag team vs the Throwbacks for tag team title - the latter lost it to the former but the entire match was really fantastic + exciting, i took a mark pic w/ the Throwbacks after the show and they were like 'you should've gotten a pic with us when we had the titles' :( the storylines are very fun + weird. a lot of bizarre gimmicks. this guy delirious, painted all in green, fought ultra mantis (who was super over w/ the crowd, wearing a praying mantis lucha mask) w/ loser leaves chikara and after the match delirious mind controlled two friends of ultra mantis and the crowd chanted, "fight it! fight it! fight it!" but exhortations didn't help. later in this huge torneo cibernetico match they had like a 7 vs 7 and part of the story involved all these ant luchas on the face team and this one estranged ant heel on the heel team and when FireAnt finally faced off against SoldierAnt at the end of the match the crowd chanted "hug it out" which i thought was really sweet. they obvs didn't hug it out. anyway it was like NXT++ like all the goofy, fun, parts of NXT with a mix of styles. also the first match was a mixed gender match for the chikara young lions cup and heidi lovelace won which was pretty cool and one of the things i really like about LU too with Sexy Star competing against the men. it's a good look.

oh wait i missed the main event which was their second cage match in history and it was this super heel (big hossy dude wearing all-black contact lenses) who has apparently "killed" chikara athletes and he squared off against this guy icarus who did a lot of cage climbing that was neat. anyway - after icarus defeated him the good guys of chikara who had come out to watch the match and cheer for icarus passed him this giant thor-like hammer and icarus hit the super heel w/ it and dude lied down and didn't move until the entire arena cleared out at the end of the show. he just lied there.

and i still didn't mention this heel manager, Sidney Bakabella, who is hilarious w/ this super obv fake toupee (that he lost at some point during a scuffle) who just banters ongoingly w/ the crowd throughout the match making these over the top heel manager comments and rubbing his fingers together in the money sign.

so i guess what i'm saying is i super marked out

wow @ LU's main event this week

fucking facebook news sidebar spoils NXT for me jfc

ok watching a stream of nxt R.E.V-olu-t:ion and i'm so hyped from sasha/charlotte that i can't even start the main event, that was incredible (except the result :( )

Whole event was pretty damn good.

yeah lol zayn/neville was also incredible and this is just so astronomically better than WWE right now. it's gonna be tragic watching them screw all this up once those two (and owens and banks and charlotte and finn and hideo) get promoted.

I love the Vaudevillains, too.

i honestly don't really remember that match which says a lot about this event

just watched the NXT ep - so good u guys otm

epitome of everything wrong w/WWE rn: (does anyone even watch smackdown) kidd/cesaro jobbing to the usos immediately following a promo where they address the brass ring podcast, in a match where it would've made perfect storyline sense for the usos to lose (the miz is getting into jimmy's head! it's messing him up and affecting his performance! these things were immediately addressed in the promo right after! it meant nothing for them to win! they weren't even acting like they won! it would've enhanced the story and the buildup to TLC if they'd lost! and cesaro and tyson could actually catch a break!) but because i guess PPVs are the only things that matter now, the 8 wrestlers WWE cares about have to either lose to their upcoming TLC opponents or beat everyone else

this is why i shouldn't watch wrestling

also the past literally one thousand main events resulting in a cena/authority fuckfest who even gives a fuck

lol watching raw or smackdown

also lol at how i only know the stupid name or date of the ppv cos of nxt. tables ladders and chairs and also stairs starring not the champion, bryan or the superstar of the year who had a match with randy orton once who is also not there i guess.

nxt was dope. kill steen kill. or fight owens fight i guess. also balor's entrance makes him the new undertaker right? i'm already excited about him at wm32. shame he's already made kenta seem like a second thought.

he teased the GTS and everyone marked out, hopefully better things are coming for him. finn should really be promoted asap (he's 33!) so kenta can stop getting overshadowed.

also the body paint's only gonna be brought out for special events which makes it so much better.

first TLC response to NXT: DIFFERENTLY PAINTED STARDUST

idk why but i'm watching this (in background tho bc iggles game is in half hour) - kinda excited for luke harper v. dolph and i think cena v. rollins will be good

luke harper is a chikara alum

lol harper nonchalantly dropping the ladder on ziggler

usos are snoozeville

usos dressed like they're all ready for the kids choice awards

the boring future of wwe saves the boring present of wwe

Reigns v. Lesnar at Wrestlemania is gonna suck.

nikki wins via sleeping gas

An apt metaphor for this PPV vs the audience.

I keep forgetting who is on the card.

Anyone else still kind of watching? And hating themselves for doing so?

still watching! deeeeeean

i bailed when big show came out

Dean v Wyatt better be good

oh yeah i wanted to see that. i think i'll tune back in

well that all went about exactly as expected

Perfectly fine slices of bread with a steaming pile in between. Worst PPV in some time which is really saying something

really stepped it up

completely forget everything about ryback/kane including the winner

Did Ryebread win? I think so.

was that the stairs match? oh god

were there any non-divas aside from dolph ziggler who are not twice as heavy as dolph ziggler

I'm late to the party, but I saw Lucha Underground for the first time last weekend and loved it. It's got such an innocence to it, something that wwe lacks. I can't quite put my finger on what that is exactly, but its awesome.

anyone else pulled a tv from its plug socket and had it explode with pyrotechnics in their face?

i didnt watch the ppv

If my tv had exploded it would have been better than that PPV.

lucha underground also has really good wrestling matches

i mean i am way partial to high flyers and acrobatics and max weight: cruiser, the opposite of everything vince likes but vince himself is so adept at burying the actually talented lunks it doesn't matter

the difference is so huge

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strange she didn't mention the horribleness of striker and vampiro whenever she appears