2012 Wrestling Thread: Jericho returns tonight, Dragon is champion, RAW and TNA still unwatchable...

Bets on who goes through the Spanish announce table?

twitter down the middle between 'lol people who pay for 18 second matches' and 'i paid 65$ for this shit?'

it's good to ease myself back in with this match that could've taken place with zero differences ten years ago. none of this silly new stuff that bryan's bringing in.

Maaaan, so it's gonna be an hour each for the HIAC and the m/e then. I could do without that.

the tweet to put it all in horrifying perspective:

Tony Schiavone ‏ @TonySchiavone_

Wow, #JeffHardy lasted longer than #DanielBryan when he lost the title. #Wrestlemania #IWantWrestling #WWE

ok this is just embarrassing.

and another advert.

hope big show wears a special wm knit hat for all to enjoy.

oh and on the 'titles mean jack shit' front - three of them - half of the wwe titles - aren't being defended tonight.

Enjoying Michael Cole's attempts to sell Big Show as a legit superstar with all those titles seconds after a video package that was specially put together to show what a joke he's been for more than a decade.

my stream died and i missed most of that. big show win? i presume this is his retirement lap

Yeah, Big Show squash. Divas tag match to get longer than the WHC and IC title matches. Amazing

what everyone wants to see is big show againgst mid card villains

cody rhodes looks alright, i'm guessing that big show is more or less uncarryable these days though.

Cant find a working stream now. Dunno if I can be arsed with this

Cody Rhodes was really good earlier in the year. He had a bit of a Mankind thing going on where he was 'deformed', wore a protective mask like footballers w/ face injuries and had a creepy screwed&chopped theme tune. Then they dropped it all for some reason.

Having the full Rick Astley shows that Vince needs to leave 2009 internet land NOW.

ok i guess my stream got bored and is rick rolling me, although i still just assume this is vince on twitter.

Cant find a working stream now. Dunno if I can be arsed with this

― Windsor Davies, Monday, 2 April 2012 00:49 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you want me to give you a shout for when jericho-punk is on?

Thanks for the offer man but I'm just gonna call it a night. Work in the morning, can't justify staying up for this stuff. I'll torrent it tomorrow for the 3 main events.

cool, goodnight homie.

Womens Champ: Beaten by someone who hasn't ever wrestled before.

P certain Punk is just gonna take a curly turd on his title later.

holy shit matt strykers tan. he's like 7 different colours.

the women's wrestling seemed a lot better than it was back in the day. still not good enough for the bookers to take it remotely seriously, i guess?

tna take it seriously and actually get p big ratings off it compared to their male wrestlers. but lol tna.

my stream died :(

oh its cool, in the ten minutes it took me to get a new working one, taker was still walking to the ring.

hoyl shit he came as shredder

undie's dropped down from the 328lbs he was billed as for years, i guess that's the cancer for ya.

ok this hair shit is stupid beyond belief. he is the fucking undertaker, not some emo girlfriend with issues

between my internet being shitty, streams dying and this being lame as hell, i think i'm gonna tap out soon.

we're probably going to get another half hour of this at least, right? hm.

45 year olds who have wrestled 4 matches between them in the past 2 years? yeah its gonna be slow viewing. i'm going to bed, fuck wwe. hope it improves for ya merdy.

spinebuster onto the steps is pretty neat i admit.

alright, now let's see how well i can incongruously read philosophy and watch this at the same time.

Reading comics and watching is a nice pairing.

this is better than i expected, but then having everyone inexplicably get up from everything is a pretty artificial mode of drama.

However, the pace is allowing them to sell a bit more of the brutality than a usual match. It's nice after years and years of casual chair shots to see them sell the pain both this year and last.

I don't think anyone on the planet saw that win coming.

i was expecting hhh to win with a pantsing/small package combo.

anyway, two hours is quite enough, maybe i'll try to check out the jericho and rock matches some other time. (probably not.)

This many man tag match is enough to drive anyone away.

Punk v . Jericho about to start if people were waiting for something good.

after failing to sleep i've decided to hop back in. how's it been?

ah, i thought we had an old school knee-in-the-back lion tamer there, but then back into the boring boston crab version.

feel that the million reversals involved in that finish would've been more impressive if my stream wasn't freezing up. :'(

It wasn't that impressive, sadly. I did like the teased small package ending - nice nod to Steamboat/Savage.

wtf is happening.

I don't know what it is. Nothing good.

There's a Diddy on my wrestlemania. I don't appreciate.

with cena's array of headlocks and bearhugs it feels like 1980 all over again.

Don't forget Rock's dizzying array of arm-bar takedowns.

and now for the classic double-clothesline breather, those rest holds really take it out of ya.

welp that was boring. shouldn't have too much trouble sleeping now.

Not one of the better Manias.

that's awesome.

What happened to Lawler? (Have been away two weeks and am only checking ilx because of flight delay and free airport wifi).

Jerry had a heart attack on RAW when he was doing color commentary. Rushed him to the back, was revived by emts on the way to the hospital, is now recovering at home in Memphis.

Was nice seeing Jerry via satellite. He looks great.

"Marty Jannetty on facebook: 'o hell yes, imma ax this now. Shawn, my good friend, what up bee otch?? I gotta book coming out, well not yet, there’s a few moral issues, you may wanta contact me first, cause I’m telling bout my life, you being a part f it, well hell, call me, but in truth, I’d rather you not, the book will be soo much better if I don’t fall for your shit, but if you say, `Don’t say that,’ I’ll remember what yo religious fake ass said about me in your bullshit book. Anyone wanting to see real, will, I ain’t protecting yo as.' Our education system has failed us." - (WON 2012-01-23)

lol Punk beating up a fan the day his dvd is released and he has to fight Vince

USA chant to support South African Justin Gabriel this week.

Also a fucking you can't wrestle chant to.... CLAUDIO? WTF?

Sheamus and Big Show had... a really good match? Huh? Still gonna skip Big Show's retirement go round.

Kofi and Miz was dope but it ended too quickly.

Main event was fucking horrible. Punk made Honky Tonk Man look like a tough guy and Ryback still seems to have no idea what he is doing (great clothelines though.) Nick Patrick-ing it when you have Lesnar or even just Heyman to mess with a dude, or you could go for some sort of Dusty finish or just a Diesel-Bret Hart cheeky roll up or just fucking anything other than evil ref. Evil refs are the worst, the guy is obviously a failed actor from FCW (Maddo I wanna say?) who should be future endeavoured/put under a mask and started again.

USA USA USA USA USA

Yeah let's go the Ghanian who acts Jamaican, beat that Swiss fella for America!

Tyler Black (Seth Rollins) and Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) debut in the main event! FUCK YES! Also the son of Sika from the Wild Samoans! Hell of a potential stable there!

Survivor Series was mostly rubbish. Ryback should be nowhere near the main event. Randy Orton is so very dull and the booking of the match was atrocious. Sheamus and Big Show bored me nearly to tears. Having discussions about how no-one cares about rugby must be a way to fuck with Claudio for some reason.

First match was fun though and JBL can make anything fun.