Big Names Scheduled for RAW Next Week
Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker have been advertised for RAW next week. There is also talk that Hulk Hogan will be appear as there was plans for him at one point but the WWE has yet to advertise them.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
WrestleMania Pre-Show Update
The pre-show for this year's WrestleMania will be two hours long. The first hour can be seen on WWE.com. as well as other WWE social media accounts while the second hour is exclusive to the WWE Network
Credit Dave Scherer, PWInsider.com
Current NXT Talents to Appear at WrestleMania?
There have been rumors that the Ascension will make their debut by teaming with Kane to face the Shield at WrestleMania
Credit Wade Keller, PWTorch Newsletter
Naomi Update
Naomi, who returned to RAW this week wearing an eye patch, is wearing it as part of a storyline and not for medical issues.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker have been advertised for RAW next week. There is also talk that Hulk Hogan will be appear as there was plans for him at one point but the WWE has yet to advertise them.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
WrestleMania Pre-Show Update
The pre-show for this year's WrestleMania will be two hours long. The first hour can be seen on WWE.com. as well as other WWE social media accounts while the second hour is exclusive to the WWE Network
Credit Dave Scherer, PWInsider.com
Current NXT Talents to Appear at WrestleMania?
There have been rumors that the Ascension will make their debut by teaming with Kane to face the Shield at WrestleMania
Credit Wade Keller, PWTorch Newsletter
Naomi Update
Naomi, who returned to RAW this week wearing an eye patch, is wearing it as part of a storyline and not for medical issues.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
Sorry, quick TJ. Going through the network and looking for some great tv matches that I may have never seen before.
ReplyDeleteAny suggestions outside the obvious ones like Punk/Cena, Benoit/Austin, etc.?
Huh. I totally don't remember that.
ReplyDeleteDoes the ECW show with Public Enemy vs. Cactus & Miley appear on the network? That match is really fun to watch
ReplyDeleteTwo hour preshow is quite the overkill.
ReplyDeleteYes, after cataract surgery. You'll often see old age pirates hanging around hospitals.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be even worse when people are sitting in the arena and can't hear the panel discussions and such.
ReplyDeleteIt was called All Day Long or something like that. Basically it was a marathon of great Wrestlemania matches for like $50 extra. The cable company screwed our order up and I got it for free.
ReplyDeleteI really hope The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal OPENS Wrestlemania XXX and is not regulated to the preshow. Cause them doing that would be STUPID like calling me a blog otter.
ReplyDeleteYou're a blog otter.
ReplyDeleteWell, my two year old has to wear one to help with a lazy eye, so there's that.
ReplyDeleteWatching Halloween Havoc 90.
ReplyDeleteThe Black Scorpion shit was just fucking horrific.
The Freebirds pretty much in drag is almost as bad.
and The Renegade Warriors? ....dafaq?
ReplyDeleteBlog Otter? I hate that name. I hate it. You hear? Nobody calls me "Blog Otter", especially not some duded-up, egg-suckin' gutter trash.
ReplyDeleteTwo hours? Brings back memories of All Day Long and Hunter bitching about Warrior in the XII section.
ReplyDeleteTwo hours of Miz speaking.
ReplyDeleteMost of SD before Mania is a damn pre show. Plus after 6 hours all that buffering on the network will add another 1 hour to the show...
ReplyDeleteNever seen that one. I'll try and find it
ReplyDeleteUm. Your insults confuse me. What exactly is "duded-up"? I don't think I've ever sucked on an egg...well, chocolate eggs, sure. At least I understand gutter trash, though I don't find the description apt.
ReplyDeleteThe horror. The horror...
ReplyDeleteBut what about Scooby?!!!?
ReplyDeleteKurtz never saw the true horror.
ReplyDeleteThat was actually the first PPV I watched on the Network because it was the first PPV I remember for as long as I was a fan (I didn't get into wrestling until 1990). But yeah, you're right That show is pretty lackluster, to put it mildly.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I've ever seen it.
ReplyDeleteGot even "better" when they became Tribal Nation in the GWF...
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me of one of those old WCWSN recaps from RSPW done by Scott Hudson and his bunch: when the Renegade was wrestling, they wrote, "They should call him the Renegade, he wrestles like a dead Youngblood..." (Too soon on either level???)
Well, thanks to my grandmother being the type of person who gives her
ReplyDeletegrandchildren obscene amounts of money for no reason, WWE Network will
be back in my grasp as soon as I make a trip to Bank of America
Having Kane bring in the Ascension and eventually managing them is a really good idea.
ReplyDeleteOh, Kurtz would've butchered himself before Williard had the chance if he'd seen The Miz, WWE Champion, with Heel Cole screaming in delight for hours every week.
ReplyDeleteAn extra 50 for that seems insane.
ReplyDeleteWho did he ever beat?
ReplyDeleteDid he really? What did he say?
ReplyDeleteIt sucks that we don't have a thread to talk about what we are watching on the network... oh wait
ReplyDeleteWas there Twerking in that match?
ReplyDeleteNo but Rocco Rock does the cabbage patch a lot
ReplyDeleteBURN
ReplyDeleteOh, TAG!
ReplyDeletePfft. You and your idea of protocols can both fuck off.
ReplyDelete:: Takes a victory lap ::
ReplyDeleteYour MOM is a blog otter.
ReplyDeleteRight FUCK regulation! WHO IS JOHN GALT?
ReplyDeleteThis was actually a coveted PPV by me when I was younger...I guess I liked the Halloween ropes and mat, and I only heard it in scramblevision so I had to get the VHS. And I liked the Master Blasters' entrance theme so I hoped they kept their match, but to no avail.
ReplyDeleteCalled him "the most unprofessional guy I've ever worked with." Guess he didn't like having his finisher no-sold in the first 10 seconds of the match.
ReplyDeleteNever read that. Started to watch the film on Netflix the other day. Got about 15 mins in and realized I was watching garbage. Opted out.
ReplyDeleteHe is the awesome champion,the greatest of all time,The Awesome one,Miz.
ReplyDeletePAUL/PAUL 2016!
ReplyDeleteAh, Scramblevision PPVs and WCW Saturday nights (Didn't get TBS). If anyone thinks a wrestling announce team is important now... It was crucial back then.
ReplyDeleteI would totally vote for Ron Paul; don't know much about his kid.
ReplyDeleteI've never even seen the Ascension work a match, but I like the idea of using the veterans to bring in new guys. This roster needs a shake-up. Putting them with Kane probably makes sense too, especially when Kane goes back to being the "monster". He could be a pretty cool mentor/manager for them.
ReplyDeleteWhile he Stops, drops and rolls.
ReplyDelete6 hours of 'Mania... the crowd will be DEAD for the main event
ReplyDeleteAnd it was GLORIOUS!
ReplyDeleteIt was more like an extra $10 I think.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I recall scrmblevision on was the Playboy channel when I was around 12 or 13. The cable box had a manual fine-tuning thing I could mess with and get just enough of a picture to sort of make out what might have been happening.
ReplyDeleteNah...you need a hotter opener. It'd be a nice change of pace match in the middle of the card. Either way, I agree that it shouldn't be relegated to pre-show fodder.
ReplyDeleteThat show could be an hour long and the crowd will be dead for that main event.
ReplyDeletePre-youtube that was probably awesome.
ReplyDeleteCrowd would be dead for Daniel Bryan winning the world title?
ReplyDeleteLast year they broadcast the pre-show over the stadium PA and put up the video on the jumbotron.
ReplyDeleteThey will awake in that moment.
ReplyDeleteMiz isn't bad on the mic. And he was downright entertaining with Morrison.
ReplyDeleteBefore Bryan wins the title they will make everyone suffer.
ReplyDeleteI attended last year and getting there in time for the entire pre-show didn't even cross my mind. I think I was at my seat about 30 minutes before the show officially started. Presumably, most people will take the same route. You'd have to be whacked to get there that early for pre-show crap.
ReplyDeleteWait, is he officially in that match now? In that case the crowd won't be dead, they'll be fucking rioting.
ReplyDeleteTJ: I'm watching the Terry Funk/Sabu Barbed Wire Match from '97 and jeez...the novelty wares off on these things fairly quickly. The only good Barbed Wire Match was Sabu/Abyss from TNA in '05, mainly because they worked an actual match but with an environmental hazard rather than a 15 minute torture porn.
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling that Taker/Lesnar is going to be pretty ugly. Though I said that about Taker/Punk last year, and that match was great.
ReplyDeleteTJ: I never knew they did a Divas Search before the Divas Search, regardless this chick won and never made. If it wasn't for Google, we would of been robbed of prime fapping material.
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Taker will let brock go stiff.It's gonna be a good match with a predictable finish.
ReplyDeleteFace Miz.
ReplyDeleteTj: Came home from and taxi driver wss on.For some reason the scene where travis bickle takes Cybil Sheppard to the XXX movie theater for a first date always makes me lol.
ReplyDeleteOh fuck, THAT match... When you're having to tape up your arm while taking a neckbreaker, that's a problem. When you have to go home mid-sequence because both guys are so tangled in barbed wire that they can't really move, that's a problem.
ReplyDeleteThough compared to some of the Cage of Death matches that's kind of tame.
Oh yes, Jamie Koeppe
ReplyDeleteWould people scream conspiracy theory if Melo ends up a Laker?
ReplyDeleteThat finish being an F-5 reversed into a Tombstone. I just hope they do a wrestling match, instead of some worked MMA shit. Hell, I'm not really into real MMA.
ReplyDelete"Miz has never been entertaining. He was only slightly annoyning with Morrison."
ReplyDeleteThat's what you REALLY meant
Also "The smell of the flowers only made me sicker. The headaches just got worse. I think I have stomach cancer" is golden
ReplyDeleteI really want to get back to starrcade 88(I zonked out during Steiner vs rotunda last night) but this movie is too awesome
It's okay to push some MMA elements like Brock/Cena,not a MMA match Gracies vs Nagata/Sakuraba,what a awful match fake jiu-jitstu shit.
ReplyDeleteIf they want to stiff the fuck out of each other with strikes, that's fine. But don't even try the submission crap, at least not until towards the end.
ReplyDeleteGood point.
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it.
ReplyDeleteQuestion for the BoD. Who was the better character, Travis Bickle or Max Cady?
ReplyDeleteAlso we know that Cady has been aped twice by the wwe as a gimmick. Do you think a gimmick loosely based on Travis Bickle would get over with the smark crowd like mercy or Wyatt?
Ten bucks is obscene?
ReplyDeleteTravis will be much more difficult,Cady was a heel from get go while Bickle is kept ambiguous throughout the movie.
ReplyDeleteI can buy 3 ps2 games with ten bucks with great quality.
ReplyDeleteDat ass. Dayum.
ReplyDeleteI hope they just ignore the whole MMA thing and just do a straight big man match. Let them toss each other around for 15 or 20 minutes.
ReplyDeleteHe got caught by the Wellness Program.
ReplyDeleteToo many Scooby Snacks.
The fuck?
ReplyDeleteFlipping through the network, landed on Smackdown replay. Late-1999 DX was BRUTAL. Xpac and Road Dogg made the worst heels ever at that time.
ReplyDeleteTaxi Driver is on starz right now
ReplyDeleteIts very hard to call Bickle a bad guy but I think a wrestling gimmick based off taxi driver would have to be heel right?
ReplyDeleteTravis is product of the war and loneliness.You wanna see him find a light,but he looks in the wrong places.
ReplyDeleteAh, OK. Seen it years ago but don't really remember it. That's the movie with Jodie Foster where she's 14 or so and playing a hooker, right?
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a movie guy...
X-Pac was great as that sniveling little weasel you wanted to see Kane get his hands on and destroy. However, I think there was a missed opportunity in DX using Kane for their own purposes for a few months before they turned on him. Mainy because X-Pac got WAY TOO MANY victories over Kane, to the point where it didn't really mean anything when Kane finally won in that random thrown together tag match where he teamed with Rikishi.
ReplyDeleteThe stuff leading up to the arm injury was pretty good, as the spots were built up well and treated like a big deal but then it just dragged and dragged and dragged.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I haven't seen the movie in a fe years, but that always seemed like a common sense first date no no. You have a pretty upscale woman willing to go out with, and you decide to take her to a porno?
ReplyDeleteOld School with Savage vs. Bruno tonight should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteJeans and exposed midriffs galore!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree. If you rate matches based on how many suplex variations are in it, then it's negative stars. But as a logical, well-worked audience-participation match that effectively blew off a well-done feud, it worked fine.
ReplyDeleteHart Foundation vs. Rougeaus!
ReplyDeleteI've only ever seen this match with the heel-face roles reversed.
ReplyDeleteI miss references to Billy Jerk Haynes.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this is going to be a strange dynamic.
ReplyDeleteWhich arena do you guys like watching shows more in: MSG or old Boston Garden?
ReplyDeleteAnvil just got slammed on his head. Ouch.
ReplyDeleteI know I prefer MSG. But I've seen dead crowds at both arenas. The crowd was dead for Billy Jack and Hercules until Heenan got involved.
ReplyDeleteSteamboat's selling here against Sika looks hilarious.
ReplyDeleteAnd holy crap did you see those cops running?
ReplyDelete...Bret Hart? Did you mean Bryan?
ReplyDeleteIts my favorite match ever.
ReplyDeleteDino Bravo stinks. Or the past tense, because he's dead.
ReplyDeleteSammartino the wolfman. Geez, he's hairy.
ReplyDeleteDisappointed in the ending of that main event. Shouldn't Bruno put Savage over?
ReplyDeleteTotally missed the whole match while typing a stupid discussion board post for my course.
ReplyDeleteHow was it?
The match itself was brief. Bruno with his usual punchy kicky bearhug offense. The lumberjacks providing assistance for Savage on the heel side. Steamboat was a lumberjack and he got his licks in. Match ended in a giant schmoz with no winner.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Sounds OK. I'm gonna go back and watch it later probably.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on Hogan/Warrior although it's close. Surprised that hasn't gotten mor love in this thread, actually
ReplyDeleteIf he didn't sound like he was autistic when he was cutting a promo, Test really could have been a major player for wwe. He's pretty over hers
ReplyDeleteMoolah and Mae Young were a couple of hoochies back in the day. Man, we get pot references, barely dressed women, people saying "ass". What a display.
ReplyDelete"What's that all aboot?"
ReplyDeleteCole looks 95 lbs here.
ReplyDeleteCole would gain weight and a few tattoos over time. It's difficult to determine at which point he was the bigger tool.
ReplyDeleteKurt Angle had it on the stick almost immediately with the "three i's" thing. Man, he came long a lot quicker than most new guys do now.
ReplyDeleteThe Rock's locker room promo there was hilarious. Only calling Al Snow by his first name like it was made up, and not directing any comments directly to him.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet we have another reminder of how completely stale the New Age Outlaws are. Same schtick, different decade.
ReplyDelete1) Match/moment you most would have wanted to see live?
ReplyDeleteHogan-Andre, Wrestlemania III, one of the biggest moments ever and to see that live would be unforgettable.
2) Match you expected to hate that you liked the best?
LT-Bigelow. Way better than I could have expected.
3) Worst booking decision?
Mankind and Vader VS Bulldog and Owen instead of a Vader/Mankind gimmick match/brawl.
4) Best celebrity appearance?
Pete Rose attacking Kane in a chicken suit certainly got the biggest reaction of any PPV party I've ever been to.
5) Most surprising moment?
Wish I hadn't used up the chicken suit thing already… I know no Steamboat-Savage rematch at Wrestlemania IV when they were lined up in the brackets is one I hadn't heard yet.
6) Most under-rated match?
Bret-Piper is pretty great.
7) Most over-rated match?
Cena-Rock II, just dull.
8) Worst gimmick match?
An Iron Man match with no falls is just an hour draw; maybe not worst overall, but definitely worst usage of a gimmick.
9) The most disappointing match?
Goldberg-Lesnar; that was a legit dream match and all the outside stuff led to the crowd fairly shitting all over it.
10) Best main event match?
Austin-Rock, X7 -- I don't know if one will have that kind of "feel" again.
1999: JR derides "the critics" for not reviewing Mick Foley's first book, basically flipping the bird at the mainstream media.
ReplyDelete2014: WWE discusses trends on Twitter.
I think people think that if Owen won more matches he wouldn't have died.
ReplyDeleteWhat a big pile of dump this Savage vs. Bruno match is lol. Bruno looked awful in there. It's funny how today's wrestling conditions you to assume that when the guys on the outside of the ring get all piled up, like they were when Savage fell to the floor, that someone is going to dive. Not in 1987 or with Bruno!
ReplyDeleteYou really get a feel for how much Flair hates Hall and Nash in the Legends of Wrestling. Definitely a great show.
ReplyDeleteDisappointing, no?
ReplyDeleteMan, I wish they played my wrestling theme music when I got married.
ReplyDeleteWell, fuck. I forgot about the singing.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, Test. It's a kayfabe wedding, dude. Chill.
ReplyDeleteYes, though I understand why people love it. I'm just not a fan of the "Main Event style", or either of the people in that match.
ReplyDeleteWatching rotunda vs rick Steiner at starrcade 88. Its so funny seeing teddy long ref a match bald with a rat tail
ReplyDeleteThey need some nwa 88 TV shows on here so I can figure out why Kevin Sullivan is in a cage above the ring.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really going for specifics of how it happened. more of a why did anyone thing that was worth a shot? Greg was a perfectly solid 80's wrestler but here we are in the cartoon era of wrestling and you turn Greg no gimmick but a nickname Valetine who is starting to get up there in age into a face?
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