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[Phoenix]

Oh wow I totally forgot that I hadn't finished watching RAW from this past week. Just am finishing it now...glad I caught the match between Jericho and Seth Rollins, until it got interrupted by the Wyatts anyway. Those two guys work very well together; they put on one heck of a good match until the interruption.

 

[pjtoadie]

Did anyone see that Hogan wants one more match?

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...ogan-says-he-training-for-one-more-wwe-match/

 

[BoysFan4ever]

After what you guys have said about Hogan being such an awful wrestler I am going to presume this "one more match" idea of his is just for whatever money they'll pay him.

He's a weird looking dude. He kind of looks like he's stuck in the 70's.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Superman Cena had marriage issues? Tell me it is not so!

I am just kidding. I feel sorry for anyone who divorces. It cannot be easy.

Yeah the business came first with him. He spends so much time on the road that it eventually broke their marriage down. It's a pretty common theme among top wrestlers.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Yeah the business came first with him. He spends so much time on the road that it eventually broke their marriage down. It's a pretty common theme among top wrestlers.

Yea I can understand that.

Can't say I blame his ex.

 

[Phoenix]

Hmmmmmm I might have to finally catch a TNA "Impact" tonight for the first time in many years if in fact Dixie Carter is indeed being slammed through a table.


Bleacher Report Featured Columnists Donald Wood, Mike Chiari and Brandon Galvin had TNA President Dixie Carter on Ring Rust Radio this week. You can check out the interview above, below is a transcription:


Donald Wood: It is now common knowledge that you will be going through a table on the Aug. 7 edition of Impact Wrestling. What should the fans expect from this week's show?

"I think if you've been watching lately the show has been, in my opinion, some of the best programming that we've been putting out. I'm so excited about it. I'm just thrilled to see how many of these young talents that we've debuted in the last six, eight, nine months in such a prominent role. And at the same time we're starting to have such amazing increases in ratings, so that makes me really proud. Tomorrow night is a big night for us. I would happen to call it must-see TV and if you haven't tuned in in a while it would definitely be a show to catch."


<snip!>


Donald Wood: There were rumors that surfaced immediately after the taping regarding your health following the table spot. Would you fill the fans in at home about how you are doing now and what, if any, injuries you suffered during the incident?

"It hurt like hell. I have such mad respect for these men and women and what they do every time. I sit there as they come backstage and they're warriors. I talk to professional football players and fighters and NBA guys, and they all tell me they could never do what these men and women do 52 weeks a year, no offseason, multiple times a week. People are like, 'Is that table fake?' No, this stuff hurts, it hurts like hell. To be able to do what they do, it was just a small way of me paying respect for what they do for me personally and to our company and for the fans. So, it did hurt, you'll just have to watch and see what really does happen and then maybe I'll tell you how serious it was, but yes, I was injured."


Read more at http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news...alks-tna-future-on-spike/#1tu3lx0AH6ku2iBG.99

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Desperation.







YR

 

[pjtoadie]

Have to admit I am excited to see the NWO reunion on Raw this coming Monday.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

After what you guys have said about Hogan being such an awful wrestler I am going to presume this "one more match" idea of his is just for whatever money they'll pay him.

He's a weird looking dude. He kind of looks like he's stuck in the 70's.

It's been about the pay day for about 17 years now.

He's always been an awful wrestler. People bag on Cena because he's forced to only use 5-6 moves but Hogan was only capable of doing 5-6 moves. He wasn't forced into it he just couldn't do anything else.

 

[pjtoadie]

It's been about the pay day for about 17 years now.

He's always been an awful wrestler. People bag on Cena because he's forced to only use 5-6 moves but Hogan was only capable of doing 5-6 moves. He wasn't forced into it he just couldn't do anything else.

I agree with you but he took professional wrestling to another level. Even though he was never the best technical wrestler in history he's arguably the most popular. I myself was a huge Ultimate Warrior fan when I was a kid and just so-so on Hogan.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

It's been about the pay day for about 17 years now.

He's always been an awful wrestler. People bag on Cena because he's forced to only use 5-6 moves but Hogan was only capable of doing 5-6 moves. He wasn't forced into it he just couldn't do anything else.

I think you'd almost have to be a kid to want to see Hogan do just about anything. His act seems very old & silly to me.

I'd maybe like Cena better (if at all) if he'd just shut up. It's the way his character is packaged that makes him boring to me as a new fan.

I also don't like the focus on the girls. I wouldn't pay a penny to see Stephanie " wrestle."

On the flip side I liker the really crazy Ambrose guy & I really like Jericho.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Have to admit I am excited to see the NWO reunion on Raw this coming Monday.

Agreed. That should really be something IF they do it right. I'm praying they don't screw it up.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I saw a commercial earlier. Some lady on TNA gets thrown thru a table. I guess it must be a big deal.

As a female I'm not sure about people cheering for that but I guess they rehearsed all that & it's safe.

Anyway doing it up big before they go belly up.

 

[Derekmtl85]

I think you'd almost have to be a kid to want to see Hogan do just about anything. His act seems very old & silly to me.

I'd maybe like Cena better (if at all) if he'd just shut up. It's the way his character is packaged that makes him boring to me as a new fan.

I also don't like the focus on the girls. I wouldn't pay a penny to see Stephanie " wrestle."

On the flip side I liker the really crazy Ambrose guy & I really like Jericho.

I haven't watched for year, but in the early 2000's Jericho was my favorite.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I haven't watched for year, but in the early 2000's Jericho was my favorite.

Of all the entrances I have seen his is my favorite.

And I like his matches. He's not boring & he brings out the best in whoever he's wrestling. I really like him a lot.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I saw a commercial earlier. Some lady on TNA gets thrown thru a table. I guess it must be a big deal.

As a female I'm not sure about people cheering for that but I guess they rehearsed all that & it's safe.

Anyway doing it up big before they go belly up.

They had angles where the female valet would get hit by a wrestler and the crowd...which used to be roughly 50% women...and the crowd cheered for it wildly.

Watch Jake Roberts DDT Dark Journey in Mid-South wrestling. Or watch Dusty Rhodes hit Baby Doll in the Crockett promotions.

But, it was booked differently and better back then. The females were not intimidated by females involved in the wrestling business because they were not these plastic surgery productions.

And the females were not all treated like sluts. The females back then had a very real character about them, like Miss Elizabeth being bullied by her paranoid boyfriend, Randy Savage.

Or Baby Doll coming off like a female bully while using her female status to prevent any male wrestler from hitting her back.

Or Missy Hyatt as the heel that would act nasty to women and men, but once she had a finger layed up her, she would feign injury like it was the most devastating thing in the world.

Women could relate to those type of characters and could cheer or boo them. And when somebody like Baby Doll had antagonized Dusty Rhodes for years and did it one too many times...when Dusty clocked her the *women* cheered for Dusty because they felt it was long overdue for Baby Doll and if Dusty didn't do it, they would have wanted to clock Baby Doll themselves.

It's certainly a different time and society these days, but I think the writing for female fans and female performers is so pathetic and the wrestling world is missing out on hitting the female fan market, something that used to pay off well for them.






YR

 

[Derekmtl85]

Of all the entrances I have seen his is my favorite.

And I like his matches. He's not boring & he brings out the best in whoever he's wrestling. I really like him a lot.

If you like Jericho, you'd like the older guys like Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, etc. Great wrestlers, great personalities, amazing matches.

When they had matches together....magic.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

They had angles where the female valet would get hit by a wrestler and the crowd...which used to be roughly 50% women...and the crowd cheered for it wildly.

Watch Jake Roberts DDT Dark Journey in Mid-South wrestling. Or watch Dusty Rhodes hit Baby Doll in the Crockett promotions.

But, it was booked differently and better back then. The females were not intimidated by females involved in the wrestling business because they were not these plastic surgery productions.

And the females were not all treated like sluts. The females back then had a very real character about them, like Miss Elizabeth being bullied by her paranoid boyfriend, Randy Savage.

Or Baby Doll coming off like a female bully while using her female status to prevent any male wrestler from hitting her back.

Or Missy Hyatt as the heel that would act nasty to women and men, but once she had a finger layed up her, she would feign injury like it was the most devastating thing in the world.

Women could relate to those type of characters and could cheer or boo them. And when somebody like Baby Doll had antagonized Dusty Rhodes for years and did it one too many times...when Dusty clocked her the *women* cheered for Dusty because they felt it was long overdue for Baby Doll and if Dusty didn't do it, they would have wanted to clock Baby Doll themselves.

It's certainly a different time and society these days, but I think the writing for female fans and female performers is so pathetic and the wrestling world is missing out on hitting the female fan market, something that used to pay off well for them.






YR

I was referring to them cheering in terms of a guy being violent towards a woman but that's sort of a social topic & I'm sure they rehearsed it & she agreed to it & she's a villain & all that. This stuff is like an onion with many layers. I know that.

And it is for show. Anyway it looks painful. Faked or not you still fall hard.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I agree with you but he took professional wrestling to another level. Even though he was never the best technical wrestler in history he's arguably the most popular. I myself was a huge Ultimate Warrior fan when I was a kid and just so-so on Hogan.

Oh no doubt. I absolutely acknowledge that he was the man when it came to pro wrestling in the 80's and early 90's and then again later in the 90's. Without question he's the most popular superstar I've ever seen not named Stone Cold Steve Austin.

He just sucked in the ring. He was the right guy at the right time in the business and he was huge, as was the business, because of it.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I think you'd almost have to be a kid to want to see Hogan do just about anything. His act seems very old & silly to me.

I'd maybe like Cena better (if at all) if he'd just shut up. It's the way his character is packaged that makes him boring to me as a new fan.

I also don't like the focus on the girls. I wouldn't pay a penny to see Stephanie " wrestle."

On the flip side I liker the really crazy Ambrose guy & I really like Jericho.

Ambrose is one of the new guys, so to speak, whose dang good. An all around really good one to have in the WWE. Jericho is a legend. He's one of the best ever. Absolutely a stud and one of my 5 or 6 favorites of all time.

As an avid, admitted, huge HBK fan (Whom I think is the best of all time) I think Jericho is probably every bit as good as HBK. He's like an HBK clone and was just amazing to watch during his prime.