Pro Wrestling is FAKE!?!

[AndySlash]

if so, at least the matches should be pretty good.

[Roose13]

Actually have another wrestling interview this week. Gonna chat with ROH's Frankie Kazarian in advance to their Supercard of Honor show. Gonna talk about that plus his band which is releasing an album next week.

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by hbktonyb

Just watched this Mania yesterday. The booked finish made no sense at all.

It was changed the day of. Hunter changed the finish because he wanted to be champion when Goldberg was around. Booker T EASILY could have dropped the title at Summerslam in the Chamber match (that he wasn't in if I remember right) to HHH or Goldberg. "People like you don't win championships."

Fuck you Hunter.

[artiej1120]

Shame that the best they can do for Braun is the battle royal that no one cares about. That Taker/Reigns segment was corny as shit. Not the best go-home show so far.

[artiej1120]

That final segment went over like a lead balloon. Cole not calling it a Spear didn't help. Still a great card on paper this weekend but mostly a subpar build.

[K3nTaKa0s]

That was about as lackluster of a go-home show that I've ever seen. Luckily for WWE, the name Wrestlemania sells itself.

[chadizzy1]

Anyone else think Reigns and Ambrose come to Rollins' aid Sunday night? That whole "the me I was before I met you" or whatever made me think it might happen.

[Speilmen230]

Tuned in for the first time in forever tonight for the go-home show. Very underwhelmed by the ladies, the cruiserweights are proving to be entertaining.

[YankeesDMB41]

The RAW women's division is the worst segment in WWE right now, despite what internet reddit smarks will tell you. Bailey and Sasha are literally unlistenable at this point. Nia Jax has the personality of a pussy fart, and Charlotte yelling her promos got old after her 3rd title reign in 4 months. Combine that with their consistently botch-filled matches and awkward exchanges on the mic, and you have a piss break every week

[Speilmen230]

Sounds like same ole shit as far as the ladies are concerned. Bailey opening the show was awful.

[YankeesDMB41]

Find me someone as bad on the mic as Bailey to have held a major singles championship

[Speilmen230]

I would argue Triple H is the best "good hand" ever. He isn't great at anything, but he is a B- at almost everything. He is the best B+ player ever.

Seth is a stud.

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by YankeesDMB41

Find me someone as bad on the mic as Bailey to have held a major singles championship

Candace Michelle.

[ramiro24]

All Red Everything is not coming back to the WWE it looks like, i know everyone is sad about that one.

[BotheLaneFan]

I am. She had the best entrance ever.

[hbktonyb]

I was loving her gimmick when she was on SDL.

Raw was pretty bad. I'll be at Mania, have great seats. That Raw did very little to get me pumped up for it.

[ramiro24]

Originally Posted by hbktonyb

I was loving her gimmick when she was on SDL.

Raw was pretty bad. I'll be at Mania, have great seats. That Raw did very little to get me pumped up for it.

Smackdown will cure all that ails you.

[Roose13]

I'm typically upbeat and last night wasn't a good go-home show. Only feuds that have me pumped are KO/Jericho and Neville/AA. Tag did a decent job and they better make it a ladder match. Reigns cut a good promo too but that feud already peaked with its build last week.

[chadizzy1]

Alvarez made some good points on the podcast before last. NXT got hurt during the draft, but WWE still views NXT as a third brand apparently. If they want it to be stronger and be a "third brand", they should move superstars from the main roster to NXT, and have it fairly distributed in the draft.

Thoughts?

[AndySlash]

who do you put there?

[chadizzy1]

Interesting comments from Triple H on Roman:
http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/8202...-call-incident

“People can look at Roman Reigns and say, ‘The failed attempt that is Roman Reigns,’ but Roman Reigns sells tickets,” said Levesque. “Roman Reigns gets one of the loudest reactions every night, whether that reaction is a boo or whether that reaction is a cheer. The fans who say, ‘I don’t understand why they don’t turn Roman Reigns heel!’ Isn’t he already?

“If you believe what you believe, and you’re saying, ‘How can they not turn him heel? There is 70 percent of the crowd booing him out of the building!’ If that’s your belief, then isn’t he already the biggest heel we have? If 70 percent of that crowd is booing him, then he’s a heel. We’re just presenting him to you in a different way that makes you hate him.”

[chadizzy1]

Edge & Christian apparently have a podcast now

https://art19.com/shows/ecs-pod-of-awesomeness

[chadizzy1]

Three matches on the Kickoff Show:

http://www.iwnerd.com/3-matches-conf...-kickoff-show/

Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Neville (c) V Aries
Bliss (c) V Smackdown Women

[AndySlash]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

We’re just presenting him to you in a different way that makes you hate him.”

maybe at this point that is what they're doing, but it certainly didn't start that way. roman was hot shit for awhile there and people actually liked him. but once it became clear what was happening with him and he was to be cena 2.0, people turned on his character because it wasn't natural or progressive, it was forced. but it's only been fairly recently that they've actually presented him as a polarizing figure - and by doing so implicitly acknowledging that they failed to position him in the way they intended - so sorry hhh, good spin there, but anyone who's been paying attention should be able to see through it.

[ramiro24]

Pretty Blissed off that Alexa and Becky get bumped to the preshow

[NKAWGNEATO]

Kurt Angle scheduled for Raw after Mania, per Observer.

[Roose13]

Here's my WrestleMania 33 preview a day early. Tomorrow or Thursday I'll post the interview with ROH's Frankie Kazarian.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/b...0911e75ca.html

[NKAWGNEATO]

Wrestlemania 33 stage setup (these are always fun this time of the year):

https://r3---sn-vgqsrn7l.googlevideo...490745343&mv=u

[NKAWGNEATO]

Wrestlemania 33 weekend/week Top 5 moments I'm looking forward to:

5) Cornette/Rock N Roll Express HOF segment

4) NXT

3) All the podcasts that will have fresh material (Austin, Y2J, Cornette, etc.)

2) Kurt Angle on Raw

1) Crowd at Raw

nothing on the Mania show cracks the top 5.

[chadizzy1]

Originally Posted by Roose13

Here's my WrestleMania 33 preview a day early. Tomorrow or Thursday I'll post the interview with ROH's Frankie Kazarian.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/b...0911e75ca.html

Your predictions were close to mine:

Gallows/Anderson (c) V Enzo/Cass V Cesaro/Sheamus - Enzo/Cass
Ambrose (c) V Corbin - Corbin
Cena/Bella V Miz/Maryse - Cena/Bella
Jericho (c) V Owens - Owens
Bayley (c) V Flair V Banks V Jax - Jax
Shane V AJ - AJ
Undertaker V Reigns - Reigns
Goldberg (c) V Lesnar - Lesnar
Wyatt (c) V Orton - Wyatt
Triple H V Seth Rollins - Seth

Pre-Show:
Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal - Braun
Neville (c) V Aries - Aries
Bliss (c) V Smackdown Women - Bliss

Except I have Enzo/Cass winning as well as Bliss winning.