Wrestling 2012: SET THE FUNKASAURUS FREE

The Lovely Bastard

I hope that funkasaurus' entrances get more and more elaborate

DJ Eebs

I missed most of the first hour of raw because I was watching alcatraz

I saw bits though, like ziggler going off on foley and such, that was neat

Hjorvarthr

Henry's not taping up his ankle anymore?


good thing for Henry I guess?

The Lovely Bastard

did you see all of funkasaurus geebs

DJ Eebs

I missed the entrance. I'll watch it on youtube tomorrow (I was driving)

The Lovely Bastard

daaag that was the best part

DJ Eebs

yeah, well, I had to go feed my dog over at my parents because they're in cancun and my sister was working

which is fine because they, you know, have cable and a nice tv to watch things on, but at some point I had to drive home and it wasn't going to be at ten pm

Matev

I like the Kane/Cena segments. Like Funksaurus, they're the over the top spectacle stuff I was missing in my wrestling as of late. (Mostly I love masked, fiery, evil Kane, but Cena's been selling the turmoil decently enough, and it keeps him out of title pictures, which he doesn't need anymore.)

Jericho's still cracking me up. Almost thought he would wrestle for a split second, but the trolling of the WWE fanbase continues (To my surprised delight)

All in all, I thought tonight was a fairly solid, if Promo-heavy show. (Except for Ryder/Swagger, that crap was ridiculous)

PwnanObrien

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote:

The Lovely Bastard wrote:

I could dig on a foley match, from a business standpoint

It'd be bad wrestling-wise, but story-wise, a good thing

it'd be really bad wrestling wise and it would make me very sad to have seen it

(I hope they don't do it at the Rumble because I'm going to be there and noooooooooooooooooooooooooo)

The smart thing to do would be to have Foley and Johnny each pick a wrestler (who needs a push) to represent them in a match to determine the new GM.

OR

Have them be week to week dueling GMs, each trying to book better and better shows to win some sort of GM-off.

Alistair Hutton

PwnanObrien wrote:

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote:

The Lovely Bastard wrote:

I could dig on a foley match, from a business standpoint

It'd be bad wrestling-wise, but story-wise, a good thing

it'd be really bad wrestling wise and it would make me very sad to have seen it

(I hope they don't do it at the Rumble because I'm going to be there and noooooooooooooooooooooooooo)

The smart thing to do would be to have Foley and Johnny each pick a wrestler (who needs a push) to represent them in a match to determine the new GM.

OR

Have them be week to week dueling GMs, each trying to book better and better shows to win some sort of GM-off.

Now would be the time to remind everyone about the Anonymous RAW GM.

Psychotic One

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

facetious

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

Yes.

Yes.

Alistair Hutton

I love how the Funkasaurus unites Lawler and Cole on commentary in appreciation. It really helps put over how awesomely funky he is.

Sweeney Tom

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

If this doesn't happen now, I'm gonna be angry.

kingworks

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

You could be more right than you know.

As noted before, WWE officials have had talks about Chris Jericho winning the Royal Rumble this year. There was an idea suggested this past weekend where Jericho won’t speak on RAW until after the Rumble. This would see Jericho give his big victory speech, speak for the first time since returning and likely call out WWE Champion CM Punk for WrestleMania 28.

source: bleacher report -> wrestling observer newsletter

SanderJK

WWE is getting just the right kind of crazy. Just about nothing makes sense anymore, but I'm certainly amused. R-Truth in Disneyland, Funkasaurus, Johnny Ace going off the deep end, Jericho trolling it up. Even Kane turning Cena to the Dark Side is ok with me.

A replay on the jiggling... that is pretty close to the line though.

Burden of Proof

That was a really good Raw. My favorite part?



There should be more references how dumb PG era is.

THEPAIN73

Indiana Jones was PG..

Magell

THEPAIN73 wrote:

Indiana Jones was PG..

That's because it took Temple of Doom to create the PG-13 rating.

THEPAIN73

Hjorvarthr

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/evan-bourne-suspended-60-days


super woops

Goose!

Surprised they didn't just let him go.

Maximum

What an idiot.

LTM

Sweeney Tom wrote:

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

If this doesn't happen now, I'm gonna be angry.

I'm pretty sure this would play out badly, if they had to string it out over the entire rumble match.

That being said, when it doesn't happen, I'll be sad. Then when it does happen, I'll be annoyed that it was such a cheeseball and predictable ending.

I am the insatiable internets.

David_T

I really, really, really hope this wasn't a case of Bourne getting hit with a suspension, coming back, complaining and then failing another test. Because that would quite possibly be the dumbest thing ever.

facetious

Sweeney Tom wrote:

If this doesn't happen now, I'm gonna be angry.

Seriously, the more I think about it the more perfect it is.

LBD_Nytetrayn

eddizhere wrote:

R-Truth is the best. Makin' the "what" chant work for him.

"Don't 'what' me!"

"WHAT?"

"Okay, 'what' me!"

"WHAT?"

LTM wrote:

Sweeney Tom wrote:

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

If this doesn't happen now, I'm gonna be angry.

I'm pretty sure this would play out badly, if they had to string it out over the entire rumble match.

That being said, when it doesn't happen, I'll be sad. Then when it does happen, I'll be annoyed that it was such a cheeseball and predictable ending.

I am the insatiable internets.

I'm thinking something like Santino last year, only better, and where Jericho wins.

Like maybe he comes out, does his pandering, and leaves. Nothing out of the ordinary for him as of late.

Then, after someone else appears to win, he comes out minus the theme and whatnot, and dumps the "winner" out from behind, claiming victory.

It would actually make complete sense out of the past few weeks as not simply a troll, but an elaborate ruse to make everyone lower their guard.

On another note: Ryder gets his title back now, right? Because he wasn't cleared to compete? That's how they took the WHT off of Bryan just last month when Henry wasn't cleared to compete, so...

Spooch

Between John Laurinaitus going full blown heel, R-Truth being consistently hilarious and Jericho trolling the shit out of everyone again, I would consider last nights Raw to be quite entertaining, except for that Perez Hilton shite, I just skipped through all that rubbish

Dyvim Tvar

Chael Sonnen probably wishes MMA had the same kind of testing policy as the WWE does.

Sweeney Tom

LBD_Nytetrayn wrote:

LTM wrote:

Sweeney Tom wrote:

Psychotic One wrote:

I want Jericho to be Number 5 in the rumble. He comes out and runs around the crowd and the stadium for the whole rumble and only goes into the ring after the final guy has been thrown out. After he wins the rumble he puts on his perfect heel smile, lights go out, and fuck you I'm sparkling my way to Wrestlemania.

If this doesn't happen now, I'm gonna be angry.

I'm pretty sure this would play out badly, if they had to string it out over the entire rumble match.

That being said, when it doesn't happen, I'll be sad. Then when it does happen, I'll be annoyed that it was such a cheeseball and predictable ending.

I am the insatiable internets.

I'm thinking something like Santino last year, only better, and where Jericho wins.

Like maybe he comes out, does his pandering, and leaves. Nothing out of the ordinary for him as of late.

Then, after someone else appears to win, he comes out minus the theme and whatnot, and dumps the "winner" out from behind, claiming victory.

It would actually make complete sense out of the past few weeks as not simply a troll, but an elaborate ruse to make everyone lower their guard.

All I know is if Jericho wins, after he wins they have to turn off all the lights except for the WM sign lights

Then Jericho stands still, the hesitation jacket lights up, and then it outlines him pointing at the sign, then pyro, end of PPV

They do that, I'm buying my first WWE PPV DVD in years

Maximum

Still think Sheamus will win the RR to pit him up against D-Bry. Jericho doesn't really need it to feud with Punk.

It would be a pretty cool moment though.

Sweeney Tom

Also, WWE hopes both Christian and Rey Mysterio will be able to return for the Rumble.

Also also

Evan Bourne wrote:

Sorry y'all. Sometimes we become our own worst enemy.

I fucked up and did synthetic weed, got suspended for it but still held a belt the entire time, but wasn't happy about the suspension so I bitched about it and did it again, so I got suspended even longer and now don't have a belt either and am dangerously close to losing my job now because I can't keep my mouth shut. My bad, guys.

Maximum

Did he really complain about it? I was just assuming that was some made up internet bullcrap.

Sweeney Tom

Maximum wrote:

Did he really complain about it? I was just assuming that was some made up internet bullcrap.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1010948-wwe-news-major-heat-on-evan-bourne-confrontation-with-hhh

Not only did he complain about being suspended, he ratted out R-Truth saying that they both did it together, which led to Truth's suspension

Bourne was confronted by HHH a few weeks back and blamed him for the story about R-Truth’s suspension being for spice getting out, as well as how they were doing it together and the delay in R-Truth’s suspension. R-Truth was announced as suspended after the post-Survivor Series Raw, where they did an injury angle to explain his absence. There is heat for the perception that somehow this was Bourne’s fault that the story got out. It wasn’t, although the perception would be such since Bourne complained about how it was possible for him to be suspended when the guy doing the exact same thing wasn’t.

Basically, it's a case of a guy being a fantastic athlete, but a less-than-fantastic person

Magell

Evan Bourne is a bad person because he complained about being punished for something that somebody doing the same thing at the same time for wasn't? That doesn't make him a bad person.

Is it dumb that he did it again? Yes, but not a bad person.

Amikron Devalia

It is also a case of WWE having a policy against something that isn't illegal. WWE needs to hurry up and ban any sort of liquor, cigarettes, party hats, or jazz CDs. They could impact a "superstar's" performance.

Maximum

Amikron Devalia wrote:

It is also a case of WWE having a policy against something that isn't illegal.

I could be wrong but I believe as of last year that Spice crap was made illegal in the US.

PwnanObrien

Matev

Impying Spice ain't harmful. But that's for another place. Back to wrestling, I don't know if I'd be able to stop laughing if Jericho won the Rumble in this particular state.

Xehalus