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RAW - Monday night at 9pm on USA.
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PPV's - Sunday nights, usually once a month, at 5pm only on Pay-Per-View.
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PPV's - Sunday nights, once a month, at 5pm only on Pay-Per-View.
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RoH Wrestling - Saturday night at 8pm on HDNET.
PPV's - No real schedule for them.
Shark Boy as a Stone Cold imitator is still around, he just isn't on TV anymore it seems. The story leading up to it and then him as Stone Cold Shark Boy was funny at first, but it got so old so fast.
One thing I'm curious about is if Vince Russo is still working for TNA or not? I know he went there for awhile at least, but I don't know if he's still there or not. And to be honest, if they haven't fired him or he hasn't left... they honestly do not listen to the fans at all. Around a year and a half ago it was a match between Team 3-D and LAX I think in an electrified steel cage match. When the crowd chants "Fire Russo" during the match, you need to get the hint.
Also, crowd chants can be so damn awesome.
Edit: I loved some of those Charlie Haas moments with him coming out as some random person. I guess they got bored with it after a month.
Shark Boy as a Stone Cold imitator is still around, he just isn't on TV anymore it seems. The story leading up to it and then him as Stone Cold Shark Boy was funny at first, but it got so old so fast.
One thing I'm curious about is if Vince Russo is still working for TNA or not? I know he went there for awhile at least, but I don't know if he's still there or not. And to be honest, if they haven't fired him or he hasn't left... they honestly do not listen to the fans at all. Around a year and a half ago it was a match between Team 3-D and LAX I think in an electrified steel cage match. When the crowd chants "Fire Russo" during the match, you need to get the hint.
Also, crowd chants can be so damn awesome.
The best was when MSG turned on Lita and chanted "Slut" and "We want Matt."
I never been able to track down a video of it though, which sucks.
I loved when chants would start up, especially at the times when I took part of them myself. I remember a really good "Holy Shit" starting up during the Kurt Angle vs. Shane McMahon match during King of the Ring 2001 . Man, that was a fun PPV to be at.
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It's been brought up before I think, but my favorite crowd was also MSG, the wrestlemania that had Goldber vs. Brock. With special referee Steve Austin.
It's funny to think that a year, or even six months before, this would have been a headliner of epic proportions that people were clamoring for. By the time that WM rolled around, everyone in the audience knew(or quickly caught on) that both wrestlers were leaving the company.
I seriously felt bad for both guys.
Edit- That king of the ring match was cringe worthy. Especially when Angle's trying to suplex shane into the glass panes and has to keep trying.
Not just brutal. But retarded brutal. He could've killed him. Or at least paralyzed him.
Yea, that's what I mean. Though the match wasn't THAT great either, mainly cause those two had already raised the bar pretty high when it came to do doing stunts like that.
I'm always split on those type of matches and moments. A part of me loves them(The moonsault and diving headbutt of the cage are two of my favorites), but at the same time, doing those type of moves seriously had to fuck up their heads.
Psychotic OneThe Royal Tart ToterRegistered Userregular
I think the whole cruiser weight thing can be solved if they brought back Gillberg.
I would like to see them put more of the midcards in ECW and keep the big names in smackdown/raw. ECW seems to have like the same 8 wrestlers and No one else. Specially now that they can't feed jobber after jobber to the boogie man. By making one of their shows their developmental show they can let the midcarders get their own story lines and such while not making it to where a skinny 180 pound guy can go toe to toe in a fist fight with taker, kane, or big show. And damn it. They need to bring the Hardcore belt out of retirement.
This cosmic dance bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win- and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friends. Peace Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
I think the whole cruiser weight thing can be solved if they brought back Gillberg.
I would like to see them put more of the midcards in ECW and keep the big names in smackdown/raw. ECW seems to have like the same 8 wrestlers and No one else. Specially now that they can't feed jobber after jobber to the boogie man. By making one of their shows their developmental show they can let the midcarders get their own story lines and such while not making it to where a skinny 180 pound guy can go toe to toe in a fist fight with taker, kane, or big show. And damn it. They need to bring the Hardcore belt out of retirement.
Wouldn't that be the ECW Championship? I mean, ECW does stand for Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Not like the WWE would know it anymore though, I guess. When was the last time there was an 'extreme rules' match? I think RAW has had more 'no holds barred' matches THIS year than ECW has in the last year...
I think the whole cruiser weight thing can be solved if they brought back Gillberg.
I would like to see them put more of the midcards in ECW and keep the big names in smackdown/raw. ECW seems to have like the same 8 wrestlers and No one else. Specially now that they can't feed jobber after jobber to the boogie man. By making one of their shows their developmental show they can let the midcarders get their own story lines and such while not making it to where a skinny 180 pound guy can go toe to toe in a fist fight with taker, kane, or big show. And damn it. They need to bring the Hardcore belt out of retirement.
Wouldn't that be the ECW Championship? I mean, ECW does stand for Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Not like the WWE would know it anymore though, I guess. When was the last time there was an 'extreme rules' match? I think RAW has had more 'no holds barred' matches THIS year than ECW has in the last year...
Thats pretty much my issue with the ECW brand now as a whole. If you were going to let people brutalize each other and maybe be a bit more PG-13 ECW would be the venue for it. I mean hell its on scIFi. Blood isn't new to the channel.
This cosmic dance bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win- and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friends. Peace Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
I think the whole cruiser weight thing can be solved if they brought back Gillberg.
I would like to see them put more of the midcards in ECW and keep the big names in smackdown/raw. ECW seems to have like the same 8 wrestlers and No one else. Specially now that they can't feed jobber after jobber to the boogie man. By making one of their shows their developmental show they can let the midcarders get their own story lines and such while not making it to where a skinny 180 pound guy can go toe to toe in a fist fight with taker, kane, or big show. And damn it. They need to bring the Hardcore belt out of retirement.
Wouldn't that be the ECW Championship? I mean, ECW does stand for Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Not like the WWE would know it anymore though, I guess. When was the last time there was an 'extreme rules' match? I think RAW has had more 'no holds barred' matches THIS year than ECW has in the last year...
Thats pretty much my issue with the ECW brand now as a whole. If you were going to let people brutalize each other and maybe be a bit more PG-13 ECW would be the venue for it. I mean hell its on scIFi. Blood isn't new to the channel.
Also, bad acting.
I know there's the "Extreme Rules" PPV coming up in a few months, so that's where they'll go 'all out'(or however much out they can anymore at least) with the 'extreme', maybe ECW might have one or two beforehand as a 'preview'.
Also, I don't think there should be any reason why ECW Championship matches aren't always held under 'extreme rules' conditions.
Psychotic OneThe Royal Tart ToterRegistered Userregular
That goes with out saying
This cosmic dance bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win- and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friends. Peace Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
Its because its not ECW anymore, its effectively PGCW now. I enjoyed it when they used to have atleast one Extreme rules match a night, and gave it more of a glamerous old ECW feel with the entrance and such. It was so different then Raw and SmackDown so it made it worth watching. Well, except for the fact that I think it was Rick Flair vs. RVD (I know it was a flair match) was very soon on one of the "greatest ECW matches" dvds put out by WWE. That made me really sad.
ReynoldsDuly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest AccordRobot spaceship that itself contains a spaceship robotRegistered Userregular
And they built up his feud with Edge...only to have Edge beat him. And then it just sorta ended and Edge stayed in the championship fight, and Matt went back to doing nothing special. At least from what I remember.
They had a whole bunch of matches, and I thik Matt maybe won like one of them. Most of the feud was Matt getting his ass handed to him. They weren't booked as anywhere close to equals, it sucked.
They had a whole bunch of matches, and I thik Matt maybe won like one of them. Most of the feud was Matt getting his ass handed to him. They weren't booked as anywhere close to equals, it sucked.
They do that all the time, witness Punks non reign as champ, or fucking Jeff Hardy who never really defended the belt honestly ever.
I haven't watched wrestling in forever (since around the Invasion), but I took a gander at the thread. After reading through it, I have to say that the Black Machismo web bio may just be one of the best things I have ever seen.
It's cause they're both risk takers and high flyers (Shawn for his time.)
The HUGE difference is that Michaels can actually wrestle, where as Jeff is a all spots, all the time. Can anyone seriously name 5 great matches involving Jeff that don't include ladders/tables/chairs?
Jeff vs. Triple H tend to be pretty decent matches, and his Umaga matches weren't bad.
Personally, my problem with Jeff is he is one of those wrestlers that has a decent amount of notable moves, but the people who control the matches make him do almost all of them every match. So we always get that one where someone grabs his foot, and he flips around into a donkey kick or something, I dunno what its called, we get whisper in the wind, we get the double kick to the person in the corner, usually a twist of fate followed by a swanton bomb, and I think one or two others.
It becomes more annoying when it happens each and every week over and over... against the same person like his fued with Umaga. So he can have good matches, I just don't like watching them too close to one another.
FeriluceAdrift on the morning star.Hoquiam, WARegistered Userregular
Is there any way to watch Raw, Smackdown and ECW online? Preferably streaming legally... Hulu has some ECW, but it's all outdated. I'd like to get into watching wrestling again for fun, but I don't have tv where I'm at.
Is there any way to watch Raw, Smackdown and ECW online? Preferably streaming legally... Hulu has some ECW, but it's all outdated. I'd like to get into watching wrestling again for fun, but I don't have tv where I'm at.
They used to put ECW on WWE.com the day after it was on...
Is there any way to watch Raw, Smackdown and ECW online? Preferably streaming legally... Hulu has some ECW, but it's all outdated. I'd like to get into watching wrestling again for fun, but I don't have tv where I'm at.
They used to put ECW on WWE.com the day after it was on...
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For a while they had a Stone Cold imitator and a Randy Savage imitator in the same show. Only in TNA.
One thing I'm curious about is if Vince Russo is still working for TNA or not? I know he went there for awhile at least, but I don't know if he's still there or not. And to be honest, if they haven't fired him or he hasn't left... they honestly do not listen to the fans at all. Around a year and a half ago it was a match between Team 3-D and LAX I think in an electrified steel cage match. When the crowd chants "Fire Russo" during the match, you need to get the hint.
Also, crowd chants can be so damn awesome.
Edit: I loved some of those Charlie Haas moments with him coming out as some random person. I guess they got bored with it after a month.
The best was when MSG turned on Lita and chanted "Slut" and "We want Matt."
I never been able to track down a video of it though, which sucks.
Yeah. It was amazing to watch, and I always wanted to rewatch it. You could tell both her and Trish were really thrown off by it.
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It's funny to think that a year, or even six months before, this would have been a headliner of epic proportions that people were clamoring for. By the time that WM rolled around, everyone in the audience knew(or quickly caught on) that both wrestlers were leaving the company.
I seriously felt bad for both guys.
Edit- That king of the ring match was cringe worthy. Especially when Angle's trying to suplex shane into the glass panes and has to keep trying.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I can tell I was such a kid when I watched wrestling.
Yea, that's what I mean. Though the match wasn't THAT great either, mainly cause those two had already raised the bar pretty high when it came to do doing stunts like that.
I'm always split on those type of matches and moments. A part of me loves them(The moonsault and diving headbutt of the cage are two of my favorites), but at the same time, doing those type of moves seriously had to fuck up their heads.
I would like to see them put more of the midcards in ECW and keep the big names in smackdown/raw. ECW seems to have like the same 8 wrestlers and No one else. Specially now that they can't feed jobber after jobber to the boogie man. By making one of their shows their developmental show they can let the midcarders get their own story lines and such while not making it to where a skinny 180 pound guy can go toe to toe in a fist fight with taker, kane, or big show. And damn it. They need to bring the Hardcore belt out of retirement.
Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
Wouldn't that be the ECW Championship? I mean, ECW does stand for Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Not like the WWE would know it anymore though, I guess. When was the last time there was an 'extreme rules' match? I think RAW has had more 'no holds barred' matches THIS year than ECW has in the last year...
Thats pretty much my issue with the ECW brand now as a whole. If you were going to let people brutalize each other and maybe be a bit more PG-13 ECW would be the venue for it. I mean hell its on scIFi. Blood isn't new to the channel.
Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
Also, bad acting.
I know there's the "Extreme Rules" PPV coming up in a few months, so that's where they'll go 'all out'(or however much out they can anymore at least) with the 'extreme', maybe ECW might have one or two beforehand as a 'preview'.
Also, I don't think there should be any reason why ECW Championship matches aren't always held under 'extreme rules' conditions.
Trueachievements Profile | Gamertag: EyeRChris
That was right when I was back into wrestling. It was amazing. They had such a great chance there...and they blew it, of course.
Well, it did get Matt his job back.
They do that all the time, witness Punks non reign as champ, or fucking Jeff Hardy who never really defended the belt honestly ever.
http://www.wrestlinggonewrong.com/video/lawler_jbl_dicks.html
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:lol: that's awesome
Still, really funny out of context.
Man, Trips has a huge ass nose. I mean, I know it was big, but god damn. That last shot of him in the cop car was so unflattering.
Guess you have to have a nose that big to brown nose Vince's ego enough to marry into the family.
Seeing as Matt has a slur and Jeff doesn't. If Creative does a better job, Jeff could actually be the new HBK.
People have been saying that for years. I honestly have never seen it.
The HUGE difference is that Michaels can actually wrestle, where as Jeff is a all spots, all the time. Can anyone seriously name 5 great matches involving Jeff that don't include ladders/tables/chairs?
Personally, my problem with Jeff is he is one of those wrestlers that has a decent amount of notable moves, but the people who control the matches make him do almost all of them every match. So we always get that one where someone grabs his foot, and he flips around into a donkey kick or something, I dunno what its called, we get whisper in the wind, we get the double kick to the person in the corner, usually a twist of fate followed by a swanton bomb, and I think one or two others.
It becomes more annoying when it happens each and every week over and over... against the same person like his fued with Umaga. So he can have good matches, I just don't like watching them too close to one another.
Steam: Feriluce
They used to put ECW on WWE.com the day after it was on...
And they still do:
http://www.wwe.com/shows/ecw/ecwreplay/
Ah, cool. I didn't even think to check the WWE site.
Steam: Feriluce