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All Thighs On The Champion [Wrestling]
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You know, I kind of feel bad for Curtis Axel. He obviously wants to succeed and he obviously comes from a great pedigree of pro wrestling talent. But his mic skills are very weak and none of his matches have ever really wowed me in any way.
I sincerely hope that Langston takes the belt off of him and is able to do something with it. Defenses that aren't on the pre-show, for instance. I'm a big believer that belts should have a hierarchy and that the hierarchy should be adhered to, especially in terms of PPV placement.
The WWE title should always be in the main event, except in extremely special situations like maybe an Undertaker WM match or something that garners extreme interest like Rock/Cena.
The World title should always be before the WWE title. The IC title should always be before the World title and the US title should always be before the IC title. The tag titles can be thrown in anywhere before the WWE and World titles, depending on the amount of interest the particular feud is getting at the time.
It sounds stiff and rigid, yes, but you build people (and the titles they hold) by making them important. And, ostensibly, you make people important by where you place them on the show. The last match or segment on a wrestling show is called "the main event" for a reason. It's because a show is supposed to build to a crescendo; to the main thing people paid to see. So when you do things like having the IC title on a free pre-show where it's not technically even part of the PPV, you're relegating the match (and by extension, the belt) to being something that isn't even worth putting your money down for. It fails to make anyone or anything associated with the match credible or worth suspending your disbelief for.
I realize I went off on a bit of a tangent there, but I'm really tired of the idea that every belt besides the WWE title (and sometimes not even it) mean nothing and are just ornaments. Why is Curtis Axel IC champ? It's certainly not because he's a winner or because he's particularly skilled or because people care about him. He's just there. Yet he holds a title that used to be bestowed upon people who were either the best workers in the company and/or were destined to be the WWE champ at some point. Curtis, along with other people that have been holding the title recently, do not fit either description. Big E does, though, and I hope they use him to bring some prestige back to the title.
Which is why they should just drop the US title. The IC title still holds importance in terms of WWE history but the US title? No.
You open the show with the US Title, Intercontinental is above everything but gimmick rivalry matches, then the Tag Team Championships and then the WWE Championship.
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Interesting.
The only one of those I recognize is CWFH, but that's because it's on here. It's also consistently good.
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Anarchy, when it was called Wildside, was the start-up promotion for AJ Styles, R-Truth, Abyss, and Gunner.
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Oh yeah forgot about him. Gunner is going to be Anarchy's annual Halloween season show this Saturday which I'm looking forward to. Guy has a great presence that doesn't translate on TV for whatever reason. Maybe it's the intimate setting.
I swear to God Hullis, I'll find another UBW match...
EDIT: Apparently the Big O just won the NYWC Championship at the last event. Interesting.
2nd EDIT: Make that last month. Whoops.
man if we posted bad matches for every shitty post I'd have a full time job replying to you
Everything is wonderful forever. That's all you really need to know.
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If the "wrestling on TV" going away is the same thing I saw Sunday on BfG, then yes Magnus, I do.
Steam
I have tried so hard to be positive about the product and I've kept watching it hoping it will become a good program, but it can only manage to do it for like four months at a time and rarely even that. Last Summer was a highpoint and everybody got excited and then they did Claire Lynch and wrestling fans want TNA to succeed they're just sad because it's not succeeding and it's not entertaining.
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Same here. I watched TNA since they were on Fox Sports Net. I was a paying customer at Bound for Glory '09, and I convinced my brother and two of my best friends to come with me. It hurt me to give up on them, but their product got so terrible, it hurt more to watch it. I suffered through Jarrett, I suffered through Russo, but Hogan and Bischoff have made the product unwatchable, and they show no signs of going away. It's sad that all I can hope for for TNA is a merciful death.
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There is not one part of that sentence that isn't amazing.
Steam
They should have just brought this back.
They spoke briefly of the Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena match and moved onto Daniel Bryan and Shawn Michaels. Hunter said Michaels will do the right thing. Daniel Bryan's music hit. Hunter stayed in his seat. Bryan cut a promo saying he will prove Hunter wrong at Hell in a Cell. Bryan had a staredown and Triple H left to yes chants
1. The Uso Brothers defeated Luke Harper and Erick Rowan (w/Bray Wyatt). Miz was at ringside and kicked Wyatt. Rowan chased Miz, and the Uso's double teamed Harper and got the three count.
2. A.J. Lee (w/Tamina Snuka) beat Nikki Bella (w/Brie Bella). A.J. picked up the win with the Black Widow in three minutes.
3. Los Matadores defeated Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre. Zeb Colter and The Real Americans watched the match from the stage.
Backstage, The Wyatt Family had Miz chained up in a dark cage with "liar" painted on his stomach.
4. Ryback and Paul Heyman defeated C.M. Skunk in a No DQ handicap match. Yeah, that's right C.M. Skunk, a local jobber with skunk hair. The crowd really popped when Punk's music hit, but it was merely a squash match for Heyman and Ryback. Afterward, Heyman cut promo on Punk, saying he is Best in the World. He absolutely had the most heat of the night thus far.
Big E Langston told Vickie Guerrero that he wants in the main event match now that Miz is out. She agreed after he told her that she is nothing like Brad Maddox.
Alberto Del Rio delivered a promo on the stage. Pretty standard mic work from Del Rio.
5. The Great Khali (w/Natalya) fought Fandango (w/Summer Rae) to an apparent no-contest. Summer Rae slapped Natalya and they fought inside the ring, which led to the apparent no-contest. Khali chopped Fandango to end the segment.
6. Daniel Bryan, Big E Langston, Cody Rhodes, and Goldust defeated Randy Orton, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and Dean Ambrose in an eight-man tag. Bryan pinned Orton to win the match. A standard eight-man tag with near falls. Overall, a good match live.
Yeah that show sounds good.
...what has he been up to lately, anyway? I was just asking my wife this the other day after we saw a guy on the subway who looked sort of like him.
Didn't Punk hate that?
Okay, so here's something I'm hoping you guys can help me out with. Recently, WWE put the full SummerSlam 2005 match between Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels on their YouTube channel, and I finally got to watching it tonight with my wife. I've seen clips, but never the full match, due in part to being on something of a wrestling hiatus for a while at the time. I forget what triggered it, I was just burned out by it (I've come to regret missing so many great-sounding matches during that time).
ANYWAY, the match: Pretty infamous, all said, but is there a clear record or reason why Shawn was overselling during the whole thing? I've heard various stories, with one saying HBK was unhappy selling to an inferior opponent, another saying HBK wanted a face vs. face match and Hogan exerted creative control to turn Shawn back to '97, another saying that Hogan was supposed to return the job but refused/was leaving or something after the match, and yet another saying that it was because Shawn dug a bit too deep in the Larry King mock-interview.
There are probably more, but... it's kind of difficult to get a clear picture here, as I realized when trying to explain to my wife why HBK was overselling every big move.
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Because both men are assholes and didn't want to lose to each other so instead of being a professional Michaels decided to make Hogan look like an idiot by overselling all his moves and showing just how fake wrestling is because he's so cool.
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Basically, Hogan was going to leave the company, and didn't want to put HBK over on the way out. And Shawn doesn't like people who do that. Ask Bret Hart.