Anyone watch WWE?

[DaMulta]

Me and the boy love WWE!

Donald Trump bought Monday night Rar! Which was cool, because just on the first day commercial free, and everyone that was at the show he gave them their money back.

Watching last nights show right now, and I can't wait to see the last man standing. Frankly because there is no rules, and they normally get pissed at one another turning it into a real fight LOL.


I like the Big Show ROFL.

[JC316]

I used to be a WWf Freak. Back when it was still WWF, probably late 2000 is when I started watching. Watched it till about 04 and then it got old. Once they split the shows up, I got sick of it. Plus after 4 years, you learn every storyline there is. I can turn it on and tell you exactly whats going on after 10 minutes of watching lol.

[erocker]

Not since the 80's.

[DrPepper]

I just look out the window and I can see real fighting.

[FordGT90Concept]

I watched it after Saturday Night Live for a few weeks. I got tired of SNL and subsequently got tired of WWE. I see it as a lot of bad acting and their scripts often don't make much sense so, meh. I got better things to do with my time.

[Deusxmachina]

WWE Raw is pretty bad lately. ECW was doing well, but now the Trump thing took five of their best people away and put them on Raw, where they'll probably get lost in the shuffle. Smackdown is the best show of the three at the moment.

I thought the Trump thing was going to be great, basically having a new "owner" that doesn't know much about wrestling, and so they have an excuse to do new things that wouldn't make sense otherwise. But then the storyline only lasts a week, so I guess it's now back to business as usual.

Edge is always great and imo is probably the best overall wrestler in the entire WWE. Jericho will probably win wrestler of the year (again). Looks like Mark Henry now on Raw might become a face, which is great. I wish they'd get Orton off my TV.

TNA has been even better the past couple months. Heel Don West is funny stuff. (non-wrestling fans may recognize the name -- he's the pitch man who was always selling baseball cards and samurai swords at 2a.m. on a shopping channel. "This Pokemon card is Gem Mint 10!")

The best show I've seen this year, hands-down, is Chikara's "King of Trios." Amazing.

[FordGT90Concept]

I wish they'd get Orton off my TV.
I so agree. The little time I watched it, I was thrilled when Orton bled. He and/or his character is a pompous ass.

[DaMulta]

I find RAW to be my Fav out of all of them besides Superstar night.

ECW I just can't get into and watch at all. IDK why tho, and maybe having a 6 year old next to me makes it a lot funner to watch.:P

Little mad they took Batesta out of the seen for a few months. Kind of liked him as the General Manger last week.........

I have noticed that they started making more Cold Stone action figures again which makes me wonder if he is going to come back for a comeback.

[Deusxmachina]

Well, you can bet Stone Cold will never wrestle again. He might grab a mic and then stun a guy, but his body is too messed up for much more. And he certainly doesn't need the money.

Pretty sure he's locked into a loonnnggg contract like Hogan is. If nothing else, so they can keep marketing the name and so no other company can take him away to even get some publicity out of it.

You'll never see The Rock wrestle again, either, but for different reasons.

I forgot about Superstars. Since it's a bit of an oddball show, they get to put people together that wouldn't be otherwise. Some good stuff on there.

ROH now has a weekly HDNET show. Some great matches on there, but it's soooo serious all the time. I think blood and guts CZW is probably more lighthearted than ROH is. And CZW uses light bulbs and gas-powered weed trimmers.

[Deusxmachina]

Edge is out with a torn achilles heel. Might be gone for a year. And just when he and Jericho were getting rolling. It happened at a house show last week, but this week's Raw was taped. Had me scratching my head why he was running around fine until realizing it was taped.

Edge achilles heel
Batista torn bicep or something
Matt Hardy torn abdomen or something

They let Mr. Kennedy go supposedly due to a wrist injury, but then Kennedy put up a video of him rolling his wrist around and smirking. Rumor is they let him go because Orton landed poorly on a back-suplex Kennedy gave him last month. Kennedy's put up a few more videos since then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fq-t12M6Ko&feature=player_embedded

And Lillian Garcia is leaving soon.

[CDdude56]

I watched it was i was like 13, when Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were still their.

It was really entertaining to me back then, but now its just scripted garbage.

[JC316]

I watched it was i was like 13, when Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were still their.

It was really entertaining to me back then, but now its just scripted garbage.

Right around the time I was watching. The Rock and Steve Austin were just hitting stride and the Undertaker's Dead man phase was just finishing.

[Deusxmachina]

I think it's interesting having that line between fantasy and reality blurred. Plus, unlike MMA or other non-scripted sports, pro wrestlers are paid not to win, but to entertain. I've never seen a boxer wrap himself in barbed wire and do a backflip off a ladder onto another guy laying on a table, y'know?

WWE Raw is pretty bad lately, though. But, there are other WWE shows and other entire federations. I don't even like watching the really hardcore stuff because even football players at least get pads and a helmet and aren't gushing pints of blood all over the place.

[FordGT90Concept]

I watched a special on Bret Hart on the Documentary Channel last night. It was good. Hart got screwed my McMahon. :(

[Deusxmachina]

"Bret screwed Bret!" :D

Saw a shoot interview from Chris Kanyon. He said one time he was with Bret in WCW and said something like, "You know, either you really got screwed, or this is the greatest work in the history of professional wrestling." Bret looked at him and gave him a "shhhh" and a smile.

If you think about it, Bret got out of his long-term contract with Vince, both saved face more or less on that, Bret didn't have to drop the belt to Michaels in Canada, Bret got big bucks for signing with WCW, Michaels got to be the "I didn't know about it" guy for a long time, and Vince turned heel, feuded with Austin, and made a gazillion dollars from it.

Who knows. But, like I said, having the lines blurred is interesting.

[FordGT90Concept]

I don't think it was staged but it could have been. I'm positive everyone (especially Michaels and Hart) agreed with what was arranged (reversal, Hart wins but forfiets his title at/after the event) except for McMahon. McMahon could make more money off of Michaels if Hart lost in Canada. It was in his favor.

"Bret screwed Bret" is not inaccurate though because, by staging a reversal, it gave McMahon an opportunity to do what he did. It is just shameful that McMahon wouldn't grant Hart a decent departure from the franchise.

[Deusxmachina]

I'm positive everyone (especially Michaels and Hart) agreed with what was arranged (reversal, Hart wins but forfiets his title at/after the event) except for McMahon.

We know Michaels knew ahead of time. He denied it for awhile but now doesn't.

Hart winning and then forfeiting isn't the way business is done. If you're leaving, you put someone else over on your way out. That's just how it works. It's very rare for someone leaving a fed to win their last match. Or the last few matches, really.

And, at the time, the WWE/WCW war was at a head. And one WWE wrestler had already quit and taken the WWE belt to WCW and threw it in the trash on TV. Vince couldn't let Bret do that to the Heavyweight Championship. Bret likely wouldn't have done that, but Vince couldn't really take the chance.

[FordGT90Concept]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Screwjob

I see that he said he knew in his autobiography.

Screwjobs and double-crosses pretty much became the norm after that incident. It was historical as far as the WWE goes.

[Wile E]

I used to watch it back in the day. I stopped watching well before it stopped being the WWF.

[Deusxmachina]

Saw the WWE "Night of Champions" ppv. The past weeks, CM Punk has been feuding with Jeff Hardy. Punk is legit "straight-edge" (no alcohol or drugs), while Jeff Hardy has two strikes with the WWE and has cost himself multiple career opportunites due to drugs.

CM Punk gets on the mic, gets booed while mentions of Hardy get cheered. Punk then goes on about how he doesn't even blame the kids who support Jeff Hardy; he blames their parents.

"Or, let's be realistic. I said parents, when I should have said parent." "It starts with a Jeff Hardy t-shirt... then before you know it they're drinking a bottle of beer...." ahahahaha. Reality makes the best storylines. There's more to it, just cliff-noting here.

This is the CM Punk lately that people who watched him in Independent federations loved and have been waiting for in WWE. The "I'm better than you" gimmick, which, in many ways, isn't even a gimmick.

[DaMulta]

IDK I'm a RAW fan lol.....

I missed last week due to my DVR resting itself... Mark Henry has been the high light of the LOL as of late.

[Deusxmachina]

Shaquille O'neal was guest host of Raw. Chris Jericho gets in his face, Shaq gets in his face, then Big Show comes out and gets in Shaq's face, then Shaq gets in Big Show's face and challenges him to a fight. Big Show says he won't be goaded into a fight because he'll hurt Shaq and then he'll have the entire NBA and lawyers on his back.

Then Chris Jericho moves in-between the two giants, looks up at the towering Shaq and says with a straight face, "Yeah... and I'M not going to fight you, either!" :D

Was hoping they'd pull a switcheroo and let Mark Henry's time stand, but nope.

[Deusxmachina]

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[FordGT90Concept]

XD Where was that from?

[Deusxmachina]

haha... had to click the "this is an old thread" warning button.

TNA has been so much better than WWE the past months, I don't know if that's funny or sad.

Umaga died yesterday. Heart attack at 36. :(

CM Punk is still better than you. :p

January 4th, TNA will have a three-hour special on Monday Night, which will be airing against a special three-hour Raw. Hulk Hogan will make his on-screen TNA debut.

Let the Monday Night wars begin again! Woooo!

[Black Panther]

Not since the 80's.

+1 only I quit in the 90's.
There's a limit to how much acting a guy can do while pretending he's fighting.

Nowadays I prefer to watch Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal.
Or dig through old Bud Spencer movies...