The Wrestling Thread

Why is the babyface getting heel assists? Lame.

 

Hope they do a 30-second squash.

 

* ppv, WrestleMania was under threat after the rumble results, now though I see no reason to watch it, the card is honking.

Ffs how much did they give away on fastlane? Roman beats strowman, Bailey takes charlottes undefeated ppv streak and Goldberg beats Owens which really didn't need to happen, Brock and Goldberg shouldn't be a title fight.

Would have much preferred Brock getting involved last night ave being short sighted and just eat Goldberg alive, then Hayman comes out tonight and explains how his client didn't care about titles, he just wants to destroy Goldberg.

Rubbish.

 

Watched the highlights on Youtube. Saw the results and thought bullshit.

Some strange decisions made. Why have Charlottes streak end at fecking Fastlane? Why have Strowman beat now? Ending was stupid too. WM is far too predictable.

Raw is in SD shadow these past months.

Samoa Joe vs Sami looked good. Hope these 2 both get a decent booking for WM but i can't see how they will be fit in? Especially Sami Zayn.

Tag division doesn't interest me at the moment. I am glad Anderson and Gallows won though. To be fair it looked like a good match.

Sasha Banks match didn't interest me either. Hope they use Nia Jax well. Could make her dominant.

I knew Goldberg would win. We all did of course but another 20 second match..... Come on?

 

Awful way too treat KO 0:22 even Kurt Hawkins gets longer matches
Fastlane was the worse PPV in years, RAW is utter *

 

"Let's make the 55 year old WCW guy,who has two moves,who hasn't wrestled in a decade - and can't perform for more than 30 seconds - the champ."

 

Confirmed for tonight's show is the new WWE Universal Champion Bill Goldberg, who will address his win over Kevin Owens and the upcoming match against Brock Lesnar. RAW will also feature an exclusive look at Seth Rollins' rehab and Neville defending the WWE Cruiserweight Title against Rich Swann.
WWE's official preview for tonight's show does not mention Lesnar appearing but he is scheduled to be there. WWE United States Champion Chris Jericho is also scheduled to appear. He's been off RAW for a few weeks to sell the beating from Owens but he should return tonight after appearing at Fastlane to distract Owens, allowing Goldberg to win the title.

WWE is focusing on the following points in their official preview for tonight's RAW:
* Goldberg raises the stakes for anticipated WrestleMania clash with Brock Lesnar

* Seth Rollins grants an exclusive look at his rehabilitation

* Rich Swann challenges The King of the Cruiserweights

* Roman Reigns: Monster hunter

* Controversy continues to swirl around Raw Women's Champion Bayley

 

Just finished sitting through Fatlane. Really shouldn't have bothered avoiding spoilers etc, but wow, that the worst PPV in how long? Maybe since last year's WM. Terrible in just about every department. With possibly 2 exceptions, the booking was awful. The Samao Joe v Sami Zayn match did what it needed, and Neville & Gallagher definitely put on the match of the night (really, nothing else even came close) and sets it up nicely for WM. But that aside, wow. Terrible.

Bayley and Charlotte were putting on a decent match but that ending, uggh. Seriously, how badly has WWE screwed up what should have been the easiest WM 'moment' is jusr defies belief. And the end of the Sasha/Nia Jax match also was bewildering. What should be an easy story yo tell has become a complete (and completely avoidable) mess.

Having 1 impromptu match to pad out a PPV is bad enough. Having 2 back to back is just sad. Having the 2 that were bicking and break up of a tag team lose both matches so both of them look bad is insufferable. And considering Jinder Mahal got a 10min match in a PPV 4 weeks out from WM. Like seriously, what the actual f*ck?

Then there is feeding Strowman to Roman. Again, a streak died in order to try and get Roman over. Which is still not happening. Strowman has been improving considerably over the past year and has been booked well thus far, so for him to lose clean to the alter of Roman? Meh. Now, say the Taker's gong sounds, Strowman somehow gets the distract win, Roman is * with the Taker, Strowman's streak is left in tact and it sets up Roman v Taker. Instead we get #lolromanwins

Way to book the tag division. The tag champs are served up to Roman over the past few weeks and get destroyed even though its been 2v1 handicap matches, and even when they do rtain the titles, it's not about them, it's about who lost. Enzo & Cass seem to be spinning their wheels and going nowhere, and the New Day are becoming ever more cringeworthy. To think WM is going to be hosted by a group that are trying to sell ice cream? Uggh. Just stop.

Oh, and way to go with the KO v Goldberg main event. KO deserves so much more than that. And we have 2 P/T's fighting for the title at WM in a match that had already been booked. Way to think to the future. KO ending 6 months as champ in 20 seconds still doesnt say anything about Goldberg's ability to last more than 2 minutes. Horrible booking. Could have been so much better with an appearance not just with Y2J, but imagine right after that Lesner's music hits, he demolishes Y2J on the way to the ring, F5's KO, Goldberg jackhammers KO, KO loses having taken the finisher from 2 supposed super baddasses so can get some credibility, rather than a distraction, and nothing is progressed.

4 weeks out from WM and it's supposed to be making people excited for that, and building the stories for that, pulling out the aces, the likes of Lesnar and Taker to build for it, but no. Good to have Y2J back, but taking everything into account it should have been so much more.

Oh, and not for the first time, Stephanie literally phoning it in. Uggh

Am sure missed something, but wow.. Bad.

There is a scene in the film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping where the guy checks the review for his new album on Rolling Stone website, and out of 5 stars it got the sh*t emoji. That is pretty much the equivalent of what this has been. The only plausable reason being that by having a PPV this terrible just before WM it is lowering expectations for people ahead of WM itself. If that is the case then I guess it worked, but wow, did Vince and co really need to make it quite so bad?

 

Rick Rude to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Ricky Steamboat

 

Being feeling that way since the rumble they have taken away probably about 4 big WM moments now that really could have made this years event the most anticipated in decades.

Now when you look at the card, * me it's plummeted quick and hard.

WM now just feels like one of those pointless PPV's like I dunno TLC our something.

This to me is threatening to be the worst WM since WM9.

 

27 was pretty bad as was 11

 

Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat to induct “Ravishing” Rick Rude into WWE Hall of Fame

“Ravishing” Rick Rude will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by one of his greatest rivals, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. The news was broken by Bleacher Report in an exclusive interview with the 2009 inductee.

The two locked horns several times in WWE in the late 1980s, including a memorable bout that kicked off the first-ever Royal Rumble event in 1988. However, their rivalry reached its boiling point in the early 1990s in WCW. With Rude as the centerpiece of Paul Heyman’s nefarious Dangerous Alliance, “The Dragon,” one of the most heroic competitors ever, was one of the first to stand up to the villainous faction.

Steamboat zeroed in on Rude, the reigning United States Champion, in a series of matches that thrilled WCW fans. Their rivalry came to a head at Beach Blast 1992 in a grueling 30-Minute WCW Iron Man Match, where Steamboat eked out a narrow 4-3 victory in the waning moments of the battle.

Now, “The Dragon” will have the chance to reflect on the impact “Ravishing” Rick Rude had on sports-entertainment as he inducts his late rival into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2017. What will Steamboat have to say? Tune into the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, live on Friday, March 31, at 8 ET/5 PT, exclusively on WWE Network!

 

That fat * Kevin Owens got buried in about 15 seconds, I * love it.

Roman vs Strowman was brilliant, Neville vs Gallagher was decent, rest was pretty mediocre.

 

Thought it was a pretty decent show tbh