The Wrestling Thread~

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1728594709491118456

 

[Tetsujin]

Well, I’ll be damned. I guess the old coot really is gone.

 

[Tetsujin]

Spoiler: Survivor Series

Everyone’s buzzing about Randy and CM Punk but those pale in comparison to my personal favorite return of the evening

https://twitter.com/statuses/1728592096246853781

 

[SLAB]

Spoiler

https://x.com/tripleh/status/1728631658054836491?s=46&t=Y0OF4yIBtbGEvbCf_JBZDw

 

[Tetsujin]

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/statuses/1728637260541657517

https://twitter.com/statuses/1728646741753205028

Phil Brooks and having guys in every promotion ready to murder him in cold blood. name a more iconic duo

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Sounds like the secondary sheets are getting worked on this. Or Meltzer is. Dave is a blowhard but my money is on him being right that this is a work. Drew is also supposedly upset over the end of the show.

It's going to be interesting.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1729294683665289328

what year is it??

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1729328630960926857

Trips was really like “Sure you can have CM Punk back but first you gotta watch DIY and the Creed Brothers and here’s R Truth for the first time in half a year”

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1729349691307954206

dude suddenly the most relatable guy in pro sports entertainment lol

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

If someone had shown me this picture for the very first time, asking me to correctly identify the individual in the picture, SHE would be one of the last, if not the last, individuals I would've guessed....Holy H-E-Double Hockey Sticks, she looks OLD!!!

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1729693063142920271

Trips letting people hit piledrivers again in prep for Giulia coming over.

 

[SLAB]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1729693063142920271

Trips letting people hit piledrivers again in prep for Giulia coming over.

And freakin’ Stacks kicked out of it. Absolute nonsense!

 

[pdxKingsFan]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1730096023861645542

Space Mountain is probably about as bumpy as Small World is these days but apparently the AEW crowd are so offended by this promo it will be cut before it airs.

 

[SLAB]

So glad he’s back in the E. This should be fun (if he doesn’t screw up)

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1733654107724882186

No aspect of the E has benefitted more (at least attention and resource wise) than NXT. Even though I’m pretty sure Punk’s just there because he knows it’s counterprogrammed against his old show.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Not big on Punk because his peak was during the period I lapsed as a fan but he's just so much better suited for the E. Everything he has to offer needs to be reigned in by strong management and TK is just way in over his head.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Was men's Iron Survivor even with 90 seconds left too obvious?

Spoiler

Trick being stuck at zero 23 minutes in when Briggs even had 2 falls just felt way too wrong

 

[SLAB]

My guy Trick is a star! I’ve called this one since the beginning, with the caveat “as long as he actually learns to wrestle” and he has.

 

[SLAB]

Taking bodyslams and doing mini matches at practice now. Tying together what I’ve learned with what I know. I’ve watched so many wrestling matches in my life but when you’re in there actually doing it … my brain shorts out and I can’t think of how to get to spot to spot, I’m always defaulting to chinlocks. Hopefully time hones my match instincts.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

@SLAB, when are you going to start taking low blows from Shinsuke Nakamura?

Maybe the WWE can do the right thing and bring Chyna back to life so you can take a few from her as well.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1734408787124240481

cook that clown, Becky!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

"Nia is so unlikeable that even her own knees won't stand up for her" - Becky Lynch

Gaaaaaaaad damn!

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1736237929523978683

Even though Mick can barely walk at this point, this is still somehow better than the entirely of Flair's AEW run.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1736466878032121941

oh she’s absolutely coming over. (Especially given her vocal concerns with Stardom management)

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

With all due respect, Giulia is the least Japanese-looking Japanese wrestler I've ever seen (and yes, I'm aware that she's biracial). Like, Aja Kong looks more Japanese than she does.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I want to wish CJ Perry a successful surgery and a speedy recovery, but I keep thinking about that Escobar promo, and I chuckle.

 

[SLAB]

I had an 8-minute match at practice yesterday. With a local pro who wrestles all over California. It wasn’t perfect, but I’m so thrilled with what I’m able to do.

(I lost to Hurricane’s old “Eye of the Storm”)

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Look at it this way, you could have lost to the Vertebreaker.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1741701555533840594

TK fumbling MJF would pretty much have to be the final nail in the coffin at this point, right?

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I heard MJF was going to take some serious injury time off. I guess we'll find out if that's true.

It's kind of wild from the time Cody left (which I read as a show of strength from TK) to seeing Cody explode in WWE, all the mismanagement of top talent TK has done this year to be where we are now.