The Wrestling Thread

[NathanBarnatt]

Am I just being cheap?

Not at all. I also watch Raw and Smackdown on Youtube and catch the PPVs on free live streams, lol.

Extreme Rules was entertaining, not the best but definitely not the worst. Rumors have been circulating that Cena will be taking some time off to heal some persistent injuries.

In other news, Ziggler's responded to Keith again:

I was at Meltdown this past weekend when Keith taped footage for his next rebuttal. It's going to be epic!

I watch RAW on Youtube too. Not worth getting cable for one show. And Ziggler is gonna get it hard in Keith's next response!

PS thanks for coming to the show Rune! And for this http://instagr.am/p/J6eBN8KP4c/

[retrosportsgamer]

Nathan - is Dolph following Keith now on Twitter? I noticed that he tweets a LOT with @KeithApicary . Really enjoying the back and forth

[Gamerforlife]

I wish I knew where you guys find those free streams, because where I live buying a pay per view costs almost as much as buying a new video game, yet only gives me three to four hours of entertainment

[Gamerforlife]

Hey HCore WWE fans,

Anyone want to catch me up on what happened over the weekend? I'm a casual watcher of MNRAW and forgot there was even a PPV over the weekend.

http://allwrestling.com/news/42423/full ... eme-rules/

[Gamerforlife]

Echoes how I feel:

"There was a lot of chatter about Cena going over Lesnar in the main event. The feeling among most was that WWE should have waited before having Lesnar lose because getting a dominant former UFC Heavyweight Champion back on your roster doesn't happen often and now Lesnar appears as just another talent on the roster that has lost to Cena."

http://allwrestling.com/news/42439/back ... eme-rules/

Typical WWE booking

They get a golden opportunity....and they completely squander it. Imagine a guy winning the lottery every month, and blowing it all in a casino every single time. That's the WWE....and it's always so they can service Cena. His very existence hurts the product more and more every day and I would challenge anyone who argues that point. They continue to lose more people than they keep in order to keep him on top. Short sighted fools. Remember when they cut short the post Money in the Bank storyline and killed Punk's momentum? Why? So they could get a new belt on Cena as soon as possible of course. I HATE that guy. So many bad booking decisions ultimately come back to him. He's the Hulk Hogan of the WWE and I mean MODERN DAY Hogan. Actively hurting the industry just like Hogan does

[retrosportsgamer]

Hey HCore WWE fans,

Anyone want to catch me up on what happened over the weekend? I'm a casual watcher of MNRAW and forgot there was even a PPV over the weekend.

http://allwrestling.com/news/42423/full ... eme-rules/

I like Brandon Stroud's stuff too:

http://withleather.uproxx.com/2012/04/t ... e-rules-12

[Runefaust]

Am I just being cheap?

Not at all. I also watch Raw and Smackdown on Youtube and catch the PPVs on free live streams, lol.

Extreme Rules was entertaining, not the best but definitely not the worst. Rumors have been circulating that Cena will be taking some time off to heal some persistent injuries.

In other news, Ziggler's responded to Keith again:

I was at Meltdown this past weekend when Keith taped footage for his next rebuttal. It's going to be epic!

I watch RAW on Youtube too. Not worth getting cable for one show. And Ziggler is gonna get it hard in Keith's next response!

PS thanks for coming to the show Rune! And for this http://instagr.am/p/J6eBN8KP4c/

Anytime you've got a SoCal show I'll do my best to be there man!

Re: Cena and Lesnar

The way they built up the drama behind the match it would've been pretty bad for Cena to lose and I'm glad he won, but I'm also upset that Lesnar lost all the momentum he's built up. Bring The Pain fans shouldn't be too uset, though, because Lesnar can still be utilized and built up if handled right (though with WWE creative that's not exactly a comforting thought).

If you ask me this match happened too soon. I still can't wait to see what happens on RAW; waiting to confirm if Cena will be taking some time off and what they're going to do with Lesnar now.

On another note, I really enjoyed Show and Rhodes during the PPV. I'm really glad Rhodes got the title back, lol, I really like the guy!

[Gamerforlife]

God, what a shitty Raw

I think I need to find a wrestling equivalent of racketboy, and just start enjoying retro wrestling because the current WWE product is complete and utter refuse.

I pretty much tuned out Cena's promo once he starting doing his usually crap. I'm still here. Blah, blah, blah. I'm Superman and I'm not hurt at all. Blah, blah, blah. Always the same shit. He made his match with Lesnar completely irrelevant and buried Lesnar in the process. God I wish Cena would get hit by a bus or something

Nah, I take that back. I don't wish that on anyone.

Still, I give tonight's Raw a -10. Cena is destroying the WWE. He makes every single feud he is in COMPLETELY FUCKING MEANINGLESS!!!! It's as much creative's fault as it is his though obviously. I mean the rest of the show sucked too

[retrosportsgamer]

Something was really f'd up with Beat the Clock. Since when does the last match end 1:20 minutes earlier than the next closest? And the Jericho match was really screwy with the ref completely botching the finish.

At this point, Cena's no-selling of his dramatic speeches and "going away moments" is god damn heelish.

I'm glad he can blow off this huge GM feud with Johnny L after a whopping couple of weeks, while Punk feuded for months and there was no in-ring showdown.

This is almost like shotgun booking at this point. How bizarre.

[Gamerforlife]

Something was really f'd up with Beat the Clock. Since when does the last match end 1:20 minutes earlier than the next closest? And the Jericho match was really screwy with the ref completely botching the finish.

At this point, Cena's no-selling of his dramatic speeches and "going away moments" is god damn heelish.

I'm glad he can blow off this huge GM feud with Johnny L after a whopping couple of weeks, while Punk feuded for months and there was no in-ring showdown.

This is almost like shotgun booking at this point. How bizarre.

The WWE went from having me mark out at Lesnar's return to not giving a crap at all. I honestly don't care if I ever see Lesnar on WWE programming again. They KILLED HIM last night at Extreme Rules and Cena just put the final nails in the coffin at the end of tonight's Raw. There is NO WAY AT ALL to make Lesnar as interesting again as he was that night after Mania. They blew it....AGAIN.

Every time they get me excited about something (Karma, Money in the Bank 2011, Brock Lesnar)they completely screw it up. I just don't feel like I should really mark out for anything anymore, because if it's something that is that exciting WWE will screw it up. I don't even care that R Truth and Kofi won the tag titles tonight. We probably won't even see them on TV all that much...or in two weeks we'll hear that one of them failed a wellness test

Cena has pretty much become the symbol for me for everything that is wrong with the WWE. As long as he is the top guy, the product will continue to suck. They sacrifice every good storyline they have just to continue his never ending monster push. His loss to the Rock could have kicked off a great redemption storyline, with him losing again at Extreme Rules and spending the rest of the year as an underdog trying to get his mojo back and winning over the haters on his way back to the top. Instead, he becomes super Cena again and kills the momentum of the biggest money maker they currently have on the roster in Brock Lesnar. Vince must not like making money or getting higher ratings. He seems more interested in getting on his knees and constantly servicing Cena and keeping the WWE in a constant state of mediocrity