Wrestling Discussion Thread II

I absolutely love behind the scenes shows on wrestling as it just gives you so much more respect for the people that do it, also I really hope Corey Graves can be a main roster commentator one day.

Fascinating viewing, especially as I didn't really watch NXT during that era so I appreciate those three guys so much more now. And I'd love to have an announce team of Corey and Renee on a main show.

I wish William Regal still did commentary - he was far and away the best colour commentator WWE had at the time. Graves is good though - adds a lot to the NXT announce team.

Payback was alright, wasn't it? I've not caught Raw yet, but the PPV was pretty good.

Thought the tag match (again!) and the main event were the highlights.

As seems to be the trend lately, post mania is just brilliant right now with all the part timers out of the , you could say its all too much with Elimination Chamber just 2 weeks away and Money in the Bank after that but I say bring it on. Really hyped for NXT tomorrow now, especially after Raw.

Did anyone else find that payback was considerably more "extreme" than extreme rules was? That AA into the fireworks was crazy but the Russian chain match was boring. Similarly, that 4-Way might not have been in a cage but it was ridonks.

Plus you had Ziggler bleeding buckets before getting a boot to the face in his match - I see your point!

I quite like New day and the reaction they are getting now, Xavier Woods especially is doing a great job as a heel and that's with most of his actions happening outside the ring.

I enjoyed the New Day from the start; I think I just found the laziness with regards to black wrestlers amusing at first, but now they're doing the heel thing I'm especially all over it.

The thing that bugged me the most is they initially angled for a heel group at first then hooked them off TV for about a month and had them come back as the positive face group which the majority of fans didn't like as it wasn't much different to what each of them were doing as solo wrestlers.

It basically could have been a bigger thing much sooner.

Better late than never, I suppose. It's given us a look at face Cesaro too - another pro of turning New Day heel.

Anyone catch NXT Takeover: Unstoppable last night? I thought it wasn't really up to scratch with previous Takeovers, but the final two matches are well worth watching. Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch was easily the match of the night.

Yeah it was good also the rumours were true

DEEEEAAAAAAANNNNNNN

Yeh, sure, I know they haven't officially, by the book put the belt on my boy bug that was a quality ppv that delivered everything you could reasonably ask for.

I enjoyed MOST of that PPV, although I thought the IC Title Chamber match was a fucking stinker and everybody involved bar Sheamus underperformed. Owens vs Cena more than made up for it though.

Oh, if you've not seen it, I really recommend watching the Austin/Heyman podcast. The last 5/10 minutes are a treat, and a good sign of things to come.

PPV was okay, I echo Jay's sentiments on the amateurish IC Elimination Chamber - as much as I liked the result, it was an off night for everyone involved.

The last 5/10 mins of the podcast:

Spoiler:

Aye EC was an alright show, I didn't really like any of the chamber matches as you've said the IC one was a mess and for me the tag one started really well but then petered out due to some weird eliminations leaving teams that either hadn't worked a lot of matches together or just hadn't worked many matches recently (prime time players I mean you) or both.

Perhaps it had a few too many teams?

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Last night's podcast really was top notch! I did have a few signal issues on my end which meant I missed a few things here and there so I'll be definitely giving it a watch again some time soon.

You know, I'd forgotten how intense Stone Cold is, considering I spend a couple of hours each week listening to him joking about his life and chatting with guests on his podcast. When he tapped into Stone Cold and just stared Heyman down... chills. Whilst I think the better match would have been Austin vs Punk (watch this video, you'll understand why I'm saying that), I'm all in for Lesnar vs Austin.

Agree would of been far better match Austin v Punk, I need to listen to the podcast still.

On the EC Owens v Cena was a excellent match all the rest of the card was rather muh.

But does make me wonder what there going to do with Owens & the NxT title if he's on WWE now.

JayMoyles wrote:

You know, I'd forgotten how intense Stone Cold is, considering I spend a couple of hours each week listening to him joking about his life and chatting with guests on his podcast. When he tapped into Stone Cold and just stared Heyman down... chills. Whilst I think the better match would have been Austin vs Punk (watch this video, you'll understand why I'm saying that), I'm all in for Lesnar vs Austin.  

I knew the video you meant before clicking on it, Austin always makes it seem like genuine hate for the person he's talking about but I do wonder if he's been away from the ring for far too long to make the match compelling to watch.

His brawling style may help a lot though.

To be fair, Lesnar can make a match with anyone entertaining when he decides to chuck them about like a rag doll.

The_Jaster wrote:

I knew the video you meant before clicking on it, Austin always makes it seem like genuine hate for the person he's talking about but I do wonder if he's been away from the ring for far too long to make the match compelling to watch.  

His brawling style may help a lot though.

I think he knows himself that he won't be the sharpest in the ring, but I think he's already preparing for that by suggesting a gimmick match like a Texas Deathmatch. Besides, Lesnar's matches in this most recent run are never the most technically impressive matches - they're brawls, and Austin works well in brawls. I just want to see the man drop some stunners again!

Aye don't get me wrong it would be brilliant to see him again, I just wish it had happened much sooner.

In honour of the late great Dusty Rhodes, here's a reminder of how amazing he was on the mic. I know you've probably seen it already, but it's such a good promo. Maybe the greatest babyface of all time.

This was such a shocker! A true great as no matter what hand he was dealt he turned it into gold, WWE and wrestling as a whole has lost one of greatest minds of the business.

Sami Zayn's reflections on his time with Dusty down in NXT are well worth a read.