The Wrestling Thread 2017: Thanks for the great year! New Thread Open!

Mark Henry is going to retire soon…and take a behind the scenes role within WWE.

I think he’ll be good as an agent…he reportedly spotted Bianca Belair.

#thankyoumark

https://twitter.com/WrestlingSheet/status/888070935064055808
Teehee…

Mark Henry has been the guy recruiting crossfit and power lifters

Mark Henry and Big Show contributed so much

It sucks that the new “giants” are corbin and cass.

We went from show, taker, kane

To cass & corbin. I like corbin, but he is too lanky to take seriously

Lars Sullivan needs that singles push now.

What about Braaaaaauuuuuuuun!?!?

There is a reason i didn’t list the wyatts

Braun, Rowan, & harper are buyable monsters

Braun is the most over guy in wwe. Like the crowd erups when they hear that Brrrrrrrrraun opening line

If i was wwe, i would put the belt on Roman and have Braun take it from him

https://youtu.be/X0oQjRRzTOg

Emma

Boo. I work during Battleground. Guess I’ll watch it the following day. Maybe

https://twitter.com/RealArmandoHaHa/status/886011874004914176
Really…

Probably not the best source (analyst job sounds pretty cushy), but it caused the lightbulb in my head to flicker for a second. Is WWE tanking their shows to get out of their TV contract and get more of that sweet Internet money?

Also, WWE would find a way to break up all of the fun tag teams out there if the other feds let them. Nobody gets over unless Vince says so.

Sounds about right. There are countless stories of ideas people have pitched Vince that he politely ignores, then turns around and acts like he thought of 'em, and eventually ruins them.

Shane had the idea for a streaming service ten years ago.

No…that’d be stupid. Sure it’d get them out of their TV contract but if their show sucks no one’s gonna buy the Network which completely defeats the purpose.

From what I can remember Shane’s idea was for ECW to be a developmental brand with episodes that could be streamed online, it basically would have been a prototype of FCW and later NXT. By far Shane’s most interesting proposal in hindsight was his suggestion to buy UFC, granted this was well prior to it blowing up (no one could have expected how big it would’ve gotten) and it still would have required a lot of work/money to get to that stage so I get why they didn’t do it.

the service wouldnt have worked 10 years ago…soo…lets not act like that really hurt lol.

They did put heat on wwe.com

Streaming and on demand hadn’t combined yet

Pray for 205 Live…

https://twitter.com/JohnnyGargano/status/888444121194561537
https://twitter.com/ProjectCiampa/status/888449312820260864
Keep the feud going…

FUCK CIAMPA

Also in G1 news (this won’t need a spoiler as this happened during an unimportant tag match), Tama Tonga also seeming unamused about Kenny right now. Growing discontent in BC about Kenny being about himself and the Elite more than the entire group.

FUCK YOU FALE YOU BASTARD MAN!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFVS7PsU0AETqS8?format=jpg

The irony is, that HEINOUS ACT OF MURDER may be one of two points that will cause the fall of Kenny Omega from the BC. Because LIJ is about to be out for FUCKING BLOOD and while Tama let it cool after the match, he’s made it clear that he doesn’t want Kenny Omega as the leader of BC anymore.

Also at this point, I don’t think ANYTHING short of the OWA can put down Okada for a 3 count. It’s just absurd at this point.

They’ve got some free matches on youtube right now. Right now I’m watching a 6 man with Ibushi and Ishii