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

[Geese_Pants]

https://youtu.be/Loxmeygnr-U

https://twitter.com/FinnBalor/status/891358140914126848

Congrats to Asuka and Curt Hawkins…

[Geese_Pants]

Brother of WWE wrestler Dolph Ziggler pleads guilty in deadly Cleveland hotel...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Two men, including the brother of professional wrestler Dolph Ziggler, pleaded guilty Friday in the 2016 killing of a Marine Corps veteran during a botched drug robbery at a Cleveland hotel.

Donald Nemeth, 30, and Jack King, 52, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, aggravated robbery and kidnapping charges in the Jan. 23, 2016 slaying of Joshua Mascol at the University Hotel and Suites on Euclid Avenue.

Judge Shannon Gallagher will sentence both men Aug. 28 in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Nemeth was ordered to wear an ankle monitor on home detention until his sentencing.

Nemeth and King were set to stand trial Monday on charges including aggravated murder. Both faced possible sentences of life in prison if convicted.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors had asked the judge to bar Nemeth’s lawyers from mentioning his brother Nicholas Nemeth, a two-time WWE World Heavyweight champion known by the ring name Dolph Ziggler, during a trial. The relationship was irrelevant to the case, and bringing it up would draw jurors’ focus away from the evidence, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Zachary Humphrey argued.

Lawyers for Donald Nemeth and King also asked for separate trials, because they blamed each other in statements to investigators. Defense attorneys argued they could not adequately defend themselves if they were prosecuted together.

Nemeth and King tried to rob Mascol, 34, during a drug deal at the hotel. A scuffle broke out, and Mascol was shot three times in a hallway, prosecutors said.

Hotel surveillance cameras helped investigators identify Nemeth and King, who were arrested and charged several months later.

Probably explains Dolph’s hiatus from WWE TV…

[2-D]

Apparently there’s another Paige video about to leak…

[Kinniku_Buster]

Apparently there’s another Paige video about to leak…

Bless

[maxx]

lol hopefully no titles are on the line again. wwe wrestlers are weird…why in holy hell would you let niggas tape you. thats the one thing i dont get. like i get the part about bein hoes…thats a given but why tape shit??

Ew. WWE wants to bring back Taboo Tuesday as a network special.

Eeewwwww

anything over great balls of dumpster fire

[Jion_Wansu]

Ew. WWE wants to bring back Taboo Tuesday as a network special.

Eeewwwww

It started with Tuesday in Texas back in 1991…

How about Jon Jones VS Brock Lesnar…

[Tyrant_Sardines_II]

thats a given but why tape shit??

Probably to see if it looks as good as it’s in their head. /Iamnotlikemostgirls
No one thinks that theirs will leak, until it actually does.

[Grimmjow316]

They should just bring back the King of the Ring PPV for Raw with either getting a title shot at Summer Slam or a similar stipulation like MITB where he can get a title shot at any time until the next KOTR. Just make the contract look like a scroll or something instead of briefcase idk.

[d3v]

They should just bring back the King of the Ring PPV for Raw with either getting a title shot at Summer Slam or a similar stipulation like MITB where he can get a title shot at any time until the next KOTR. Just make the contract look like a scroll or something instead of briefcase idk.

The stuff they’re doing for the UK and Womens on NXT (plus NJPW’s stuff) show that tournament arcs still work. Here’s hoping that it’s only a matter of time before KoTR returns.

Personally, I’d rather have it for both brands, with separate Raw and SDL brackets, then have the winners fight for the KoTR title.

[Saitsu]

Tournament Arcs work. KOTR doesn’t because WWE can’t help themselves but use it as an excuse for a terrible King gimmick.

[Kinniku_Buster]

King BOOKAH wasn’t terrible. We got fucking comedic gold with that shit.

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Tournament Arcs work. KOTR doesn’t because WWE can’t help themselves but use it as an excuse for a terrible King gimmick.

king gimmicks are one of the most wonderful b movie level things about wwe. some heel gets to go ham on with so much cheese

[dab00g]

They should just bring back the King of the Ring PPV for Raw with either getting a title shot at Summer Slam or a similar stipulation like MITB where he can get a title shot at any time until the next KOTR. Just make the contract look like a scroll or something instead of briefcase idk.

The stuff they’re doing for the UK and Womens on NXT (plus NJPW’s stuff) show that tournament arcs still work. Here’s hoping that it’s only a matter of time before KoTR returns.

Personally, I’d rather have it for both brands, with separate Raw and SDL brackets, then have the winners fight for the KoTR title.

I would love a 32 man weekly tournament culminating at a ppv final

[Hawkingbird]

Tournament Arcs work. KOTR doesn’t because WWE can’t help themselves but use it as an excuse for a terrible King gimmick.

king gimmicks are one of the most wonderful b movie level things about wwe. some heel gets to go ham on with so much cheese

But it didn’t help every king. Sheamus and Barrett gained nothing from it.

[Saitsu]

King BOOKAH wasn’t terrible. We got fucking comedic gold with that shit.

I’ve gone on record with how much I hated that gimmick, but even with a relent (since it did allow Book to finally get his long deserved World Title run in WWE) his run was a complete outlier.

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Tournament Arcs work. KOTR doesn’t because WWE can’t help themselves but use it as an excuse for a terrible King gimmick.

king gimmicks are one of the most wonderful b movie level things about wwe. some heel gets to go ham on with so much cheese

But it didn’t help every king. Sheamus and Barrett gained nothing from it.

both were trash…barrett more because he’s mr.glassman apparently and sheamus just didnt have a hang on his character it seemed. post tmnt movie hes been good.

[Swedish_Chef]

King of the Cruiserweights Neville has been the shit. Just a shame the planning/booking/presentation of the division has been absolute bollocks.

[dab00g]

Tozawa is getting over fine

So was Gallagher

The problem for the live crowd was the rope changes and the dead post sd crowd

[Iduno]

Tournament Arcs work. KOTR doesn’t because WWE can’t help themselves but use it as an excuse for a terrible King gimmick.

king gimmicks are one of the most wonderful b movie level things about wwe. some heel gets to go ham on with so much cheese

But it didn’t help every king. Sheamus and Barrett gained nothing from it.

To be fair they were following on the Bad News gimmic for Barret which was so good Vince killed it because heels apparently aren’t allowed to be over.

[Jion_Wansu]

King BOOKAH wasn’t terrible. We got fucking comedic gold with that shit.

King Haku was the best King

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m8V1qIUqd8Q

This is why Savage got kicked out of the WWF/WWE. He went off script:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OSaxk8t5N2w