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

Hawkingbird · 2017-04-26T22:47:28.000Z

NXT is going through some spring cleaning. They released Tough Enough winner Josh Bredl, backstage interviewer Andrea DiMarco and some guy I never heard of.

Geese_Pants · 2017-04-26T22:52:55.000Z

Josh Bredi’s release de-confirmed…for now.

twitter.com

Ryan Satin (ryansatin)

Josh Bredl from Tough Enough has NOT been released. Confirmed with WWE that he's still under contract.

10:12 AM - 26 Apr 2017

BTW…today is Kane’s 50th birthday.
50th…

In his later 40s was able to hang with the younger folks.

https://i.imgur.com/aUj2Wmx.gif

Happy Birthday Glenn Jacobs!

Pablo_the_Mex · 2017-04-26T22:54:12.000Z

Wait when was Jinder champ?

jae_hoon · 2017-04-26T23:05:17.000Z

Ryback gets 5k per appearance so I can easily see 1500 for Gotch.

po_pimpus · 2017-04-26T23:13:12.000Z

Who the fuck is wasting 5gs on Ryberg, and how do I convince them to give it to me instead?

Paolochun · 2017-04-27T02:02:56.000Z

Pablo_the_Mex:

Wait when was Jinder champ?

Nah, it’s just the ol’ new bad guy steals the belt thing. He does have a title match down the line though

Tien_Gouki · 2017-04-27T02:42:19.000Z

Geese_Pants:

So Simon Gotch is asking for $1,500 for indie appearance…

http://www.sharegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/21/lol-gif-31.gif

Carry on my wayward son…

Geese_Pants · 2017-04-27T05:26:49.000Z

Dunne is BASED…

Lantis · 2017-04-27T05:49:49.000Z

Dunne with the cartoon villain reaction

evilj · 2017-04-27T06:17:51.000Z

Random thoughts:

I hate the Naito/Almas lay down pose. I

There’s too many people and wrestlers right now, over saturation.

I honestly can’t think of anyone who is better than Pete Dunne’s commitment to kayfabe. Reminds me of 96-97 Austin/Pillman.

NXT had a great video package on Roderick STrong.

evilj · 2017-04-27T06:24:06.000Z

They trying to make Aleister Black like CM Punk.

The beginning of his theme music sounds like Miseria Cantare.

If Punk ever comes back to WWE, he should use that music.

d3v · 2017-04-27T06:39:49.000Z

I want Punk to comeback so he can get in a shoot fight with Shinsuke.

dab00g · 2017-04-27T07:46:51.000Z

Geese_Pants:

Ask Ryback…I heard he charged a lot though.

Ryback main evented with cena and punk. He sold merch and was over.

The Vaude villains didn’t do much outside nxt. Gotch should go the roh tough wrestler route.

evilj:

Random thoughts:

I hate the Naito/Almas lay down pose. I

There’s too many people and wrestlers right now, over saturation.

I honestly can’t think of anyone who is better than Pete Dunne’s commitment to kayfabe. Reminds me of 96-97 Austin/Pillman.

NXT had a great video package on Roderick STrong.

You are supposed to hate the posing. Naito and Cien are rudos to the max. Cien needs to have a hot mouth piece that can do his promos as his english improves. Cien has the capacity to actually be that mexican crossover star.

evilj:

They trying to make Aleister Black like CM Punk.

The beginning of his theme music sounds like Miseria Cantare.

If Punk ever comes back to WWE, he should use that music.

Black is actually a legit kickboxer and a purple belt. He would wreck just about everybody with those kicks.

Wwe has a lot of legit wrestlers, mma guys, and athletes in nxt. Athletes make better wrestlers

evilj · 2017-04-27T09:49:48.000Z

Rick Rude goodness, stuff I haven’t seen before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnDVf19V2E

dab00g · 2017-04-27T09:53:49.000Z

All my memories of rick rude come from wcw, and old tapes

I loved the feud with sting, steamboat, and when he beat flair for the international title i was happy

I always hated flair especially when he beat vader

d3v · 2017-04-27T09:59:33.000Z

Fitting because if anyone can be described as a fat sweat hog, it’s Vader.

dab00g · 2017-04-27T11:42:44.000Z

He got hurt because of that rotating platform

I was all set for rude/cactus and more rude/sting

Hell they were building rude/muta too

d3v · 2017-04-27T12:41:00.000Z

It wasn’t a “rotating” platform. It was an elevated board that surrounded the ring. You can see the bump at around 1:19 in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFN9MkqH-U

dab00g · 2017-04-27T12:48:56.000Z

Yeah well that elevated platform fucked up rude in his prime, and retired him

Who knows

If rick rude was healed up during the wcw expansion, we would have had Rude/Hogan, Rude/Savage, And who knows.

Mr. Perfect deliberately sat out to collect a paycheck when vince chose Bret over him.

Mr. Perfect/Ric Flair wwf title wmix would have been awesome

Instead we got Luger/Perfect.

If i booked wm ix it would have been perfect/Hart, with perfect turning heel.

Geese_Pants · 2017-04-27T20:34:17.000Z

It’s to the point that the Full Sail crowd is basically ruining NXT for me…