Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:28 pm  

They managed to completely destroy the Anonymous Raw GM angle. Well done.

Kidd's getting a long overdue push, if he wins it, don't expect him to cash in for a while as they build him up as a legit contender.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:32 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

Aries vs Roode - Match of the Year

Impact Wrestling is on a very good roll at the moment with both weekly TV and PPV's. I think Russo going as well as other changes have helped massively, they deserve more viewers and PPV buys. Their own talent is being pushed to the top too, rather than just ex WWE.

WWE deserves to start losing their audience based on what I've read and bits I've watched. As a go home show for a PPV it seemed terrible.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:14 pm  

The whole thing with the Punk/Bryan/AJ triangle is that it would be fine as some mid-level feud. But it's not, it's a feud over the WWE title and it's clear that the writers at WWE prefer doing this Dawson's Creek rubbish over say putting the title up as something important.

But hey, WWE is embarrassed that one of the W's stands for Wrestling and have already firmly embedded the idea that matches are not important so why should titles won in those matches be any more important?

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:26 pm  

I'm looking forward to MITB, a lot. I mean, it's going to be nowhere near as good as it was last year (best PPV in the past five years, for sure), but it's a great concept.

Creative have been urged to come up with a huge summer storyline apparently, similar to 2010 (Nexus) and 2011 (Punk's pipebomb). I wonder if MITB will see anything huge happen, perhaps in relation to someone coming back? Maybe Barrett winning one of the contracts?

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:03 pm  

Roofaldo wrote:

The whole thing with the Punk/Bryan/AJ triangle is that it would be fine as some mid-level feud. But it's not, it's a feud over the WWE title and it's clear that the writers at WWE prefer doing this Dawson's Creek rubbish over say putting the title up as something important.

But hey, WWE is embarrassed that one of the W's stands for Wrestling and have already firmly embedded the idea that matches are not important so why should titles won in those matches be any more important?

Sorry to be pedantic, but technically letters WWE don't now stand for anything (in legal terms), same as KFC no longer stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Absolute stupidity though and I fully agree with what you're saying. It drives me insane that they won't just accept and be proud of being a wrestling company.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:00 am  

Well you can now tell the Bella Twins apart.

One's had a boobjob.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:21 am  

About as useful as one of the Uso's having a tattoo on their chest.

You know there's a difference, but you still don't remember which is which.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:23 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

About as useful as one of the Uso's having a tattoo on their chest.

You know there's a difference, but you still don't remember which is which.

No, but I enjoy looking at the pictures trying to work it out.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:44 pm  

Roofaldo wrote:

Well you can now tell the Bella Twins apart.

One's had a boobjob.

Proof?

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:11 am  

Conroy wrote:

Proof?

You mean apart from them going on about it on Twitter and putting up pics you mean?



Side by side for comparison

Now that's what I call TWIN magic