And main evented a Raw. :love:

They wrestled at a house show in Bryan's hometown one year. That would have been cool to see. I wonder if the company recorded it and could put it on a DVD some year.

Jamie Noble doesn't really have the credibility to be a tune-up opponent for Bryan, I guess, but maybe they could, I dunno, give him some? Like not a World Title push or anything, but maybe Joey Mercury and Jamie Noble get into a disagreement one day, Mercury slaps Noble and Noble takes him down. Seth could get between them and Noble could scream in Rollins' face that he quits. Face turn. Noble wrestles and is actually surprisingly good, and maybe then he can be used sporadically as a part-time guy.

Fuck it, Mercury vs. Noble could be used as a bit of an attraction in the mid-card of a PPV. Didn't The Mean Street Posse vs. Patterson & Brisco actually get a really high TV rating? The idea of two guys who are sort of stooges actually fighting until there is one winner has a weird sort of appeal to it.

I would also mark out if Jamie Noble, using his stint with The Authority to gain some pull, came out with the Cruiserweight Title over his shoulder as Seth Rollins' guy still. The title wouldn't be officially brought back, but Noble could just jokingly declare himself the permanent Cruiserweight Champion. I don't know, I'm just spit-balling now.

Noble & Mercury as Tag Champs would be great too. It's not like the division is super-hot at the moment.

Miz & Sandow are destined to split, so why not have Mercury & Noble be the team that beats them? This gets under Miz's skin so much that he fires Sandow, leading to the face turn, and then Noble & Mercury can be dirty rotten scoundrels with the titles for a few weeks.

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Mercury & Noble sounds like a book store

Saw the pics, looked bad. Lucky it didn't result in anything bad.

Looks like a knock-off Fred Flintstone.

Its a wank looking move, time to bench it already.

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Seriously, what the fuck.

Bellator MMA is trying to sign Lesnar

http://www.mmamania.com/2014/12/1/73...ock-lesnar-wwe

YEAHOH

OWENS

YEAHOH

This could be the reason they droped Impact!.

This could be the reason Spike droped Impact!.

Christ AJ, just use the Bloody Sunday

Guy was too tall for AJ to use the Clash. Could have ended up like another Kazarian incident had he landed forward.

Probably could make the move a bit safer if he included a mini-stall like how DDP would hit the Diamond Cutter sometimes. Lets the other guy get a bit more time to prepare for impact.

WWE is giving away a Roku stick with the purchase of 12 months of the Network.

http://www.wwe.com/wwenetwork/gift/roku

Dirtsheets:

The Observer on a few details regarding New Japan's NJPWWorld network.

who are you to doubt El Dandy? Not Taker, that's for sure

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RIP Rodger Kent.

It seems nearly all of the great voices of the AWA have left us. Many of them in the past year or two. Lee Marshall, Larry Nelson and now Rodger.

Gene Okerlund seems to be one of the last few that remain IIRC.

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http://www.prowrestling.net/article....t-age-90-39959

Former AWA broadcast team member Rodger Kent (a/k/a Rodger Vogel) died on Friday at age 90, according to MuseumOfBroadcasting.com. There will be a memorial service for Kent held at the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on December 14.

Powell's POV: Kent worked with the AWA for roughly 25 years and also worked in radio in the Twin Cities for a number of years following a stint with ABC radio. He resided in Cook, Minnesota at the time of his death.

£15 per sig? Fuck that.

He's a god damn wrestling legend. You'll pay 15 and you'll thank him.

Anyone listen/watch the live Steve Austin podcast with Vince? Austin didn't hold back

Watched the trailer, and the voices sound so off too.

YOU STAY AWAY FROM GENE! YOU BRINGER OF DEATH!

Can't wait for a 3-DVD set and a "Hall of Fame" induction for this "wrestling legend".

I'm listening now. And yeah, he just said what was on his mind. Crazy!!!

This is why Dolph will never get over. He has to learn to say "No, this is stupid!"

the chair looks photoshopped in.

i legit laughed during the austin/mcmahon podcast when stone cold said "we have 20 seconds left" and vince said" well since I OWN the Network, we're gonna go on for another 15 minutes"

This Scsa/Vince podcast is great

seriously Vince
so wrong about Ceasaro he had it till you killed it

Yeah. Vince kept saying he listens to his audience and wants to make stars, yet he blatantly pulled the rug out from under Cesaro, cut off or tried to cut off both Punk and Bryan's momentum, and consistently depushes guys as their getting over.

My wife commented on these comments and chuckled when he stated he wasn't out of touch.

Funny how they kept calling it a podcast. It's only a podcast if and when they release it on audio.

It's an interview.

I'll sum up Vince's philosophy here:

"We listen to our audience in order to to give them what they want...except for when we think it's not what they really want. We give them what they really want...and if they don't like it they're critics, and we don't care what critics think."

It was a great show/interview and Vince almost had me convinced that he isn't massively out of touch. Until you think back to the start of the year, when every arena they went to was going wild for Bryan...and they had him pencilled in for a match against Sheamus at Mania.

Cesaro is another one. Yeah, I agree he's not great on the mic, but he got over inspite of that. Find a work around. Don't kill the momentum.

And the whole deal about how "nobody in the back wants it nowadays"? What!? You're telling me a guy like Ziggler who goes out there and bumps like crazy every night, trying to steal the show every night, doesn't do it to get noticed? Because he's hungry?

I get the feeling Vince thinks everybody should be like him; a top-dog, alpha male who will trample anybody to get what he wants (then act like it was their fault they got trampled), so when you have a guy like Bryan - who's allegedly quite laid-back - he passes him off as "not wanting it bad enough".

I dunno. It was a great listen, and it'd make a great series of interviews but there were some things that just didn't sit right/make sense. Maybe Vince has toe the line too much to conserve public image.

Did the Minute Men in GTA come before The Real Americans formed? Cesaro always makes me think about the foreign member of those missions.

Cesaro was doing his five language gimmick on the Survivor Series Pre-show. If that doesn't show that its the writers who are killing him I don't know what will.

Cesaro is alright on the mic, it's the fact everything is written out that seems to be the stumbling block for a lot of the talent. give them bullet points and let them sink or swim on the mic, at least it doesn't sound forced then and they might catch fire with a catchphrase.

Yeah Cesaro is better on the mic than Reigns.

That's another thing. Vince stated he looks for charisma or it factor. Reigns has neither. He's piss fucking boring in the ring and on the mic.

The perfect wrestler right now would be if Reigns (who is a good worker) had Ryback's charisma.

it's the gigantic nipples, that has to be it

I'd also argue this about Cesaro: If Vince ever watches the JBL show enough to see Cesaro's work there, they'd see he's actually got a casual charisma that would work more towards being a face.

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I think Reigns is a perfect tag team guy, the arena explodes when he gets tagged in. But as a singles wrestler he isn't much to write home about.

He's not. And even with Ryback, they give him these boring big guy promos with short lines instead of something more real, like the promo he cut with Brandy about WWE needing a hero. That was leaps and bounds better than anything they've actually aired with him on Raw.

Who is that in front of Rusev? That supposed to be Titty Master?

You know what else worked toward being a face? The crowd chanting for him and popping wild and counting for the giant swing. Eveyone want him to turn on Heyman, and they teased a face turn... then he just split frm Heyman for no reason and with no angle or blow off and let him free fall.

But that's Cesaro's fault, I bet. :roll:

Along that same line, Axel should at least have been a solid midcarder by now. Instead, he was put in the role for Heyman that J&J Security is in for Rollins. Getting a couple flukey wins then getting jobbed ad made to look like a dumbass lackey isn't the way to follow through with touting a future star.

I'd say, if nothing else, have a bit where Swagger is getting beaten down by Rusev, only for Cesaro to make the save. Reunite the Real Americans as faces, but have them do things in singles matches on occasion.

Axel was screwed from the on set. They had a chance to legitimize him in his match with Triple H and had Triple H beat him up to the point where his concussion symptoms gave way. Real awesome way to give a needing superstar the rub.

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What a supportive wife

Here's my issue with the Vince/Cesaro stuff. I don't have a problem with his comments about Cesaro not having the "it" factor or charisma. He's right. But... you've got this Andre the Giant battle royal that you wanna start doing every year. Why the fuck do you make the inaugural winner someone who you don't think has what it takes to use it as a catapult to being a star? Then you throw him with Paul Heyman for a couple months just to change your mind and drop it out of the blue. So now you've already made winning this yearly WrestleMania battle royal mean shit from the start since you've shown that winning it doesn't mean you're going anywhere and you've made being a "Paul Heyman guy" mean shit for future Paul Heyman guys because the guys he's been managing outside of Brock have gone on to not do shit.

If you don't think he's got it, then just pick someone else. Don't ruin potentially meaningful accomplishments for any future guys by giving them to a guy you don't think has what it takes. It's fucking retarded.

Still laugh at how much they hyped up the Andre trophy being a really prestigious thing to own while in reality it barely lasted a week before getting destroyed and quickly forgotten by commentary.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is the reason to the sudden change done to Cena's guaranteed title shot. TLC is on the 14th and WWE probably didn't want Lesnar to overshadow the event if he showed up early and wasn't wrestling.

Really want Rollins to get that title shot just to see the possibility of a MitB holder cashing in on his own match. Rollins can lose by DQ but soften Lesnar up (with some help) and cash in right away. Can make Lesnar a bigger beast if he can overcome that or go in a new direction for Mania's title match if the WWE still has cold feet on Lesnar's reign.

I heard a rumor this might mean she is coming back. :heart:

Which leads me to ask the question:

Who will be Maurice Mizdow?

Everybody always says you can't teach, or learn it. They always say you either have it or you don't. Seems troubling.

Damien Sandow in a double role.

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HHH OUTTA NOWHERE

I don't see how Reigns has the it factor. I remember JR mentioning how guys like Buff Bagwell were great in an 8x10 but offered little else. This is how I see Reigns. Looks great in photos, looks great walking in the ring, then, once the light turns on, it's over. Any appeal he's garnered to that point goes poof. That's why I don't understand what they see in him.

Possibly even...off the chain
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Slightly off topic but do recently released WWE stars have to wait a year to sign with another organisation as per contract rules etc?

Usual standard is 90 days.

Got thr Back to the Territories: Mid-South DVD with Hacksaw Duggan. Cornette hosts it. It's fucking fantastic. Duggan is an amazing interview.

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Two unrelated thoughts.

1) Becky Lynch gives me a large boner.

2) I like Gold and Stardust because they represent two stages of crazy. Stardust is someone starting his descent into psychosis without fully understanding why he feels the way he does yet, whilst Goldust is a grizzled veteran of crazy who is subtle and subdued in his own dementia. It's a cool dynamic.

Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks Halloween. Nifty.

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We all know Renee Young is a total babe, but she's very entertaining on commentary as well. :y:

Also, the NXT crowd crack me up.

Two episodes ago, they counted down Baron Corbin's match in seconds. It ended at 22 seconds, so they started chanting "TWENTY TWO! TWENTY TWO!".

Bull Dempsey made a quick entrance during Corbin's exit, passing him on the ramp for another squash match. The crowd started counting the match again, but as soon as they got past 22 seconds, they started booing and chanting "BARON'S BETTER! BARON'S BETTER!".

Not to mention the "BUTT TATTOO!" chant for CJ Parker. Hilarious.

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Your welcome

Dirtsheets:

So theoretically WWE is looking at a really bad ratings future once it drops to a certain point and likely won't have Cena's audience as the basis for this new future audience (already bailing out in high numbers).

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/.../22108176.html


Some other sheet news include the 2nd week in a row RAW started off with huge numbers in 8pm (4.23 million) and then crashed by 11pm (3.47 million) because the audience was tired of waiting for someone to show up (ex. Sting last week, Bryan this week).

Sting's deal he signed was for 6 total appearances. So he's only going to show up 4 times between now and the final Raw before WM...

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I heard this live when it happened and it was pretty awesome. I laugh every time he called him a redneck cause the Briscoes are from a small town in Delaware about 15 minutes from where I live.

The more I think about it, The Usos are a lot of fun. Props to those guys, for sure.

Also, act like that theme isn't a jam. I dare you.

It's not great.

COME AT ME BRO

The Usos the best... How can anyone not like them.....

Wish they never lost the tag titles.... With their loss, ended a period of "glory" for the tag division where it was consistently pushed and treated as "big", dating back to Team Hell No's reign.

Think they just need more teams as opposed to two guys treading water tagging for a few weeks.

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I would give it it's own thread, but it's preaching at the choir nonsense.

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Seriously.</font>

No way. I joked about that in the SmackDown thread.