In my mind they actually stretch it out and let the heat build though instead of having Owens beat Cena and then having Cena get his win back two weeks later, and then winning again in a month. The matches were great... but I never really felt there was any real drama or emotion behind the feud.

The original idea I had for this feud was a Joe attack (possibly with a couple other angry indy vets from NXT or something) on Cena to cost him the title and put him out of action. Actually taking advantage of his vacation to build a story as opposed to him just leaving which was beyond retarded.

Then you can have Joe spend a month and a half (which was pretty much the length of the Owens-Cena feud from start to finish. lol) explaining his actions while competing in and dominating a tournament to win the US title.

When Cena comes back, it's in the build to the rumble so we get to hold off the big showdown for another month since they're both in the rumble. Joe's indy henchmen are able to take Cena out before he's able to even get his hands on Joe.

Cena wants Joe and the US title now at Fast Lane but Joe says "no" because he wants to use Cena to create the WrestleMania moment he should have had a decade ago. He makes Cena put his career on the line at WrestleMania against Joe for the US Title. (Fastlane features Cena having to go through Joe's henchmen)

And there you go. You've spents 5 1/2 months letting the anticipation build to one big match instead of the same boring "match, rematch, rubber match" formula being squeezed into a month and a half.

Two random things:

1) during my watching of "Con Man", at one point Alan Tudyk makes the Cornette face.

2) About 3 blocks behind my house, there is a massive bilboard with Roman Reigns on it.

Shawn Michaels at One Night Only in 1997 is some of the greatest heeling that the WWF/E has ever known. Amazing.

Baring any sudden changes, New Japan has Yoshi Tatsu planned as the 3rd announcer for Wrestle Kingdom 10's English commentary team.

Can Yoshi Tatsu even speak English?

this is all kinds of amazing

from Titanes En El Ring in Argentina

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"Swing down, sweet chariot stop and let me ride..."

... aw, hell, that isn't George Clinton.

Dana Brooke did her best to spam taunts WWF No Mercy style.

She always does

The Slim Boss Woman.

Asuka shirt shipped today, way earlier than expected.

Posting picture again because fuck you.

ROH's Kingdom stable and Bennett/Taven team splitting up soon due to contract issues.

I could get behind Bennett and Kanellis in TNA. I could see them coming in and aligning themselves with EC3. Big loss for ROH I suppose Cole and Taven could keep the Kingdom name orjust disband it.

THAT SHIRT IS SO GOOD BRAH

SO GOOD

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KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOOOO

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SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!

The biggest loss is the NJPW cameramen

Who is this?

Noelle FOley. Mrs. Foley's baby boy's baby girl.

No way..... how the hell did that happen.

Hell in a Cell matches and thumbtacks don't transfer to their children! He was a normal looking man before all that, plus his wife probably provided most of the genes

Don't know how it would play out, so my idea on how to book Reigns through WM won't be receiving its own thread. Instead, I will just leave it here.

Tonight at the Slammy Awards, whether the fans actually vote him or not, Superstar of the Year is the final category announced live and revealed. The presenter(s) start to read Reigns' name but are intertupted mid-sentence as Stephanie shows up and introduces back to RAW, her husband and COO of WWE, Triple H!

Triple H walks out, screams for his music to be cut, despite his nickname, he's in no mood to play games tonight. He demands Reigns get his sorry ass out here (on stage), and tells him he doesn't care if Reigns won the Superstar of the Year award or not, he's NOT taking home the trophy.

Instead, as a result of Reigns' recent actions, first physically against him at TLC and then verbally against his wife Stephanie and physically against the freaking CHAIRMAN of WWE, Reigns is going to have hell to pay. Triple H continues, saying he could've fired Reigns right here tonight but that's not good enough.

Triple H announces himself v. Reigns @ the Rumble PPV for the title, but if Reigns loses, he loses his job, too. And just to make it interesting, he loses the title and his job in the match by DQ or count-out in addition to pinfall or submission. Oh, and there's just one more thing, he tells Roman: there's a special referee for their match...Mr. McMahon's music plays and he walks out as Reigns looks shocked. Cameras fade to black to end the show.

Reigns defies the odds and wins at the Rumble, but Triple H isn't done with Reigns. He books himself in a title rematch at Fastlane, only this time it will be inside the HELL...IN A CELL! Trips wins the title.

Reigns must then navigate all kinds of obstacles in the weeks leading to WM 32, including having to face guys like Lesnar, Cena and Ambrose all in gruelling matches and finally gets a #1 Contender's Match in the main event of the RAW 6 days before WM and barely wins. Triple H walks out, impressed, and in semi-mock congratulations tells Reigns he's got his rematch at Mania, but it will now be a 3 Stages of Hell match. First fall, a singles match, Second fall, a street fight, and the 3rd fall, if necessary will be a ladder match.

In the fight of his life, both men battle on the top of a ladder. He knocks Triple H to the mat and a lightbulb goes off. He strategically sets up a couple ladders, climbs one till he's on the top rung and nails a spear to Triple H once he gets to the top, à la the famous Edge spot, then quickly climbs the ladder and retrieves the belt, celebrating ad the crowd roars its approval, while a motionless Triple H is attended to by doctors and finally comes to, walking off with help from them, and he turns around, scowling at the victorious Reigns who is smiling at him ear to ear. Fade to black.

Ehh, just literally fire Reigns and every thing will be fine.

Who won the Rumble, and what happened to their WM Title shot?

I have no desire to see Triple H in a match at Wrestlemania, much less a "Three Stages of Hell" match, which will hog up at least 45 minutes of the show.

Great idea, but this is a large loophole that would be need explored....

I had that pin up.

Reminds me of those old school WWF comic books

omg Noam Dar is insane

I am shocked that these were posted, and nobody dropped some "hard time" innuendo.

are you role-playing here?

i could swear you're role-playing

Sucks that an awesome gimmick like Mantaur is viewed as the most retarded thing ever done in wrestling.

I think HHH v Reigns makes perfect sense for Rumble. Don't see any reason to take the title off Reigns though.

Hunter should be used to heat up Reigns going into Mania. Then you put him against either Lesnar or Cena at Mania. Lesnar I feel would make more sense.

If Rock can go at Mania, then Hunter is still available.

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Sexual Christmas Chocolate?

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:lol: at the Sheetys. That needs to be used if the Wrestling Forum ever holds their own awards thread.

Why don't we have our own awards thread. I'm sure it's been done before but how do we not have a yearly "Sheetys"?

Because no one cares enough to run it

If nobody wants to, I could probably start a Sheetys nomination thread tomorrow or the day after. Probably hold it till end of the year and then the actual Sheetys awards.

I'd better win a Sheety.

"Best Poster on TPWW with "Shadrick" in his name"

:y:

"Best Owen White Moment"

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For some stats, the show managed a 2.33 rating while the average drop was around 547k viewers compared to last week. Did not benefit from the lower than usual MNF game.

Basically the good news being the WWE gets a larger percentage from what's left and total ppv revenues is higher than before because of the new percentages. Bad news being the huge drop in ad rates and Network is costing them $100 million on average which has eaten a huge chunk of those revenues made.
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Current card for Wrestle Kingdom 10

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When WWE pulled the "Who Killed Vince" storyline years ago, they got in huge trouble with investors who thought it was real and/or a ploy by the WWE to legit change company leadership without their input.


Some other sheet news includes:

• According to the Observer, some new details regarding the TNA-POP tv deal includes ad revenue to be shared between both companies and was confirmed POP TV is not paying TNA to show Impact.
• For those that like ROH and coloring books, the company is selling coloring books now. http://rohwrestling.com/catalog/coloring-book
• Darren Young is rumored to be out again with another injury. May or may not be related to his previous injury.
• TNA recently announced they have signed the Great Khali to a multi-year deal with the company.
• Boogeyman recently revealed on Twitter he has signed a Legends deal with the WWE. https://twitter.com/realboogey/statu...25280472956928
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, baring a sudden WWE title victory, 2015 will be the first time since 2012 John Cena didn't win the WWE (or World) title during the year. Will also be just the 3rd time since 2004 that has happened.
• Update to the Gawker-Hogan lawsuit as Hogan's side could be in trouble soon if allegations of him having law enforcement friends block recent FBI investigations turns out to be true. The basis is the FBI launched a separate investigation related to the leaked tapes and supposedly it suddenly stalling has impacted Gawker's ability to request more info for their side. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/figure...updates-204231

I want to have sex with Paige

Time to plug my column again. Over the past few months I've been reviewing old WWF House shows from 1982-1985 for 411mania.com. It's called Mr.Dufour's Wayback Machine. I've gotten great responses so far. So if you're into old wrestling check it out. The shows that I review can be found on torrent sites and sometimes youtube. Below is my latest review.

http://411mania.com/wrestling/mr-duf...hilly-spectrum

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Lol I'd take Axeldust just to get him back on TV. Let him join the Cosmic Wasteland or team with Goldust. It would bbe a step towards Cody and Curtis teaming as the Perfect Dream that i have wanted for a while.

Call him BrakeDust cause he cant catch one.

I wonder how successful or unsuccessful WWE would be if the IWC made all creative decisions.

Wrestlemania 32: Rybaxel Explodes!!!

John Morrison vs Seth Rollins. Make that shit happen.

Right now, I'd have more interest in seeing that than any Undertaker/Triple H/Rock/(maybe)Lesnar/Reigns match.

Rybaxel was a horrible idea. Natural heel Axel teaming with a natural baby face in Ryback. But WM32 headlined by Brock/Axel sounds great.

Would be a steller match. Also would be better if it occured in Lucha Underground though.

People talking shit about Rybaxel.

People wanna die

Even that might be better than what they actually did.

For once they were successful in building a prototypical Vince "big man" type up to the point where even smark crowds were rabid for him. They had everything they've tried so hard to create with Reigns in the palm of their hands... So naturally they jobbed him out, fed him to Mark Henry at WrestleMania and turned him heel.

lolWWE

As of fan of Axel, I hated the pairing. Ryback should have stayed far away from that storyline and not become a Heyman guy.

Man, I remember you being so into Ryback, and me being like "meh" at the time, and he grew on me over time that I'm like retroactively mad now lol

It was pretty ridiculous. Most of the time when someone is getting over and they get de-pushed they AT LEAST have the "he's not our idea of a star" excuse. They didn't even have that. They took a guy who fit their mold, pushed him as a beast, it worked and they said "Cool, but nah."

Wanna go back and watch that video of him finally getting his hands on Punk again. It was like stepping into a time machine back to the 90s when live crowds were actually into it.

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOO

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Easily the most dangerous spot I've posted.

At least it was better than the WWE's version of a chair massacre:
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Although doesn't top the classic ECW one:
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Wade Barrett likes the spotted dick

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The hard camera was shaking. jesus, that was a moment. JR sold that shit too.

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Vintage Cole

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For some reference, the Hardys contracts with TNA expire around the end of February 2016.

On one hand it was a "Best Of" show while on the other hand, TNA's core has been shrinking by a lot during the past year. Also the Days of Out Lives show was the lead-in to Impact for some reference.

Supposedly ROH went really low with their initial offer to ReDRagon which is why they refused to sign a new deal. Rumors of TNA and WWE being interested ended up being debunked for the moment.


Some other sheet news includes:

• TNA announced they will be holding a live ppv on January 8th.
• Forbes' wrestling blog awarded Brock Lesnar as their 2015 Wrestler of the Year. http://www.forbes.com/sites/housemon...r-of-the-year/
• Dean Ambrose ended up being injured from his match with Sheamus on RAW which required 6 staples to close the wound on his head.
• Newest episode of Botchamania was recently released. http://botchamania.com/botchamania-296/
• For reasons unknown, the WWE recently pulled a new Micheal Cole weekly video interview with Heath Slater as one of his guests. Supposedly he was one of the most requested stars for an interview based on social media recently.
• A segment from the Owen Hart dvd set involving Triple H telling a favorite Owen Hart rib stories was recently leaked online. https://streamable.com/xyvq
• Atlasobscura.com recently had an article involving the origins and story behind one of Andre the Giant's famous pictures. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...ing-a-beer-can

First live show on 1/5? FUCK IT. LET'S HAVE A PPV THREE DAYS LATER ON A FRIDAY.

If this wasn't TNA, there would be no way I could believe this was possible.

V useful gif to add to your archives:

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Theres a show on pop called Schitts Creek which is probably close to where TNA is.

Buried.

Find it hard to believe Slater was #8 in the superstar of the year voting.

I think that whole interview was a joke which was why it got pulled.

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12/9/15

Another day which will live in infamy

Swagger rules baby!

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now if that would during the us belt fued instead of cena hogging in that would have been better.

Who willing goes to TNA in 2016?

Ha!

Is that Swagger gif from Tribute to the Troops? Did he make Rusev tap out and win the match?

T-BOOOOONE!

I had a really weird dream where Kevin Kelly made his return to WWE television and they played a B roll. I was very confused.

Confused or aroused

yule can('t) tree me
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Mongo is on Ric Flair's podcast this week and it is the greatest thing ever

That's open for interpretation.

Scientific fact

WWE reuploaded the Heath Slater interview with Cole. Turns out he ended up 8th in the Superstar of the Year voting. Even the WWE was shocked which is probably why they didn't bother to put him in the special spotlight part of the Slammy video.

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Love this so much. HEATH SLATER BABY!!!

Man, Heath could be a decent heel. And not a comical one, but i mean like a legit heel.

Damn, genuinely thought that was gonna be a serious, shoot-style interview with Slater commenting on his status as #8, but how silly of me to think it wouldn't have be overflowing with scripted WWE unfunny nonsense.

Old School WSM.

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