Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 (Post 4800962)

Gotta say I think Austin nailed it on his take of the mania main event.

Originally Posted by Droford (Post 4800933)

Hard to believe there's never been a wrestler from Wyoming

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4800967)

Honestly if it was more or less a "dramatic squash" that would have been better. Though in defense of the match, there weren't many opportunities to showcase old school wrestling and it was so refreshing to watch Triple H, he was by far the best wrestler on the show.

Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 (Post 4800991)

I thought H did fine in the match and don't think it was terrible. But a 15 minute brawl with Reigns controlling the match at a 60/40 clip would've been better suited.

Originally Posted by Big Vic (Post 4801107)

Jeff Laboon is not a fan.

Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 4801127)

Jesus christ @ adam rose. Posting that was incredibly stupid.

How about just sucking it up and dealing with it internally, so you can keep your job and provide better for your family. Should be worried more about your children's future, than their opinion of you. What is he going to do when his kids ask about it? "Oh go look on the internet son. I made a post about it back in 2016." If your kid adks about it later down the road, why not just talk to your kid about it, you stupid fuck.

God, fucking idiot.

Originally Posted by Observer

Evolve has announced most of their lineup for Evolve 60 for May 6th in Joppa, MD. Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr., tag champions Drew Gulak & Tracy Williams vs. TJ Perkins & Fred Ye, Lio Rush vs. Caleb Konley, Matt Riddle vs. Anthony Nese, Drew Galloway vs. Ethan Page, Johnny Gargano vs. Marty Scurll, and more have been announced. The tag match will have implications for the WWE Global Cruiserweight tourney qualifier the next night in Queens, NY.

Originally Posted by Sports Illustrated

Roberts, who has gained some notoriety of late thanks to the success of his documentary, “The Resurrection of Jake the Snake,” spoke to SI about the state of the WWE, and more specifically, champion Roman Reigns.

“They’re shoving Roman down everybody’s throat, and that’s not working too well," said Roberts. "It’s a shame, because he’s a great athlete and a great guy, but they went at it the wrong way.”

Roberts sees overflowing potential with Reigns, but wishes the WWE champion would add another element to his promos and work in the ring. Unfortunately, Roberts is unlikely to have the opportunity to work with him.

“It doesn’t look like I’m going to get the opportunity to help any of these guys, though I wish I would,” said Roberts. “I’m more than available, but they’ve got their little formula they want to stick with.

“If they did bring me back, I’ll be the first to say, I’d probably do something really stupid and piss everybody off. I’m really stuck on the way I believe, so if someone wasn’t listening to me, I’d probably give him a, ‘What if?’ and throw something out there that would get a charge out of everybody.

Originally Posted by Observer

There is a behind-the-scenes mind set in the WWF right now regarding HHH, that he may have gotten as far as he can as far as moving up the ladder and doesn't have the working ability and attitude to past those higher on the ladder. There is a feeling the guys on top, such as Austin and Undertaker, would have been back for Survivor Series, for instance, with the same knee injury, and even that X-Pac, who is limited somewhat by size but is the best worker in the ring in the company, may have already surpassed HHH as the singles star of the DX group even though HHH is both bigger in a promotion where that usually matters a lot, and the stronger interview. However, it's doubtful HHH would leave WWF, based not only on comments he's made, but because friends of his in WCW who are making huge money, far more than he'll likely be offered if WCW sends him an offer, are always claiming to be miserable and wanting to get out when their contracts are up.

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan (Post 4801051)

This will be an unpopular opinion but... I seriously think a quick, Warrior-esque squash (but more brutal. Maybe closer to Lesnar demolishing Cena) would have been perfect.

First, I don't think a lot of people really cared about seeing the "war" WWE was building it up to be. Secondly, it would have made Reigns look like a beast instead of an underdog which is exactly what they should have been going for all along. Thirdly, no one would have seen it coming and I feel like the crowd would have actually been into Reigns at the end. And fourthly... it would have been hilarious.

Seriously, imagine Stephanie cutting that intense promo, the match starting, and Reigns just demolishing Triple H in a few minutes. lol

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4800963)

Wouldn't it be cool if WWE decided to try something other than an on screen authority character. At least one that doesn't appear on TV often like Jack Tunney.

Originally Posted by Gerard (Post 4801026)

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The hebner triple h segment is pretty good. :lol:

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4800883)

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Uhhh..........has Shane McMahon ended the PG era?

Originally Posted by Observer

Wyatt was injured on the first night of the European tour on 4/14 in Milan ... He suffered an undisclosed calf injury and the severity was not released, but he was pulled from the rest of the tour. The WWE largely kept everything quiet but the word going around on tour was it was a pulled muscle and he’d be out four to six weeks, so it’s not nearly as bad as first feared.

Originally Posted by Observer

Steve Austin suffered a torn rotator cuff, some of that taking place at WrestleMania. Jim Ross wrote on the subject that Austin had injured the shoulder prior to Mania and then the injured rotator cuff had a complete tear from his first punch to Rusev in the brawl

Originally Posted by Observer

Kofi Kingston flew home from the WWE tour yesterday as his wife is expecting the second child any day now.

Originally Posted by Observer

The Asbury Park Press reported that the death of Jon "Balls Mahoney" Rechner does not have a cause of death and it could take a few months for all the reports to be done, which means there is no cause pending toxicology test results. The coroner reported no suspicious behavior, which means ruling out foul play of any kind, which was never suspected in the first place.

Originally Posted by Rolling Stones

"I'm a 38-year-old man," he says. "I'd much rather it be a program geared toward me, whether that's TV-14 or sometimes even more graphic than that, which is what I like. For one thing, profanity brought fire out of people with personalities that backed the language. It's very difficult to say, 'Oh, you're being poopy,' especially when they're meant to be fighting words. And now, if someone starts to bleed, the referee intervenes to stop the bleeding. But before, you'd just let it fly. Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore. Vince has been a coach to me, a father figure, a boss and a friend, and his goal and my goal are the same: to make the company be as big as it can be. But, yeah, the blood is one thing I miss."

Originally Posted by 411Mania

David Johnson is the CEO of Aroluxe, he started his career with Sinclair Broadcasting Company (the parent company of ROH); former WWE, WCW and TNA performers Ron and Don Harris are also employees of the company. They started doing production work with TNA last year. What may be a cause of concern if Aroluxe takes over is that they reported a revenue of only $2 million for 2015.

Dixie Carter has been looking for different investors, reportedly going to international television partners such as Sony Six in India, Challenge TV in the U.K. and The Fight Network in Canada with proposals of selling 10 percent to each entity with the idea they would help fund the company. There were no takers.

Carter is still looking for a deal with a different company, which would provide funding, but allow her to maintain control of the company.

Originally Posted by Observer

One thing notable is that the TNA television show has been pretty much devoid of graphics of late because the graphics were handled by an outside company that is no longer working with them.

Originally Posted by Observer

Will Ospreay has already been offered a regular contract which would make him just about the quickest guy without an international name to get one. He got the offer after one match with the promotion. He’s probably being tugged in different directions. In his case, it’s really Japan and WWE that would be the directions. If WWE really wants him and makes a big offer they’ll get him. WWE usually offers guys of his level a lot less than they make on the indies. The feeling is they’ll come at the low number starting out because there’s more of a shot at the high number down the line. It’s essentially the same deal as Ricochet, who on paper can make far more with the new offer he got from Lucha Underground, which would allow him to work New Japan as well as indies, but WWE is still WWE. For Ospreay, the advantage is he can live in the U.K. if he wants to with New Japan, but would have to move to Florida for WWE. That kept Finn Balor for years from making the move.

Originally Posted by Observer

There were two incidents at the WrestleCon indie convention in Dallas during WrestleMania 32 weekend - one involving Karen Jarrett and Lucha Underground's Melissa Santos, the other involving former WWE talent Stacy "The Kat" Carter and Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard.

No word on what caused the incident between Tessa, who recently appeared on WWE NXT TV against Nia Jax, and Carter, Jerry Lawler's ex-wife but it had something to do with Carter telling Tessa she wasn't showing respect. Word is that the argument would've ended in a fight but Tessa's boyfriend Ricochet stepped in as the peacemaker.

Santos was complaining about not having a chair to sit in and somehow Karen, who was criticized by many in attendance, spat on her, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This led to an argument and observers thought they were about to come to blows but things calmed down.

Originally Posted by Observer

The announcement on 4/18 of The Fight Network in Canada picking up ROH is the first deal closed among many current negotiations to expand the pro wrestling content on the station.

The Fight Network is currently in talks with AXS TV regarding the Canadian rights to New Japan Pro Wrestling’s broadcasts with Jim Ross and Josh Barnett as announcers; as well as with CMLL in Mexico, ICW in Scotland and Progress Wrestling in England about adding to their pro wrestling lineups.

Originally Posted by Observer

Nobody knows what will happen with TV rights fees in a few years when WWE’s contract with USA next comes due, past the feeling secondary sports may have trouble because primary sports will get first dibs on money. There are those who think even sports like the NBA could be in trouble and get a big downgrade when its new deal is up. But people predicting sports rights fees will burst have constantly been wrong but there are signs that things can’t keep going like they are. Fewer people have cable and the cable companies have less revenue to spend.

However, even with the big decline in WWE ratings, their value to USA is stronger than ever one could argue because USA no longer has the kind of hit programming that made the network No. 1 for so many years. At one point, USA could have lost WWE and still remained No. 1 on cable. But now, for the week after WrestleMania, USA Network was No. 3 in the prime time rankings (it was No. 5 the week before). If you remove Raw and Smackdown, they would fall all the way to 11th place (removing WWE they would have been in 13th place the week before).

In 2005, when USA made the deal to bring Raw back, they didn’t want any other wrestling shows but Raw because they didn’t want to be known as the wrestling network. Now they are clearly a falling network that is being carried by wrestling. But WWE also needs them, because as the last negotiations showed, nobody else was willing to spend big money to get WWE programming. The problem is that if numbers that are out are correct, which indicate USA Network getting about $90 million per year in ad revenue sales off Raw and Smackdown combined, and them paying about $150 million for the rights, that isn’t the best of math.

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4801569)

Just thought about the idea of Joe vs Cena, it's gonna happen. It's gonna be fucking incredible.

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4801605)

Didn't Joe train Cena?

Originally Posted by Noid (Post 4801626)

Renee Young's name on Twitter is "Donkey Kong Daddy." It's not quite "Titty Master," but props to her. :y:

Originally Posted by Ultra Mantis (Post 4801720)

It's just her gamertag / nickname on Xavier Wood's youtube channel. Nothing to do with dongs.

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 4801756)

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 4801726)

Why would anyone think it has to do with dongs?

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4801863)

Nick Jackson will be the next teen to kill a child using pro wrestling moves

Originally Posted by Hollywood Hasney (Post 4801758)

Kane cut a hole int side of the box. Clever.

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4801874)

I don't really like Apolo Crews. He has that "IM SMILING SEE VINCE IM SMILING" look on his face all the time. No character. He just looks so happy to be there, so grateful. What a gimmick.

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan (Post 4801905)

Not to mention he's built like a brick shithouse and can move like a cruiserweight. Sets him apart from the rest and makes him not "just another guy". I dig it.

Originally Posted by NYTimes

A plan is underway to turn Chyna's brain over to the doctor played by Will Smith in "Concussion," the wrestler’s manager and best friend told the Daily News Friday.

"We want to donate her brain. We want to know what made Chyna tick," manager Anthony Anzaldo said.

He said lawyers reached out to him long before Chyna's death Wednesday to test her interest in joining a brain injury lawsuit against the WWE. They didn't want any part in litigation but were intrigued by the science, he said ...

Anzaldo said Chyna didn't discuss suffering concussions during her time with the WWE, but she endured physical injuries and is an interesting candidate for other reasons too, including her history with domestic violence, he said.

The pioneering pro-wrestler, born Joan Laurer, was exploring deep emotional issues in a documentary titled "The Reconstruction of Chyna" that was still in production when she was found lifeless inside her Redondo Beach apartment at age 45, Anzaldo said.

It was Anzaldo who actually found her, and he said the cameras were rolling when he walked in to check on his close friend and client, unaware that a tragedy had unfolded ...

Anzaldo said he found Chyna in her bed with two prescription bottles in the room — one for Ambien and one for an anti-anxiety medication similar to Xanax.

"There was nothing illegal. No alcohol. It was just those two prescriptions she was legally taking," he told The News. "I saw no indication of foul play, no vomit, no blood. She was just lying there peacefully. Of course she's had issues and posted things (online), but I just don't think it was intentional."

Originally Posted by Observer

In our lead story today, the death of Joanie "Chyna" Laurer is believed to be from an accidental drug overdose. The belief is that she was dead for probably 2+ days when she was found on Wednesda ynight. Nobody had seen her since Sunday, but she did tweet on Monday morning. She was surrounded by prescription medication, but there were pills left in the bottles which would seem to rule out suicide.

Originally Posted by Pro Wrestling Sheet

The multi-million dollar investment company who bought and sold Segway are in talks with TNA Wrestling to become their official partner … this according to multiple sources.

Our sources tell us one of the organizations discussing a possible partnership with TNA is Summit Strategic Investments, and the deal could be huge for the wrestling company.

SSI has a successful track record and is known for “transforming troubled assets" ...

The CEO of SSI is named Roger Brown. His brother, Jason Brown, is the CEO of Aroluxe Media … the outsourced company TNA uses to help produce Impact Wrestling.

We’re told Aroluxe Media are simply the production arm of Aroluxe Marketing — the company initially pin-pointed as a potential investor — and our sources say neither are in talks to buy a stake in TNA.

However, former WCW wrestlers Ron Harris and Don Harris do indeed work for Aroluxe Media … and we’re told if the deal between SSI/TNA goes down, they’ll likely keep their current roles.

We made multiple attempts to find out how much stake in the company Summit Strategic Investments is looking to purchase, but so far haven’t had any luck getting the answer.

Originally Posted by ROH

EIGHT-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH

BULLET CLUB (IWGP World Heavyweight Tag Team Champions G.O.D. and The Young Bucks) vs. MOTOR CITY MACHINE GUNS, REBORN MATT SYDAL, & IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA

Originally Posted by Observer

New Japan has interest in Moose for later this year because he got a cult following with the “Moose” chant when he came to Japan in February for the ROH/New Japan joint shows. They’ve been slow in announcing the card because they didn’t know, and don’t know, whether Kenny Omega and Katsuyori Shibata will be getting their U.S. working visas in time but right now they have to go with the idea they won’t

Jay White is scheduled to start in ROH as a regular late in the year. New Japan is really high on him so they are sending him to live in the U.S. for an excursion and ROH is high on him as well, so I expect he’ll be used well

Originally Posted by Observer

WWE announced Noam Dar vs. Josh Bodom as a Global Cruiserweight Series qualifying match on the Revoluton Pro Wrestling show on May 1 in London at The Cockpit.

Originally Posted by Observer

WWE 2K 17 will be filming a TV commercial and are looking for a male or female 25-50 who can look credible as a police officer in a dangerous situation, and a stung person 25-40 with training and credits. Pay is $500 per session.

Originally Posted by Observer

American Grit, which I heard radio promotion for all day Thursday, did 2.170 million viewers last night on FOX, down from week one. Of the four major networks, the show was the lowest rated in prime time by a substantial margin. In fact, Smackdown on USA beat it.

Originally Posted by Rolling Stone

Obviously, when he leaves the WWE, it'll be extremely difficult for Vince McMahon to find a replacement. For instance, he's very good with the long view. At one point, he says that, like his dad, his "life is just one big continuous dick joke," but ask him to provide a sample and he demurs. "When I'm allowed to unleash me," he says, "my humor would be grossly inappropriate to 99 percent of the WWE audience. So, it is very protected. And you're not going to see it. See, I think about every decision I make. I don't just knee-jerk."

The WWE has tried positioning new superstars over the years, but so far none of them has passed muster. And yet changes are no doubt on the way. As Cena himself says, "I've already overstayed my welcome."

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4801864)

Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 4801955)

50 matches for the hardcore dvd? 9 hours?

Seems like that kind of effort would have been better served on the AWA or WCCW dvds.

Originally Posted by Fragile X (Post 4801963)

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Would love to see Scott Hall with some kind of on screen role in WWE, so glad he's back to life.