Roman wins.

lmao raised over $1,200 in 12 minutes

Just tuned in and saw the title screen still. I'm imagining a Heath Slater vs Curt Hawkins match happening off screen though.

Yeah because they read off the donation messages, it's gone nuts so they're trying to rattle through some before the match.

They're above $1.5k now though and no matches. #FuckCancer

Starting with SVR09

So there's 900 people playing?

Nah, it's all CPU controlled.

So what if UnderTaker wins all the WWE matches?

How do they enter the wrestler who wins the ECW rumble?

Create a wrestler... Which will be needed because Lance Cade wins! The final 3 were Shad, HHH and Lance Cade

I heard Droford bet $500 on Trevor Murdoch winning the first one. He cannot be pleased.

...Bradshaw wins Shut Your Mouth, beating Hurricane last. Raised $7k so far

WWE barely gave Murdoch a chance on SD! before (IIRC) he was gone and in TNA as Jethro Holiday or something like that.

I mean, I'm not saying he would've ever been ME material, but he could've been very solid in the midcard.

EDIT: Nice. WP says he lives in Holland, MI.

Already 50% of the goal in less than hour and a half. Holy shit.

Steve Blackman wins Smackdown 1! The boyhood dream!

Rumor going around the net involves the WWE being way behind schedule on another set of new belts being made. Supposed reason is them having just 1 beltmaker make all the new belts. Tag belts still rumored to be getting the side plate treatment.

Also WWE really did have plans for a title reign for Eva Marie at some point since they had her side plates done while she was training with Kendrick.

Simon Diamond wins. What an all star cast for the Royaliest of Rumbles we have.

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Great now every belt can look the same.

10k

Tanaka somehow cheating during the ECW rumble was hilarious. That and everyone being really fat for the match.

Are they going in order? They're already on a rumble with Daniel Bryan, Bray Wyatt, etc. Seems early.

Wait. Random Andre?? lol

They randomize the order of Rumbles

I can't watch this on my laptop :( it just won't load. Have all the most recent browsers and plug ins too.

Can watch on my phone but it'll drain my battery in record time.

If Andre wins this, this could be a very lopsided final rumble.

Random draws for the order of the games.

lol Cesaro and Bo Dallas alone in the ring when number 30 comes out... Brock Lesnar.

Bo vs Brock showdown!!!

DO YOU BO-LIEVE IN MIRACLES!?!?!

Damn. This is actually great drama. lol

Bo wins! lol

Wrestling games are ridiculous.

BO DALLAS BEATS BROCK TO WIN 2K15 IN AN AMAZING FINAL

BO-LIEVE!!!

I haven't played wrestling games so maybe I'm just not used to how predictable the animations might be... but that was legitimately a really fucking good final two. When Bo dropkicked Brock over the top I actually thought it was over. Brock holding on and sliding back under the bottom rope looked amazing. Fucking drama. lol

Yeah, the dropkick animation is actually good because it can go either way. There are a few sweet animations, but they just don't change them often enough.

Road to WM X8 for GBA is next D:

Haha is that so? not surprised. Wonder how many former champs will actually be in the rumble.

lol Test about to win this one from #1.

Test wins from #1!

Holy shit domination by Test on the Game Boy.

Smackdown 2 next

Know Your Role coming up

This should have its own thread. Seems real interesting and some crazy winners.

Michael Cole is Standing Tall!

Yeah you're probably right. Didn't think it would get much traction

http://tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=133771

Taka wins!

FUCK YOU!

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Going to Progress tonight. I can't remember the last time I was this excited to go to a wrestling show live.

I'm hearing rumblings that Pete Dunne was injured last night, but no concrete stories. He took a legit belt shot from his opponent and had to go to hospital from what I've heard.

Likely to still be wrestling for PROGRESS tonight though.

EDIT: Or maybe not according to PWInsider. WWE are considering pulling him.

Well shit

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His new theme and tron are a dumpster fire

Dunno why they would change it

Confirmed to be out. He'll be appearing at the shows, but needed 11 stitches so he's not medically appeared to compete.

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That's really disappointing. Thankfully the card is still incredibly stacked. I can't wait to see janela and havoc, even with the shitty ny athletic commission rules.

I do wonder who they're gonna have Gallagher wrestle though. I'd love it to be Keith Lee since he's already wrestling on the evolve card.

Fred Yehi would also be awesome.

Fuck me, whatever rookie Pete Dunne was wrestling decided to give him a pedigree on the belt but didn't release his arms, so just sent him face first into metal.

The dude has a history of injuring people and is also a giant piece of shit. It boggles my mind how he gets booked at all.

It's almost as if wwe should pay better attention to their talent is working with. First hideo, now this. Stop putting your talent with green as grass fucktwats.

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The impact sounded pretty bad. Fuck!

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According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, WWE doesn't want Jon Jones at ringside for SummerSlam. They don't want any media attention from SummerSlam to be about him nor want anything to distract from the Universal title match..

Jones and Lesnar have been teasing at a possible MMA match in the future with Jones going as far as saying he'd be interested in making an appearance for the WWE.

That is utterly retarded.

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My favourite match of all time. Give it a shot. I guarantee you'll like it. And yes Captain Redneck Dick Murdoch is yelling at the black ring announcer Mel Phillips because he was taking his jacket.

The worst thing about that Pete Dunne video is how he's taking a Pedigree onto a title belt and still kicking out at two. :nono:

Only way it makes sense is if they are thinking Brock is going to leave.

Watch it be just because they don't want to take the shine off a Roman win....

Seems insane to me for some reason that Rick Rude was only in the WWF for around 3 years.

because everything he did for the most part meant something so it seemed like he was integral part of wwf for a long time. Versus now where the landscape "changes" once a month.

Is there a Rick Rude collection on the network? Feel like I should actually watch some of his stuff.

Or what can youse recommend?

The first and only match I have seen of this Kenny Omega guy that everyone is pulling their penises over was a match where he was fighting a little girl.

(This is not an invitation to tell me matches to watch, or post matches to watch, because telling you now that I will not watch them)

What?

Seemed pretty self explanatory.....

Pretty sure the penis-pulling over the Omega vs Okada matches is rampant on the internet...

I've seen a segment of the match v the little girl, it was pretty cool. It was also meant to be a private showing that got leaked.

Oh, ok. Sorry. Upon re-reading my post, I seem to have forgotten a few words. I will go edit it now to make sense.

To be clear:

The penis-pulling is over Kenny Omega in general.

The first and only match I have seen from him is him vs. a little girl.

I don't think I want to know what kind of a private showing that was........

lol girl was a member of dojo/wrestling school or whatever, was a showing for parents and members of said dojo I believe.

Oh, ok. I was imagining a bunch of Japanese businessmen in suits.

I know what you were imagining you sick fuck. Probably an octopus involved for some reason

He's the only guy besides Savage that got good matches out of the Warrior. They wrestled at WM5, Summerslam 89 and Summerslam 90 (which was a cage match).

Hi work with Jake the Snake was great too. They wrestled at Saturday Night's Main Event on 10/25/88 and as part of the WMIV title tournament.

Also according to Meltz he wrestled Ricky Steamboat at Rumble 88 in a match that only earned 2 stars somehow.

He wrestled Flair, Steamboat, and Sting a bunch in WCW, but I havent seen those matches so I cant really testify to their quality.

His wwf matches with steamboat were all boring because methinks steamer kinda stopped trying with one foot out the door. Lots of extended armbars, headlocks, and chinlocks.

His Iron Man match with Steamboat in WCW was one of my favorite matches as a kid.

Thanks, dudes. Now I have a place to start

Meltzer shit all over Rude when he first entered the WWF saying basically that he'd never amount to anything

His WCW stuff is miles better than his WWF stuff, although I find Rude to be ridiculously over-rated

Really liked the feud he had with Roberts in the WWF and might have been around the first or earliest memories I have of watching him.

Their Wrestlemania 4 match was horrendous

Most roberts mania matches stank

The crowd dug the Blindfold match even though it was fairly terrible.

I loved the blindfold match

it worked. Most of his matches at mania still stank though

Here's a controversial take: Does a big match have to be "Good?"

Honestly, I think the answer is no. A match can be "bad" if the purpose of the match is to accomplish something. And, if anything, a "bad" match can easily make "Good" matches that much better. If all the matches are "Good," then none of them are. I think if the conclusion is satisfactory, that's all that's needed.

Side note: Rude really hit his stride in WCW. He was the top heel at various points, I'd argue that he was a bigger heel than Vader.

a match is good if it works.

If the match accomplishes its purpose well, I'd say it was a good match.