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Also, the death of Reid Flair is deeply troubly. I normally don't post on wrestling deaths because there's just so many and it's really depressing, but Reid was just so fucking young. It also makes me worry about Ric Flair's health. Just a totally shit situation.

WrestleMania would be a good time to debut new theme music from a respected Mexican rock group for Del Rio, or something, since he's now "The Pride of Mexico" in a babyface sense.

It could help get people south of the border buzzing about him. "Did you hear such and such did Alberto Del Rio's new theme song? And then that piece of shit Dolph Ziggler cashed in Money in the Bank on him!"

Hate the remix theme. His Face Turn is now ruined forever.

In other news:

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Unknown to most people....Vergil was the one trying to sell the carrots.

"WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COMPANY?" should become the new "DAMN!"

That is amazing.

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Would love for Steve Blackman to be hired as someone's trainer. Could really work for Dolph Ziggler or something.

Busted open on XM radio, someone I think called in with the 2nd most Cena rock finish..Cena wins and they're about to hug in the ring when the shield hits which gives extreme rules is main event In Cena/rock vs the Shield

Meh

I think I've suggested that on here, and I would love to see it. A great way to put over three of the youngest guys on the WWE roster.

Only they wouldn't be put over, unless you mean made to look really badass while still doing the j0b.

I don't think that would sit well as the final image that closes Mania - which is why it would be great. They could do the same thing on the following Raw to setup a match at Extreme Rules but it'd have nowhere near as much impact.

Someone suggested orton's heel turn goes back to his legend killer days and he'd face the rock at extreme rules to take him out so he can go do movies..builds orton up for the summer..

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The old one was so much better.

cena/rock tag team was "never before, never again" though. some might even call it once in a lifetime.

No. It's a Raw finish. There's no "oomph" to it. The Shield have already attacked Rock and Cena multiple times. It's not how you end the biggest night of the year. It's how you end a random episode of Raw.

The only way The Shield can get involved and it making sense is either it leads to Cena's heel turn (which means they don't attack Cena) or someone like Orton becomes the boss of the Shield. That would give an easy setup for a potential Cena-Orton feud for the title after the Rock leaves.

Also lets Cena & Rock get an easy win similar to what they did to Miz and Truth without it being a "Nexus"-damaging moment and treat that as another "throw-a-way" match like Cena had the first time with the group.

There's no "oomph" to it? I get you don't like the idea, but just say that. There would be plenty of "oomph" behind it.

Imagine this:

The Rock and John Cena wrestle the match you expect them to. Actually, they don't -- I have a feeling that Cena, in both reality and in the sense of his kayfabe character, is going to step things up and pull out things we've never seen before. Perhaps we see Cena come off the top rope with a splash, maybe he pulls out a Spear, and maybe we even see him dip into the move set of other wrestlers. It'd send the internet into a frenzy if we saw Cena pull out stuff from Japan.

Anyway, eventually Cena manages to get like a third Attitude Adjustment on The Rock and pins him. Or maybe even it's the STF that forces The Rock to tap out. Either way, Cena is an eleven-time WWE Champion. Some fans are cheering, some fans are booing (because that's still cool and all). Cena celebrates with his new WWE Championship as The Rock gets up, wipes the sweat from his stunned faced, and then gets to his feet as he and Cena lock eyes. Cena's music stops. The fans start cheering, chanting "Rocky!" or "Cena sucks!" or "Cena!" or "One More Match!" or whatever they want. Cena extends his hand to The People's Champion. The Rock looks around to the people. Some cheer. Some boo. The Rock, with his typical Rock intensity starts to psyche himself up. "They're gonna fight!" - JBL

The Rock then puts his hand in Cena's and hugs the WWE Champion in a "Thanks for the WrestleMania moment" fashion. The fans that wanted to see them fight boo, the ones that wanted to see them shake hands cheer. The Rock goes to leave and give Cena his moment, Cena then stops The Rock and tells him to pose on the top rope for his fans. The Rock proceeds to think about it and then does so. Cena poses as well and they compare cheers. Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler & JBL talk about how great this WrestleMania has been when BAM! Ambrose, Reigns & Rollins -- having defeated Randy Orton, Sheamus & Big Show earlier in the evening -- are suddenly in the ring, beating the crap out of Cena and Rock.

The fans would be in a frenzy. The fans that hated the "bro moment" are happy that there are some bad-asses there kicking up a storm; the fans that loved it are absolutely shocked their heroes' moment has been ruined. The Shield lays out both Cena and Rock with the Triple Powerbomb. Dean Ambrose then picks up the WWE Championship and admires himself in it. The three men pose, having stolen the WrestleMania moment (it's about them making a name for themselves), when a selection of the babyface roster (Big Show, Daniel Bryan, Kane, Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, Zack Ryder, The Uso's, even Curt Hawkins, etc.) run down to the ring, directed by Brad Maddox and accompanied by Booker T.

The face roster stands in the ring as Ambrose, Reigns & Rollins jump through the crowd -- Ambrose still holding the WWE Championship. WrestleMania closes with the babyfaces standing in the ring tending to the two fallen mega-stars, getting their own moment, as the villains run off with the rightful possession of John Cena.

How does that not direct people to watch RAW the following night? None of the content of Rock vs. Cena changes -- you get the exact same match -- but you also have a story for both of them, and a reason for the fans to fork down money to see two of the biggest babyfaces in WWE history team up to take on The Shield at Extreme Rules in an all-out war. And there the numbers advantage can lead to The Shield getting the victory over Cena & Rock, beating them because Cena & Rock want to prove that they don't need anyone else -- The Shield have become "their problem."

It would make sense because Ambrose, Reigns & Rollins are three guys that want the spotlight on them. Why wouldn't they attack the two biggest stars in WWE after they had just wrestled a gruelling match against each other at the biggest show of the year?

Randy Orton could turn heel during the Six-Man Tag Team Match and get the hell out of town before Sheamus & Big Show get their hands on him. The Shield would win that match, and that betrayal by Orton would have allowed The Shield to get away and crash the main event. So even without aligning with The Shield, Orton is still partially responsible for what happens to The Rock and Cena after the main event if it goes down.

If you did have Cena beat The Rock, you could have The Rock go to the back and be the only one attacked. You could have Cena celebrating in the ring as it happens and rush to the back to chase The Shield off. The attack could even happen off-camera and be a WWE.com exclusive feature of "What happened after WrestleMania went off the air?" which would be a huge gamble, but seems like something the WWE could do to try and get their online and exclusive features going. The Rock could take time off while Cena promises us that he would be back in time for Extreme Rules.

the shield already fixed "the john cena problem" when they pinned ryback in a 6-man tag at elimination chamber, though.

at least that's the terrible narrative the writers delivered. leading up to EC: "we're going to put an end to all that john cena stands for" - they win that match, then they never mention cena again as he goes right on ahead to headline his 9th consecutive wrestlemania. good job shield, good effort.

It's not just an "I don't like it" factor. I just explained why there's no "oomph" to it. It's a Raw ending. Not an ending to the biggest show of the year. Do it the next night on Raw, whatever. You don't end the biggest show of the year with a repetition of something that's been worn out on free TV already.

That's why there's no "oomph". Like Smelly Meatball said, have Cena turn and join them, THAT'S a different story. That's huge.

And on a personal note, "OMG SHIELD ATTACKED THESE RANDOM MAIN EVENTERS! FEUD TIME!" has gotten boring already. They aren't "fixing injustices" like it was supposed to be. They're generic heel stable attacking faces for the sake of attacking them #393.

Daniel Bryan is my favorite wrestler because of this.

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The Shield need no leader. I completely disagree with your summation that it's a "RAW ending." I couldn't disagree more. WrestleMania hasn't ended in chaos for years -- it'd be the appropriate time to do it this year.

I love Antonio Cesaro so fucking much. He got to show what a charismatic and likeable guy he could potentially be in this video, which makes me believe that he puts far more work into being a heel on WWE television than we give him credit for, considering I just can't imagine him turning face at all.

Bought a ticket to the Chikara wrestlecon show that Saturday at 4. Mainly because I've seen enough to know it'll be fun but I'd probably never go out of my way to see one if their shows. Plus its almost sold out. Anyway..

I really wish Harley Race would go to a Chikara show and beat the fuck out of all of them.

To throw in my $0.02 about this whole ending to Wrestlemania scenario, I seriously don't think ending the biggest show of the year with guys like the Usos, Zack Ryder and Justin Gabriel in the ring is what people wanna see.

I would love to see that. It'd be fresh and new and honestly, it would give me hope that the guys are given somethin interesting to do.

Lol wtf

holy shit that gif is amazing

See, if Blackman came back for only backstage segments, shit would be golden.

Think I might start chronicling my girlfriend's thoughts on wrestling. She's kinda picking it up when I'm watching it.

She was a big fan of Punk, but is "disappointed" with him after his heel turn. So, congrats WWE, you're writing works on the uninitiated.

She likes Cena. So, congrats again. Hitting that demographic.

She's not a fan of The Rock. He is "big-headed" and "arrogant". She doesn't like how he refers to himself in the third-person and his teeth are "too white".

You need to lay the smackdown on her candy ass. (If you aren't already, BIG DOG™!! :naughty:)

Fandango - He's a "bit of a knob". Likes his music though.

Wade Barrett - "Pompous twat" reminds her of "everything she hates about England". Guess she's not very patriotic.

More on Cena - She likes his character and how he hasn't whined about losing to The Rock, how he has got back up to fight again.

I actually like Noid's idea because it happens after the match, thereby avoiding the conundrum of a screwjob. The Shield feuding with Rock and Cena would bring them to another level.

Aha, I believe Brad Cain aka Lodi might be this guy! Remove Lodi's grey beard, and does he look similar?
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Since this is someone that you care about, I will withhold my commentary. :y: It's not like it would matter to you anyway, but still.

And Roman Reigns is related to The Rock so that would be kind of cooooool

That was on January 10 in the exclusive and elusive VIP Forum. I know rasslin.

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Feel free.

"Non-wrestling fan reacts to the show in the exact way that she should shocker."

Except maybe not liking The Rock, but she has a point.

I feel like the WWE title hasn't been taking it's job seriously the last 2 months and has missed too many dates, I'm looking forward to it returning to Raw on a weekly basis, even if that means John Cena is it's manager.

Jerry Lawler has opened a wrestling museum in Memphis

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(Memphis) Move over Elvis, there’s another king setting up shop in Memphis.

Jerry “The King” Lawler is opening a wrestling museum with all the memories and things he’s collected over his career.

The original idea was for Lawler to bring some of his wrestling memorabilia and put it on display at Wynn Automotive, but it turned into a full-fledged museum.

“In May of 1988, I won the AWA World Heavy Weight Championship,” said Lawler, as he showed News Channel 3 his championship belt.

He has collected a lot of memories during his 43 years as the king of professional wrestling, like taking on Actor Andy Kaufman in the ring.

“That was probably the highlight of my career and maybe one of the most famous matches in wrestling history,” said Lawler.

There is plenty more to see, like the king’s ring costumes, as well as articles, even some of Lawler’s published artwork. Lawler says it’s a place for people who grew up watching Memphis wrestling.

“This is just the spot where some people can come and relieve some of the memories,” he said. “We have classic matches going on the TV here all the time and will see a lot of things that will bring back a lot of memories to them.”

The wrestling museum is free of charge to walk through it.

There are things like autographed pictures available for sale.

As people come from all over the world for one king, they can now carve out some time for another.

“There is a lot of stuff, you could spend a lot of time in here, so if you’re really a wrestling fan or a Jerry Lawler fan, there is a lot to see,” Lawler said.
The museum, located at 1831 Getwell Road, will have its grand opening Saturday, March 30th at 9:00am.

Lawler will be at the museum from 1:00p-4:00p.

After that, the museum will be open Monday through Saturday 9:00a to 6:00p.

Don't know why people are hating on this theme. I for one actually am enjoying it fairly well compared to the old one. Fits a face more then his previous version.

not seen it/only flicked through it myself but it seems that somebody basically created their own "documentary" about Flair's first few months working for Vince, looks great

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The Maivia Family and the Anoi'a family are not really related per se. They are connected through a Blood Brother relationship.

lol

:lol: at the comments

I just saw an idea somewhere in my wrestling column foraging -- this writer suggested that when 3MB implodes, Jinder Mahal goes on to become the benefactor of The Prime Time Players -- literally giving them "Millions of Dollars" to serve as his entourage. That could actually be a kind of cool thing for Mahal to do. I could also see a heel Ted DiBiase doing that.

Wow, that was pretty fucking awesome. Props to whoever put that together.

That Flair promo after the 92 Rumble still gives me goosebumps just like it did 21 years ago. I LOVE IT

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They're still cousins...

How? Distant blood relationship?

Think its a mixture of them bonding as "blood brothers" at first then later the Anoa'i family added them as official part of their own family tree which is how Rikishi can claim to be a cousin of the Rock.

If he was really family, Roman Reigns would run over John Cena for The Rock.

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This.

Loved invincible, no-selling Goldberg so much. And pretty much all the other times it happened with Sting, Hogan, Kane etc. Need Ryback to be like that at times.

Would have been amazing if La Parka didn't turn around. If he just kinda knew he was screwed so quickly threw a dance shuffle in there coz he knew it's all he could do before being annihilated.

<font color=goldenrod>So Charlie Haas either quit ROH or was fired abruptly last night. That or it's a very elaborate worked shoot:</font>

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lolll

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Daryl needs to hit a zombie with a diamond cutter.

He posted that he is retiring on twitter. Whether or not he got fired or quit remains a question.

Too bad. Not that I was watching it, but I hear he was doing good stuff in ROH.

In honor of Charlie Haas losing his shit and retiring last night, let's remember some of his classic moments.

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You know, looking back at my tributes for New Jack and Jack Doan, I don't think I'm very good at this.

I'd assume Bray Wyatt will be one of the call-ups since he's been doing dark matches recently. Would love to see Harper & Rowan joining him but they might be further along.

I can also see Richie Steamboat coming up soon.

I hope it's exactly these two.

Today is the 28th anniversary of the first WrestleMania.

And oddly enough in one week WWE will present the 29th anniversary of WrestleMania.

Leo Kruger has been working dark matches for much longer now.

Think Ohno is a lock considering the praise he's been getting recently and his NXT stuff is basically done now.

The other call-up is rumored to only be because of the WWE quickly realized they called up Bo Dallas way too early and had no interest in being committed to a long term Dallas-Barret feud.

I'd mark.

Yo Jimmy Steele: http://www.charitybuzz.com/categorie...440185?ref=116

BRB. Gotta go rob a bank...

Bonus points if it went down with the following dialogue:

"In nomine Patris et Filii..." [BANG!] "...et Spiritus Sancti." as he gets up and brushes biter goo off his jacket.

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YOU LOOKIN' AT THE REAL DEAL NOW

gonna kick your sorry ass out on the street

Why does D'Lo look spastic?

Looks like a tit to his right. What the h is that?

Looks like a butternut squash.