The issue is that Cruiser wrestling has never been something that Vince cares for. The division to be handed to someone that has a passion for that type of wrestling and a creative business mind for making it something unique.

Because the very real issue of concussions and head injuries probably shouldn't be taken lightly and used as a sotryline in an industry where a whole shitload of people have gotten CTE and killed themselves.

Shibata's involvement in the death of Masakazu Fukuda makes me think there's no way he would go along with this being a work. And if he did go along with it he probably wasn't too comfortable with it, much as I'm sure Charlotte would've preferred to not use her brother's death in a storyline.

I'd rather it be a tasteless work than never see Shibata wrestle again, but I doubt that is the case.

That's Shibata's acting, not real. Hit himself just hard enough to cut, he knew what he was doing.

My evidence? No faltering of the knees and his eyes look totally normal.

Filling in the colored commentator role. :roll:

Why WWE is so predictable... :roll::roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

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The "unconcious" Big Show saying "careful" at the 4 minute mark. :lol:

Thinking of going to the House of Hardcore show in Metuchen nj next Friday. Bully Ray vs Sami Callahan and Matt hardy vs Tommy Dreamer street fight..

A belt maker for the WWE recently hinted the WWE still has plans of giving the blue treatment for the WWE title soon so it matches the brand split designs and colors done to other belts.

So, I got to see parts of the Young Bucks vs. Briscoes match from Destruction in Hiroshima, through NJPW.

I was willing to give the Bucks the benefit of the doubt. Granted, their style is highly choreographed and you have to sift through a bunch of shit to get to their greatness. But, they do have some great spots in them. And they're tremendous athletes. It's just not for me.

However, two spots happened that were so unbelievably stupid that no, I can't give them the benefit of the doubt.

1. They had one of the Briscoes up for the Tombstone and the other guy was on the apron, setting up for the Meltzer Driver. The guy on the apron got pulled off by the other Briscoe. So, does other Jackson just give his opponent the Tombstone anyway, because fuck it, he's already set up? NO! He fucking tosses the guy to the ground. That was absolutely the stupidest thing I had ever seen. So yeah, there was a reason why I dismiss them as the Dumb Fucks half the time.

2. The match ended with a Doomsday Device on one of the Jacksons. That part was fine. The part that wasn't fine was, before the finish takes place, Dumb Fuck decides to spit at the Briscoe on top and give him the birds. I get being defiant til the end, but all I could think was "If he did that to Hawk, he'd be dead." He wants to be seen as a bad ass, but that was probably the worst place to do it.

I've never understood this kinda stuff. People condemn backyard wrestlers but then worship all these strong-style Japanese guys? Don't get me wrong, a lot of Japanese wrestlers are fantastic workers, and certainly a lot more legit than any 15 year-old in his garden, but beating the shit out of each other for real... what's the point?

That headbutt is reckless, pointless and dangerous. No idea about the context behind this gif, who the guys are, if he is known to do this often or whatever, but if that's the case then he deserves every concussion he has coming his way.

That's Shibata and supposedly the headbutt he gave ended his career.

Aw okay admittedly I didn't read any comments or anything prior to seeing that gif, just having read from the top of the page, is it something he did regularly? I mean if it was a one-off (albeit an incredibly stupid idea), then I guess it's a shame for him if his career is over. Although if it's something he does in most matches, then fuck it, serves him right.

Either way, my original comments on the Japanese strong-style "let's beat the shit out of each other for real" style still stands.

He's always doing it and it's a bit of a shame, because he's ducking awesome without it already.

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Thats a big lad, though kinda doubting the 8 feet and 50 stone (700 lbs). :o

That's haram.

^Islam are Whackjobs anyway.

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That match sucks so bad.

Khali any day

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Meltzer on Shibata:

:(

:fu:

Khali Wrestles like Old people Fuck.










With the assistance of a shitload of Pain Killers. :shifty:

Yeah but that giant wrestles like Khali the day before he dies.

LOL. Love Dave.

Seems like the WWE actually did decide against signing Shelton Benjamin to a deal.

Benjamin got medically cleared recently to return to the ring but the sheets were reporting the WWE pulled the original offer from the table. Also no news since then if talks were ever resumed between the sides.

So i guess there IS stopping him now

That sucks. He would have been great on Smackdown.

Mauro teased on Twitter he still wants to continue his career as a wrestling announcer even after dealing with personal problems in the WWE.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You should! Join me for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BertoPorter?src=hash">#BertoPorter</a> Saturday on <a href="https://twitter.com/ShowtimeBoxing">@ShowtimeBoxing</a> &amp; you best believe I'll be calling PRO WRESTLING again too.�� <a href="https://t.co/qARspI94Db">https://t.co/qARspI94Db</a></p>&mdash; Mauro Ranallo (@mauroranallo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mauroranallo/status/853728890010779648">April 16, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Racist Benjamin was the best.

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:nono:

WWE always doing some shameful shit.

pope won't bully him