Some of Todays Wrestling News and Rumours (Possible spoilers) ***NO CHAT***

rovert

GTR63 wrote: »

That can't be Meltzers big news it was suprising but not a big story.

It is.

And this what you get when you cross report MMA & Pro Wrestling as he does.

Anyone here that follows the games industry can tell me how badly THQ is in the ****ter? As to make it relevant to Wrestling apparently the UFC game helped bank roll the last WWE game and WWE undercard talent heavily rely on that game paycheck wise.

Charisteas

GTR63 wrote: »

That can't be Meltzers big news it was suprising but not a big story.

Sure there's rumours that Flair will be on Raw tonight.

D2D

rovert wrote: »

It is.

And this what you get when you cross report MMA & Pro Wrestling as he does.

Anyone here that follows the games industry can tell me how badly THQ is in the ****ter? As to make it relevant to Wrestling apparently the UFC game helped bank roll the last WWE game and WWE undercard talent heavily rely on that game paycheck wise.

THQ are fairly f***ed tbh. From JayK in the WWE 13 thread:

it's more of the fact that THQ are spending way too much money on promotional campaigns for games, creating hype that they cannot live up to. Red Faction: Armageddon comes to mind. They also spent a ridiculous amount of money developing the uDraw which retailers couldn't sell, and bought very expensive licences to create games for it (Spongebob Squarepants being the most expensive). Not to mention their CEO, Brian Farrell, was making $700,000 a year, which they weren't making enough money to safely pay him that. Just poor money management.

Because of this, and being that they're a publicly traded company, interest in their product have gone down and their shares have gone from about $30 to currently $.61. NASDAQ required shares to be a minimum of $1 to be listed, and they have until July 23rd to get it back up to that point, which at this rate, is seemingly impossible. THQ will be gone by next Spring unless a miracle happens.

rovert

The REAL big news today:

Vince McMahon returning to TV next week on three-hour Raw

Rjd2

Color me underwhelmed.

GTR63

WWE will be holding Shawn
Michaels Appreciation Night at
the August 6 edition of WWE
Raw in San Antonio, Texas.
Powell's POV: Hot on the heels of getting PWBoards no.1 Best Wrestler spot wwe have made a desperate attempt at a ratings grab for a upcoming Raw, beats watching a half naked middle aged man being covered in BBQ sauce.

CMpunked

GTR63 wrote: »

WWE will be holding Shawn
Michaels Appreciation Night at
the August 6 edition of WWE
Raw in San Antonio, Texas.
Powell's POV: Hot on the heels of getting PWBoards no.1 Best Wrestler spot wwe have made a desperate attempt at a ratings grab for a upcoming Raw, beats watching a half naked middle aged man being covered in BBQ sauce.

Lets have another one that conor hurley wins and see what happens.

Diabhal Beag

The spacing of paragraphs, made famous by life, has yet to catch on though.

GTR63

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

The spacing of paragraphs, made famous by life, has yet to catch on though.

Sorry there literature nazi but I copied and pasted that from on a phone cause I couldn't be bothered booting up a computer for the purpose of a joke at the expense of Raw.

Diabhal Beag

GTR63 wrote: »

Sorry there literature nazi but I copied and pasted that from a phone cause I couldn't be bothered booting up a computer for the purpose of a joke at the expense of Raw.

Ah woops. Thought that was how Powell wrote it. My apologies.

rovert

Rather not spoil the results of New Japan Best of the Super Jrs tournament for anyone so this is going unspoiled

NJPW "NJPW 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ~ BEST OF THE SUPER JR. XIX ~THE DOOR TO THE GLORY~", 06.06.2012 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,900 Fans - Super No Vacancy

1. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Tiger Mask [8] b. Hiromu Takahashi [0] (6:50) with the Avalanche-Style Double-Arm Suplex.
2. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Alex Koslov [8] b. Daisuke Sasaki [4] (10:05) with the Russian Strike.
3. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Taichi [4] b. KUSHIDA [6] (2:33) with the Taichi-Style Gedo Clutch.
4. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Jushin Thunder Liger [8] b. BUSHI [6] (7:10) with the Vertical-Drop Brainbuster.
5. Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI b. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Tama Tonga (16:37) with the Rainmaker by Okada on Naito.
6. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: Rocky Romero [6] b. Angel de Oro [8] (10:38) with the Diving Double Kneedrop.
7. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: TAKA Michinoku [6] b. Ryusuke Taguchi [8] (11:11) with the Heavy Killer No.1.
8. Best of the Super Jr. - Block B: Low Ki [14] b. Brian Kendrick [8] (10:37) with the Ki Krusher '99.
9. Best of the Super Jr. - Block A: PAC [8] b. Prince Devitt [8] (17:24) with the Shooting Star Press.

- Best of the Super Jr. Standings

Block A:
1. PAC [8]
-. Prince Devitt [8]
-. Angel de Oro [8]
-. Jushin Thunder Liger [8]
5. KUSHIDA [6]
-. BUSHI [6]
-. Rocky Romero [6]
8. Taichi [4]
9. Gedo [2]

Block B:
1. Low Ki [14] (Qualified for the semi finals)
2. Brian Kendrick [8]
-. Ryusuke Taguchi [8]
-. Alex Kozlov [8]
-. Tiger Mask [8]
6. TAKA Michinoku [6]
7. Daisuke Sasaki [4]
8. Jado [2]
9. Hiromu Takahashi [0]

Anyone have any predictions or forecasts for the winner?

Basically Low "HHH" Ki isnt winning this shagging thing is he???

Charisteas

In a city of 13 million people, seems a shame that they used such a small building for the show.

rovert

Suprised no one has posted this yet:

Former WWE Divas Champion Kelly Kelly has been granted time off from WWE, according to PWInsider.

The website reports that K2 has been given the time off to recharge her batteries after spending six years on the road with WWE full-time.

Kelly, who began her career with the company at just 18, has spent most of her adult life on the road with the company. A source tells PWInsider: “She’s been here since [she] was a kid. She had been pushing for time away to spend with her family and her boyfriend. Six years for someone of her age is a lifetime. She needed a break.”

However, the report adds that there is some speculation over Kelly’s future with WWE, with “word among a number of talents within the company is that they don’t believe she’s returning anytime soon”.

The report adds that Kelly has been promoting herself under her real name, Barbie Blank, and points out that she is accepting endorsements and appearances through an agent outside of WWE.

Her Twitter bio currently reads: “For full appearances/endorsements please contact Heidi at heidi@atamanagement.com.”

Kelly competed on Raw just two weeks ago and currently represents WWE as one of two Divas on Maxim’s Hot 100 for 2012.

Charisteas

Numbers game -

Today marks the 200th consecutive day of CM Punks current WWE Heavyweight Championship run.

If he keeps the belt for 11 more days, he will overtake The Undertaker in the all-time list of combined days as WWE Champion.

If he keeps it until Summerslam he will overtake JBL, Yokozuna, Ultimate Warrior, Billy Graham, Kurt Angle, and The Rock.

Tomorrow will mark the 250th consecutive day since John Cena has been champion.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Charisteas wrote: »

Numbers game -

Today marks the 200th consecutive day of CM Punks current WWE Heavyweight Championship run.

If he keeps the belt for 11 more days, he will overtake The Undertaker in the all-time list of combined days as WWE Champion.

If he keeps it until Summerslam he will overtake JBL, Yokozuna, Ultimate Warrior, Billy Graham, Kurt Angle, and The Rock.

Tomorrow will mark the 250th consecutive day since John Cena has been champion.

Didn't Bruno Sammartino hold the belt for over seven years at one time? Also Bob Backland and Hogan had very lengthy reigns.

gnfnrhead

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Didn't Bruno Sammartino hold the belt for over seven years at one time? Also Bob Backland and Hogan had very lengthy reigns.

He's not moving in to number one. He is still miles away from that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_Champions#List_of_combined_reigns

Look at the top of the list and it shows how little the title means now a days. Cena with ten reigns is only a quarter of the time as Sammartino with two reigns.

CMpunked

Maybe the article meant the longest consecutive holding of the belt and not the misinformed 'combined days' that it has.

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Look at the top of the list and it shows how little the title means now a days. Cena with ten reigns is only a quarter of the time as Sammartino with two reigns.

To be fair, the championship is defended a hell of a lot more these days than it was then and with more overall exposure through the medium of international television you cant have the same kind of championship reigns as they did back then.

gimmick

Maybe not 7 years, but the Champion should not have to defend every PPV. Booked properly, the champion should only defend once ever 2-3 months, making it seem like a huge deal, and a special attraction on TV.

Cherry_Cola

gimmick wrote: »

Maybe not 7 years, but the Champion should not have to defend every PPV. Booked properly, the champion should only defend once ever 2-3 months, making it seem like a huge deal, and a special attraction on TV.

This. Also I watched Summerslam 2002 a few weeks back and you had Jeff Hardy and RVD in a ladder match, beating the hell out of each other, all for the hardcore title.

Really miss the days when even the lower tier belts meant something.

Lord TSC

gimmick wrote: »

Maybe not 7 years, but the Champion should not have to defend every PPV. Booked properly, the champion should only defend once ever 2-3 months, making it seem like a huge deal, and a special attraction on TV.

It would also build the prestige of ALL the titles; if the WWE and WHC are only main eventing once every 3-4 PPVs, then the US and IC titles might be bigger draws for PPVs as well if booked the same way.

Charisteas

Regarding Raw's 1000th episode, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the real 1000th episode will be July 23rd or July 30th. Regardless, WWE are promoting it as the July 23rd episode. But the 900th episode was on August 30th 2010 which would mean the real 1000th episode would fall on July 30th.

gnfnrhead

Charisteas wrote: »

Regarding Raw's 1000th episode, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the real 1000th episode will be July 23rd or July 30th. Regardless, WWE are promoting it as the July 23rd episode. But the 900th episode was on August 30th 2010 which would mean the real 1000th episode would fall on July 30th, unless there was a Monday in the last two years which didn't air a Raw?

Sometimes they skip a Smackdown around Christmas, could have done the same for Raw?

Charisteas

Had to edit my previous post, actually there would have had to have been an extra episode somewhere for them to think July 23rd is the 1000th episode.

If there was a skipped Monday night missing, then August 5th would be the 1000th.

Head melting!

gnfnrhead

Charisteas wrote: »

Had to edit my previous post, actually there would have had to have been an extra episode somewhere for them to think July 23rd is the 1000th episode.

If there was a skipped Monday night missing, then August 5th would be the 1000th.

Head melting!

I thought that myself but assumed I was reading it wrong

Maybe they counted one of the Tribute to the Troops?

CMpunked

From wrestlezone;

Laurinaitis to Join Vince's "Club?"
The Wrestling Observer is reporting that there has been discussion of having John Laurinaitis join Vince McMahon's "Kiss My Ass Club" next week on Raw.

As previously announced, McMahon will be appearing on Raw next week to evaluate Laurinaitis' job performance.

rovert

Wrestling Observer:

Nothing has been done over the Ambrose vs. Foley introductory angle of late and there are forces now against it that are right at the top.

Ambrose is still screaming major league:

Ambrose and Regal wrestle each other tonight at the final FCW tapings too.

gnfnrhead

Ambrose and Regal had a great match earlier in the year. Really showed how good Ambrose is. Why the hell they arent giving him a shot during the summer downtime is beyond me.

CMpunked

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Ambrose and Regal had a great match earlier in the year. Really showed how good Ambrose is. Why the hell they arent giving him a shot during the summer downtime is beyond me.

Maybe they will. He screams big angle potential.

GTR63

He is Screaming a lot seemingly....think he dodged a bullet in that feud with couch potato foley.

Garseys

CMpunked wrote: »

From wrestlezone;

That would be comedy gold if it happpened. It would also make Johnny the second EVP for Talent relations to do it :pac: