Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

I read that there and I’m still not sure it’s not petty. It seems his issue is that he wasn’t a part of Connor’s in-ring deal when it was his idea, which doesn’t really matter because the end result was that Connor still got to have his moment right? Like if that was really what Justin wanted because he was so benevolent, he got it, so what’s the issue exactly? The only thread remaining is that he’s unhappy he wasn’t a central part.

Like his story essentially goes “I’m not a bitter ex-employee but...” (“I’m not a racist but...”), then goes into how WWE doesn’t appreciate good employees that do stuff behind the scenes like Mark Yeaton, then describes how he did everything behind the scenes with Connor, then the emotional gut punch is supposed to be how Triple H was in the ring instead of him when Connor had his moment, which was Justin’s idea. But that’s only a gut punch if you view it from the lense where Justin is the main focus. If Connor is, and he should be, again he still got to have his moment. And he seems oblivious to the fact that he’s guilty of the same thing he’s accusing WWE of: he’s invoking Connor’s name to generate interest in this blog and take shots at WWE, and later to sell books. Even people here are invoking his name as a stick to beat WWE with. At least when they invoked his name, the end result was money going to charity. None of it is a good look for anyone involved, but WWE has a good end result at least.

The Stephanie quote is poor form, no doubt. But it’s more naive of her to admit it, when in truth all big corporations like WWE use charity as a way to build their brand (many use it as a tax write-off too). AEW are guilty of this too: remember Kenny Omega tried to use the victims of gun violence as a reason people should watch AEW’s charity show over Evolve? That was pretty disgusting, but he gets a pass because he’s ‘cool’ and does flips and ****.

All we’re getting here is a bunch of self-obsessed narcissists arguing, “No, these horrific things should benefit ME and make ME look good.” Nobody here looks good, Justin included, it’s just a petty mess.

20 years ago tonight the hardy boys and edge and Christian had the now famous ladder match in the best of five T.I.T(Terri invatarional tournament btw) at no mercy 1999. I did tape this and watched it live and compared to today where the fans will pop on anything ladder related, the crowd in the arena and probably those of us who watched it at the time took a bit of time to work out what we were mean to do doing.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

20 years ago tonight the hardy boys and edge and Christian had the now famous ladder match in the best of five T.I.T(Terri invatarional tournament btw) at no mercy 1999. I did tape this and watched it live and compared to today where the fans will pop on anything ladder related, the crowd in the arena and probably those of us who watched it at the time took a bit of time to work out what we were mean to do doing.

You could say that match was the precursor for the TLC matches. From that match, we later got the Triangle Ladder Match at Wrestlemania 2000 with The Dudleys, The Hardy and Edge and Christian, then we got the TLC matches at Summerslam 2000 and Wresltmania 17. Was a beautiful time for the tag team division.

On that note: I guess The Dudley Boys are the greatest tag team in history. When you look at what they've done.

LibSuperstar wrote: »

Definitely fair to say! Come to think of it I can't think of any other teams in WWE's late '90s to early '00s outside of that trio besides Too Cool.

The New Age Outlaws and the APA were big players at that time too.

2013. 5 wrestling years is basically 10 in normal years.

A lot of tag teams in the last half decade that could have a serious run and tag teams that would have been involved in the tournment that would have done more business post tourney.

I think the New Day, The Bar, Young Bucks, DIY legit stand with the greats.

sirmanga wrote: »

Another tattoo for Balor. He must be going through an early mid life crisis. He's already got the leather jacket. Before you know it, he'll be driving to the ring in a sports car, listening to Bruce Springsteen, with a Thai bride in the passenger seat.

Well it worked out for Jericho mid life crises I’m sure it will work for Finn

ERG89 wrote: »

Jericho has a personality to get his character over. The promo he cut last week is something so far above Balor's ability it's an embarrassing comparison.

And I don’t know what Jericho promo this week has to do with him getting terrible tattoos during a mid life crises

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Tattoo's aren't horrible if they mean something to the person who's getting them.

Very true but you can still think there bad but I’m sure they don’t care about what I think anyway

I pop everytime the Rainmaker camera is used for The Best Friends hug in AEW

205 Live. He fought Brian Kendrick this week.

Speaking of, seems 205 Live is back after their break and saying they'll be using NXT guys after the Draft moved Gulak, Tozawa, Humberto and Lucha House Party.

Lithium93_ wrote: »

What exactly would be the criteria for the greatest tag team in history?

People will always have personal favourites and that's fine. When you look at the career tho the Dudleys are up there.

From ecw. To WWE. To TNA. From the classic tlc matches to the overall span of their career. It's just hard to top them.

Saw this on Reddit, a promo from Becky in a pizza place years ago. Possibly after a few drinks...

https://twitter.com/BeckyFanJoe/status/1186641896199872514

Likeabossboss wrote: »

I think this is the worst state WWE has been in since I remember which is twenty years.

If RAW stays at is there in huge trouble.

Totally agree, worst it's been since the mid 90's for me. Despite that fact they have:

Biggest Talent Pool
Most Money in the bank (pardon the pun)
Highest profile advertisers
Most lucrative TV deals

Boggles the mind

Do people here think the WWE women’s revolution was ever a sincere move by WWE or was it a marketing ploy by Stephanie amongst others in the company to help build the brand of WWE ?

Listen I’m delighted that the women in WWE were given the chance to show that in some cases they are as good as their male counterparts in the ring. Maybe it’s the way American company’s seem to be not be very subtle about it and obvious.

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I'm leaning heavily towards Option #2.

If it was sincere, it would've come about without needing Stephanie's involvement, but alas it didn't.

Yeah I hate to agree with you. It’s just there was a tweet about 185(I think) WWE female employees including wrestlers. And the phrase building your brand was mentioned.

Well their all women PPV, to me, was both a vehicle for Ronda and a way to make up for the first Saudi PPV where no women were allowed.