Wrestling News & Rumours Thread ***NO CHAT***

Well this is an interesting move

Yeah what's also interesting is that since Progress is a WWE affiliate, they've put their title on someone holding the belt for a promotion that Tony Khan owns. Apparently Progress shows on Peacock have been cutting ROH/AEW people so what it means is that going forward Progress' title won't be seen on the Progress shows when you watch them which is strange.

Should also mention that some people are saying Khan owns all footage of the ROH title being defended which makes things even stranger.

The lads who bought progress also bought TNT, who work closely with GCW, could this be the beginnings of a switch from being content creators for WWE to content creators for AEW?

Hbo max? In-house? Wwe network? What platform will I continue to not watch progress on.

“I feel like there is a level of grit that is missing from today’s product.

I don’t know that it’s anybody’s fault, we all aged out and that new group has come up.”

- The Undertaker on WWE

(via True Geordie Podcast)

Pretty sure this has been the case for a long time, he's still not listed as a current superstar.

If he does come back he is going to have to be very careful no major bumps and risking his life

Yup. He should retire. He won the world title, nxt title, intercontinental, raw tag, smackdown tag and money in the bank. But more importantly, as James Storm said to Bill Apter in an interview once: 'my bank manager doesn't care if I am world champion' (haha I love that line), so seeing as how Big E has been in WWE 13 years and on the main roster just over 11. He is a millionaire that's what matters the most.

He had this brush with what can happen so retire a rich man who can walk and get around. We all know what happened to poor Droz and he never had a fraction of what Big E got.

It'd be normal for Ridge to be beating himself up but at the end of the day, he didn't put himself in the position. Just look at all the botches currently happening on a weekly basis on 2.0 because of their "shift" in mentality.

I know you mentioned nxt 2.0 but I’m going to broaden it out to Modern wrestling as a whole and why I’m finding myself enjoying it as a whole less and less and why I’m watching more classic wrestling. I really don’t understand why modern wrestlers(both male and female) feel the need to take unnecessary risks on the inside and outside the ring. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, and the quote attributed to dusty Rhodes which is spot on imo “ don’t do **** you don’t know how to do.” Yes, modern wrestlers are on the whole far more athletic and that’s great, but can they not find a safer way to show it off than doing stupid risky bump ?

I mean in decades past wrestlers had pain medication addictions and died from them, and I worry that modern wrestlers will suffer for spinal injuries due to trying to one up themselves.

And death match wrestling can get up the yard as far as I’m concerned.And as a big a fan as I am of both terry funk and Mike foley, they share some of the blame for doing the hardcore stuff and taking risks.

I realise this makes me sound boring to some and if it does then fair enough but I can’t suspend my disbelief as much because I can’t buy into the matches as much because I’m worried someone will get hurt. There is a way to use the logic and storytelling of wrestling past, without hurting yourself. I'll stop shouting at the clouds now.

A lot of "marks" in the ring playing to the uber-niche wrestling intelligentsia. For example, after Baker and Rosa's lights out match last year Baker is seen saying "Maybe Meltzer will like it? 5 stars, lets fúcking do it." as they pick tacks out of her back while she yelps with pain.

And then when she doesn't get the 5 stars, she says; "He’s such a shíthead. 4.75 Dave I mean come on! What do I have to cut my leg off for the extra? But it’s OK we’ll give it another go another time.”

If I was a wrestler, I'd be trying to do a Miz on it. Don't get injured, don't injure anyone, make millions. I'd also refuse to ever do a spot with the ring apron.

Jesus yeah I remember hearing that and thinking “how about you have a match that you like first and foremost.” That rating system might have started out with good intentions but now it’s a completion. How about we go back to either you like a match or not. I mean we are all watching wrestling long enough to know whether we like a match or not and a star rating shouldn’t be a gauge of it.

"I think right now everything that Vince and Bruce Prichard are putting out there is absolutely incredible. I love it. I love NXT 2.0. I love Raw, I love SmackDown, I love what Roman's doing. I think Roman's putting out some great work"

-MJF via the Ariel Helwani show

MJF keeping nice in case WWE want him and offer a good deal in the future