The Wrestling Thread: AEW Dynasty

[Fade]

I like how Summer and Darren also got released but nobody cares

Shows how much people liked Emma I guess. I hope she goes on to find success elsewhere.

I only watch WWE, but if she started wrestling for another brand I would definitely watch her.

To me she is easily the best female wrestler there. Not in terms of accomplishments obviously, but in terms of her in ring ability. I've never watched one of her matches and thought "That move looked a bit off" everything she does just looks so professional. Where as as much as I like some of the other female wrestlers, a lot of their moves can look a bit janky.

[Slimgrady]

Darren Young was just awful. I’m sure he would’ve been gone a long time ago if it wasn’t for his sexuality, it made the WWE look good having an openly gay wrestler on the roster.
Summer Rea, meh.

[captain red dog]

It has to have Schiavone commentating or its just going to feel like a horrible WWE take on Starrcade.

I actually always liked Schiavone's commentary, he has a really recognisable voice and doesn't sound generic. That's a major problem across the board on WWE TV at the moment, it all sounds so generic.

[Fade]

I'll miss hearing her new theme, it grew on me, the guitar riff at the beginning after the electronic bit is so sick.



And the little "Yeah!" she did was great https://youtu.be/P9TQXyF0Akc?t=25

[Rog]

Really makes you wonder why they bothered putting her in two competitive matches with Asuka rather than a squash.

Probably because they wanted to keep her? This was a mutual thing not like the other two muppets who got released.

[Fade]

Yeah it does seem a bit odd for them to commission a new song for her and then get rid of her a month later

Maybe she was inspired by Neville

[KK]

For the first time since WrestleMania 2, a WWE event will air Live from two separate locations, the company revealing today. The 25th anniversary of Monday Night RAW will emanate from both the Barclays Center and The Manhattan Center in New York City on Monday, January 22, 2018. Tickets will be available for each event starting this Friday, November 3, through all Ticketmaster outlets, http://www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. VIP packages, including a meet-and-greet with a WWE Legend, will be available for fans at Manhattan Center.

Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown LIVE will be at Barclays Center, while the event at Manhattan Center, the site of the first episode of Raw, will feature both WWE Superstars competing, plus special appearances by WWE Legends The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash, among others.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

For the first time since WrestleMania 2, a WWE event will air Live from two separate locations, the company revealing today. The 25th anniversary of Monday Night RAW will emanate from both the Barclays Center and The Manhattan Center in New York City on Monday, January 22, 2018. Tickets will be available for each event starting this Friday, November 3, through all Ticketmaster outlets, http://www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. VIP packages, including a meet-and-greet with a WWE Legend, will be available for fans at Manhattan Center.

Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown LIVE will be at Barclays Center, while the event at Manhattan Center, the site of the first episode of Raw, will feature both WWE Superstars competing, plus special appearances by WWE Legends The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash, among others.

Undertaker fine but I have no care for seeing Nash and HBK. They have been overdone appearance wise and offer nothing new. At least when the rock appears for example something interesting usually happens for example but HBK just acts like a goofy two year old. I’m hoping to see a better line as we get nearer to the date. JR should call any action from the Manhattan Center.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Does Angle being team captain mean that he is wrestling at SS? If so clearly that was the original plan for Angle’s return match. I assume he will wrestle in his full gear and that’s why he wasn’t in ring gear at TLC to attempt to leave something special for survivor series but ultimately they’ve ruined a big angle for survivor series.

[captain red dog]

Bryan being in a slightly physical spot gives me hope they may relent and let him wrestle again one day. Imagine how good the Survivor Series match would have been if Angle and Bryan were both in it and were the last two on each team.

[CuriousOyster]

But then you'd get, "give the new guys a push, Vince hates anyone in their 20s with no gainz m8."

[Mafro]

Does Angle being team captain mean that he is wrestling at SS? If so clearly that was the original plan for Angle’s return match. I assume he will wrestle in his full gear and that’s why he wasn’t in ring gear at TLC to attempt to leave something special for survivor series but ultimately they’ve ruined a big angle for survivor series.

Yeah Angle is wrestling. Apparently the teams are Angle, Joe, Strowman, Reigns and Balor vs Shane, Orton, Nakamura, Styles and Roode.

[BAKA]

Strowman bombing across the roof of the limo after The Miz and co was so funny. That whole spot was hilarious. I'm glad Joe's back.

[KK]

Well, I guess I had a good run. Can't get this to work anywhere this week:



WWE just blocking every country I've tried. Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Poland, Liberia, St Kitts and Nevis!

[Slimgrady]

So was Curtis Axel killed off last night? Braun is awesome, his roar, his run, his living in a rubbish truck for 8 days, pure gold

Stephanie coming back and emasculating yet another member of the roster, more gooseberry fool brown than gold.

[KK]

Just seen it. The WWE sure do love their camera angles. IN THE CAR! UNDER THE CAR! LOOKING OUT OF THE CAR!

Braun's arrival like some sort of video game boss fight.

[Mafro]

I couldn't believe the way that was shot. It was like something out of a comedy skit from a Network show Managed to top the time he returned in the ambulance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belQZOqO02g&t=125s

[CuriousOyster]

WWE Glasgow tonight Pints pints pints. Looking forward to Braun wrecking some fools but more importantly hope Slater is there.

[KK]

I couldn't believe the way that was shot. It was like something out of a comedy skit from a Network show Managed to top the time he returned in the ambulance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belQZOqO02g&t=125s

The WWE exists in some sort of parallel, alternate universe at the moment where on the one hand you've got stuff like NXT and the Mae Young Classic which are treated as legit, and then there's RAW and SmackDown which have now reverted back to the early 90s and WCW/WWF wackiness straight out of a made-for-TV cartoon movie. Just posing the questions makes you yourself look stupid for even attempting to look at it sensibly. Why were there cameras placed all over Miz's limo, why was Braun Strowman willingly hiding in a load of rubbish, having evidently got out earlier in the night to place said rubbish in Miz's locker room; the horrible acting from Daniel Bryan and Kurt Angle earlier in the night...

From the House of Horrors match, to Bray Wyatt in drag, to the ongoing exploits of Breezango (that are never quite as funny as they seem to think they are beyond the opening titles, at least to me) they've gone back to the days of Robocop saving Sting, The Dungeon of Doom, Sting again with the British Bulldog on a beach saving some kids from an exploding bomb on a boat placed by Vader and Sid Vicious, and Leslie Nielsen trying to solve the case of the two Undertakers.

The mindset appears to be to no longer acknowledge that the cameramen, the production crew...all this other stuff exists (as if you're watching a drama or movie).

[CuriousOyster]

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