The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[KK]

I refuse to believe they're going to give Cena the belt back this Sunday. You can't have titles changing this regularly, it's a joke. I mean why give it to Sheamus? They've done nothing with him. It's also fact that having a title change every PPV does nothing to help buyrates in the long-term, either. It just speeds up the decline.

However, I'm presuming Cena/Barrett is still on the cards, which does make you wonder.

[Baron Zemo]

TNA just can't help screwing with finishes, can they?

The ECW invasion looked like gooseberry fool, like a badly-dressed jobber battle royale.

[KK]

Just looking at the heavyweight title changes this year...


The WWE Title changed hands twice at Elimination Chamber (John Cena & then Batista in a nothing bout)
Chris Jericho won the World Title at Elimination Chamber
John Cena won the WWE Title back from Batista at WrestleMania
Jack Swagger defeated Chris Jericho on Smackdown (in another 20 second match)
Sheamus won the WWE title back from John Cena at Fatal Four Way
Rey Mysterio won the World Title at Fatal Four Way

I'd love the WWE to go back to the one Heavyweight Champion, even if it does mean getting rid of the WCW World title.

[A J Styles]

Watching Impact....

Brutus Magnus back on commentary and it might look like Brutus and Desmond are going to team up to face Big Rob and Joe....DO strawberry floating WANT!

[A J Styles]

Rog Mcmahon!, where is GRAPL for Money in The Bank?

After two god awful showings from me, i wish to make a name for myself and win this months.

[KK]

Are there any extra matches being announced on Smackdown? I can't remember.

I think the current count is at 7 for Sunday.

[A J Styles]

Are there any extra matches being announced on Smackdown? I can't remember.

I think the current count is at 7 for Sunday.

Nope there won't be any more matches added, but looking there is two woman's title matches.

[KK]

At least it's free on Sky Sports again.

[Rog]

Sorry guys forgot about the PPV. GRAPL will be up later.

Impact:
The opening segment is so bad Slab of meat The "uber" weapon breaks Abyss trying to chew the meat

The end is gooseberry fool. Massive letdown. It's a mess and not the good kind. The first Nexus spot gooseberry fools all over this from a great height.

[Pontius Pilate]

Cheers for the link Rog. I enjoyed this weeks impact actually, and I quite liked the ending aswell.

[Baron Zemo]

The end is gooseberry fool. Massive letdown. It's a mess and not the good kind. The first Nexus spot gooseberry fools all over this from a great height.

It would wouldn't it

[Rog]

Cheers for the link Rog. I enjoyed this weeks impact actually, and I quite liked the ending aswell.

Removed the link because the end glitched up in VLC. Did it work for you? If it did I'll stick it back up.

The end is gooseberry fool. Massive letdown. It's a mess and not the good kind. The first Nexus spot gooseberry fools all over this from a great height.

It would wouldn't it

Hey if it's good I'll say it's good and vice versa no matter which company it's from. But that was bad. There was no reason to care because we know the ECW guys and they are all past it. I know they're not a threat. Like BS said it looked like a gooseberry fool battle royal. TNA guys coming out two at a time to some of the scrappiest offence. There were so many people in the ring by the end that you didn't know who was who or on who's side. Agents like D'lo and Simon Diamond getting in on the action, how am I supposed to give a gooseberry fool about them. It was a mess from start to finish. Been signposted for over a month so it wasn't a surprise, the "invaders" don't look a threat, the only guy they clearly beat down was Abyss but he's a heel, there are no clear faces or heels - TNA guys help TNA guys and ECW the same so there is no clear way to root for one side because both have faces and heels fighting their corner, Carter gets a closeup in which you see she doesn't really give a hoot about the fighting she is just looking for her cue and finally her delivery of the final lines that are meant to promote shock are delivered in piss poor fashion. They don't linger on the small trace of shock there is at all. It ends flat. Plus Dixie invited them, so they've been turning up for FIVE weeks and Dixie only just now decided to say "oh yeah I invited them". Ridiculous.

Then add in that we already know it leads to nowhere on the next show and you're looking at a joke of an ending.

The Nexus angle on the other hand. They didn't go overboard and kept the tone ominous with the lack of commentary and the editing. It meant something.
The Nexus showed up on that show out of the blue and never in a million years were we expecting what happened. Genuine shock. Not five weeks of making it obvious what was coming.
They took out a couple of the big stars and completely wasted the biggest of all, Cena. They went from nobodies to a viable threat in the space of that angle. They were vicious. Not some old men flailing around who we already know aren't worth gooseberry fool. People care about Cena and seeing him being picked apart ruthlessly got people going. Impact nothing really happened, no one was getting destroyed for the audience to be bothered.
Nexus literally peeled back the layers of the WWE to show things we hadn't seen before like under the ring canvas. It felt like this wasn't meant to happen. Impact had signposted it for five weeks ffs. When the show ended WWE had a destroyed ring, ringside and Cena left battered. That image and the deadly silence........gold. TNA ended on a load of guys in a ring, nobody looking hurt, staring at Carter and her crappy acting. ECW didn't even manage to get a chubby Dlo Brown on the floor.
TNA looked peachy compared to the bleak state of WWE after Nexus hit. It just wasn't out of control. Way too planned and it showed.

Nexus Invasion >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "ECW" "Invasion"

[Balloon Sod]

The end is gooseberry fool. Massive letdown. It's a mess and not the good kind. The first Nexus spot gooseberry fools all over this from a great height.

It would wouldn't it

But it was gooseberry fool. It's an awful idea, poorly executed. Just watch it.

The ending with Al Snow didn't make any sense. Why was he shocked at what Dixie said? Why did they zoom in on him?

Apparently, TNA is now doing an average of 8,000 PPV buys per month. This is down from an average of 30,000 a few years ago, when the main events were stuff like DDP vs Jarrett.

How the strawberry float is Heyman going to turn this around? It's arguably in worse shape than WCW was.

[Rog]

[Cosmo]

It just looks like a bunch of fat, middle aged men have jumped the barriers and rushed the ring.

[Pontius Pilate]

Cheers for the link Rog. I enjoyed this weeks impact actually, and I quite liked the ending aswell.

Removed the link because the end glitched up in VLC. Did it work for you? If it did I'll stick it back up.

Nah it glitched for me too, in winamp. Rest of it was fine though, caught the end of impact on youtube. As for the Al Snow "plot hole", whether you liked the ending or not, its entirely possible that although he was fighting along side his ecw buddies, that he was not in on the plan. It was a tad confusing though.

P.s, Abyss and the meat.

[Rog]

It just looks like a bunch of fat, middle aged men have jumped the barriers and rushed the ring.

Followed by lots of fat nobodies in bad shirts coming down the ramp with two fake policemen in tow.

What were the two police for?!

[Balloon Sod]

Let's also not forget that 2 members of this so-called invasion (3 if you count RVD) are former NWA-TNA World Heavyweight Champions

Where are they invading from? The unemployment line?

[A J Styles]

It just looks like a bunch of fat, middle aged men have jumped the barriers and rushed the ring.

Followed by lots of fat nobodies in bad shirts coming down the ramp with two fake policemen in tow.

What were the two police for?!

Why would Desmond Wolfe care anyway, hes supposed to be a heel

[Rog]

Take solace in that this weeks show sounds worlds better than next weeks. The spoilers for next week are ludicrous