The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Mafro]

Watching Sacrifice currently and I cannot believe I thought this but... I'm really enjoying Bully Ray, I mean he's probably my favourite character in TNA right now - his promos are comming on really strong (This one made me laugh and the final line was great)

Never, back in the days of ECW watching him, expected this to happen

Best heel in the company by far and easily better than most in WWE.

[KK]

WWE RAW did a 2.9 rating and 4,408,000 viewers.

[Prototype]

WWE RAW did a 2.9 rating and 4,408,000 viewers.

Surely the alarm bells are ringing now.

Time to change this gooseberry fool up.

Time for a...

REVOLUTION.

[Dark Ritual]

No Tensai = ratings drop.

[KK]

Eve can make matches but can be overruled by John Laurinaitis who hires and fires people and makes decisions on TV but can be overruled by Triple H who doesn't have any power on RAW or SmackDown but Triple H can be overruled by The Board of Directors who can implement stipulations who can also overrule John Laurinaitis but The Board of Directors are headed by Vince McMahon who doesn't have any power except when he does and then there's the shareholders who just like me don't know what the strawberry float's going on.

Worse than WCW.

[Dante]

Eve can make matches but can be overruled by John Laurinaitis who hires and fires people and makes decisions on TV but can be overruled by Triple H who doesn't have any power on RAW or SmackDown but Triple H can be overruled by The Board of Directors who can implement stipulations who can also overrule John Laurinaitis but The Board of Directors are headed by Vince McMahon who doesn't have any power except when he does and then there's the shareholders who just like me don't know what the strawberry float's going on.

Worse than WCW.

But what about the anonymous general manager?

[KK]

[Codename 47]

Eve can make matches but can be overruled by John Laurinaitis who hires and fires people and makes decisions on TV but can be overruled by Triple H who doesn't have any power on RAW or SmackDown but Triple H can be overruled by The Board of Directors who can implement stipulations who can also overrule John Laurinaitis but The Board of Directors are headed by Vince McMahon who doesn't have any power except when he does and then there's the shareholders who just like me don't know what the strawberry float's going on.

Worse than WCW.

Never has one post summed up the problems of the WWE so well

I never understood the whole HHH not having power on Smackdown or Raw. He's the damn C.O.O...how on earth can the general manager have more authority than him. I'm sure HHH got reprimanded when he was running things for putting his personal interests first...yet Laurinaitis has booked himself into the main event of the next PPV.

[tomvek]

How did the ROH PPV turn out?

[1cmanny1]

WWE RAW did a 2.9 rating and 4,408,000 viewers.

Surely the alarm bells are ringing now.

Time to change this gooseberry fool up.

Time for a...

REVOLUTION.

If we ALL stop watching they might change.

[GM]

How did the ROH PPV turn out?

From about 20 minutes before it started, nobody could log in on their website. I managed to get in early but only about 5% of the people trying to watch were able to. A shame, because it was a fun card and the feed was really, really good quality (a few screens in the spoiler box below). Smooth and 720p. I get Best in the World for free and this one was fine for me so I'm happy, but I'd imagine most people aren't.

[tomvek]

Yeah, I can imagine a lot of people who paid for it being annoyed. I was listening to some of the latest LAW podcasts and they were talking about it so I was just wondering how it turned out.

[captain red dog]

IGNs Wrestling Wrap Up made me chuckle today, particularly when Matt posted Punk's tweet about Show's firing. You can see that Punk blatantly just chucked in the obligatory comment whilst thinking the whole angle is a waste of time!

[KK]

WWE SmackDown Tapings

Attendance for this show was really bad.

John Laurinaitis opened the show and talked about facing John Cena at Over the Limit on Sunday. Laurinaitis said he wants sympathy and asks the fans to pray for him. CM Punk's music hit to a huge pop.

Punk comes down and is glad that Laurinaitis will finally be terminated after John Cena beats him on Sunday. Punk wishes Laurinaitis the best in his future endeavors. Laurinaitis finally has enough and tells everyone to go to hell and announces CM Punk vs. Kane for tonight.

Match 1: WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and R-Truth defeated Darren Young and Titus O’Neil.

Zack Ryder is shown backstage filming his YouTube show when Damien Sandow is shown walking to the ring.

Sandow comes out to face Yoshi Tatsu. Sandow cut a promo saying he doesn’t think Tatsu is worthy of wrestling him. Yoshi taunts Sandow and calls him a chicken. Sandow knocks Tatsu out and applied a modified neckbreaker before leaving.

Backstage segment with Sheamus and Randy Orton.

Match 2: Daniel Bryan beat Zack Ryder with the Yes Lock.

Match 3: Kane and CM Punk went to a Disqualification when Daniel Bryan, who was out on commentary, tried to interfere with a chair shot but hit Kane instead. Kane, thinking Punk hit him with the chair, laid out the WWE Champion.

Match 4: Santino Marella pinned Cody Rhodes in a quick Champion vs. Champion non-title match.

Match 5: Randy Orton defeated Sheamus in the main event with a roll-up. After the match, they shook hands but Orton left Sheamus laying with an RKO.

[Barley]

Nothing about that show sounds interesting or entertaining. Nothing.

Santino defeating Cody

[Dante]

I started watching a rip fo the iPPV but the audio was so bad it was putting me off the matches completely, so only watched half the first match ,skipped to later to see if it improved but didn't so gave up completely (If the crowd is dead I cannot get into a PPV regardless of how good it is, I just feel completely removed from it)

I'll wait till the dvd is out and order then

[Mafro]

Is Sacrifice on at 9 it 10 tonight?

[Psychic]

Is Sacrifice on at 9 it 10 tonight?

It's on from 10 till 2.

[KK]

An hour of commercials. Don't know how people watch this without the benefit of a DVR.

[KK]

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What a bait and switch. And the only sex chat is about Brooke's boob job...