The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[Dark Ritual]

Just checked my GRAPL score. Seems good, before I realised I made a monumental cock up and picked Punk both to win, and be last eliminated.

[tomvek]

Downloading LAW to keep me amused on the way home.

[Skippy]

Stopped listening to LAW. Listening to their moaning just winds me up too much

Just finished listening to the LAW, what exactly winds you up about their recap? It was a bad show.

Too much hate for my liking. Like them hating the end of the WWE title match, it was cheap yes but if Punk had pinned Jericho or vice versa they'd be moaning about that too. One of them even said they'd have preferred it if that happened. They didn't like what happened after the second chamber either, but also complained that there wasn't enough to build to Mania through the show. That much is true but it's hypocritical to moan about one of the few segments that tried to! If Bryan had just won and celebrated it's easy to imagine them saying Sheamus should have come out.

It was a bad show yeah but sometimes their moaning contradicts their moaning! That's what annoys me.

[Codename 47]

I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with that

Yeah I pretty much agree and now we're going to start getting the more face to face confrontations and stuff. I think we're going to see a more intense Cena when he comes face to face with the Rock for the first time. Up until now he's seemed like too much of a bitch around the Rock to be honest. I'm actually looking forward to this feud stepping up a gear now that the Rock is due to make more appearances soon.

I wonder where next for Kane though...I know a lot of people have slated Cena for no selling the damage he took and looking like strawberry float all happened to him at the end of the match (i can see their point to be fair), but can Kane come back from the beatdown he took and still look like the menacing monster?

[Skippy]

I'd have thought there'd be a Kane/Ryder feud

[KK]

Consulting my SPREADSHEET, the theme used last night during the Santino skits is called "Gladiators".



You probably remember it for Eugene.

Didn't really, I knew it off the top of my head.

[captain red dog]

Generally though the Cena/Rock build has been pretty good until this terrible Kane story.

Has there been a build though? Apart from Twitter telling them to team together, nothing much has happened.

Well not that much has happened on TV, but they have done very well with the limited access they have had with Rock. Satellite appearances by Rock feel like the real thing for the TV audience.

I think the lack of access to the Rock has been a blessing in that it has kept the script writers out of it and given WWE less chance to screw it up. It feels more realistic than their run of the mill feuds.

[KK]

Half expecting them to have Rock wrestle a match on RAW before WrestleMania to be honest.

[Mockmaster]

Oh my God.

Ambulance match.....

Ambulance...


It's all starting to make sense where this is going....

[Jeffrey]

Elimination Chamber gifs:

[Pontius Pilate]

Is Punk doing Miz's stupid pout face there?

[Dark Ritual]

The Bashams were shown celebrating and Josh Matthews caught up with them and said that no one expected Shaniqua back tonight. Shaniqua said of course. It's going to take a lot more than a clothesline from hell to keep her out of action. Shaniqua pointed out what the clothesline from hell did and she pointed out her bigger breasts, calling it 'swelling in her chest'. The Bashams asked Shaniqua if it's 'permanent swelling' and Shaniqua said that the doctor said that it could be permanent. Shaniqua told them that they did very well tonight and deserve to be rewarded. Let's go and whip it good. The Bashams and Shaniqua then went on their way.

Oh my god

Please tell me there's a video of this promo somewhere.

[J. Vengeance]

The Bashams were shown celebrating and Josh Matthews caught up with them and said that no one expected Shaniqua back tonight. Shaniqua said of course. It's going to take a lot more than a clothesline from hell to keep her out of action. Shaniqua pointed out what the clothesline from hell did and she pointed out her bigger breasts, calling it 'swelling in her chest'. The Bashams asked Shaniqua if it's 'permanent swelling' and Shaniqua said that the doctor said that it could be permanent. Shaniqua told them that they did very well tonight and deserve to be rewarded. Let's go and whip it good. The Bashams and Shaniqua then went on their way.

Oh my god

Please tell me there's a video of this promo somewhere.

You're Welcome

[Dark Ritual]

Good lord.

[Mafro]

Have to say, aside from his first appearance at the start of January, Jericho's return has been handled strawberry floating terribly.

[Chocolate Jim]

Guys should I even bother watching my recording of last night? I went to bed after the RAW chamber... the results don't read very well

[Mafro]

Guys should I even bother watching my recording of last night? I went to bed after the RAW chamber... the results don't read very well

lmao no. Don't bother with the rest.

[KK]

There any download links for EC to put on the front page?

[Mafro]

There any download links for EC to put on the front page?

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[KK]

UK Ratings for the week ending 12th February 2012...

The second of the IMPACT WRESTLING tapings from London pulled in 208,000; WWE RAW Live did 174,000; 149,000 tuned in to WWE SmackDown on Friday; WWE Late Night Superstars did 38,000 viewers on Saturday; and 26,000 watched WWE Bottom Line (RAW) in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Viewership for the first IMPACT WRESTLING from London drew in excess of 363,000 (so probably around 450,000 as an educated guess).