Any Pro-Wrestling Fans Around?

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

13 hours ago, Unicorncob said:

Can't believe I've been sleeping on Grayson Waller, dude's a brilliant heel

 

That was my first time seeing Grayson Waller and I was impressed. Trouble is, he looks like a natural smiler. 

[TheRockARockster 55,111]

I haven’t had much to mark out about when it comes to wrestling lately but he’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

 

[Denim&Venöm 21,090]

Tomorrow is Keiji Mutoh's final match. And Pro wrestling NOAH is pulling out all the stops for their first Tokyo Dome show in nearly 20 years. 

Mutoh has hand picked his final opponent. And his career shall end facing the man whose career he inspired to begin: Tetsuya Naito. 11 years after their first match, Naito gets to show his hero how much he's grown since and prove how worthy he is of the mantle of pro-wrestling 'genius.' It won't be easy. Mutoh has said he is in rough shape, so this retirement couldn't come soon enough. 

In the semi-main event is a clash that could very well be a MotY contender. Last year, Kaito Kiyomiya tagged with rival turned mentor Keiji Mutoh to face Mutoh's protege, Hiroshi Tanahashi and the man Kaito's been compared to since his debut: Kazuchika Okada. Okada bitched him out of the building that night and Kaito has had to spend the last year rebuilding himself from the ground up. Now Kaito is a new man, the tools of Mutoh's trade having been passed down to him and using them to become GHC Heavyweight champion. And on night II of WK17, Kaito returned the punk card Okada issued him a year earlier, via a kick to the face. One that did two things no one else has been able to do: make Okada bleed and make Okada angry. The result was the ugliest pull apart brawl either man has been involved in. Now for the first time ever, IWGP World & GHC Heavyweight champions will meet 1v1. 

 

That won't be the only NWJP vs. NOAH match. It's not even the on champ. vs. champ. match. IWGP Jr. champion Hiromu Takehashi has been calling out KONGO's Haoh ever since last years WrestleKingdom. Well he's getting it now, but from the man whose since left the red millitants and also rebuilt himself as champion. He is now Amakusa, the GHC jr. champion and he wants to show Hiromu and the world how special NOAH's Jr. Heavyweights really are ahead of Hiromu's sponsored world junior festival. 

 

It's not just New Japan NOAH has to contend with. Emissaries from the company they splintered off from, All Japan Pro-Wrestling, will be represented in honor of their old president, Mutoh. AJPW's top guys in Yuma Aoyagi, Suwama & Kento Miyahara battle Kongo's Kenoh & former All Japan alumni Manabu Soya & Katsuhiko Nakajima. The collision between the latter will be interesting, considering both Miyahara & Nakajima were students of a guy you may remember as a former WCW U.S. champion and Road Warrior Hawk's second best tag partner, Kensuke Sasaki.

There will be many more matches and you can watch them all on Fite TV or by signing up to WrestleUniverse and ordering the PPV at a discount. 

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

On 2023-02-02 at 7:44 PM, TheRockARooster said:

I wonder how Sting’s WWE career would go if Triple H was in charge of creative.

 

Triple H seems to like long-term storytelling, would Triple H have let WCW win at Survivor Series 2001 to build to Sting showing up later?... 

[TheRockARockster 55,111]

18 minutes ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

Triple H seems to like long-term storytelling, would Triple H have let WCW win at Survivor Series 2001 to build to Sting showing up later?... 

I still haven’t forgiven WWE for how they made Sting look and treated him.

 I’m grateful for how AEW is treating him and making look like a legend.

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

1 hour ago, TheRockARooster said:

I still haven’t forgiven WWE for how they made Sting look and treated him.

 I’m grateful for how AEW is treating him and making look like a legend.

 

Impact Wrestling made Sting look like a "Joker". 

[TheRockARockster 55,111]

10 minutes ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

Impact Wrestling made Sting look like a "Joker". 

I loved Joker Sting, I couldn’t stop laughing, what a legend.

[Unicorncob 5,758]

On 2/24/2023 at 5:35 AM, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

Triple H seems to like long-term storytelling, would Triple H have let WCW win at Survivor Series 2001 to build to Sting showing up later?... 

Maybe not Reign of Terror Trips

If it were nowadays, he absolutely would

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

1 hour ago, Unicorncob said:

Maybe not Reign of Terror Trips

If it were nowadays, he absolutely would

 

That would be Triple H holding the "Monday Night Raw WCW Championship" hostage. 

[Denim&Venöm 21,090]

Welp, the Keiji Mutoh retirement show has come and gone. And with it, a showcase of everything CyberFight and it's [partners had to offer. Tokyo Joshi fought in the dome. DDT fought in the dome. All Japan fought in the dome. DragonGate fought in the dome. Even New Japan fought in the dome. I'd highly recommend catching it just for the WrestleMania levels of spectacle alone. 

Hiromu fought an old tag partner. Kaito stepped up to the Rainmaker. Mutoh gave his best against the new genius, Tetsuya Naito, paying tribute in his retirement match to the likes of Shinya Hashimoto & Mitsuharu Misawa, two legends who never got to have theirs. And the night was capped off by a secret main event. 

And with respects payed in the dome to those we lost along the way, we have to honor the losses of two of wrestling's finest in Lanny The Genius" Poffo and Jerry Jarrett. One the intellectual brother to a complete savage, the other an influential promoter in Tennessee and father to a guy who helped make an Impact. 

May all your legacies live on. 

[TheRockARockster 55,111]

On 2023-02-26 at 1:10 AM, Unicorncob said:

Maybe not Reign of Terror Trips

If it were nowadays, he absolutely would

Sting is not in WWE, he’s in AEW and that’s a great thing and he’s getting an amazing sendoff.

1 hour ago, Denim&Venöm said:

Welp, the Keiji Mutoh retirement show has come and gone. And with it, a showcase of everything CyberFight and it's [partners had to offer. Tokyo Joshi fought in the dome. DDT fought in the dome. All Japan fought in the dome. DragonGate fought in the dome. Even New Japan fought in the dome. I'd highly recommend catching it just for the WrestleMania levels of spectacle alone. 

Hiromu fought an old tag partner. Kaito stepped up to the Rainmaker. Mutoh gave his best against the new genius, Tetsuya Naito, paying tribute in his retirement match to the likes of Shinya Hashimoto & Mitsuharu Misawa, two legends who never got to have theirs. And the night was capped off by a secret main event. 

And with respects payed in the dome to those we lost along the way, we have to honor the losses of two of wrestling's finest in Lanny The Genius" Poffo and Jerry Jarrett. One the intellectual brother to a complete savage, the other an influential promoter in Tennessee and father to a guy who helped make an Impact. 

May all your legacies live on. 

Legends, legends and more legends.

RIP

[ZiggWheelsManning 15,129]

21 hours ago, TheRockARooster said:

Sting is not in WWE, he’s in AEW and that’s a great thing and he’s getting an amazing sendoff.

Legends, legends and more legends.

RIP

Great tributes to legendary men  

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

I'm rewatching old episodes of WWE Monday Night Raw from the year 2000 and Trish Stratus took a lot more bumps than I remembered.

Edited March 1, 2023 by Sparklefan1234

[CastletonSnob 3,096]

I'm watching Eddie Guerrero's Addiction promo.

I still remember EXACTLY where I was and what I was doing when I read the news that Eddie died.

[Denim&Venöm 21,090]

So Mutoh faced one of his handpicked opponents, Tetsuya Naito, in his retirement match in the dome last week. But he wasn't the first choice. 

Would you believe Keiji Mutoh wanted to face this guy in the Tokyo Dome instead? 

Apparently the offer was out there. But the Rock's asking price was a bit too high. 

To think, last month we had a chance of getting The Great One vs. The Great Muta in the Tokyo Dome

[Guest]

That MJF vs Danielson match was definitely interesting. I’m still wondering what was happening with the water XD

Edited March 6, 2023 by StarlightNyars

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

On 2023-03-04 at 5:08 PM, Denim&Venöm said:

So Mutoh faced one of his handpicked opponents, Tetsuya Naito, in his retirement match in the dome last week. But he wasn't the first choice. 

Would you believe Keiji Mutoh wanted to face this guy in the Tokyo Dome instead? 

Apparently the offer was out there. But the Rock's asking price was a bit too high. 

To think, last month we had a chance of getting The Great One vs. The Great Muta in the Tokyo Dome

 

"The Great One vs. The Great Muta" is the perfect usage of the "Once in a lifetime" tagline unlike some other matches. 

(Even though I love Cena/Rock 1.)

Edited March 10, 2023 by Sparklefan1234

[TheRockARockster 55,111]

I have chosen to end my feud with WWE.

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

On 2023-03-10 at 8:17 AM, TheRockARooster said:

I have chosen to end my feud with WWE.

 

I'm watching WWE because I enjoy it which, is something I haven't felt in a long time.

I actually like most of the male wresters in WWE now which, is something I haven't been able to say since 2001-Pre-Ruthless Agression.

Edited March 11, 2023 by Sparklefan1234

[Unicorncob 5,758]

15 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

I'm watching WWE because I enjoy it which, is something I haven't felt in a long time.

I actually like most of the male wresters in WWE now which, is something I haven't been able to say since 2001-Pre-Ruthless Agression.

Seth Rollins is honestly my favourite wrestler right now, with Sheamus being second and Drew McIntyre third

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

2 minutes ago, Unicorncob said:

Seth Rollins is honestly my favourite wrestler right now, with Sheamus being second and Drew McIntyre third

 

 Sheamus is one of my "I became a fan because of the video games" wrestlers like Becky Lynch, Bayley and Dakota Kai (No NXT. )

so I've been a fan of Shemus for at least a decade now. 

[Patty Thundersnow 4,303]

14 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

 Sheamus is one of my "I became a fan because of the video games" wrestlers like Becky Lynch, Bayley and Dakota Kai (No NXT. )

so I've been a fan of Shemus for at least a decade now. 

I've been a fan of Sheamus since he debuted in WWECW back in I think 2009. He's always had a great look and a very underrated move set. I'd say that Sami Zayn and Cody Rhodes are my favorites on the main roster, and Bron Brekker is my favorite on the NXT roster. WWE is so stacked with talent right now, and it makes me happy that they are.

Edited March 13, 2023 by Patty Thundersnow

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

17 minutes ago, Patty Thundersnow said:

I've been a fan of Sheamus since he debuted in WWECW back in I think 2009. He's always had a great look and a very underrated move set.

 

Sheamus does have  very unique and cool moveset. 

 

17 minutes ago, Patty Thundersnow said:

I'd say that Sami Zayn and Cody Rhodes are my favorites on the main roster, and Bron Brekker is my favorite on the NXT roster. WWE is so stacked with talent right now, and it makes me happy that they are.

 

Roxanne Perez is my favorite on NXT right now. The first time I saw her was during the Royal Rumble and I thought she was cool. 

Grayson Waller is another NXT-er who I'm starting to like quite a bit, too. 

 

Favorites for the active main roster male wrestlers...AJ Styles for nostalgia and Gunter for "newer" wrestlers. 

John Cena is my favorite "Legend who isn't in the hall of fame who still wrestles sometimes.". 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Sparklefan1234

[Unicorncob 5,758]

22 hours ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 

 Sheamus is one of my "I became a fan because of the video games" wrestlers like Becky Lynch, Bayley and Dakota Kai (No NXT. )

so I've been a fan of Shemus for at least a decade now. 

Funny enough, I got into wrestling because I was watching a friend play WWE 12 and I saw Sheamus in it, and when I went home I looked up his debut match and was hooked since

[Sparklefan1234 184,427]

1 hour ago, Unicorncob said:

Funny enough, I got into wrestling because I was watching a friend play WWE 12 and I saw Sheamus in it, and when I went home I looked up his debut match and was hooked since

 

WWE 12...Memories. 

My favorite THQ/Yukes wrestling games are Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007, WWE 13 and WWE 12.  

I feel like 2K games finally "got it" with WWE2K22 and now I'm SO EXCITED to play WWE2K23!