News items that dont merit their own thread...thread

by The_Enigma Thu 17 Dec 2015, 10:44 pm

First topic message reminder :

I totally understand that the majority of you may dislike or have never seen any form of Independent Wrestling so turn a blind eye to it but I truly believe this is such a powerful promo hyping something that we all share here...

This is Mike Quackenbush, founder of Chikara Pro and I quite frankly consider him to be one of the best storytellers in the business. Enjoy.

by Samo Wed 17 Feb 2016, 9:09 am

nadeem2099 wrote:TNA should try snd sign Barrett. Look at the excellent work they've done with Drew Galloway and EC3, 2 WWE failures.

Dont think you can credit TNA for Galloway, he'd already well established himself before signing for them. I'll give you EC3.

by **Hero** Wed 17 Feb 2016, 9:24 am

He's very strong on the mic, solid ring worker albeit nothing spectacular and I for once agree with Adam in that TNA would be a good fit for him.

by Fernando Wed 17 Feb 2016, 10:14 pm

by NickisBHAFC Wed 17 Feb 2016, 10:26 pm

Barrett please don't leave Sad

by **Crimey** Thu 18 Feb 2016, 8:56 am

NickisBHAFC wrote:Barrett please don't leave

I don't think he's signed up here Nick.

by **Crimey** Thu 18 Feb 2016, 9:05 am

Undertaker's match is now planned according to Meltzer and it isn't Owens, Cena, Strowman or Lesnar. It is somebody not currently on the roster.

That'd surely point to Sting? But I can't imagine he's in any shape to wrestle.

by Fernando Thu 18 Feb 2016, 11:52 am

Sting needs surgery so i doubt it. Could be Orton since he doesnt need neck surgery anymore apparently.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 18 Feb 2016, 12:07 pm

Not on the roster? Rock? Angle? Mysterio? Joe? Balor? Corbin? I tell ya, I bet Austin would consider his last match being against Taker.

by Fernando Thu 18 Feb 2016, 12:09 pm

Crimey has worded it wrong, *The opponent is believed to be someone who isn't currently active on the roster right now*.

Although it seems to change on every site Rolling Eyes

by President Trump Thu 18 Feb 2016, 12:20 pm

Balor vs Taker would be a great way to introduce the Balor Club

by **Crimey** Thu 18 Feb 2016, 5:33 pm

Fernando wrote:Crimey has worded it wrong, *The opponent is believed to be someone who isn't currently active on the roster right now*.

Although it seems to change on every site

On his radio show last night, Dave clarified his statement from the Observer. Undertaker's opponent at Mania won't be a guy like Orton who is out injured and it won't be an NXT guy like Balor. Dave says he was told it will be someone who "is not an active wrestler". Let the Sting speculation begin, I guess.

So Sting is surely the most likely right now.

by Fernando Thu 18 Feb 2016, 8:28 pm

Id be surprised if was sting. Could be The Rock if gets clearance, I doubt would be Batista. The long shot is Kurt Angle who left TNA the other week...

by Adam D Thu 18 Feb 2016, 8:55 pm

Hogan vs taker - that's money!

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 18 Feb 2016, 9:43 pm

Rock could get clearance. Batista has said he wants a real run if he does wrestle, and would also need clearance cos of movies. Angle could definitely be a shout but I don't think WWE will want to help him make money outside of the company, thus helping others make money, for a one-off. Stone Cold is always going to be an outside shout with the Texas connection too. HBK?

And then Bryan as a work, that would be incredible. 99.9% not happening, but oh it so amazing.

by Samo Fri 19 Feb 2016, 9:01 am

Punk?

by Marky Fri 19 Feb 2016, 9:06 am

My pick is Goldberg. He wanted a one off match, maybe this is it.

by Samo Fri 19 Feb 2016, 6:54 pm

Fun Fact: If you go on Google Translate and translate Sami Zayn into Arabic, then translate that bit of Arabic back into English you get El Generico. Saw this on Reddit and called cowpat but can confirm it works.

by Fernando Sun 21 Feb 2016, 8:45 pm

Chikara may be apart of the tournament, Quack has been doing a few training sessions down at the PC centre & has a lovely interview on wwe.com

by Dr Gregory House MD Sun 21 Feb 2016, 11:14 pm

Fernando wrote:Chikara may be apart of the tournament, Quack has been doing a few training sessions down at the PC centre & has a lovely interview on wwe.com

Smooth Sailing Ashley Remington for the Network or we riot!

by Fernando Mon 22 Feb 2016, 12:45 am

WWE Fastlane Spoilers - Not really but Fans are falling for it left right & centre:

by RinoGattuso Mon 22 Feb 2016, 12:44 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7DfgJGMkHI

by Fernando Mon 22 Feb 2016, 8:10 pm

All aboard, The Godfather's Hoe train is rolling into the Hall Of Fame News items that dont merit their own thread...thread - Page 3 3559488474

by Adam D Tue 23 Feb 2016, 9:28 am

You can't see me. Literally.

by Fernando Mon 29 Feb 2016, 11:57 pm

Rusev is holding a bodyslam contest on Raw for a Maserati.

Go figure.

by Samo Wed 02 Mar 2016, 6:49 pm

Profightdb.com have compiled %'s and stats of all the wrestlers who have ever worked for WWE. One of the factors that sticks out is win percentages of current talent.

1. El Torito 91.78%
2. Finn Bálor 88.46%
3. Charlotte 85.83%
4. John Cena 78.80%
5. Neville 78.00%

Interesting note No1. El Torito's 91.78% is the highest of any wrestler who has ever worked in WWE. Ever.

Also, Duke 'The Dumpster' Droese has a higher win % that Brock Lesnar.

by Dr Gregory House MD Sat 05 Mar 2016, 11:53 pm

Legendary Highflyer Hayabusa passed away on March 3rd aged 47

Real name Eiji Ezaki, he spent the early part of his career in Mexico before returning to FMW his home promotion as well as working for New Japan & All Japan among others

Career highlights include participating in the first Super J Cup and wrestling in front of a crowd of 55,000 for FMW founders Atsushi Onita's final match, he was also noted as the innovatore of the Falcon Arrow and the Pheonix Splash

His career ended after he was paralyzied following a botched springboard Moonsault though he was able to walk unaided by the end of his life

RIP to a Legend rose

by Samo Mon 07 Mar 2016, 8:45 am

Rumour: Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows are to skip NXT and go straight to the main roster. Debuts are expected around Mania time and they'll be coming up at the same time as Finn Balor - forming the Balor Club (possibly named Bulletproof)

by Samo Mon 07 Mar 2016, 7:36 pm

Big Boss Man is to be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame class of 2016.

by Fernando Mon 07 Mar 2016, 10:08 pm

Raw Spoiler:

by Dr Gregory House MD Mon 07 Mar 2016, 10:48 pm

Fernando wrote:
Raw Spoiler:

Spoiler:

by Fernando Mon 07 Mar 2016, 11:01 pm

Dr Gregory House MD wrote:
Fernando wrote:
Raw Spoiler:
Spoiler:

Spoiler:

by RinoGattuso Mon 07 Mar 2016, 11:33 pm

Samo wrote:Big Boss Man is to be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame class of 2016.

Would be good if Big Show inducted him. With a casket making an appearance.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 10 Mar 2016, 9:13 pm

NXT's lead writer "promoted" to Smackdown lead writer (hes been back and forth between the posts before)

WWE apparently interested in Okada.

Titus will quit WWE when his deal expires.

TMDK (House or someone will have to tell me more) apparently heading to WWE (said to be Haste and Nicholls? Enigma?)

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 10 Mar 2016, 9:13 pm

"Exactly how much of this is legit or exaggerated you can make up your own mind, but the Vince McMahon vs. HHH dynamic is something that everyone is talking about internally, even more since Shane McMahon appeared on the scene. The feeling is that if Shane McMahon actually does come back into the company in an executive capacity that it’ll be Vince playing Shane against HHH and Stephanie.

While publicly HHH will say Vince loves NXT, the internal perception is very different, seeing it as a touring brand filled with so many guys Vince doesn’t believe are money. We do know there was a lot of heat on HHH and complaints for not selling the Reigns beating in public, because he had to get his face on the NXT show in London knowing it would be a super show in front of that crowd and he didn’t want anyone to not know it was his creation and baby.

The questions regarding Reigns given how he’s not gotten over with HHH as his adversary for so long has led to plenty of finger pointing, although a lot of people pointed to the crotch chop on Raw as the sign HHH is no longer really behind the cause of getting Reigns over as a face. Perhaps that’s just paranoia and frustration, but the way Reigns was eliminated at the Rumble and the HHH/Reigns interaction with him has been curious to say the least."

by The_Enigma Thu 10 Mar 2016, 11:26 pm

In other news Ken Anderson has parted ways with TNA. Running his mouth as supposedly got himself into trouble again.

TMDK (The Mighty Don't Kneel) - Yeah that's two guys Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste who have both attended try-outs at various points over the past 12 months. In all honesty, they're a strange one. They were only used sparingly in ROH making a limited number of appearances but didn't really stand out. They have made quite an impression in Japan though by doing considerably well in NOAH and have started to make appearances in NJPW recently so I'm hoping they have improved and can offer the tag-team division something before undoubtedly splitting them up.

NXT Head Booker - Interesting move that. No doubt he'll have to see out and work with the current storylines he's been dealt with but it will be interesting to see if Smackdown start to get their own identity as opposed to being a fall-out show from whatever happens on RAW these days.

by Dr Gregory House MD Fri 11 Mar 2016, 12:23 am

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:NXT's lead writer "promoted" to Smackdown lead writer (hes been back and forth between the posts before)

WWE apparently interested in Okada.

Titus will quit WWE when his deal expires.

TMDK (House or someone will have to tell me more) apparently heading to WWE (said to be Haste and Nicholls? Enigma?)

Enigma filled in most of the back story on TMDK, they're a very talented tag team from Australia, they haven't really worked anywhere high profile regularly outside of NOAH but they were said to have impressed on their NXT tryout last year and if Haste hadn't gone down with a knee injury they'd probably be gone by now

I don't doubt WWE are interested in Okada but following the Nakamura/Styles situation NJPW were very public in sinking 200m yen (roughly 1.5 million dollars) over a 5 year deal, I'm not 100% sure he's signed it but if he has he obviously won't be able to go to WWE for the foreseeable future

by Samo Fri 11 Mar 2016, 4:18 am

Ken Anderson led the crowd in 'Frak TNA' chants at the recent ICW Friday Night Fight Club tapings.

by **Hero** Fri 11 Mar 2016, 7:18 am

Dirt-sheets are saying Ken Anderson was fired from TNA for being under the influence of drugs during a match.

by Marky Fri 11 Mar 2016, 9:07 am

Hero wrote:Dirt-sheets are saying Ken Anderson was fired from TNA for being under the influence of drugs during a match.

"Drugs" is such a vague description. It's like they're trying to make it sound worse than it probably is.

by Dr Gregory House MD Fri 11 Mar 2016, 10:40 am

Samo wrote:Ken Anderson led the crowd in 'Frak TNA' chants at the recent ICW Friday Night Fight Club tapings.

Bit rich considering he was comfortably the worst thing about TNA for the majority of his run, why ICW are bringing him in is beyond me

by **Hero** Fri 11 Mar 2016, 10:42 am

Marky wrote:
Hero wrote:Dirt-sheets are saying Ken Anderson was fired from TNA for being under the influence of drugs during a match.

"Drugs" is such a vague description. It's like they're trying to make it sound worse than it probably is.

Usually they're required to watch a Ken Anderson match.

by President Trump Fri 11 Mar 2016, 12:00 pm

Lucha Underground close to signing a deal with Netflix

by **Hero** Fri 11 Mar 2016, 12:09 pm

Lucha and chill?

by Marky Fri 11 Mar 2016, 12:15 pm

I prefer Netflix and Lucha

by Samo Fri 11 Mar 2016, 2:06 pm

Dr Gregory House MD wrote:
Samo wrote:Ken Anderson led the crowd in 'Frak TNA' chants at the recent ICW Friday Night Fight Club tapings.

Bit rich considering he was comfortably the worst thing about TNA for the majority of his run, why ICW are bringing him in is beyond me

A decent size name and a decent draw. The crowd were super into him on Sunday night. Cant like I marked out a bit for him.

by Dr Gregory House MD Fri 11 Mar 2016, 2:53 pm

Samo wrote:
Dr Gregory House MD wrote:
Samo wrote:Ken Anderson led the crowd in 'Frak TNA' chants at the recent ICW Friday Night Fight Club tapings.

Bit rich considering he was comfortably the worst thing about TNA for the majority of his run, why ICW are bringing him in is beyond me

A decent size name and a decent draw. The crowd were super into him on Sunday night. Cant like I marked out a bit for him.

No I don't, I used to respect you Samo

by Samo Fri 11 Mar 2016, 4:00 pm

by Samo Mon 21 Mar 2016, 6:08 pm

I doubt its newsworthy but I just discovered that Brock Lesnars iconic entrance music was originally the theme for the Chicago Enforcers in the XFL Laugh

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 24 Mar 2016, 4:42 pm

The potential reason that Jericho has been going at it with Nakamura on Twitter is to build up for a match between the two at Sumo Hall in July.

Bray Wyatt will be in the ARMBAR

by **Crimey** Thu 24 Mar 2016, 4:45 pm

He has to win it then. No point at all him being in it if he doesn't win it. I'd like to see the rest of the Wyatt family destroy everybody with Bray, then step out for him to win. I know Luke Harper is out though so that will make that harder.

I don't think they've actually got 30 people to fill it this year, unless some people do double duty or they use NXT guys.

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