Pro Wrestling Nostalgia Thread (2012)

[heeman82]

Totally met "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan at the P-Nats @ Frederick Keys game tonight. 

[Terpfan76]

Dude! Hacksaw was always one of my favorites.

[heeman82]

Dude! Hacksaw was always one of my favorites.

He is extremely fan-friendly.. Terrific guy.  My friend had the WCW TV Title belt with him for hacksaw to sign and I said, "look what my friend found in the trash can!". He loved it

[imref]

I had to watch Raw. I was so pumped for it.

It was pretty good. Some and hit and misses along the episode but a lot of the nostalgia was awesome.

i really liked the ending program with punk/rock.

[cmdterps44]

i really liked the ending program with punk/rock.

That heel turn was fantastic. Definitely one of the highlights of the current era for sure.

[Minty Fresh]

That heel turn was fantastic. Definitely one of the highlights of the current era for sure.

It was predictable. 

[cmdterps44]

It was predictable. 

He was going to eventually. He has been Face for way too long. He's much better as heel.

[hammondsnats]

i miss goldberg

[cmdterps44]

i miss goldberg

[imref]

Kane in anger management class on last night's raw was one of the great moments in wrestling television.

http://www.wwe.com/videos/daniel-bryan-receives-anger-management-class-raw-aug-27-2012-26048297

[Minty Fresh]

Kane in anger management class on last night's raw was one of the great moments in wrestling television.

Don't ruin it for me - I haven't watched it yet!

[imref]

Don't ruin it for me - I haven't watched it yet!

you'll enjoy it.  No spoilers here.

[hammondsnats]

the kane/daniel bryant thing from last night - was so out of the attitude era ... made for excellent TV ... i hope they keep that up.

with the exception of last night's end, it was a very good RAW in my opinion.

[JMW IV]

CM Punks current heel run has been a dud so far imo.

I know a lot of wrestling fans worship the ground he walks on an wont ever find fault with anything he does ever, but i am not one of them.

His current run as a heel is boring. Much preferred him as a face champion.

[hammondsnats]

CM Punks current heel run has been a dud so far imo.

I know a lot of wrestling fans worship the ground he walks on an wont ever find fault with anything he does ever, but i am not one of them.

His current run as a heel is boring. Much preferred him as a face champion.

he's well liked for a reason.  don't know why you would have beef with him.  not saying he's the best by any means, but he's a pretty good wrestler and tons of people like his character (heel or face).

[cmdterps44]

CM Punks current heel run has been a dud so far imo.

I know a lot of wrestling fans worship the ground he walks on an wont ever find fault with anything he does ever, but i am not one of them.

His current run as a heel is boring. Much preferred him as a face champion.

Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow have been better heel's than CM Punk so far. These current writers suck. Punk could be one of the best heel's but they just don't use him to the fullest.

Also, stop using Jerry Lawler in feuds.

[imref]

CM Punks current heel run has been a dud so far imo.

I know a lot of wrestling fans worship the ground he walks on an wont ever find fault with anything he does ever, but i am not one of them.

His current run as a heel is boring. Much preferred him as a face champion.

i thought he was terrible as a face, he has been nothing since the HHH angle/face turn after he first got hot.  I'm looking forward to heel Punk, hopefully teaming with Bryan.

[cmdterps44]

i thought he was terrible as a face, he has been nothing since the HHH angle/face turn after he first got hot.  I'm looking forward to heel Punk, hopefully teaming with Bryan.

The problem with him as a face was that the writers were making him super Punk... pretty much the same as Super Cena. It's annoying. Cena has ruined this company. I'm not saying I hate the guy but I hate the character Cena. He always seems to win. The company has placed him above the championships. He does the same moves over and over (also known as the 5 Moves of Death or 5MOD). And he has been the same character for almost 6 years now. They won't have any progression with the company until they're able to create something new and fresh with him rather than worrying about him selling merchandise.

Another character that they've ruined is Sheamus. That dude is so annoying now. He was pretty damn good as a heel but ever since his Brogue kick became his finisher, his matches are so predictable. He's the second Cena.


Anyway, I do think Bryan/Punk would be a good tag team. Supposedly they're teaming up at a house show coming up. I would love to see that.

I just can't stand how this PG era has killed off the almost all the charisma it had back in attitude era and into mid 2000's. There are some good moments on Raw every week but for the most part, I find myself bored with a lot of matches because they're so easy to determine.

Also, they've failed to have a bunch of high tier wrestlers like they did back in the day.

Attitude Era/Early 2000's

-Jericho
-HHH
-Undertaker
-Kane
-Rock
-Stone Cold
-Batista
-Cena
-Angle
-Brock Lesnar
-RVD
-Jeff Hardy
-Edge
-Benoit
etc, etc, etc.

Now we have:

High Tier:

-Cena
-Punk
-Randy Orton

Mid-High Tier:

- Sheamus
- Del Rio
- Bryan (could easily be high tier but they've failed to do much with him for now aside from his brilliant promos)
- Ziggler now
- Kane
- Big Show

Mid-Tier

- Miz

Low-Tier

-Everyone else

Then we have HHH, Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, and The Rock who don't compete consistently aside from major PPV's.

Develop more talent and do more with them, dammit. Make titles worth something. Remember how huge a character Jericho was but he competed for the intercontinental title? He's won it 11 times. It meant something.

Now its just another belt.

[cmdterps44]

I was impressed that they finally managed to create a low tier feud instead of worrying about Cena/Punk. The feud I'm referring to is Sandow and crappy fake Rikishi. They need to do more of these. Put Ryback in a good feud for once.

[JMW IV]

I laugh at people complaining about Cena's so called 5 moves of doom.

These folks must not have really watched wrestling the past 20 years or so because EVERY WWE wrestler has X Moves Of Doom. Every one.

Thats the WWE style and has been since the onset of the Attitude Era.

Its called a moveset. Everybody has one. Even your most beloved wrestlers of the attitude era.

This is not something that John Cena invented.

[JMW IV]

Also John Cena did not "ruin" the WWE. People go out of their way to spew hate at the guy, for pretty much no reason. All he does is go out and do his job, and pretty much no one works as hard for the company as he does. So he reaps the reward for that.

Linda McMahon ruined the WWE. Period.

[cmdterps44]

No crap everyone has a move set. But you must not be watching Cena and how unoriginal it is.

Shoulder Block
Shoulder Block
5 Knuckle Shuffle
Then the guy gets up and somehow always misses a right hook that turns into an AA.

Please enlighten me how every other wrestler does that crap.

And read my wall of crap again. I didn't say the person, John Cena, ruined it. I said the character Cena ruined it. That's the writers problem. They've created what he is and its garbage.

[hammondsnats]

I liked the orton/sheamus tag team match last night.

also let's get ryback in a fued with another menace like lesnar ... that dude is really over right now. 

[JMW IV]

Punch punch spit punch
ddt
Spinebuster
peoples elbow
Rock bottom

And actually, the right hook doesnt turn into an AA, it turns into that powerbombish thingy he does. Which turns into a 5 knuckle shuffle.

I just find it funny that he gets all this venomous hate for doing the whole predictable babyface comeback when ever face in wrestling since hulkamania has done it and nobody ever complains.

Its like people forgot that wrestling existed before john cena.

[JMW IV]

But again cmd, the character of John Cena didnt ruin anything.

I dont know why you cant past your Cena Sucks tshirt to realize this.

There is one person responsible for the state of the WWE.

Linda McMahon.

You want the attitude era back? Move to massachusetts and vote for her opponent.

Otherwise, learn to love PG Supercenaland.