Rolling 2014 Haunted Rocking Chair Thread

i think hulu streams NXT eps legally a few days after airing?

thx ahh.

i'm in britain so can't do hulu, will have to keep things extralegal.

also, lol at 'wild' ian campbell. he appeared in corrie - http://coronationstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Ian_Campbell

well that was exciting

i watched it only coz i happened to be awake, expecting v little from anything but dean v bray. that match was a bit underwhelming, but the main event was shockingly great.

Black Friday came early this year:

http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2014/11/27/7298557/cm-punk-story-walking-out-on-wwe

Well that's fucking worth listening to.

Hopefully it causes the wwe to sort out their medic situation because fuuuuck me that sounds horrible and other sports are getting it in the arse about concussions etc. so why not wrestling too?

I'm pretty certain that punk said vince lied to shareholders about him, as well as talking openly about how he had to sue them for withholding payment to an injured and mistreated employee. Wonder what that'll do to the share price, after having to give away one of the big 4 for free this month too.

Ryback is gonna be the biggest heel in the company this Monday.

Also its fascinating to see just how fucking amateur and carny it all still is inside, in 2014, after fucking everything. I guess that only ends with Vince dying but Punk makes it seem like Hunter isn't much better/less carny.

I listened to it today, the written recaps on all the news sites don't do it justice.

He doesn't sound at all like a guy trying to settle scores and shovel dirt on people, which is the impression I got from reading the recaps.

The most negative thing I can say is about his strange fixation with wrestling in the main event at Mania. It's kind of like saying if you don't win the Nobel Prize in your field then your career was a failure. On one hand he was trying to politic himself into the main event and on the other hand he admits that it was Daniel Bryan's year and that he deserved it.

If anyone still doubts that wrestlers need an offseason, they need to hear this interview.

As for Vince and HHH, this confirms pretty much everything we've heard about them in a million different interviews, only more so. Vince always comes across as a father figure who has the respect of the locker room even though the wrestlers know they're getting screwed over. HHH hasn't been one of the boys for over fifteen years and so nobody trusts him, outside of a few close allies. HHH is probably a genius when it comes to storylines and angles, mapping out the matches, and forward thinking stuff like the Performance Center, but he's a disaster with interpersonal relations.

https://33.media.tumblr.com/14bb00c22be2351d94ef6e6037b0d5de/tumblr_ng2vfvxvC31swlf6ho2_1280.gif

just look at the sincerity of those crowd reactions

WRASSLIN

going to chikara tmmrw nite :D

I'll be watching that CHIKARA show from the comfort of my home office so hold up a sign or something.

this is fantastic. I'm in the second row wearing a phillies cap and a goat tshirt

recently got 100% way too much back into wwe after years of mostly ignoring it and i watched 1 episode of lucha underground and i'm about ready to abandon wwe forever again

would it be weird to have a LU thread in the WWE board/why is it just a WWE board

Considering there's one active thread and six people in it talk about what you want.

ok

lucha underground is good!

LU is so good btw, u are most otm

i want to talk about chikara - it was so good. it's really goofy and fun and the crowd is amazing - chanting the entire time, cheering. the best match i saw was the Devastation Corporation tag team vs the Throwbacks for tag team title - the latter lost it to the former but the entire match was really fantastic + exciting, i took a mark pic w/ the Throwbacks after the show and they were like 'you should've gotten a pic with us when we had the titles' :( the storylines are very fun + weird. a lot of bizarre gimmicks. this guy delirious, painted all in green, fought ultra mantis (who was super over w/ the crowd, wearing a praying mantis lucha mask) w/ loser leaves chikara and after the match delirious mind controlled two friends of ultra mantis and the crowd chanted, "fight it! fight it! fight it!" but exhortations didn't help. later in this huge torneo cibernetico match they had like a 7 vs 7 and part of the story involved all these ant luchas on the face team and this one estranged ant heel on the heel team and when FireAnt finally faced off against SoldierAnt at the end of the match the crowd chanted "hug it out" which i thought was really sweet. they obvs didn't hug it out. anyway it was like NXT++ like all the goofy, fun, parts of NXT with a mix of styles. also the first match was a mixed gender match for the chikara young lions cup and heidi lovelace won which was pretty cool and one of the things i really like about LU too with Sexy Star competing against the men. it's a good look.

oh wait i missed the main event which was their second cage match in history and it was this super heel (big hossy dude wearing all-black contact lenses) who has apparently "killed" chikara athletes and he squared off against this guy icarus who did a lot of cage climbing that was neat. anyway - after icarus defeated him the good guys of chikara who had come out to watch the match and cheer for icarus passed him this giant thor-like hammer and icarus hit the super heel w/ it and dude lied down and didn't move until the entire arena cleared out at the end of the show. he just lied there.

and i still didn't mention this heel manager, Sidney Bakabella, who is hilarious w/ this super obv fake toupee (that he lost at some point during a scuffle) who just banters ongoingly w/ the crowd throughout the match making these over the top heel manager comments and rubbing his fingers together in the money sign.

so i guess what i'm saying is i super marked out

wow @ LU's main event this week

fucking facebook news sidebar spoils NXT for me jfc

ok watching a stream of nxt R.E.V-olu-t:ion and i'm so hyped from sasha/charlotte that i can't even start the main event, that was incredible (except the result :( )

Whole event was pretty damn good.

yeah lol zayn/neville was also incredible and this is just so astronomically better than WWE right now. it's gonna be tragic watching them screw all this up once those two (and owens and banks and charlotte and finn and hideo) get promoted.

I love the Vaudevillains, too.

i honestly don't really remember that match which says a lot about this event

just watched the NXT ep - so good u guys otm

epitome of everything wrong w/WWE rn: (does anyone even watch smackdown) kidd/cesaro jobbing to the usos immediately following a promo where they address the brass ring podcast, in a match where it would've made perfect storyline sense for the usos to lose (the miz is getting into jimmy's head! it's messing him up and affecting his performance! these things were immediately addressed in the promo right after! it meant nothing for them to win! they weren't even acting like they won! it would've enhanced the story and the buildup to TLC if they'd lost! and cesaro and tyson could actually catch a break!) but because i guess PPVs are the only things that matter now, the 8 wrestlers WWE cares about have to either lose to their upcoming TLC opponents or beat everyone else

this is why i shouldn't watch wrestling

also the past literally one thousand main events resulting in a cena/authority fuckfest who even gives a fuck

lol watching raw or smackdown

also lol at how i only know the stupid name or date of the ppv cos of nxt. tables ladders and chairs and also stairs starring not the champion, bryan or the superstar of the year who had a match with randy orton once who is also not there i guess.

nxt was dope. kill steen kill. or fight owens fight i guess. also balor's entrance makes him the new undertaker right? i'm already excited about him at wm32. shame he's already made kenta seem like a second thought.

he teased the GTS and everyone marked out, hopefully better things are coming for him. finn should really be promoted asap (he's 33!) so kenta can stop getting overshadowed.

also the body paint's only gonna be brought out for special events which makes it so much better.

first TLC response to NXT: DIFFERENTLY PAINTED STARDUST

idk why but i'm watching this (in background tho bc iggles game is in half hour) - kinda excited for luke harper v. dolph and i think cena v. rollins will be good

luke harper is a chikara alum

lol harper nonchalantly dropping the ladder on ziggler

usos are snoozeville

usos dressed like they're all ready for the kids choice awards

the boring future of wwe saves the boring present of wwe

Reigns v. Lesnar at Wrestlemania is gonna suck.

nikki wins via sleeping gas

An apt metaphor for this PPV vs the audience.

I keep forgetting who is on the card.

Anyone else still kind of watching? And hating themselves for doing so?

still watching! deeeeeean

i bailed when big show came out

Dean v Wyatt better be good

oh yeah i wanted to see that. i think i'll tune back in

well that all went about exactly as expected

Perfectly fine slices of bread with a steaming pile in between. Worst PPV in some time which is really saying something