Pro Wrasslin' Thread: I don't know what I just saw

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Uh...Career Builder ad?  Now Mattel?  Total Divas?   Is this Raw?

Where's

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Jesus everyone is so gigantic in these old WCW clips.

Lex, Buff, Steiner, Kronik, Goldberg, The NBTs, Mike Awesome, Rey Jr., Konnan, are all ridiculously juiced up. Lance Storm swears he never did steroids but that seems hard to believe to me.

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Nakamura was stiff as fuck to the point of being borderline reckless in that match





4 WWE shows in a row and a AEW show in the span of 6 days for Chicago what the fuck

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Jesus everyone is so gigantic in these old WCW clips.

Lex, Buff, Steiner, Kronik, Goldberg, The NBTs, Mike Awesome, Rey Jr., Konnan, are all ridiculously juiced up. Lance Storm swears he never did steroids but that seems hard to believe to me.

Who wasn't on the juice back then?  Jericho?  Flair?

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Jesus everyone is so gigantic in these old WCW clips.

Lex, Buff, Steiner, Kronik, Goldberg, The NBTs, Mike Awesome, Rey Jr., Konnan, are all ridiculously juiced up. Lance Storm swears he never did steroids but that seems hard to believe to me.

Who wasn't on the juice back then?  Jericho?  Flair?

Flair definitely wasn't as he wasn't active in the ring and wasn't even working out. Jericho definitely was on steroids at various points of his career.


Adam Cole's schedule has been fucking ridiculous the past 2-3 weeks.

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Is Mauro not on the show because Corey Grave subtweeted him?

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Is Mauro not on the show because Corey Grave subtweeted him?

What happened?

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https://411mania.com/wrestling/mauro-ranallo-deletes-twitter-account-following-tweets-from-corey-graves/

 

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UPDATE: Mauro Ranallo did not appear on Sunday night’s Survivor Series after he deleted his Twitter account, possibly over the tweets from Graves. Michael Cole addressed Ranallo’s absence from the show, saying that Ranallo was so passionate at NXT Takeover: WarGames that he “blew his voice out.”

ORIGINAL: Mauro Ranallo has deleted his Twitter account following posts to the platform made by Corey Graves that may have been critical of his commentary work at NXT Takeover: WarGames. Ranallo called last night’s NXT Takeover show alongside Nigel McGuinness and Beth Phoenix, and Graves posted to his Twitter account suggesting that Pheonix and McGuinness were either not getting a chance to talk or weren’t getting their deserved praise. He also suggested that there were “far too many” references to Chicago rap, as you can see below.

Ranallo has been open about his living witb bipolar disorder, which was the focus of Showtime’s Bipolar Rock N’ Roller documentary. Frank Shamrock, who is Ranallo’s manager and friend, replied to Graves with a retort about the Smackdown announcer’s tweets:

https://twitter.com/frankshamrock/status/1198673278367346688

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Cole fucking up: "A spectral, demonic creature.  The Miz."

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ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING RED LIGHTING

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Corey really shouldn't be subtweeting co-workers to complain about them or their performances, but he's right, Mauro does completely overrun his partners and goes way, way overboard with the constant references no matter how inorganic they are. But if Mauro's reaction anytime someone isn't into what he's doing is to have a dramatic blow up and bail on work to avoid a confrontation, maybe he shouldn't do social media at all because it's certainly not just a co-worker he sees once every 4 months who has something like that to say about him online.

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Mood lighting is the fucking worst. It was terrible with Kane in 1997, terrible with Sin Cara, terrible  with The Fiend.

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God the Fiend fucking sucks. It's literally just Bray Wyatt in a Slipknot mask who no sells finishers

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Glad that mess is over.  Hope this Brock match is a quick squash on Mysterio so we can move the fuck on already.

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More like hopefully Rey cripples Brock and we don't have to see Brock until Wrestlemania

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More like hopefully Rey cripples Brock and we don't have to see Brock until Wrestlemania

Either way works!

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Wait...is the Brock/Mystero match going to be the main event??

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I read something that the women's triple threat was likely going to main event

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WALTER on team NXT?

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The crowd changing "WALTER" is a unique chant, Nigel?

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Whose fucking idea was it to put Ricochet in a body suit

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WHAT THE FUCK

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WALTER eliminated that fast 

Whose fucking idea was it to put Ricochet in a body suit

Nightwing outfit!

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Ricochet wears the most awful shit. Does he dress himself or does Vince do this because the kids love the supes? It’s so clearly terrible that I can’t believe someone under the age of 70 would think this would go over.

Keep that fanteen wank shit on AEW.

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Dude has an 8 pack and cool tats and every time I've seen him for 6 months he's covered up to his chin

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He's only worn the full bodysuit like this like 2-3 times counting tonight. 

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I like that they teased Owens having some loyalty to NXT, but then Ciampa eliminates him. 

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Damien did nothing- why was he on the team?

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He's only worn the full bodysuit like this like 2-3 times counting tonight. 

Well I don't watch TV and the only PPV I've seen in full since WM is Summerslam, so the only times I see Ricochet is on a PPV or last week when he popped up on NXT and he was wearing a shirt  for that too.

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These inter team conflicts have been done so terribly and inorganically and illogically. in all the matches.

Also lmao at smark central Chicago cheering for Roman and booing Rollins.

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Why would Roman take out Corbin? 

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Also lmao at smark central Chicago cheering for Roman and booing Rollins.

The lesser of two evils, there- they're booing both of them now!

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Does Seth wear deadlift straps as wrist bands

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Is that chant "pro wrestling is boring?"  I can never tell.

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Crowd ecstatic that Rollins is out 

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Mexican Joker

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Rey Mysterio is about to RISE UP

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Paul Heyman is so fucking fat

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I haven’t been paying much attention: is Rey intentionally dressed like Doink or is this just another unfortunate costume decision?

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I haven’t been paying much attention: is Rey intentionally dressed like Doink or is this just another unfortunate costume decision?

Joker costume.

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OK, that shit is over with...for now.  Dirt sheet rumors about no titles changing hands and all feuds continuing appear to be true. 

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Tbh Brock losing the title after a frog splash from Eddie Guerrero's son and then Rey Mysterio in 2019 would have been incredible.

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I haven’t been paying much attention: is Rey intentionally dressed like Doink or is this just another unfortunate costume decision?

Joker costume.

I don’t think you can do a Joker look in wrestling without it reading as Doink.

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I haven’t been paying much attention: is Rey intentionally dressed like Doink or is this just another unfortunate costume decision?

Joker costume.

I don’t think you can do a Joker look in wrestling without it reading as Doink.

True, but it's Joker.  He does comic book-themed ring gear. 

Hey, Ricochet is ripping him off!

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Does he? I don’t think I ever knew him for that, but I wasn’t watching wrestling at all during his big WWE years.

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https://www.thesportster.com/wrestling/rey-mysterio-comic-book-costumes/




The Silver Surfer one


Meanwhile, Ricochet is a confirmed weeb since he has had manga-themed gear.

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Shayna wins, NXT wins, Becky is a sore loser

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Holy shit, I’ve only been idly paying attention and I just realized this random hillbilly he’s talking to is the fucking Undertaker. I don’t think I’ve seen him out of character before. He sounds like just another teenage sheep rapist.

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Holy shit, I’ve only been idly paying attention and I just realized this random hillbilly he’s talking to is the fucking Undertaker. I don’t think I’ve seen him out of character before. He sounds like just another teenage sheep rapist.

 

What are you watching?

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Holy shit, I’ve only been idly paying attention and I just realized this random hillbilly he’s talking to is the fucking Undertaker. I don’t think I’ve seen him out of character before. He sounds like just another teenage sheep rapist.

 

What are you watching?

Ergh, sorry, whatever Steve Austin show was on after SS. He was interviewing Taker out of character.

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Maaaaaaaaan, you can tell Vince is desperate to murder AEW with all of the finishes tonight, the only real match NXT lost was the men's survivor series match, and they even had the Fist Bump of Mutual Respect™ between Reigns and Keith Lee after the match.

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https://twitter.com/shirai_io/status/1198823097681489920 

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https://twitter.com/ForcedGet/status/1198783872911257600

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On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed the Mauro Ranallo situation and how Ranallo deactivated his Twitter and ended up not working the Survivor Series PPV despite being scheduled for it after a tweet directed to him by peer Corey Graves. Meltzer noted that Ranallo and his friend/manager Frank Shamrock were very upset but he didn’t quit and things are “fine” between Ranallo and WWE and that he is expected to be there on Wednesday in his regular spot at the NXT commentary booth. Meltzer went on to say that WWE wasn’t happy with Graves though he wasn’t taken off of Survivor Series while the company is sympathetic towards Ranallo and don't want him to quit or leave.

Graves for his part must have heard the report by Meltzer and had this to say:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WWEGraves/status/1199016032452653058

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Bryan Alvarez also got involved, Graves sniped him as well, and Rusev got in on it by posting Mike Jones' phone number

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You can tell that some people (probably Vince) are really high on Rhea and Keith Lee, and I've never been more terrified in my life for wrestlers I'm a fan of to get a push because 1) this is latter days of the Roman Empire Vince, so it will suck and 2) nice things NEVER HAPPEN FOR ME OR BY EXTENSION PEOPLE I LIKE, so

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I doubt Vince gives a shit about Keith Lee but I'm sure he's itching to pull Rhea up and change her entire persona into taller Ruby Riott and then have her on Main Event feuding with Dana Brooke after 4 months.

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I think you underestimate Vince's desire to give Keith Lee a goofy dancing gimmick

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This new version of the Austin podcast on Network with Taker is fucking weird. Taker with high kind of high whiny real redneck voice talking about marking out for The Sheik and Andre, using weird Texas idioms.