The Official "Pro Wrestling" Thread

[mankvill]

This would be awesome if only I knew who the 2 wrestlers were supposed to be.

[adamclark52]

Originally Posted by mankvill

This would be awesome if only I knew who the 2 wrestlers were supposed to be.

That actually is hilarious. The guy with the beard is Danial Bryan and the other guy is Kane.

[BloodoftheKings]

Kane is part of a tag team? And he's wearing the mask again?

[PVH5150]

Originally Posted by BloodoftheKings

Kane is part of a tag team? And he's wearing the mask again?

Kane returned masked at the end of 2011.
And he's been teaming with Daniel Bryan for 4 or 5 months.
Their name is Team Hell No.

[JRA]

Isn't the winner of the Rumble only supposed to get a shot at the Smackdown title?

[adamclark52]

Originally Posted by JRA

Isn't the winner of the Rumble only supposed to get a shot at the Smackdown title?

It's been blurred over the years but I remember it being for a main-event title shot at Wrestlemania, at whichever title. But the last few years it seems like it's resulted in someone going after the Smackdown title, and the last couple years it's been the curtain-jerking match (first on the card).

[Sinister_Chalupa666]

I give the show a 4 out 5 even though everyone and their mother knew the outcome of today's Rumble and title match.

Pre-Show match-Cesaro vs Miz was pretty good. Looked like Miz really fucked his leg(later they said ankle) so we will see what happens with that. Cesaro looked dominate still and I am loving that he is starting to get over with the fans. Dude got a nice pop after he pinned Miz. I really like Cesaro and would make a good champion with some work.

Del Rio vs Big Show- was a fine LMS match. Good ending to it and made Del Rio believable about beating the giant. Still think this is setting up for Ziggler to cash in and win at the Chamber PPV or WM. Either way Ziggler should make a good WHC on Smackdown.

Team Hello No vs RhodeScholars- real good tag match.I love when these two teams match up cause they bring the best out of each other. I thought this was the night that THN would drop the titles but guess not

Royal Rumble-Like someone said earlier that this should have been last. It's called the Royal Rumble for a reason and it's supposed to be the main event. Just shows how WWE works and think that stars aka Rock are bigger than this event. It was still a pretty good rumble though. At times it looked unpredictable but as soon as you saw the last three wrestlers in the ring...well the excitement went out the window. For me at least cause I knew who would win. I did like seeing Jericho return and Goldust coming back was awesome.

Main Event:

Rock vs Punk- Was not a bad match. You could tell Rock has trouble with these kind of wrestlers since they are more than the average joe big man type. Punk's unorthodox style pushed him to the limits and maybe the next match they do will be better. Was still pretty cool to see this match since I never thought I would. I liked the little mini submission wrestling they did for a good couple minutes. other than that I was pretty shocked Punk won but as soon as Vince came out the excitement left me again. I knew Rock would get his second chance and win the belt and that's what happened.

Was hoping Punk would win and then drop the belt at the Chamber PPV to Rock but guess not. Overall it was still a solid PPV even if the outcome was known before hand. Solid matches all around a and fun Rumble.

[Sinister_Chalupa666]

Also just found this out.

"Shelton Benjamin and Carlito did not return in the Rumble match, despite previous reports. PWInsider reports that the two ended up being booked at the same hotel WWE used because they were in town for an indy show."

And I was excited for nothing lol.

[BloodoftheKings]

Originally Posted by PVH5150

Kane returned masked at the end of 2011.
And he's been teaming with Daniel Bryan for 4 or 5 months.
Their name is Team Hell No.

It doesn't surprise me that much that they would switch the character back to his original form (kinda like what they did with the Undertaker after that whole biker gimmick phase) but in the years I watched wrassling Kane was always a loner. It's kind of weird to think of him being in a tag team unless it's with another character who has some kind of demon gimmick.

[PVH5150]

Originally Posted by BloodoftheKings

It doesn't surprise me that much that they would switch the character back to his original form (kinda like what they did with the Undertaker after that whole biker gimmick phase) but in the years I watched wrassling Kane was always a loner. It's kind of weird to think of him being in a tag team unless it's with another character who has some kind of demon gimmick.

Surprisingly, he's been tag champion in one form or another 11 times.

Twice with Mankind, Big Show, Undertaker & X-Pac and once with Daniel Bryan, The Hurricane and Rob Van Dam.

The runs with Mankind & X-Pac were both pretty early on in the Kane character. He debuted at the end of '97 and the title runs were in '98 and '99.