Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:17 am  

I have a confesion to make. After always bagging it as being second rate, I am actually getting into TNA and I can see me prefering it to the WWE.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:45 am  

Codarmysaint wrote:

I have a confesion to make. After always bagging it as being second rate, I am actually getting into TNA and I can see me prefering it to the WWE.

They put on a good show this week, plus Jay Lethal is back and Samoa Joe will be back soon judging by the short video that was shown with him saying "they have spoken and the results will be different, very different"

The ratings in the UK have gone way up especially since January, they are down in the US though due to switching to Mondays while WWE was near Wrestlemania, hopefully they will go up again now.

This week the following matches have been announced for iMPACT! that is 1 hour earlier and Live in the US.

Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Anderson in a Ladder Match
"The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero and Desmond Wolfe
Tara, Angelina Love, ODB and Hamada vs. Daffney, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich
X Division Gauntlet Match

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:09 am  

The Band is back

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:24 am  

Up the Dons wrote:

if HBK ever wrestles again i want am apolgy from all the Flair bashing, he's ENTITLED to earn a living FFS

Eh?! Read part of an interview the other day with HBK, he wasn't bashing Flair at all.

End of the day it is appauling that Flair has gone to TNA and basically thrown everything HBK & WWE did back at them. The whole thing they did in 2008 must mean f'all to him.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:25 am  

V For Vendetta wrote:

Reports out that Chris Kanyon has died aged 40, apparant suicide.

OMG. RIP Kanyon if the reports are correct, talented wrestler and came across as a nice guy in the RF shoot interview I've got.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:21 am  

Roofs wrote:

Eh?! Read part of an interview the other day with HBK, he wasn't bashing Flair at all.

End of the day it is appauling that Flair has gone to TNA and basically thrown everything HBK & WWE did back at them. The whole thing they did in 2008 must mean f'all to him.

Do you really believe that? The reason Flair has gone to TNA is blatantly obvious, he has no choice. I'm sure he would love to be in a position to retire.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:41 pm  

JTR wrote:

Do you really believe that? The reason Flair has gone to TNA is blatantly obvious, he has no choice. I'm sure he would love to be in a position to retire.

Yeah I do. To be honest I find it impossible to sympathise with Flair - he lived like a king in the 80's & 90's with the limo's, suits, partying etc. At his peak I bet he was one of the highest paid wrestlers in the world. God knows what he earned from his 'retirement' match with HBK.
End of the day he could have stayed with WWE under a Legends contract or been an on-screen performer (e.g. a manager) to earn money, but he just can't be without that spotlight.
If he's skint now after the money he would have earned over the years it's his own fault.
The way he's tarnished his legacy over the last 10 years is one of the reason's why I feel that HBK is the greatest of all-time, not Flair.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:31 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Yeah I do. To be honest I find it impossible to sympathise with Flair - he lived like a king in the 80's & 90's with the limo's, suits, partying etc. At his peak I bet he was one of the highest paid wrestlers in the world. God knows what he earned from his 'retirement' match with HBK.
End of the day he could have stayed with WWE under a Legends contract or been an on-screen performer (e.g. a manager) to earn money, but he just can't be without that spotlight.
If he's skint now after the money he would have earned over the years it's his own fault.
The way he's tarnished his legacy over the last 10 years is one of the reason's why I feel that HBK is the greatest of all-time, not Flair.

100% spot on

hbk may have been a prick over the years but least he knows when to give up. no doubt hbk will be there to manage if he wanted to do that sort of work

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:50 pm  

Chris Kanyon founs dead in his apartment Friday night. Aparently suicide as a result of his bi-polar disorder.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:20 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Yeah I do. To be honest I find it impossible to sympathise with Flair - he lived like a king in the 80's & 90's with the limo's, suits, partying etc. At his peak I bet he was one of the highest paid wrestlers in the world. God knows what he earned from his 'retirement' match with HBK.
End of the day he could have stayed with WWE under a Legends contract or been an on-screen performer (e.g. a manager) to earn money, but he just can't be without that spotlight.
If he's skint now after the money he would have earned over the years it's his own fault.
The way he's tarnished his legacy over the last 10 years is one of the reason's why I feel that HBK is the greatest of all-time, not Flair.

I really don't care for Flair at all myself, not in the slightest. My point is all this talk about his retirement in WWE meaning nothing to him is nothing short of rubbish. A legends contract is not going to get a skint man through life.

Steve51 wrote:

Chris Kanyon founs dead in his apartment Friday night. Aparently suicide as a result of his bi-polar disorder.

Very sad to hear