Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

It's unlikely they will be. They, according to their manager are meeting next week to set up and start 3 weeks of pre-production for their 7th studio album, to start tracking it for the end of April.

Doubt they'd want any outside distractions.

What is it about Dolph Ziggler that WWE doesn't give him much of a chance on top? I mean he ticks off the boxes for someone who could be an effective main event for the company yet WWE always keep him in a certain position, never really taking a chance or giving him a big push. I mean he's very good in the ring, good on the mic, he has a decent look and he's a veteran of WWE too. Seems like the only chance he ever had was when he won the world heavyweight championship from Edge, but even his world title reign was lackluster because of his booking.

28 years ago today wrestle mania 10 happened from MSG. There is the amazing opener with Owen hart vs Bret hart which imo is the best opening match in mania history, and we had the IC title ladder match with HBK vs the late Scott hall(that still feels weird) and the macho man vs Crush in a match that sounded better on paper than in reality which was a shame.

and we had Bret hart win the world title to end the night and this time no hogan to steal the spotlight. I do wish the ending was better, because Yoko falling off the second rope by himself was stupid. We had the woman’s title match between Alundra Blaze and Leilani Kai which is now the only match from that night where all the competitors are still alive.

Is it just me or does Carmella have the worst case of go away heat? She's done the same gimmick since she debuted, small deviations not withstanding, and now an awful reality tv show.

Apart from the post mania crowd it was mostly crickets after though. He could connect with smart fans but not the regular joe soaps in the crowd and so never got to the next level. If becky hadn’t hit on “the man” gimmick we would be saying the same about her today. Workrate and talent don’t mean a thing unless they find that something special for the crowd to get behind,

look at reigns, he had the full force of the Company behind him for years but only properly clicked with the tribal chief gimmick. Good worker, well liked but in no way over till then,

That's sad about Scott Hall. Says he was laying on the floor for a few days with the broken hip. That basically says he didn't really have anyone in his life. Fair play to DDP for checking in on him.

Sad. Like Scott Hall is a legend in wrestling. He wrestled in front of thousands of people around the world at one point, to having THOUSANDS of fans... to when that was all long ended, getting high/drunk/whatever during the pandemic (as Waltman eludes to) as it hit him hard (assume being on his own) to laying there for a few days also on his own injured.

Looking back on Booker T's in-ring work, he was pretty a unique wrestler in that he had the body of a heavyweight but used a lot of cruiserweight type moves in his arsenal, and was very agile in the ring. I don't if Booker is underrated but he's a guy who tends to get overlooked when people talk about great in-ring performers.

He had a great look, a lot of charisma, a cool finisher (Does anyone use the Elijah Express? They should) and a cracking theme.

It's strange how they're just doing nothing with Alexa given how much of a focus she was a few months ago. She's solid enough in the ring and obviously looks like a movie star so I'm not sure why they wouldn't make use of her.

They rushed her back for the Saudi show when they had no further plans for her, especially since they didn't even bother changing her character.

Trish still looks incredible. Fair play to her.

35 years ago today at this moment wrestle mania 3 was taking place and this is the opening and even though I’ve watched this so many times, that initial look at the silver dome is iconic. And no I don’t think there was 93,173 there but neither do I believe the 78,000 number that meltzer and others have put out. I say that because the stated capacity for NFL blackout rules by the lions was just short of 81,000 so I don’t see nearly three thousand empty seats. The wwf and the silver dome did put out a press release six days before the event saying it had sold 88,000 tickets which doesn’t sound that off.

The only thing I didn't like about him was the drag factor of being paired with Sylvester Terkay the Manbearpig. Only found out about his botch reputation long after he was gone from WWE but I don't recall seeing it at the time as opposed to your Sin Caras and such.

I was never really gone on Burke/Pope, he just had that type of charisma that seemed incredibly forced.

I'm a genuine believer that the cream rises if they're committed enough. Just look at LA Knight as a comparison, gave it socks on a free YouTube channel not so long ago, on the same show as Pope and around the same age, and now he's surely about to be a post Mania call up.

It's 10 years ago since WrestleMania 28 happened.

It was one of the those WrestleMania where the road to it was amazing, but the show itself was not all that great.