Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

Ric Flair vs Hogan in 2022 could become a reality

Jesus

Randomly came across Stone Cold talking about the death of Chyna from 2016. It's already been 6 years since she past on April 17th 2016.

Stone Cold said someone rang him up hours before the news came out to let him know she passed. Wouldn't name the person, referred to as them and this person etc. You would be half thinking it was Triple H or X-Pac with him being coy about it. Not that it makes any difference.

Went on to say at a TV taping (raw) it was Austin, Chyna and Billy Gunn vs the radicals. A road agent tells Chyna that she and Billy gunn come out but wait at the ramp for stone cold before getting in the ring (radicals are already in the ring at this point). According to Steve chyna says why would we do that? We would get in the ring and fight them. Steve says that he was thinking "hello I am stone cold the biggest cat in the business right now" but respected and liked how she was willing to stand up and protect her character.

I searched for the match online and I think Steve slightly misremembered things (dude has had 1000s of matches to be fair) and it was the rock, Steve Austin, chyna and Billy gunn vs the radicals from raw. Chyna and Billy Gunn jump in the ring and it's 4 on 2. Then Rock and Steve make the save.

Austin then talks about how he was wrestling triple h in Germany. Says he gave triple h and chyna the stunner. Usual deal. A fan jumps in the ring and beats down on Steve (which Austin immediately thought it was a rib and one of the other guys backstage coming out) quickly realises it's not but triple h grabs the fan and gives him a german suplex and both the ref and hunter start wailing on this guy lol. The clip is on YouTube.

I've seen that video of Triple H suplexing the fan. Normally I wouldn't expect HHH to do something like that but I'd forgotten that Triple H had a bit of a wild side about him back then. Probably came from hanging with the Kliq.

WWE has a ppv on Sunday. You'd never know it.

Cody Vs Seth isn't actually going to be the main event is it, Jesus that's weak.

That's money in the bank, this is hell in a cell, so the fair comparison is that there's still tickets on sale for this in Chicago, where their main competitor has a ppv they sold out in well under an hour 3 weeks later.

Ah ye fair, and ye the lack of buzz around the company in general at the moment pretty much shows in how little anyone is talking about this ppv and how few tickets MITB sold despite their attempt to shoehorn in another stadium show.

Yeah it was bad alright. Here is a little short refresher I found on YouTube if anyone wants to watch.

There was no need for Cena to say those things. We all know the story, wwe was buttering his bread, so he would be pro wwe when challenged with them being accused of being homophobes (which they were for the Boy George thing) but he could have handled it a million other ways to kiss ass but not bury Kanyon either.

Interesting that he ran as a Republican (Although he was initially a Democrat). Always seems to be the Republican wrestlers who end up going the political route.

Stolen from Reddit. From 2018 to 2022. Serious transformation...

He should get the NXT belt just because of that clothesline.

Was at AIW in Cleveland Friday night and met the Franchise Shane Douglas. He's looking great and is sound out. He was saying that back in the ECW days, one of their top merch guys was from Cork and apparently he was as good as Don West at shifting it at the shows. Thought that was pretty random.

This day 15 years ago the Benoit tragedy was discovered when police went to the home after WWE became concerned about the families welfare. Still remember seeing Vince standing in the ring in the empty arena in Corpus Christi, Texas on what was meant to be a special episode for the Mr McMahon character dying the week before on raw. That obviously didn’t happen and we would learn the horrible truth the next day.