Thrill-House Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Yet another stellar RAW! I think a 3 hour RAW is a bad idea as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slender Man Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Honestly, Cyndi Lauper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllHailSmyl Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I remember watching Raw back in 97-2000. The way some of those episodes ended made you wanting more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slender Man Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 If anyone missed it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI3hHcDJ7W0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grapefruits Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 - Brock Lesnar is being advertised for August 13th WWE RAW Supershow, the week before SummerSlam. This is the only upcoming show that Lesnar is currently advertised for, so it's likely that Paul Heyman will continue to appear on WWE television as his representative. Even though Paul Heyman rejected Triple H's challenge to Lesnar for a match at SummerSlam, the match will indeed headline WWE's "biggest party of the summer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanuck14 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I liking the PTP team, they looked like monsters in the ring with Primo and Epico. I sort of see some potential for the tag-team division but WWE likes to frack up things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckbeliever Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I agree...problem is it isn't 97-00 anymore, and the talent isn't at the same level as those years. They actually focused on the mid-card and tag team divisions better then. I almost spat out my drink in shock that an actual "Tag Team" was introduced yesterday that performed like a tag team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllHailSmyl Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 It is not about the talent. Most people in the wrestling business agree that there is a lot more talent than there ever was back then. However, the problem is guys do not get properly built because the writers at WWE creative are a bunch of idiots who used to write soaps. There have been chances to develop legit stars in Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, the nexus crew, Alberto Del Rio, Sheamus/others and all these guys are talented but the problem is that the idiot writers give them a push and then for some reason stop. The difference between now and then was writers gave constant pushes to guys and that was even if they were not getting over. Fun fact, the Rock did not get fully over until he became the Rock, Stone Cold did not get over for a year and it took Triple H nearly 2 years before he fully got over. The thing about those writing teams was when they gave someone a push they set there mind to it and would do everything within there power to have them go over. The second problem is that the story lines and angles are absolute crap. Again thats a problem you will have when your primary writers (minus Michael Hayes) are guys who were soap opera writers instead of actual WWE guys. There is a reason that TNA is doing well with Russo out and Bruce Pritchard as a lead writer. He has brought in wrestling writers and thats why the TNA product is more over now than it ever was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slender Man Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 seems legit lololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 John Cena, WWE star, grants a record 300th request for Make-A-Wish There are always plenty of candidates for top sports celebrity bad guy: LeBron, Tiger, T.O., Roger Clemens, and on and on. But what about top sports good guy? Those names don't come to mind quite as easily. Even beloved athletes such as Tim Tebow and Derek Jeter have detractors. But by one important measure, there is a runaway favorite. John Cena. The pro wrestling superstar granted his 300th Make-A-Wish request to a 7-year-old Pennsylvania boy named Jonny Littman earlier this week. That's far and away tops among sports celebrities. (Pause here for those who don't think pro wrestling is a sport. It's not. But tell that to a sick child. And, by the way, throwing a 250-pound man across a ring 300 nights a year constitutes athleticism of some sort.) Only a few other sports stars have granted more than 200 wishes, including Hulk Hogan, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Michael Jordan is in the 200 neighborhood and Kobe Bryant has granted more than 100. (More than 50 wishes will be granted at the London Olympics.) Cena raced past 300 and he fully intends on getting to 1,000. How popular is Cena with Make-A-Wish? There's a conference room dedicated to him at the company headquarters in Arizona. "Overall, I get 100-140 WWE wish requests a year," said Shaina Reeser, sports program manager at Make-A-Wish, "and the majority is for John Cena. He probably does two or three kids every week. It's crazy." Cena never says no. Even though his schedule is tougher than most stars – there are no home games and there's no off-season – he unfailingly builds in time for Wish kids. WWE rep Kevin Hennessey even says Cena's 300th wish was so important that his bosses rearranged his entire schedule for it. It's not that other athletes are cold-hearted. Pretty much everyone says yes to Make-A-Wish every time. (In fact, LeBron, Tiger, T.O. and Clemens have all done over-the-top wishes for kids across the country.) But sometimes schedules conflict or an athlete can't be in the area where his wish kid lives. And, sadly, because of illness and the course of treatment, wish kids don't always have a lot of time to wait for their favorite athletes to become free. One of the big myths about Make-A-Wish is that children pass away from their illnesses; many make a full recovery. The only requirement for a wish kid is a life-threatening condition. But that usually entails severe hardship not only physically but financially. Families spend so much on care and medical bills that they can't afford over-the-top presents. That's where Make-A-Wish comes in. And that's where celebs like John Cena come through. "He has been a big supporter of us forever," said Make-A-Wish national communications manager Mark Hiegel. "By this time next year, he'll have 400." And while some heroes do a simple meet-and-greet, Cena turns the Wish into an experience. He usually invites the child to Monday Night Raw, where he takes the entire family backstage, gives them all signed memorabilia and introduces them to other WWE stars. That's what he did for Jonny Littman on Monday in New York. But then Cena followed up with a surprise visit the next day on Good Morning America. That's by far the best part of the Make-A-Wish day – the surprise. Kids sometimes get shy and sometimes beam for hours, but they all forget for a while about the next hospital visit or the next round of chemo. "He gets the kids out of their shells," Reeser said of Cena. "He's every good at asking questions, pulling information out of them. There's always a huge smile and their eyes light up. The more outgoing kids will say Cena's phrase, which is 'You can't see me.' " But that's just it. A sick kid can see Cena. He makes sure of it. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/john-cena-make-a-wish-300-requests-pro-wrestling-wwe.html Like him or hate him (for his on-screen character), John's done amazing things in the community. Have to respect him for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awalk Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Never thought I'd say this but actually a decent start to Smackdown...shocking.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grapefruits Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 - This weekend marks the five-year anniversary of the Chris Benoit double murder-suicide that occurred over a three-day period ending on June 24, 2007. Chris Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, strangled his seven-year-old son, Daniel, and subsequently committed suicide by hanging. Autopsy results show Benoit first murdered his wife. She was bound at the feet and wrists and died of asphyxiation on the evening of June 22, 2007. The couple's son, who also died of asphyxia, was apparently killed as he lay in bed on June 23, 2007. The following day, Benoit committed suicide by hanging himself with the pulley of a weight machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opmac Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 It seems WWE has changed the names of the Money in the Bank ladder matches for the upcoming pay-per-view on July 15th. In the past, the two ladder matches have been divided up as Smackdown and Raw matches. According to WWE.com, they list Big Show as being the first participant in the "WWE Championship Money in the Bank Ladder Match." This would indicate WWE plans to have two ladder matches branded by the two world titles with the winner of each match having a shot at that particular title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marleau_12 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I was watching some of the videos from when Nexus first came, John Cena joining them, and the works of that. They could have done so much better with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Ring of Honor had a good payperview today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opmac Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 They had to throw in Vickie Guerrero in a swimsuit to ruin everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marleau_12 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 It wasn't going very well before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalcore1487 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I guess nobody has saw this yet but apparently a new WWE show is coming in October called WWE Main Event http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/06/25/new-wwe-tv-show-coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opmac Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I guess nobody has saw this yet but apparently a new WWE show is coming in October called WWE Main Event http://ca.ign.com/ar...-tv-show-coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imuzi Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 So replacing WWE NXT basically? WWE RAW and WWE SmackDown the flagship shows. WWE Superstars and WWE Main Event as the mid- and low-card show. As it stands right now, it seems like Raw and SmackDown have become equal with related angles being carried out on both shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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