Wrestling Thread 8: Follow The Buzzards • Page 1648

This is pretty cool

 

Yeah I’ll go there - I think she was either born or grew up in Lafayette

 

Not sure if this was posted or not.

 

Cryptic Lee

 

This is so cool. Willow was there when I first started watching indie stuff. Always knew she was going to be a huge star.

 

Had to drip her in gold, of course.

 

Randy’s making Cody cry

 

Kept the name

 

Delirious is booking TNA now?

 

Lmao I'm watching raw now. El Grande Americano....whatever I think it's pretty funny. Theme song is hilarious. And obviously it lead to a great match.

Gable continuing to deliver in the mid card

 

How many multi man/women matches are they going with for Mania? Holy Wrestlemania 2000 vibes and I don’t mean that as a compliment

 

The talent pool is much better now to be fair. It’s a bit lazy but they should be more entertaining than 2000 at least.

 

I feel like Mania puts the folks in charge in a tough position. Feels like it used to be, “you had to EARN your spot on the Mania card” and then it went to “we want everyone to be on the card in some capacity for the money bonus” or whatever. But then you either need to build dozens and dozens of stories and find time every week or every other week in the 8-12 weeks before Mania to get people to buy in, or you just throw a bunch of people in a match that will last 10 minutes just to say they were part of Mania.

additionally, you can’t make people care about every single person on the roster at the same time so you can’t have a mile-long list of 1v1 matches so the giant tag matches or battle royals is the cheat code

I wonder what the “bonus” even is for Mania or if it really exists anymore (or ever). Like, does everyone have it in their contracts that if they have a Mania match they make a certain amount for it? Like, what could Karion Kross make for being in a Mania match and why would legal put that in his contract lol

 

While that’s true, it’s very lazy and most of the matches aren’t Mania worthy imo. I miss standard Mania cards where all eight matches felt huge.

 

Like I’d rather see Penta/Bron than that goofy triple threat or fatal 4 way or whatever it is for the IC title. Punk/Roman/Seth reeks that fatal four way from 2000 to me.

 

Punk/Roman/Seth is probably gonna slap though

 

Fuck this is too good

 

Officially been 10 years since I started watching wrestling again. I picked a great time to jump back in.

 

The worst part is they literally have the answer for this and used it for years. IC title ladder match lets them do Bron and Penta and Ludwig and Dom and Finn and Sheamus and wrap like 3-4 stories all into one. Likewise, Priest/McIntyre is a soft ass singles match, but is a strong anchor for a US Title gimmick match.

Seth/Roman/Punk makes perfect sense as a triple threat because whoever wins is a #1 contender, and the two who lose are a feud heading into Summerslam.