THE WRESTLING THREAD: HHH KEEPS DOING HHH THINGS.....

[Simply Sickenin']

Team Punk vs Team Foley
So who is going to take the blame this year when the Survivor Series buyrates tank?

Can we at least get a team full of 'Heyman guys' instead of the WWE annual heels vs faces match. ​

 

[The Pope]

Team Punk vs Team Foley
So who is going to take the blame this year when the Survivor Series buyrates tank?

Can we at least get a team full of 'Heyman guys' instead of the WWE annual heels vs faces match. ​

I'm waiting to see who they get, I'm pretty sure Ryback will be on Foley's team

 

[Jerome Peterson]

Can somebody tell me what happened on RAW? I slept through the whole 3 hours.

 

[xspade7]

WWE sleeping at the wheel. TNA or ROH time to take the wheel.

 

[Simply Sickenin']

Can somebody tell me what happened on RAW? I slept through the whole 3 hours.

Instead of giving Ryback a rematch at Survivor Series, they're going the classic villains vs. heroes match

Team Foley: Ryback, Kofi, Kane, Bryan, Orton
Team Punk: Punk, Miz, Rhodes, Sandow, Del Rio

The rest of the show was filler and the Cena, AJ, Vickie angle was just used to continue to make Dolph look weak. I'm starting to think that Dolph must have fucked one of the head writer's wife or something. I can't figure out what else he could have done to get this kind of treatment. Mania is damn near around the corner and he still hasn't cashed that briefcase in. He might mess around and have like a 1 month title reign .... if he wins it at all. ​

 

[The Pope]

Instead of giving Ryback a rematch at Survivor Series, they're going the classic villains vs. heroes match

Team Foley: Ryback, Kofi, Kane, Bryan, Orton
Team Punk: Punk, Miz, Rhodes, Sandow, Del Rio

The rest of the show was filler and the Cena, AJ, Vickie angle was just used to continue to make Dolph look weak. I'm starting to think that Dolph must have fucked one of the head writer's wife or something. I can't figure out what else he could have done to get this kind of treatment. Mania is damn near around the corner and he still hasn't cashed that briefcase in. He might mess around and have like a 1 month title reign .... if he wins it at all. ​

I see a Cena/A.J. vs. Dolph/Vickie match at Survivor Series... guess Dolph ain't going to never cash in that MITB

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

seeing as they were in charlotte this wouldve been the perfect opportunity to bring ric flair in..but i guess that lawsuit still pending

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

I see a Cena/A.J. vs. Dolph/Vickie match at Survivor Series... guess Dolph ain't going to never cash in that MITB

Maybe Rock wins the title at WM, then Dolph cashes in, beats The Rock for the title, gets a monster push...

Nannnnnnn, that's too good.

 

[Simply Sickenin']

In non-Raw related issues, Sandy is seriously fucking with my WWE 13' right now
I was planning to go pick it up in the morning on the way to work, but FUCK THAT now. There's no way in hell I'm going anyway extra in this weather.​

 

[Jerome Peterson]

Instead of giving Ryback a rematch at Survivor Series, they're going the classic villains vs. heroes match

Team Foley: Ryback, Kofi, Kane, Bryan, Orton
Team Punk: Punk, Miz, Rhodes, Sandow, Del Rio

The rest of the show was filler and the Cena, AJ, Vickie angle was just used to continue to make Dolph look weak. I'm starting to think that Dolph must have fucked one of the head writer's wife or something. I can't figure out what else he could have done to get this kind of treatment. Mania is damn near around the corner and he still hasn't cashed that briefcase in. He might mess around and have like a 1 month title reign .... if he wins it at all. ​

Glad I slept through! Sounds like it wasn't even worth watching.

 

[Rocky Miavia]

WWE '13 Review - IGN Review ( 8.5/10 )


In stores tomorrow or can be picked up at midnight.

DLC Pack #1: "Attitude Era" Superstars Pack – October 30, 2012

•Available individually for 80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360 or $0.99 USD via PlayStation Network.

◦Rikishi
◦Scotty 2 Hotty
◦Grand Master Sexay
◦Gangrel
◦Val Venis

•Accelerator Boost, enabling players to unlock all in-game items as well as customize individual WWE Superstar attributes. Available for 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360 or $1.99 USD via PlayStation Network.

I wouldn't pay shit for any of those DLC characters, especially fucking TOO COOL.

But I bet you can't use the intros for your create an entrance unless you buy them. Always liked Gangrel's entrance.


These dudes were a joke...even with Rikishi pushing them. That one dude only had a job because The King was his dad...

 

[Upgrade Dave]

WWE sleeping at the wheel. TNA or ROH time to take the wheel.

Neither of them is in a position to move on WWE and that's why they continue to give us bullshit week after week.

Instead of giving Ryback a rematch at Survivor Series, they're going the classic villains vs. heroes match

Team Foley: Ryback, Kofi, Kane, Bryan, Orton
Team Punk: Punk, Miz, Rhodes, Sandow, Del Rio

The rest of the show was filler and the Cena, AJ, Vickie angle was just used to continue to make Dolph look weak. I'm starting to think that Dolph must have fucked one of the head writer's wife or something. I can't figure out what else he could have done to get this kind of treatment. Mania is damn near around the corner and he still hasn't cashed that briefcase in. He might mess around and have like a 1 month title reign .... if he wins it at all. ​

It was damn near three hours of filler with not one good match on the entire show. Barrett and Orton have had better matches and Barrett shouldnt have lost clean. That's two matches in two nights where Randy should have lost to help out the other guy and they put him over.
Rhodes Scholars vs Rey and Sin Cara wasn't as good as the first time and the Charlotte crowd had no love for Sin Cara.
That Hell No-PTP match was a huge waste of time and only made the PTP look bad.
The only person to look worse was Dolph Ziggler, who did absolutely nothing but look like a straight bitch to John Cena. If he doesn't beat Cena at Survivor Series, he should quit. If they're going to put Miz back in the World title hunt again, where does that leave Dolph except with maybe a quickie run where he loses it in the first rematch and Miz gets Sheamus at either the Rumble or Mania and he's feuding with Kofi for the IC title AGAIN.


This is how low they've sunk
before the match with Cesaro and Kofi, which I looked forward to and was so disappointed by, they played a video where Cesaro says if he hears a "USA" chant he might not ever come back to this city (I guess they play it in every American city). I guess they hoped when the show came back on the air, the fans would be chanting and giving Cesaro a big reaction. Nope. There was a weak "USA" chant for about 5 seconds but when Antonio came out, it stopped.

 

[GULLAH JACK]

Copped WWE 13...haven't opened it yet. Need some time to sit and play. Roster looks amazing

http://wwe.thq.com/roster

 

[Simply Sickenin']

Copped WWE 13...haven't opened it yet. Need some time to sit and play. Roster looks amazing
http://wwe.thq.com/roster

I was just about to ask if anyone had it yet. Let us know what you think of it.​

 

[chrislee]

I was just about to ask if anyone had it yet. Let us know what you think of it.​

I've had it since tuesday. It's on par with WWE 12 with a much better server. Not having any trouble getting into the community creations like year. I've only tried one online match so far and it was lagging so bad that I dad to quit the match.

The best thing about the game is playing the attitude era mode. Yukes tried to recreate the matches as how they played out in real life. If someone grabbed a chair or title belt while the ref was knocked out or had his back turned, you're be prompted to do the same for unlockables ( wrestlers, arenas, alt attires, video clips, photos ). At certain parts during the mode someone may come and sit at the annouce table during a match as it happend in real life and their sound bites will be played during the match.

I haven't played universe mode yet so I can't comment on that it.

As for the AI, it's a bit easier to catch the reversal prompt now. In past games I could just guess them and get a reversal. The Ai is still puts up a good fight even on normal.

If anyone wants to tag up with me. MY 360 tag is BamaSlam82

 

[The Pope]

Original Plans for Ryback at Hell In a Cell
Posted by Steve Carrier on 11/01/2012 at 11:20 AM​

- We've noted how WWE officials, mainly Vince McMahon, went back and forth on the finish for Ryback vs. CM Punk at Hell In a Cell.

The original plan was for Ryback to win the WWE Title clean in the middle of the ring, hold it through Survivor Series and then drop it at TLC in a multi-man match where he wouldn't be pinned or submitted. This was the plan through October 25th, the Thursday before the pay-per-view. The next day, Vince changed his mind and concluded that of the two, Punk's streak was the one that had been hammered home on TV and keeping that streak alive would only help business through WrestleMania season. Vince noted that while it had been mentioned on TV that Ryback was undefeated, it wasn't central to the storyline.

One WWE source close to creative was amazed that Vince made up his mind on the finish on October 26th and three straight days went by without him changing his mind.

Once they decided to have Ryback lose, many ideas were discussed on how to make that happen. They eventually settled on the Brad Maddox finish but had discussed run-ins by Big Show, Brock Lesnar, Mark Henry, Vince himself and others.

Ryback & Punk Working Together, Glacier Note, More
Posted by Steve Carrier on 11/01/2012 at 08:32 AM​

- We noted before that Jake "The Snake" Roberts had moved in with Diamond Dallas Page so Page can train him for one more legitimate run in a wrestling ring. Apparently they have an overweight wrestling fan living with them who is trying to get into shape. It also appears that former WCW star Ray "Glacier" Lloyd is one of the trainers.

- Paul Heyman will likely join the current WWE European tour from November 5th through the 10th but that's not confirmed yet.

- Also on the European tour, top matches were changed to John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler and CM Punk vs. Ryback instead of Cena vs. Punk because they still want to keep Ryback working with Punk to help teach him in-ring skills

so since Cena is going to be in a feud with Ziggler and Punk/Foley/Ryback and Show/ Sheamus is also going on when the hell is Ziggler going to cash in that MITB ????? at this rate whenever he does its not going to be a long title reign because come January WWE is going to "give" the title to the Rock through WM and they'll probably have Show hold it for a while mabye at least until No Way Out....so mabye he'll cash it in on the IC Title instead...

 

[Upgrade Dave]

so since Cena is going to be in a feud with Ziggler and Punk/Foley/Ryback and Show/ Sheamus is also going on when the hell is Ziggler going to cash in that MITB ????? at this rate whenever he does its not going to be a long title reign because come January WWE is going to "give" the title to the Rock through WM and they'll probably have Show hold it for a while mabye at least until No Way Out....so mabye he'll cash it in on the IC Title instead...

He's not going to do that, that would be crazy. But you're asking the same thing I am. Take everything you said and add in they plan on putting Miz back in the top mix and I don't see where Dolph fits in. He cashes in on Sheamus after TLC maybe but then how much run can he have since they're pushing Miz and they hate heel vs heel feuds?

edit
Add Wade Barrett to the list of guys it seems they have in line for Sheamus. Those matches on Raw were some of the hardest hitting matches they've had in years.

 

[mariano42]

wwe 13 is good but the highlight ids the attitude era mode. step by step everything that happened you must do in the game. what i even like is the fact that theres no in-studio voice over. everything is taken from the actual broadcast and put in the scenes .

they couldve added more attitude era wrestlers, like ahmed johnson, farooq with the N.O.D, marc mero.

 

[chrislee]

wwe 13 is good but the highlight ids the attitude era mode. step by step everything that happened you must do in the game. what i even like is the fact that theres no in-studio voice over. everything is taken from the actual broadcast and put in the scenes .

they couldve added more attitude era wrestlers, like ahmed johnson, farooq with the N.O.D, marc mero.

Yeah as I play the attitude mode it reminds you classic things that happen during that time. Austin's DTA catch phrase that I completely forgot about. Taker giving Kane 3 tombstones to pin him. Austin going to the driver side of the hearse only to find Taker in the driver seat driving away with Kane in the hearse. If THQ stays in bussiness im sure they'll keep this mode in WWE 14 and add other events during that era.

 

[Simply Sickenin']

Original Plans for Ryback at Hell In a Cell
so since Cena is going to be in a feud with Ziggler and Punk/Foley/Ryback and Show/ Sheamus is also going on when the hell is Ziggler going to cash in that MITB ????? at this rate whenever he does its not going to be a long title reign because come January WWE is going to "give" the title to the Rock through WM and they'll probably have Show hold it for a while mabye at least until No Way Out....so mabye he'll cash it in on the IC Title instead...

He's not going to do that, that would be crazy. But you're asking the same thing I am. Take everything you said and add in they plan on putting Miz back in the top mix and I don't see where Dolph fits in. He cashes in on Sheamus after TLC maybe but then how much run can he have since they're pushing Miz and they hate heel vs heel feuds?
edit
Add Wade Barrett to the list of guys it seems they have in line for Sheamus. Those matches on Raw were some of the hardest hitting matches they've had in years.

This is what I was saying on Monday. April may be seem like a long time from now, but you know they're going to switch into full Mania matches push mode really soon, so when the hell are they going to have time for Ziggler to cash in ???? Between this piss poor booking around the Ziggler's briefcase and the general lack of people I give a fuck about on Smackdown, I'm just going to assume right now that the World Title match at Mania is going to be a last minute cluster fuck.

And now they're saying that there is concern to keep Punk's reign with the WWE title intact. I guess, they're saving it for Rock to end it in January. The only question now is whether the WWE title match at Mania be Rock/Cena 2 or Rock/Cena/Punk. I think the triple threat match would be the lesser of the two evils.

edit: Wait a damn minute .... If Rock is going to be in the WWE title match at Mania, that means that the Rumble winner will be challenging for the World Title. So they have to factor that into the picture too

Ziggler should just ask for a release. Clearly this shit ain't working out well for you. ​

 

[kanedagame]

WWE is saddened to learn of the passing of Brad Armstrong, 51, one of four sons of “Bullet” Bob Armstrong:

 

[Upgrade Dave]

This is what I was saying on Monday. April may be seem like a long time from now, but you know they're going to switch into full Mania matches push mode really soon, so when the hell are they going to have time for Ziggler to cash in ???? Between this piss poor booking around the Ziggler's briefcase and the general lack of people I give a fuck about on Smackdown, I'm just going to assume right now that the World Title match at Mania is going to be a last minute cluster fuck.

And now they're saying that there is concern to keep Punk's reign with the WWE title intact. I guess, they're saving it for Rock to end it in January. The only question now is whether the WWE title match at Mania be Rock/Cena 2 or Rock/Cena/Punk. I think the triple threat match would be the lesser of the two evils.

edit: Wait a damn minute .... If Rock is going to be in the WWE title match at Mania, that means that the Rumble winner will be challenge for the World Title. So they have to factor that into the picture too

Ziggler should just ask for a release. Clearly this shit ain't working out well for you. ​

If he does not beat John Cena at Survivor Series, he really should think about leaving. He might take a financial loss but at least he can go somewhere else and mean something. If he left right now, no one would miss him and that applies to way too many guys on that roster. I remember people being pissy when Daniels briefly left TNA, do you think anyone would feel like that about Ziggler leaving WWE?
I've really grown to dislike triple threat matches and WWE never does anything different with their's so I would hate a Punk/Rock/Cena match but it would be better than Rock/Cena II for the WWE title because you would just know they wouldn't let Rock beat Cena twice at Mania.

WWE is saddened to learn of the passing of Brad Armstrong, 51, one of four sons of “Bullet” Bob Armstrong:

Shut the front door!!!! I loved Brad Armstrong.

BRAD ARMSTRONG PASSES AWAY
by Dave Scherer @ 1:53 PM on 11/1/2012


We are sad to relay WWE.com is reporting that Brad Armstrong passed away at the age of 51. He took ill last week and passed away this morning.

We send along our deepest condolences to his friends and family

This guy had to be one of the pound for pound best wrestlers in the 80s. I saw him when he broke in in Georgia teaming with his dad and later in Mid South where they gave him a good push to the main event for a while. Then he had a hell of a team with Tim Horner (the most underrated wrestler of all time)in the Lightning Express that beat Sting and Rick Steiner for the UWF tag titles.
I forgave him for the corny runs in the No Limit Army and as Arachnaman but his stuff as Badstreet was great. He seemed to develop all kinds of crazy charisma under a mask he didn't have as himself.
If you ever get to check out his matches with Ric Flair they're worth the time.

 

[Upgrade Dave]

- We've noted how WWE officials, mainly Vince McMahon, went back and forth on the finish for Ryback vs. CM Punk at Hell In a Cell.

The original plan was for Ryback to win the WWE Title clean in the middle of the ring, hold it through Survivor Series and then drop it at TLC in a multi-man match where he wouldn't be pinned or submitted. This was the plan through October 25th, the Thursday before the pay-per-view. The next day, Vince changed his mind and concluded that of the two, Punk's streak was the one that had been hammered home on TV and keeping that streak alive would only help business through WrestleMania season. Vince noted that while it had been mentioned on TV that Ryback was undefeated, it wasn't central to the storyline.

One WWE source close to creative was amazed that Vince made up his mind on the finish on October 26th and three straight days went by without him changing his mind.

Once they decided to have Ryback lose, many ideas were discussed on how to make that happen. They eventually settled on the Brad Maddox finish but had discussed run-ins by Big Show, Brock Lesnar, Mark Henry, Vince himself and others

.


On this for one sec
So they had a bunch of different ideas, including a couple we had already thought of here and thought they would be good, interesting, and fun ideas and they went with that shit Sunday????? The only idea worse was Vince running in.

 

[dirtyd]

I finally got my copy of 13 in the mail and it gets a 10 from me, they might as well call it WWF Attitude V.2 because that's the best part of the game. I played that mode for so long that i forgot it had current wrestlers on the game, this game is up there with No Mercy HCTP & 06 The best thing as far as gameplay are the catch finishers and the crowd noise, i was doing the HIAC match with HBK & Taker and he caught me jumping off the top rope with a Tombstone.

 

[chrislee]

The best thing as far as gameplay are the catch finishers and the crowd noise, i was doing the HIAC match with HBK & Taker and he caught me jumping off the top rope with a Tombstone. [/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]

That happend to me also. I had to replay that match about 7 or 8 times. I broke 2 or 3 chairs on Taker to beat him after Kane interfeared. Taker was doing a running grapple to take the chair out of my hand and shit.

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

Any more verdicts on WWE '13?

I was thinking about getting '12 since the price dropped, or should I go ahead and get '13?

I don't really care about doing the Attitude Era mode, I'm more concerned about the gameplay.

 

[THE DRIZZY]

Sorry to hear about Brad Armstrong's passing. He was a great worker back in his prime. I remember watching him on Georgia Championship Wrestling on Channel 17. He was always in top condition so this is shocking.

 

[dirtyd]

Any more verdicts on WWE '13?

I was thinking about getting '12 since the price dropped, or should I go ahead and get '13?

I don't really care about doing the Attitude Era mode, I'm more concerned about the gameplay.

Get 13 because it really is their best game since HCTP, the gameplay is better and you say you don't care about the AE mode but trust me you will.

 

[St_clair_OG]

what he said

..anybody on got it for ps3?
Im getting my ass kicked online need somebody to train with
these kids beating my ass

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

Get 13 because it really is their best game since HCTP, the gameplay is better and you say you don't care about the AE mode but trust me you will.

I'm sure I would love Attitude Era mode.

It's just that with the holidays on the way, I gave myself a budget of 60 dollars to get a game to hold me over until after Christmas. Now with that I could get Sleeping Dogs and WWE '12 (40 & 20; both pre-owned) or just WWE '13.

Now with these wrestling games, I usually just make a guy or 2 or a faction, and just straight destroy the roster for like 2-3 days. So I ain't really itchin to play AE mode just yet, and I'm more concerned about the gameplay.

So is the gameplay really that much better than '12?

 

[BrandNewM]

Sorry to hear about Brad Armstrongs death also. I grew up watching him and his dad on Georgia Championship Wrestling. RIP!

 

[NightMare Paint]

i'm sure i would love attitude era mode.

It's just that with the holidays on the way, i gave myself a budget of 60 dollars to get a game to hold me over until after christmas. Now with that i could get sleeping dogs and wwe '12 (40 & 20; both pre-owned) or just wwe '13.

Now with these wrestling games, i usually just make a guy or 2 or a faction, and just straight destroy the roster for like 2-3 days. So i ain't really itchin to play ae mode just yet, and i'm more concerned about the gameplay.

So is the gameplay really that much better than '12?

you can do finishers on the announce table!

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

you can do finishers on the announce table!

You mean like they won't fall off the table?

I remember that was a problem in the last game I played, SVR '11, I think.

 

[NightMare Paint]

You mean like they won't fall off the table?

I remember that was a problem in the last game I played, SVR '11, I think.

Yeah its like the N64 days where you can climb up on the announcer's table...haven't tried the regular tables yet

 

[chrislee]

you can do finishers on the announce table!

You mean like they won't fall off the table?

I remember that was a problem in the last game I played, SVR '11, I think.

It's part of the OMG moves they added. ( Spear throught the barricade, superplex to the floor, finisher on announce table, collapse the ring with two super heavey weights )



I plan on picking up Sleeping Dogs later myself. If you're the type who only plays the story based missions in open world games then you may not pick up the Sleeping Dogs again after you beat it. You probably will get more play out of WWE 13, but if the server is still up for WWE 12 you can just download who's ever is missing on the roster.