THE WRESTLING THREAD: BROCK LESNAR HAS ENTERED THE CHAT!!!
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I stand corrected. I don't know what the wwe is thinking about that one.
What is going to eventually happen is that the fans will become more radical in their crowd chants. Just imagine if the fans screamed in unison these phrases..
1. Your writers are clueless! This chant will blast the writing as well as the booking team when they put out a lackluster mediocre product. The fans need to get to the point and shout sentiments like this at every house show and especially on television. Ultimately the fans make the stars not the corporate heads "bright ideas" of what they think should be the stars. This would help with better story lines also.
2. Stop jobbing (insert wrestler)! This chant in unison will let the corporate heads know this wrestler deserves a chance at a respectable win loss record instead of one that is heavy laden in losses. At the very worst all mid carders should be about 50/50 chance of losing at anytime. To continually job fan liked wrestlers is just the corporate slap in the face of the very consumers who like the product. To see deserving people lose all the time is just inexcusable.
3. Stop pushing (insert wrestler)! This chant in unison will let the corporate heads know this wrestler does not deserve benevolent booking. The fans will not allow this wrestler to get forced down their throat. The WWE and TNA are both responsible for putting over stale wrestlers the fans do not like. Being a respected heel is great and fans love great heels. Being a face is good and the fans love great faces. However the problem is that particular heel or the face could just suck and are not deserving of a great win/loss record. Similar chants also include "(insert wrestler) is boring" or "Stop forcing (insert wrestler) on us" or "(insert wrestler) paid no dues". Now don't get me wrong, some fans don't always know shit and the boys in the back do. However some cases based on just the fact who gets released is proof that fan activism needs to be more radical.
4. Where are the tag-teams? This sarcastic chant will let them know that the tag team division is a joke and needs to be more prominent again. Every time the currrent tag champs wrestle the fans need to be screaming this. A strong tag team division would be a great ratings booster as well as a merchandise revenue stream. Not only is Vince out of touch, he is leaving money on the table
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The fans have some power they just need to organize better and things would change for the better.
1. Your writers are clueless! This chant will blast the writing as well as the booking team when they put out a lackluster mediocre product. The fans need to get to the point and shout sentiments like this at every house show and especially on television. Ultimately the fans make the stars not the corporate heads "bright ideas" of what they think should be the stars. This would help with better story lines also.
2. Stop jobbing (insert wrestler)! This chant in unison will let the corporate heads know this wrestler deserves a chance at a respectable win loss record instead of one that is heavy laden in losses. At the very worst all mid carders should be about 50/50 chance of losing at anytime. To continually job fan liked wrestlers is just the corporate slap in the face of the very consumers who like the product. To see deserving people lose all the time is just inexcusable.
3. Stop pushing (insert wrestler)! This chant in unison will let the corporate heads know this wrestler does not deserve benevolent booking. The fans will not allow this wrestler to get forced down their throat. The WWE and TNA are both responsible for putting over stale wrestlers the fans do not like. Being a respected heel is great and fans love great heels. Being a face is good and the fans love great faces. However the problem is that particular heel or the face could just suck and are not deserving of a great win/loss record. Similar chants also include "(insert wrestler) is boring" or "Stop forcing (insert wrestler) on us" or "(insert wrestler) paid no dues". Now don't get me wrong, some fans don't always know shit and the boys in the back do. However some cases based on just the fact who gets released is proof that fan activism needs to be more radical.
4. Where are the tag-teams? This sarcastic chant will let them know that the tag team division is a joke and needs to be more prominent again. Every time the currrent tag champs wrestle the fans need to be screaming this. A strong tag team division would be a great ratings booster as well as a merchandise revenue stream. Not only is Vince out of touch, he is leaving money on the table
. The fans have some power they just need to organize better and things would change for the better.
Goldust and Ryder serve a purpose. 'Dust is a veteran who can still work and show the young guys how to get over and Ryder is a good worker with a comedy gimmick, who's job it is to put over babyfaces. Khali? That guys sucks.
So they keep Tyler Reks but drop Kaval. If they have nothing for him, why not just let him wrestle and fill in space on Superstars? There are a lot of guys (half the Nexus, plus Darren Young) who should be released before Kaval.
I hear you, Del but the big companies need guys like Kaval, whether they see it or not, and as a longtime fan, I know when smaller guys like him and Rey and Danielson and AJ Styles are successful, they encourage other smaller but talented guys to try wrestling.
Agreed, they NEED guys like them, they just don't realize it (as seen by "not having anything to do with" guys like Kaval). Hence, the reason I've long lost faith in WWE (and TNA, but I only somewhat consider that a "big" company) in their current state.
You're preaching to the choir, too bad the people who should be listening aren't. Long live Chikara (and the like) who care about smaller guys (and the rest), treat titles like they're a big deal, haven't forgotten that tag team wrestling exists, and don't have a bunch of useless belts around (Knockouts Tag Team title, I'm talking to you) just for the sake of having more belts.
Yep to all this.
The KO tag title had a purpose when they had a lot of top female talent but wanted to give Kong, Hamada, and Sarita something to do. Now it's a joke. When they released Hamada, they should have abandoned the title as well unless or until they were going to fully commit to it and that would mean bringing in and using more and better female wrestlers.
Vicki's in ring gear looking......decent?!?!?!?!?
The other jacked up thing is that the WWE has changed to a PG format specifically so that they can appeal to younger viewers. But it never crosses their mind that by pushing smaller guys instead of roided up freak after roided up freak they be able to attract young kids to their product easier because kids should find it easy to relate to the smaller guy who in some aspect is either viewed as being overmatched or depending on the match almost being bullied.But instead they would rather push jacked up assholes and have stupid fat jokes about Vickie Guerrero.
That's the other thing.Why keep a young,green guy with limited potential when you can keep a guy like Kaval who is a veteran that is capable of delivering a 4 star match or better everytime out.
[QUOTENoDQ.com > WWE > WWE Releases Top 50 Submission Superstars
Posted by Steve Carrier on 12/25/2010 at 02:52 PM
WWE has recently posted a video looking at the Top 10 WWE Submission Superstars of all time. They ranked the wrestlers as followed:
10. Tazz
9. William Regal
8. Sgt. Slaughter
7. Daniel Bryan
6. Dean Malenko
5. Chris Jericho
4. Ric Flair
3. Bob Backlund
2. Kurt Angle
1. Bret Hart
Bret Hart putting over Ric Flair (given what they have said about each other publicly in recent years) while Daniel Bryan buried Flair's use of the Figure Four saying he didn't win a lot of matches with the move and wouldn't have rated it near the top.
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after seeing this list I realize that wwe is on some bullshit, how in the hell you going to have Sgt. Slaughter no.8 but Chris Benoit is no where on the list ????
I guess they are still mad from airing that tribute special for him before the news came out that he killed his family then himself.
Posted by Steve Carrier on 12/25/2010 at 02:52 PM
WWE has recently posted a video looking at the Top 10 WWE Submission Superstars of all time. They ranked the wrestlers as followed:
10. Tazz
9. William Regal
8. Sgt. Slaughter
7. Daniel Bryan
6. Dean Malenko
5. Chris Jericho
4. Ric Flair
3. Bob Backlund
2. Kurt Angle
1. Bret Hart
Bret Hart putting over Ric Flair (given what they have said about each other publicly in recent years) while Daniel Bryan buried Flair's use of the Figure Four saying he didn't win a lot of matches with the move and wouldn't have rated it near the top.
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after seeing this list I realize that wwe is on some bullshit, how in the hell you going to have Sgt. Slaughter no.8 but Chris Benoit is no where on the list ????
I guess they are still mad from airing that tribute special for him before the news came out that he killed his family then himself.
after seeing this list I realize that wwe is on some bullshit, how in the hell you going to have Sgt. Slaughter no.8 but Chris Benoit is no where on the list ????
I guess they are still mad from airing that tribute special for him before the news came out that he killed his family then himself.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much, it's unfortunate...it is what it is
after seeing this list I realize that wwe is on some bullshit, how in the hell you going to have Sgt. Slaughter no.8 but Chris Benoit is no where on the list ????
I guess they are still mad from airing that tribute special for him before the news came out that he killed his family then himself.[/QUOTE]
I guess you didn't get the memo.Chris Benoit didn't exist,never happened,he's a figment of your imagination. They could put out a poll of the Top 50 wrestlers named Chris or the Top 10 wrestlers with the last name Benoit and he won't be on it.
The other thing is is that the WWE jobbed the hell out of or didn't push Regal,Tazz, and Malenko yet they want to honor them on a list.
c/s they did job the shit out of Regal, if I remember right he didn't even win the ECW Title once. Hell they let Ezekiel Jackson win the title on the last night, they could of put the belt on Regal's waist at least that one time.
Who did Ted Dibease piss off? This dude is jobbing to Santino? REALLY??? TNA is in such a position to crush Vince right now! They really need to focus in and build some consistent story lines. It's becoming obvious that Vince has lost total touch with what the fans really want.
Who did Ted Dibease piss off? This dude is jobbing to Santino? REALLY??? TNA is in such a position to crush Vince right now! They really need to focus in and build some consistent story lines. It's becoming obvious that Vince has lost total touch with what the fans really want.
TNA is is no position to touch the WWE.They thought that last year when they decided to go head to head on Monday night's and screwed it up first by going directly head to head instead of getting a 1 hour head start as they did on the first Monday night Impact which got a good rating.And the best rating of that show was.....the 8-9 hour that preceded Raw.Between that and their schizophrenic storylines they don't have a chance and that's in spite of Vince losing touch.If nothing else Vince at least knows how to push somebody.TNA can't even do that right.
When I say that they are in a position, I mean that they do have the pieces in place. They don't have to go head to head to compete. They have a stronger tag team division, and they have a nice x-division. If they were to get some real focus, they have the talent to one day be direct competition. Hogan's ego has put TNA in the poor situation it is in. Somebody needs to clean house, and take it back to the way it was before Hogan and his team came.
THIS.
No matter how many issues I have with the current WWE product, they're still in much better shape than TNA's current product. TNA seemingly makes idiotic mistakes, whereas WWE makes misguided mistakes. Big difference. TNA is doing a great job of impersonating WCW towards it's later years.
TNA has a better tag division than WWE because WWE doesn't even bother with it's tag division. If it gave a little bit of effort it would easily have a better division despite the talent that TNA has in that division. The reason being is that TNA continue to be idiotic booking/storyline decisions when it comes to just about everything these days. It goes to show that having a non-PG product doesn't guarantee quality over a PG product.
They don't push the X division and with the exception of Beer Money and The Motor City Machineguns they don't consistently push any of the tag teams. A few months ago Desmond Wolfe and Brutus Magnus earned a tag title slot and yet they hadn't had even 1 match on the signature show Impact.Until they get a good writer in place they will continue to be in bad positioning.That's what makes their failure to get Paul Heyman in so lackluster.He and Gabe Sapolsky are the 2 guys that I know of who could create solid storylines and push the right guys in the right way.And Sapolsky isn't available either.
As long as Russo,Bischoff and Hogan are in place it's gonna be too much of the old.Just think each of the last 3 years TNA's big storyline has been a team of heels,the top heels in the company,forming together and trying to take over.Whether it was Jarrett,AMW,and Team Canada together or the Main Event Mafia or Immortal for that matter.
so Nexus is now Straight Edge Society 2.0? 
I heard the pushed was halted due to Concussion problems with Desmond Wolfe.
so Nexus is now Straight Edge Society 2.0?
Though I doubt it I hope they can do it better than they did either the first time around.
The push was halted due to injury issues with Wolfe who is another example of a wrestler that they screwed up.The problem was that the push was only witnessed by people who watched Explosion.I'm sorry but that's a pathetic push if you can't even give them time on your primary show.
so Nexus is now Straight Edge Society 2.0?
I'm curious as to how Wade Barrett is gonna fit into all this.
Its fitting that the last episode of Raw ends with Cm Punk joining Nexxus being that the WWE screwed up the Nexxus storyline as well as the Straight Edge storyline. Who knows. Maybe this is them admitting they f'd up and them trying to right a wrong.
I'll say this about WWE. I feel a stable was missed on Raw this year and they give us Nexxus and while they did screw it up I can atleast appreciate the fact they did it.
Me too because I have a feeling Wade is going to have nothing to do with it. I think they're going to build him on his own which is idiotic to me. They're pushing him too fast IMO.
TNA is worse than WCW last days. No matter how poor we may think WWE is TNA is definitely worse and there's no competition. I mean just look at how they sign their talent. It causes wrestlers to occasionally miss episodes of Impact even when their currently in a storyline. Just ridiculous.
As far as talent goes I think its there in both companies. Neither company lacks talent. They lack writing. And i'm just a viewer so I hate to be THAT GUY who pretends like I know more than what professional writers do but I do in this case. I just can't believe some of the shit these guys get paid to write. And it may not be the writers. It may be just the higher ups doing what they think is best rather than letting the writers just right. But TNA has some ways to go to putting up atleast a decent program. They first off need to know what direction they want to go in because right now the show is just ridiculous. They put every wrestler in a fake ass NWO faction called Fortune or whatever the fuck they call it and only have 3 faces in Pope, Morgan and Anderson. This shit is the most ridiculous wrestling program i've ever witnessed. Its like they're copying everything that was wrong with WCW and putting it into TNA.
I'll say this about WWE. I feel a stable was missed on Raw this year and they give us Nexxus and while they did screw it up I can atleast appreciate the fact they did it.
Me too because I have a feeling Wade is going to have nothing to do with it. I think they're going to build him on his own which is idiotic to me. They're pushing him too fast IMO.
TNA is worse than WCW last days. No matter how poor we may think WWE is TNA is definitely worse and there's no competition. I mean just look at how they sign their talent. It causes wrestlers to occasionally miss episodes of Impact even when their currently in a storyline. Just ridiculous.
As far as talent goes I think its there in both companies. Neither company lacks talent. They lack writing. And i'm just a viewer so I hate to be THAT GUY who pretends like I know more than what professional writers do but I do in this case.
I just can't believe some of the shit these guys get paid to write. And it may not be the writers. It may be just the higher ups doing what they think is best rather than letting the writers just right. But TNA has some ways to go to putting up atleast a decent program. They first off need to know what direction they want to go in because right now the show is just ridiculous. They put every wrestler in a fake ass NWO faction called Fortune or whatever the fuck they call it and only have 3 faces in Pope, Morgan and Anderson. This shit is the most ridiculous wrestling program i've ever witnessed. Its like they're copying everything that was wrong with WCW and putting it into TNA.
Its fitting that the last episode of Raw ends with Cm Punk joining Nexxus being that the WWE screwed up the Nexxus storyline as well as the Straight Edge storyline. Who knows. Maybe this is them admitting they f'd up and them trying to right a wrong.
I'll say this about WWE. I feel a stable was missed on Raw this year and they give us Nexxus and while they did screw it up I can atleast appreciate the fact they did it.
Me too because I have a feeling Wade is going to have nothing to do with it. I think they're going to build him on his own which is idiotic to me. They're pushing him too fast IMO.
TNA is worse than WCW last days. No matter how poor we may think WWE is TNA is definitely worse and there's no competition. I mean just look at how they sign their talent. It causes wrestlers to occasionally miss episodes of Impact even when their currently in a storyline. Just ridiculous.
As far as talent goes I think its there in both companies. Neither company lacks talent. They lack writing. And i'm just a viewer so I hate to be THAT GUY who pretends like I know more than what professional writers do but I do in this case.
I agree. I think is TNA was consistent with their storylines, the show would be better. I remember it being better than what it is right now. I remember enjoying it a lot more than I did Raw or Smackdown. Right now, it just seems like every week it's something new. If it doesn't change soon, TNA is gonna be gone. If you could go in and run it, what would you change?
Around 2008 I did like TNA, as a whole, more than the WWE (if you're comparing current products at that time). They had things popping in ALL their divisions.
Doesn't even feel like the same company anymore
It's like a bloated mess of "stuff" that doesn't gell well together at all. For all the missed opportunities and mistakes the WWE has made, even these days, they are (even though some of their choices are troubling) making new stars and generally not straight up stupid like TNA is getting.The main thing I would change with TNA is a setting a goal. TNA, for the most part, really feels like it's just doing things are they go along without any real long term plans. I would certainly set some clear goals that isn't as puzzling as it appears to the general public.
Also, out with the old...in with the new. Sorry Hulk & company, you have to go. And I know people won't agree with me on this, but I'd also let go of Ric Flair. He has had some great moments on the mic, but on the whole I feel he's more of a distraction than anything else. Certainly there are more ways to push Jay Lethal, for example, further in his career than having Flair involved. The interactions between the two, as amusing as they were, got me more interested in Flair than Jay Lethal (and I'm a Lethal fan). It shouldn't be that way.
Another thing I'd change is I'd get rid of the Knockouts tag title. It really serves no purpose at this point. It sort of did when it was invented (although, I'd argue there wasn't enough of a women's tag division at the time to warrant it during it's initial creation), but it definitely doesn't now.
Also, NO MORE SIGNING WHOEVER GETS RELEASED FROM THE WWE. Yes, people need jobs and whatnot, but TNA isn't doing enough with the talent they have under contract. I'm a big MVP fan, but I don't want TNA to sign him for the sake of TNA. If they really don't want to look like a 2nd rate company, and want to actively compete with the WWE, then they need to stop picking up WWE's leftovers (bare in mind, releases like MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Mickie James, Low-ki etc were BAD DECISIONS on WWE's part, imho). They struggle to push a good deal of the talent they have, why add to the bloatedness.
And finally, I'd sign Heyman and make him an active booker. He has great ideas, for the most part, and could certainly do no worse with the direction of the company than what is being done now. With that said, I would not let him completely run the ball when it comes to booking PPVs. For that, it might be wise to have Dreamer handle PPVs (if that were possible, with Heyman's input). For all of Heyman's great ideas for weekly TV, he has a habit of going a little overboard when it comes time to booking PPVs (check out his last booked PPV, December to Dismember). A filter through someone else wouldn't be a bad idea.
That's just off the top.
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Around 2008 I did like TNA, as a whole, more than the WWE (if you're comparing current products at that time). They had things popping in ALL their divisions.
Doesn't even feel like the same company anymore
Should just shut down for a week or two and come back with new storylines all together
im guessing thats what they doing now since there are no new Impact tapings scheduled for january
I have no idea how they came to that decision. He's in but Kaval and Vance Archer (who I thought was vastly underused as Lance Hoyt in TNA) are out?
To be fair, they gave Regal a lot of opportunities and he blew them. He was never going to be World champ but he was a tag champ and IC champ but got a drug violation and suspended. Then he was brought back and given a big push as GM of Raw and KotR and got another violation. He's on strike 2.5 so he's done as a pushed commodity, especially at his age. The best he can hope for is to be used like he is: to work with the young guys like Darren Young and make them better.
Yep. See how hot Pope was earlier this year and that's faded a bit. I don't have a problem with Morgan getting a shot at main eventing but it's like 10 month too late. The time to do it was after he had that great match with Kurt Angle last year on ppv. They wasted (and to a great extent, exposed) him over the last year and now it's not working out. That's on TNA, not Morgan. Machine Guns and GenMe have a spectacular car crash of a match and it gets very little mention. Remember how WWF treated the ladder/TLC matches with E&C, The Dudleys, and the Hardys? And the way they treated Wolfe, another guy coming off a redhot feud with Angle, was criminal. I hear he's on the way back so hopefully we'll get to see the London Brawling tag team. The first thing they should do is demolish the Eric Young&Orlando Jordan tag team. They're not bad as a comedy act but since WWE just put their tag belts on a comedy act, I wouldn't be surprised is Russo did the same thing.
Honestly, it wasn't that much different. The booking was still all over the place with great wrestling. The real change happened after Jim Cornette got fired, Jeff Jarrett got suspended, and Dutch Mantell and Savio Vega were let go. With all the real wrestling knowledge gone and two world class workers like Hogan and Bischoff coming in, TNA took a dive and the ratings reflected it.
I do want to say that TNA was actually pretty damn good at the end of 2009 when they went into a holding pattern and kept everything simple. Turning Point and Final Resolution were kick ass ppvs.
TNA is worse than WCW last days. No matter how poor we may think WWE is TNA is definitely worse and there's no competition. I mean just look at how they sign their talent. It causes wrestlers to occasionally miss episodes of Impact even when their currently in a storyline. Just ridiculous.
As far as talent goes I think its there in both companies. Neither company lacks talent. They lack writing. And i'm just a viewer so I hate to be THAT GUY who pretends like I know more than what professional writers do (they force you into that position)but I do in this case.
If that's what they were doing, I'd be all for it but they can't even do that. When the nWo debuted, Hogan was front and center but they go whole shows without Jeff Hardy, one of the most well known and popular wrestlers on the planet, coming off a monster heel turn. Unfortunately, Eric Bischoff thinks fans actually want to see him on tv. He can put Flair in that spot and disappear and no one would be mad at him. If Hogan can take a bump, he should come back and put somebody over. If not, stay gone. Flair, for his negatives, at least has gotten in the ring and tried to raise the profile of Jay Lethal and other guys. Then the booking (Russo) fails to follow up.
Around 2008 I did like TNA, as a whole, more than the WWE (if you're comparing current products at that time). They had things popping in ALL their divisions.
Doesn't even feel like the same company anymore
The main thing I would change with TNA is a setting a goal. TNA, for the most part, really feels like it's just doing things are they go along without any real long term plans. I would certainly set some clear goals that isn't as puzzling as it appears to the general public.
Also, out with the old...in with the new. Sorry Hulk & company, you have to go. And I know people won't agree with me on this, but I'd also let go of Ric Flair. He has had some great moments on the mic, but on the whole I feel he's more of a distraction than anything else. Certainly there are more ways to push Jay Lethal, for example, further in his career than having Flair involved. The interactions between the two, as amusing as they were, got me more interested in Flair than Jay Lethal (and I'm a Lethal fan). It shouldn't be that way.
Another thing I'd change is I'd get rid of the Knockouts tag title. It really serves no purpose at this point. It sort of did when it was invented (although, I'd argue there wasn't enough of a women's tag division at the time to warrant it during it's initial creation), but it definitely doesn't now.
I agree with all this, even firing Flair (and I love Flair). Take that money and bring back Kong (who just got arrested for driving with a suspended license) and Low Ki/Senshi. Same thing with Kevin Nash. Don't bring him or Sting back and take that money and had out some raises.
Here we part ways. Talent movement is part of the business and a company should always try to sign talent that can help. MVP is a great talker, worker, and can work heel or face, they should eventually make a grab at him. Same for Benjamin and Haas. You can't build your company on just "your" guys. It means a lot more for AJ to beat RVD or Jeff Hardy than it does for him to beat Samoa Joe or Christopher Daniels because more people have heard of those guys and know they're good wrestlers.
But TNA shouldn't, and haven't, signed every released guy (see Benjamin and Haas) so I think they get that.
Right now, they don't need to sign anyone else and even have people they need to release and far more they need to use better. Rob Terry should have been the original bodyguard for Ric Flair and they need to use him on every house show and farm him out to every indy that will take him.
Don't blame Heyman for December to Dismember, that goes on Vince. Heyman had to give Vince what he wanted and was still trying to maintain some semblance of ECW and it was a trainwreck.
I'd like to see Paul come in but that's not going to happen. Tommy and Bubba are right there and both have shown to be good bookers. Use those two, bring in Sapolsky to run the X-Division, and bring back Dutch Mantell to book the Knockouts and they would have something. They could even keep Eric in a simple producer role with no input on product (I'd prefer Cornette but that ain't ever happening).
They bring money and ratings to SpikeTV and there's no need to abandon the stories they have. They already did a reset of sorts when they brought in Hogan, Bisch, and Co. They shouldn't do another one.
This is my point about not signing WWE released talent. They're having enough trouble pushing the talent they have as it is. No last thing they should be doing is bringing in, for example, MVP just so he can start going over talent that they keep forgetting to push. Remember that whole debacle with Val Venis as soon as he just got signed? Stuff like that is what they need not be doing. I'm not saying never sign any good new talent (from WWE, or elsewhere), but manage the talent you have before you reach out.
~BREAKING NEWS (and Vince McMahon's heart) John Cena seriously INJURED~
Breaking WWE News: John Cena injured at a live event
Dec 28, 2010 - 09:58 PM
WWE star John Cena suffered an apparent leg injury during Tuesday's Raw house show in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Cena was working a cage match against Wade Barrett that was stopped abruptly. Dot Net reader Angelo Ambrosecchia attended the show and filed the following report.
"The cage match with Wade Barrett ended out of nowhere, Cena couldn't even stand up. They had to end the match fast and get the trainers out. Cena had to be helped to the back, apologized to the crowd and said he thinks he will have to miss some time. It looked really bad. You can tell at the end something was wrong when Barrett climbed the cage and basically sat there for about 2-3 minutes waiting for Cena to get up and stop him from getting over the cage, but he couldn't stand on the knee."
Powell's POV: A pair of correspondents at PWTorch.com filed similar reports, so all indications are that the injury is legitimate. Obviously, this would be a significant blow to WWE, and perhaps even WrestleMania plans if the injury requires surgery. Nothing is official at this point, though. We'll have more details as additional information becomes available.
Breaking WWE News: John Cena injured at a live event
Dec 28, 2010 - 09:58 PM
WWE star John Cena suffered an apparent leg injury during Tuesday's Raw house show in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Cena was working a cage match against Wade Barrett that was stopped abruptly. Dot Net reader Angelo Ambrosecchia attended the show and filed the following report.
"The cage match with Wade Barrett ended out of nowhere, Cena couldn't even stand up. They had to end the match fast and get the trainers out. Cena had to be helped to the back, apologized to the crowd and said he thinks he will have to miss some time. It looked really bad. You can tell at the end something was wrong when Barrett climbed the cage and basically sat there for about 2-3 minutes waiting for Cena to get up and stop him from getting over the cage, but he couldn't stand on the knee."
Powell's POV: A pair of correspondents at PWTorch.com filed similar reports, so all indications are that the injury is legitimate. Obviously, this would be a significant blow to WWE, and perhaps even WrestleMania plans if the injury requires surgery. Nothing is official at this point, though. We'll have more details as additional information becomes available.
Agreed. Don't even mention the Val Venis mess. You can't tell me that Sean Morley needed to go over Christopher Daniels as soon as he walked in the door. That's something Tommy or Bubba could bring to the booking from ECW: new guys do the job.
I do as well. Not my favorite guy but I don't want to see guys get hurt legitimately. For him to get hurt this close to Royal Rumble and the Mania buildup has to have Vince sweating.