[Centraal] Pro-Wrestling topic #52 Wrestlemania XXV

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Op dinsdag 17 maart 2009 14:29 schreef Wes_FR het volgende:
Ik heb echt het gevoel dat dit de zwakste WM gaat worden sinds XV, jezus wat een underwhelming bullshit tot nog toe. HBK/Taker is letterlijk het enigste waar ik naar uit kijk.

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It’s with a very heavy heart that I somehow search for the right words to express my deepest sorrow over the loss of yet another of my wrestling brothers, Andrew Martin, aka Test.

I met Andrew, along with his equally huge friend George, at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in downtown Toronto in 1996. WWE exec, Carlo DeMarco brought them both up to meet me and to see if I’d be interested in possibly training them as wrestlers. Andrew was, as my father would say, a fine specimen; 6’ 6”, lean, hard and handsome with a big, boyish smile. I wasn’t actually looking for any more prospects but I saw something in him and told him if he could get over to Calgary I’d personally teach him, free of charge.

I was working a full WWE schedule back then and was preparing to begin teaching, or fine tuning, some of the many young wrestlers that were starting to pop up everywhere. I instantly liked Andrew and I can smile now at the memory of coming home from the road, physically exhausted, only to remember that I’d promised Andrew a real match in my dungeon. I found myself reluctantly wrapping my knees and lacing up my boots so I could wrestle Andrew on my precious day off. That day Andrew went from dreaming of being a wrestler to actually working with the WWE World Champion in his home. I wrestled Andrew for over a half hour and I knew back then that, with his size and ability, he was going to go far in the business. Unfortunately, my days in the WWE came to an end just as Andrew’s time was beginning. I’d gotten most of my students tryouts at the Raw TV taping in Ottawa, the day after the infamous screwjob in Montreal, and so our paths took a fork in the road. Even with me gone, Carlo, Edge, Christian and my bother Owen helped guide Andrew and he earned his spot on the WWE roster. I lost contact with Andrew for a time, but every now and then I’d catch him on TV and I felt very proud of him.

Death brought Andrew and I back together when we saw each other at Bryan “Krush” Adams’ funeral two years ago. It was during that sad, dark time - after the recent losses of Sherri Martel, Bam Bam Bigelow and the blackness of the Chris Benoit tragedy - I was hearing that Andrew was having drug addiction problems again and I was fearful he might be next.

I saw a need to keep in touch with him and do all I could to encourage him to save himself, and maybe some others too. We renewed our friendship and stayed in touch.

This past November I had the luck of doing a wrestling tour in France for two weeks with Andrew and he seemed to be a new man. He’d completed WWE sponsored rehab and had a new lease on life. Andrew clearly had his demons on the run and we talked about him becoming the poster child for wrestlers that desperately needed a voice urging, “If I can beat this, so can you!” Andrew convinced me he had the commitment and the determination to make a difference. I had a great time with him on that tour.

Following the tour I had painful knee replacement surgery and now it was Andrew calling me to see if I was doing okay. A few weeks ago he talked of coming to visit me here in Hawaii. He seemed so strong and focused that I never thought to question him about how he was doing. I again urged him to use his experience to reach out to the many wrestlers who are still losing their battle with drug addiction.

Now I wish so much that I could’ve somehow known that Andrew was losing his grip on his addictions, beginning to slip. I failed to see the signs of him losing a battle that I thought he’d already won. My heart has been heavy since the news of his passing. In our last phone call, a few weeks ago, I kidded him about how he worked that entire France tour and never took one bump and I smile at the memory of his deep booming laugh echoing over the phone. That’s how I choose to remember my friend. I’m sorry I didn’t see his pain and suffering; had I known I’d have tried harder to save him. He slipped and we lost one of the good ones. Nobody has anything but the nicest things to remember about Andrew Martin. I will miss him. He was a dear friend, one of very few I had left in a profession where too many die too young. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and his entire family. Somehow, as hard as we all tried, we lost another good soul forever.

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-This match features Sarah Palin. Of course it’s actually Daffney, (of WCW fame,) and they refer to her simply as “The Governor”, but they’ve clearly pushed her as a Sarah Palin imposter for months, only now they are also pushing her as a serious wrestler. WHY?! She already revealed that she is not, in fact, Sarah Palin. SO WHY IN THE FUCK IS SHE STILL SARAH PALIN?!
I need an aspirin. We are one match into this show, and I’ve already harmed myself with nothing but the power of thought.

-Magnus offers an open challenge here, his shtick of late. Who should answer it but…some random soldier? Out comes the random guy to a confused reaction, only for him to introduce Eric Young as the mystery opponent. The crowd, and I, greets this with extreme apathy, as Eric Young has not changed or grown as a character one iota since the last time I complained about this. Or the time before, or the time before that…

-Kurt Angle wants the support of the Mafia against Sting, but they all refuse to help. So it’ll just be Angle vs. Sting with no interference or shenanigans. Ahahahaha, right. And I’m a pretty pony princess. And clearly I’m not. I’m a fucking BEAUTIFUL pony princess.

-These guys fight, and evidently the objective IS to put your opponent on the tacks. Handily, this being the case, there are tacks everywhere, including in the ring, at ringside, and ON A POLE. Yes, you heard right. In a match that has nothing at all to do with poles, there is a pole where a completely superfluous bag of tacks is located. Naturally Abyss runs to retrieve it and is beaten up. Christ.


-Alright, so we have a tacks match, where the objective is to put your hated opponent on the tacks, in order to win and defeat your former-best friend. Naturally, then, it would make sense for Abyss to pull out a bag full of glass which would NOT HELP HIM WIN THIS MATCH. And then said glass is never used. Nor are the tacks brought down from the pole or anything else that has been established to this point. WOO! Oh wait, I mean none of this makes ANY sense. My bad.

-I have made my thoughts on this feud known far and wide, but I’ll summarize: Joe has been stalking Steiner, putting a knife to his throat, and threatening to kill him on more than one occasion for no real explainable reason. Why is Joe going after Steiner and not any other member of the group that beat him down? Why has Joe not encountered any legal ramifications, when Styles got arrested for just stealing a belt? Who cares? Not TNA, clearly.
So here Joe has a haircut, a new look, (pants, apparently,) and a new style. That style is basically that he beats the ever loving shit out of everyone who gets within 10 feet of him. He busts Steiner open immediately and then wails on him until the match is stopped. Then he continues beating Steiner mercilessly and savagely. Steiner gets not one single punch in. Joe then drags Steiner’s bloody body out to the parking lot and off camera. How am I the only person who sees that this is making Steiner sympathetic? Making him seem like the heroic underdog good guy, against the bloodthirsty, law breaking savage? This is just a huge miscalculation on TNA’s part. Maybe this will go somewhere important, I don’t know, but right now, it just makes me so fucking angry that I can’t see straight.
I almost boycotted the product altogether when Joe first pulled the knife on Steiner. A big part of me is still wishing I had.

-AJ Styles cuts a good promo backstage, about how this whole issue is about the legends against the young lions. Which is great, except that the feud hasn’t been about that for months now. He looks like kind of a sad fool still chasing after the Mafia even though they’ve totally forgotten about him.

-What is there left to look forward to? A heel vs. heel main event. This is not rocket science. You give the fans what they want to see, as much as you can afford to do so. When you can’t, you book the show in such a way as to ease the pain of the result they didn’t want. None of that exists here; every match and segment is off in its own universe, affecting nothing, adding nothing, and meaning nothing.

- The problem with these Ultimate X matches, is that they read so blatantly like a list of spots. All matches like this are spotfests, but it’s literally set up and approached like they’re ticking off a list of spots given to them before hand, and are trying to get through all of them before they forget one. No real transitions, no real attempt at psychology. No thought. Its just move after move after move. The moves are cool, but ultimately they don’t mean anything, and the more times you see somebody get dropped off of the ropes, the less impressive it seems, especially when it happens so many times in one match.

-The match itself isn’t bad, but it’s pretty much shows everything wrong with TNA. 3 fucking massive people and Jeff Jarrett, with the top prize in TNA on the line, and it feels like a random Smackdown match. Can TNA have a main event without controversy and tons of shit happening? Seriously. I also love how Jarrett takes a simple clothesline and is knocked out like any other referee in the history of wrestling. Fuck sake. THAT’S WHY SPECIAL REFEREES ARE THERE, SO THEY DON’T GET KNOCKED DOWN WITH A GUST OF AIR.

Oh yeah—Jarrett punched Angle at the end after getting a wad of spit in his eye and a punch to the jaw. Sting’s finishers need revamping too. His scorpion deathlock is the least painful looking thing I have ever seen in my life. Yeah, less painful than the STFU. And his scorpion death drop? EYAAAAAAACK~!! I FELL BACKWARDS!! HOW CAN I KICK OUT OF THIS!? I get that he’s been using those since the dawn of time and he’s “mastered” the moves, but it’s like the Hogan leg drop—EVERYTHING building up to the move looked twenty times more painful.

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Op woensdag 18 maart 2009 11:39 schreef Dragorius het volgende:
Zelfs als het Hornswoggle vs Eugene ( flame me maar ) zou zijn?

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Op woensdag 18 maart 2009 11:43 schreef Wessiej het volgende:

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Ja, want het is WWE en het is Wrestlemania, en het is Wrestlemania 25.

Krijg je dus Hornswoggle die van de top van het stadion een frog splash doet terwijl Eugene zijn eerste woordjes zit te leren terwijl SCSA hem een stunner geeft en kelly kelly en melina elkaar aan het bevredigen zijn.

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Op woensdag 18 maart 2009 11:43 schreef Wessiej het volgende:

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Ja, want het is WWE en het is Wrestlemania, en het is Wrestlemania 25.

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Tag-Team match: qua match kan het een hoog niveau bereiken, maar dit is meer een situatie uit nood geboren door de slechte tag-team divisie, zit totaal geen verhaal achter.

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vind het zo jammer dat ze te weinig goede dingen doen met Morrison
die gast is verdomme de nieuwe HBK, hij heeft zelfs meer charisma en is athletischer als HBK ooit geweest is.

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Op woensdag 18 maart 2009 13:08 schreef Sickert het volgende:
HHH-Orton geen chemie? op het moment is dat het enige wat telt op Cena vs Show vs Edge na

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vind het zo jammer dat ze te weinig goede dingen doen met Morrison
die gast is verdomme de nieuwe HBK, hij heeft zelfs meer charisma en is athletischer als HBK ooit geweest is.

zou het tof vinden als die 2 in een goede fued zouden komen

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Op woensdag 18 maart 2009 14:32 schreef wc-eend het volgende:
WM25

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