Guilty pleasures: WWE Wrestling

I started watching wrestling back in 1990, since then I've been on and off with it. It's not as good as it used to be I think, lack of competition has made WWE often very torturious to watch.

if you were a wrestler, what song would you want played as you enter the ring?

agreed. with the decline of the ECW and all the consolidation, there's not enough truly crazy shit. those matches used to RULE. the crowds were crazy, too, and very knowledgable and unforgiving. if somebody slipped or missed a grab the wholoe crowd would erupt into a chant of "you fucked up! you fucked up!" the matches now just seem like these super-heavyweights just going thru the motions.

The glory says were 1997 - 1999 when WCW was at the top of its game before Vinny-Ru screwed it all up, and WWE/F was getting more and more hilariously daring with the story lines and matches. ECW was also producing some top class talent. Since then things have been pretty poor, but looking forward to Goldberg's return on RAW.

Lesnar fucked up his shooting star press, but it DID look good and the announcers had to think fast and say: "Kurt rolled out the way, oh my God", when Brock actually just fucked up and missed the guy.

I wish Triple H would fuck off though. Banging the boss' daughter has resulted in him hogging the damn title and his matches suck.

Anyone who doubts that wrestlers are among the least informed and least intelligent human beings on earth would do well to check out the above link to the Ultimate Warriors web site. At first it's funny and then it's just plain frightening as you begin to realise that he actually seems to believe what he's writing.

Oh, I'm not gonna doubt that there were tons of garbage matches. But Mysterio/Psychosis, Crazy/Lynn/Tajiri, Awesome/Tanaka, RVD/Lynn, etc were all really great series of matches. The angles were occasionally complete genius too (Dreamer/Raven Feud, WWF's Invasion, Sabu/Taz, Gary Wolfe's neck injury, etc). WCW back around the 1997 was fine in the undercard, where you'd get some great 6 man lucha matches. However, the headlining matches ALWAYS sucked (Hogan, Giant, Nash, Goldberg, etc...how could they not?) and the NWO gimmick went way, way too long.

HHH sucks. Period.

This was still preferable to watching the god-awful WCW Worldwide on Channel 5, though. Oh look, all the Latin American wrestlers are running into the ring to beat up Kevin Nash - no, hang on, they just ran into his foot, fell over and rolled out of the ring again. Oh, hang on, Sid Vicious is saying something... but Scott Hudson is talking all over the top of it. Apparently Sid is angry. Oh. And a cursory glance at the WCW website reveals this episode is about three months late. Hizzah.

I still flick over to the WWE website to try and keep track, but it's not really very possible, nor particularly entertaining. Like someone else said, they all seem to be 260 lbs+ nowadays, which is a bit naff really.

Whatever happened to Right To Censor?

child murderers? this is a different calum right?

No, I think he posted on ILWWE once or twice. Frankly, it's a miracle no-one was killed.

maybe he had 'roid rage

fuck all these calum revived threads, thanks for making ilE shit today

-- Ste, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

It's all a laugh until someone loses an eye

Don't be sensationalistic Paul, roid rage is typically a short burst of irrational anger, and Calum clearly carefully premeditated his reign of terror over a bunch of internet dudes.

i once saw some wwe. there was these two oriental guys who'd just run in full tilt and get beat up in like 10 seconds. calum was a bit like them.

Indeed.

who were they?

In-DEED!

would you like to have been calum?

OH SHI

what

"Mean" Gene Okerlund looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets

This clip of the Ultimate Warrior on Arsenio brings back great memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbjNNrO8CeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy2BLHsip6E

Not quite WWE, unless you count Ivory appearing as "Tina Ferrari"