Topic: Wrestling?

Harrier wrote:So they changed the name from submission sorority to PCB and think of that as an improvement? Really? Really? REALLY?

Why PCB is a really bad choice for a name...

Not that a toxic chemical is necessarily the most awesome-sounding thing in the world to name a diva's team after or anything, but at least kids won't find porn by googling it lol

PCB to me means "printed circuit board", which is still a little weird. They should feud with the aging tag team "point-to-point".

Harrier wrote:So they changed the name from submission sorority to PCB and think of that as an improvement? Really? Really? REALLY?

That was my first thought when I saw the change. Maybe they felt everyone had to be a 'Team Something'. I dunno. Should be a fun match, though.

What I find most amusing is my WWE exclusive which says 'TEAM BELLA REMAINS THE TEAM TO BEAT'. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the Bellas gotten beaten more than anyone else in all of this?

No one has taken their belt.

LARIATO wrote:

Harrier wrote:So they changed the name from submission sorority to PCB and think of that as an improvement? Really? Really? REALLY?

Why PCB is a really bad choice for a name...

Not that a toxic chemical is necessarily the most awesome-sounding thing in the world to name a diva's team after or anything, but at least kids won't find porn by googling it lol

My first innocent search for Submission alone got me a metal band first, then an wiki explanation of a possible sexual orientation.

So maybe WWE should avoid the term submission in general:
a) sexual intention
b) reminds people of MMA fights
c) submissions means mat wrestling, not entertainment.
d) Be a star, not a bully. Making people submit is bad.

I can basically hear Michael Cole saying at the first wrestlemania after submission results are banned from the ring:
"Now Cena locks in the STF, the referee counts to three while Cena pins his opponent!"

While we´re at it, I would also add pin to that list. Especially in the case of women wrestling, for the same reasons. Maybe matches could be decided after a time limit with Rock/Paper/Scissor?

And speaking of bullies and be a star, I am also glad to see that there is always a place in PG WWE for an asshole bully face character that makes fun of overweight wrestlers...

It's actually a pretty amusing pickle that Be A Star has put WWE in in regards to face/heels, but the face/heel dynamic has kind of been blurred a bit in general, especially in the Diva's division.

I mean, they literally have to name the heel team BAD for crying out loud and Team Bella has been waffling from heel to face for about a year and a half now. Like, almost as bad as Big Show's face/Heel turns.

Seriously, the Big Show flip-floping has to stop, and it has to stop quickly. Maybe they should just have a talk with the man and tell him that they absolutely have no more ideas for him except of being the big guy that changes camp more often than his underwear or as living weights where people wonder if his opponents can lift it. Just let him wander off in the sunset or to WWE films where he can make more terrible movies like Knucklehead that actually fit brilliantly in the line of WWE productions like the Marine and work with other, equally gifted movie actors like the Miz(who I think is a good talker, but a horrible actor) or Summer Rae...

I already lost all hope for the divas division to be ever a sustainable part of the WWE again, so it probably does not matter if the girlfriend of John Cena is face, heel, tweener or just the girlfriend of John Cena, along with her sister being face, heel, tweener or just the wife of Daniel Bryan. Combine that with the idea to push Eva Marie and Lana in the ring, who both are not even close to being average wrestlers in a division full of soso wrestlers, and you know how much work HHH will have to invest in it after Vince is finally dragged out of the titan towers, feet first probably.

Actually, the Diva's division is pretty darn good right now, all things considered. Aside from the ambiguity on who to cheer and boo, most everyone in the ring is a good wrestler and puts on a good match. Even the Bella twins, especially Nikki, have become rather solid wrestlers. Naomi still kinda sucks, but I'm sure the rest can make her look decent.

Also, I'm PRETTY sure that Big Show doesn't flip flop because HE wants to. He said as much when he talked to Jericho.

I think you have to really love wrestling, your company or desperately need money to be even ok with flip floping like that, so I put no blame on the Big Show himself. The blame for that rests squarely on the shoulders of WWE creative, who are obviously incapable of booking veterans like Kane, Mark Henry, Chris Jericho or the Big Show in a way that they are both dangerous and helpful for young, rising talent as they obviously are all willing to lay down for their fellow workers. The best booked guy in his fourties in the WWE is probably R-Truth, if that doesn´t tell you everything then I don´t know either.

All of them will probably go out mainly unnoticed like Christian, William Regal, Booker T and Goldust did, while a guy in his really early fifties gets called over and over again for ratings at WM and now at SS, mobilizing everything that is left in him for his last hurrah. Funny that this is the same guy that, according to legend, made Michaels promise him to not wrestle until he is too old and he overstays his welcome.

I like Korporate Kane. He's funny as hell.