WWE General Discussion for June 2007

[ChrisMWaters 0]

They can forget about the 30 day rule when it's convinient for them.

 

Look at how they did with Trish when she was injured and still the Women's champion.

[Jingus 0]

Show up in a Benoit t-shirt. Tell them it's the only shirt you have and you have no money. Maybe they'll give you a new t-shirt to cover it with.

Actually, that could work. Back in the days of the Monday Nite Wars, if you showed up to a WWF event in a WCW t-shirt or vice-versa, they'd usually give you a hometown shirt to wear over it.

 

Of course, that was then, this is now, and if you show up wearing a murderer's merchandise you might get thrown out or just severely beaten.

[AntiLeaf33 0]

Give Benoit a push...

 

...wait a minute

 

Well the casket isn't going to move itself

 

 

 

ZING!

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

They used to say that if you showed up in camera range for a TV taping wearing a scratch logo, they had to give you a new shirt.

 

OT, I like the monthly concept of General Discussion. I think it should extend to all forums (I'm looking at you, bloated Movies CTDWAT thread).

[AntiLeaf33 0]

They used to say that if you showed up in camera range for a TV taping wearing a scratch logo, they had to give you a new shirt.

 

OT, I like the monthly concept of General Discussion. I think it should extend to all forums (I'm looking at you, bloated Movies CTDWAT thread).

 

Agreed, sifting through 20 pages is a hell of a lot easier then a 320 page thread

[Guest shrevedude]

There is no question that after the events of the last few days,.we wrestling fans have experienced a rush of sad, angry, and somewhat peculiar feelings. We have experienced feelings of shock. We have experienced feelings of devastation. Most of all, we have experienced feelings of disbelief.

 

However, Mr. McMahon said it best at the opening of ECW on Sci-Fi Tuesday night when he said "Tonight marks the first step in the healing process". Now, we move on to the second step in the healing process. This is a time that all of us, fans, wrestlers, employees, crew members, alike, to band together and help each other cope with our feelings. The best way we can cope with this is, first of all, is to try our hardest to put the events of this week behind us. Then, we need to focus on why we love this business. We, the fans need to focus on why we spend our hard-earned money to come to these showx. We, the fans, need to focus on why we turn on USA every Monday night, Sci-Fi every Tuesday night, UPN every Friday night, and TNA every Thursday night to see our favorite wrestlers in action. The wrestlers, whether if they are in the big time in WWE, or a new indy wrestler trying to get noticed, need to focus on why they love the business enough to put their bodies on the line every night to entertain the fans who come to see the events.

 

Like Bret Hart said on MSNBC, this is going to take a long time for the industry to get over this. It will certainly take time, but the only thing we can do is keep going forward, and continue to take the steps toward getting over this.

 

I know in my heart that we can and will.

[MrRant 0]

Can we ban him yet?

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Stop starting fucking threads that don't say anything. You are fixing for a banning real quick if you keep this up.

[Guest shrevedude]

Ok, wait a second here...I just heard you say that you're wanting to ban me because I posted a message expressing my feelings that had no offensive or belligerence in it on this board. Did I read correctly?

[garfieldsnose 0]

this didn't warrant a thread.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Yes.

 

There are multiple threads dealing with the Benoit stuff you could have posted this in.

[vivalaultra 0]

 

 

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Ok, wait a second here...I just heard you say that you're wanting to ban me because I posted a message expressing my feelings that had no offensive or belligerence in it on this board. Did I read correctly?

Yes, you read it correctly.

[Guest shrevedude]

Ok, wait a second here...I just heard you say that you're wanting to ban me because I posted a message expressing my feelings that had no offensive or belligerence in it on this board. Did I read correctly?

Yes, you read it correctly.

 

Okay, I have been explained this board's guidelines, so now I know the rules, and I will not be posting topics for minor things that belong uner this general discussion board.

 

Thank you.

[Hawk 34 0]

CM Punk shirt poll

 

Horrible, all of them. Looks like they tried to cram every single tattoo of his onto a shirt. How can this company with all their resources still fail to create good t-shirts?

 

edit: fixed link.

[MrRant 0]

 

Link broken

[AntiLeaf33 0]

When it comes to shirts it's not very often the WWE gets it right. I do like Edge's shirts though; probably cause they don't look like wrestling shirts. Anyways, I ended up buying Edge's Crude, Lewd and Tattooed t-shirt at a house show a few months back. I like it, and not 1 person has asked or made any comment about it being a "wrestling shirt"

[Jingus 0]

When it comes to shirts it's not very often the WWE gets it right. I do like Edge's shirts though; probably cause they don't look like wrestling shirts. Anyways, I ended up buying Edge's Crude, Lewd and Tattooed t-shirt at a house show a few months back. I like it, and not 1 person has asked or made any comment about it being a "wrestling shirt"

Exactly. That's the secret: you can't just slap a picture of the wrestler and a catchphrase on a shirt and expect people to buy it. Most of them look like shit and I'd be embarrassed to wear them in public.

[TheBigSwigg 0]

There is no question that after the events of the last few days,.we wrestling fans have experienced a rush of sad, angry, and somewhat peculiar feelings. We have experienced feelings of shock. We have experienced feelings of devastation. Most of all, we have experienced feelings of disbelief.

 

However, Mr. McMahon said it best at the opening of ECW on Sci-Fi Tuesday night when he said "Tonight marks the first step in the healing process". Now, we move on to the second step in the healing process. This is a time that all of us, fans, wrestlers, employees, crew members, alike, to band together and help each other cope with our feelings. The best way we can cope with this is, first of all, is to try our hardest to put the events of this week behind us. Then, we need to focus on why we love this business. We, the fans need to focus on why we spend our hard-earned money to come to these showx. We, the fans, need to focus on why we turn on USA every Monday night, Sci-Fi every Tuesday night, UPN every Friday night, and TNA every Thursday night to see our favorite wrestlers in action. The wrestlers, whether if they are in the big time in WWE, or a new indy wrestler trying to get noticed, need to focus on why they love the business enough to put their bodies on the line every night to entertain the fans who come to see the events.

 

Like Bret Hart said on MSNBC, this is going to take a long time for the industry to get over this. It will certainly take time, but the only thing we can do is keep going forward, and continue to take the steps toward getting over this.

 

I know in my heart that we can and will.

Tell 'em, Stevedude!

 

 

 

 

 

sorry, couldn't resist.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

CM Punk shirt poll

 

Horrible, all of them. Looks like they tried to cram every single tattoo of his onto a shirt. How can this company with all their resources still fail to create good t-shirts?

 

edit: fixed link.

It's funny, because it's obvious by both his name and the whole sXe thing about his character (not just his personal life) that he's into hardcore punk. That just goes without saying. They should take a look at shirts for hardcore punk bands and go "okay...now replace this band logo with the words 'CM PUNK,' replace this grainy black & white picture with one of him," and then maybe change the tour dates on the back to dates of his victories thus far in the company. Fuck, I think I could come up with a better CM Punk shirt just ripping off a Hatebreed shirt, or even the classic Crimson Ghost Misfits shirt (I think that'd actually be pretty cool). A simple black tee, white silhouette of Punk's face and the arms doing the X, voila: CM Punk merch.

 

...for what it's worth, the second shirt is the least awful.

[TheBigSwigg 0]

CM Punk shirt poll

 

Horrible, all of them. Looks like they tried to cram every single tattoo of his onto a shirt. How can this company with all their resources still fail to create good t-shirts?

 

edit: fixed link.

It's funny, because it's obvious by both his name and the whole sXe thing about his character (not just his personal life) that he's into hardcore punk. That just goes without saying. They should take a look at shirts for hardcore punk bands and go "okay...now replace this band logo with the words 'CM PUNK,' replace this grainy black & white picture with one of him," and then maybe change the tour dates on the back to dates of his victories thus far in the company. Fuck, I think I could come up with a better CM Punk shirt just ripping off a Hatebreed shirt, or even the classic Crimson Ghost Misfits shirt (I think that'd actually be pretty cool). A simple black tee, white silhouette of Punk's face and the arms doing the X, voila: CM Punk merch.

 

...for what it's worth, the second shirt is the least awful.

 

 

how hard is that?

[Jingus 0]

Those shirts look more like Diamond Dallas Page's arm tattoos than anything else.

 

I voted for #3, because it's the ugliest, and I hate Punk so I want him to get stuck with that one.

[veseo 0]

Actually, I find the third one least awful. The first one simply sucks, the second one is a ornate (in the bad meaning, dunno a better word) version of the first one and the third one has something interesting in it. Not that it's not ornate too...

 

Anyone heard something of Paul Burchill? He lost a "Title vs House vs Car" match two weeks ago, so kayfabe-wise he doesn't have a house in the city OVW is located, plus he didn't take any part in last Friday's show. Is he being brought to SD/ECW soon?

 

Edit: Dammit, he got the title back two days ago Seems he's not out of storyline.

[cameron chaos 0]

I found out today the reason MVP has to wear that bodysuit is because he has a very large tattoo of Malcolm X on his left pectoral. They have a picture of it in Power Slam. I'm kind of curious who decided that tattoo was not to be shown on TV while others have theirs on display.

[Steviekick 0]

CM Punk shirt poll

 

Horrible, all of them. Looks like they tried to cram every single tattoo of his onto a shirt. How can this company with all their resources still fail to create good t-shirts?

 

edit: fixed link.

It's funny, because it's obvious by both his name and the whole sXe thing about his character (not just his personal life) that he's into hardcore punk. That just goes without saying. They should take a look at shirts for hardcore punk bands and go "okay...now replace this band logo with the words 'CM PUNK,' replace this grainy black & white picture with one of him," and then maybe change the tour dates on the back to dates of his victories thus far in the company. Fuck, I think I could come up with a better CM Punk shirt just ripping off a Hatebreed shirt, or even the classic Crimson Ghost Misfits shirt (I think that'd actually be pretty cool). A simple black tee, white silhouette of Punk's face and the arms doing the X, voila: CM Punk merch.

 

...for what it's worth, the second shirt is the least awful.

 

A Crimson Ghost styled CM Punk shirt would be awesome. I could get behind that.

[Hawk 34 0]

CM Punk shirt poll

 

Horrible, all of them. Looks like they tried to cram every single tattoo of his onto a shirt. How can this company with all their resources still fail to create good t-shirts?

 

edit: fixed link.

It's funny, because it's obvious by both his name and the whole sXe thing about his character (not just his personal life) that he's into hardcore punk. That just goes without saying. They should take a look at shirts for hardcore punk bands and go "okay...now replace this band logo with the words 'CM PUNK,' replace this grainy black & white picture with one of him," and then maybe change the tour dates on the back to dates of his victories thus far in the company. Fuck, I think I could come up with a better CM Punk shirt just ripping off a Hatebreed shirt, or even the classic Crimson Ghost Misfits shirt (I think that'd actually be pretty cool). A simple black tee, white silhouette of Punk's face and the arms doing the X, voila: CM Punk merch.

 

...for what it's worth, the second shirt is the least awful.

 

 

how hard is that?

 

 

Pretty much the same shirt as this one...

 

 

Laz is right. Punk is probably the easiest guy to make a shirt for.

[Jericholic82 0]

I found out today the reason MVP has to wear that bodysuit is because he has a very large tattoo of Malcolm X on his left pectoral. They have a picture of it in Power Slam. I'm kind of curious who decided that tattoo was not to be shown on TV while others have theirs on display.

we did get to see the tattoo though, when he was "burned"by kane and came back he had the straps pulled down and was bandaged on the back but you could see his tattoo

[Jericholic82 0]

Show up in a Benoit t-shirt. Tell them it's the only shirt you have and you have no money. Maybe they'll give you a new t-shirt to cover it with.

you really think theyll throw people out for a benoit shirt? I mean they dont toss out people with the old wwf logo on their shirts

then again I guess they would. but hey if the guys sitting in the nosebleed section the cameras will never catch a glimpse of him so it would not be on tv

[cameron chaos 0]

I found out today the reason MVP has to wear that bodysuit is because he has a very large tattoo of Malcolm X on his left pectoral. They have a picture of it in Power Slam. I'm kind of curious who decided that tattoo was not to be shown on TV while others have theirs on display.

we did get to see the tattoo though, when he was "burned"by kane and came back he had the straps pulled down and was bandaged on the back but you could see his tattoo

Interesting. Did they note it in the commentary at all?

 

If it's already been shown on TV I don't know why they'd make him keep the bodysuit then. It's bad enough he does that stupid dance.

[Jingus 0]

Because it's Malcolm X, one of the most controversial and polarizing figures of the past century, and the WWE is run entirely by old white people. (Also, MVP's a muslim in real life, he converted in prison, so they might REALLY want to downplay that aspect of him.)