Eric gets a lot of flak but I wouldn't put the whole blame on him. Vince Russo is a pretty big douche too it seems.
wwe vs tnt anyone watching?
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Timothy for NXT season five!?
Not so much of a pro wrestling fan these days, but I do watch a whole lot of Mixed Martial Arts.
Me too, I sort of transitioned from pro wrestling to MMA in 2006. Despite not being fixed, I think MMA does a lot of the things pro wrestling used to do so well much better than they do now. For example, simple straightforward and believable rivalries and build-ups towards matches.
It's a little annoying, though, when people talk trash about each other, and then after the fight say, "we actually really like each other, we were just hyping the fight".
It's more fun when there's legitimate animosity between fighters, like there was with Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir.
It's a little annoying, though, when people talk trash about each other, and then after the fight say, "we actually really like each other, we were just hyping the fight".
It's more fun when there's legitimate animosity between fighters, like there was with Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir.
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Well, lets be honest, Brock isn't exactly a people person.
I don't watch much of mma from what I have watched on spike looks interesting . But some wrestlers are slowly switching to mma and those who can't do mma they wrestle. also It looks like Kurt Angel may one day go over to mma . and don't get me started on the double J and his so called mma . Now they have a mma reality show I forget the name of it but I love watching it when it's ON .
I can't do to many ppv's so I just stick to WWE & TNA as for the mma I try to pick up
a dvd now and then at movietrading company.
TNA TONIGHT HULK HOGAN RETURNS
WILLthis be the begining of the end of imortal or its salvation?
I can't do to many ppv's so I just stick to WWE & TNA as for the mma I try to pick up
a dvd now and then at movietrading company.
TNA TONIGHT HULK HOGAN RETURNS WILLthis be the begining of the end of imortal or its salvation?
Yeah all three of those have been known for a while.
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The only thing that would make TNA interesting is if Stone Cold crossed over and opened up a can of whoop ass! 
Seriously...I don't find him coming back to the WWE interesting at all.
Seriously...I don't find him coming back to the WWE interesting at all.One thing I think the WWE has always done far better than anyone else is repackage incoming wrestelers into new characters.
While sometimes this doesn't always work:
Dean Douglas
Flash Funk
The Narcissist who became American Made
The Stalker
When it does work it is gold:
Million Dollar Man
Razor Ramon
Goldust
Diesel
Mankind
Stone Cold Steve Austin
(Although to be fair in the case of the last two if WWE creative had complete say we would have gotten Mason the Mutilator and Chilly McFreeze.
)
While sometimes this doesn't always work:
Dean Douglas
Flash Funk
The Narcissist who became American Made
The Stalker
When it does work it is gold:
Million Dollar Man
Razor Ramon
Goldust
Diesel
Mankind
Stone Cold Steve Austin
(Although to be fair in the case of the last two if WWE creative had complete say we would have gotten Mason the Mutilator and Chilly McFreeze.
)
Wait a minute he is 42 and was the 1996
Gold Medalist and has been often injured in his entertainment career. Is there a master's division in MMA?
^ Given his is propencity for bleeding accidentally during his wrestling matches, I don't think MMA would be the best move for him either.
Kurt Angle had his chance to go into MMA few times now, the first being right after the 1996 Olympics. He opted to go the more lucrative route in joining the WWF and who can blame him as the UFC wasn't nearly as big in the late 90s and early 2000's as it is today. Although Pride might have been a good option too around that time.
If he were to do the Dave Batista route and switch over now, then maybe, but I'd say he would get knocked out or submitted fairly easily despite his amateur wrestling credentials. I'd even say his old colleagues in Randy Couture and Dan Henderson could even do it. I did get to see his and Brock Lesnar's Wrestlemania match in person in Seattle with Brock's infamous botched Shooting Star Press.
And did you guys know that Alberto Del Rio used to do MMA as well. Real name, Dos Caras Jr. got knocked out by Mirko CroCop Filipovic in this MMA promotion called Deep, in Japan.
If he were to do the Dave Batista route and switch over now, then maybe, but I'd say he would get knocked out or submitted fairly easily despite his amateur wrestling credentials. I'd even say his old colleagues in Randy Couture and Dan Henderson could even do it. I did get to see his and Brock Lesnar's Wrestlemania match in person in Seattle with Brock's infamous botched Shooting Star Press.
And did you guys know that Alberto Del Rio used to do MMA as well. Real name, Dos Caras Jr. got knocked out by Mirko CroCop Filipovic in this MMA promotion called Deep, in Japan.
^ Alberto still looks somewhat man-pretty considering his MMA background.
Bautista is 42 also
Seems like the MMA industry is using old people (the professional athlete's scale) like every news show is using Charlie Sheen these days
MMA is even more of a young man's game than pro wrestling. In pro wrestling, I'd say the prime age/peak of one's career is usually mid to late 30s, but in MMA, it's more like late 20s to early 30s.
In MMA, by the time you hit 40, you're probably getting close to retirement age, whereas wrestlers can do pretty well all the way up to 50 (and then there are people like Hogan and Flair who stay around way too long...10 years past that and beyond). Kurt Angle is simply too old for MMA, especially as a beginner. There are exceptions like Randy Couture, but generally, you can't be a prosperous MMA fighter past 40.
In MMA, by the time you hit 40, you're probably getting close to retirement age, whereas wrestlers can do pretty well all the way up to 50 (and then there are people like Hogan and Flair who stay around way too long...10 years past that and beyond). Kurt Angle is simply too old for MMA, especially as a beginner. There are exceptions like Randy Couture, but generally, you can't be a prosperous MMA fighter past 40.
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Well, he (Alberto Del Rio) still wore a luchador mask because Japanese MMA is still very much a spectacle much akin to their and even our pro wrestling.
that is a given in japan and mexico . that 's just the way they do things .
Now I know jeff is a heel on tna and a ass in character personality but they realy screwed him on TNA last night with the return of sting . and it looks like TNA is turning into WCW listing to the network is just wrong they want rating not story arcs.
comments on last night TNA anyone ?
SMACKDOWN TONIGHT
does anyone have HD NET if so and there MMA fans friday is mma fight night on HD NET so check it out.
Now I know jeff is a heel on tna and a ass in character personality but they realy screwed him on TNA last night with the return of sting . and it looks like TNA is turning into WCW listing to the network is just wrong they want rating not story arcs.
comments on last night TNA anyone ?
SMACKDOWN TONIGHT does anyone have HD NET if so and there MMA fans friday is mma fight night on HD NET so check it out.
Plus MMA has evolved so much that the days of anyone coming in from another sport and having anything but modest success are long gone. It now takes years to learn the aspects of the game and work your way up the ladder.