The Wrestlemania Thread - 'It's Real Damn It!'

[gag]

Originally Posted by Rik

Biggest pile of shite to ever appear on TV, yeah even worse than that program we have an entire forum dedicated to

Agree I find wrestling and likes corny, cheesy, fake as hell, and talk about ott and pre hearsed etc never been into to wrestling but nothing like it use to be with Biggy daddy, giant haystacks and the likes. And it's far to commercalised.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by mr 420

I'm and always have been a massive wrestling fan. I love the old American territories, Lucha and the Japanese companies like NJPW, All Japan, NOAH etc,etc.

Have you seen the IWA Japanese 'King of the Deathmatch' tournament from 1995, which featured:

- Barbed Wire Board & Chain Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Chain Match
- Barbed Wire Baseball Bat & Thumbtacks Match
- Barbed Wire Baseball Bat & Thumbtacks Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Glass Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Spike Nail Match
- No Rope Barbed Wire, Exploding Barbed Wire Boards & Exploding Ring Time Bomb Death Match

It is brutal!

[mr 420]

Is that the one that Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) won? If so, yes, but it was many moons ago when I used to tape trade. The WING and FWA promotions also from Japan did a lot of similar stuff leading to CZW and the like in America.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by mr 420

Is that the one that Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) won? If so, yes, but it was many moons ago when I used to tape trade.

That's the one. Cactus Jack Vs. Terry Funk in the final

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Matches announced for Extreme Rules:

'I quit' match: [strike]Dolph Ziggler (champion)[/strike] vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger
Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship: John Cena (champion) vs. Ryback
Steel cage match: Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H
Strap match: Sheamus vs. Mark Henry
Extreme Rules Match: Randy Orton vs. Big Show

New matches announced:

Singles match: Chris Jericho Vs. Fandango
Singles match for the United States Championship: Kofi Kingston (champion) vs. Dean Ambrose
Tornado Tag Team match for the Tag Team Championship: Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) (champions) vs. The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins)

Note - Due to a concussion suffered by Dolph Ziggler on SmackDown, he is no longer taking part in the 'Triple Threat' match, which has now become an 'I Quit' match

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Have you seen the IWA Japanese 'King of the Deathmatch' tournament from 1995, which featured:

- Barbed Wire Board & Chain Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Chain Match
- Barbed Wire Baseball Bat & Thumbtacks Match
- Barbed Wire Baseball Bat & Thumbtacks Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Glass Match
- Barbed Wire Board & Spike Nail Match
- No Rope Barbed Wire, Exploding Barbed Wire Boards & Exploding Ring Time Bomb Death Match

It is brutal!

Have you seen any of the Cage Of Death cards put on by Combat Zone Wrestling? They are something else!

[Susan Foreman]

Extreme Rules: Who won what

Singles match: Chris Jericho Vs. Fandango - Jericho won
Singles match for the United States Championship: Kofi Kingston (champion) vs. Dean Ambrose - Ambrose became new champion
Strap match: Sheamus vs. Mark Henry - Sheamus won
'I quit' match: Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger - Del Rio won
Tornado Tag Team match for the Tag Team Championship: Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) (champions) vs. The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) - The Shield became new champions
Extreme Rules Match: Randy Orton vs. Big Show - Orton won
Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship: John Cena (champion) vs. Ryback - Neither men could make the 10 count, so the match ended as a no-contest
Steel cage match: Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H - Lesnar won

The next PPV event is scheduled to be 'Payback', due to take place on June 16

[mr 420]

R.I.P. Mick McManus.

[Bringer Of Funerals]

So whatcha gonna do brother when the Hulkamaniacs run wild on yoooouuuuu

[Susan Foreman]

Matches announced for 'Payback':

Three Stages of Hell match (Lumberjack match, Tables match and Ambulance match) for the WWE Championship: John Cena (champion) vs. Ryback
Singles match: Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk