Beiträge von The Ravenlord

    Daran angeschlossen: Hat London Ausstrahlung? Ja, ungefähr so viel wie ein Besenstiel. was scherts die Booker heutzutage, wenn du gut im Ring bist? Richtig, einen feuchten scheißdreck, passt ihnen deine Nase nicht, landest du eben in der Mid- oder Undercard. Es gibt unzählige Beispiele.


    Und was Angle angeht: Seht ihr nur zu, wie er sich sein eigenes Grab schaufelt, es ist seine Gesundheit, sicher, aber ein Jammer ist es auch.

    Jarrett ist genauso ein Egomane, der sich IMO genauso über dem Business stehend sieht wie Hogan. Hogan ist in dieser Beziehung zwar unschlagbar, da er alles und jeden zu benutzten versucht, um auch noch mit über 60 Jahren seine Position zu zementieren (was er eigentlich gar nicht nötig hätte, wenn mans realistisch betrachtet), aber Jarrett ist schlimm genug.
    Wie ich schon sagte, Styles, Raven, Chris Harris, aber auch Christian Cage sind letztlich seinem Ego zum Opfer gefallen. Ok, Cage hat sich als schlechter Champ erwiesen, der nicht drawen kann, aber das mal ausgeklammert.
    Jarrett duldet keine weiteren Götter neben sich, bei der These bleibe ich.
    Triple H hatte diese Einstellung fast gänzlich ebenso (auch noch mit Unterstützung des Mcmahon-Clans), aber da der Mann mittlerweile lernfähig geworden ist und auch langfristig vorausschaut (schließlich wird er in mittelfristiger Zukunft die Belange der Liga leiten), hat er sich in die Upper Midcard versetzt (oder versetzen lassen), bleibt aber in Reichweite des Titels.
    Man sollte sich nicht täuschen lassen. Edge oder Cena können machen, was sie wollen (und das ist nicht gerade weit über Durchschnitt anzusiedeln), der wichtigste Mann bei RAW bleibt The Game.

    Credible ist letztem Informationsstand geflogen, weil er unentschuldigt bei mehreren Tapings und HouseShows gefehlt haben soll. Da reicht ein Lob seitens Vince McMahon eben nicht mehr aus. Unprofessionelles Verhalten wird nicht geduldet, wenn du ganz unten in der Nahrungskette stehst. Dann bist du weg.
    Was Credible angeht, er war mal ein guter bis sehr guter Worker, aber das Gesamtpaket war heuer nicht mehr ausreichend. Kein großer Verlust IMO.

    Eines der zahllosen Probleme ist, dass die so genannten Kreativen genau die gleichen Fehler begehen wie bei WWE. Eine Liga läuft sich interessenmäßig immer dann tot, wenn man alles nur auf einen Mann konzentriert, noch dazu, wenn er zu den Besitzern zählt.


    Wie wars bei WWE vor drei, vier Jahren? Alles konzentrierte sich (teilweise zwangsweise) auf Triple H. Was wurde der Mann gehasst, weil der Gürtel immer wieder zu ihm zurückkehrte. Wie ist es heute? Ich hatte schon immer großen Respekt vor Jean-Paul, aber der ist heute ins Unermessliche gewachsen. Er hat sich dreimal in Folge klar gegen Batista hingelegt, ist heute in der Upper Midcard und trotzdem einer der wichtigsten Player, dies bei WWE gibt. Wenn er nur wollte, bekäme er den Belt, aber wie auch beim Undertaker braucht er ihn nicht.


    Endes des Exkurses, zurück zu Jarrett: Der Mann ist ein solcher Profilneurotiker, wenn er dieses Stück Blech (gemeint ist der wertlose NWA-Titel) nicht besitzt, kriegt er die Krätze. Egal, wer in den vergangenen Jahren nach oben gepusht wurde, ob Styles (overpushed), Chris Harris (hoffnungslos overpushed), Raven (unbequem) oder Christian Cage (overrated), sie alle wurden letztlich wegen einem mann und seinem Ego eingestampft. Jarrett glaubt allen Ernstes, die Liga dreht sich um ihn, dabei könnte es nicht falscher sein.
    Der main Event muss aus vielen Leuten bestehen, die theoretisch die Chance besitzen, das Gold zu gewinnen. Wenn voraussehbar ist, dass Jarrett den Titel in zwei Wochen wieder bekommt, macht es das Produkt durchschau-und voraussehbar, das ist der Tod für das Faninteresse.


    Abgesehen davon, dass ich Jarrett seine Ringfähigkeiten abspreche (der Stroke ist ein Hampelmannmove), möchte ich mit ihm auch nicht backstage zusammenarbeiten. Sicher stimmt nicht alles, was man hört und liest, aber es steckt immer ein Funken Wahrheit darin. Wenn jarrett es will, enden karrieren...bei WWE ist er backstage kläglich gescheitert, weil er keine Lobby hatte. Bei TNA, seiner eigenen Liga, kann er tun und lassen, was er will.

    Das TNA-Produkt stagniert bereits seit Wochen. Wenn man sich das Ganze mal etwas betrachtet, hat die X-Division IMO qualitativ durch die Hereinnahme blödsinniger storylines (sofern überhaupt vorhanden) enorm abgebaut.
    Die Heavyweight-Division mit abgetakelten Leuten wie Jarrett oder Sting hat auch nicht gerade viel zu bieten, am interessantesten ist momentan fast noch die Fehde zwischen LAX und Daniels/Styles (was sicher nicht an LAX oder Styles liegt).
    Christian Cage hat sich für TNA als einzige Enttäuschung erwiesen, von einem richtigen Main Event-Player ist er noch Lichtjahre entfernt. Mal abwarten, ob sie es zumindest hinbekommen, Samoa Joe weiter richtig einzusetzen.


    Ich gebe TNA eine 4 momentan, da die Ausrichtung mir gerade ausreichend erscheint.

    Und da aller guten Dinge drei sind, folgt anbei noch euin Auszug aus dem "Figure Four Weekley Newsletter". Kommentar überflüssig.


    "Angle was not at the TNA tapings on Monday night in Orlando, but they did announce that he’d be the special enforcer for the Jeff Jarrett vs. Sting Title vs. Retirement Match at Bound For Glory next month in Detroit.


    World Wrestling Entertainment fired Kurt Angle because he had drug issues. I don’t think some people understand the gravity of that statement. This was not WWE seeing that Angle was in pretty bad shape and refusing go to rehab. This was a situation where he was not going to handle the problems and they were afraid that he was going to die, perhaps very soon, under their watch. As I wrote several weeks back when he was first fired, a number of people in WWE stated the exact same thing, that he was the worst anyone had ever seen, worse than Shawn Michaels at his peak and worse than Brian Pillman (who died due to his issues). Angle’s behavior in the final weeks prior to his firing was said to be incredibly worrisome, from dozens and dozens of text messages sent to creative every day to major paranoia to massive mood swings backstage. WWE at one point had to hire handlers to get him to buildings since he was unable to do so on his own. There were people who looked the other way for awhile since as bad as he was outside the ring he was fine once the bell rang. But then, during an ECW show, he dropped RVD on his head and nearly hurt him seriously. There were times when he had to be taken through airports in a wheelchair. And two separate WWE sources stated very explicitly that their belief was that he had serious mental health issues. Everything finally came to a head in that Friday afternoon meeting four weeks ago, and WWE fired him.


    Yes, in TNA he won’t have real fights. But if anyone thinks he’s going to go out there and do 1-minute squash matches two times a month and one slightly longer but fairly low-impact match on a PPV, you know nothing about this Kurt Angle. The one I kept hearing was that Angle has a bad neck and could be killed in an MMA match. The problem with this argument is that WWE didn’t fire Angle because of concern that he would die in a ring due to his physical injuries (after all, he’s had serious physical injuries since 1996, and while they are worse now, it’s hard get significantly worse than two cracked vertebrae, two herniated discs and four pulled neck muscles). The fear was that he would die DUE TO DRUG ISSUES, and he’s going from a company with a decently-enforced drug policy to a company with no policy whatsoever and a reputation for being the worst drug haven since ECW in its heyday. And the reality is that from a physical punishment standpoint, yes, TNA is better with three dates per month, but for a person with drug problems, the schedule is arguably WORSE than in WWE. During PPV weekends in TNA, the guys are flown to Orlando on Saturday or Sunday and stay there until Tuesday. It’s two to three days in the same city with the same guys, all of whom have a much later call time than in WWE (in WWE you have to be at the building at noon or 1:00 PM; in TNA it’s much later). Aside from the ten hours or so at the Impact Zone, the guys have nothing to do for the remaining 38 to 62 hours (more on PPV weekends, less on regular TV taping weekends), and that’s one of the main reasons the company has built up the drug reputation it has.


    People can say that everyone is responsible for their own behavior, and I largely agree with that, but Kurt Angle is a different sort of human being with a very unique sort of drive and dedication, and, if you believe the WWE sources, perhaps an inability due to mental issues to do what is best for himself. To me, sometimes you have to do your part. I realize that in this business things like this will never happen (and, quite frankly, the TNA signing of Kurt still surprised and saddened me), but this is a situation where I believe the right thing to do would have been for nobody to give Kurt Angle a job. Instead, nearly everyone you can imagine was clamoring for him within hours and in some cases minutes of WWE.com announcing that he was gone. That’s the wrestling business. "

    :D Screwjob.de, verzeichnet ein Rekordergebnis?? Lol, das sorgt für Lacher, aber ich weiche vom Thema ab.


    Anbei noch ein weiterer sehr sehenswerter Artikel von jemandem, der sich im Gegensatz zu einigen durchgedrehten Smartmarks konkrete Gedanken gemacht haben und die Sachlage auch durchaus nüchtern einzuordnen weiß:


    "It’s On Your Head Now, Dixie


    TNA made their big, shocking announcement Sunday night at the “No Surrender” PPV, in front of the usual studio audience crowd in Orlando. This was the news that was going to “change the fabric of TNA, and re-write the history of the wrestling business, and something we would be talking about for years, not just days,” as TNA President Dixie Carter said in a very McMahon-like press release early last week.


    Immediately, the names and rumors began to swirl. Would it be The Rock? Bill Goldberg? Chris Jericho? Chris Benoit? Eric Bischoff? Jim Ross? No, the signing of Kurt Angle, in a move that has reverberated throughout the entire wrestling industry. We are talking about it now, and will be for a long time I’m sure. They’ve accomplished their initial goals, in that this is something everyone is talking about. As far as re-writing the history of wrestling, well that remains to be seen. The reaction so far has definitely been mixed to say the least.


    Kurt Angle is the most high profile wrestler to jump from WWE to TNA yet, following in the footsteps of people like Christian, The Dudley Boys, Rhino, and others. It’s something that even a few days ago nobody thought was going to happen. After all, Kurt’s agent Dave Hawk announced on his website earlier last week that Angle had retired from wrestling, and was going to be joining MMA. Well we know now that were all victims of an elaborate work, and it was a very well kept secret by TNA, I have to hand them that. You have to work hard to keep anything secret in this age of internet and wrestling newsletters.


    But in the grand scheme of things, is this really the huge deal it was made out to be? Is this going to bring about the dawn of a new wrestling war between WWE and TNA as some are predicting? And does any of it really matter with Vince “Worked Shoot” Russo back in the fold as the new head of TNA creative? I’m here to sift through all of that today, and examine what all of this truly means.


    First of all, let’s start with the obvious here. Kurt Angle was not fired from WWE because Vince McMahon was tired of him, and they didn’t have anything left for him to do. They fired him because his physical and mental condition had gotten so bad that he was becoming a danger to himself, and to his fellow wrestlers. They fired him for a very good reason, and TNA apparently didn’t care about any of that. At least it wouldn’t appear so.


    All they saw was a former big name, main event WWE star was available, and we all know how much TNA loves to go through the garbage that Vince McMahon puts out at the curb. But this time he put out a gold watch. One man’s garbage is another man’s gold, as they say. But Kurt Angle isn’t garbage. He was a main event star in WWE for six years, and is recognized by many as one of best in-ring performers of the last 20 years, some would say of all-time. They were going to do whatever it took to sign him, regardless of the truckload of baggage that Angle brings with him. Business-wise, it’s a smart move for TNA. Morally and ethically, that’s another story entirely.


    By signing him and putting him out on TV, TNA is doing nothing to help Kurt’s situation. He will be relying on painkillers more than ever, because guess what? The neck injury that has bothered him for the past ten years is not going to magically go away because he signed with TNA. It’s only going to keep getting progressively worse. Sure, Angle will have a much easier schedule in TNA, with two TV tapings per month and one PPV a month. So the demand on him physically won’t be as high as it was in WWE. But that still is doing nothing to correct the problem at the root of all of this. And that is Kurt Angle’s addiction to prescription pain medication, which is the reason WWE let him go. They had no choice.


    WWE has a drug and wellness policy for its wrestlers, which Angle was suspended for violating earlier this year. It’s not a perfect policy by any means, but at least it’s something. TNA has nothing. They have Dixie Carter with her head ignorantly buried in the sand to a problem that is not just WWE’s problem, it’s everyone’s problem. And in TNA there will be no checks and balances to monitor Kurt’s physical and mental health, and that is what ultimately makes this a bad move for him.


    Vince McMahon didn’t fire him for any reason. There was a perfectly valid reason, and it was to protect Kurt’s health and well being, and hopefully motivate him to get the help he needed. And of course it was also to cover their own asses if something happened to Kurt, or someone he was in the ring with. Let’s not forget that part of it. But Vince made a decision that hurt his company. Losing Kurt Angle certainly didn’t benefit WWE in any way, and even less now than Angle joined with their closest competition in the wrestling business. I’m sure they knew it was a possibility Angle would sign with TNA. And they still fired him. That tells you how bad things really were and are. The problems are not going to go away because Kurt works for a different company now.


    TNA has a new primetime TV slot on Spike TV, starting in November they will be airing from 9-10PM on Thursdays. It’s definitely a better timeslot for them than the one they currently have. They will also face stiffer competition on that night, at that time from top rated shows like Grey’s Anatomy and CSI, that air in the 9PM timeslot on ABC and CBS respectively. They obviously saw Kurt Angle has someone that could help boost their ratings, and give them some more notoriety among the wrestling audience going into the new timeslot. He’s a name that people know, and I think his presence will definitely attract some new viewers to TNA. But at the end of the day, it’s still Vince Russo running the show.


    Russo was brought back to the company last week to be their head of creative. The same Vince Russo that had a large hand in the demise of WCW, and has had several unsuccessful stints in TNA already. The man that has admitted to having no love for the wrestling part of the wrestling business is going to be responsible for booking Kurt Angle, the wrestler. I don’t see how that is going to work out positively for anyone involved.


    Vince Russo ruins everything he touches. He has a track record of disaster after disaster since leaving WWE in 1999, where he had Vince McMahon and others to filter out the one or two good ideas he had in the pile of 20 bad ones. I don’t see where things are going to be any different this time. Maybe Russo will prove me wrong, and prove that he really has changed as he claimed in his book. But based on his past, I have no reason to believe that will be the case.


    So TNA is the company everyone is talking about right now. They have a new primetime timeslot, they have a new head of creative, and they have Kurt Angle. Signing Angle was a good business move for them, and I don’t blame them for doing it. Vince McMahon would likely do the same thing if he were in a similar situation. But that certainly doesn’t make it right.


    TNA’s product had been dead, and they needed someone to breathe new life into it. Angle will do that. He brings a lot of positives with him, but he also brings a lot of negatives. And those negatives are things that he obviously has not addressed in his life, so I don’t see how his physical and mental condition will be any better, just because he has a new address. You can’t run away from your problems. They follow you wherever you go. Instead of looking in the mirror, and facing his problems head on, Angle has run away from them. Just look at this quote from Angle in the TNA press release if you need proof:


    “Being with TNA feels like I found my home. TNA will be the most watched show on cable TV, it's just a matter of time. Thank you TNA for saving my career, my life and my desire to do what I love.”


    I don’t even know what to say after reading that. How is TNA saving his life by allowing him to ignore his problems? His desire to do what he loves, well we know all about that. It’s that desire to be the best that has driven Kurt all these years, and that unsatiable desire that is apparently more important to him than anything else. So what if he ends up paralyzed in a wheelchair for the rest of his life? So what if he ends up dead? As long as people remember him as the best, then it will all be worth it for him. And that is the scariest thing about all of this.


    I’m scared for Kurt Angle. I was scared for him in WWE, and I was happy when they released him, hoping he would finally deal with the problems and issues in his life. And maybe be able to return to the company that made him some day when he was ready. But it’s obvious now that he hasn’t done that, and I don’t see this turning out very well at all. I hate to say it, and I hate to be morbid. But I’m just being honest, something Kurt hasn’t done with himself in a long time. I don’t see this story ending well. I sincerely hope to God that I’m wrong.


    So while Dixie Carter and TNA may bask in whatever success Kurt Angle brings them, and he will bring them some just by his mere presence, something not even Vince Russo can screw up. They will be able to revel in the successes he brings them, but they also have to know that whatever happens to Kurt from here on out is on their head.


    That’s a risk they are apparently prepared to take. The Carter’s are no strangers to taking risks. They’ve poured tons of money into TNA over the past few years, and the company still hasn’t turned a profit. They just spent a lot more to get Angle. Maybe the addition of Kurt Angle to their already talented roster will change that, and they will see a return on their investment after all. But at what price? When does the risk outweigh the possible gain? That is the million-dollar question, and one that will assuredly be answered over time.


    I do know the answer to one question, and that is when it comes to morals, ethics, and doing what’s right, The Carter’s, Panda Energy, and TNA are no better than Vince McMahon. Vince is not known for his morals and ethics in the wrestling business, and even he knew he couldn’t keep Angle on the roster. Even he knew that Angle’s problems were too big to just sweep under the carpet, and that he would have to part ways with one of his best homegrown creations for the betterment of everyone involved. TNA apparently didn’t see it that way. What does it say about them when Vince McMahon looks like the moral and ethical one of the bunch? Chew on that one for a while."
    Dan Wahlers


    (Quelle: wrestlingobserver.com)

    Im Gegensatz zu einigen (Smart)Marks an dieser Stelle betrachte ich das Business insgesamt und nicht eindimensional vom Standpunkt ihrer jeweiligen Lieblingsliga aus. Weder WWE noch TNA bieten IMO heutzutage ein zufriedenstellendes Gesamtprodukt. Das aber nur mal als Einleitung. Ich hab` anbei mal nen Artikel gestellt, der sich mit der "moralischen" Situation der Angle-Situation befasst. Ist nicht in jedem Punkt 1:1 zustimmbar, aber trotz allem lesenswert. Englisch-Könner suind im Vorteil, da ich das Ganze sicher nicht erst auf Deutsch übersetzen werde.


    Noble Intentions and Undesirable Consequences


    By Todd Martin


    The announcement by TNA on Sunday of the signing of Kurt Angle once again reminds us of a fundamental rule of professional wrestling. In professional wrestling, doing the right thing usually backfires. You end up hurting yourself, helping your enemies, and not even achieving the commendable goals that you sought to accomplish in the first place.


    World Wrestling Entertainment and Vince McMahon, Jr. are frequently criticized for making morally bankrupt decisions. Indeed, the company has made many deeply problematic moral decisions over the years, with the exploitation of the late Eddie Guerrero this year coming immediately to mind. The release of Kurt Angle was not one of those decisions.


    Kurt Angle is a tragedy waiting to happen, if not a tragedy already in the making. A man driven by an extraordinary desire to be the best, Angle has pushed himself hard throughout his life. He pushed his body to tremendous lengths during his WWE career, and refused to slow down. He continued on despite serious health deterioration, and competes with a level of pain that is extremely hard to manage without assistance. As he ages, and with serious health problems, the best course of action for Angle is clearly to take it easy on his body.


    WWE attempted to push him in exactly that direction. By confronting Angle about his problems and pushing him out of the company, WWE was presumably driven by a desire to protect Angle from himself. While unquestionably not wanting a tragedy to occur under their watch played a role, one has to suspect the primary impetus for WWE’s stance on Angle was a desire to help his well being.


    Angle isn’t getting help. Rather, he is simply moving on to a different pro wrestling company. He won’t have to work as grueling of a schedule, which is a positive. However, TNA needs him a lot more than WWE did, which will force him to go all out in his matches to try to justify his role in the company. He will still be in the same problematic environment with the same temptations and dangers. Moreover, he could still decide to also do MMA or work Japan, presenting even further health risks. WWE’s intervention didn’t help Angle at all.


    So what did WWE accomplish in trying to do the right thing? They simply handed one of the most marketable professional wrestlers in North America over to their primary pro wrestling competitor. If Kurt Angle is crazy enough to also try UFC, he could end up helping their primary MMA competitor as well.


    The greater impact potential is probably in UFC. Angle could potentially top a million buys for a fight with Daniel Puder in the Octagon, while TNA seems to be teasing a feud between Angle and Jeff Jarrett that will likely do more to devalue Angle than benefit Jarrett. Still, TNA has a prime piece of WWE talent that they can use to entice WWE viewers to watch their shows.


    WWE shouldn’t fret too much over this development, however. Angle’s departure to TNA isn’t likely to change the landscape of professional wrestling in spite of the rhetoric. The biggest threat to WWE success is still its own creative team. And for once, Vince McMahon can take pride in knowing that he did the right thing, even if it backfired from a business standpoint.


    (Quelle: wrestlingobserver.com)

    War reine Storyline, Cena erklärte es einen Tag später bei RAW so, dass es die nachwirkungen des Matches gewesen seien, speziell in dem Moment aber auch der "Respekt" vor Edges Durchhaltevermögen und seiner Leistung.
    IMO wäre es jedoch besser gewesen, Cena hätte angesichts der Fanreaktionen angefangen zu weinen :).

    Zitat

    Original von rinaldo2000at
    The Ravenlord , deine Behauptung und Schlussfolgerung ist schlicht weg falsch und außerdem scheinst du die News um Kurt Angle „Entlassung“ von wwe.com bezogen zu haben, du bist somit auf wwe Propaganda reinzufallen.


    Richtigstellung:
    Kurt Angle wurde nicht von der wwe entlassen, er hat um eine Vertragsauflösung gebeten, im gegenseitigen Einverständnis sozusagen, dies ist ein gewaltiger Unterschied.
    Er dürfte auch sehr gut gepokert haben, denn es existiert keine Sperre welche ihm verbietet einen Vertrag mit anderen Ligen abzuschließen, er hat somit den alten Fuchs Vince Mc Mahon hereingelegt, was ebenfalls sensationell ist und für dessen Intelligenz spricht.


    Da du Kurt Angle zweifellos persönlich kennst inklusive seiner genauen Vertragsinhalte und allen Klauseln, muss ich mein Haupt in Demut beugen und dein grenzenloses "Insiderwissen" neidlos anerkennen. Endlich haben wir einen Zeugen der Vertragsgespräche und Dialoge betreffend seines Gesundheitszustandes gefunden. Ich bin überglücklich. :D :D


    Spaß beiseite: Was auf wwe.com steht, weiß ich seit Monaten bereits nicht mehr, Stand der Dinge war jedoch zuletzt, dass Angle entlassen wurde, Streiereien darüber sind mir zu fade, ehrlich gesagt. Und dein sinn- und hirnloses Gebrabbel interessiert mich eigentlich auch nicht besonders.

    Also, als erstes muss ich mal sagen, dass ich sehr froh bin, dass es nicht Chris Benoit ist, der wechselte.
    Nun, also ist Kurt Angle gewechselt, zu TNA also. Klingt auf den ersten Blick wie ein Toptransfer. Aber ist es auch einer?
    Mich wundert, dass Kurt überhaupt so schnell wieder in einen Ring treten darf,. Normalerweise gelten ja bekanntlich 90 Tage no compete-Klauseln in den WWE-Verträgen vor. Allerdings wurde Angle ja gefeuert, was bedeuten würde, dass auch sein vertrag aufgelöst wurde. ich bin mir allerdings sicher, sollte dem nicht so sein, dann wird Vince ihn verklagen, dass es knallt. Glaube indes kaum, dass TNA so dumm wäre, ihn dann bereits zu präsentieren.


    Was nun die Qualität des Transfers angeht. Angle ist zweifellos, was das reine Können angeht, der Beste in diesem Geschäft im nordamerikanischen Bereich. Allerdings steht in Zweifel, wie es mit seiner Gesundheit genau aussieht. WWE verschob ihn zur ECW, um ihn zu schonen und damit er seine Suchtprobleme (Painkiller-Abhängigkeit) in den Griff bekam. Ob das jetzt geschafft wurde oder nicht, steht nicht zur Debatte. Vielmehr ist wichtig, wie viele Matches Kurt bei TNA im Endeffekt monatlich wird bestreiten müssen. Sie veranstalten praktisch keine HouseShows (und wenn, dann nur mit dem B-Kader), das wäre vorteilhaft. Allerdings: Sollte er einen oder mehrfache schwere Bumps einstecken müssen, dann sieht das schon wieder ganz anders aus. Ich gehe nicht so weit wie WWE und bezeichne Angle als "emotionales Wrack", doch dass er sich in einem durchaus kritischen Zustand befinden müsste, das nehme ich ebenfalls an.
    Es ist sein Leben und seine Gesundheit, soviel steht fest. Nur das Statement, wonach er TNA nun sein Leben verdanken will, hätte er lieber nicht getätigt. Sonst könnte er später an diesen Worten gemessen werden, wenn er im Rollstuhl sitzt.
    Dann kann ihm auch seine geliebte Familie nicht mehr helfen. Fazit: Ich halte Kurt Angle nach wie vor für einen der Größten in diesem Business, doch dieser Schritt ist ein Armutszeugnis. Nicht für TNA, wohl aber für Kurt IMO.

    Wers noch nicht mitbekommen haben sollte (und das werden um diese tageszeit einige sein): Dave Meltzer gschreibt, dass TNA voraussichtlich VINCE RUSSO wieder ins Bookingteam holen will.
    naja, aufgrund seiner "bahnbrechenden" Erfolge seiner letzten jahre kann man da nur sagen: WWE braucht keine Konkurrenz, die zerstört sich schon zuvor ohne Not.
    Allerdings hätte ich auch nichts dagegen, wenn der Jarrett-Clan sang-und klanglos das Schicksal der WCW teilen und zum teufel gehen würde. Aber das passt ja wie die Faust aufs Auge. Russo, der sich ja wie Michaels mittlerweile einen "wiedergeborenen Christen" schimpft, gilt ja schließlich auch als "Antichrist der Wrestlingwelt".
    Gute Nacht, TNA, Friede deiner Asche :).

    Auf jeden Fall hat RVD endlich seinen ersten verf**** World Title gewonnen und diesem kleinen, miesen Bastard in den Arsch getreten. Auch wenn er den Gürtel eventuell schon bei RAW wieder abgeben müsste, hat Mr. Monday Night endlich mal einen World Title gehalten, fuck you, WWE :D :D :D!!
    MARKOUT MOMENT!!

    Als da wären:


    Evenflow DDT (Raven)
    Wave to the Future (Frankie Kazarian)
    Angel Wings (Christopher Daniels)
    Black Hole Slam (Abyss)
    Van Daminator (Rob Van Dam)
    Oldschool Expulsion (Steve Corino)
    Burning Hammer (Kobashi)

    Was die Kleinkinder angeht, gebe ich Roenne ebenso Recht. Ne ganze menge User dürften nicht wirklich Ahnung davon haben, was ECW damals wirklich ausgemacht hat.
    Es war mehr als nur Baseballbats, Stacheldraht, blutende Wrestler und zerstörte Tische. ECW war innovatives Booking, das bedeutete neuartige, damals schockierende Storylines (ich erinnere nur an Raven vs Dreamer, inklusive des "Lesbenangls" :D :D) sowie den Aufbau vieler neuer Stars.
    Heyman mochte vielleicht nicht mit Geld umgehen können, aber verflucht will ich sein, wenn der mann nicht ein Genie ist, was das reine Wissen um Wrestling und das Kreiren von Stars angeht.
    WWE kann noch so versuchen, an diese Zeiten anzuknüüfen, doch sie werden es nicht annähernd schaffen. In einem Punkt gebe ich Scott Levy total Recht: Die "Hardcore Revolution" ist vorbei, da ECW auch für eines maßgeblich stand:
    ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT!

    Da sagt auch keiner was gegen, aber Lashley lebt nur von seinem (steroid-) gestählten Körperbau, ansonsten ist da rein gar nichts.
    Der mann hat Poweraktionen in seinem Repertoire, gut und schön, das hat er Soldzwerg auf jeden Fall voraus (zumal war er ja auchn sehr guter Ringer), aber die Ringübersicht geht ihm, abgesehen von jeglichem Charisma, IMO total ab.
    Lashley passt zur Körperphilosophie eines Vince McMahon perfekt, als Führungswrestler wäre er ein Armutszeugnis.

    Predator bestritt bei den gestrigen RAW Tapings bereits ein Dark Match.
    Nur mal zur Info: Harry Smith gehört zu den talentiertesten Jungwrestlern weltweit und hat auch ne sehr gute Ausbildung genossen. Neulich bei der GSW hat er ein Match gegen Ares bestritten, da allseits gute Kritiken erhalten hat (noch dazu ist Ares einer der besten Eurowrestler überhaupt, Stichwort Swiss Money Holding, wem das mehr sagen sollte).
    Demzufolge wäre ich etwas vorsichtiger mit derart vorschnellen und auch abwertenden Aussagen. ;)

    Der zweite "Kane" war im übrigen Deacon Deville aus der Farmliga Deep South Wrestling.


    Zum Angle-Draft fällt mir nur ein: Schon jetzt steht fest, dass, sollte sich ECW auf Dauer durchsetzen, SD! nur noch Roster Nummer drei sein dürfte :D. Lol.