Wrestling- NVG (SPOILERS inside view at your own risk)

Which I suddenly remembered whilst walking my dogs in the woods this evening that you couldn't actually see it going in because Jim Cornette censored it with a huge red X on television and there exists no video without the huge red X over the footage.

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I saw two minutes of Rusev vs Sheamus. Hated every second. The only chairshot you can do is with the recepient bent over in the waiting for Booker Ts Axe Kick position. Forever. Just bent over waiting to be hit with a chair. It looks ****ing stupid. Just stop with the chairs.

I saw a little of the main, and of course they did a tower spot. Every multiway match now gotta have a tower spot.

But...AJ is coming back?! Now we're talking.

AJ coming back is the big takeaway here

Also idk I dug shame us and rusev

Also that Kevin Sullivan match you linked is something else. Jesus Christ. Besides new Jack legit trying to murder people I can’t think of many wrestling matches that made me that squeamish

If AJ isn't coming back I don't know what we are doing here

This thread was peak when AJ Lee was around imo

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I missed AJ’s whole run. What’s her appeal?

Who did New Jack hurt that didn't have it coming to them?

Remember, being in a ring ain't no joke, someone might legit try to kill you.

Mass Transit: untrained goof presented himself as trained talent. Your best case scenario is you bleed and get pinned. Genius Boy went to Jack saying that he wanted to get all his **** in cause his family is there. THEN he asks Jack to blade him. So, you're nobody but you want to get all your **** in and you can't even blade yourself. Had it coming.

Crocodile Dundee: untrained goof who shoot punched Jack in the face a couple times then tried to dump him out the ring. Jack stabbed him a lot of times but he's fine AFAIK.

Gypsy Joe: WOULD NOT SELL Jack did say he felt bad for hitting a seventy year-old man full on with a baseball bat but overall this is just a brawl and Joe needed to sell SOMETHING.

Vic Grimes: Jack did legitimately try to kill this mf AFAIK. BUT he got up on a ledge for a dive spot with Jack in ECW and wouldn't go through with it. I was watching this live on ppv. So Jack pulled him down because otherwise there's NO SPOT. And Vic landed on Jacks head and split his skull open. So yeah, Jack tried to kill Vic a little bit by impaling him on the ring post but missed.

Who else? I think those are the major ones.

Terri Runnels?

everything was disco and kittens for Terri Runnels until she started DATING NEW JACK wonder why that didn't work out.

Also you will have to let me know if Jack ever hurt anything other than her feelings because I'm not aware of it.

AJ was the best thing to happen to wrestling since Curt Hennig. Amazing in the ring, amazing on the mike and well... generally amazing.

Can't imagine she's coming back for anything significant (if at all) though.

They've teased her return on previous occasions and if she was really returning I imagine they'd do their best to keep it secret until it actually happened instead of spending weeks/months teasing it.

I don't question your expertise but you are aware that Smackdown is in Chicago tomorrow?

There's no expertise and no I wasn't aware - I don't really follow wrestling anymore, except for through these threads 😀

I'd be happy to be wrong though.

They teased her return for the Rumble this year too though (with the help of Punk) and nothing happened. And if it was going to happen, I think they'd be idiots to tease it in advance instead of dropping the bomb when it happened.

They do idiotic things though and with Punk going back the barrier for her doing so too is obviously a lot lower, so... maybe I'll have to renew my Netflix 😉

Goddamn AJ still looks amazing

Holy ****. That pop.

So friggin cute

Thank you, thank you.

Glad she got the bag!

I'm curious to see how AJs return pans out and if it'll last beyond the current story-arch. Hopefully it won't just be a nostalgic comeback like Lita etc did, but I can't really see her returning full time either, though she clearly seems fit enough to do so should she want to.

I still have no idea why they wouldn't try to keep her return as secret as possible instead of going so far to announce it in advance, but perhaps it's because she's been gone so long that a lot of the current fans wouldn't even understand how big her return was if there wasn't some preparation?

Also really curious about how she'll do in ring - her return seemed a little stiff and rushed with her going through too many of her signature moves and poses a little too forced and quickly, but I guess that's natural given the situation.

I'm obviously all here for lighting it up though.

Zero shot AJ came back full time, this is entirely lock step with the punk/rollins feud

I think she’s said multiple times for years she has zero interest in returning to full time wrestling. If that’s changed, great, WWE is all the better for it, but I fully expect this to be for as long as this feud lasts and no longer

I mean, even though it’s great for this story, acknowledging Becky lynch as rollins’ wife in the WWE universe long term is definitely a problem unless they’re seriously committed to making rollins the final boss the way H was all those years with steph

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/report-surprising-details-aj-lee-183000670.html

Ever since Rollins did the injury work at Summerslam, it has felt like we are heading to Rollins v Punk at Wrestlemania. CM Punk winning at wrestlemania main event for the world title, and then holding it for a bit is a good storyline.

Awesome if true, she’s a 10/10 performer, I’m just hesitant to believe she’ll be involved in storylines that don’t intertwine with punk

I definitely agree rollins v punk closes wrestlemania (assuming cena doesn’t extend long enough that his retirement match is at wrestlemania) and this is the kinda blood feud **** that can only end in a 1 hour 5 star epic where punk goes over

I am just confused where Becky lynch goes from there. I assume she’ll lose the IC title to AJ at some point but roping her into this feud is gonna require some serious work to undo