General Wrestling V: As Good As Or Will Exceed Wrestlemania

[Delirium]

Having draft rules for a draft that will be ignored(again) in a few months seems like a waste of time.

[Tyrath]

It may not this time since neither Fox nor USA will want their show's wrestlers showing up on the other too often.

[Melena]

Lucha Underground is available in it's entirety on some site called Tubi. Can't wait to catch up.

https://tubitv.com/series/4047/lucha_underground

Tubi is pretty awesome. Has a ton of 80's cartoons on it as well. Functions like free hulu without a login, so there are advertisements, but it's a small price to pay so I can watch old G1 transformers on my phone.

[Vil]

I don't know whose fault it was and don't feel like digging into it, but it still amazes me how big a mess LU became behind the scenes. I don't know where some of that stuff would rank on a "LOLTNA" scale, but there was such a variety of problems. That said, it's a shame that it didn't work out. While there was a lot of stuff that simply wasn't for me, they really were fantastic at some things and how they handled certain people.

...and now I am reminded that my boy Cuerno signed with WWE. Can't wait to find out how he's not used or misused. "Hey, do you think you could stop doing your suicide dive? See, Seth Rollins does that about 14 times a match and we can't have people realizing that he's terrible at it."

[Melena]

Basically it was ownership. LU was tied to a small channel that a large chunk of the US doesn't get (El Rey network). Management also had it's head up it's ass with certain things. Pushing Sexy Star non stop, even after her shooting on people went public, then the shitty contracts that stated that even if we are not filming, you can't work anywhere else caused a mutiny among the workers. Evilise and Joey Ryan probably being the two most vocal alongside King Cuerno in trying to get those contracts dissolved.

As a show though, I loved that they didn't take themselves seriously and had straight up murder, time travel and other super natural shenanigans going on in a weekly basis. And while the show was never a ratings beast, I'd say it actually did wonders for John (insert whatever show he's tied to here for his last name), King Cuerno, Lucha Bros, etc. to actually get noticed by an american audience and build their brand. Even names that were known in the US like Rey Mysterio, Chavo Guerrerro were able to use that show and it's limited travel helped rejuvenate their careers while keeping their names around and visible.

[Anoat]

Cain vs Brock and Strowman vs Tyson Fury now official for Crown Jewel, barf

[Tyrath]

Fine with me. Saudi can have the shitty matches.

[Xno Kappa]

I saw a match with Cain wrestling in Mexico and he was actually surprisingly good for someone just starting out.

[Tyrath]

Here's some bad photoshop

[Vil]

Is Braun putting his Saudi championship and/or trophy on the line?

[Tyrath]

https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/...we-draft-pools

The draft pools are divided by nights

Friday Night SmackDown – Oct. 11

Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Ricochet
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
Lacey Evans
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Natalya
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina



Raw – Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
Titus O’Neil
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
Aleister Black
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
Daniel Bryan
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
Ali
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
Samoa Joe
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Rusev
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Carmella
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Shelton Benjamin
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
Drake Maverick

[Vil]

EC3's free agency begins tonight!

[Krandor]

Shorty Gable. The fuck

[Vil]

Vince probably fell out of his chair laughing when coming up with the idea of changing his name to "Shorty".

[Tyrath]

I already hate this draft format.

Out of the first 5 picked, only Bray Wyatt changed brands. They shouldn't have started as if everyone is on no brand right now.

[Krandor]

Also. Are we just ignoring the fact that a bunch of "Fox executives" are hanging out with a gigantic robot and that's a totally normal thing apparently?

[Tyrath]

Btw this is essentially going in the order of the preliminary pools WWE posted LOL

[Tyrath]

Also. Are we just ignoring the fact that a bunch of "Fox executives" are hanging out with a gigantic robot and that's a totally normal thing apparently?

Yes, that's Cleatus.

[Krandor]

Oh I know, but there just acting like him hanging out in a room with a bunch of suits is apparently a completely normal thing?

[Vil]

The whole thing is dumb. I know that it's dumb trying to apply logic, but should I assume they pre-ranked and this was an autodraft once they decided the draft order? Otherwise why the hell are you celebrating that pick like you didn't know you picked them?

Show's half over and this has sucked.