Official Professional Wrestling Discussion V

[pitfighter1]

it sucks that the hardys arnt on the same brand

[Seattle MMA Fan]

Yeah, just went to wwe.com and because of the "tragedy", the Million Dollar Giveawy is over.

A nice cheap way for them to get out of giving away more money on a promotion that wasn't doing that much.

[hawynfreak]

Originally Posted by sylaxRKO

Not getting on you specifically but in every thread guys say someone should go to Xtreme Couture, greg jackson's or any of the others you listed, but it just dosent make sense do they expect every fighter to be in the same camp.

No offense taken. I mention those camps because they are established camps. I train Muay Thai with a couple of friends of mine but I know there is no way I am going to have World Class (thanks rogan) Muay Thai unless I train with better competition. I'm not saying he has to be a part of their fight team but lots of guys train with different camps to learn or work on specific parts of their game and Riddle should do the same.

[rncgnp]

the vince tragedy is all an angle

[HellaCopter]

Originally Posted by White Snake

One of the dumbest threads I ever saw in the HWs was one where the TS asking why fighters dont go to the best places to train and that if he was a fighter, he would train wrestling with Miletich Fighting Systems, boxing with Mike Tyson, Muay Thai with Fairtex Thailand and BJJ with BTT. The problem is that it would cost a fortune and if all fighters did that, then those camps would be rather packed.

Apparently Lashley saw that thread:

"I worked out with AKA (American Kickboxing Academy) for a little while," he said. "They've got a couple of really tough guys out there. More than a couple, they've got a handful of really tough guys. ... Also Nate Marquardt has a gym up in Denver. I got in there a couple times and worked out with them. There's a Fight Factory in Colorado Springs. I'm heading over to Greg Jackson's in Albuquerque. H.I.T. Squad -- Matt Hughes is a good friend of mine. I'm going to be heading out there and training with those guys. Big Ron Sparks out here in Louisville. I'm going to be hitting everything, you know? The past year, I've been training pretty hard."

WWE's Bobby Lashley training nationwide for MMA debut | MMAjunkie.com

[White Snake]

Originally Posted by HellaCopter

Apparently Lashley saw that thread:



WWE's Bobby Lashley training nationwide for MMA debut | MMAjunkie.com

Most of those camps are grappling based. Lashley shouldve stuck with AKA for striking although I could see Daniel Puder, Josh Thomson and Trevor Prangley repeatedly tapping him out in training. Maybe with the 7 figures he made in the WWE last year despite being out the last 6 months, he could also stop by Jorge Gurgel/Rich Franklin in Cincinatti, Lions Den Dallas, Capital City Fighting Alliance, Ricardo Almeida BJJ, GSP in Montreal, Inoki Dojo in LA and AA with POW Kickboxing in Chicago.

[HellaCopter]

Originally Posted by White Snake

Most of those camps are grappling based. Lashley shouldve stuck with AKA for striking although I could see Daniel Puder, Josh Thomson and Trevor Prangley repeatedly tapping him out in training. Maybe with the 7 figures he made in the WWE last year despite being out the last 6 months, he could also stop by Jorge Gurgel/Rich Franklin in Cincinatti, Lions Den Dallas, Capital City Fighting Alliance, Ricardo Almeida BJJ, GSP in Montreal, Inoki Dojo in LA and AA with POW Kickboxing in Chicago.

AKA's still quite grappling orientated also when you look at the fighters they have, but I agree it would be the best place for him, for learning to strike coming from a wrestling background and how to use his wrestling for MMA etc.

Of course AKA provides a great example in Puder that simply going to a good camp really isn't enough.

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by zane

Quack is a legend on the independent circuit and has all the tools to be a star in TNA, but I don't see him leaving Chikara behind.

I still have a copy of Quack's "Fantastic Finishers" book that I bought as a youngster laying around somewhere

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by DoubleDrive

I worked in the business for 10 years, made it to WCW

Did you get on tv?

What name did you perform under?

[ebeneezer]

Originally Posted by NasDestiny

It takes 2-3 days for announcers to travel, because they don't just come in the day of, leave immediately after the event. I also severely disagree with JR being traded - he is the voice of Raw, and quite frankly Cole hasn't deserved the opportunity to call it.

Everytime they've replaced Ross it has always been a fucking disaster.

Russo wanted to replace Ross with Cole in 1999 and Cole actually called several weeks of Raw with Lawler and it was horrible. They had no chemistry at all and JR was back in his seat soon after.

They again tried a few years later to replace him with Joey Styles, who was far better than Cole (which isn't saying much), couldn't fill JR's boots.

Apparently they signed Adamle for the express purpose of replacing Ross until the harsh reality set in that Adamle is useless.


Why couldn't they have traded Foley to Raw to commentate with Ross and tade Lawler to Smackdown? It would have livened the show up given how stale Lawler has been for the last few years.