WWE RAW 4/4/2011 & Hall of Fame LD - You Can Hate Him Now

[Nate DaMac]

I think it's safe to say that by now, Michael Cole heat is the X-Pac heat of this generation.

Not really. People want to see Cole get his ass kicked, no one wants to see Pac at all.

Not my point of view, just the difference between the 2. Personally, I'd rather see X-Pac than half of the useless mid carders they have today.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

The mask works because it's essentially all in Rhodes' head. Everyone can see he looks the same, but he looks different to himself.

Never looked at it that way. Good shit.

 

[X]

You know who was better than Michael Cole?

Don West.

Fuck yeah he was. I miss the shit out of Don West.

Cole is awful on commentary, get him the fuck out of here. Seriously, I wanted to facepalm my face off of my actual head when he started going right into babyface play-by-play man mode, talking about how Orton and his wife are scarred by CM Punk's antics. Totally ridiculous.

 

[Serious Jones]

It just seems to me that most of you guys are just sick of Cole as a character, myself included. I genuinely wanted him to get destroyed at WrestleMania, but the angle done last night just killed it for me.

BUT ANYWAYS SIN CARA???!?!?!!!!

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Still can't get over Cody wearing the mask to the Hall of Fame.

 

[mr.ready]

I hated X-Pac, but the 123 Kid was my favorite wrestler as a young lad. Oh the irony

 

[klunderbunker]

I think Orton has been going a bit lighter on the tanning. He's not as orange this week.

 

[Theo Mays]

I wonder if the day will ever come that Randy Orton puts over Cody Rhodes?

I can't imagine that those punches to the face would hurt Cody more than Randy. On a related note, it looks like Randy added the Thesz Press to his repertoire.

Hasn't he been using it for a month or so now?

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Orton's doing a solid job selling that knee.

 

[Starchild]

Don't look now, but this is the most wrestling we've seen on Raw in months

 

[klunderbunker]

Still can't get over Cody wearing the mask to the Hall of Fame.

He's old school and lives by kayfabe. It helps a lot.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

He's old school and lives by kayfabe. It helps a lot.

Anything that Cody does that isn't old school?

 

[Theo Mays]

I feel like I'm watching TNA with all these damn commercials.

 

[TSG]

Rhodes is stealing his brother's gimmick.

Not quite. But I could see it turn into something like it, with the route it's going now. I like the Phantom of the Opera type thing.

 

[JGlass]

The WWE is really fucking up. Wrestlemania is supposed to be the climax of feuds, and what have we seen so far? King vs. Swagger, both in the same program, and Rey and Orton vs. Cody and Punk. 2 matches covering 3 programs we saw at Wrestlemania.

 

[Gelgarin]

I think Orton has been going a bit lighter on the tanning. He's not as orange this week.

He's noticeably less oily than he used to be. I can't keep making my Gotch jokes any more.

 

[mr.ready]

Anything that Cody does that isn't old school?

Interracialy going out with Layla.

 

[Gelgarin]

The WWE is really fucking up. Wrestlemania is supposed to be the climax of feuds, and what have we seen so far? King vs. Swagger, both in the same program, and Rey and Orton vs. Cody and Punk. 2 matches covering 3 programs we saw at Wrestlemania.

In fairness it was never uncommon to see half the feuds carry on for a rematch at Backlash.

 

[klunderbunker]

When do you ever see a match get two breaks?

 

[Starchild]

The WWE is really fucking up. Wrestlemania is supposed to be the climax of feuds, and what have we seen so far? King vs. Swagger, both in the same program, and Rey and Orton vs. Cody and Punk. 2 matches covering 3 programs we saw at Wrestlemania.

Backlash, now Extreme Rules, has historically been about Wrestlemania rematches, hence the name.
The only one that doesn't make sense is Cole/Lawler. That should've ended last night

 

[TSG]

I'm waiting for an Awesome Kong or Sin Cara debut. I want Tyler Black, but he's scheduled for NXT 5 I believe.

 

[klunderbunker]

Anything that Cody does that isn't old school?

I can't say I recall Jack Brisco looking in a big electronic mirror on the way to the ring.

 

[mr.ready]

When do you ever see a match get two breaks?

They might be getting it out of the way early so they don't have to interupt Sheamus/Bry later on.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

In fairness it was never uncommon to see half the feuds carry on for a rematch at Backlash.

Or beyond. Rock vs. HHH springs to mind here...

 

[JGlass]

In fairness it was never uncommon to see half the feuds carry on for a rematch at Backlash.

You're right. I just took a look at last year's Extreme Rules, and half the matches were Wrestlemania matches.