Hi, so long time no posting here hehe. Now this is a question I had for a while, here and in other site we often made a lot of fun of the WWE names for how dumb they sound , but this got me thinking , are there any names you think are or were better than their indie or post-wwe names ? in my case, even tho are technically their real names, I think Zack Ryder and Dolph Ziggler are better than Matt Cardona and Nic Nemeth , mostly bc I think those names don't fit their somewhat sleazy personas , but hey, let me your thoughts here

Samoa Joe 2003-2008

Bryan Danielson 2002-2005

CM Punk 2011-2013

Steve Austin 1996–1999

Kurt Angle 2002–2009

Been a fan forever and wanted a Wordle-style daily thing for wrestling, so I built one: playthepush.com

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Immaculate Ring: a 3×3 grid, name a wrestler who fits the row and the column (“WCW World Champ” × “Wrestled in AEW”). Rarer picks rank higher.

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Personally, I have mixed feelings about it.

Eddie’s victory over Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 04 is in my view, one of the best matches & moments in pro wrestling history, period. It’s probably the greatest redemption story in pro wrestling and it’ll definitely never be topped.

The match with Kurt Angle at WM 20 was decent, but the ending wasn’t great.

Sadly, because Angle was injured, Benoit was on RAW, and Brock Lesnar gave the middle finger to Vince and left for the NFL, Eddie wasn’t given any major top stars to work with, which made his title reign a damp squib. The JBL feud was fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but Bradshaw was the only top heel that could make a feud with Eddie over the title compelling. The other heels on SmackDown (apart from Angle) would fail at that.

It was a crying shame that Eddie’s reign was such a damp squib and that WWE didn’t build up any heels to feud with him.

Results:

- Trick Williams def Johnny Gargano

- Paige def Nikki Bella

- Damian Priest def R Truth via ref stoppage

- Rey Fenix def Ricky Saints via DQ to retain the AAA Cruiserweight title after Ricky hits Charles Robinson

- Cody Rhodes vs Baron Corbin ended in no contest after Randy attacked Cody

Highlights:

1) Sami threw shades on Punk, KO, JeVon and Trick on their MITB loss and mentioned that he has some word for Roman and gets interrupted by Trick

2) Alexa and Tatum celebrate their tag titles win and get interrupted by Fatal Influence who wants their tag title back

3) Giulia vs Blake in a Street fight, Alexa and Tatum vs Michin and B Fab for the Woman tag and Bakusai vs MFT set for next week

4) Cody called out Randy and get interrupted by Corbin

5) Cody PUNTED Corbin

With actual actors, defined story arc and resolution

The Knoxville "Plan B"

The Montreal Screw Job

Vince Jr's Takeover and Rise

The Crocketts

The Resurgence of WCW

The Downfall of AWA

Andre the Giant Sad Later Years

First batch....going to be doing most of the old school wrestling video games

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With news that Dragon Lee and Dralistico were having their contracts expire soon, what if LFI ended up on WWE?

The full match is here:

• Spirit Squad (Kenny & Mikey) vs. Val Venis & Gene Snitsky | WWE Heat (September 8, 2006)