Extreme Rules Thread

The card so far:

WWE Title Cage Match: Randy Orton (c) v DAVE~!
WHC Ladder Match: Edge (c) v Jeff Hardy
IC Title No Holds Barred Match: Rey Mysterio (c) v Chris Jericho
ECW Title Hardcore Match: Christian (c) v Jack Swagger v Tommy Dreamer
Miss WrestleMania Hog Pen Match: Santina Marella v Vickie Guerrero
Submission Match: John Cena v Big Show
Samoan Strap Match: Umaga v CM Punk

SmackDown and ECW matches look good, Raw looks shit. AGAIN. Might get it anyway, in case it is Dreamer's last (WWE) match.

And check out the video I linked above, it's hilarious.

Someone go tell Inno: Tommy Dreamer - TWO TIME, TWO TIME ECW CHAMPION!

Unreal. Delighted for Tommy. Decent match too.

Very solid PPV so far, excellent IC and US Title matches. Good so far, apart from the Santina shite. Pleased for Tommy

Jesus that was fucking woeful. Cena never fails to surprise me with how awful his matches are. Big Shows foot was on the ropes! How was the hold not broken?! Idiots.

Yes! Fucking Delighted! Dreamer and Punk in one night!

And that ladder bump was sick!

PUNK!

I wonder if Ayatollah went for a cigarette before Jeff won, and came back to see Punk holding the title.

If they can free Punk of his basic and standard baby-face promos since he's come to the WWE, and have him go heel against Jeff Hardy, this could make for a feud of the year possibility. If not the best feud, at least most interesting. Awesome swerve tonight. I can't wait for Smackdown this week.

Oh, and Batista as WWE champ? I think I'm done with Raw, Buttista is terrible.

The Stig wrote:I wonder if Ayatollah went for a cigarette before Jeff won, and came back to see Punk holding the title.

No actually, I squeezed 2 cigs and a sausage roll in while that Hogpen match was going on....saw the rest of the PPV

The Ayatollah wrote:

The Stig wrote:I wonder if Ayatollah went for a cigarette before Jeff won, and came back to see Punk holding the title.

No actually, I squeezed 2 cigs and a sausage roll in while that Hogpen match was going on....saw the rest of the PPV

Arrh, you have wisen grasshopper!


C'mon guys, lets not too carried away with Dreamer's win, it's not even the same belt!

I thought it was a pretty decent show, with a crowd that at times became very hot, something that always helps it from a viewing standpoint

the opener was pretty good but got totally dicked for time, it was as if it was being paced out to be 20 minutes long, but they decided to just cut it short

the ECW title match was decent, and the fans really bought into the Dreamer stuff (which helped make it somewhat of a moment)

Jericho vs Rey was good


The Batista Orton cage match also seemed to come to a bit of a sudden ending


The ladder match was decent, I think it helps 1 on 1 ladder matches being a world title match these days as they go all out for main event booking, whereas the IC title ones had become a bit too much, however the ending again seemed very sudden (they were clearly running out of time, when was the last 3 hour show that ran to anywhere near 3 hours?) and it seems like they went straight from that ladder spot outside the ring (the chap in black quite clearly came over to tell them to wrap things up) to the end of the match, they went to a replay with both men dead, and came back to see them both back in the ring

I liked Punk's heel turn without actually having a proper heel turn



decent enough show

Outlaw2x4 wrote:Jesus that was fucking woeful. Cena never fails to surprise me with how awful his matches are. Big Shows foot was on the ropes! How was the hold not broken?! Idiots.

I was always under the impression that Rope breaks dont matter in submission matchs.I remember a one years ago, may have been Benoit and Jericho, that used the ropes a lot

IOV wrote:

Outlaw2x4 wrote:Jesus that was fucking woeful. Cena never fails to surprise me with how awful his matches are. Big Shows foot was on the ropes! How was the hold not broken?! Idiots.

I was always under the impression that Rope breaks dont matter in submission matchs.I remember a one years ago, may have been Benoit and Jericho, that used the ropes a lot

Maybe. Been a while since I seen one, but it doesn't change how awful this match was.

Agreed about that match man, that was poor, Show-Cena and the HP match dragged down an otherwise excellent PPV.

Rey v Jericho and Edge v Jeff were fantastic

Typical - I stop watching for financial reasons and lo - a good PPV outside the big 4!

As far as the Punk "heel" turn goes, I think it was more "I've been wanting to cash in but Umaga's kept getting in the way. He isn't now (literally ) so I'll try again. Plus it lets Edge v Jeff continue even longer. Maybe Jeff keeps winning, but Edge can claim that he never keeps it long.

btw, what belts are left that Jeff hasn't held now - that's both main titles achieved. C ould be the firs grad slammer without total major title rigns totalling two months!

And as far as not watching RAW if Batista has the belt...wish granted again. Given that he's not that good and he's more injury prone than Taker, Kennedy and Angle combined, just dump the guy already! Or maybe they're too afraid of what he'll do in TNA for the fortnight before he slips on one of Kong's discarded snapshots or accidentally garottes himself on Jarrett's guitar string.

Garibaldi wrote:btw, what belts are left that Jeff hasn't held now

I think...

US & World tag.

They should bring back the Cruiserweight belt.

He never won the CW belt either (he did have a run with the Light Heavyweight strap though).

Also, it was the SmackDown tag title he never held.

ShowStealer wrote:
They should bring back the Cruiserweight belt.

You're like a battered wife who keeps going back to her husband. 'But I love him. He doesn't mean it. It's my fault really.'

ShowStealer, I know it's hard to accept, but they won't ever change.

Might be a little controversial but I wasnt into Dreamer winning at all.

Just not a fan I am afraid. Sure, I respect the hell out of someone who did what he did in ECW. Cant fault him for his dedication but I just never bought into him.

As for the PPV, it was rather fun I thought. Cena/Show and Hogpen match aside, very solid.

Good ending to the ladder match. If that was gonna be the end then it would have been a classic picture with Hardy looking at Edge all trapped in the ladder.

WWE title match was going quite well then it all of a sudden ended. It makes sense now but that match was actually going good and beyond my expectations.

Mr Torrie Wilson wrote:

ShowStealer wrote:
They should bring back the Cruiserweight belt.

You're like a battered wife who keeps going back to her husband. 'But I love him. He doesn't mean it. It's my fault really.'

ShowStealer, I know it's hard to accept, but they won't ever change.

Just give them one more chance!