Topic: Wrestling?

Harrier wrote:
Why do trainers get tested anyway? To polish the image? It´s not like Billy Gun is waiting for a big push to the WWE championship or rises above hate, I don´t get it.

As an example/warning to the younger generation of wrestlers, I'd imagine.

Harrier wrote:Why do trainers get tested anyway? To polish the image? It´s not like Billy Gun is waiting for a big push to the WWE championship or rises above hate, I don´t get it.

I saw something in the Observer about it.  Supposedly trainers don't normally get tested but because he was caught using PEDs in a powerlifting competition (that apparently WWE didn't even know he was in until the test failure was announced!) they couldn't ignore what had happened or else it'd look very bad for them.

@rhapsody
That is really low of the people telling that to you. I admitedly know next to nothing about MMA, but what do you lack to train Muay Thai as a woman if you have hands, feet and knees and the will to do it? The inner spirit of a warrior or what?

That's kind of you. It was just ignorance, last year after I moved I found a different gym and they were totally accepting so it was just this one group, I think.  Most people in martial arts are very open-minded.  I guess probably also the fact that I was pretty young might've prejudiced them if they were already inclined that way.  I'm 19 now so people take me a little more seriously.

@Rhapsody & Harrier, in my experience it was way easier to get into kickboxing as a woman than it was with jiujitsu. You can punch and kick stuff alongside the guys, but it's a little more complicated when it comes to grappling and rolling and full body contact. Things can get weird, though good jiujitsu schools will be good dealing with that too.

The atmosphere of a good jj school is pretty cool. Though there are some who are more cutthroat, especially in places like Abu Dhabi, most of them are very supportive in my experience, likely due to the fact that in order to train effectively you need to take care of your partner. It's dangerous stuff, so respect and care are important.

That being said, I did kickboxing first and foremost. I like grappling a lot, but I looove kickboxing, and if I weren't 400 years old and a basket case and working all the time, I'd love to take a crack at full time training and amateur fights and stuff.

Alexandra wrote:

Harrier wrote:
Why do trainers get tested anyway? To polish the image? It´s not like Billy Gun is waiting for a big push to the WWE championship or rises above hate, I don´t get it.

As an example/warning to the younger generation of wrestlers, I'd imagine.

I would be really interested to see the reaction of WWE if John Cena one day came out and said something like:
"Yes, I took steroids all of my career. First the hard stuff when we were not tested, then the type of roids that can´t be easily found. I always wanted to be a good example, but the schedule of a WWE superstar is just too much for anyone to bear."

Not like that did not happen in sports. Lance Armstrong comes to mind. Although in hindsight, you have to ask yourself if the same guy can really win the most prestigous bicycle race seven times in a row without help of steroids if a former feat of 3 wins in general was considered fantastic and nearly unachievable.

And yes, I can imagine that mixed grappling can make things complicated. Sexual harrasement, accusations, bad blood in general. But I guess the girls are probably not lining up for grappling most of the time, so there is probably little choice for them.

@Blue I think it was a little easier for me because a bunch of the class was already girls when I started, including one of my instructors.  I guess they got a lot of self-defense promotion. When I moved on and started doing 10th Planet it was a sausagefest but everybody was generally cool.  I've been pretty lucky in that regard.

Also I just watched Raw all the way through for the first time in eternity

This tournament's supposed to end with Reigns/Owens, right?  I'm not up to date on the storylines atm but it seemed kind of...I don't wanna say 'transparent' because that seems so negative but that's all that's coming to mind.

As you´re directly asking I don´t think this is a spoiler. People are supposing that the final is gonna be Dean Ambrose vs Roman Reigns, with Kevin Owens having slim chances of replacing Ambrose. you got to know for this that Ambrose and Reigns are allies and were part of the Shield, so a brother vs brother storyline could be happening. But as we are speaking about WWE here and Dean Ambrose is obviously not regarded as main event material, it could very well also be Owens.

Who doesn't regard Ambrose as main Event material? I

Harrier wrote:People are supposing that the final is gonna be Dean Ambrose vs Roman Reigns

Alright I'm extremely okay with this

But as we are speaking about WWE here and Dean Ambrose is obviously not regarded as main event material

I'm not okay with this though >:O

I think Ambrose is main event material, but I think Owens is the better matchup. If they're going to do a brother vs. brother thing, they should build it up a little more - just having it come out of the blue like this feels like a waste of a good storyline.

Owen and Reigns has more potential. With Seth gone, he's pretty much the main non-Wyatt heel. He's pretty popular, and he already has a little fued going on with Reigns, anyway. Someone needs to fill Seth's shoes for a few months, and Owens could be that guy.

Though, I am a big Owens fans, so I am biased. >_>;

Once again Roman proves he's capable of being the proverbial broom that Cesaro and the like can carry to a 4 star match