The WWE held a media conference call today to promote The Great American Bash pay per view this Sunday. A member of Tha O Show was part of that conference call.Generally these conference calls are for the mainstream media and hold no interest at all to wrestling fans. Today a surprise was dropped, when the WWE announced Mark Henry (pound for pound the fewest O's in all of wrestling) had been injured at Saturday Night's Main Event and will not be able to compete in The Great American Bash against Batista.
This injury (still undetermined as to what exactly it is) couldn't have come at a worse time considering this was supposed to be Batista's 'revenge' and his platform back into the main event. Batista joked that Henry was faking the injury to avoid a beat down on Sunday. One smark emailed me after the conference call saying, "Henry's contract is about to expire - like any day now. Perhaps he decided to hold Vince up and got his ass fired". Ultimate Warrior 2006? I have a hard time believing that Henry is that smart.
Batista has issued an open challenge to any "sucker" willing to get in the ring with him.
On a side note - in the last month, we've had open challenges from Kurt Angle, Rhino and now Batista. Could Dana White PLEASE send Chuck Lidell in to shut everyone up with their 'open challenges'?
13 comments: on "Henry out of The Bash"
I believe that man ate my baby
I don't see Batista jumping into the main event, and I don't think they'll turn him heel. Smackdown needs heels, but they also need legit babyfaces. For whatever reason, the crowd eats his shit up and asks for more.
I don't see Batista jumping into the main event, and I don't think they'll turn him heel. Smackdown needs heels, but they also need legit babyfaces. For whatever reason, the crowd eats his shit up and asks for more.
What exactly do you like about Batista?
I'm honestly curious to know...
It can't be his workrate.
It can't be his promos.
I honestly don't get his appeal.
damn O well big Henry even tho he would crush batista any day an any way I guess he gets to save and not be invovled in some stupid squash macth tho put a mediocore wrestler over well mat Mr Ken Kennedy or gunner scott to build themselves but if wwe was smart they would bring SHelton Over to show Batista how to really wrestle cement his heel turn and run smackdown like he should be on raw
Dude, you wanna talk about Shelt needing work on the mic, but you LIKE Batista? Compared to Batista, Benjamin is Steve Austin.
You call him an intelligent version of Goldberg. I'm curious what you're basing that on. I have spoken to Batista, and I wouldn't call him the sharpest knife in the drawer.
As far as his energy...
He shakes the ropes as if he was the artist formerly known as Jim Hellwig and does a lot of yelling.
By the way...
Who's idea was it to put a BABYFACE champion who is known as The Animal in $2,000 suits?? Does this make sense to ANYONE? An animal? All dressed up? ? A babyface showin off how much he's worth and tryin to look great.
ughhhh.
btw henry is the worst main event eva he sucks bring back the nation and hell be good a great guy to have in stable but never main event
Im torn on Batista. While I dont have a clear understanding who he is and he doesnt have the charisma to pull off an ambiguous gimmick: I see the appeal.
Batista is more brick wall than man. In a business of huge veiny guys, he's huger and veinier than all of them. So let's face it, whether you like him or not, it's not that believable having him lose. Unlike a lot of big guys he's fast and constantly aggressive. In the ring he really is an animal. His finisher, while little more than a powerbomb looks like the most devastating move ever preformed when he's hitting it.
He's a safer, more coherent version of the ultimate warrior. He's as if the Warrior took his face paint off, slapped on some scary looking tattoes and said... time to get to business.
That being said I don't understand the suits and sunglasses either. Sure he looks pretty snazzy in them but its a sharp contrast to his image in the ring.
If I were managing his career however, it would have taken a much different turn. If I had him, he'd be like a wrestling version of the incredible hulk. He'd be the physical embodiment of rage and anger. We'd never see him in a suit. The only things we'd hear him say would be a rambling string of expletives. This would get tiresome quick, I realize. And we'd get the goldberg effect of 3 minute squash matches. So I'd give Batista a sadistic side, in which he is more concerned of sending messages than winning matches, what would normally be a 3 minute match would drag on into a ten minute tragedy.
I'd also give Batista a submission type move which allows for no submission. Perhaps a modified torture rack which cannot allow for one to tap out or say "I QUIT" This would be for those unlucky folks who he wouldnt finish off quickly with a Batista Bomb... but its just an idea.
Good points Baron...
As far as it not being believable for him to lose.... the WWE has had Rey Mysterio beat The Big Show. If you wanna talk reality, Big Show should virtually never lose.
Your ideas on how to manage Batista make a LOT of sense to me...
One thing though, I don't think his version of The Tiger Bomb is any better than any other I've ever seen. Hell, Ahmed Johnson's was better!
I appreciate the support Big Daddy. Ive got a TON of ideas on how to improve the WWE, (sure i'd wind up driving it into the ground but i'd like nothing more than to try!) And I understand the suits in evolution between the pretty boy Randy Orton, the aristocrat of the ring HHH, the stylin' and profilin' Ric Flair... but the ANIMAL? Sure, him wearing suits is better than Deacon Batista... but come on, let the guy do what he does best... MURDER HIS OPPONENTS, dont make him look pretty doing it!
And as far as actual fighting goes, I think a lot of guys on the rosters could defeat the big show. I think Batista, Bobby Lashley, (maybe) the Undertaker, probably Kurt Angle, and as much as I hate saying this maybe Khali, could stop him.
Mark Henry being injured and out for a possible six months has about as much impact on the WWE as Gillberg did...which is none. Like someone else said...it's just that cloud of injury that seems to follow Henry around wherever he goes.
As far someone taking the "open challenge", having the Big Show take isn't far fetched...but neither is Kurt Angle, Kane, or even Mysterio. Even though Batista is a huge draw for Smackdown, the brand still needs as much help as it can get. I don't see Big Show going over to Smackdown to challenge Batista unless Vince plans on using him in ECW, and oh jesus, don't even get me started on that.
Watch-Wrestling........
Re: the suits:
That's how he looked when he got over?
Batista was a HEEL then.
Now he's a face.
As Baron said, he was a high roller rollin with a bunch of artistocrats.
Should Triple H still wear a scrunchy in his hair with those long riding pants? I mean, that is what he wore when he first got over in DX.
No no no
you're far from the heel
this is just good convo....
They stuck with it mainly because they were too lazy to address it. The WWE is full of inconsistencies.
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