Alberto Del Rio @ Bound For Glory 2017

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

So um

Who remembers that time that Alberto, smack dab in the middle of a whole bunch of shit including but not limited to domestic violence accusations, showed up at Bound For Glory 2017 proclaiming his innocence but also doing a Loose Cannon thing and f***ing wiggling abusively @ Josh Matthews? I have no memory of what this led to, if anything, but it's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life and I've never seen it mentioned since. 

He was f***ing wiggling EVERYWHERE dude.

[wankah]

This was the time he was fresh from the suspension during investigation over one of those incidents with Paige, right? I remember him theatening Borash in the ring.

[LiamMcDuggle]

I don't think ALL the issues were known about him at this time. TNA just had got kicked off of Spike and were just trying to do something to get attention.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Sept 7, 2022 3:07:30 GMT -5 wankah said:

This was the time he was fresh from the suspension during investigation over one of those incidents with Paige, right? I remember him theatening Borash in the ring.

His suspension which meant he couldn't wrestle in the main event of Bound For Glory 2017

Luckily he made a glorious return... at Bound For Glory 2017

[Nosnorb]

That show also had a Monsters Ball match between Abyss and Grado, where Grado lost and was sent back to Scotland, mercifully ending a truly awful storyline where he, the face, was trying to marry Laurel Van Ness to get a visa so he could stay in the US. All this despite Laurel being 1- Canadian, and 2- out of her motherf***ing mind after Braxton Sutter had jilted her at the altar in March of that year.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Sept 7, 2022 6:28:10 GMT -5 Nosnorb said:

That show also had a Monsters Ball match between Abyss and Grado, where Grado lost and was sent back to Scotland, mercifully ending a truly awful storyline where he, the face, was trying to marry Laurel Van Ness to get a visa so he could stay in the US. All this despite Laurel being 1- Canadian, and 2- out of her motherf***ing mind after Braxton Sutter had jilted her at the altar in March of that year.

I remember Grado either Tweeted or said in an interview even his dad was giving him grief over how bad the storyline was as it was STILL happening.

“This shit is worse than EastEnders!”

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

Sept 7, 2022 3:34:47 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

I don't think ALL the issues were known about him at this time. TNA just had got kicked off of Spike and were just trying to do something to get attention.

It was most definitely pre-kidnapping I know that much

[XIII]

I only remember he was cutting some rambling promo and then you can almost literally see the coke kick in and he starts rambling even wilder.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Mostly remember him just being interviewed while he was absolutely shitfaced on Wrestlemania weekend, hours before a match he then just didn't show up for and forced Impact to call an audible.

Maybe an exceptionally forgiving person could get past his personal issues, but I don't understand why anyone would take a risk on some douchebag who's made it clear over and over he's going to take his ball and go home if you hurt his feelings, or indeed even if you don't and he's just not in a good mood.

[Alice Syndrome]

Sept 7, 2022 6:28:10 GMT -5 Nosnorb said:

That show also had a Monsters Ball match between Abyss and Grado, where Grado lost and was sent back to Scotland, mercifully ending a truly awful storyline where he, the face, was trying to marry Laurel Van Ness to get a visa so he could stay in the US. All this despite Laurel being 1- Canadian, and 2- out of her motherf***ing mind after Braxton Sutter had jilted her at the altar in March of that year.

Also he wore one of Mick Foley's actual red flannels that he'd been gifted to the match, and threw it into the crowd like an idiot

[chazraps]

I think it may have been the topic of a recent Something to Wrestle With. Haven't listened but been curious.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Smacked out his f***ing mind to cut an incoherent rambling promo. Like I am still high key salty he was the one that stopped Lashley dominate reign as champion 

[Rave]

Sept 7, 2022 3:34:47 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

I don't think ALL the issues were known about him at this time. TNA just had got kicked off of Spike and were just trying to do something to get attention.

TNA got kicked off Spike in 2014, they were on POP at the time this happened.

[LiamMcDuggle]

Sept 8, 2022 0:13:07 GMT -5 Rave said:

Sept 7, 2022 3:34:47 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

I don't think ALL the issues were known about him at this time. TNA just had got kicked off of Spike and were just trying to do something to get attention.

TNA got kicked off Spike in 2014, they were on POP at the time this happened.

well i can't remember crap, no can i?

[Alice Syndrome]

Sept 7, 2022 22:07:24 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Smacked out his f***ing mind to cut an incoherent rambling promo. Like I am still high key salty he was the one that stopped Lashley dominate reign as champion 

Like, how was he not immediately ordered to take a drug test? I remember that thread, everyone picked up on the exact point during his insane promo that the coke bump actually hit.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Sept 8, 2022 19:31:18 GMT -5 Alice Syndrome said:

Sept 7, 2022 22:07:24 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Smacked out his f***ing mind to cut an incoherent rambling promo. Like I am still high key salty he was the one that stopped Lashley dominate reign as champion 

Like, how was he not immediately ordered to take a drug test? I remember that thread, everyone picked up on the exact point during his insane promo that the coke bump actually hit.

I am guessing they felt like they owed him because he was suspended all that time (rightfully so) but his name sort of got dragged as it was rumored he put his hands on Paige when it was Vice Versa. 

But that should been the point of oh no, stay home. You saw when the high actually hit, he should been stopped in the middle of the promo

[Mozenrath]

Sept 8, 2022 19:34:28 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Sept 8, 2022 19:31:18 GMT -5 Alice Syndrome said:

Like, how was he not immediately ordered to take a drug test? I remember that thread, everyone picked up on the exact point during his insane promo that the coke bump actually hit.

I am guessing they felt like they owed him because he was suspended all that time (rightfully so) but his name sort of got dragged as it was rumored he put his hands on Paige when it was Vice Versa. 

But that should been the point of oh no, stay home. You saw when the high actually hit, he should been stopped in the middle of the promo

They could probably have milked it, too, in that opportunistic way of theirs. Have some agents come out there and cut his mic, and play it as "Oh, he's too hot for TV, keep him away from a live mic, crazyman" thing, only the issue is that Alberto would LEGITIMATELY probably put his hands on those agents and shout obscenities, etc, if that happened, he wouldn't have recognized what was happening.

[MrElijah]

Sept 7, 2022 22:07:24 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Smacked out his f***ing mind to cut an incoherent rambling promo. Like I am still high key salty he was the one that stopped Lashley dominate reign as champion 

I remember they made him Unified GFW Champion and he was supposed to face Low-Ki. And yes, it should've been Walking Armageddon Lashley with both belts.