The Mae Young Classic Thread (NO SPOILERS)

[Woo]

Should have been Mildred Burke. Mae sucked.

[Larryhausen]

May 23, 2017 16:23:47 GMT -5 GuyOfOwnage said:

May 23, 2017 15:46:49 GMT -5 Perd said:

Michael Hayes wanted to call it The Women's Annual Tournament.

I actually misread this at first as The Women's Anal Tournament, and because it's Michael Hayes, I wasn't 100% sure that I HAD misread it.

So its actually a triple entendre.

[horseface]

Eh, I think Women's Classic was way more appropriate and sounds better.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

It seems like they've been cutting down on the Moolah mentions the last few months. When it was Women's History Month, everybody thought Moolah would get a vignette, but they didn't give her on. Had this been 2 years ago, she would have gotten a vignette and the tournament named after her. They could see that the Moolah story has gotten more exposure online, so they're trying to distance themselves somewhat in case a major outlet picks it up.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

So the winner gets to pimp the rest of the female roster?

[Richard]

May 23, 2017 20:27:28 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

It seems like they've been cutting down on the Moolah mentions the last few months. When it was Women's History Month, everybody thought Moolah would get a vignette, but they didn't give her on. Had this been 2 years ago, she would have gotten a vignette and the tournament named after her. They could see that the Moolah story has gotten more exposure online, so they're trying to distance themselves somewhat in case a major outlet picks it up.

That and Mae and Steph were really close.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Name's fine. I'd have thought there was some dirt on Young's reputation through her association with Moolah and even stuff she did herself, but I'm guessing it wasn't as utterly toxic as some of the stories about Moolah.

Now let's get some damn entrants announced already.

[Rican]

I just KNOW "Stephanie McMahon Invitiational" was pitched at least once.

[Dragonfly]

May 23, 2017 14:36:56 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

May 23, 2017 14:33:48 GMT -5 DrBackflipsHoffman said:

Nonsense, that honor belongs to Tracey Smothers. This means a bear and also Tracey Smothers should be involved in this tournament

...THREE things.

1. Mae Young's Hand as trophy giver

2. Daniel Bryan on commentary

3. Tracey Smothers dance off as a cool down before the tournament final.

Every single time I've ever seen Tracy Smothers live, he has done the following three things:

1. Rip his pants halfway through his match.

2. Cut a truly sincere, energetic promo talking about how much he enjoys working with the young guys.

3. Promise that won't rip his pants the next time.

So yeah... If I don't hear about how much he enjoyed the tournament and/or see his pasty white ass, I'll be pissed.

[chazraps]

May 23, 2017 14:54:15 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

They should had named it "The Historic History Making Women's Wrestling Classic".

I do wish WWE would go hard in the paint praising Mildred Burke as they do Mae Young.

Agreed, Penny Banner too.

[Starshine]

Velvet McIntyre is turning over in her grave. Which caught me off guard since she's not even dead yet.

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

I'm just glad Stephanie McMahon invented women's wrestling to give these girls a chance to shine on the big stage.

#ThankYouStephanie
#StephStephSteph

[msc]

Makes sense. They'll want to promote how tough the tournament is to win, so they've named it after one of the women with the toughest reputations in pro-wrestling.

[Alice Syndrome]

May 23, 2017 14:54:15 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

They should had named it "The Historic History Making Women's Wrestling Classic".

I do wish WWE would go hard in the paint praising Mildred Burke as they do Mae Young.

every match is betwen Sasha Banks and Charlotte for some reason

[Banjo Is Broken]

They originally wanted to call it the Zahra Schreiber Classic.

[MrElijah]

May 24, 2017 0:16:14 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

I'm just glad Stephanie McMahon invented women's wrestling to give these girls a chance to shine on the big stage.

#ThankYouStephanie
#StephStephSteph

Yeah but Chris Jerchio invented wrestling as a whole.


It should be the Fozzy Women's World Cup.

[________ has left the building]

I do wonder if the women tourney is successful, would WWE start up an all female brand and show like 205 Live/cruiserweights? After all, WWE is trying to cover all of the wrestling niches for the Network.

[mhamm05]

May 23, 2017 21:58:55 GMT -5 Dragonfly said:

May 23, 2017 14:36:56 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

...THREE things.

1. Mae Young's Hand as trophy giver

2. Daniel Bryan on commentary

3. Tracey Smothers dance off as a cool down before the tournament final.

Every single time I've ever seen Tracy Smothers live, he has done the following three things:

1. Rip his pants halfway through his match.

2. Cut a truly sincere, energetic promo talking about how much he enjoys working with the young guys.

3. Promise that won't rip his pants the next time.

So yeah... If I don't hear about how much he enjoyed the tournament and/or see his pasty white ass, I'll be pissed.

That's funny. Most AIW shows I've seen him in have two constants:

1. Tracy trying to start a dance contest with someone.

2. Blatantly heel promo that involves some version of "If you chant 'Tracy sucks' one more time, I'll murder everyone in this crowd."

Edit: Apologies for off-topic.

[mhamm05]

Any not-so-obvious guesses for entrants?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

May 24, 2017 7:33:19 GMT -5 mhamm05 said:

Any not-so-obvious guesses for entrants?

The best place to start would probably be looking at notable names who have signed contracts already but haven't appeared on NXT TV much or at all. This includes Kimber Lee, Crazy Mary Dobson, Andrea, Kairi Hojo, Io Shirai, Evie and Nixon Newell, among others. Then there's people who have at least worked enhancement for WWE and NXT in recent months like Nicole Matthews, Candice LeRae, Rachael Ellering, Deonna Purrazzo, Delilah Doom, etc.