There was talk of this or cancelling some matches (should have been that) because they can't have more than 50 people at the arena.Originally Posted by Ian
I think the Battle Royals will still have to be canned though or scaled back a lot.
There was talk of this or cancelling some matches (should have been that) because they can't have more than 50 people at the arena.
I think the Battle Royals will still have to be canned though or scaled back a lot.
AEW was DELIGHTFUL*
Havent watched WWE in many years but this popped up on my youtube.
Yeah Phonics mentioned those recently, definitely need to give it a bash.
Season one was fantastic at times.
According to Meltzer WWE are currently more negative about Punk wrestling again than Punk himself is, which surprises me given their current "anything for a ratings spike" attitude.
The only thing they hold above ratings is a grudge.
For WWE grudges usually last about as long as they stop making business sense.
Macho Man would say otherwise but I guess Punk hasn't had sex with Steph MacMahon.
He’s still a WWE Hall if Famer and would have been during his lifetime if he didn’t insist on taking his brother in with him.
Doing something with him after he's dead is very much not 'not holding a grudge'
WWE Network is now free. Time for me to start at RAW episode 1.
Is that a charitable 'as you've going nowhere' act? Or do we get ads every minute?
I tried that, it's pretty tough going for the first five years.
Bummer! My childhood memories must be surpressing all kinds of events.
Havent tried yet.
It's so ropey. Where does hiring Rob Bartlett or whoever rank on Vince's Big Book of Bad Decisions?
We've had this discussion in here before but while the highs are obviously significantly higher than now and the PPV quality is better your average childhood episode of Raw or SD also contains a lot of shite. And some of it has..... aged poorly, let's say.Bummer! My childhood memories must be surpressing all kinds of events.
Still, I've rewatched a couple of old PPVs recently by scrounging through Daily Motion so I might use the Network for a bit of that if it's freeeee.
According to this they've unlocked a "vast portion" of it.
I know these are weird times but adding the below to Mania the way they have is definitely some "you what" booking.
Aleister Black vs. Bobby Lashley
Raw Tag Team Championships: The Street Profits (c) v. Andrade and Angel Garza
And the Taker / Styles match is a BONEYARD MATCH!!! (???)
That’ll put butts in seats.
Damn. I remember rewatching a lot of shit from the Attitude Era for some reason I thought there was some good stuff before then.
To be fair there's still plenty of good stuff and there even if you take out the fact that they had a higher ceiling because their top superstars were better there are things they did much better too.
Rabid crowds help massively of course.
I hope they really go all out with mental matches in ridiculous locations this year. Watching matches in a ring in an empty arena feels very odd. This is a real chance at being creative.
I dunno, I'm kinda into the idea of it being a total freakshow.
The one year they could have gotten away with having a match at House Hardy as well.
Don't worry, we're getting House of Horrors 2.
Strange but the Tag match could be great, Black v Lashley not so much.
The tag match could be great but why, other than "because wwe lol", would they spend weeks / months building up this fourway US title thing with all the Mexicans just to do that?
Nice that they've also partnered up Cedric and Rick so Vince can kill both of them with one stone.
Attitude Era is slightly different, 93 still has some good bits (anything with a Hart involved) but you can skip the majority of each episode.
Mysterio is self isolating, so that explains the US title one I guess.
Fuck me the bit with Chavo explaining how he found Eddie is brutal.
Yep, that's the bit that got me as well. Still remember that day so clearly. Horrible.
Wrestle Kingdom 14 night 1 is now available for free.
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00532_6_1
Will Ospreay v Hiromu Tanahashi starts at 2 hours 19 minutes. Followed by Naito v Jay White then Okada v Ibushi.
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And the main event, Okada / Ibushi is superb. January also feels like a thousand years ago.
It sure does.
Yeah Okada v Ibushi is easily match of the year contender.
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Evolve have started to release some good older matches.
https://www.youtube.com/user/dgusadottv
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I see that real sports feel AEW had Matt Hardy teleporting on Dynamite last night.
They want to be staying away from that shit.
Chris Jericho cut a promo on a drone.
Excuse me but I think you mean Vanguard 1.
He also offered Vanguard 1 a place in the Inner Circle.
And a title shot.
It was also amazing.
Sounds it...
Roman has pulled out of Mania as he's, rightly, worried about contracting Coronavirus due to his immune system having been lowered due to Leukaemia.
Sounds like the boneyard match is just going to be a buried alive match without the ring. So they're taking the worst bits of the terrible buried alive gimmick and adding it to the worst things about Broken Matt or the Wyatt / Orton feuds. Great. Bring on this hideous car crash.
That seems entirely reasonable. I wonder who gets lumbered with getting something out of Goldberg in an empty arena now.
Bobby Lashley and his slightly random match with Black might be off the cards too because the former is in quarantine.
Surely, short of letting somebody cough in your mouth, wrestling is up there with the worst things you could do during this?
Oh, apparently Meltzer was saying they're considering subbing in Boatman. He'll probably lose, Boatman does get to win important matches.
I want Goldberg vs Kane, really earn those Meltzer stars
Those knee bumps aren't going to do themselves.
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