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*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

Spikey

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Raw had enough problems without Braun getting injured and there being some sort of 5 man match to find a new guy to job to Brock...

New Japan stuff

- NJPW have slightly redone their website: New Japan World. Basically the translations from Japanese to English are just done in a more subtle way
- The stacked card for the first night of best of the super juniors (tomorrow!) will be free for anyone to watch. Japanese commentary only. The new NJPW site has a count down clock, but basically it's on 7:30pm AEST/10:30am UK/9:30 Kiwi time I think, it'll be free to watch on replay too
- They uploaded the Will Ospreay - Ricochet match that hurt the heads of a lot of old wrestlers from last year's best of the super jrs. I forgot there wasn't any commentary on it.
- I did the Reddit pick 'ems' thing. In the end, I've got Ospreay beating Volador Jr., who is a really good luchador. I could also see Takahashi winning it and defeating everyone he faces except for Jushin Thunder Liger, setting up one last big match for Liger (he had a really good title match against Kushida just before last year's super jrs btw). I don't see Kushida winning the whole thing, maybe he wins group B and drops the final to Ospreay.
- Marty Scrull joined the Bullet Club at the ROH PPV, which was basically a culmination of a story told through the Young Bucks youtube channel. Adam Cole will join NXT soon. Cole's a lesser wrestler than Chris Hero, Roderick Strong, etc, but he's a really good character guy, so he'll do fine. (Meltzer talks about it here)
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Asuka *continues unbeaten run, faces women's tournament winner who is Io Shirai, and loses*

Would be a crazy moment.
 

Mike5181

International Captain
I don't know how comprehensive the language classes are in the WWE but long-term they'd benefit more from these signings if they sent them to study English full-time. Imagine how high Io and Kairi's ceiling would be after a year or so of that.
 

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Haven't watched RAW yet but hearing Strowman being out for six months sucks. Interesting to see who they feed to Brock now.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Haven't watched RAW yet but hearing Strowman being out for six months sucks. Interesting to see who they feed to Brock now.
Only Kayfabe out for 6 months tbf.

He'll legit be out for about 6 weeks apparently. No doubt the 6 month injury line is there to make him look like even more of a monster when he appears midway through the Summer.
 

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Only Kayfabe out for 6 months tbf.

He'll legit be out for about 6 weeks apparently. No doubt the 6 month injury line is there to make him look like even more of a monster when he appears midway through the Summer.
Hope so.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Yeah, me too. That said I'm finding I cbf with WWE at the moment, especially RAW. Despite having a really exciting core of guys at the top of the show I'm just not engaged by it at all, especially now that Braun is on the shelf.

Also, Dean ****ing Ambrose. I like the guy, but they've got to change him somehow. His character at the moment is just the shits.
 

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Also, Dean ****ing Ambrose. I like the guy, but they've got to change him somehow. His character at the moment is just the shits.
Needs to go heel. Won't happen but I think he can be a great deranged/unhinged bad****.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Needs to go heel. Won't happen but I think he can be a great deranged/unhinged bad****.
Yeah, I agree. Can be a very menacing heel. Would only need to go back to his character from the Shield really. Very difficult to get an unhinged/crazy character over as a face in a PG environment without just going into outright comedy territory I'd say.
 

Mike5181

International Captain
Yeah, me too. That said I'm finding I cbf with WWE at the moment, especially RAW. Despite having a really exciting core of guys at the top of the show I'm just not engaged by it at all, especially now that Braun is on the shelf.

Also, Dean ****ing Ambrose. I like the guy, but they've got to change him somehow. His character at the moment is just the shits.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when he has to bite the bullet and shave his head. Can't be far away now.
 

Mike5181

International Captain
RAW in general might be an uninspired show, but at least Alexa was great again this week.
 
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