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There's a parallel with Okada coming back and challenging Tana, although Okada at least had a squash match victory. I guess Jay's version of that is getting pinfalls at the Long Beach shows
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*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II
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OverratedSanity
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I'm not sure if it's the case currently since I havent followed his podcast for a while. But going back a year or so there was an impression that he was a bit of a shill and defended wwe as much as possible. I didn't fully subscribe to that thought, but it was definitely a thing. He used to get loads of **** for it on social media too.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah, same.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Do Jay White and Pete Dunne look kinda alike or is it just me?
Mike5181
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It'll be a cool sight to see Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom. Though if I'm being honest, match quality-wise it's several steps down from what I expected. An Omega/Ibushi match would've been ****ing crazy, whereas Jericho at the moment would struggle to crack the top 20 wrestlers in New Japan.
Jay White's an interesting one as well. Kind of feel the same there but rather than the wrestling side of things being a problem, it's the character work. Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom is a stupidly big match for him this early on. Still, it's really cool to see a New Zealander around my age in a big spot at my favourite event of the year. Weird hearing that accent from a wrestler.
Hopefully my boy Goto gets something decent to do.
Jay White's an interesting one as well. Kind of feel the same there but rather than the wrestling side of things being a problem, it's the character work. Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom is a stupidly big match for him this early on. Still, it's really cool to see a New Zealander around my age in a big spot at my favourite event of the year. Weird hearing that accent from a wrestler.
Hopefully my boy Goto gets something decent to do.
Athlai
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I actually think the other singles title matches being cool but not “big” NJPW storyline matches makes Naito and Okada even more special.
Young Bucks vs. R3K
Kushida vs. Ospreay vs. Scrull vs. Takahashi
Cody vs. Ibushi
Omega vs. Jericho
Tanahashi vs. White
Okada vs. Naito
And there’s still the heavyweight tag match, trio and the neverweight matches on top of that (dunno if anything’s been announced for those)
Evil, SANADA, BUSHI vs. Goto, Ishii and Beretta or YOSHI-HASHI
Young Bucks vs. R3K
Kushida vs. Ospreay vs. Scrull vs. Takahashi
Cody vs. Ibushi
Omega vs. Jericho
Tanahashi vs. White
Okada vs. Naito
And there’s still the heavyweight tag match, trio and the neverweight matches on top of that (dunno if anything’s been announced for those)
Evil, SANADA, BUSHI vs. Goto, Ishii and Beretta or YOSHI-HASHI
sledger
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Yeah agree, but this is obvs a move that has been made to help New Japan break into the US market. Just an attraction.
Should still be cool though. Jericho still no slouch even though he's obvs not the performer he was.
Roaring Elbow
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The second trailer for the new Roddy Piper documentary is a riot.
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OverratedSanity
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Yeah most of them are so bad. I'm listening to it right now and there's a guy called Vince who attempted to do a Vince McMahon impression and Solomonster just cut the line
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Athlai
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New Day vs. Shield should be good
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sledger
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Whilst Brock vs Jinder is total AIDS, I'm not sure I can see this happening.
Firstly, although it's bombed, Jinder has basically received a monster push. For him to drop the title to Styles on TV just a short while before a PPV he has been advertised as main-eventing would really send the last six or so months of work go down the pan. Even if the time has come to get the title off him, I think this would make him look really really bad.
Secondly, Brock vs AJ is a money match. I doubt they will want to throw it away on a show that doesn't really mean much, and with very little build. Especially after they've blown through a load of other big money attractions in the last month or so, also with no build (i.e. AJ vs Finn, Shield Reunion, Angle's first match in ten years etc.) Got to keep some of that powder dry.
Edit: Third. I really want to see Brock kill the Singhs.
Firstly, although it's bombed, Jinder has basically received a monster push. For him to drop the title to Styles on TV just a short while before a PPV he has been advertised as main-eventing would really send the last six or so months of work go down the pan. Even if the time has come to get the title off him, I think this would make him look really really bad.
Secondly, Brock vs AJ is a money match. I doubt they will want to throw it away on a show that doesn't really mean much, and with very little build. Especially after they've blown through a load of other big money attractions in the last month or so, also with no build (i.e. AJ vs Finn, Shield Reunion, Angle's first match in ten years etc.) Got to keep some of that powder dry.
Edit: Third. I really want to see Brock kill the Singhs.