Ryan Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Sort of like WWE and Wrestlemania after some arbitrary point between Survivor Series and Royal Rumble post-shows., some of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 When seeing the hashtag for the show on twitter, people were going apeshit for Ospreay/Scurll, so I'm guessing a lot of Europeans and people who don't post here want to see their traveling match in New Japan for a belt. Expect an Oscutter countered into a Chickenwing to be teased and/or done about 4 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I guess Gedo knows something I don't, because I certainly don't watch NJPW to see gaijin wrestling each other for the belts. Speaking of which, I hope this interminable KES/GOD/War Machine business is done with. It felt like a blowoff match, but then GOD attacking War Machine after being eliminated makes me think this shit isn't over yet. HOW ARE THERE NO NATIVE HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAMS???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 A. Gedo loves American stuff. B. Stop hating and saying gaijin, it's an insult. C. They haven't had a flourishing native heavyweight tag division in forever. You can have more TenKoji if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I would much rather watch a TenKoji match than another of these endless GAIJIN three ways. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I’m ready for Monster Rage to shoulder tackle the whole division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Pretty much. It'll be interesting if they have a more subtle graduation from young lion status than usual. Do they pick up a win or two in the tag tournament before going on excursion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 BTW who's due back from excursion who could be this Switchblade character? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 4 minutes ago, EVA said: BTW who's due back from excursion who could be this Switchblade character? Only other guy I think is due back is Jay White. At this point, as long as it isn't Piece of Shit Callihan I'm good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 1 hour ago, EVA said: I would much rather watch a TenKoji match than another of these endless GAIJIN three ways. Would you rather they be taking up space in the Singles rosters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I would rather they all just GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM~!!! And by that, I mean NOAH, ROH, and....random Bullet Club 8-man undercard matches, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevendaughters Posted October 10, 2017 Author Share Posted October 10, 2017 I largely enjoyed KOPW though a lot of intensive UWF watching has coloured my ability to get through hammy stuff like that Bullet Club/CHAOS trios match. I simply walked out of the room and came back when it was done. I was dying inside at the "TWO BOOTS!" shit. Wanted Akira Maeda to climb in and shoot on them all. Ishii-Naito easy MOTN for me. Born to work each other. Roppongi3K was a great bit and I think those two are going to kill it for the next year or so. Main event was solid and I still think EVIL is going to be great. Ospreay does little for me but I'll give him that he was nowhere near as cheesy as he can be and it was a good match in the end. Some of those moves he does are beyond stupid though. Good set-up to the Tanahashi-Ibushi match, which is something I'm really looking forward to. Solid 6.5-7 out of 10. KOPW is usually better than this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 There were a couple of spots in Kushida/Ospreay where there was so much flipping and twisting going on, I wasn't even sure who the move was supposed to hurt. Fine match by Ospreay standards, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 On the subject of tag teams: The Bucks aren’t in the recently announced Super Jr Tag Tourney bracket... so maybe that’s another American heavyweight tag team on the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I hope not. Having gotten past it, eech that Tag Title match was hot garbage. I would agree, with the logjam up top, that some of the older guys that aren't seeing anything other than open multi-man tags would probably be better suited to partnering up with Young Lions to promote them on the sly. I know the excursion is a big thing, but I don't know where you send all the kids in this class. Also, looking around and it seems the money is on Callihan being Switchblade, and I'm going to fucking hate that that POS is getting paid by my favorite promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwingChainz Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 It was pretty gross when Okada hit Evil with that rainmaker that made him spit up like a Gerber baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MapRef41N93W Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 On 10/10/2017 at 1:16 PM, Raziel403 said: Also, looking around and it seems the money is on Callihan being Switchblade, and I'm going to fucking hate that that POS is getting paid by my favorite promotion. What's so bad about Callihan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 1 hour ago, MapRef41N93W said: What's so bad about Callihan? Sami Callihan makes Marty Scurll look like Lou Thesz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 What the fuck? Callihan is rad. He busts ass every night, brings the intensity, and has good matches with everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Yeah, the Callihan hate on this board is weird. I'm not a big fan, but he's just fine. I think he struggled for a little while to find his footing on the current Indy scene after leaving WWE, but he's been good for the last year. He's certainly no worse than most everybody else working that PWG go-go-go style these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Whoever "Switchblade" is gonna be, they better come out to this 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 On 10/11/2017 at 9:16 PM, John E. Dynamite said: Sami Callihan makes Marty Scurll look like Lou Thesz. What the hell is the matter with you? Callihan belongs in the discussion of the ten best wrestlers on the planet. Scurll easily fits into a discussion of the worst. Callihan is cursed with the worst possible build for the type of wrestling he does (the basic fireplug with rudimentary arms and legs), but despite that, he manages to have pretty much consistently ****+ matches with an amazingly varied group of opponents. Would he be my first choice to build a promotion around? No, Randy Orton would be my top pick. Would he be 2-4? Again, likely not, I may have mentioned elsewhere that 2- 4 would be Nakamura, Naito, and Kenny Omega leaving the #5 spot free and clear for Mr. Callihan to take up residency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 On 10/11/2017 at 8:22 PM, MapRef41N93W said: What's so bad about Callihan? Alleged domestic abuser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 I'm not particularly in the US indie loop but I do make the attempt here and there, so clearly there's something I'm missing with Sami. I've seen four of his recent PWG matches; a rather blah sprint against Matt Sydal, a goofy throw-away with Cody Rhodes / a goofy throw-away tag match where he did that cat mask shtick (?), and a match against Jack Evans that became much less interesting once Sami stopped trying to kiss his opponent and started chugging beer (???). Am I doing this wrong? By pure cosmic chance is every Sami Callihan match since his WWE departure a classic, save for the few I've seen? I liked the Solomon Crowe gimmick. I enjoyed some of Sami's CZW garbage-y stuff. I'm not anti-indie and I hope the Riddle/Cobb G1 Tag League rumor pays off. Whatevs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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