Wee Bey Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bobholly138 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Great main event. But Pillman and Reed felt a step off the entire match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenalysis Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Interesting how they slowly turned Reed /Injustice babyface and Pillman heel throughout the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 MLW looks like it's still gonna be on BeIN Sports Saturdays for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Right now it is Wednesdays on PlutoTV,Youtube and FUBO sports. Saturdays on BeIN Sports.,hearing they signed a long term deal with BeIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Court is on Jerichos pod today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bey Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 https://www.prowrestling.com/mlw-announces-2020-opera-cup-bracket-wrestlers-from-aaa-impact-njpw-to-compete/ Quote MLW Announces 2020 Opera Cup Bracket Major League Wrestling has revealed all eight competitors as well as the brackets for the upcoming 2020 Opera Cup. The single elimination tournament dates back to the start of the 20th century. The actual physical Opera Cup trophy was in the possession of the Hart family for more than 50 years until it was gifted to MLW in 2019 when the tournament was resurrected. This year’s incarnation will see stars from all around the world compete, including mainstays in AAA, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and IMPACT Wrestling. On the left side of the bracket, former MLW World Heavyweight Champion “Filthy” Tom Lawlor battles New Japan veteran Rocky Romero, while the current AAA World Cruiserweight Champion Laredo Kid takes on free agent ACH. On the right side of the bracket, Davey Boy Smith Jr. looks to rebound from an upsetting loss to reigning world champion Jacob Fatu when he takes on another former champ in Low Ki. Richard Holiday will also take on IMPACT Wrestling’s TJP. The first round will begin next Wednesday, November 25 on a special Thanksgiving week edition of MLW FUSION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 There's a spoiler for the main of the new Fusion in that article, btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bey Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenalysis Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) One thing I seemed to note: they seem to be giving Reed more of the mic time with Injustice now. Has there ever been a stable or a team, where when they're faces one member of the team does most of the talking, but when they're heel the other member does? Oliver is definitely a natural annoying heel on the mic, so I can see why they made the switch. Mylon Reed seems to be more of a face talker by comparison (not sure how Oliver does as a face, I could see him having the John Morrison problem where his ring-style is natural face but his talking is natural heel) I can imagine the Lucha Bros. being like this also- with Fenix as face, and Penta as heel, but they don't talk much in the US. Edited November 23, 2020 by alstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Man, Hammerstone looks GREAT with the beard. That is a wrestling look. He looks like Thor's buddy or something. Can you really cut 15 pounds in a day? That sounds unrealistic. Meanwhile, this match feels like it needed to be worked about 15% faster. For middleweights it was a beat off or sluggish or something. Myron has a really good chop and forearm. Pillman busted out the surfboard which nobody does anymore. But it just didn't hit that second gear that would make it a better match. Where are they holding this show btw? It sounds like there's a half-packed bar outside but no crowd. Oh shit Fatu can cut a promo! "This ain't the restart, this the pain game!" Plus Davey Boy is a poodle apparently haha. I skipped Davey's promo because... yeah, you know. The match was methodical and hard-hitting. Good selling from Davey, really liked those agonized baby steps he took before Fatu slipped out from above him. No Samoan should be selling headbutts from no white boy though. Who's the Black Hand of Contra? Anybody know? Any guesses even? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 On 11/23/2020 at 6:04 PM, Curt McGirt said: No Samoan should be selling headbutts from no white boy though. A universal truth of pro wrestling. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Could the Black Hand be that giant-ass dude that won the battle royal last year? Don't even remember his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Yeah, I think its Logan Creed, or whatever his name was lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Yea it's Logan Creed,the GA one not the MS one who looked like a combo of PN News and Mankind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bey Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I skipped to the Low Ki vs DBS Jr match and I really enjoyed it, very Blood Sport esque. I'll go back and what the rest this weekend some time because I hadn't even finished last weeks episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 TJP vs. Holliday was pretty much TJP rolling through every technical spot he can think of then Holliday hits him with two moves and pins him? Okay then. Calvin Tankman is a fuckin' beast. He doesn't need to be doing dropkicks though. Another guy finishing with a Rikishi Driver too... I still want somebody to bring back the Dominator. Goddamn does Dominic Garrini look like such a sleaze with the sunglasses, mullet and gi. It's fantastic. And I think Lawlor is wearing trunks that have a jean shorts print on them?! Also Garrini creepily looks facially like Pat Patterson. I think it's the nose. Anyway, Lawlor and Rocky do some nice matwork before Rocky starts striking. Thankfully they don't go full NJ Challenge and sell the chops, which are very heavy. Man Romero is working hard here, he has a killer tornado DDT too. Lawlor comes back with an enormous Uranage and they do some slick reversals into a leg-bridge pinfall out of a choke attempt. They even acted wore out at the end with weaker and weaker slaps and leg kicks. Great match! ...and that's the show? They got a show called Karate Combat on after with Bas as an announcer. Huh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Ah okay, so this is the one you guys have been bringing up. I guess I'm behind a week somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 So apparently MLW signed and fired Cody Hall today. That has to be some kind of record for shortest tenure with a promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Hey, it's Laredo Kid. And ACH, who apparently unretired. They start with a Guerrero/Malenko reversal-rollup sequence and it kills the match for me immediately. I don't feel bad about that either. ACH calls a brainbuster a Spirit Bomb? No, it's a fucking brainbuster. There's nothing special about one. Maybe he's just a big fan of Koko and thinks he can change the name of his. Von Erichs say there's gonna be a "clawtrastophy" *groan* And here's Logan "Black Hand" Creed. Or apparently "Krugger", with an umlaut over the 'u' as listed at the top of the screen. Which is hilarious if they're giving away his other (or another?) MLW name inadvertently. He squashes the other guy worse than Tankman in the last episode. Two guys come out and bodybag the jobber which is awesome. Wait, then it sounds like the announcers call Creed "Mance Krugger"? Or "Vance"? Low Ki did one thing over the break aside from bitching about not being able to work, and that's grow a mustache. Davey Boy has burned yet another bridge in the meantime. This is a rematch from the first Opera Cup. Ki is also wearing his outfit from the AJPW 2013 Royal Road tourney where Akebono took out his knee; it looks like one of those full arm and leg swimming suits TBH (only with Aristrist logos cuz he was teaming with Chono). And they work a methodical match where Davey plays sadist, twisting and smashing on Ki the whole time. Ki gets almost no offense but manages to roll Davey up around the 20 minute mark. It wasn't as abrupt or pointless as the Holliday/TJP match but yeah... pretty uneven. I wouldn't call it a Bloodsport match because they definitely didn't keep it entirely on the mat but I can see some comparisons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 4:56 PM, EVA said: So apparently MLW signed and fired Cody Hall today. That has to be some kind of record for shortest tenure with a promotion. This was the blurb on f4wonline Saturday. Doesn't appear to have happened in one day... Quote After it was reported that Cody Hall has signed with MLW, Post Wrestling clarified that Hall had signed with MLW earlier this year but the two sides agreed to part ways and Hall isn’t in MLW’s plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Does he have problems like his dad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 It sounds like he's just not talented. NJPW, DDT, MLW, etc all don't want the son of Scott Hall? I haven't watched MLW in a while but I did watch the return episode. Reed-Pillman was dull, as McGirt said it never reached 2nd gear. Middleweights working a super heavyweight pace. DBS-Fatu was probably the best DBS singles match I've seen but the match itself was just okay. They did well at filling out the sound without a crowd though, there weren't empty lapses like a lot of companies had earlier in the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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