RIPPA Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 ADRIAN NEVILLE vs. Sami Zayn - Dark Match vs. Finn Balor http://youtu.be/ezzckIi8Jf8 Adrian Neville WOTD PENTAGON JR. vs. Fenix vs. Australian Suicide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Pentagon is my new favorite thing, but Neville should be pretty untouchable for a while in this tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Yeah Pentagon has been awesome on Lucha Underground, but it's gonna be hard to knock Neville off as great as his year was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Neville is on my shortlist of guys who can win this entire thing. I know that will seem kinda silly to most, but he's Cesaro to me from last year to Zayns Bryan. I love Pentagon from everything I've seen, but this is just a horrid draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Neville should be at the very leas elite 8 as far as I'm concerned. He may be the best wrestler of the calender year so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I love Pentagon but yeah, Adrian Neville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Neville to me was either the best or second best guy in WWE/NXT this year. He's going DEEEEEEEP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I love Neville and will surely vote for him...in later rounds. I know he's going to win, but feel a need to give a sympathy vote to Pentagon, Jr. The guy is too damn good to get blown out like that. Especially given his current push in LU, he went from "another guy" to one of the most feared men on the show. EDIT: If he only gets three votes, I'm okay with that. It's better than none for Pentagon, Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Don't hop over to DVDVR all too often but SHOCKED to see the incredible love for Neville. Between Pentagon's wild spotfests and his dirty fights in someone's garage he is an easy vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Maybe it's because Neville is a better spot wrestler who doesn't have spot fests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 COUNTERPOINT! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I would like to officially void my vote for Pentagon, Jr. based on that clip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 ...Is an Australian Suicide when you mix all of the sodas with Fosters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfredoE Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Pentagon Jr. would break Adrian AND Aaron Neville's arms!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I have to say this is the most mystifying result to me so far. I should probably come around here more often because I'm legitimately amazed people think Neville is great. I mean he's fine. He's not bad. He can have good matches with the right opponent. But I also think he's been badly exposed in the WWE system, and I don't think he's shown that he can lead a match from the top at all. I think he's one of the few guys who was better before NXT got him than after and I wasn't even much of a Pac fan. Meanwhile Pentagon Jr. is one of the absolute best asskickers in wrestling, with an awesome look, and really good matches to boot. This is probably the most "WTF?" result of the tourney so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Good to no which thin Dylan is going to be 100% wrong about. Neville is the only guy I've ever seen mak a 450 Splash a "I fucking hate you" move and be believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Prior to coming into this thread I had no clue there was a world where people thought Neville had been great in NXT. I suppose deep down I always knew it was possible people believed that, but I'd never seen that opinion expressed anywhere before. Not once. So it's completely new to me. Having said that, citing hateful, violent offense as a reason to vote for Neville in this match up is comical. Pentagon Jr. is pretty much the god of that. It's what he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 See now I want Pentagon Jr wearing a Hall of Pain T-Shirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Good to no which thin Dylan is going to be 100% wrong about. Neville is the only guy I've ever seen mak a 450 Splash a "I fucking hate you" move and be believable. Neville is a million times a better and my personal favorite for the whole tournament, but Justin Gabriel had some pretty vicious 450 splashes at the beginning of the Nexus storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Has Pentagon Jr. ever done anything as fucking badass as deadlifting Kevin Owens for a German suplex? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Is that a joke? Pentagon Jr. killed Arez in a match last year. As in I think Arez might literally be dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Dylan, for various reasons I've been harsh on Neville almost all year. I think he's turned a corner at some point recently. Let me find what I said about the Owens match since you didn't see it: I want to do a write up at some point about what differentiates Adrian Neville from other high flyers since I can't normally stomach the spotty style but Neville makes it work. Considering the match up had a 450 to the floor, a dead lift German suplex and a reverse rana, I never really thought it was overkill. Meanwhile I have this emotional revulsion to The Young Bucks even when it comes to GIF form. Let me try to hack at this. I saw AJ Styles vs Naito last week and thought AJ's beatdown of him was great, but when it came time for Naito to get his revenge, there was nothing behind his pretty offense. There was no intensity, speed but not any sort of visceral hatred. I get the reputation of being anti-physical skills sometimes, but the idea, in my mind is that athleticism is just a tool in the tool box and you have to use it as part of a greater whole instead of using it as a crutch so you don't have to call upon more character-driven elements of wrestling. In that match, he not only used a 450 to the floor and it wasn't overkill, but he made it feel hatefilled and intense. He made it not a flourish or showing off or something ridiculous for the sake of looking kewl, but you actively got the idea, because of his physical skills and how he was successfully utilizing them that the move hurt more than if he had just done a splash. Almost no one in the world is able to wrestle like that. And i don't think Neville was able to tap into that as well six months ago either. It's giving his athleticism consistent meaning and purpose in a way I've rarely seen and it's great to see him come into his own like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanWaco Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I watched the Owens match the other day. I thought it was fine, above average, but not anything special either. I thought the match was actually TOO grounded because Neville has no clue how to work a match from on top in an interesting fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Is that a joke? Pentagon Jr. killed Arez in a match last year. As in I think Arez might literally be dead. Not even close to being as cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I think Dylan and I have completely different views on what is good wrestling and what wrestling should be at this point. I personally think maybe you should build to breaking a beer bottle and carving up a guy with it. Dylan considers that an appetizer that should happen less than three minutes into a match. I skipped ahead a bit and saw pants tearing and light tubes and blood but no reason to care about any of those things. Because they started with the beer bottle! No sorry, they started with taking a picture with a 10-year old girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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