General Wrassling III: I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!

[Anoat]

WOR is saying Sami Zayn was 100% left off the GRR because of his ethnicity (Sami is half Syrian) and he wasn't told why until after the event.

[Xno Kappa]

Kind of weird. Not that many people probably even knew that, and the rich saudis requesting this event were the same ones who thought Ultimate Warrior and Yokozuna were still alive.

[Zealot]

It's not just his Syrian heritage, it's that his parents operate a Syrian charity that Sami regularly raises money for.

[Delirium]

Just watched Session Moth Martina vs Io Shirai. Wrestling is fucking weird.

[Delirium]

Main event of NJPW Dominion is set

Spoiler: show

Okada vs Omega. Best of three falls! No time limit!

[NotGreyheim]

I have this feeling in my gut that Umino Shota is gonna be a huge star in a few years...

[Vil]

Couldn't stay up for Dontaku, so had to wait forever for the VOD. Weird. The site usually has the entire show up immediately, but it took several hours, then individual matches were uploaded, some first with English commentary, some with Japanese commentary.

I really can't stand Ospreay. He does a lot of cool things but plenty that I just feel like I want someone to punch him in the face over. At this point I'd maybe want to see a few gifs of new stuff. Stormbreaker is undeniably awesome looking, but he's someone I want to see get tortured because he bothers me... but in doing so, he's going to scream like a banshee for 20+ minutes and I'm not sure it's worth it.

The main event was fantastic. Tanahashi is truly a once in a century talent.

Spoiler: show

2 out of 3 falls? Fuuuuuck. Last year watching Dominion live, I remember thinking "wow, everything is moving along so fast, how long is the main going to go?"

Jericho/Naito of course, and I can't wait til Jericho says that he'll be a 10 time Intercontinental champion (or whatever his total is +1).

Taiji Ishimori! Holy shit, I love it. Even though there were rumors that Bone Soldier was going to be in BOSJ and I was hoping that he'd be a participant, I never thought that both things would be the same.

I just tried speculating a card for Dominion, even considering some matches being turned into multi-man/team, but what do you do with Suzuki, Tanahashi, and ZSJ? Goto has suitors lining up, White may face Juice or something, Suzuki/ZSJ are RPW tag champs, but they've only had like 2 matches just them in NJPW.

During the show, I couldn't quite figure out the exact wording on his shirt. "Lista Ignorables" is fucking amazing. Is that on pwt?

[NotGreyheim]

Dontaku night 2

Spoiler: show

I’m so fucking tired of this Super Ospreay bullshit

[Kang]

A couple of days away until ROH War of the Worlds tour starts. Just learned the Young Bucks will be taking on the Super Smash Bros at the Toronto show, also gonna have Cody vs Liger. Gonna be a great show. I look forward to this every year.

[Kalmado]

A couple of days away until ROH War of the Worlds tour starts. Just learned the Young Bucks will be taking on the Super Smash Bros at the Toronto show, also gonna have Cody vs Liger. Gonna be a great show. I look forward to this every year.

Royal Oak, MI is going to have Hiromu vs. Cody but my wrasslin friend can't get work off. Oh well.

[Vil]

Cody vs. Liger sounds like something that could be a fun match from a character perspective on both sides.

Hot Topic is selling the new Jericho shirt. I love the touch of his crazy face on the logo on the sleeve. I'm not sure how many more times if any he'll work NJPW after this, but yesterday I thought of something that I want to see. Tanahashi vs. Jericho. One is a once in a century talent. The other was the "millennium man". Get this man some kneepads that say 1/1000 like how Jericho was the man of 1004 holds 20 years ago.

[Nitsuki]

Definitely going to be behind for backlash tonight, gonna be watching infinity war again. Lol

[Delirium]

Definitely going to be behind for backlash tonight, gonna be watching infinity war again. Lol

Seems like a wise choice

[Vil]

So does seppuku with those options.

What's the point of Backlash? Yeah, I'll have it on, but it's incredibly uninteresting because it feels so weird with the post-Mania/post-draft/post-GRR setup. There are 3 matches that I can try to care about.

WWE Title - It could be a good match, but it's the "shit or get off the pot" situation at this point, so just do whatever.

Samoa Joe vs. Roman - This isn't going to be some idiotic finisher fest like his matches against Brock, so this match could actually be good. Vince, please.

Miz vs. Rollins - It is incomprehensible that Miz wins this, but I want it to happen

Nice makeup, Bayley. Did you get shot with a makeup cannon? Look, here we are building back to the worst feud ever.

[Delirium]

I just found out DDT put the Jan 4 TJPW show on their Youtube channel. Prolly watch this instead of most of Backlash.

[Tomiko]

https://twitter.com/KingRicochet/sta...77247271006209

Super impressive by Gao.

[Vil]

That was a great match, but really? Kicking out of two SCF after already letting him escape the F4? One would have been sufficient. Oh well.

[Tomiko]

That finish was the breaking point to make me finally cancel my sub. #Salt

[tyven]

That was a great match, but really? Kicking out of two SCF after already letting him escape the F4? One would have been sufficient. Oh well.

I was really surprised at the second kick out. They are about to make Seth too strong

[Vil]

I'm ok with Seth being booked strong, since either you have an absent Lesnar or an untouchable (for most people right now) Strowman. Not to compare them in terms of how WWE treats them, but do people kick out of a second RKO? But hey, it's fine since Miz isn't even on the same show as Rollins, so he'll be able to generate heat anyway.

What finishers are protected in WWE right now? Dirty Deeds is probably at the top of the list, I'd think. RKO is probably extremely protected too, but that's only because he's done nothing important against anybody good in forever.