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

[Zealot]

The Torch ranked Joe/Reigns DUD, a 0-star rating reserved for things like Brothers of Destruction vs. Kronik.

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[Xno Kappa]

Heard the PPV last night was terrible lmao? Only got to watch Miz vs Rollins.

[Anoat]

Heard the PPV last night was terrible lmao? Only got to watch Miz vs Rollins.

Don't watch anything else. AJ/Nak was an okay match that had another double count out fuck you finish. Pretty sure they are building to a Last Man Standing match at the next PPV.

[Melena]

I just cancelled myself. One of the new answers for why you can cancel is not happy with current Superstars and Storylines.

[Tomiko]

I just cancelled myself. One of the new answers for why you can cancel is not happy with current Superstars and Storylines.

That's the reason I picked when I cancelled, though I considered using Other and giving a specific answer. You know they're going to blame it on the wrong person/people and interpret it how they want to. After hearing how bad this PPV was, I'm really curious how many people cancelled last night. I quit after Miz/Rollins, and it sounds like the booking continued to be shit after that.

[Melena]

I was on the fence if I wanted to make an attempt to watch this PPV. I just knew AJ/Nakamura was going to have another shitty ending, and I couldn't see Reigns losing 3 PPV main events in a row. I may go back to just watch Rollins/Miz, but that would be about it.

[Vil]

NJPW announced the blocks for BoSJ
A Block - Tiger Mask, ACH, Flip Gordon, Will Ospreay, Yoh, Taiji Ishimori, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, BUSHI
B Block - Chris Sabin, KUSHIDA, Sho, El Desperado, Hiromu Takahashi, Marty Scurll, Dragon Lee, Ryusuke Taguchi

ACH was expected, and Sabin is an interesting choice for the last spot. B Block >>> A Block

Main event of Night 1: Ospreay vs. Ishimori
Presumptive ME of Night 13, when both blocks have their final matches: Hiromu vs. KUSHIDA

Odd thing is I believe Ishimori is only in the main event on opening night. KUSHIDA and especially Marty are in low amounts for the junior ace and another recent champ, but it's tough when it's a stacked block plus Hiromu is main eventing almost every show.

I'm expecting Ospreay vs. Ishimori at Dominion, leaving a probable rematch of the 3-way tag match from Sakura Genesis. Marty's the 6-man champ, and that has everyone booked except one...

Official for Dominion so far:
Okada vs. Omega
Naito vs. Jericho - Why have so many people (not here) assumed that would be for Cow Palace?
Goto vs. Elgin vs. Taichi
EVIL & SANADA vs. Young Bucks
Rey Mysterio vs. ???

That's gotta be Kushida, right? If it were going to be Liger (or even Tanahashi which is an idea that just hit me), they would/could have announced it already. Kushida fails to advance to the finals, another video of Rey airs during the finals, challenging Kushida. Book it, Gedo!

Hiromu winning wouldn't surprise me either and only leaves my boy Bushi with nothing to do, but what do you even do with Ishimori at Dominion then? Special singles match or a ho-hum 10-man match alongside the Tongans?

[Tomiko]

Progress Wrestling is doing a few US shows later this year.

https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/...52328782434304

"Detroit, New York City, Boston, Seattle, and for the first time ever, CHICAGO.
Further details soon."

August 4-12

[Delirium]

PROGRESS was awesome when I went last year in Queens. I hope they run a better building though. There were like 1400 people packed into this tiny ass rec gym and it was 5 billion degrees.

[Melena]

[Vagrant]

PROGRESS was awesome when I went last year in Queens. I hope they run a better building though. There were like 1400 people packed into this tiny ass rec gym and it was 5 billion degrees.

Yeah Jim Smallman has stated that they would have to be desperate for a venue to return to the Elmcor Center. That place was a damn sauna and this tour will be in August like that show was so it wouldn't be any better.

They just had their Super Strong Style 16 tournament end today.

Spoiler: show

Zack Sabre Jr. defeating Kassius Ohno in the finals to win and go on to face the Progress champion in September at their Wembley show. Champion at that time could be Travis Banks, Jack Sexsmith or Walter but will most likely be Banks after his heel turn last month. Also on the card will be Will Ospreay vs. Jimmy Havoc in what will probably become a death match of some sort after Ospreay came after Havoc with an axe today. Payback for a few years ago when Havoc tried to do the same thing to a young upcoming Ospreay.

[Kalmado]

NJPW announced the blocks for BoSJ
A Block - Tiger Mask, ACH, Flip Gordon, Will Ospreay, Yoh, Taiji Ishimori, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, BUSHI
B Block - Chris Sabin, KUSHIDA, Sho, El Desperado, Hiromu Takahashi, Marty Scurll, Dragon Lee, Ryusuke Taguchi

As for the PPV last night, I didn't watch. Sounds like I didn't miss anything.

Hyped for all BoSJ. Wish Shelley was there. Really pumped to see Taiji Ishimori. Thought he was a great pick to be the new Boner Soldier.

Dontaku was legit and even if Jericho will more than likely lose, as usual he makes a huge statement and gets people talking.

My boy who's a Roman mark thought the PPV last night was pretty good. Not sure how anyone can defend Backlash as being a good show. And because it was Backlash...

[Anoat]

Roman/Balor/Zayn and Sasha/Ember/Riott in MITB triple threat qualifying matches on Raw tonight.

[Nitsuki]

Roman/Balor/Zayn

Welp! Balor keeps getting buried!

[Delirium]

For anyone that is cancelling their WWE sub and wants some alternate streaming services for some quality rasslin
ROH Honor Club - different tiers, but I suggest the $120/yr one. Get all their PPVs and a lot of their big house shows including the War of the Worlds stuff coming up in a few days. They are still working on the back catalogue.
NJPWWorld - 999 yen(about 9 bucks). Get a few shows a month. Probably the most consistent in-ring current content
PROGRESS - I think it is like $8.50 a month? Has all the PROGRESS show(aka chapters) and other things
DDT Universe - About $9 a month right now. They are introducing tiers in August. Not only do you get all the DDT shows live stream and on-demand. You also get other promotions including Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling(TJPW), Basura, and a bunch more.
Stardom World - $6.50 a month. One of the best Japanese women's(joshi) promotions. They usually post 1-2 matches a day and they have 1-3 cards a weekend, so content rarely runs out. They talent level ranges from beginners to top tier(Io Shirai, Mayu Iwatani, Toni Storm, etc.). They also translate their promos while some other Japanese streaming services do not.

There are tons more that I can think of, but I've never checked them out. Stuff like AJPW, WWNLive, RevPro, Highspots. Chikaratopia, Impact. There are tons more, but they are probably even more niche than what I mentioned already.

[Vil]

Hyped for all BoSJ. Wish Shelley was there. Really pumped to see Taiji Ishimori. Thought he was a great pick to be the new Boner Soldier.

Dontaku was legit and even if Jericho will more than likely lose, as usual he makes a huge statement and gets people talking.

My boy who's a Roman mark thought the PPV last night was pretty good. Not sure how anyone can defend Backlash as being a good show. .

Just what did he think was pretty good? I know that at the end of the day, having someone you like win can buoy it a bit, but the rest of the card was terrible aside from the opener.

Roman/Balor/Zayn and Sasha/Ember/Riott in MITB triple threat qualifying matches on Raw tonight.

Are there any details about these? Are they going to be cross-brand matches, or are they going the insane route of having 4 of these?

Also, can Braun challenge Brock at MITB, only for Roman to cash in on him after that? They could hilariously go the CM Punk route with Roman. I think that's what it was? Punk cashed in on Jeff Hardy and was like "what? I'm the bad guy?" before finally embracing it.

[Xno Kappa]

Lmao at the Thanos Get These Hands sign lol.

[Anoat]

Are there any details about these? Are they going to be cross-brand matches, or are they going the insane route of having 4 of these?

Also, can Braun challenge Brock at MITB, only for Roman to cash in on him after that? They could hilariously go the CM Punk route with Roman. I think that's what it was? Punk cashed in on Jeff Hardy and was like "what? I'm the bad guy?" before finally embracing it.

One ladder match for the men, one for the women. Both brands competing. There's also been rumors about a third(!) MITB match for tag teams, but nothing announced yet.

Unrelated, Kevin Owens has signed a new 5 year deal with WWE.

[Nitsuki]

Holy shit just saw the commercial raw’s gonna be here again july 30th, gonna get my tickets again. Lul

[Kalmado]

Just what did he think was pretty good? I know that at the end of the day, having someone you like win can buoy it a bit, but the rest of the card was terrible aside from the opener.

He's also a WWE homer. He's liked some NJPW stuff, but to give an example of his favoritism would be this. WK9 when Nakamura made his entrance he immediately said, "Who is this Prince wannabe fruit booty?" It's dead after that. In my eyes, typical WWE mark.