CI Wrestling Thread #56

[ryanbruner]

Hope things are well with ya bud!

Eh been a rough year basically since March. Divorce, custody battles, etc. But its getting better now. Life is better I'd say. Thanks for asking brother. Hope the same for you.

As far as wrestling goes this is the best WWE has been probably since I was a child. I am really enjoying almost everything.

 

[K-mac18]

With TK's announcement of the 12 man tag match announced for Collision it seems to have united fans and haters of AEW as no one likes this. As Wesley said the idea of Jericho and Moxley tagging makes no sense. Maybe there's an angle coming out of it, let's hope.

I'd put the title on Hobbs, but that's me. Supposedly Darby's gone until summer to climb Mt. Everest so if he is indeed the guy who beats Moxley we have to wait five more months for it to happen.

Speaking of bad, the match with Jericho and Dax Harwood from Saturday's Collision was pretty much a train wreck.

Peacock put out a thing announcing the next two Saturday Night's Main Events. If true they are May 24th and July 12th.

If you're scoring at home (or if you're by yourself) that's the weekend of Double Or Nothing and same night as All Out.

Raw for tonight..

WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER to appear.
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor in a Street Fight.
Lyra Valkyria vs. Dakota Kai to crown first WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion.
Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser.
Chad Gable vs. mystery luchador.
CM Punk to appear.
New WWE World Women's Champion Rhea Ripley to appear.

Since they are alredy selling Penta merch on the Shop WWE site I'd say it's likely him. Also can't wait for WWE fans who've never seen a Penta match to say he's their favorite wrestler.

 

[Wesley91581]

With TK's announcement of the 12 man tag match announced for Collision it seems to have united fans and haters of AEW as no one likes this. As Wesley said the idea of Jericho and Moxley tagging makes no sense. Maybe there's an angle coming out of it, let's hope.

I'd put the title on Hobbs, but that's me. Supposedly Darby's gone until summer to climb Mt. Everest so if he is indeed the guy who beats Moxley we have to wait five more months for it to happen.

Speaking of bad, the match with Jericho and Dax Harwood from Saturday's Collision was pretty much a train wreck.

Peacock put out a thing announcing the next two Saturday Night's Main Events. If true they are May 24th and July 12th.

If you're scoring at home (or if you're by yourself) that's the weekend of Double Or Nothing and same night as All Out.

Raw for tonight..

WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER to appear.
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor in a Street Fight.
Lyra Valkyria vs. Dakota Kai to crown first WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion.
Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser.
Chad Gable vs. mystery luchador.
CM Punk to appear.
New WWE World Women's Champion Rhea Ripley to appear.

Since they are alredy selling Penta merch on the Shop WWE site I'd say it's likely him. Also can't wait for WWE fans who've never seen a Penta match to say he's their favorite wrestler.

What I don’t understand is the next SNME is the weekend before royal rumble so you’re basically underselling it by putting matches on there that aren’t good enough to be in the royal rumble.

At least the old school SNME you had hogan/dibiase/perfect/savage etc.

 

[GeraldV]

With TK's announcement of the 12 man tag match announced for Collision it seems to have united fans and haters of AEW as no one likes this. As Wesley said the idea of Jericho and Moxley tagging makes no sense. Maybe there's an angle coming out of it, let's hope.

I'd put the title on Hobbs, but that's me. Supposedly Darby's gone until summer to climb Mt. Everest so if he is indeed the guy who beats Moxley we have to wait five more months for it to happen.

Speaking of bad, the match with Jericho and Dax Harwood from Saturday's Collision was pretty much a train wreck.

Peacock put out a thing announcing the next two Saturday Night's Main Events. If true they are May 24th and July 12th.

If you're scoring at home (or if you're by yourself) that's the weekend of Double Or Nothing and same night as All Out.

Raw for tonight..

WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER to appear.
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor in a Street Fight.
Lyra Valkyria vs. Dakota Kai to crown first WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion.
Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser.
Chad Gable vs. mystery luchador.
CM Punk to appear.
New WWE World Women's Champion Rhea Ripley to appear.

Since they are alredy selling Penta merch on the Shop WWE site I'd say it's likely him. Also can't wait for WWE fans who've never seen a Penta match to say he's their favorite wrestler.

My only question about Penta, who is awesome, is who in WWE is going to take bumps for his style? Are there going to be people lining up to take poison ranas and stuff there? Or is he going to have to switch his moves way up? Happy to see him premiere though.

 

[Nightwish84]

- Jericho is 54, slow, sloppy, and out of shape for what he wants to do. Maybe it's salvageable if he only wrestled once a month, stopped partying like an aging roadie in Mötley Crüe, and went to more ground attacks. He also needs to cut his hair. Older guys in their 50s with ponytails still believing it's 1997 is all kinds of sad.

- We already know this but NBC decides the dates of the SNME shows. Whatever works for them is what WWE will do.

- There's a fan video from Raw of the response the Penta tease got and it was a huge ovation. WWE fans may not care to seek out 10 hours of matches on YT but they're aware of who AEW has and when one of theirs is arriving in the land of sports entertainment. Penta's merch ain't half bad either, ya know, compared to most other wrestling merch.

 

[WeWant9]

Jericho needs to take a nice hiatus from wrestling. I thought he was great at the start of AEW as champ, but been a lot of misses since that time.

 

[Wesley91581]

My only question about Penta, who is awesome, is who in WWE is going to take bumps for his style? Are there going to be people lining up to take poison ranas and stuff there? Or is he going to have to switch his moves way up? Happy to see him premiere though.

I’m guessing he tones it down pretty bit - even giulia has had to some in nxt.

 

[Wesley91581]

Crowd definitely hot for his debut

 

[TCPUKChamps]

That Mexican destroyer was perfect. Great sell by Gable also

 

[Nightwish84]

Penta/Gable started off slow and shaky but ended up damn good. I'm surprised they gave him 2+ minutes of promo time afterward. Penta's gear even matched the ring mat and ropes. Have no idea why he and Fenix weren't pushed like crazy or why they didn't get solid singles runs. Maybe we'll get Fenix by summer.

 

[Nightwish84]

Jericho needs to take a nice hiatus from wrestling. I thought he was great at the start of AEW as champ, but been a lot of misses since that time.

It sucks because I'm a longtime fan, occasionally listen to his podcast, and glad he has a passion for rock and metal. There comes a time to slow way down, stop, or look in a mirror. Axl finally did, dropped a bunch of weight, and GNR is still touring. There's too many stories of Jericho getting sloppy drunk and destroying shit like an idiot. You can't play rock star and also pro wrestler in your 50s.

 

[K-mac18]

PwInsider reporting the Penta match and promo went way longer than it was supposed to leading to other things on the show getting trimmed for time. Probably not best on your first night.

 

[Wesley91581]

Penta/Gable started off slow and shaky but ended up damn good. I'm surprised they gave him 2+ minutes of promo time afterward. Penta's gear even matched the ring mat and ropes. Have no idea why he and Fenix weren't pushed like crazy or why they didn't get solid singles runs. Maybe we'll get Fenix by summer.

 

[RMP82]

Balor is great and Priest has so much potential despite not really making a big name for himself until his late 30’s. I see a lot of DDP in him with his style and late start to the main event (even similar builds). That said, I’m sick of Priest vs Judgement Day. I’d like to see him and Drew or even Kross. Someone like Priest could help elevate Kross and bring out what we have been wanting out of him.

Rhea is still fine as hell. Nia is still a fat piece of trash, and Gable/Penta ended up really good.

I know he’s a freak athlete but I think I may be over Bron Breakker. He’s got tons of potential to be a star but he’s getting boring. He needs to distance himself from trying to be his uncle. Scotty had worlds of talent and potential but was boring.

 

[TCPUKChamps]

PwInsider reporting the Penta match and promo went way longer than it was supposed to leading to other things on the show getting trimmed for time. Probably not best on your first night.

Going to call bullshit on that considering the show barely went over 2.5 hours and was done by 10:32. He may have went over but it shouldn't have affected anything else. This isn't USA anymore

 

[TCPUKChamps]

 

[CrittendenWildcat]

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I'm pretty sure this is a work. Possibly building to Graves vs. McAfee at WM?

 

[K-mac18]

Going to call bullshit on that considering the show barely went over 2.5 hours and was done by 10:32. He may have went over but it shouldn't have affected anything else. This isn't USA anymore

That's what I thought too, but they followed up with WWE had several things to record afterwards and wanted to be done at a certain time and were running over. As a result WWE had to cut some things.

Also think the Graves thing is leading to something, as you all said maybe a match with McAfee.

 

[Col. Angus]

I’ve never seen Corey Graves wrestle. He any good?

 

[WildcatFan1982]

He wrestled with Carmella and made a baby

 

[K-mac18]

The interwebs are reporting Graves won't be on NXT tonight.

 

[TCPUKChamps]

 

[Nightwish84]

DOM! The man is using AEW clips to shit talk Punk.



Graves thing is a work imo. NXT has momentum and a history of blurring lines. Fans are talking about an announcer and his move to NXT on the night there's an NXT show a week after Rock showed up and said whatever he wanted.