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CI Wrestling Thread #56

Only call-ups I see this year are Grace, Perez, Trick, Page, Frazer and Axiom. Next year I think Oba, Giulia, Vaquer, Cora Jade, Lash, Zaria, and Starks. I'm throwing Page in since he's 35. I see him as a Miz clone though.
 
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Harley and WWE fit so well - she has charisma but Mone outclassed her. She needs to go to NXT and hone her ring work for a couple years but she can definitely be good with a better fit.
 
Harley Cameron definitely has WWE written all over her. She's smoking hot, hilarious on the mic, plays the crazy well. She will need to improve her in ring work but I see big potential in her. Hell, Maxxine Dupri is on the roster so there you go. Harley will be a star in WWE before it's all said and done. Reminds me a lot of Chelsea Green as far as what she can be.

I don't know how long Giulia stays in NXT. She's a big get so they may want to call her up sooner rather than later. Asuka, Kairie, and Iyo are all beautiful women but Giulia takes it to another level. I hope that keeps them from booking her like the other Japanese girls. They've all had success, but if they aren't in the main event scene, they just tread water and don't have any major programs going for them.
 
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I hope that keeps them from booking her like the other Japanese girls. They've all had success, but if they aren't in the main event scene, they just tread water and don't have any major programs going for them.
that’s just standard WWE main roster women’s division booking these days regardless of nationality.
 
I think Cameron ends up a lifer in AEW. They gave her an opportunity and fans embraced her. I'm just curious how she's booked a year from now. Like, I get it's cute she can do 1,000 things well and oh puppets but I don't know if I want that in WWE. Chelsea has an over the top personality but she's really good in the ring. Vince made us addicted to "sports entertainment" and while there's still some of that around, I just don't want talent with props. We've already got Bliss and her doll.

Giulia is still a little shaky on the mic. She's taking english lessons twice a week I think and she's slowly getting better but if WWE fans don't really know you or haven't embraced you and your english is off, you're going to get What'd unfortunately. The NXT fans are way more respectful than your common dipshit main roster fan. CW also paid millions for a somewhat stacked NXT. If NXT isn't somewhat stacked, they're ratings will go down to (wait for it...) AEW levels.

And yes, the women's division needs to be booked better. They have two new titles and haven't really done anything with them.
 
that’s just standard WWE main roster women’s division booking these days regardless of nationality.
This is true but it seems like those gals could be used so much more than they are. Then again you only have so much air time for the womens division.
 
I think Cameron ends up a lifer in AEW. They gave her an opportunity and fans embraced her. I'm just curious how she's booked a year from now. Like, I get it's cute she can do 1,000 things well and oh puppets but I don't know if I want that in WWE. Chelsea has an over the top personality but she's really good in the ring. Vince made us addicted to "sports entertainment" and while there's still some of that around, I just don't want talent with props. We've already got Bliss and her doll.

Giulia is still a little shaky on the mic. She's taking english lessons twice a week I think and she's slowly getting better but if WWE fans don't really know you or haven't embraced you and your english is off, you're going to get What'd unfortunately. The NXT fans are way more respectful than your common dipshit main roster fan. CW also paid millions for a somewhat stacked NXT. If NXT isn't somewhat stacked, they're ratings will go down to (wait for it...) AEW levels.

And yes, the women's division needs to be booked better. They have two new titles and haven't really done anything with them.
Wrestling has shown us historically there’s only a handful of “lifers”

I don’t know her contract situation but if Sasha never lets her beat her she might rightfully so decide to jump ship - recent history shows once Sasha beats you then you pretty much get lost in the shuffle
 
It wasn't quite Sid level of gruesome, but the Buddy Murphy ankle sprain (how it looked) was pretty gruesome. What were the results to that Austrailia show and NXT show?
 
I realized watching that SNL that Sabrina Carpenter is Tiffany Stratton’s twin sister - guess one chose singing and other chose wrestling.
 
Not sure who has a more plain and generic autograph between Tiffany Stratton and Doron Lamb. Looks like how you'd sign the top of your homework.
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Only been able to watch the first match from Grand Slam and enjoyed the heck of the Omega/Ospreay vs. Fletcher/Takeshita. Will watch the rest tonight.

From what I can tell there isn't a whole lot to complain about from the show so the usual folks are focusing on the fact AEW used a smaller ring than usual for the show.
Guess rather than shipping their usual ring over they used something local. Nevermind that both the NWA/WCW and ECW rings were always smaller than the WWF ones.

Raw for this evening.

Raquel Rodriguez vs. Roxanne Perez: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
AJ Styles vs. Dominik Mysterio.
Penta vs. Pete Dunne.
WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Naomi and Bianca Belair come to Raw to confront Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.
Dakota Kai vs. Ivy Nile.
Sami Zayn to appear.
 
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Only been able to watch the first match from Grand Slam and enjoyed the heck of the Omega/Ospreay vs. Fletcher/Takeshita. Will watch the rest tonight.

From what I can tell there isn't a whole lot to complain about from the show so the usual folks are focusing on the fact AEW used a smaller ring than usual for the show.
Guess rather than shipping their usual ring over they used something local. Nevermind that both the NWA/WCW and ECW rings were always smaller than the WWF ones.

Raw for this evening.

Raquel Rodriguez vs. Roxanne Perez: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
AJ Styles vs. Dominik Mysterio.
Penta vs. Pete Dunne.
WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Naomi and Bianca Belair come to Raw to confront Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.
Dakota Kai vs. Ivy Nile.
Sami Zayn to appear.
Pete Dunne is a good opponent for Penta. Hes another guy that can let Penta get all his shit in and make him look like a star.
 
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I can't explain how much I hate RAW on Netflix. It does no good to watch the next day because you get the same commercials and you can't fast forward over them.
 
Oh sorry that was a Netflix thing. There’s a movie about the first night of Saturday night live. I wanted to watch it but I pay for the cheapest Netflix plan (with ads) so it said I have to upgrade to a more expensive plan to watch it.

Raw I’m pretty sure has ads no matter what
 
Oh sorry that was a Netflix thing. There’s a movie about the first night of Saturday night live. I wanted to watch it but I pay for the cheapest Netflix plan (with ads) so it said I have to upgrade to a more expensive plan to watch it.

Raw I’m pretty sure has ads no matter what
I just assumed since it was snl it was peacock related

But ya I have the low end Netflix plan too it’s way cheaper than the others
 
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Only been able to watch the first match from Grand Slam and enjoyed the heck of the Omega/Ospreay vs. Fletcher/Takeshita. Will watch the rest tonight.

From what I can tell there isn't a whole lot to complain about from the show so the usual folks are focusing on the fact AEW used a smaller ring than usual for the show.
Guess rather than shipping their usual ring over they used something local. Nevermind that both the NWA/WCW and ECW rings were always smaller than the WWF ones.

Raw for this evening.

Raquel Rodriguez vs. Roxanne Perez: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor: Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match.
AJ Styles vs. Dominik Mysterio.
Penta vs. Pete Dunne.
WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Naomi and Bianca Belair come to Raw to confront Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.
Dakota Kai vs. Ivy Nile.
Sami Zayn to appear.
Only reason WWE uses their standard 20x20 ring overseas is because they pay to keep it in storage. Seems like a waste of money to me but not like TKO is hurting for the money. I can’t imagine the cost of freight is remotely worth the expense to ship a 20x20 ring when you can help out a local indie and rent their 18x18 ring for a small fraction of the cost of freight. Knowing TK, he probably even paid them a premium for it when he didn’t have to.

And the funniest thing about it is that AEW has used an 18x18 ring before and nothing was ever said before. 18x18 or even 16x16 is the industry standard outside of WWE and AEW.

Some of the grifter podcasts were even trolling the IWC losers for losing their shit over the ring size.
 
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