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Sweeney Tom
Banned
Yeah, New Japan has been on good terms with WWE for a while, but still not in the "full partnership" stage, likely because Vince wouldn't fork over money for a show where half the matches would have to be him putting foreigners who can't speak his language over.
Liger could probably pull off both if he's scheduled for the ROH show in the same area, I think that one's earlier in the day.
dream
Member
How excited can we really get for a 50 year old Jushin Liger who isn't even tough, Sunflower?
Serpentine
Banned
Danny Burch has some unfinished business!
serenewarfare
Banned
Liger in NXT. WWE is legitimately just promoting indie wrestling now.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
There's always people out there who watched WCW in the mid-90s who just wanna see the suit. Plus, Princeu DeVito.
dream
Member
Shit, I guess I was right. Fucking bizarre that an audience that loves everyone is already bored of Joe.
funkystudent
Member
The people in charge NXT are crazy and I love them for it.
serenewarfare
Banned
They already did that with Beast in the East. They solve it by just not doing anything that gives away match results.
ANuclearError
Member
Didn't that happen with NXT last night and last week? Last week they just replayed the Balor v Owens match and this week the women main evented.
Looking forward to seeing Liger. I wonder if this was in place before Itami's injury and the plan was Liger v Itami (not familiar with Japanese wrestling, so for all I know this already happened).
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Midcard for life. Ah well...Cesaro will show off feats of strength with Papa Powerbomb much like he did with Big Show.
This is delightful
Yeah, but this was just with one storyline. They can work around that.
This is an entire special likely involving every angle.
serenewarfare
Banned
Would this be the first time Liger wrestles for WWE/F? I know they did some crossover stuff with New Japan years ago, but was he involved in that?
If they send people out for matches, that won't tell the crowd anything. They just couldn't do any promos involving the Brooklyn show.
If they send people out for matches, that won't tell the crowd anything. They just couldn't do any promos involving the Brooklyn show.
They would be limited to just basic matches though, no angles and maybe even not walking out with the belts if they feature the champs or challengers at all.
funkystudent
Member
Apparently he was WWF Light Heavyweight Championship once according to his wiki.
I guess he had a short run at some point but it must have been a real quick one.
Edit but his WWE.com page doesnt mention it so maybe Wikipedia is wrong. So this might be his first time.
serenewarfare
Banned
Honestly think they'd rather that than spoil a show. They could still do angles and interviews, they'd just have to be shot backstage and shown on the broadcast, not live.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
Just landed from 13-hour flight and I hear Liger is on the NXT special?! the fuck?
I believe that was when the WWF belt got into the J-Crown pool of belts.
Well this just happened at NXT:
spoiler
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKFEe-PXAAAaN8B.jpg
Good lord the heat he is going to get at Brooklyn
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKFEe-PXAAAaN8B.jpg
Good lord the heat he is going to get at Brooklyn
Frecklestein
Banned
If you were to ask me today if all the reward was worth the sacrifices, I would say no.
Damn.
serenewarfare
Banned
He did win it, but it was at a Dome show, not any kind of WWF event.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Who is fucking him?
bean breath
Member
Well DW and VM, I don't know what match you saw but to me it's just more of AAA's sloppy mess approach to pro wrestling. First of all, as far as gushing over the time of day, lighting, and colors - going as far as to liken it to the Sega AM2 logo or whatever - I didn't see you two jaybrons blowing your load all over Undertaker v. Wyatt at Wrestlemania. A match fought under the exact same conditions. So what's changed?
I chuckled at Pentagon Jr's fat *ss trying to start a "Pentagon" chant. Doesn't he know these women only like white men like Angelico? I sure do because the d*mn commentators only mentioned it about 30 times. And you two marks b*tch about Cole, JBL, and Saxton not calling the action in the ring?
I'll credit them for respecting the traditional rules of a tag team match for far longer then usual, I think they lasted about 90 seconds in this match, before descending into their usual free-for-all spotfest of a match. Even the ref can be seen resting against the ropes as he tries to recall who the legal men are like a mark getting worked by a shell game.
But there was one redeeming aspect to this sh*tshow. DW, I've seen you post an awful lot about wrestling here, enough to lead one to believe that you might know what you're talking about. Now I now the truth and that truth is that you don't know a d*mn thing about pro wrestling. So thank you. Thank you for showing us all the proper way to approach your on-topic posts from now on: with a huge grain of salt and the same encouragement shown to a special needs student. So good job, bee-*tch!
Now hit my f*cking music!
https://youtu.be/ohXKXU38MqQ
I chuckled at Pentagon Jr's fat *ss trying to start a "Pentagon" chant. Doesn't he know these women only like white men like Angelico? I sure do because the d*mn commentators only mentioned it about 30 times. And you two marks b*tch about Cole, JBL, and Saxton not calling the action in the ring?
I'll credit them for respecting the traditional rules of a tag team match for far longer then usual, I think they lasted about 90 seconds in this match, before descending into their usual free-for-all spotfest of a match. Even the ref can be seen resting against the ropes as he tries to recall who the legal men are like a mark getting worked by a shell game.
But there was one redeeming aspect to this sh*tshow. DW, I've seen you post an awful lot about wrestling here, enough to lead one to believe that you might know what you're talking about. Now I now the truth and that truth is that you don't know a d*mn thing about pro wrestling. So thank you. Thank you for showing us all the proper way to approach your on-topic posts from now on: with a huge grain of salt and the same encouragement shown to a special needs student. So good job, bee-*tch!
Now hit my f*cking music!
https://youtu.be/ohXKXU38MqQ
pantsattack
Member
I knew this was coming.
Liger at NXT sounds pretty fun. Versus Breeze and I'm thinking it'll be like the Dalton Castle match from a bit ago.
I hoped so. This could be good, but only if they don't wrestle every week. Only have them go head to head for the PPVs.
That'll never happen.
serenewarfare
Banned
I remember in a review a wai review WWE just handed them the belt and said good luck we don't want it anymore.
NXT Brooklyn card so far:
Owens vs Balor
Breeze vs Liger
Joe vs Corbin
Banks vs Bayley
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
I could have sworn you've mentioned this before...
serenewarfare
Banned
Sasha promo on Smackdown. Love it. Their team name sucks, though.
The stuff with the Divas division reminds me of Ring of Honor's attempt at faction warfare.
They just threw teams together with random as fuck names and put them against each other.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Just heard about liger in nxt, that's nuts
serenewarfare
Banned
The actual personalities of each team fit together, but I just don't like their team name. Team Bella is a fine name I guess. Don't think Paige's group has a name yet.
Shoot if I was running WWE I'd go full blown factions with everyone on the roster in one like NJPW.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
fucking lol
Sasha Banks feels out of place though in that she's more of a natural leader.....not to mention the fact that she is leagues above her teammates.
serenewarfare
Banned
She'll end up leader regardless because she'll get over more than the other two. She's already basically presented, at least in that interview, as the best of the group.
This is seemingly a retread of the announcement last year, which was a retread of an announcement the year before, so who know's what the actual deal with this plan
Oh wow that is super cool. Gotta keep an important part of your culture alive!
Typical Full Sail "fattycuntnerdsmark" reactions, so predictable /s
I really hope she has improved more than a little. I'm keeping my expectations low but there's no way she can be as bad as she originally was since she was originally thrust out there with damn near zero training. Which was the most aggravating thing about her presence before and like Fox said, made her a perfect representation of everything wrong with the main roster divas division. So to that effect, I don't blame the NXT crowd much for booing her unless they keep doing it no matter how good she shows herself to be. It's not about her necessarily, it's about what she represents and her positioning as an outsider.
That is sad as hell. :\
I remember a while back dirt sheets posted that quote so out of context it was ridiculous. Now, reading that page I get it...and understand it.