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[Evening Musuko]

Maybe Ponk will show up THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE Strong Style 42nd Anniversary Show!

01. Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu vs Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki & Taichi)

02. KUSHIDA & Manabu Nakanishi vs CHAOS (Jado & Gedo)

03. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger, Tiger Mask & Super Strong Machine vs El Desperado,
BUSHI & Captain New Japan

04. G.B.H. (Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma) & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Bullet Club (Prince Devitt, Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga)

05. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima), Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba vs CHAOS (Toru Yano, Yujiro Takahashi, Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI)

06. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)

07. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro
Ishii)

08. Special Singles Match: Kazuchika Okada vs Kota Ibushi

lol at Naito still holding to that Never belt. Looks fun.

 

[PInk Tape]

I'm past the point of feeling bad anymore.

Batista's winning the belt at Mania. We've known this for months now. We all deserve it. The crowds deserve it at this point. And I'm sad that I was ever against it happening in the first place. This is the best thing.

It's best for business.

 

[Terrabyte20xx]

I'm past the point of feeling bad anymore.

Batista's winning the belt at Mania. We've known this for months now. We all deserve it. The crowds deserve it at this point. And I'm sad that I was ever against it happening in the first place. This is the best thing.

So you've finally figured it out?


WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.

 

[Spider from Mars]

lol at Naito still holding to that Never belt. Looks fun.

Shibata and Goto have me excited for a Gallows/Anderson match!
Still don't really enjoy Gallows and Anderson as a tag team.

 

[BronsonLee]

Seth Rollins coking out was awesome .

Cesaro is awesome

Hell yes to both!

I love it. Rollins getting fed up mid-match and telling Ambrose/Reins to get their shit together and they sort of almost do in an awesome ending sequence is one of the best ideas anyone in creative's had for a long time.

It's so good. Especially since you're starting to see the camaraderie a bit more in the Shield in their promos, and especially since Rollins went fucking CRAZY in that opening flurry. Holy shit that was some Bryan level house of fire stuff.

I have a strong feeling Shield aren't busting up quite yet, just turning face. At the very least Rollins and Reigns are going to still tag.

 

[bean breath]

Could you imagine JR on commentary during Shield/Wyatts?

'BY GAWD THERES BODIES EVERYWHERE LOOK AT THIS CARNAGE'
and we'd even get a sitdown interview with Seth Rollins. 'Why'dya do it Seth?' and then Seth would light him on fire

"Here's Luke Harper now, nose guard out of Louisiana Tech..."

 

[bean breath]

Oof, they're doing Emma all wrong. She should be out there having legit matches and getting the crowd behind her that way, not having the gimmick first forced on everyone so they can manipulate laughs out of us or something. She was endearing and got over in NXT because the dance and bubbles and kip up were in addition to what she offered in the ring.

A loaf of bread could get over in NXT.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

A loaf of bread could get over in NXT.

At least people in NXT can afford loaves of bread without needing a second job.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I love that bean breath combs the thread after every Raw to pick out posts.

Dedication to the craft. That's how you become a winner.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

A loaf of bread could get over in NXT.

bean breath watching the RAW delay is the best part of WrassleGAF every week.

edit: Curse you Net, stealing my posts from right under me.

 

[SquashMatch]

I don't see what the problem was tonight. HHH vs Bryan is progressing nicely, the Shield story is interesting, Cesaro-Swagger imminent feud is interesting, Cena-Wyatt is interesting, Usos are beginning to get over and Taker vs Brock will be fun as well.

There are decent to good angles up and down the card, some very good potential matches and booking that may not be superb but is far from awful.

"New" talent is shining through very well:

Daniel Bryan is over
Bray Wyatt is over
The Usos are over
The Shield is over
AJ Lee is over
Cesaro is over
Ziggler is over

The major problem is the main event could possibly be the worst main event in WM history. Batista flat out cannot wrestle anymore, he looks awful out there. Throw in the fact that Randy Orton is a complete afterthought and you have a potential disaster.

That being said things are on the uptick and a lot of new talent is being pushed and pushed well.

Oh yeah, Christian sucks. His work is boring, his promos stale and he has the same charisma level as Dean Malenko.

 

[bean breath]

It got black that quick? Seems unlikely

Are you diagnosing a black eye from a picture?

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

So how much of RAW tonight was nothing but "CM PUNK" chants?

 

[Loco4Coco]

So how much of RAW tonight was nothing but "CM PUNK" chants?

99%

 

[gurudyne]

Gurudyne, I'm expecting that Mania 3 review on my desk soon!

Are you diagnosing a black eye from a picture?

Nice callback.

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

99%

The way it should be.

Bury everyone and give Punk another 436 day reign.

Spoiler

and then have him lose it to a returning part time Bootista.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I don't see what the problem was tonight. HHH vs Bryan is progressing nicely, the Shield story is interesting, Cesaro-Swagger imminent feud is interesting, Cena-Wyatt is interesting, Usos are beginning to get over and Taker vs Brock will be fun as well.

Bryan is interesting. Cesaro's interesting. Wyatt is interesting. Brock is interesting. See what I'm getting at here?

I don't care about the other half of every one of those match ups aside from The Shield's possible triple threat match. Really nothing the WWE can do short of blowing up every match and restructuring the show that'll get me truly excited. HHH has been a bum for years, Swagger is just getting coattail hype, Cena is Cena, the Usos are okay, and if Taker can't bump, that's just gonna be an MMA dryhump snoozefest with Brock doing his best Dolph Ziggler impression every 5 minutes.

Save_Us_Aaron Paul

 

[Past]

Looks like CM Punk is gone for good. It was now or never. No reason for him to return after WM.

 

[Plywood]

They need to stop having Dean just jump at everyone as his thing. It's basically your average diva's moveset.

 

[Vylash]

We're free! The Punk nightmare is over!

 

[Sokantish]

You're an average diva's moveset, Plywood!

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

For a Japanese company, NJPW has a tiny amount of merchandise. It's a shame...

 

[Net_Wrecker]

They need to stop having Dean just jump at everyone as his thing. It's basically your average diva's moveset.

It's amazing. He needs to start every match just jumping at people. He's like a real life version of a grapple character in a fighting game but the person controlling is just mashing buttons.

 

[avengers23]

Or he was misquoted. What's the original quote on all of this anyway?

Listened to it again. Meltzer said that he didn't think Punk would be back after he was pulled from the Wizard World appearance, but he was told by someone ("one of the biggest names in the business") that Punk was back.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

Fuck AJ.

Bryan is interesting. Cesaro's interesting. Wyatt is interesting. Brock is interesting. See what I'm getting at here?

I don't care about the other half of every one of those match ups aside from The Shield's possible triple threat match. Really nothing the WWE can do short of blowing up every match and restructuring the show that'll get me truly excited. HHH has been a bum for years, Swagger is just getting coattail hype, Cena is Cena, the Usos are okay, and if Taker can't bump, that's just gonna be an MMA dryhump snoozefest with Brock doing his best Dolph Ziggler impression every 5 minutes.

Save_Us_Aaron Paul

You're talking about the Best Pure Striker™ in the WWE, boy. You better show some goddman respect.

This is HIS yard!

 

[Spider from Mars]

For a Japanese company, NJPW has a tiny amount of merchandise. It's a shame...

And they don't make it easy for us foreigners to buy!
Gots ta get me a Bullet Club and RAINMAKAH shirt for my dates

 

[Loco4Coco]

I also like how Mark Henry comes back from an injury just to get F5'd through a table again.

 

[strobogo]

Legit Shook Fall Brawl 1999 REMASTERED

 

[Slizeezyc]

The entire Shield/Wyatt thing took over the Punkverse and it's really weird how good it's booked. The Punkverse got incursioned

I loved the way they had Rollins play his role there as well. He had sort of been the odd-man out during the whole thing, and now he firmly planted himself in the middle of it all and now we can go a ton of different ways with the fallout.

Also, fascinating that WWE would sign another "deathmatch" guy like Drake Younger. (Also pretty sure Drake's Landing won't be a thing in NXT).

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

I know the Shield are cool and all, but you gotta admit, that Emma and Santino angle is pretty well-booked so far. Hopefully it culminates in a kiss at Mania.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

You're talking about the Best Pure Striker™ in the WWE, boy. You better show some goddman respect.
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This is HIS yard!

I'd love for this to mean anything, and for Brock + Taker to go in there and have a crazy big man match and throw haymakers. But this is real life, and Wrestlemania ain't in Japan. Taker's just gonna fulfill his MMA dreams by making Barack Lesnar tap to the gogoplata Hell's Gate, and everyone will sigh as Barack is wasted on yet another pointless feud.

I hope I'm wrong though.

 

[Gorillaz]

I like how the shirts barely fit them

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Just got back from the show.

Fuck the Allstate Arena parking lot.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

And they don't make it easy for us foreigners to buy!
Gots ta get me a Bullet Club and RAINMAKAH shirt for my dates

Gotta use a proxy service brah. They need to make some damn figures. Fuxk.

 

[Man God]

At this rate Stro will catch me by Wednesday at the latest. I'm watching about one and a half a day going backwards from 2001.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

I'd love for this to mean anything, and for Brock + Taker to go in there and have a crazy big man match and throw haymakers. But this is real life, and Wrestlemania ain't in Japan. Taker's just gonna fulfill his MMA dreams by making Barack Lesnar tap to the gogoplata Hell's Gate, and everyone will sigh as Barack is wasted on yet another pointless feud.

I hope I'm wrong though.

Barack fighting an MMA zombie is pretty dope though.

 

[Spider from Mars]

I neeeeeed this shirt

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

When Punk merchandise going to go on clearance? Want that hoodie...

 

[UberTag]

Just got back from the show.

Fuck the Allstate Arena parking lot.

Serves you right for sticking around for a Big Show run-in when you could have bailed during Big Dave's matchup and saved yourself an hour.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Barack fighting an MMA zombie is pretty dope though.

Well if MMA Zombie keeps stabbing him with random objects, I'm in.

The first sign of someone shooting for a takedown, I'm out.

 

[Data West]

Gotta use a proxy service brah. They need to make some damn figures. Fuxk.

.

 

[sf2fanatic]

I love that bean breath combs the thread after every Raw to pick out posts.

Dedication to the craft. That's how you become a winner.

What do you expect from a Barry Zito fan...lol

I'm sad you a Tenay fan instead of Stu Stone Bean Breath

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Serves you right for sticking around for a Big Show run-in when you could have bailed during Big Dave's matchup and saved yourself an hour.

We left as soon as his music hit.

 

[Plywood]

You're an average diva's moveset, Plywood!

It's amazing. He needs to start every match just jumping at people. He's like a real life version of a grapple character in a fighting game but the person controlling is just mashing buttons.

Future Dean move right as he goes for a pin:

 

[Sokantish]

Serves you right for sticking around for a Big Show run-in when you could have bailed during Big Dave's matchup and saved yourself an hour.

Did Big Show really run in? I shut RAW off during that commercial break at 10:05

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[/QUOTE]

I nailed it!

 

[bean breath]

God does Bryan suck on the mic. He was totally outclassed by Triple H and STEPHANIE!

He sucks on the mic.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

Big Show came for the "dark" segment on the Network post-show.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

.

I seen those brah. That's all they got though brah. They sittin on money buy not expanding their line or doing high quality figs. Where my Emma shirt?

 

[Data West]

 

[strobogo]

I like how the shirts barely fit them

It was one of my favorites of the whole WCW shit just to see Shane get hung out to dry like that.