I feel you on the NXT title, but I also feel that they make up for it with how they handle the Tag-Team and Womens titles so I’m not super heartbroken about it. Plus I feel like Bobby Roode will have a prominent run that will build his character before he makes the jump to WWE.
This show looks amazing. It stars Alison Brie and Mark Maron, and it directed and produced by the same people that did Orange is the New Black.
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I’m so fucking sold on every single part of this, it’s not even funny.
Io Shirai has signed a contract with the WWE.
This is following Kairi Hojo (who has the best elbow drop) accepting an offer as well, which is really good for the NXT women’s roster.
Here’s a clip of Shirai (as Hitokiri) kicking the crap out of Pentagon Dark in Lucha Underground:
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With Styles, Zayn, and now Shirai, the WWE now has three of the best wrestlers on Earth and I don’t know how I feel about that.
aw man, it’s blacked out in my country. I fell off LU a few episodes into season 3 for whatever reason. It just felt like the in ring product never reached the level of season 1 again and even though I did enjoy season 2 I just couldn’t keep up with when they started up again. Is it worth seeking out season 3?
No idea, unfortunately I don’t have time to follow LU. I specifically checked out that episode because Io Shirai, Kairi Hojo and Mayu Iwatani were guest starring.
Here’s a gif of some of Shirai’s spots from that episode.
Much appreciated, thanks! I was generally a bit down on the female wrestlers in LU, so this caught my eye when I heard about it.
New Japan is talking a big game with their expansion efforts.
They’re looking to set up a dojo and territory in America, and their goals are 100,000 subscribers on New Japan World, and to sell out the Tokyo Dome by the 2020 show.
(I also really love that the NJPW United States Championship is the biggest and gaudiest belt in the company)
Hopefully they use them right, but the WWE is so wildly hit-and-miss that it’s frightening. Their mishandling of Zayn is exceptionally frustrating to watch.
I’m not so worried about the WWE raiding other promotions for talent just due to the raw amount of talent available nowadays. I guess we’ll see how Stardom rides this out.
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Hey man, go big or go home right? If that is really their goal you’d have to imagine that they are looking to get behind Kenny in a major way. The problem is what you do with the Naito Okada feud, which they have to pull the trigger on at some point, but Kenny is so hot right now that it just feels like they would be blowing it real bad by not putting the title on him as soon as possible. In my mind you have to ways to go with Kenny from here on out:
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He wins the title off Okada at Dominion with the one-winged angel and holds the title going into Wrestle Kingdom, where Okada wins after kicking out of the one-winged angel.
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Okada comes close to winning the title at either Dominion or Dontaku but is distracted by Tiger Mask W who takes off his mask to reveal himself to be Ibushi, thereby paying Kenny back for him distracting him in 2015 when he fought against AJ and had him beat. This sets up Kenny and Ibushi’s first match against each other since 2012 in DDT. In this case Okada takes on Naito at Wrestle Kingdom where Okada loses the belt to cap off his first title loss since he dropped the title to Naito in 2016.
Good for her. As someone who really loves LU it will be a bummer not to see more of here there but I wish her the best in the WWE. Hopefully LU’s roster doesn’t shrivel and go extinct with all these people leaving AAA or being picked up by WWE & whatnot.
Kidani is walking on a tight rope with this move. He takes a wrong step, and Vince will bury him.
ProWrestlingSheets is reporting that Sami Calahan was handed the book and is head of creative and promotion for Combat Zone Wrestling, and outside of Tournament of Death and Cage of Death the ultra-violence stuff will no longer be on the forefront of the company. DJ Hyde will be taking a step back from creative and be running the business side of the company.
At the show this weekend, Maxwell Jacob Friedman and Lio Rush won the company’s top two titles.
CZW built up a small, but rabid, following in the years that followed the end of ECW. There is a phenomenal documentary that Vice did about the company, and a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation for last summers Tournament of Death.
Ever since DJ Hyde bought the promotion from John Zandig, the guy that yells “JEESUS” in the Botchamania opening, the company has shifted to display more traditional wrestling with high profile independent wrestlers. It’s be very interesting to see if the current fanbase will still support the company.
The promotions most popular alumni is current WWE superstar, Dean Ambrose.
Sami seems like a really good dude & I look forward to seeing what he does in this position. I personally am not a fan of hardcore & death match wrestling although I find a lot of the personalities from ECW & CZW to be some of the most compelling in the industry.
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Updates on Shibata and Honma. Both are doing better, but it’s still far too soon to tell if they will be able to wrestle again or not.
They don’t say anything to this effect, but I hope they begin discouraging stuff like real headbutts.
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Thanks for sharing. It’s good to hear that they’re both improving.
NO MORE HEADBUTTS Please!
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So the Best of the Super Juniors tournament in New Japan has just started, and day 1 was amazing. From Liger’s first match in his final BOSJ, to Marty Scurll’s NJPW debut, to the continued rivalry of Hiromu Takahashi and Dragon Lee, this was a great start to the event.
If anyone is interested in seeing how good New Japan Pro Wrestling can be, but isn’t quite ready to put down their 999 yen for a subscription, it turns out that the first day of the tournament is available for free.
Please watch and enjoy, y’all:
http://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00440_1_1
So wait, Scurll just joined NJPW but is already Bullet Club?
God, I really need to start following the NJPW/ROH world again.
