The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

I didn't know you had Akira Tozawa in.

I'll have to watch that scramble match later.

DINGO

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvRSBHu47E&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

WWWYKI

[BigBiss]

I didn't know you had Akira Tozawa in.

I'll have to watch that scramble match later.

DINGO

Between us and the Sister company in STL he had about 10 matches for us

[EmpireWF]

PWG announced the details of this years BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES tournament.

One night only (for the first time ever), 8 Men, Saturday August 20.

Chris Hero vs. Willie Mack
El Generico vs. Claudio Castagnoli (setting up for Hero vs. CC?)

Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong
Finlay vs. Kevin Steen (this should be awesome)

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I was listening to one of Cabana's podcasts...he had Excalibur on (one of PWG's owners, former wrestler, now a PBP guy). He told a story that Kikutaro once told him that Inoki wanted to book him to fight Alistair Overeem in either an MMA fight or a kickboxing match, a shoot regardless. Despite being offered a lot of money to do it, Kikutaro declined and told Excalibur, "Inoki pay good money but me want to. ...me want to. ...live".

lol

[Warner2BruceTD]

[JayDizzle]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9obAE2w26Y&feature=player_embedded"]Omega vs. Haruka[/ame]

Fuck it.

Punk/Danielson can wait.

Punk/Haruka for the title of "Best in the World"!

[Kuzzy Powers]

Lol @ this facebook ad..

[EmpireWF]

Omega vs. Haruka

Fuck it.

Punk/Danielson can wait.

Punk/Haruka for the title of "Best in the World"!

lmao

She can work better than most of the WWE divas.

[JayDizzle]

She can definitely sell better.

Heavy padding and a knowledge of how to sell or not, those turnbuckle tosses looked like Omega was trying to kill her.

You do that to a poorly trained female wrestler these days and they're out 6-8 weeks for a free tit job and a fake tan.

[SHOGUN]

Haruka is easily better than Kelly Kelly and Velvet Sky.

I watched some of that event. It wasn't bad at all.

MMA fighter Mika Nagano has been trying her hand at pro wrestling occasionally, but she hasn't quite found her groove yet. She's still very green.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Look at this card for the upcoming ICP Gathering of the Juggalos.

Holy fuck.

-- I Quit Match: Terry Funk vs. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

-- The Outsiders (Scott Hall & Kevin Nash) vs. The New Age Outlaws (B.G. James & Kip James) with special guest referee Sean Waltman

-- Greg "The Hammer" Valentine vs. Tito Santana in a Steel Cage Match

-- A 10-Man "Eliminations for Generations" battle royal featuring: "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Tony Atlas, Honky Tonk Man, Carlito, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, "Big Daddy V" Viscera, Rob Conway, Zach Gowen, Ronnie Garvin, and U-Gene Dinsmore

-- Too Cool (Big Kishi & Brian Christopher) vs. The Powers of Pain (The Barbarian & The Warlord)

-- The Rock 'N' Roll Express vs. The Headbangers

-- Bob Backlund vs. Ken Patera

-- "Memphis Madness 4-Way": Jerry "The King" Lawler vs. Koko B. Ware vs. Kamala vs. Dutch Mantell

-- Tracy Smothers vs. "Wildfire" Tommy Rich

-- "Philly Madness 6-Pack": Raven vs. Al Snow vs. Rhino vs. "The Franchise" Shane Douglas vs. Balls Mahoney vs. a ????? opponent

[Warner2BruceTD]

Some of those matches (well, ALL of those matches) have the potential to be awesomely fucking terrible.

Somebody add up the combined ages of these guys.

[Kuzzy Powers]

How the hell does King get away with doing all these independent shows?

That shit would have to be crazy entertaining to watch live, even with all the tortured souls in the crowd.

[EmpireWF]

-- Too Cool (Big Kishi & Brian Christopher) vs. The Powers of Pain (The Barbarian & The Warlord)

-- The Rock 'N' Roll Express vs. The Headbangers

lol @ the level of randomness in those matches

[EmpireWF]

How the hell does King get away with doing all these independent shows?

He's always had a contract that allows him to do indy's (he continued to work Memphis pretty much throughout the past 15+ years). I assume he has a WWE talent contract but I believe his main deal is as an announcer which makes him an actual employee.