The Independent Wrestling Thread

[BigBiss]

Texas Ian ....

[Warner2BruceTD]

Texas drama is the best drama. Jersey drama sucks, because everybody is a loud mouth Italian or Jew so there is no passive aggressive shots or unexposed hate.

[BigBiss]

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Red Dead Depression?

< The Brothers of Reconstruction

[EmpireWF]

Tom Lawlor fights Ilir Latifi at UFC in Ireland on 6/19. I'd mark out if O'Reilly & Fish were at cageside.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Trying my hardest to get to this show on Sunday... Its a pain in the ass to get to on public transit and me and my buddies never drive to "sporting" events. Trying to get a sober friend to bite the bullet and come. But god damn I really want to go.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

That is an awesome lineup. Go-out-of-your-way-to-go quality.

Super Smash Bros haven't been wrestling much lately, but are fun live. Hero v. Watanabe should be solid. Kyle O'Reilly always brings it. ACH v. Michael Elgin will be *** at minimum.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Holy crap that's a great show.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Another battle royal.

You guys should have seen how deep Biss dug to fill his last battle royal. I have no idea where he found half of those mutants. It was amazing.

[MrBill]

That should be a solid show! I remember being very impressed with ACH at the ROH event in San Antonio a few months back. Warner, wasn't Watanabe on that card as well? My knowledge of Japanese wrestlers is pretty limited but I know the April Inspire show had some impressive talent on the card from Japan.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Holy crap that's a great show.

I would've preferred O'Riley vs ACH and Elgin vs Alexander but still a great card.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I would've preferred O'Riley vs ACH and Elgin vs Alexander but still a great card.

ACH is willing to take Elgin's bumps like a man and can sell'em like crazy...they've worked together a few times now and they work well together. They are capable of a MotYC, but haven't gotten there yet. Elgin can work the fast pace of ACH and keep up. They did it in PWG and I enjoyed.

O'Reilly is at a point where he can just grapple a lesser performer to a good match.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Best in the World tonight...

It was good...but hardly a great PPV. Nothing was insulting or even bad...a lot of just ok to good stuff in that **1/2-***3/4 range.

Six man scramble match has some weird rules that kind of force that madness aspect that usually breaks down in these types of matches anyway. Built up the Air Jordan spot by ACH and the win was academic at that point. Ok match.

Jay Lethal v. Matt Taven - Overbooked shenanigans to go home during this match. Was ok.

Roddy Strong v. Cedric Alexander - I liked the match...it just ran a bit long for me and wasn't super crisp.

#DemBoys v. Hardy/Bennett - Really bad until the DQ turns into a no-DQ match cliche. Some nice spots kept this one real entertaining.

Steen v. Silas Young - Better than I thought it was going to be.

reDRagon v. Bad Influence - Not quite what I was hoping for. Riles missile drop kick off of the apron always pops me...as does the Chasing The Dragon kick-out into the cross armbreaker spot. It was good...but sloppy at the beginning and never quite hits the crescendo I like in my high end tag wrestling.

Cole v. Elgin - Jesus Christ so much overbooked shenanigans. This one lost me early. Never felt like it was destined to be great...and it never came close. I can't shit on it...but it isn't what I wanted to see. Right guy won though. Whoever booked this match overthought everything about it.

Crowd was good thoughout most of it.

I watched on UStream. A few hiccups...but nothing was missed.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

BOLA 14 participants scheduled...

Matt Sydal
Chris Sabin
THE LEGAL EAGLE and Biff Busick
Curt Hawkins

Along with Gargano, Trevor Lee, and Elgin so far.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Hero is tapping out.