The WrestleMania/WrestleCon Weekend Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

This weekend started slow, but has shifted into high gear and is now going at 90mph.

Jay Lethal v. Michael Elgin @ SuperCard of Honor VII
American Wolves v. reDRagon @ SuperCard of Honor VII
Kevin Steen v. Jay Briscoe @ SuperCard of Honor VII
Mike Quackenbush/Jushin Liger v. Jigsaw/Shard @ CHIKARA
Ricochet v. Tozawa @ DGUSA
Young Bucks v. CIMA/AR Fox @ DGUSA
Johnny Gargano v. SHINGO @ DGUSA

All go out of your way must sees.

Then you got

AR Fox v. Ricochet @ Evolve 19
Uhaa Nation v. Sami Callihan @ DGUSA
Chuck Taylor Invitational @ DGUSA
Super Smash Brothers v. EITA/Tomahawk TT @ DGUSA
Karl Anderson v. Roddy Strong @ SuperCard of Honor VII
Young Bucks v. Super Smash Brothers

As good matches that are great little complimentary matches to the big hitters. All ***+.

I gotta give MAJOR props to fucking AR Fox. That dude might be gay...but that dude has stamina for days. This guy has worked a Hulk Hogan schedule in the past two days, crossing date lines three times and everything. Three matches at Evolve 19. He worked the opener at CZW. Worked tonight's DGUSA card. He might have been one of the Los Plantanos for all I know. Not a soft match or gimmes in the bunch.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Fuck it.

I'm giving Gargano/SHINGO *****.

I'm a man of conviction. ****3/4 match put over the top by A+ booking.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I was told the seven man opener in CZW was great, also Fish vs Edwards, and Elgin vs Anderson at the ROH tapings.

Chiva Kid unmasked.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I don't know who he was wrestling, but I was told by several people that the Masada match at CZW was "insane". Blood everywhere. The guy Masada was wrestling has a Sabu moment where he cut a huge hole in himself.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I don't know who he was wrestling, but I was told by several people that the Masada match at CZW was "insane". Blood everywhere. The guy Masada was wrestling has a Sabu moment where he cut a huge hole in himself.

Jun Kasai. "Crazy Monkey". Japanese deathmatch pseudo legend.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

btw - The crowd for DGUSA was fantastic. A lot more people there tonight than last night. I thought it was a little more than CHIKARA but not more than ROH last night. The crowd was very much into WrestleCon most of the day.

A TON of old school wrestlers were here. I heard Hogan was here but didn't go out of my way. I did see DDP and Jake Roberts hanging out outside when I got here. Jake Roberts looks like a new fucking man. Dude was smiling ear to ear. Was awesome to see. Hung out with Christina Von Eerie for a little bit. She is actually kind of cute in person when her hair is down. Real cool chick, too. She plays the guitar, which I did not know.

I guess before the chick show this afternoon, they had the "Con" part of WrestleCon. A flood of legends and stuff were here. Colt Cabana and a few other guys were advertising little QnA's and shit that was located down the road or in little meeting rooms here. Money and Merch were flowing like water.

I can not imagine this NOT being the biggest money making day in the history of these companies. Good for the talent, too. I would think a guy like AR Fox made more money in the past two days as a wrestler than he has ever before. You got guys working 3-4-5 times over the course of 3-4 days, and there has been no bullshit. If you're working, YOU'RE WORKING. The fans here have not accepted shit. If you aren't there to entertain, the fans have straight up, sat on their hands. The talent that got the crowd to react earned every bit of it.

You can definitely tell a huge difference with the talent, too. At Evolve and the DGUSA show. At the DG show, they were doing everything to get the crowd up. It is obvious Gabe and Co. took notice of the flat crowd yesterday and made it a point to get the talent to make sure they hype the crowd.

Gabe, in that regard booked a great show...he opened up with Rich Swan and Kendrick. Who doesn't love Rich Swan? One of the nicest dudes, very much charismatic. Before the show got started, he was out there getting the crowd to sing. He and Kendrick had a really solid match, perfect opener.

Unfortunately, Larry Dallas and Jon Davis are vacuums. No one likes them and there is nothing you can do to get over the segments they are in. You had a face turn and Trent, who the crowd wants to cheer for. No luck. But once the crowd got what they want from a fucking DGUSA show, flippy flops and great action...they were very into it. I was going BONKERS during some of the matches. The Gargano match had me going HAM on some trog sitting next to me as I was hitting the fuck out of his shoulder marking out to the near falls.

Definitely, if you got love from this crowd, you 100% earned it. They have no accepted shit. And, I thought Gabe had a great overnight turnaround between Evolve and the DGUSA show. Kudos to CHIKARA, too...which ran long as fuck (seriously, Gabe, nor Quack nor Delirious at ROH gave a FUCK about time constraints). "Our show is over, when its over"...but was really good at getting the crowd hyped up and delivered good matches.

 

[BigBiss]

Tomahawk TT ... key an eye out

 

[EmpireWF]

NJPW starts in about 90 minutes...no fuckungvway I'm staying up. BUT I hope Nakamura & Davey Boy Jr. tear the house down.

Oh yeah, Tanahashi/Okada 4, too.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Tomahawk TT ... key an eye out

Dude was awesome last year when he was doing the fake Naoki Tanizawa gimmick, and he got over instantly tonight. He's good.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Oh, and sorry to keep rambling, but I've drank a bit.

Some dude went to the TNA show last night and said Styles is basically doing a Sting gimmick, wearing all black and shit and being all emo.

 

[Bigpapa42]

Loving the live updates you bastards. Keep them up. Bastards.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

DG six man should be a lot of fun.

You have Gargano who just turned heel, teaming with super babyface AR Fox, and Ricochet who hates everybody.

Whoever scores the fall gets a title shot of their choosing at any title in the Dragon Gate/EVOLVE universe.

Lots of ways to go with the booking.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Also, don't forget, tmw at 6pm eastern CMLL 70th Anniversary is live & free online. It overlaps with Mania, but i'm going to try to catch it. Maybe try to run it on my phone while I run Mania on my laptop.

Just watched the New Japan 4/5 Kuroken semi & main events to get pumped for New Japan in a hour.

Gonna catch the ROH show tmw after Dragon Gate and before CMLL/Mania.

Gonna grab that password from Kevin for PWS Thursday show and try to watch tmw night after Mania.

What a weekend.

 

[Bigpapa42]

Wanna watch the New Japan show but $25....

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

This is gonna be good.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Wanna watch the New Japan show but $25....

Not that I condone this sort of thing...but it'll be online in two days, tops.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Wanna watch the New Japan show but $25....

Its $45 less than Mania and guaranteed to be better.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

This is gonna be good.

I'm more of a Gargano fan today than I was yesterday.

You know you did a good job with a heel turn when the character is much cooler after the turn.

 

[Bigpapa42]

Not that I condone this sort of thing...but it'll be online in two days, tops.

That's why I hesitate. $10, no biggie. Even $15 I would probably do. But $25 knowing that I'll be half-asleep by the main event... tough to justify...

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Another funny moment...

Nigel running around the ring going crazy giving fans high fives and marking out like a 5-year old after Jay won the title. Super obnoxious and hilarious.