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Not that it is a great reason for Cena to behave the way he did, but I do suspect this is exactly what will happen. If it is Reigns vs Lesnar at Mania, there is nothing to protect in a future rematch, so you might as well give Reigns a decisive win to get him on his way to his Mania showdown and Cena is Cena. When he comes back from the movies, it isn't like he'd be damaged goods or anything like that. At least that is what I hope happens after last night. And Cena is the master of no selling big losses, give him a couple of months off and it's gonna be like he never even wrestled Roman in his (kayfabe) mind

I fail to see the big difference between what happened yesterday and the awful HHH promos against Cena building up to WM 22.

Cena's demeanor in that promo was very HHH-like, didn't like that segment very much. It accomplished very little imo.

Cena vs Reigns announced for No Mercy. They could obviously face again at Mania but lol at them not being able to save their first time matchup for their biggest show.

Nominating Strong BJ vs Naoya Nomura & KAI - All Japan World Tag Titles 8/27/17 Welp, they did it again. This was the Nomura showcase in a Strong BJ formula match, and of course it works like a charm. Fun shine segment with Naoya and KAI getting the upperhand over the two beasts before the young kid gets pummeled by Daisuke, from then on we got the always awesome "small team tries to come back against Sekimoto & Okabayashi" comeback story, with Nomura being the stand out, showing great fire and good offense while a really good Sumo Hall crowd rallies behind him. This had dope spots and nearfalls and kept building drama until the final fall. Fucking awesome tag match, what a year for Strong BJ, best fucking tag team in the world. Shuji Ishikawa vs Kento Miyahara - Triple Crown match 8/27/17 Match of the year? At least is in the discussion for me. This was a fucking battle for survival, with Shuji doing an awesome job at being the dominant champ and Kento being an outstanding underdog Ace. Better than their match from May, mainly because the first half was way more compelling and fun to watch. Miyahara's selling was fucking great, it made you think "how the hell is he going to overcome this" all match long while at the same time doing enough to give you hope that there was still a chance. Sumo Hall was game for this, specially a lady that sat near the commentary booth who screamed during the whole damn match for her beloved Kento (a lot of women in the crowd and they were the ones starting the chants for the young Ace). This was so good it had the first suplex trading spot I've liked in more than a decade - it fit the story and it was only one move instead of three or four - and a one count kick out that had me thinking "it kinda makes sense". The finish might be the weakest part of this whole thing as it felt a little out of nowhere withing the context of the match, I thought it need one more bomb before the three count. But all in all this was fucking great, go watch this as Miyahara once again shows us you can have an incredible match in a reasonable amount of time (25 minutes). Fuck what you heard, Kento is my performer of the year.

RE: Asuka. That's gotta be one of the strongest runs by a performer ever, no? She went undefeated for almost 2 years and then left the "promotion", vacated its belt and left

According to PWMania, Rusev and Lana have asked for their release. I'd love to see Rusev wrestling in a bunch of promotions, and he could make a whole lot of money. Lana can practically do whatever she wants (besides actually wrestling it seems) so good for them if true. D-Bry told a story in the E&C podcast that there was a SD talent that told him how frustrated he was because he was doing everything right but the company wouldn't do shit with him. Bryan's advice was that right now was the best time to make money outside WWE since he's been wrestling, and that he could wait for his contract to end and just go work elsewhere....at first I thought he was talking about Harper or even Zayn, but it coul've been Rusev.

Jon Jones failed a drug test again :lol:

I think there is a little more to the Dave/NJPW relationship than is being said. Dave is responsible for NJPW's current interest level in the English Speaking world along with them coming to ROH. He's extremely favorable to them and despite thinking this is the best stuff ever, he still devotes almost no time into any other Japanese promotion. NJPW being hot helps F4W. It means more subscriptions and more publicity for Dave. Because each promotion in Japan is different. This would be like saying "he loves WWE, but spends almost no time on GFW or any other American promotion". NJPW is the big one in Japan and has been for the past few years. He loves their matches, hence he spends more time covering them. If other fans took his recommendation, but then didn't like NJPW, they wouldn't be breaking through over here. But they do, so it is. They really aren't that different anymore. There's not much of a difference between Zero-1, NJPW, Wrestle-1, AJPW and NOAH and Dave has always prioritized NJPW over the other promotions since the 2000's. Sure Dragon Gate, DDT and BJW have always been a little different, but Dave has never really bothered with those anyway. NJPW being hot is the 2nd best thing that could happen for Dave besides WWE being hot, especially in a world where TNA is basically dead and ROH will never be able to be anything more. To be fair, Dave has said in more than one occasion he watches pimped stuff from All Japan and Big Japan at least. He's a big fan of Sekimoto and Okabayashi, as any normal human being should be

That was fucking awesome. Brock vs Braun Cena vs Reigns That sounds like a dope Mania lineup.

This is amazing , 4 minutes in.

I'm shocked at how quiet the crowd is. It's not even 9 pm yet. I guess it's better than them just trolling and chanting random shit though so I'll take it, but still, wow.

Man I hope Rusev's deal is up soon and he goes overseas and wins a ton of money having dope matches. Fuck WWE for what they've done to him the last 2 years when all he has done is being awesome and fuck Lana.

Bah gawd that match was able to kill a NY crowd not 1 hr into a PPV. at that spot by Enzo.

I thought the tope by Drew was dumb and then that finish happened. Indy at it's worst. Could care less about ReDragon and Adam Cole is meh to me if he's not in PWG but at least they were over as fuck tonight so fans were happy.

I think that was Asuka's best match in NXT. The drama in the last few minutes were awesome. Moon looked great in defeat.

I don't see Bryan signing with them though.

I'm pretty sure ROH or Gabe would book him in a heart beat if he's available.

So in an interview early in the week, Brie Bella kinda confirmed Bryan will wrestle again and has her support to do it - in WWE or anywhere else - as long as he gets cleared. Dave had a little update on this on the WON but it didn't have much new information, he mostly speculated on scenarios once his deal is up next year. Today he was on the E&C podcast and Bryan went into all the details of his injury and what he's doing to make a return. A lot of interesting stuff. It starts at the 2 hr mark, before that he talked about watching people like Lawler, Bock and old man Tenryu to go for a "safer style" (he said something similar when he came back from his neck surgery though). https://youtu.be/uHCGWalHKtg?t=7207 Second half of 2018 is gonna be interesting, to say the least.

5.75 is even more funny to me than 6.25 for some reason I really hope this recent trend and backlash end up with people finally realizing that star ratings don't matter.

So 7 stars or 6 and 1/2? Clearly 6 and 3/4, leave people wanting that 7 stars for another occasion.

I thought Okada vs Omega III was easily the best of their trilogy. Way more focused and wasn't needlessly long. Omega vs Naito was an outstanding spotfest with a red hot crowd, that always gets a thumbs up for me. It was a little too long though, didn't care for what they did in the first third of the match. All in all, Naito winning and facing Okada at the Dome is the best decision Gedo has done in a long time - product wise, as much as I've found New Japan boring for the most part the last couple of years, it's been an undeniable success - and we'll probably get Omega vs Ibushi underneath. Really interested in how many people they can draw with those main events.

Caught this on twitter and thought it was interesting in the sense that it backs a lot of what people thought about King's Road. From someone that would know about it. https://twitter.com/reasonjp/status/894762264154193920

Roman/Braun is the best WWE rivalry since....? Cena/Punk? and hell I think I like the hoss battles better.

Braun vs Roman LMS for RAW tomorrow!