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Will they use any of these potential new trainees to pad out the rumble?

You know, it may seem like an anecdote in the grand scheme of things, but really, to me it's the most visible, offensive stuff of the night thus far. He showed up with the LGBT community at Mania and here we are in a country where LGBT are *no right* and the same guy is showing up with plain black trunks. Everything you need to know about this show is in this picture right there. It is that it is so transparent is the most glaring aspect of it. His gimmick basically has been inclusiveness Balor club is for everyone and all that. But here he is out doing his normal stuff just without his LGBTQ+ symbols still smiling like a goof.

So I went to make dinner about 45 minutes ago and looking through this thread i Missed some weird shit, I am assuming it was a glorious display of propaganda to match up with their Americana bullshit they do at the tribute to the troops shows.

Well if that was the main event of a houseshow I went to I would not have left too angry, it was complete nothing with obviously no care put into it. Just Blah

The site is back now, at least on mobile it is not working on my laptop

Large portions of the crowd sat down after the Saudi anthem finished and the USA one began, Taker gonna be pissed.

I wonder how many rumble records they will break tonight, such as most eliminations or longest time in a rumble. They can do the later without having somebody go from 1 to win as they would have to in a normal rumble.

Is this video package the only buildup this match has had? Most of it seemed to be made of promos from at least ten years ago.

The fuck is up with those random words on the screen in the Miz promo, it is like a tacky youtube vlog channel.

The Kickoff is now underway

The bottom of the Barrel has officially been scraped

It was violent and hateful. This brawl felt visceral and chaotic without being confusing or boring as they so often can. It was not a top tier Brawl but was something different from the usual thing you expect in a puro round Robbin tourny. Here there were plenty of strike exchanges but they were interesting and felt like they meant something unlike every single mind numbing Ishii strike exchange in NJPW. The finish was well done with suwama angrily choking out Akiyama, loved this ****

Jun Akiyama is a wrestling god. As a match built up as two leaders of their companies with intertwining history over Akiyama leaving noah in 2012 (and there many interactions prior) this had some expectations, and I am glad to say they met them. Marufuji as a heavyweight has always been something that is problematic he is way to small and much of his offense is jr rubbish and his selling in 'epics' can be poor to say the least. BUT sometimes this can work really well and it did just that here. His cockiness and speed vs Akiyama's size and general grumpiness was amazing, the crowd was molten and Akiyama wrestled like a man possessed showing yet again why he is a top ten all time talent even in his late 40s. It felt big before the match began and in the opening exchanges with Akiyama schooling Maru on the mat but from the point where it changed into Akiyama brawling and throwing maru around ringside and kneeing him into oblivion this became something really special. Maru was great as a pinball but this was all Akiyama as by the end the whole crowd was with him and wanted him in the cc final again. This is up there with Zeus vs Joe and Almas vs Gargano as MOTY so far and probably the best performance of the year by Akiyama ****1/2

Akiyama vs Maru was great, Maru still had some of his usual issues with his offense varying wildly between really still and really silly looking, Akiyama however was amazing, he was wrestleing like a man possessed. He has shown in this tourny between his matches with Maru, Zeus, Yoshie and James has shown he can wrestle really good to great matches with a variety of opponents. I would love to see him return to the singles ranks again.

Day 11 A Block: Shingo Takagi defeated Ryoji Sai in 11 mins A Block: Shuji Ishikawa (FREE) defeated The Bodyguard in 4 mins, bodyguard was still struggling with his leg B Block: Suwama defeated Naomichi Marufuji in 19 mins B Block: Zeus defeated Jun Akiyama in 19 mins Day 12 A Block: Ryoji Sai defeated Shuji ishikawa in 17 mins B Block: Naomichi Marufuji defeated KAI in 15 mins B Block: Yoshitatsu defeated SUWAMA in 16 mins A Block: Joe Doering defeated Kento Miyahara in 13 mins Day 13 A Block: Shingo Takagi defeated Naoya Nomura in 10 mins B Block: Yutaka Yoshie defeated Yoshitatsu in 11 mins B Block: KAI defeated Zeus in 14 mins B Block:Dylan James defeated SUWAMA in 7 mins B Block: Naomichi Marufuji defeated Jun Akiyama in 21 mins With his victory over Akiyama Maru has won B Block and will head on to the final also in Korakuen later this month. Jake lee also made another apperance and stated that in the future he wants to face Kento, Yuma and Naoya meaning that he is leaving NEXSTREAM he will return on the may Korakuen.

Apparently wrestlingdata.com does not exist anymore, At least the site is not up right now.

I will be off for a while. I will probably be back at some point.

I got into Bruno thanks to the titans and I know how much you guys liked him. This was a really good listen and the twenty-five or so minutes at the end is beautiful.

Sky has it as 5 hours on box office Edit: the network schedule has it as going 5 hours plus a one hour preshow

At Ten days out of 15 the standings are: A BLOCK Yuji Hino 4-2 8 points Miyahara 4-1 8 points Doering 3-2 6 points Shingo 2-2 4 points Ishikawa 2-2 4 points Sai 2-2 4 points Nomura 1-4 2 points Bodyguard 1-4 2 points B BLOCK Akiyama 4-1 8 points Zeus 3-2 6 points Suwama 3-1 6 points Marufuji 3-1 6 points Yoshitatsu 2-3 4 points KAI 2-3 4 points James 2-4 4 points Yoshie 1-5 2 points

Day 6 A Block: Shingo Takagi defeated The Bodyguard in ten mins A Block: Yuji Hino defeated Naoya Nomura in 7 mins B Block:Yutaka Yoshie defeated Zeus in 13 mins A Block: Kento Miyahara defeated Ryoji Sai in 18 mins Day 7: A Block: Joe Doering defeated Ryoji Sai in 6 mins A Block:Yuji Hino defeated Shingo Takagi in 16 mins B Block:Suwama defeated Jun Akiyama in 13 mins A Block: Kento Miyahara defeated Shuji Ishikawa in 17 mins Day 8 B Block: KAI defeated Yutaka Yoshie in 10 mins B Block: Yoshitatsu defeated Dylan James in 15 mins A Block: Shuji Ishikawa defeated Naoya Nomura in 15 mins Kento vs bodyguard did not happen as bodyguard was injured so kento won by forfeit. Day 9 B Block: KAI defeated Dylan James in 5 mins B Block: Naomichi Marufuji defeated Yutaka Yoshie in 11 mins A Block: Ryoji Sai defeated Yuji Hino in ten mins B Block: Jun Akiyama defeated Yoshitatsu in 7 minutes Day 10 A Block:Ryoji Sai defeated Naoya nomura in 15 minutes A Block: Joe Doering defeated Shingo Takagi in 10 minutes A Block: Bodyguard defeated Yuji Hino in 7 minutes B Block: Zeus defeated Naomichi Marufuji in 17 minutes

Yeah I only got to see the top two matches today, both of them featured members of big guns with leg injuries bodyguard put in a decent babyface performance. I think zeus was just covering up his leg supports but he was not moving as gingerly as he was in lets say the suwama match on day one.

Jun Vs suwama was great, it was a uncoprative brawl and it ruled.

Dave's ever so touching tribute to Bruno: https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/986644764580724736 Wanker

I don't know what to think, I guess I thought the living legend could never die. You were the greatest champion Wrestling has ever seen. Molte grazie e arrivederci