The WWE Global Cruiserweight show

[Grimmas]

Please please please give me a Zack Sabre Jr vs Tyson Dux match. Holy shit!

[Lee]

Apparently Zumbi is out and Prince Mustafa Ali is in.

[Luchaundead]

The fact that they are doing weighs ins as a shoot is ridiculous but Ali in is an upgrade. I wonder if it's a work and the plan was always to have Ali in, Zumbi was one of the biggest head scratchers in the CWC

[Log]

Is this considered an NXT thing or it's own deal?

 

I'm just curious since I don't subscribe to the Network. I just watch NXT on Hulu.

[Timbo Slice]

PRINCE MOTHERFUCKING ALI IN THIS THING. HELL YES.

[Lee]

It's apparently it's own thing with a "sports presentation" (hence the legit weigh-ins) with Full Sail set up differently and Mauro Ranallo and Daniel Bryan on commentary.

[Cap]

I watched the little intro earlier. I am such a mark for Dragon. I was getting excited just hearing him read cheesy lines about the competitors. I just believed them more, ya know. haha.

 

This thing looks like it is going to be so much fun. I have a buddy who is there watching live. I know it isn't exactly going out on a limb, but I got Ibushi.

[Matt D]

Is there any sense of match length yet?

[Tim Evans]

About 5-10 minutes. I wasn't taking time like GLF or anything but it felt like the usual NXT main event.

 

I'm not going to spoil anything but you are in for a treat watching this first round. Some really awesome matches and guys made a name for themselves. The shocking thing was the low turnout. They tarped off a bunch of seats that are usually full for NXT. The rumor is that people bought a bunch of tickets to resell them but no one would buy. Ticket scalping is a big problem at Full sail and they need to do something about it.

[Woof]

Watching the Bracketology special and they've done a really nice job of making it seem like a legit sport, which is just such a weird thing coming out of WWE sponsored project. Daniel Bryan is really good in the analyst role, actually discussing strategy and style. Really looking forward to how they present the actual broadcast. Even if the matches don't all deliver, should be an interesting peek into where wrestling may be headed.

[Parties]

Based on the bracketing I'd guess the final four are Sabre, Ibushi, Gargano and Tozawa, leading to a Sabre-Ibushi final and both getting signed. Maybe Metalik in Tozawa's place, to have a lucha guy in the mix?

 

Brackets would also point to a Gulak-Sabre quarterfinal, and a Gargano-Swann semi.

[Lee]

I don't know if giant images are the done thing on this board, but this graphic helps lay things out a bit more clearly.

It's interesting to me that most of the matches are split into "guy I know vs. guy I don't", and if you watched the special, they really gave you an idea of whose baskets they're putting their eggs in.

Having gone over the bracket I was thinking Sabre vs. Metalik or Tajiri on the left side (or possibly Tozawa), and Ibushi vs. Swann or Gargano on the right, with a Sabre vs. Ibushi final.

Honestly though, I just hope nobody Portugals their way to the final.

[NotJayTabb]

ZSJ/Dar in the quarters seems quite likely, and would be a great match

[Woof]

ZSJ/Dar in the quarters seems quite likely, and would be a great match

 

Except that they seem to be focusing a decent amount of attention on the Shira brothers and haven't really done anything with Dar. Wouldn't be surprised to see Gurv Shira beat Dar and be ZSJ's QF opponenet.

[Grimmas]

Please please please give me a Zack Sabre Jr vs Tyson Dux match. Holy shit!

Looked at the brackets and it's in the first round! I am so excited!

[El-P]

The "C" of the title is the font from the old WCW logo, or very similar to it. So the CWC strongly makes me think of it me anyway.

 

Odd they would do something like that, it kinda subliminaly reminds everyone that the whole cruiserweight stuff was WCW's strong point (while WWE never was able to do anything with it).

[Parties]

It wouldn't be the first time, but it'll be odd if they end up renaming any of these guys after they become full time NXT workers. You'll have had this CWC show that everyone who watches NXT also watched, but that Drew Gulak guy from the quarterfinals is now being called Andrew DeGadzooks or whatever. But again, they changed Kruger to Adam Rose one week after he'd been on TV in one gimmick for ages, so the show's reality pretty clearly reserves the right to repackage guys in real time.

[Lee]

 

ZSJ/Dar in the quarters seems quite likely, and would be a great match

 

Except that they seem to be focusing a decent amount of attention on the Shira brothers and haven't really done anything with Dar. Wouldn't be surprised to see Gurv Shira beat Dar and be ZSJ's QF opponenet.

 

 

That's something that's thrown me off in the predicting, because I would have gone with Dar if not for the amount of time they spent pushing the Bollywood Boyz and ignoring him. I can see why you'd make a fuss out of a Bollywood tag team, but part of me hopes their largely ignoring guys like Dar or Nese is more a red herring than a time issue, so they can tell a story of someone quietly being the "breakout star" after not paying much attention to them.

[sek69]

It wouldn't be the first time, but it'll be odd if they end up renaming any of these guys after they become full time NXT workers. You'll have had this CWC show that everyone who watches NXT also watched, but that Drew Gulak guy from the quarterfinals is now being called Andrew DeGadzooks or whatever. But again, they changed Kruger to Adam Rose one week after he'd been on TV in one gimmick for ages, so the show's reality pretty clearly reserves the right to repackage guys in real time.

 

 

They had Biff Busick work under his real name on TV for a few weeks then repackaged him as Oney Baloney or whatever his new wacky name is.

[Lee]

Not to mention that weird deal where they released Danny Burch, brought him back a few months later to do TV jobs and called him Martin Stone, then brought him back again to do more TV jobs but went back to calling him Danny Burch.

[NotJayTabb]

 

 

ZSJ/Dar in the quarters seems quite likely, and would be a great match

Except that they seem to be focusing a decent amount of attention on the Shira brothers and haven't really done anything with Dar. Wouldn't be surprised to see Gurv Shira beat Dar and be ZSJ's QF opponenet.

 

That's something that's thrown me off in the predicting, because I would have gone with Dar if not for the amount of time they spent pushing the Bollywood Boyz and ignoring him. I can see why you'd make a fuss out of a Bollywood tag team, but part of me hopes their largely ignoring guys like Dar or Nese is more a red herring than a time issue, so they can tell a story of someone quietly being the "breakout star" after not paying much attention to them.

 

There's a 90 second special promo look on Dar on the WWE YouTube channel, which not all guys are getting, and they posted the footage of his qualifying match last month, so in my head they'd given him some build up, but yeah, you're right about the Bollywood Boyz getting a bit of coverage too. Still, there's always a chance of Dar/ZSJ

[Ricky Jackson]

First match set the table for the tourney quite well. Love the enthusiasm from Ranallo and Bryan

[...TG]

Bryan has been great so far, the sports-y feel to the show fits him. The Metalik/Saez match was a lot of fun. Never seen Metalik before, has he done that springboard middle rope running dive before? That was nutty.

[...TG]

The Ibushi/Maluta match was good too, even if I didn't really buy that Ibushi was ever going to lose. Really interested in Ibushi/Cedric Alexander in the next round, should be a lot of fun.

[shoe]

Metallik is Mascara Dorada from CMLL and worked NJPW in 2015.