Grimmas Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Please please please give me a Zack Sabre Jr vs Tyson Dux match. Holy shit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Apparently Zumbi is out and Prince Mustafa Ali is in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luchaundead Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Is this considered an NXT thing or it's own deal? Â I'm just curious since I don't subscribe to the Network. I just watch NXT on Hulu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 PRINCE MOTHERFUCKING ALI IN THIS THING. HELL YES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Posted June 24, 2016 Report Share Posted June 24, 2016 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. Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 24, 2016 Report Share Posted June 24, 2016 Is there any sense of match length yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted June 24, 2016 Report Share Posted June 24, 2016 About 5-10 minutes. I wasn't taking time like GLF or anything but it felt like the usual NXT main event. Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woof Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parties Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 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? Â Brackets would also point to a Gulak-Sabre quarterfinal, and a Gargano-Swann semi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotJayTabb Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 ZSJ/Dar in the quarters seems quite likely, and would be a great match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woof Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 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. Â 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parties Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016  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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 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. Â Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotJayTabb Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 Â Â 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. Â 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. Â 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 First match set the table for the tourney quite well. Love the enthusiasm from Ranallo and Bryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...TG Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...TG Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted July 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Metallik is Mascara Dorada from CMLL and worked NJPW in 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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