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Welcome to May's OT2. Since this is a smaller OT due to June not being that far away (Power of June) - this is going to be a little different.

The Great Muta looks poised to become a breakout star in America. Sting is firing on all cylinders, Lex Luger is powerful as fuck in that chair and has the TORTURE RACK and never underestimate Sid - provided he stays healthy, he's great on the mic and has a exceptional physique.

Also, in the present-day, keep an eye out for NJPW's upcoming show - on 5/25 we have:

1. Road to BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. XXI: Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Mascara Dorada & El Desperado vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Shelley, KUSHIDA & BUSHI
2. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Tomoaki Honma & Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga
3. NWA World Tag Team Title – 3 Way Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Rob Conway & Wes Brisco
4. Special Tag Match: Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka vs. Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin
5. Special Singles Match: Tetsuya Naito vs. Bad Luck Fale
6. Wrestling vs. Jiu-jitsu MMA Fight: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Rolles Gracie
7. NEVER Openweight Title: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
8. IWGP Tag Team Title #1 Contenders Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe vs. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata
9. IWGP Intercontinental Title – Wrestling vs. Jiu-jitsu MMA Fight: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Daniel Gracie
10. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Winner of AJ Styles/Michael Elgin (5/17) (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada

Order this show with Japanese commentary here:
http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

CHIKARA also is putting on a show on 5/25, looks to be good:

1) Main Event: For the Grand Championship of CHIKARA!
Icarus [Challenger] vs. Eddie Kingston [Champion]

2) Four Corner Elimination Tag Team Match!
Scott Parker/Shane Matthews vs. 17/deviANT vs. Jigsaw/The Shard vs. ?

3) Clash of the Titans!
Archibald Peck vs. Jimmy Jacobs

4) Six-Man Mayhem!
The Batiri vs. Sinn Bodhi & his Odditorium

5) A Titanic Trios Contest!
The Spectral Envoy vs. Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes

6) Sweet vs. Sour!
Jervis Cottonbelly vs. Juan Francisco de Coronado

7) First Time Ever!
The Colony vs. The Colony: Xtreme Force

Order at http://www.chikarapro.com/ - show looks to be a lot of fun!

Now let's get out there and HOOK EM UP!

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Chikara brah. Tomorrow.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Chikara brah. Tomorrow.

Got it edited into OP, thanks Rafa.

 

[Browny]

Ishii vs Ibushi should be good - will have to try and catch a replay when time allows.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Friend of mine linked this rare-ass MTV 30 minute WCW event - Beach Blast 1999 (not a PPV) - 30 mins long. Has licensed music, since it's an MTV production, but has Kid Rock, Jimmy Hart, and Raven on commentary. Fear Factory plays music during the match too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w3x4g_wcw-presents-mtv-beach-brawl-1999_sport

 

[BronsonLee]

OH HAHAHA FUNNY OT TITLE I GUESS I CAN'T PLAY HERE

Spoiler

I love WCW

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

In the hands of sid vicious and lex lugar, vince couldn't possibly compete with that, he might as well throw in the towel now

 

[strobogo]

I had a dream that Sting finally debuted for WWE. In my garage.

 

[BronsonLee]

I had a dream that Sting finally debuted for WWE. In my garage.

In Your House hasn't been around for years man

 

[jred2k]

Is it just me or does Elgin look a lot like Karl Pilkington?

 

[Data West]

I heard Rick Rude's jumping ship to WCW

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

vince will keep putting him in matches against the warrior

 

[Sblargh]

New kitteh!

Her name is Jujuba!

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Is it just me or does Elgin look a lot like Karl Pilkington?

Doesn't look porcine enough (sorry Elgin)

 

[British Monsoon]

Elgin does have a bit of Pilkington about him around the fivehead/eye area. Spooky.

Still, Karl > Elgin.

Also, reposting for the new page - read it! This Shibata vs Tanahashi could be something really special if they play it right;

http://yottsumepuroresu.blogspot.ie/2014/05/njpw-katsuyori-shibata-talks-about-his.html?m=1

Oh, and the Okada/Styles confrontation at the press conference;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduoSrulEk0

Looking at the name plate at the bottom of the belt, it appears as if they haven't bothered to remove Okada's name.

 

[Data West]

It's exciting because it's one of the few recent NJPW matchups that feels like two guys who legit don't like each other.

 

[mechashiva]

Watching the Orton Doc on the network right now. Cenabot interacting with Orton who has his kid in the back is hilariously awkward.

I know Orton has since got divorced but hopefully he still has the ability to see his kid a lot. His interaction with his daughter is pretty touching. He's a interesting dude.

 

[BronsonLee]

Oh, and the Okada/Styles confrontation at the press conference;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduoSrulEk0

Looking at the name plate at the bottom of the belt, it appears as if they haven't bothered to remove Okada's name.

FallingEdge and I noticed this too...IT'S A TRAP

 

[Macho Madness]

Congrats new PWG Champ!

 

[El Pescado]

No NXT Takeover in the first post?

 

[slightconfuse]

What time is chikara today?

 

[strobogo]

Did Fex quit again? Such a flake. He's like early 90s Sid, but without any of the charisma or majesty.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

I bet that Clash of the Champions intro blew people's minds in 1987. Those Ted Turner production values.

 

[mechashiva]

Congrats new PWG Champ!

Who had it/who got it?

 

[Macho Madness]

Who had it/who got it?

Spoiler

Kyle O'Reilly

won it from Adam Cole.

 

[Data West]

Spoiler

Kyle O'Reilly

won it from Adam Cole.

From one vanilla midget to an even more vanilla midget

 

[slightconfuse]

This weeks JBL and Cole show has

Sami Zayn
zack Ryder as the bunny
Emma

http://youtu.be/L6vuZQv8XR0

 

[jred2k]

I've only seen two PWG shows, but Cole seems far from vanilla there.

 

[bjork]

Look at the adjective: play.

bjork ain't here to play

 

[Man God]

SORRY


NOT SORRY

 

[Data West]

I've only seen two PWG shows, but Cole seems far from vanilla there.

No, he's just Steve Corino 2.0.

 

[Sblargh]

The guy with the kid right in front of the wrestlers made me laugh way too much. Legit shook right there!

 

[darkbanjo]

What time is chikara today?

I think it's tomorrow at 3PM EST.

 

[strobogo]

Dudes, I STILL don't feel right from my drinking on Sunday night/Monday morning. I still have the heavy limbs and weird fizzy head. And no energy. And a tinge of nausea. For 5 straight days.

 

[Data West]

rip strobogo 2012 - 2014
i will remember you

 

[Man God]

Dudes, I STILL don't feel right from my drinking on Sunday night/Monday morning. I still have the heavy limbs and weird fizzy head. And no energy. And a tinge of nausea. For 5 straight days.

Your body has gone straight edge on you.

 

[British Monsoon]

From one vanilla midget to an even more vanilla midget

Who do you care? It's not like you'd be watching either way.

I've only seen two PWG shows, but Cole seems far from vanilla there.

Yeah, he's a lot of fun in PWG and has improved his character in ROH, but I still think he got both titles too early. The ROH belt especially. He needs to learn to slow things down, especially when he's working as a heel.

 

[BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!]

Dudes, I STILL don't feel right from my drinking on Sunday night/Monday morning. I still have the heavy limbs and weird fizzy head. And no energy. And a tinge of nausea. For 5 straight days.

Stro "Purely Shit-faced" Bogo

 

[Data West]

Who do you care? It's not like you'd be watching either way.

Because I used to watch PWG and would like to watch it again if the roster was interesting instead of just 'slightly goofy' ROH that it's become?

 

[strobogo]

Your body has gone straight edge on you.

Stro "Purely Shit-faced" Bogo

I didn't even drink that much. It's like my body said FUCK YOU ASSHOLE KNOCK THIS SHIT OFF and decided to punish me. Can you suddenly develop an intolerance to alcohol?

 

[Man God]

I didn't even drink that much. It's like my body said FUCK YOU ASSHOLE KNOCK THIS SHIT OFF and decided to punish me. Can you suddenly develop an intolerance to alcohol?

Yes. Could be diet related, eating anything new? Or are you drinking something different?

 

[strobogo]

No to both. I didn't do it for about 2 weeks and then it started me making me feel super anxious and terrible for days after.

 

[lovely ladies]

Sid should have competed wearing those leather pants.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

This weeks JBL and Cole show has

Sami Zayn
zack Ryder as the bunny
Emma

http://youtu.be/L6vuZQv8XR0

Goddam Renee Young. She has such motherly arms....

 

[Sblargh]

I didn't even drink that much. It's like my body said FUCK YOU ASSHOLE KNOCK THIS SHIT OFF and decided to punish me. Can you suddenly develop an intolerance to alcohol?

This is a long hangover, you actually have been drunk nonstop for the last 10 years, so once you stopped drinking for that week, all the hangovers combined into one super shitty feeling.

 

[Mengetsu]

Under 1 minute and you've got a build for Okada/Styles instantly. It was already there but this is good shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduoSrulEk0

AJ seems much happier in NJPW. This could be a fun match.

 

[British Monsoon]

Must have missed this, from the Observer;

"Gedo & Jado were very impressed with Adam Cole at the two shows, and it looks like they are going to bring him in."

More vanilla midgets in mah New Japan. In all seriousness, good news for Cole, a few tours of Japan could do him the world of good.

Because I used to watch PWG and would like to watch it again if the roster was interesting instead of just 'slightly goofy' ROH that it's become?

The roster always has been and always will be a collection of who's popular on the indies at present (plus Joey Ryan) and they've always paced shows at 100mph with every match trying to out-do the last. If anything, the overall quality of PWG shows is better now than it was even back in the mid-'00's.

 

[strobogo]

Must have missed this, from the Observer;

"Gedo & Jado were very impressed with Adam Cole at the two shows, and it looks like they are going to bring him in."

More vanilla midgets in mah New Japan. In all seriousness, good news for Cole, a few tours of Japan could do him the world of good.



The roster always has been and always will be a collection of who's popular on the indies at present (plus Joey Ryan) and they've always paced shows at 100mph with every match trying to out-do the last. If anything, the overall quality of PWG shows is better now than it was even back in the mid-'00's.

They could really use SOME pacing. PWG shows are so exhausting.

 

[British Monsoon]

They could really use SOME pacing. PWG shows are so exhausting.

Yeah, I agree - it's very rarely that I'll watch a whole PWG DVD in one sitting. Even the multi-man openers with random so-cal guys no one's heard of turn into insane sprints - you can easily see why the crowd gets burned out sometimes. Last night's show sounded like a prime example; your typical crazy PWG show, capped off by a far slower paced submissions match.

 

[strobogo]

Fuck Jason Hervey. Why on earth did anyone in WCW think that people gave a shit about him even sitting in the crowd? Let alone getting involved in storylines. Maybe if they had Fred Savage running shit, people would have cared. But not Jason Hervey.

I feel like Paul could bring back the cell phone gimmick, since they keep getting bigger and bigger. Maybe he could start braining dudes with iPads.