Please find that right now.

Just noticed it actually says "La Sombra" at a point in the Andrade Almas theme.

just youtube it. her clothes are on, its with her and all the WWE divas in the lockerroom shower celebrating her winning. her dress does come up and that thong is ouuuuuuuuut fine ass

Wasn't sure about AJPW after watching their last event. Nothing on the card really hooked me in.

But just watched the first match of the Champion's Carnival, which is their version of the G-1 Climax, and they knocked it out the park. Shuji Ishikawa vs Yuji Hino. I had seen Ishikawa a couple times before, but this is the first time I'm seeing Hino.

Very impressed. Just two brick shithouses beating the ever living hell out of one another. If the rest of the matches are this good, I'll be reupping the subscription.

Next match is Dylan James vs Jun Akiyama, though.

Akiyama is old, and James did absolutely nothing for me at the last event.

Weird thing about AJPW.tv is that they cut the audio during the entrances, I'm assuming for licensing reasons, but then they play entrance music post match.

Short but good. Shouldn't of underestimated Akiyama. He's still got it. Good little sprint that showcased Dylan's strengths and hid his weaknesses.

Shingo Takagi of Dragon Gate vs Kento Miyahara was really good.

Main event is Suwama vs Zeus. Suwama is the former AJPW ace before Kento came along. Only seen a few matches but I don't remember being that impressed. Zeus is a former bodybuilder and tag partner to Bodyguard, another jacked up tight. Dunno how good he is.

Champ Carnival is 3 for 3 so far. NO PRESSURE

Pretty good match. Good story, with Suwama attacking Zeus's taped up leg, and a really hard hitting end stretch.

First night of Champions Carnival was a lot better overall than Dream Power event. Has me intrigued.

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How about Rey Mysterio this year? I've always thought of him in the same vein as Andre The Giant. He's a phenomenal attraction and recently has had a career resurgence to the point he's comparable to his work in the 90's. In this calendar years he will have worked for WWE, AAA, NJPW, Aero Lucha among other major indie's all over the world. I think that is pretty dope.

I hope he's "All in".

I think Rey will sign with the WWE. And that will be good for the matches. There is lots of fresh stuff for him and a reduced schedule will do him wonders. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing him work with AJ Styles.

Shingo Takagi used to be a thing about a decade and a bit ago. How has he developed? I'm really happy about the All Japan resurgence, but my main interest in signing up to their thing was the classic All Japan stuff. If they can get that on there, I'd probably sign up and go on a binge, to be honest.

I'm not sure how he'd fit the company given their current roster and all that, but at some point it'd be interesting to see Tetsuya Naito jump to All Japan. Not necessarily because of heat with New Japan or anything, but just because you can only exist in a spot for so long before it gets a bit stale. Okada is clearly the guy, and there's nothing wrong with that. Okada has all the tools. Naito has got a lot of the tools and is very interesting, but he's clearly not going to overtake Okada. At some point, however, you have to think that Naito either wants to be in that league. They have to shit or get off the pot. It'd be interesting if Naito jumped to All Japan just to "drum up interest."

How is the relationship between the two promotions? They used to somewhat collaborate and cooperate, but I think things may have gotten icy for a while. I know New Japan was working with Pro Wrestling NOAH for a while, but I think New Japan and All Japan -- not working together, per se -- but coexisting in the marketplace would be very cool.

Supposedly CZW is currently dealing with a lot of backlash in regards to them booking Rich Swann for a recent show and trying to go after their wrestlers' financial well-beings.

The Swann stuff mostly pissed off fans while CZW issued an ultimatum recently to their wrestlers demanding them to not work for certain companies even though they get paid more there.

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I'm surprised, because I imagine a lot of CZW fans to be incels who hate women and would probably pop for one getting hit. I'm glad they're not.

Is there any word on who put together the Ronda Rousey match at WrestleMania? On his podcast, Cornette said that if Triple H put it together, then he truly is a genius, and it got me thinking about it. We know Michael Hayes was the agent for Lesnar/Reigns. Apparently HBK was the guy for Gargano/Ciampa. I'm sure Triple H contributed to it, don't get me wrong, but there would be an agent working with them, surely.

Heading in, I thought it would be "all hands on deck." Sara Del Rey because she's great with working with the women, Pat Patterson because he's a genius, Arn because he's Arn, etc. Without there being too many cooks, you know? But knowing that HBK likes his epics, that seems like something he could have pieced together with its interpersonal drama and the like.

From what I read in Patterson's book, he just watches Raw/Smackdown and sends in reports from Montreal. That's all his involvement is anymore

I knew he stepped back a lot, but I thought he helped with a Royal Rumble a few years ago. Like a special occasion sort of thing. Wasn't sure if that was still going on.

I think Jamie Noble books the Rumbles

He has the last few.

Probably a combo of Triple H and Angle with Triple H laying out the match's direction and Angle with Ronda's spots.

Triple H has done similar hands-on stuff with his recent Mania matches while Ronda was getting trained mainly by Angle during the weeks leading up to the match.

Lol, had no clue Angle was legitimately training Ronda. Cool.

John Cena and Nikki Bella have broken up.

I always assumed it was for tv and she had a contract w/ him to be his 'tv girlfriend'...lots of hollywood relationships are 'contracts' for publicity so I figured it was the same


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LOL so much for that WrestleMania moment

It's a work. They'll break up and it'll be a big story on Total Divas/Bellas, but then they will get back together and get married LIVE at Wrestlemania 35.

Like how Superman and Lois Lane broke up for a bit after they got engaged, but then they got back together and married immediately.

Yo lock jaw what u think about supes kid?

If it's not a storyline, I feel pretty bad for Cena. I got the impression last year that he was basically pressured into popping the question.

BUT NOW WHO WILL BUY NIKKI BELLA EXPENSIVE THINGS?!

Pretty much considering he's been on the record in the past about not wanting to start a family till after he retired. Its a big reason why he came up with that ridiculous 75 page pre-nup contract for Nikki to sign.

I gotta say... I really like the What Happened When? podcast. :y:

Been really into the vault lately, especially the Coliseum Classics as well as Mid-South Wrestling (which is overrated, sorry not sorry) and WWE Old School videos. Just Landed on 12/28/82 which is headlined by Superstar Billy Graham vs Bob Backlund in a Lumber Jack match and is kicking off with Eddie Gilbert vs SD Jones. I feel like I picked a good one.

Have been watching alot of All Star Wrestling Gary Michael Cappetta annouca.

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No one specific has been named, but it's almost certainly HHH with his NXT team. He even made sure Drake was the ref since he's his main ref down down there.

I did notice that Drake was the ref. So weird that Drake Younger is a referee in the WWE, and I’m pretty sure he is only in his 30’s, despite looking like he retired after the territories shut down.

:rofl:

If WWE could go ahead and release Riciochet's theme already, that would be good.

Lazy fuckers.

Does anyone remember this? Seems weird seeing Matt Hardy get involved with celebrities.

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Oddly I read about that a week ago.

Feel like the angle would have went a lot better if Guerrero and Benoit weren't out.

Don't remember that at all. :wtf::?:

I really liked the revivals of SNME I wish they'd have made them a priority. I think that kind of exposure can still do for them what it did in the 80's.

Also Matt Hardy is underrated in my mind. He surprises me a lot, like the gimmick with Bray is really working as a team and I hope they can make something cool out of it instead of just a side angle for a few months.

We have some many throw away "PPV" titles in WWE. The big four plus Backlash, Money in the Bank, are all we need. Replace the rest with big Saturday Night's Main Event shows on NBC. Put them on the Network the day after with behind the scenes additions that would make them special. I am nostalgic for those days what can I say?

That MVP vs Matt Hardy feud was fucking fantastic.

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I do. I think fans could vote on what they wanted to see. There was an "MMA Rules" match option somewhere at some point. I liked Hardy and MVP at the time, but when you think about it, there was a lot of dumb involved.

Ugh that Matt Hardy vs MVP feud went on forever and it was terrible. Didn't they play basketball 1 on 1?

Yeah, something like that. They also won the Tag Titles at one point. I think.

Both of those things happened during that feud.

I think it got stretched out because Matt got injured so they did all the fluff (basketball, eating competition, etc.).

Yes.

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What if John Cena and Undertaker get married on top of a fallen Nikki Bella?!!

Fold your damn pie, Matt :mad:

I was into it too.

Triple threat with McCool

...and so it began...

The Lethal Injection doesn't make sense. It looks nice or whatever, but why not just do an RKO? There's no benefit to flipping off the ropes.

I think it would be cool if the Network had more feud chronicles in the Collections. Between two different people/teams, I mean. Like an Usos/New Day collection, for instance. Triple H/Rock. Sami Zayn/Kevin Owens. Maybe not that last one so much.

The Rock/Hurricane Helms and NAO/LOD

Had a random thought earlier about a change in character for Mojo Rawley with the current political climate. I'm not saying they should go full Muhammad Hassan but if they played on his Arabic background and let him speak in Arabic as he's fluent then they could really gain some heel heat. Especillay now with Jinder moving to Raw as well if would leave a space open.

Mojo moved to RAW as well

I'd stay away from the xenophobic stuff. Just like I'd stay away from just pushing people because of their nationality. The world is a lot more globalized and people are lot smarter than just going "Woo! That hack is Indian, therefore I love him!". Also, they are trying not to chase away sponsors, so trying to fan the flames of racism might not be the wisest thing in the world.

Mojo is a piece of shit annoying jock. He's not even acting when he does that. There was this video of him obnoxiously dancing to someone playing the bagpipes and it is the most insufferable thing in the fucking world, and he thinks he is so cool. They should just do that. Revealing a Rawley Revolution or a Mojo Movement where he goes around places and tries to get people excited for him coming to Raw would get far more heat than him speaking Arabic.

But they don't really book for heat these days anyway. I imagine he'll be in a jock tag team with Baron Corbin and they'll have a series of matches with Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt and/or Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre.

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I remember that storyline.

Vince has the best facial reactions

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Even though this was funny/terrifying, it reminded me how much I liked Sid. Gets a lot of hate, but he had a great look and a lot of charisma to boot. Liked pretty much every incarnation too. Especially Sycho Sid and his theme

Massive pop when he threw out Hogan from Rumble too

They already do.

It's every show in 2016 and 2017.

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People complain about this, but honestly, I don't know if there are two guys in the whole world right now that have the chemistry together that they do, and I could watch them go at it forever.

Or they'll probably call up those terrible NXT guys to be part of his American football crew.

Should just play it out , team him with Zayn and Daviari against Noam Dar, Angle and recall Jack Swagger.

I'm joking by the way.

Damninator post

For those in Canada, Smackdown won't air live on tv tonight due to the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.

They have good matches, but I think there are people with better chemistry. Zayn has Owens' best match; but Owens doesn't have Zayn's best match. At this point, I'd like it if they gave them a break, but when you need to fill some TV time, they're good for it.

I forgot that they often team together, so they might actually end up in that Raw tag division, which I was completely naive to. Dolph & Drew, KOSZ, Deleters of Worlds, Mojo & Baron and The Authors of Pain. I mean, it's kind of juxtaposed in the head, but maybe some good will come out of it? It makes me hope that Rollins & Balor stay on Raw and team together.

Looks like FOX might have lost interest in the WWE since they just signed a joint tv deal with ESPN for UFC.

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I was looking forward to WWE moving and Raw going back to three hours. How naive of me? I can actually see SmackDown going to three hours in order to justify the increase they want from USA.

I'ma go hard I'ma I'ma go hard

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I had no idea who this was with Pritchard for a moment. :nono:

Scott Steiner is about to do a teleconference on YouTube for Impact if anyone is interested in that. They finally gave him a mic on last week's show.

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Orlando is preparing to bid on WM again...would be really funny if it went back there again for WM36 b/c people on the internet would get 'angry'.

I think TX will definitely host WM again sooner rather than later too....AT&T Stadium seats so many people...AlamoDome was really 'well-received' when they hosted the Rumble last year, WWE said it was the least amount of complaints they ever received from fans in attendance at a stadium/dome event.

Pretty stoked to go to Mania next year

Actually, iirc WWE wants to start hosting both SummerSlam and The Royal Rumble in baseball stadiums going forward and WrestleMania in larger stadiums, so there's a lot of $$$ to be made and more fans can attend all three than ever before.

This is the last year Barclays Center gets SummerSlam, their contract to host it ends this year. Royal Rumble 2019 already booked for Chase Field in Phoenix, which seats 45,000 for baseball.

Still waiting (against hope) for a UK Mania (or any proper PPV)

Maybe the UK will get to host TeaLC soon!

Could be a Crumpets on a Pole death match!

(London should definitely get a big 4 ppv)

According to a reliable dirtsheets source, Alexa Bliss supposedly had cosmetic surgery done recently which is why she wasn't on RAW besides a pre-taped promo or traveling with the rest of the brand this week for house shows.