| Mr. Nerfect |
04-24-2022 07:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
(Post 5542989)
I made a tongue-in-cheek card for the AEW/New Japan show, but for those who want it, here’s my real attempt at fantasy booking it:
* The main event is Kazuchika Okada vs. Bryan Danielson. I see no better option. Danielson is the best wrestler in AEW. Okada is the IWGP World Champion. You can have vignettes explaining who Okada is and why he’s so special. Regal can try and talk Danielson out of the match, because he doesn’t think Bryan can beat him and doesn’t want to see what it will do to his psyche. “You just told him what he needed to hear, right?” - Mox. But we don’t know. “I need to beat you, Okada. I need to beat you for any of this to matter to me.”
* I thought Tanahashi was still the US Champion. Oh well. Maybe there’s a tournament final and Tanahashi and Mox are the finalists. I think they’ve been teasing this match for a while, and it fits the drama of the World Title program if Mox walks away with the US Title earlier in the show.
* FTR defeat Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa to win the IWGP Tag Team Titles. I realize GoD aren’t currently champions, but I think it fits the overall context of the show better if they get them back for this. This match actually starts hot off the back of the previous match, which is…
* CM Punk defending the AEW World Championship against Jay White. Punk wins the belt from Page at Double or Nothing, who refuses to accept Punk’s hand and walks out on the company for a bit. White emerges as a challenger from New Japan who compares himself to Punk and said New Japan Pro-Wrestling made him a fan, and unlike Punk he didn’t run away to join the circus and then complain about it. White says he only agreed to work the show if he got the AEW World Title match and it wasn’t the main event, because he doesn’t see it as a main event title. And when he wins it, he’s going to take it back to Japan and make people come to him to challenge for it. He’ll do what Punk never actually did. Punk wins, but The Bullet Club beat down Punk afterwards, with KENTA hitting a GTS. FTR try and make the save. Wardlow comes down as a difference maker. White absconds with the physical AEW belt.
* LIJ defeat the Jericho Appreciation Society. Bushi is scheduled for the match, but is injured by the JAS on Dynamite or Rampage the week before. Naito needs a fifth guy to team with him, Shingo, Sanada and Takahashi. Enter Andrade. It may not seem like the best way to spotlight Shingo, but he gets the pin on Jericho here. Hager’s wife comes out as the Jericho Appreciation Bunny too.
* Kota Ibushi defeats Adam Cole. After the match, Cole goes to offer his hand to Ibushi, who accepts and gets low-blowed. This leads to the return of Kenny Omega, who dumps out Cole, milks being in the ring with Ibushi and embraces him.
* Will Ospreay defeats PAC. I had this for the NEVER Openweight Championship in my head for some reason. Hey, maybe PAC can go to Japan early and win it from EVIL and put it up against Ospreay?
* Hirooki Goto defeats Lance Archer. I guess Archer means something over there, and Goto is a guy that I think they’d like to get more out of if they could. So I put him over Archer here to give him something.
* Miro defends his TNT Title (which he wins back from Sammy ASAP) against Jeff Cobb. Just two bulls going at it. Cobb wins the belt here, but he doesn’t need to hold it long. Miro brings out his hot wife with him and frames this as USA vs. Japan. “God’s country, God’s Champion.” Just OTT presentation for Miro who loses.
* The House of Torture defeat The Gunn Club to retain the Six-Man Championship. Who would think Billy Gunn would be one of the best things about wrestling in 2022? Actually, I’m going to make this version of The Gunn Club Austin, Colt and…Christian Cage. Billy Gunn can beg, beg, beg Christian to be the mentor for his team. Maybe Billy can’t pass their piss test? I dunno. I’d like to see Christian leading The Ass Boys for a bit.
* The Young Bucks defeat reDRagon and two New Japan junior tag teams. Maybe Flying Tiger and Six or Nine, but whatever. This is just a popcorn match in that style. The Bucks win the belts here just so they don’t whine too much about being so low on the card. But this is their New Japan spot.
* El Desperado defends the Junior Heavyweight Title against two guys in a three-way match. I’m thinking Taiji Ishimori or El Phantasmo and Rey Fenix, if New Japan aren’t opposed to a AAA guy working the show.
* A New Japan Rumble either on the pre-show or to start off the card proper. This is where you put Suzuki, ZSJ, Taka Michinoku, Ishii, Great O-Khan, Toru Yano, Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Kojima, etc. from Japan. Samoa Joe, The Hardys, etc. from AEW. Maybe a surprise appearance from MJF who initially says he’s not going to compete for some Japanese indy. Samoa Joe wins and challenges Okada afterwards.
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Just some amendments:
* I move the Tag Title match earlier and make it Dangerous Tekkers as champs to go against FTR. I forgot about them for a bit. I was half asleep when I came up with this this morning. And then I just put Jay White over proper in the AEW Title match. I think it would be more interesting than Punk retaining. White leaves with the belt ala Punk in 2011. Punk can then cut promos about how he may have let the company down but he’s not going to take his ball and go home like a certain Page. Builds to future Punk/Page matches as well as a return match with White.
* If you do the AEW Title change, that should be the penultimate match. Ibushi/Cole can go before that and the US Title match before that as the “big four” matches. Then you go down to JAS/LIJ, Tag Titles, Pac/Ospreay, Goto/Archer, Six-Man, Miro/Cobb, Jr. Tag, Jr. Heavyweight, Forbidden Rumble.
* To balance out the win/loss side of things between the companies, I probably have Christian & The Gunns win the six-man belts. Billy can be their cheerleader. As for what that means for Christian and the Jurassic Express — Christian can play both sides and eventually he has to choose between the two. He turns on Jungle Boy and starts a singles feud there.
* I’m going to try and come up with 30 guys for Forbidden Rumble. Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, MJF, Wardlow, Jungle Boy, Will Hobbs, Jay Lethal, Ricky Starks, Pentagon, Jr., Keith Lee, Dante Martin, Swerve Stickland, Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero, Minoru Suzuki, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuji Nagata, Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Yoh, Yujiro Takahashi, Satoshi Kojima, Juice Robinson, David Finlay, Chase Owens, Josh Barnett, Fred Rosser, Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa. I think that makes a pretty good selection.
* I’d probably have the end stretch come down to Samoa Joe and Josh Barnett standing off with GoD. Barnett is eliminated and Joe has to go through the Tongan boys to win. You can sub Barnett for someone like Hobbs or even Starks too. Actually, probably Wardlow. I’d probably have Starks be the marathon man and have Joe eliminate the most people to win. MJF gets tossed by a Japanese veteran. Maybe Nagata? Starks makes it right up to the end and wants to team with GoD to get rid of Joe, but they toss him, which hopefully gets some heat if he’s in there from the start. Wardlow can survive an attempted elimination, but Starks can pull him down off the apron or something to spin that off. Joe ends up with either Tama or Loa and puts their ass to sleep before tossing them out and standing tall.
* Add Tom Lawlor vs. Clark Connors to the pre-show for the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship. Connors can win the belt there to kick things off.
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