Mae Young Classic 2018
 

Making a thread for this.

Didn't know the "Bracketology" was out, but apparently it is, so I am watching it now....

Kaitlyn lookin' good

Pumped for this. Trying to avoid spoilers since it was taped almost a month ago.

But yes Kaitlyn v sexy

Jessie Elaban seems "adorable" as Guru Dave would say

I would also like to have a threeway with Toni Storm and Tegan Nox

Lacey Lane a bit too much like Ember Moon with the facemask and coloured contact lenses...... also name too close to Lucy Lane.....

Seems like she could be good, though

Toni Storm great..... I hope she isn't just used in NXT UK and nowhere else......

Have a feeling that Toni Storm will either win or be eliminated early in the tournament as a "shock".

Nothing in between

Same. Better field overall than last year's in terms of indie stars and less filler from WWE's PC.

Was Deonna Purazzo signed before this as well? I remember her appearing on NXT quite often "back in the day" and sometimes on RAW/SD as a jobber...... Always got her confused with Sonya Deville

I don't remember if Madison Rayne was good or not.......

Yes and she was an alternate for last year's tournament but never used.

Two Japanese brauds seem like "serious business"..... but I hope neither of them wins, because they did the "big name Japanese braud win the tournament" last year

I meant as in did she have a development contract years ago, not just being a reserve last year

First time seeing Tegan Nox..... I think I could definitely get behind her

Zatara? Zatara is a man's name

Yeah she was in WWE from 2014-2016 but rarely used.

A few NXT house shows, that one time or so on SmackDown, and like 9 times on NXT according to profightdb.com

I'm a Rhea Ripley guy myself.....

Anybody about to watch this "live"?

Nevermind, apparently it's in an hour.

Ya I'm gonna watch when I get home.

I might be here.

I thought it wasn't on until after NXT?

Yeah, I'm a big dummy, turns out. As you were, gents.

In any case, I might be here as well when it actually airs.

I would be, but I'm on a show at 8. Would you mind if we included air date "live" spoilers in this thread?

I'm not sure what that question means. Like can we discuss things live in this thread? We sure can. People who don't want that week spoiled should just use common sense and not enter the thread until they watch it.

Yeah, that's how I meant.

So this will be on and then right after that will be the season premier of It's Always Sunny.

Fuck yeah. Gonna be a good night.

They actually mentioned the knockouts championship.

Watched NXT before this, dunno if I can stomach the Full Sail fans....... but I will watch this....

Michael Cole? Oh no.

For the first time ever!!! Two women on commentary!! HISTORIC!!!

Zatara should have a magician gimmick, or why bother

Tegan Nox :love:

Always hate the Shining Wizard as a finisher.... it rarely looks good.... and even when it looks good, it just doesn't seem like a finish

Remember thinking last year that I saw a lot of potential in Rhea Ripley..... seems like she has had a "badass heel turn" since.....

Saw MJ Jenkins at an indy show once

gonna get destroyed by Rhea Ripley though probably

MJ Jenkins with some good ASSets

Rhea definitely winning, though

Renee Young the "Narcissus" of commentary..... a lot of "OOOOHHHHHHHH"s

Rhea Ripley's favorite wrestler growing up was The Miz.......... definitely feel old now......

Rhea Ripley definitely has a "good future"

Lucy Lane with the hood/facemask/contact lenses steaming too much of Ember Moon's gimmick

This Vanessa Kraven braud impressive looking.... if she is good in the ring at all, I say hire her

Oof......a botch from Lacey

She's 36 years old which might hamper her a bit.

I say hire her anyways

Lucy Lane wins..... I get why, but I wish Kraven went further in the tournament.....

"IT'S MEIKO TIME!!" - Michael Cole

Killer Kelly is kinda sexy

Satomura!!!!!!!!!

She's inspired by kane i guess.

Was just coming in to post "Killer Kelly hot braud"

https://thehairywrestlingfan.files.w...pg?w=600&h=424

The final WCW holdout

lol ref's hand definitely hit the mat for the 3

Good match.....

Meiko probably not gonna win this tournament, though.....

Fun show. An hour is the perfect length of a wrestling show.

Michael Cole mentioning the Crush Girls. Wow

I didn't know they were going to be doing this live every week either. Awesome.

H8 being too negative but is Tegan Nox supposed to be "good"... like I heard that she was supposed to win the entire tournament if she didn't get injured...

This match just seems so bad... wtf... Just based on the "highlights" of this video and I didn't see the whole match but still... idk...

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Renee Young really "corny" on commentary... like a female version of Michael Cole

Have seen Tegan Nox at some local indy shows, tagging with Mark Andrews a couple of times as well as in a pretty brutal match against Pete Dunne. She really is pretty damned good, although I do agree not exactly a stunning debut last night.

WWE clearly are quite high on her though.

Tegan Nox is the stupidest name in WWE in my opinion. Her debut doesn't impress me, the worst match in the tournament so far.

Rhea Ripley was one of my favs last year. But her match with MJ was pretty lame, didn't like it.

Craven vs Lane was pretty good. Lane botched but she's not Fenix or AR Fox so I'd not be so hard on her. Craven would fit in WWE for they didn't have decent female monsters. Tamina is mediocre, Nia is f'n botchfest.

Satomura's vs Kelly's match was amazing. I appreciate performance from both ladies, there were stiff kicks, awesome manoeuvres, psychology. It was great.

I honestly enjoyed all four matches and am looking forward to the rest of this tournament. Rhea Ripley has improved about forty fold, and that was my first look at Satomura. She's really great. I thought there was a lot to Kraven as well, but I guess only time will tell there.

Just watching Bracketology. They said one of the girls is the first portuguese competitor ever in WWE. Clearly they’ve forgotten about Aldo.

AlSnow Montoya? The Portuguese Man'O'War?

I too would like to forget Aldo.

Nah, Aldo was PJ Walker, aka Justin Credible. Al Snow was Avatar. Both wore masks, so I get the confusion. Aldo's was more of a yellow jock strap, though.

#NeverForget

#YellowJockstrapSolidarity

#WTFweretheythinking

I wish Tessa Blanchard was in this tournament.

Wasn't she in last years

I forget, but she definitely has wrestled at least on NXT or something. You're allowed to be in the tournament twice, though. Blanchard is better now that she was last year. Look at Rhea Ripley.

Think I'm in love with Kacy Catanzaro.

the finish to the Zeuxis match was dope.

Kaitlyn and Toni Storm on the same show. May god have mercy on my penis.

KAIT-LYN'S BOOBS!
KAIT-LYN'S BOOBS!
KAIT-LYN'S BOOBS!
KAIT-LYN'S BOOBS!
KAIT-LYN'S BOOBS!

Those are some massive <s>tits</s> tattoos Kaitlyn has.

Good showing by Kaitlyn and all, but kinda sick of "YOU STILL GOT IT" being chanted at literally every returnee ever.

TONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII FUCKING STORM

fucking hell Jinny is skinny

she could snap like a twig

Saw Karen Q at a few local indy shows here in the northeast. She was pretty good IIRC.

"They want to break down the stereotypes of Chinese women"

as they're doing kung fu

Haven't finished this week's episode yet but so far have mixed feeling on this year's tournament.

Commentary is way better than last year and Meiko vs Killer Kelly was great but too many abrupt endings and the mismatch in styles and skills feeling a lot more apparent in this year's tournament so far.

I did love Cole doing a mea culpa on his commentary during NXT Season 3

Catching up now..... watching last week's episode

Priscilla Kelly with a terrible theme

I know these are all temp generic themes, but still

Purazzo with a good "presence"... seems to have "stepped it up" since last I saw her

Priscilla Kelly with some good cleavage, though. #WomensWrestling

Decent match.... I like Deonna......

Don't like her "breaking down emotionally" after winning a first round match

Hate the word "swole", so rooting against The Big Swole

Oh, she is Cedric Alexander's wife....

Aerial has some charisma but seemed green at times, and I hate the word "swole". Glad Zeuxis won....

Ha ha at Cedric's offspring crying....

Kacy Catanzaro hot braud, and cool climbing up ringpost entrance

Damn at the size difference here

And there goes my set top box rebooting

Think Reina Gonzalez would look better in actual jeans and not those ridiculous assless/crotchless jeans....