The WRLD on GCW - Official PPV Thread
 

I think that one way or another a few of us will end up watching this weekends upcoming GCW PPV and their debut at The Hammerstein Ballroom. The card is getting really good, for any company much less GCW.

The show is streaming on FiteTV and traditional PPV on Sunday 1/23.

GCW World Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Homicide
Matt Cardona (w/Chelsea Green) vs. Joey Janela
Jeff Jarrett vs. Effy
GCW Tag Team Championship: The Briscoes (c) defend in an open challenge
ROH World Championship: Jonathan Gresham vs. Blake Christian
Ruby Soho vs. Allie Katch
Bandido, Laredo Kid, & ASF vs. Gringo Loco, Demonic Flamita, & Arez
Grab the Brass Ring ladder match: Lio Rush vs. PCO vs. Tony Deppen vs. Alex Colon vs. Jimmy Lloyd vs. Jordan Oliver
Psycho Clown appears
B-Boy appears
Dustin Thomas appears

I don't think I've ever seen a full GCW show before on TV, though I have been to one live ad it was the most fun show I've ever been to (Lost in NY). I am afraid their commentary will be bad because I've heard that about GCW. Hopefully they don't panic and hire Matt Striker because it's their first official "PPV".

I can’t get into GCW. It’s too much wannabe ECW stuff. The worst indy tropes. I’m half-way interested in seeing if FTR are the team that answer The Briscoes, but just can’t bring myself further because it’s GCW. You’ve got Zack Ryder vs. Joey Janela on the same show.

see if you can spot Weapon X

Pretty much agree here. The open challenge has some intrigue given the current open market.

I’ve heard good things about Blake Christian. I’ll say that much.

ok i'll just make it easy

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i couldn't be more excited. nervous of course because i'm traveling to NYC during a pandemic, but i've taken and will continue to take all necessary precautions to deal with that. not missing this show on my bday for any reason. i just want to smoke some weed with effy.

Will you be bringing a "Lock Jaw Nation" sign

sorry "SHISEN KOTF" sign only

How have I never seen the ceiling of Hammerstein before? Some church ass bullshit to be sure. Lovely.

I didn't learn until recently that the Hammerstein Ballroom was a part of the Manhattan Center.

I used to go to church there before the pandemic. My gf made me go with her. There was even once where I went there for a Saturday ROH show and then the next day was in the same venue for church lol.

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Sweet seat... I sat next to that in the front row in the center portion for an ECW PPV and it was the most perfect seat ever... like perfect beautiful view of the ring... Hammerstein Ballroom is so good

That was pretty good

tag open challange that sounds like ftr will appear

What does "The Wrld on GCW" mean... annoying name tbh

yeah i have no idea. i hate most of their show names. the one i went to on saturday was "say you will." say i will what, motherfuckers?

maybe they are inspired by song/album names? i know an upcoming show is called "the art of drowning," which is an AFI album.

i can't think of a team that would be bigger for the spot so i sure hope so.

If FTR doesn’t appear, I think a lot of people are going to be annoyed, tbh. Maybe another team answers the challenge and loses (maybe even for heat), but they have to do something afterwards.

ether that or dq fight, if ftr show up it will not be a full match, they will set up a big aew ppv.

Unless The Briscoes don’t sign with AEW.

i just can't see them pulling any kind of fuckery on that front. they'll hopefully have a lot of new eyes on the product, many due to the rumor of FTR, and i don't see GCW being dumb enough to fuck that up.

that would be a short term deal.

spent my day off painting a flag for sunday. quite pleased with myself.

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At first glance Cardona vs Janela seems terrible (and the match itself technically will be) but given what I’ve seen, Cardona’s gimmick is just MADE for him to face a shitty wrestler that the IWC loves but will never reach Ryder-level in WWE. They could let the crowd make that a fun match.

also added to the preshow and probably including all of the one off wrestlers announced so far that i am not posting

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everything cardona has done in GCW has been perfect really

The PBR battle royale.

Now I have to watch.

And I’d say FTR has gotta be the team to answer the open challenge but not promoting that match ahead of time would be ridiculous. It would have to be a team where the surprise would be better than the hype.

What’s D-Von up to nowadays?

PBR Battle Royal rocks

Feel like it would be weird for them to do that match in GCW before doing it in AEW

Could be a bait and switch where FTR are not the team but they do appear during or after the match

That too.

The open challenge definitely teases FTR but it CAN’T be FTR. So the surprise has to be good enough to overshadow not giving the people FTR.

Here is a link to an interview with Matt Cardona about the upcoming GCW PPV. He talks about how the death match stuff won't fly at Hammerstein, and that is true. They can do a lot of hardcore shit but they won't be able to use a lot of elements that GCW is famous for as far as deathmatch stuff. I saw that but I also have to saw I saw one of the best "Hardcore" matches I've ever seen at the Manhattan Center which is just upstairs from Hammerstein, at an ROH show with Eddie Kingston and Chris Hero. But it wasn't a death match, just a really intense street fight.

Stay safe and have fun Ron The Dial.

I kinda wish I was goin to this show, it's very close to me but I didn't get tickets in time. Plus covid is bad here, not that I am living in fear but also coupled with the fact that I don't really like being around wrestling fans at live shows anymore because it makes me feel like I've made the wrong choices in life being around people like that.

Need I remind you guys at Arthur Ashe I saw a guy that was so deformed he legit looked like a LOONEY TOON.

One time at MLW at Melrose Ballroom there was this really autistic guy who kept pounding on his chest throughout the taping and eventually lost his shit complete when the Lucha Bro's came out and the guy came charging over and trampled over my girlfriend and I in an uncontrollable frenzy to touch the hands of the Lucha Bro's. I hadn't at this point put together that the guy was off so I pushed him back and was like "DUDE WTF" and he stood there looking at me scared as hell and said "I'M SOWWY".....

Needless to say it's hard to get my gf to go to shows with me now. I got her to AEW at Arthur Ashe but the place was so packed where I was it was a legit 30-45 min wait to get anything from the concessions or go to the bathroom.

When you walk to the arena there are broken groups of fans waiting for their friends and they are doing wrestling cat calls like "BOOOM", or singing the Elite Theme song and they all have on black shirts with stupid wrestling logos and pics and you have to just walk by them and kind of look at them and halfway laugh and halfway nod and also partly just look the other way like you didn't see them acting this way. I mean they are adults and they are just standing around chanting wrestling stuff in a group of maybe 4 people and they are like pissed off because they love wrestling so much.

Who wants to be around that when you could just, not?

fuck off