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Cranky Kong
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Is Fabian Aichner still a cruiserweight?
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Hey Mister!
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President of Freedonia
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Tyler Bate's theme is boss
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Cranky Kong
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Still looks like a midget rasslers, though
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Funny thing about TJP being the CWC winner and 1st Cruiser champ was it only happened because the other guys in the Final 4 either didn't want to sign (Ibushi & Sabre) or needed time before they could work full time for the WWE (Metalik).
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President of Freedonia
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The Moustache Mountain team doesn't work as well when they de-emphasize their moustaches.
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Cranky Kong
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Dude, TJP is nice in the ring.
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Cranky Kong
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Don't forget about Trevor "Ricochet" Mann.
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President of Freedonia
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Rico Shay bypassing NXT would be interesting.
Wonder what "class" he got put in. Apparently there are four levels. Beginner: Robbie Brookside Medium: Scotty Too Hotty Advanced: Steve Corino Finishing: Shawn Michaels and Terry Taylor They've put plenty of indy dudes into the beginner class and had them work their way up. Feel like Ricochet will fly through quickly regardless. |
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Cranky Kong
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TJP had his pre-match promo but felt WWE missed a really good opportunity by not having Bate win. |
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Itami/Roderick Strong next week
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Cranky Kong
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Damn, good match.
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Cranky Kong
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Oh shit, Roddy. That match could be dope.
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Cranky Kong
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Bate doesn't need the Cruiserweight title. He's got that whole UK thing going on.
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Also legit thought Spudd/Maverick said a "60-man tournament" at first because the way he said the number 16. |
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Cranky Kong
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...or whatever's happening with that. What's happening with that?
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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TJP winning makes sense unless they were going to have Bate full time 205 Live guy.
Or I guess they could have eliminated Bate in the second round and done a story with TJP where he snaps and becomes a badass submission machine because he won the last tournament he was in but lost in the first round in this one. |
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TJP is a geek and putting over the geeks in the tournament is probably not the best idea. They need to press forward with people that actually have a hope. Hideo is still pretty fresh, Roddy is fresh, Tyler is fresh. They should be owning the only stages of this tournament. Pete Dunne is fresh within that cruiserweight context, he could be doing the same thing. If they wanted to get Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa, they could do that too -- they're probably the guys people care most about and are going to half-way follow. That's 6 of your 8 guys. Gulak seems to do well and Jack Gallagher has always worked to a certain degree, but if you want to push a former champ, give Tozawa a first round win.
That belt is so fucking dead it needs to be contested by people that the fans somewhat kind of haven't been conditioned to think of as geeks. I'd argue that Gulak might be too far gone. You can say that Dolph Ziggler has lost weight and is entering the tournament. Maybe Mark Andrews who hasn't been exposed? Let's go with Dolph, because why the fuck not? * Johnny Gargano defeats Drew Gulak. * Roderick Strong defeats Jack Gallager. * Tommaso Ciampa beats Gran Metalik. * Cedric Alexander beats Tony Nese. * Pete Dunne beats Kalisto. * Tyler Bate beats TJP. * Hideo Itami beats Mustafa Ali. * Dolph Ziggler beats Akira Tozawa. Whatever, something like that. I haven't given it that much thought. * Gargano beats Strong. * Ciampa beats Alexander. * Bate beats Dunne (UK Title not on the line). * Ziggler beats Itami. * Gargano beats Ciampa. * Ziggler beats Bate. * Gargano beats Ziggler and becomes the new Cruiserweight Champion. |
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Cranky Kong
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Now book it where Renee Young wins the tournament and becomes the new cruiserweight champion.
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Honestly, she's more believable than some of the guys.
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BAY BAY
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I just saw the Usos promo and Shinsuke entrance.
Holy shit that's awful... Did Kevin Dunn just find out what After Effects is? |
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Resident drug enabler
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Oh God. What did he do now?
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Resident drug enabler
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Alright, I just looked up the Usos promo. What the fuck.
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dirty irani
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Just a few ideas about what I've read about and watched.
With the 205 tournament, as much as I was gutted to see Bate lose, it was probably the right call. Bate will be taken off TV long enough for it not to matter too much and TJP won by cheating. Plus with his wearing his British Strong Style pants I really think they should be used as a tag team in NXT. I can see Dunne being another surprise entrant and getting towards the semis. I'm hoping that we are not leading to a break up of friendship with Sami and Owens, Samis work has been strong as a heel and if they give a longer build up to the eventual split then it would play off much better. Braun is just gold at the moment, he doesn't need the title to be as popular as he is as nice as that would be. |
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Who is Bate?
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dirty irani
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Trickster Demon
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President of Freedonia
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So Ziggler quit a few weeks ago. He as the #30 entrant in the Rumble which prompted an uninterested "didn't he retire or something?" from Cole. Then he wasn't acknowledged or mentioned in any way on SmackDown.
I said it in the Rumble thread but I'm certain Ziggler's entire WWE career is a rib on him at this point. |
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Trickster Demon
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President of Freedonia
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Seriously I can't get over this.
Dolph Ziggler threw a tantrum and stormed out, nobody gave a fuck, so he came back hoping for everyone to say "OH MY GOD, we missed you!", and nobody gave a fuck. It's the most Dolph Ziggler thing ever, and if it's not intentional it's the greatest rib of all time. |
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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What's this about Nakamura's entrance? I watched it and I didn't notice anything off (except for how they still won't let him time his role thingy to the music and it sucks)
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BAY BAY
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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