Independent Wrestling Thread

[Cleavy]

Del Rio is coming to ROH.

 

[Maxwell110]

El Patron vs Roderick Strong is a match that I have to see if it ever happens

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Really looking forward to the Tanahashi/Okada championship match in NJPW in, I'm assuming, the new year. Tanahashi is pushing 40 but age doesn't seem a factor in his performance.

 

[Cleavy]

didn't realise he was that old.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Vale Gigolo Jimmy Del Ray

Half (or a quarter, I guess, if you include Cornette and the Stan lane version) of one of my personal favourite tag teams The Heavenly Bodies. Hadnt seen much of them until the last year or so as I've made my way through quite a bit of early 90s SMW stuff. From Cornette being awesome to Jimmy making his claim to be the sleaziest wrestlers ever (and I mean that in the best way possible) I just love watching these guys.

Matches vs Steiners at Summerslam 92 and Rock n Roll Express at Survivor Series 92 (despite the awful crowd) are great and probably their most readily available to watch.

Loved the Heavenly Bodies. SMW was awesome and they were the cornerstone of the promotion. RIP to one of the most under-rated guys of all time.

 

[RossFC]

5 guys I want to see Alberto in the ring with in ROH would be Styles, Ciampa, Cole, Elgin and Strong.

Even El Patron vs Daniels should happen before it's too late.

 

[Cleavy]

Cole is injured, unfortunately.

 

[nobbyiscool]

And Elgin sucks.

I'm so glad they've gone cold on him. I wasn't really watching ROH from the start - I gave up in about 2008 and only came back in time for the New Japan shows this year.

But coming in late and knowing that he was supposedly their next top guy, I never could get it.

I think ADR is a strange signing. I know he can wrestle, but he just screams "sports entertainment" to me.

 

[Maxwell110]

Matt Striker will be joining JR to commentate Wrestle Kingdom 9

 

[NitroFan]

Matt Striker will be joining JR to commentate Wrestle Kingdom 9

 

[NitroFan]

Still, Im really looking forward to sakuaba vs suzuki

 

[nobbyiscool]

Does it matter? If New Japan get an English-language display up and running by then, wouldn't you rather just spend the 9 bucks on New Japan World and watch it live with Japanese commentary?

The timezone with Japan is excellent - we're really lucky in that respect.

Or at least, we will be when I can understand what's on my screen!

 

[nobbyiscool]

Finally got around to downloading Chrome and the translation extension, and confirmed that you only have to sign up for a month (albeit, from what I can understand, it bills on the first day of the month, so I'm not sure what would happen if I signed up today.)

I'm now officially pumped for being able to watch WrestleKingdom live on a Sunday night for such an excellent price

(Aussie NOAH lads Haste and Nicholls were also added to the card overnight, joining Marafuji for the big show. Win )

 

[Baird]

Inspired by this

Spoiler: Warning - Graphic content

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Apparently you can be offended by that shirt ...

 

[Maxwell110]

I'm offended by how ugly the shirt is

 

[Baird]

I quite like it.

 

[Cleavy]

I often wonder "who the heck is buying these shirts?"

 

[JordanWCE]

2 hours til WK9, getting pretty pumped for it. Going to be brilliant hearing JR back on the mic.

 

[Cleavy]

If the commentary is good (ie Striker doesn't ruin it), I'll download in English. If not, I'll download the version with the Japanese commentary. Not sure if people usually upload the shows with multiple audio tracks?

 

[nobbyiscool]

If the commentary is good (ie Striker doesn't ruin it), I'll download in English. If not, I'll download the version with the Japanese commentary. Not sure if people usually upload the shows with multiple audio tracks?

Why do people steal things just because they can?

New Japan World cost me about $10.30 when I signed up this week. If you're too stingy to pay 10 bucks, I'm sorry, you don't deserve to watch the show.

 

[JordanWCE]

What a ******* match that was. Back to back MOTY candidates with Nakamura/Ibushi and Tanahashi/Okada. JR was rusty to begin with but got more emotionally involved than Cole could ever be.

 

[nobbyiscool]

What a ******* match that was. Back to back MOTY candidates with Nakamura/Ibushi and Tanahashi/Okada. JR was rusty to begin with but got more emotionally involved than Cole could ever be.

How did you watch it?

There was a bit of a break before the main event - it was only at that point that I checked twitter and read that the Flipps app had completely failed on Apple devices. I'm very glad that I spent 10 bucks on New Japan World rather than 40 bucks plus (Australian) on a failed stream that was still going to have Matt Striker on it...

Probably the best show, top to bottom, that I've seen in 20 years of watching wrestling. I can't even decide which of the last 2 was my favourite match. I initially thought that Nakamura and Ibushi had set an impossible task to follow them - but Okada and Tanahashi did, wrestling a completely different style of match.

 

[timtamWB]

If I sign up for NJPW now, will I be able to watch it or not?

 

[MakeshiftMartyr]

I had trouble with Flipps as well.

Anybody know when this will be available on demand? I came in at the main event, which failed on me several times, now all I'm seeing is "coming up" and it says the replay isn't for something like another 12 hours.