The Wrestling Thread II: WrestleMania 33 - 7 HOURS

[CuriousOyster]

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Love Punk but Steph smashed him Crowd actual silenced (im gooseberry fool and cant embed the tweet).

[Return_of_the_STAR]

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Love Punk but Steph smashed him Crowd actual silenced (im gooseberry fool and cant embed the tweet).

Just watching it now, WWE clearly prepared for it. Had Steph start to pander to the crowd, then as soon as the punk chant started had Steph say that line and then bring Rollins straight out to pop reaction and then have him take the piss out of Steph and hhh for a bit.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Great opening promo by John boy cena.

[CuriousOyster]

Tag match on SD awesome! American Alpha, very cool, only been 2 weeks with New Wyatts though.

[Skippy]

That Cena promo was good, hint of heel to him which would be great heading into a possible Undertaker match. I like the idea of Old Man Cena/You Kids Better Get Off My Lawn Cena.

[shadow202]

That Cena promo was good, hint of heel to him which would be great heading into a possible Undertaker match. I like the idea of Old Man Cena/You Kids Better Get Off My Lawn Cena.

That does sound good until you realise that Cena will beat them all

[Skippy]

That Cena promo was good, hint of heel to him which would be great heading into a possible Undertaker match. I like the idea of Old Man Cena/You Kids Better Get Off My Lawn Cena.

That does sound good until you realise that Cena will beat them all

He lost three or four times to AJ Styles this year and that was his only feud.

[Fade]

Tag match on SD awesome! American Alpha, very cool, only been 2 weeks with New Wyatts though.

I bet the Wyatts will win them back at the rumble and then Alpha will win them back at Wrestlemania (Like Roman Last Year)

[Mafro]

Anyone else gonna be watching Wrestle Kingdom 11? Next Wednesday at 8am our time.

Pre-show Rumble
Tiger Mask W vs. Tiger The Dark
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag-Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs Roppongi Vice
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag-Team Championship Gauntlet Match: Satoshi Kojima, Ricochet, & David Finlay (c) vs. LIdJ (SANADA/EVIL/BUSHI) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii/Will Ospreay/YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Bullet Club (Hangman Page/Yujiro Takahashi/Bad Luck Fale)
Special Singles Match: Juice Robinson (formerly CJ Parker from NXT) vs. Cody Rhodes
RoH World Championship: Kyle O'Reilly (c) vs. Adam Cole
IWGP Tag-Team Championship: Guerillas of Destiny (c) vs. Great Bash Heel
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: KUSHIDA (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
NEVER Openweight Championship: Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega

Last two year's events have been substantially better than Wrestlemania and I'm really looking forward to it.

[coldspice]

Anyone else gonna be watching Wrestle Kingdom 11? Next Wednesday at 8am our time.

Pre-show Rumble
Tiger Mask W vs. Tiger The Dark
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag-Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs Roppongi Vice
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag-Team Championship Gauntlet Match: Satoshi Kojima, Ricochet, & David Finlay (c) vs. LIdJ (SANADA/EVIL/BUSHI) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii/Will Ospreay/YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Bullet Club (Hangman Page/Yujiro Takahashi/Bad Luck Fale)
Special Singles Match: Juice Robinson (formerly CJ Parker from NXT) vs. Cody Rhodes
RoH World Championship: Kyle O'Reilly (c) vs. Adam Cole
IWGP Tag-Team Championship: Guerillas of Destiny (c) vs. Great Bash Heel
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: KUSHIDA (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
NEVER Openweight Championship: Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega

Last two year's events have been substantially better than Wrestlemania and I'm really looking forward to it.

What's the easiest way to watch it over here?

[Mafro]

Anyone else gonna be watching Wrestle Kingdom 11? Next Wednesday at 8am our time.

Pre-show Rumble
Tiger Mask W vs. Tiger The Dark
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag-Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs Roppongi Vice
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag-Team Championship Gauntlet Match: Satoshi Kojima, Ricochet, & David Finlay (c) vs. LIdJ (SANADA/EVIL/BUSHI) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii/Will Ospreay/YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Bullet Club (Hangman Page/Yujiro Takahashi/Bad Luck Fale)
Special Singles Match: Juice Robinson (formerly CJ Parker from NXT) vs. Cody Rhodes
RoH World Championship: Kyle O'Reilly (c) vs. Adam Cole
IWGP Tag-Team Championship: Guerillas of Destiny (c) vs. Great Bash Heel
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: KUSHIDA (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
NEVER Openweight Championship: Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega

Last two year's events have been substantially better than Wrestlemania and I'm really looking forward to it.

What's the easiest way to watch it over here?

NJPW World are streaming it live with English commentary from Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino.

[shadow202]

How much will it cost?

[Mafro]

Think it's just over a fiver per month.

[Floex]

According to the Observer, Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, Triple H vs. Seth Rollins, and Shaq vs. Big Show are the three matches that are "locked in" for WrestleMania 33.

Just mental.

[Fade]

According to the Observer, Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, Triple H vs. Seth Rollins, and Shaq vs. Big Show are the three matches that are "locked in" for WrestleMania 33.

Just mental.

They better open with the big show, Jesus...

If AJ isn't in the main even the internet is going to Riot.

They're just going to do a repeat of last year but with Seth instead of Roman aren't they? And KO is playing the part of Sheamus.

[Mafro]

According to the Observer, Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, Triple H vs. Seth Rollins, and Shaq vs. Big Show are the three matches that are "locked in" for WrestleMania 33.

Just mental.

From the Observer:

Right now when it comes to WrestleMania while there are a lot of rumors and directions being stated, there are only three matches locked in, which are Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, HHH vs. Seth Rollins and Big Show vs. Shaquille O’Neal.

John Cena vs. Undertaker is a probable, but Vince McMahon was not locked on it. Also probable was a multiple person women’s championship match on the Raw side. Right now when it comes to Undertaker, while it is likely Cena, the other opponent considered is Roman Reigns with the idea that Reigns is the future, Cena vs. Undertaker doesn’t build the future, and this may be Undertaker’s last match. If they don’t do Reigns this year, they may never be able to do it. Either way, if Cena and Reigns leave San Antonio as champions, it looks like Undertaker will challenge one of them in the main event.

The storyline of Undertaker no longer being defined by WrestleMania, may be a story of him entering and winning the Royal Rumble, to earn that shot, or challenging for a title, and the title win being the key. Or it could be Cena vs. Undertaker, which was scheduled for last year but fell through when Cena needed shoulder surgery. The match doesn’t need a title attached to it, but the title would elevate the match to the main event position and elevate the title as well based on two of the truly biggest stars on the show being in the match.

It ended up being a fortunate break last year, because Vince McMahon thought out of the box and brought back Shane McMahon, and as silly as this sounds except it’s the truth, the Shane vs. Undertaker match was the biggest match on the show, and with the stips (not adhered to of course), it was far bigger than a Cena vs. Undertaker match would have been on that night.

As far as if they do Cena vs. Undertaker, whether that will be for the Smackdown title, that would make sense since Cena will challenge A.J. Styles for the title at the Royal Rumble. Given Styles having the edge on Cena in singles matches and Cena always evening up the score, it would seem to be his turn. On Smackdown, they were heavily pushing the idea of Cena as a 15-time champion, with the story of needing one win to tie Ric Flair’s fake record of 16 (as noted before, you can interpret the Flair number many different ways, but the smallest number you can give is 18). Cena already failed once when going for that record.

This would make Undertaker a favorite for the Rumble along with Braun Strowman, since the winner of the Rumble should be the person who challenges for one of the two titles. If Reigns goes with Undertaker, the question becomes who would then go with Cena (or Styles if he retains).

Reigns could just as easily beat Kevin Owens at the Rumble to win the Universal title, and defend against Strowman, but if need be, he could also defend against Undertaker if the idea of the show is to build around Undertaker challenging for the title. Owens and Chris Jericho has been built for months and they’ve dragged it out so it peaks at the right time, and WrestleMania would be that time.

Can only imagine the crowd reaction if Reigns were to beat the Undertaker at Mania

[Floex]

Braun Strowman is being considered to win the rumble.

Braun Strowman.

Braun.

Strowman.

[Fade]

With his character: I AM AN ANGRY MAN

[coldspice]

In my dreams there is still a way to get Balor v Styles at Mania but there's no way it will happen this year

[KK]

The new theme tune for World of Sport Wrestling: