The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania XL - 6/7 April 2024

[NBK]

Pretty much everything from today's BotSJ double block show was great, but in particular, everyone should check out:

Narita vs Bandido
Romero vs Yoh
Bushi vs Douki
Sho vs Kanemaru
Taguchi vs Eagles
Scurll vs Shingo
Ospreay vs Phantasmo

Aye, overall the best night quality-wise so far, no surprise with all block matches.

My first time seeing Phantasmo this tournament, he is awesome.

Thanks for calling out the highlights, I'm a couple of days behind but just finished watching this. Osprey vs ELP was tremendous! I saw him Edinburgh a few months ago, it was a fairly short match but he looked really good then too. No flipping off 5 year olds though...

Got Double or Nothing booked so I'm going to try and catch up with the rest of it tomorrow night before that starts

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Loved the ITV AEW documentary. I won't be ordering the pov as I'm not going to get round to watching it but I hope it's a big success.

[coldspice]

Pretty much everything from today's BotSJ double block show was great, but in particular, everyone should check out:

Narita vs Bandido
Romero vs Yoh
Bushi vs Douki
Sho vs Kanemaru
Taguchi vs Eagles
Scurll vs Shingo
Ospreay vs Phantasmo

Aye, overall the best night quality-wise so far, no surprise with all block matches.

My first time seeing Phantasmo this tournament, he is awesome.

Thanks for calling out the highlights, I'm a couple of days behind but just finished watching this. Osprey vs ELP was tremendous! I saw him Edinburgh a few months ago, it was a fairly short match but he looked really good then too. No flipping off 5 year olds though...

Got Double or Nothing booked so I'm going to try and catch up with the rest of it tomorrow night before that starts

If you're catching up, these would be my recommendations from the other nights;

23.05
Narita Vs ELP
Sho Vs Scurll
Taguchi Vs Romero
Kanemaru Vs Ishimori
Ospreay Vs Bandido
Dragon Lee vs Shingo

24.05
Scurll vs Kanemaru
Eagles vs Douki
Dragon Lee Vs Titan
Romero vs ELP

[NBK]

Pretty much everything from today's BotSJ double block show was great, but in particular, everyone should check out:

Narita vs Bandido
Romero vs Yoh
Bushi vs Douki
Sho vs Kanemaru
Taguchi vs Eagles
Scurll vs Shingo
Ospreay vs Phantasmo

Aye, overall the best night quality-wise so far, no surprise with all block matches.

My first time seeing Phantasmo this tournament, he is awesome.

Thanks for calling out the highlights, I'm a couple of days behind but just finished watching this. Osprey vs ELP was tremendous! I saw him Edinburgh a few months ago, it was a fairly short match but he looked really good then too. No flipping off 5 year olds though...

Got Double or Nothing booked so I'm going to try and catch up with the rest of it tomorrow night before that starts

If you're catching up, these would be my recommendations from the other nights;

23.05
Narita Vs ELP
Sho Vs Scurll
Taguchi Vs Romero
Kanemaru Vs Ishimori
Ospreay Vs Bandido
Dragon Lee vs Shingo

24.05
Scurll vs Kanemaru
Eagles vs Douki
Dragon Lee Vs Titan
Romero vs ELP

Thanks I ended up watching 23/05 as well. I really don't know how they're able to keep up that pace. The last two matches were practically super human!

I'd love to see Shingo win overall, but I reckon it'll probably go to ELP, the foul mouthed rascal.

Also, I know someone already mentioned it, but I can't find the post in amongst Prototype spamming his Fite referral code ( ) - Douki's slingshot DDT is atrocious. Up there with Cena's zero impact shoulder barges as worst moves ever. And Cena's attempt at the Os Cutter as 'move most likely to cause a neck injury due to the person delivering it being completely inept'.

[coldspice]

I doubt they will put ELP in the final as they need to sell out Sumo Hall; he'll get to the final day still with a chance though. Ospreay vs Shingo is the most likely final because it's the most money match. Ospreay I think is heading for the G1 this year, so he'll get to the final to stay looking strong, but will ultimately lose out to Shingo.

[NBK]

I doubt they will put ELP in the final as they need to sell out Sumo Hall; he'll get to the final day still with a chance though. Ospreay vs Shingo is the most likely final because it's the most money match. Ospreay I think is heading for the G1 this year, so he'll get to the final to stay looking strong, but will ultimately lose out to Shingo.

That'd be an amazing end to it. Sorry, I wasn't sure how the rest of the tournament played out (if it's all down to points or other factors), but it definitely makes more sense having it finish like that.

EDIT: I also hadn't realised how many matches they still had to wrestle

[coldspice]

I doubt they will put ELP in the final as they need to sell out Sumo Hall; he'll get to the final day still with a chance though. Ospreay vs Shingo is the most likely final because it's the most money match. Ospreay I think is heading for the G1 this year, so he'll get to the final to stay looking strong, but will ultimately lose out to Shingo.

That'd be an amazing end to it. Sorry, I wasn't sure how the rest of the tournament played out (if it's all down to points or other factors), but it definitely makes more sense having it finish like that.

EDIT: I also hadn't realised how many matches they still had to wrestle

The winner of Block A faces the winner of Block B in the final. Generally, we'll go into the last block night with 2 or 3 wrestlers in each block still mathematically able to win the block and often they will be facing each other (by coincidence of course ). If 2 wrestlers are on equal points, their head to head record determines who wins. There will often by spoilers on the final night too, where a wrestler with a chance of reaching the final will take an upset loss.

This year, the final night (with the BoSJ final as the main event on top of a card of multiman tags etc) is in Ryogoku Sumo Hall, which has a capacity of 11,000, whereas usually it's at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which is about 3,000 (and last year was at Korukuen Hall due to Olympics preparations n work ongoing at Yoyogi). So, it's a big jump in the number of tickets they need to sell, which has lead a lot of people agreeing that they really need to do a big match as the final in order to draw.

[NBK]

I doubt they will put ELP in the final as they need to sell out Sumo Hall; he'll get to the final day still with a chance though. Ospreay vs Shingo is the most likely final because it's the most money match. Ospreay I think is heading for the G1 this year, so he'll get to the final to stay looking strong, but will ultimately lose out to Shingo.

That'd be an amazing end to it. Sorry, I wasn't sure how the rest of the tournament played out (if it's all down to points or other factors), but it definitely makes more sense having it finish like that.

EDIT: I also hadn't realised how many matches they still had to wrestle

The winner of Block A faces the winner of Block B in the final. Generally, we'll go into the last block night with 2 or 3 wrestlers in each block still mathematically able to win the block and often they will be facing each other (by coincidence of course ). If 2 wrestlers are on equal points, their head to head record determines who wins. There will often by spoilers on the final night too, where a wrestler with a chance of reaching the final will take an upset loss.

This year, the final night (with the BoSJ final as the main event on top of a card of multiman tags etc) is in Ryogoku Sumo Hall, which has a capacity of 11,000, whereas usually it's at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which is about 3,000 (and last year was at Korukuen Hall due to Olympics preparations n work ongoing at Yoyogi). So, it's a big jump in the number of tickets they need to sell, which has lead a lot of people agreeing that they really need to do a big match as the final in order to draw.

Wow, that is quite the jump! The prospect of Ospreay vs. Shingo has me even more hyped now.

Just watched the AEW doc and it does a great job of building it up and showing just how big a difference the promotion could possibly have. Getting hyped for Double or Nothing now as well. It's the first PPV I've watched live in ages, so of course I'm fully expecting to pass out 20 minutes in.

[coldspice]

I'm going to try and watch the pre-show and I don't know if I'll make it to the start of that

[captain red dog]

I'm going All In for Double or Nothing.

Going in cold too, I only loosely know the Cody vs Goldust "feud" from some of the YouTube clips, and obviously Jericho vs Omega. It feels strange to be excited about a wrestling PPV, probably the first time in over a decade for me and my first actual PPV I have paid for since about 1999!

What's this AEW documentary, might try and catch it before the preshow.

[KK]

The spirit of WCW really does live on (AEW logo)

[KK]

Having major problems with the Fite TV app already. Currently black screening. Bodes well.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Is the ring smaller than WWE? I can’t tell.

[Mafro]

I forgot how horrible ITV4's picture quality is. Casting it from YouTube instead.

[Rog]

This is a bit of a clusterfuck. People seemingly coming down at random. They need to make a better job of getting down how the groups are being chosen and who they are.

[KK]

strawberry floating hell, the Fite app on Android is bad. The Buy In event not even shown on the front page, let alone anywhere. Literally had to search for it. Would have just expected it to play as part of the Double or Nothing page but it doesn’t. People having problems with the airing on YouTube as well.

Picture quality is at least in HD unlike ITV4 but it’s taken me 13 minutes just to get to this point!

[Rog]

They should have just done a royal rumble instead of this Russo level nonsense.

[KK]

What are the rules of this thing?

[Mafro]

What are the rules of this thing?

Four groups of five come in at a timed interval, and one person that drew the joker card comes in at number 21 I think.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Did he just say jack Whitehall is joining them later on? I know he is a wrestling fan as he’s mentioned it a number of times before.