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BTW, if you are a wrestler, how the fuck do you even put together a match while all this fuckery is happening backstage and you don't even have a crowd to play off of? These tapings sound like a complete clusterfuck.

Wouldn't shock me if karma strikes Vince for once and he catches the virus like Boris Johnson. Specially if he was in Gorilla and talking to all the sick talent when they were discussing what to do.

The cold open for the show is gonna be something else.

According to PWInsider, Miz didn't work the show. Maybe they are talking about Mania and Miz worked sick the SD tapings? I guess Miz is the guy rovert was talking about?

That's why I think it's an interesting discussion. I feel his 2008 is fucking insane. -A good tour in NOAH with the KENTA and Aoki matches. -An all time performance during the whole 16 Carat Gold tournament (that has the incredible match against Hero). -In PWG vs CIMA and Low Ki. -In ROH you have: 6th Anniversary match vs Nigel Rising Above vs Nigel GBD vs Nakajima The Claudio feud The Tyler Black "breakout" feud. Fight Without Honor vs Morishima A bunch of good to great tag matches with Aries.

I'd take Okabayashi's or Sekimoto's 2019 over Will tbh.

Bryan vs Kofi

Trying to come up with 1 year as Danielson's best is actually pretty interesting.

The specific days for each WrestleMania match appear to be set, as WWE is listing days for each match on their website. WWE.com is currently listing the following matches for each day of the two-day event, with the days listed on each match’s preview page: Saturday (April 4th) * WWE Championship Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Brock Lesnar * NXT Women’s Championship Match: Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley * The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles * Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins Sunday (April 5th) * WWE Universal Championship Match: Roman Reigns vs. Bill Goldberg * RAW Women’s Championship Match: Shayna Baszler vs. Becky Lynch * John Cena vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt

I honestly don't know but will the fact that it's pretty impossible to make a show like Mania with less than 50 people possibly play a factor?

I see this as more of a crazy Vince thinking that running Mania while everyone is quarentined will add to his legacy of never stopping and "putting smiles on people's faces". The PR stunts and WWE narrative that's gonna come out of this will be post 9/11 all over again.

Yeah, this was a great idea by Dave. He uploaded it for free on Youtube.

But why wouldn't Tampa just postpone the event and do it a later date? Why on Earth would both sides lose the chance to make all that money? It's not like it's an obligation to have Mania now. Shit could be done in July and it doesn't really matter (is Tampa that hot in those dates that it's impossible to pull it off? then do it in September, lol). Not doing Summerslam I could understand but Mania?? makes no damn sense.

I have a friend who is going to Lolla here in Chile and he's mad as fuck because it's been postponed in Brasil, Argentina and Chile.

More than Smackdown or Wrestlemania, I'm really curious on what they do in the next 4-8 weeks for their TV shows. A lot of people in the company/roster are bound to catch the virus, that's just how it spreads/works, and for at least a month you gotta think that there's no way they'll be allowed to do big public events. Are we close to finally seeing a WWE offseason?

Considering how sometimes the problem is him just trusting 1 source and not even bothering to get any other side, yes, the problem is fact checking. I've done my share of reporting and that's a huge no-no, and no matter what you are investigating, people will try to "work" you. I'm not saying Dave's job is easy, it's not, but he gets too much of a pass when he doesn't do basic reporting shit. Can't say I agree. Take football (real football, not NFL) for example. One of the biggest flaws that beat has is that journalists "are at the mercy" of every agent and club manager feeding them lies or misinformation so they can push their agenda. I can't speak for every country but I've seen people in big papers here in Chile do the laziest job on the planet and just go with whatever story the agent they trust feeds them. Then they make a headline that ends up being complete bullshit. I know transfer season is full of this kind of stuff and you basically don't have 1 Woj or Adam Shefter type of guy who gets shit right all the time. But again, from my experience, most of the time is just people not doing their job right. And man, I can't even imagine what politics is. The little I've done in that field it's actually hilarious how full of shit people are and how they swear they are working you.

Coronavirus killed the attendance for this show (500 people) but it didn't kill the quality of this tag match that delivers on it's expectations First five minutes are pretty standard with a little brawl on the outside included. Things get more interesting once Sato and Sekimoto start working on Okabayashi - Sato does his disgusting headbutt and starts bleeding - who does a really great job as the face in peril. Irie's hot tag is fine and I liked that it didn't turn the tides because it really didn't deserve it. The work on him is really good too and it lead us to Yuji's turn of a comeback. Which of course is awesome. The final 4 minutes or so were fucking great and it made seem like there were way more people in Korakuen than 500 Whole show was fun tbh. The young kid tags was cool. Kawakami vs T-Hawk was a fun bomb fest and Hino vs Hama was a nice little version of what Sekimot and Okabayashi have done with the big far ball of lard. This is two really good shows in a row for Big Japan. Too bad Covid gonna crush their buildings just when the Strong Climb was starting

I think in the last couple of years it's been fairly established how Dave fails at fact checking his main sources. That's the kind of flaw that would be a pretty big deal with any top reporter. I feel Dave gets too much of a pass on this issue because there's a portion of the fanbase that blindly hates on him so there's always a "sure he made a mistake but it's not because he's on *insert promotion* paycheck" argument that can be had and that pushes away the real issue.

Everyone that knows these two knew coming in that if given time, this was going to be a clinic. And a clinic it was. The build up was simple: Gulak supposedly knows Bryan's flaws in his game and was challenged to show it. Not only did I love this for having the minimalistic aproach that I LOVE in my wrestling, but because they had the match they should've had for the feud they are having. Bryan tries some shit, Gulak finds a way to end up on top. Bryan realizes it's gonna be a tough match so he umps up the intensity, Gulak is right there with him and finds a way to end on top. But what Gulak didn't see coming was Bryan finding the weakness on HIS game, so he ends up reversing the dragon sleeper into a vicious LeBell Lock for the W. This was fucking awesome. Every move and strike mattered, they worked their feud into the match, expanded on it once the bell rang and told a neat, clever story. Only "bad" thing was how dead the crowd was, specially for an opener. But to be honest, I found it hilarious how a 2020 WWE had no fucking clue how to react to a match without a ton rope running, a barrage of flippy moves and finisher kickouts. The moment these two stayed on the mat it was like the fans were thinking "what kind of sorcery is this?!"

I low key really liked that the crowd didn't know how to react to a match like that, made it even more unique/special in a weird way.

That was clearly a work, Cole even had a complete line of dialogue for that that close up of Bryan's hand The german suplex was a scary botch though. I think Bryan wanted to do a flip and land on his feet. At least he didn't land on his neck (both shoulders were square on the mat) but a bad bounce and that's another concussion for him.

Fucking awesome match as expected. Funny as fuck how the crowd had no idea how to react to a match like this Gulak should've won but that was as strong as he could've looked in defeat.

Not even that. Pre Network they were doing close to 300-350k for Summerlam and Survivor Series and 450k for the Rumble. I don't think they would come close to that if they sold the big four to ESPN+ or another platform.

Agreed. Even when they have 6 or 8 weeks to build to a PPV (normally Mania or Summerslam), it's the same old shit but with a couple nostalgia acts to fool people into thinking shit is special. I don't believe if they scale back on PPVs it would make much of a difference. If anything, they'll continue to burn big matches on TV because that's also were they money is

That's why I said it's all about the style. To me, last year's G1 was all B Block giving us the goods. Can't even say I remember every Okada match from Block A but even if was the best out of his group (which I think he was) I didn't believe it was an important badge on his incredible career or anything. The list of people Okada has had their unquestioned best match with, to me, are: Shibata, Tanahashi, Kenny Omega and I guess Fale and Sanada (can't say I've followed closely both of their singles career in the last 4 years though). Guys like Ibushi, Nakamura, Goto, Naito, MiSu, Ishii, Sabre, Makabe, Karl Anderson, AJ Styles have had better matches with other people. I wanna make clear that I don't think this is a big deal. Just that I don't see the " give his opponents their best match of their lifes" argument for him (he's no Daniel Bryan ).