also rumours of a womens rumble next year. Thats fresh.

ellsworth will probably win the womens rumble

Brock and Joe didn't quite do it for me. I wanted a bit more from Brock, perhaps a takedown or two, a bit more wrestling.

Interesting to see how things shake out on Raw from this PPV, should see everyone except Roman, who has presumably been arrested for attempted murder.

But it was the best 2 minutes of mania.

Diluted Dante wrote:

RedDave2 wrote:

But it was the best worst 2 minutes of mania.

Seriously, I thought it was the only match that felt big. The ladder match was a better match, and the women's match too. But for sheer 'this is mania, Goldberg Lesnar was tip top. And it was only 5 moves - spear, suplex, f5, jackhammer, leapfrog. And crowd was super hot which always helps.

Tomorrow is Wrestling's Christmas season in the form of G1 climax. The tournament is the 27th annual NJPW tournament where the winner gets a title shot at the champ at their 'Wrestlemania' Wrestle Kingdom XII in January (which I'm attending). 17 PPV's over the space of the month. 7 of them have English commentary. It's a league format. Two blocks, every wrestler in each block faces each other, 2 points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss. The winners of each block face each other in the grand-finals.






Here's some of the better video packages for wrestlers 'pledge':













It's very exciting and is usually the best month of wrestling in the year. I believe the first night tomorrow is free on NJPWworld.

mk64 wrote:

battleground was fucking awesome!

Sarcasm? Haven't watched it but by many accounts a middle to low quality card.

Ah, might give it a gander so. I was lead to believe that the end to aj/Owens really took the wind out of that and the tag match was the only real highlight.

It ranged from tragic to underwhelming bar the tag match. Watch G1.

My gripes are "the entirety of the match".

It's the stupidest match ever. From the 4 doors that can open only for 60 seconds, to the fact that the second cage is so close you can literally step over to it rendering the 2 cages pointless, that Randy Orton could clearly fit through the gaps in the cage and just didn't bother, to bringing back the fucking Great Khali, to the inability to see anything going on.

It was utterly dreadful, and managed to be even worse than expectations.

You'll want to watch Smackdown this week.

AFIK the cages are the same - but previously it's been Taker, Big Show and Khali involved. I've no doubt they couldn't get through.

The problem with suspending disbelief is they shattered it themselves by having one of the Singh brothers slip through it, showing it's perfectly possible, then had Khali drop Orton through partway and hang him from it.

mk64 wrote:

yeah but the rule is they've got to over the top not through it..

“The interior structure boasts four doors, each of which is attended by a referee. When a Superstar calls for the door to be opened, they have one minute to walk through it and into the outer structure. If they don’t make it through in time, the door is shut and locked for good. If a Superstar fails to make it through all four of the doors in the allotted time, they must climb out of the inner structure. It makes for good practice, as the only way to escape the outer ring is to climb up and over it. The first Superstar whose feet touches the ground wins the match”

Like the steel cage, doesn't matter how you get out, two feet on the floor is what counts.

Yep, it was a cracker, though with those 3 men, would you expect anything else?

Wonder what the plan is for Jericho from here. Everything he's touched has been gold. Maybe get him into a feud with Corbin to lift him up in time for the cash in?

so how do we all feel about summer slam?

why?