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Gargano/Ciampa will be in a tag team match on the CWC live final next week. cool

 

Rey Rey needs to quit juicing.

 

is it a two hour event or something?

 

i'd guess it goes about an hour an a half. with that it becomes a four match show, 3 of which should get some decent time.

 

Lucha is so wonderful when it comes to world building and meaningful feuds. Really great start to the season.

 

No doubt. It always amazes me to think that an entire LU season (S2 was 25hrs or so) is what WWE used to spend between monthyl PPVs. Kinda crazy considering how much more they run through

 

Going further into this, seems pretty clear Cesaro is going 4 straight. This was the breakdown

"Sheamus looked dominant for the entirety of this match. Hitting move after move and not enabling Cesaro to manage a Cesaro swing. It was a shock when Cesaro managed a sneaky roll up to get the three count and take his first win in their best of 7 series."

Figured Cesaro would take the Rocky route. Get a sneaky win, then build to a dominating squash match in the 7th meeting

 

The BOLA 6-man got 5 stars!!!

 

haven't been in the thread for like 2 weeks but for the foreseeable future it'll stay 1 belt

I can't see how that will ever change but I guess I won't rule it out

 

So happy that The Young Bucks finally actually got the 5 stars to back up their gimmick lol.

First 5 star match outside of Japan in over fours years, and the first tag match of any kind in over 10 years to get 5 stars.

 

Also I think I heard PWG Thirteen is shipping today.

 

i was wrong its 2 hours

 

Rumor is that Vince wants the same amount of titles of both shows, so we may eventually get Cruiserweights on SDL.

 

Yeah not really excited for Backlash. I won't be watching it live anyway (or Raw the next day...) due to football starting.

I really hope AJ wins. Will it be clean? I don't think so sadly. But I also don't think he's winning either, so...

 

WWE just announced the signing of 7 new talents from China:

·Big Boa (192cm and 100kg) is a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He was named the 2016 Brazilian jiu-jitsu China Open Gi/No-Gi champion and represented China at the 2013 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships.


·Gu Guangming (203cm and 130kg) is an amateur boxer from Mudanjiang, ranking among the top amateurs in his weight class since 2012. He won the National Men’s Championship in his weight class in 2014.


·Gao Lei (178cm and 145kg) is a champion in various Beijing traditional wrestling promotions and was the team leader of Mongolian University’s wrestling team.


·Zhao Xia (162cm and 62kg) has trained in martial arts and is the co-founder of her own fitness studio. Zhao has multiple first place finishes in various martial arts and fitness competitions including, the Second World Traditional Chinese Wushu Championship, Nike Challenge Competition and First China Throw Down: Battle on the Bund.


·Wang Xiaolong (190cm and 110kg) of Beijing, studied at the Shandong University of Technology and the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy for music production.


·Yifeng (188cm and 108kg) is an actor from Shanghai, and a graduate of the Shanghai Theater Company. Yifeng was most recently featured in the movie Lady and Tiger in 2014.



·Cheng Yuxiang (188cm and102.5kg) is an expert level fitness trainer from Beijing, certified by Beijing Zhuo Zhonghua International Fitness Academy. Cheng also participates in various Chinese boxing competitions across the country.

 

This shit with Paige is getting ridiculous.

 

The more time that passes, the clearer it seems that Paige is her own worst enemy.

 

It seems like there are two sides of the argument, and both are wrong. Paige is basically torpedoing her own career with all of the Del Rio stuff and likely partying too hard. If she truly was 'harassed' and 'threatened' about the state of the relationship, her argument could hold up in court. I could definitely see a settlement and her departure some time in the next year or so. It's not like they have plans for her anyways. At her age, with her notoriety, she could make a butt load of money in other ventures.

The more Eva posts on Instagram about her new business venture, the more it seems like she is ready to jump ship as well.

 

Thing is, Paige is only 24, which is crazy to me. The other non-revolution Divas are all in their 30s. So, Eva leaving at 32 or 33 is kind of whatever.

But losing Paige at 24, when she and Bayley/Becky/Sasha/Charlotte could easily be the WWE for the next 5 years, seems kinda crazy.

That said, Paige belongs in something like LU right now. She could easily fill the void Sexy Star leaves in terms of being the lead female wrestler

 

Ehhhhh, idk. I highly doubt WWE "harassed" or "threatened" her about the relationship. Half the locker room is dating—they know how to handle these sort of things in a legal sense. Now, I'm sure Carrano had some type of discussion with Paige about what the hell is going on, and them splitting her and Del Rio up in the brand split seems like WWE trying to nip things in the bud, but I feel like Paige may have started going off the rails a little bit prior to the Del Rio relationship. Idk if it's the pressure of being in the spot that she was, doing way too many things with the addition of Total Divas, being young and figuring herself out, or just a combo of all things, but WWE definitely had plans for her and it seems to me like she started to crack or became too unreliable.

In regards to money, she'll definitely be able to make a living elsewhere, but lets not act like she would be making anywhere near the consistent income she currently gets from both WWE and Total Divas.

 

wait what did paige do now

 

Meltzer is speculating that she may have lawyers exploring her options on getting out of her WWE contract (which I don't think expires for quite some time)

 

I was a dipshit at that age, most of us are. What's sad is she'll probably look back on this time in a few years and regret a lot of her choices.

 

Sounds like it runs through 2019.

I guess we'll find out after Clash of Champions, because thats about when Paige's suspension is up

Aint that the truth.

She was champ at the age of 21 (and NXT champ at 20). Be a damn shame if she left WWE by 25.