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I've started watching ROH TV again for the first time in about 3 years as well as whatever big matches I can from the last couple of weeks (Supercard and Masters Of The Craft). I was really hoping it would still be shit but I have to be honest, I've been enjoying it immensely.

Cody looks to have improved dramatically and is nowhere near as boring as I'd heard he was. Punishment Martinez looks like a star. Some interesting fat guys on the roster. The TV still feels a little inconsequential and seems to suffer from a similar taping schedule to Impact, although not quite as bad but for now while I reaquaint with the talent it's fine. The womens division is really fucking weird though. There's so much out there but they seem to have picked a real hodgepodge of people, some of whom are REALLY bad. Sumie Sakai seemed like an odd choice of first champ. I'm not fucking watching NJPW so this will be my only exposure to the current crop of Jap guys.

I'm still a little confused as to what I'd get for my 9.99. I'm not sure it's everything, or that there my be too much (house shows that get put up?) so while I can watch the TV show on Fite for free that may be enough along with youtube.

Ambitious......and no it's not an NWA show. United Wrestling Network partnership with Chinese.

Don't know how it came off as a 2 and 1/2 hour show but it certainly looked cool and the crowd were hot. This is a little short but it was probably 1am or something......

I never got the chance to watch 205 Live last week before Mania but the completist in me had to go back and check it out.

Well I'm glad I did because Buddy Murphy and Kalisto TORE. THE. HOUSE. DOWN. Like, MOTY contender. It won't be long before Murphy 'misses weight' because this is the talent that Dolph Ziggler fever dreams he is every night and he must be seen by the masses.

Also, in line with 'all Japanese talent must be heel to flourish', Itami and Tozawa being dickheads to the Luchas has been a pretty gold feud so far. Tozawa's ludicrous 'YOU'RE FIRED!' schtick cracks me up everytime.

Go watch it. Seriously this show is no joke and has become compulsive viewing.

Tozawa/Kalisto from this week is pretty good too. I'll permit you to skip any minutes Tony Neese is involved in because he's dogshit.

Si! Si! SIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!

Fuck that motherfucker. What an upgrade that new main event is!

Exactly the kinda golden shite I could watch ad infinitum. Apologies for potentially made up Latin.

The reason I wish things like Boogeyman Vs Tatanka would still happen on Smackdown.

https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/03/26/major-league-wrestling-bein-sports

MLW is now available in 50 million homes from April 20th, and they getting paid.....

Good lord, Mustafa Ali is certainly trying his best to make us remember him. I actually want this final on the main show now. He's gotta win. He actually seems like he's too good to be slumming it with the cruiserweights. I wanna see him face AJ some day!

I notice Buddy Murphy was referred to as still being property of NXT too as if far greater things are destined for him aswell.

Anyone interested in seeing how great EC3 is going to be would do well to see his Impact sendoff. Good show this week. Much closer to NXT in quality now they've stripped away some of the bullshit. Must be new agents because the match quality has improved too. I really like that most of the talent used has a gimmick or interesting look.

On 3/23/2018 at 6:18 AM, Maverick said:

Is Austin Idiol still involved in this?

Yes I believe he will be at House Of Hardcore tonight.

Great build for this match continues.....

I'm fairly certain he'll get it back before he's done.....

12 hours ago, FFTHEWINNER said:

I find it very interesting that our main feud is a Heel vs Heel feud. that is pretty rare.

also,what do you guys think of the spiritual adviser stuff?i am a big fan of Jocephus and of NWA's booking,and he is quite entertaining to watch,but i cant help but think the original version of jocephus without the spiritual adviser stuff was more mysterious and interesting :/.

Aldis has flipped in whatever direction necessary in order to retain the belt during the crusade. Some bouts have ended in mutual respect and the offers of another shot, others, with a little history have ended in controversy and backstabbing. Aldis and Crimson have a friendship which Nick reneged on in order to win, and he doesn't respect Dreamer. He might be the face against Jocephus depending on how heely he gets with the possible formation of his group. The belt itself is the focus and the 'face' in all of this and I am completely alright with that.

It's unlikely but I can't help but feel Dreamer may win the belt but drop it back before China next month. Billy and Tommy are so close and he's such a mark for the belt that I can't help but feel Corgan may give him a quick reign as a thank you and a social media pop.

I'm pulling for him dressed as IRS....

Funnily enough GTV was resurrected recently during one of WWE's warehouse tour videos.

Anyway:

Bray has got to be going in that lake for a complete repackaging surely.....

As it turns out Aries is not under contract to anyone so he can work where he likes and there is no working relationship.

Well I thought Fastlane was dogshit, and i'm glad we can put it all behind us now.

It's not the end of the world but it does involve some planning and lining a few things up in advance on the home page as I have done for 1992 stuff at the moment so that PPV's, SNME and all those Bret/Shawn matches from the collection can be viewed in order.

But will there be an option to watch Nitro, Thunder and Saturday Night chronologically in some sort of watchlist?

I assume it's Callis that's brought all this together meaning ROH/NJPW talent will soon be on Impact too?

I hear Austin Aries turned up recently, with all those belts, including the Impact one. Are all the companies working together now?

Crimson or not, (I mean, it is) - great stuff....

Also coming up, and this should be great because he's excellent:

I swear there was some old drone footage..... I'll have to check again.

Very strange seeing Impact footage on Raw. It was an excellent decision to purchase that stuff to get this Hardy thing going properly.

Looking forward to the return of Vanguard-1!