Rolling 2018: Where Every Day is Rusev Day

Ah here, December to Dismember was literally engineered to fail so it doesn't really count.

uh i think official kayfabe holds that @mountain_goats was the final straw for bayley’s heel turn

— Constable Cornbread (@korbermite) June 26, 2018

The G1 hasn't come close to the quality of the last few years, but Ibushi-Ishii is must-see. Naito-Omega and Ishii-Goto are right up there.

I think there have been a lot of "fun things" going on during and around the G1, but the matches have been varied. Some of them have been exciting to watch (Omega vs. Ishii, Ibushi vs. SANADA, Okada vs. EVIL, to name a few I really enjoyed), but it hasn't been as solid as previous years.

I've had a bit more fun watching the tag match-ups outside of the actual tournament than watching some of the official matches.

I've been too busy to watch any of the G1 so I'm just gonna make time for the Yano matches before this weekend's final shows. When is the first Sumo Hall show, Friday?

Oh wait it's Budokan not Sumo Hall. Friday it is.

yes please!

Kenny Omega -VS- Pentagon

September 1st #ALLin pic.twitter.com/3ej5rn659z

— All In (@ALL_IN_2018) August 12, 2018

where can i watch this??

The G1 definitely nailed the landing. The overall quality still wasn't as good as past years but the best stuff was some of the best pro wrestling you'll ever see.

Mordy, I don't know if you're still trying to find the match, but NJPW World has All In available on their streaming service.

thx!

going to the njpw show in long beach on sunday - where every man, woman and child owns a bullet club tshirt. the last one was excellent so I'm pretty pumped. in spite of the fact that the line to get in, food, drink and bathroom situation is fucking abysmal

How was it? So far I've only watched Scurll vs Ospreay from that show, I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't watched anything from All In yet. KOPW is around the corner but I'm not really feeling it.

How were the lines this time? 'Cause the place looked about a third empty for the first half of the show.

Had a great time and great seats. The opener with Liger was great, everyone seemed like they were really enjoying themselves. Bucks match wasn't nearly as good as the last one (but thats kind of unfair) but the back injury plot was kinda stupid, imo. I guess they needed an excuse for the Bucks to lose. I didn't take detailed notes or anything but the show was definitely less crowded than the last, filled in more as it went on. there were dedicated beer vendors for the first time which made life 100% better unless you wanted to eat food. then you were fucked either way bc there were only two kiosks for the whole venue.

Did not expect that news on Raw. Damn.

Huge bummer, rooting for him

It's obviously trivial in the scheme of things but he'll finally be the mega-over top babyface he was meant to be if he makes it back after this

Brutal. Hope he Superman punches leukemia back into remission.

I'm not sure how I feel about the Ambrose heel turn happening on the same night.

i feel like if it had been drawn out for weeks of “brotherhood above all” the leadup to the turn would have seemed too over the top

i liked this former wwe writer’s spin on it (thread). grief does crazy things to people

See, even that, I think, can be explained. I don't think Dean (the character) planned this. I think they won, because that's what Dean does. And then he turned.. and he saw Seth smiling.. and in that one second... that one moment after Roman ripped open his soul... and...

— Tom Casiello (@tommiecas) October 23, 2018

That's how I rationalize it too, the turn had been building for weeks and Ambrose (the character) is unstable enough as it is. When Reigns made his announcement, something inside him snapped. He still needed to win the tag title to prove to himself that he could.

There are plenty of storyline ways to explain it, but every one of them involve using someone's life-threatening cancer diagnosis to manipulate the fans and help get a wrestling angle over. If there was ever a week to send people home happy, it was this one. Couldn't the same storyline goal have been achieved by doing the turn next week?

i mean roman probably signed off on this turn because it’s “good for business”

I'm sure they asked him and he said he was ok with it, but it's still tasteless.