Heard a lot of good things about
TNA recently, so I checked out Slammiversary and it was actually a good show, felt fresh, had an interesting look since it was in the middle of a bar/club. Checked out Impact as well and it was also a pretty solid weekly TV show, certainly better than any Impact I've seen in many years. They seem to have a pretty open door policy for their roster these days, with a lot of their talent on other shows like Lucha Underground and MLW. They're definitely an alternative at the moment, with a good mix of pretty crazy spot fests, very bloody violent brawls, and actually paying attention to stories.
Speaking of
MLW, I also watched Battle Riot, which was their first "special event" on BeIn Sports. They have a bizarre roster of a lot of the same TNA/Lucha Underground guys mixed with local Florida scene, 2010 WWE mid carders, and NXT wash outs. But they have Tony Schiavone calling the action, they air their show at 6:05 Eastern, Col. Robert Parker has revived the Studd Stable, and they have better production values than TNA or ROH somehow. Sadly, they've also added Matt Striker, who is as annoying as ever, seemingly speaking entirely in memes or references and then patting himself on the back and congratulating anyone that gets the references. Low Ki is currently their champion (
), Tom Lawler seems to be who they're building around, and I believe they put their weekly show on Youtube for free.
I wish I could figure out why Sami Callihan is so in demand right now, every place with a TV or internet show books this mother fucker and he's absolute garbage
A disgusting piece of shit who isn't good at anything except looking like legit white trash you'd find in a shithole like Dayton, not the cartoony white trash like the Wyatts or Sanity. He looks like someone covered a potato in snot.
The
G1 Climax has been great as usual. Thankfully Block A is absolute trash so you can easily skip everything until Okada vs Tanahashi happens, which is nice for people like me who get exhausted watching the G1 even picking and choosing what to watch.
Must See Tier This is going high on MOTY list
- Ishii vs Goto
- Goto vs Omega
- Naito vs Omega
- Naito vs Ishii
- Ishii vs ZSJ
- Ibushi vs ZSJ
- Ibushi vs Sanada
Worth a watch tier- Juice vs Naito
- Juice vs Omega
- ZSJ vs Sanada
- Juice vs Ibushi
Ibushi is clearly the best dude in the world right now. Nonstop greatness with every opponent, each match a completely different style. Worth noting that the crowd doesn't exactly turn on Kenny in every match I've seen, but they definitely have wanted his opponent to win in all the matches I've seen but one. Crowd was 100% for Naito from the jump in their match, although Naito is the most over guy in the company so that's not super surprising.
