WWE UK Championship Tournament (Both Days LD)

[Dave]

100% agree. The thing is, the WWE seemed to have a lot more confidence in the CWC. They brought some of the very best talent around and it paid off. The wrestling was exciting and really polished. Basically, you could tell that the talent involved were going to make an impact. When you consider that the WWE could have brought in people like Zack Sabre Jr, Will Ospreay, Magnus, Grado, Jack Jester. ... Hell, they could even have brought in Wade Barrett or put Neville over there.

Don't get me wrong, it's fine for what it is. But the talent pool could have been 10 times better.

 

[Papa Pillman]

I definitely agree that a lot of the guys who lost yesterday were filler, and made up a good deal of my criticism about the lack of the top UK talent that was in the field(though they all did a decent enough job of helping the winners come out looking really good), but now that we're down to the final eight, the filler has been dismissed and remaining guys like Dunne, Andrews, Wolfgang, Seven, Bate, and Conners are all top guys(or on the verge at least) on the scene and should make for a great championship day if they don't burn out.

 

[Барбоса]

Is this tournament a showcase or a starting point for a promotion?

From what I have read, it is the latter so it is somewhat sensible to not have the tournament completely stacked as then you have to have some of your best talent beaten early in their exposure.

It also gives a simple but effective early storyline for the new promotion with some regional heel turning up to say that the champion only won the tournament "because I was not in it."

Champion has to prove himself and heel gets to be a massive dick.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I know if I were setting up a promotion I'd want a range of world class, distinctive talent. As it is, a dozen of these guys are basically "When I was three years old I already had a moustache and I killed my dad in a bar fight. I don't do fancy flips." It might be that this was a round when eight of the guys were warm bodies but that didn't stop most of the matches being absolutely tedious, which you'll not convince me is part of a long term plan. I can't help but think what the likes El Ligero, Dave Mastiff, or Zack Gibson would have made of this opportunity if they weren't contractually bound to be in the latest season of Ninja Warrior UK.

 

[Барбоса]

Maybe all this proves is that WWE are either a little tentative when it comes to a UK region or in terms of contracts, a little late to the party.

 

[Барбоса]

I hate the loser standing with the referee like he expects to have his hand raised after the match.

 

[Uncle Sam]

That's a holdover from the Cruiserweight Classic.

 

[Dan Severn's Moustache]

I'll be rooting for Andrews. Wales deserves better representation than Mason Ryan in the WWE.

 

[Bagpipes]

Wolfgang has been the only thing that's excited me in Part 1 so far.

 

[Bagpipes]

Andrews was fun but he looks like a 4th grader with a beard and an Alex Shelley haircut.

 

[Sai the Uganda Guy]

Rewatching the last bit of part 1. Ready for what the night (or afternoon for me) has in store.

 

[Hyorinmaru]

I'm here live for this one.

Pretty excited too.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Here we here we here we fucking gooooo.

 

[Hyorinmaru]

The ending with Dunne & Gradwell has me interested in what's happening with all that tonight.

Was Gradwell injured or what?

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Nigel and Cole rocking the Blue Peter badges...

 

[Black Anaconda Vise]

Pete Dunne is such a dick and it's quite lovely

 

[Uncle Sam]

Bradwell reminds me of that French lad who used to be on NXT, Marcus Louis - i.e. he's bald and I have no interest in him.

 

[Hyorinmaru]

Bradwell reminds me of that French lad who used to be on NXT, Marcus Louis - i.e. he's bald and I have no interest in him.

So much non interest you can't even remember his name it seems.

 

[The Life Of Pablo Ren]

Finish kind of came out of nowhere

 

[Dave]

That much was twice as good as anything last night. That bodes well.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Michael Cole was mumbling, I can't be held accountable.

 

[Black Anaconda Vise]

Finish was sorta outta nowhere but a pretty fun little opener. Gradwell got to show off and Pete Dunne remains a little shit

 

[Uncle Sam]

That's not how you pronounce H, mate - not even in Blackpool. Booooo!

 

[Hyorinmaru]

I'm thinking this is setting up a Trent Seven & Pete Dunne final with Dunne finally getting his comeuppance to end the night.

 

[Uncle Sam]

"A man who's had a very hard life." Apparently all these guys were birthed into a nest of used needles so you're going to have to be more specific.