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Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:41 pm
by maxx_powerz
Surprised WWE is still interested in Japanese wrestlers after KENTA and Nakamura haven't really panned out, although I imagine in terms of expectations Kushida would be closer to Tozawa than those two.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:07 pm
by famicommander
I'm always willing to take a shot at WWE. Until they stop sucking, at which point I will take all the credit.
So really, you should all be thanking me.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:43 pm
by dhads7161
205 is going to need better booking and stronger names when they begin touring as a brand. Kushida would be good for the brand.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:59 pm
by supersonic
Any chance Kushida would have an ROH farewell against Shelley?
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:43 pm
by dhads7161
If he had an ROH farewell I'd want it to be Kushida with Shelley and Sabin vs. The Elite.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:46 pm
by Mr. Mojo Risin
maxx_powerz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:41 pm
Surprised WWE is still interested in Japanese wrestlers after KENTA and Nakamura haven't really panned out, although I imagine in terms of expectations Kushida would be closer to Tozawa than those two.
Yeah, this is kind of what I was thinking. I don't know. Vince doesn't seem to give a fuck about the Japanese guys. The one guy that was super over, Nakamura, is shit now. Vince jobbed him out to the talentless roid head Jinder Mahal...because breaking into the Indian market was much more important. Nakamura's has shit value now. Didn't help he was mailing it in after his classic debut match with Sami Zayn in NXT. KENTA has been injured constantly. Doesn't matter. Vince wouldn't do shit with him anyway. Towaza is a safe booking performer on 205 Live and that's where I expect KUSHIDA to be. Depressing news.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:21 am
by LJimmy
I'm not sure where this thing about Kushida is coming from. The tweet says they have told promoters they won't be taking any more bookings past the middle of January. Where does Kushida work besides New Japan and their affiliates? Whoever they're talking about is clearly someone who works a ton of indies in between tours.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:38 am
by supersonic
VoW also says it’s unrelated to 205 Live house shows.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:33 pm
by Big Red Machine
kovs27 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:51 pm
dhads7161 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:47 am
Kushida. Read somewhere earlier this year WWE were looking at him.
If they won't move him up to the heavyweight division there really isn't anymore he can do in NJPW.
He can stay around NJPW/ROH/CMLL/RevPro having awesome matches with Ospreay, Scurll, Hiromu, BUSHI, ACH, Rocky Romero, Taguchi, Dragon Lee, Titan, Volador Jr., Josh Bodom, Travis Banks, Zack Sabre Jr., Desperado, Kanemaru, Kawato, David Starr, Jay Lethal, Gresham, (and hopefully soon Austin Aries). Maybe he can find a partner and go after the tag titles and have matches against the Young Bucks and Roppongi 3K and so forth, and just stay around New Japan as the ace of the Jr. Heavyweight Division and basically become an all-time legend? Doesn't sound like a bad gig at all to me.
Maybe Gedo could even get creative (wishful thinking, I know) and actually make use of the word "Openweight" in the NEVER Openweight Title as a way to set KUSHIDA up for matches against guys like Omega and Tanahashi and Suzuki and Ibushi and so forth?
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:02 pm
by kovs27
Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:33 pm
kovs27 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:51 pm
dhads7161 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:47 am
Kushida. Read somewhere earlier this year WWE were looking at him.
If they won't move him up to the heavyweight division there really isn't anymore he can do in NJPW.
He can stay around NJPW/ROH/CMLL/RevPro having awesome matches with Ospreay, Scurll, Hiromu, BUSHI, ACH, Rocky Romero, Taguchi, Dragon Lee, Titan, Volador Jr., Josh Bodom, Travis Banks, Zack Sabre Jr., Desperado, Kanemaru, Kawato, David Starr, Jay Lethal, Gresham, (and hopefully soon Austin Aries). Maybe he can find a partner and go after the tag titles and have matches against the Young Bucks and Roppongi 3K and so forth, and just stay around New Japan as the ace of the Jr. Heavyweight Division and basically become an all-time legend? Doesn't sound like a bad gig at all to me.
Maybe Gedo could even get creative (wishful thinking, I know) and actually make use of the word "Openweight" in the NEVER Openweight Title as a way to set KUSHIDA up for matches against guys like Omega and Tanahashi and Suzuki and Ibushi and so forth?
I love your idea of putting the NEVER Openweight Title on KUSHIDA so he can wrestle heavyweights. That opens the door to so many new match-ups for him.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:16 pm
by dhads7161
Tag titles partner would be Taguchi probably.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:38 pm
by King of Indy Style
God I wish that they'd make the NEVER Openweight Title an actual Openweight Title again. I love that it's the BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER belt but they are really missing out on some neat matches. I'd have much rather seen KUSHIDA wrestle Suzuki for the NEVER Belt at the Dome instead of another MEH Goto-Suzuki match.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:00 pm
by Mr. Mojo Risin
King of Indy Style wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:38 pm
God I wish that they'd make the NEVER Openweight Title an actual Openweight Title again. I love that it's the BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER belt but they are really missing out on some neat matches. I'd have much rather seen KUSHIDA wrestle Suzuki for the NEVER Belt at the Dome instead of another MEH Goto-Suzuki match.
THIS x 1000
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:11 pm
by Big Red Machine
Mr. Mojo Risin wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:00 pm
King of Indy Style wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:38 pm
God I wish that they'd make the NEVER Openweight Title an actual Openweight Title again. I love that it's the BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER belt but they are really missing out on some neat matches. I'd have much rather seen KUSHIDA wrestle Suzuki for the NEVER Belt at the Dome instead of another MEH Goto-Suzuki match.
THIS x 1000
Not only that, but just doing it once and putting it on a Jr. Heavyweight would allow them to use it as essentially a second Jr. Heavyweight singles title for a bit, which could then be used to set up some sort of match down the line, either champion vs. champion or after the NEVER champ loses the belt to a heavyweight.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:21 pm
by monster mafia
kushida in wwe? oh god no.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:52 pm
by dhads7161
A Kushida vs. Sabre feud over the NEVER title would be great.
Kushida & Tanahashi would be cool as a championship tag team.
Kushida chasing the IC or US title would be alright too especially if Jay White beats Tanahashi at the dome.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:04 am
by The Dragon Saga
So apparently ROH has interest in bringing Eddie Edwards back once his contract with Impact expires in February, where it's unlikely he'll stick around because Impact are going to be paying everyone except for Del Rio on per-day contracts and not salaries like the ones EE, EC3 and Lashley are on.
I think Edwards has been gone long enough so that him returning would be fresh.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:34 am
by Big Red Machine
The Dragon Saga wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:04 am
So apparently ROH has interest in bringing Eddie Edwards back once his contract with Impact expires in February, where it's unlikely he'll stick around because Impact are going to be paying everyone except for Del Rio on per-day contracts and not salaries like the ones EE, EC3 and Lashley are on.
I think Edwards has been gone long enough so that him returning would be fresh.
He's also an excellent wrestler, a former world champion coming home, and a guy who a lot of fans feel a special connection to due to him still wrestling a Ladder War the night after breaking his arm. They'd be crazy not to bring him back.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:56 am
by monster mafia
Eddie Edwards?oh yeah baby.
Re: ALL PURPOSE CONTRACT STATUS/POTENTIAL DEPARTURES THREAD
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:55 pm
by famicommander
Is Eddie still GHC Heavyweight Champ? I imagine that will change when he leaves Impact either eay. I'd love to see him back.