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Daily Discussion Thread 7/23/17 – WWE Battleground live chat!

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Tonight we’ll be commentating on WWE Battleground – come and join us! Consider this your all-day discussion thread for G1 Climax 27 talk, sports, etc.

Be sure to listen to our Battleground preview plus much more from the recent Main Event:

255 thoughts on “Daily Discussion Thread 7/23/17 – WWE Battleground live chat!”

  2. Tossed on the Bruno vs Ivan Koloff cage match from the Sammartino collection to mark time before the PPV preshow. I realize it must’ve been a blowoff match and you want to make the fans happy, but man, it was basically a ten-minute squash.

    1. Watching old stuff for the GWWE 100 I am simply astounded how over every move Bruno makes is. The crowd loses their minds on every punch.

          1. I still have to dive into the Backlund era. I know I need to see the Pat Patterson matches, Snuka, Patera, Graham, Dusty, etc. Might go back to the Exile show on Backlund for more highlights.

          2. I just watcged a great Koloff/Backlund match. Good sampler for both guys.
            Msg August 78.

    1. It’s the first show I’ve actually checked out since Mania, should be interesting if nothing else.

  5. Watching some HBK Mania matches right now (I’ll be in and out for Battleground too). That tag match from V is still a gem.

      1. Same here, first Mania I owned on VHS. The opener from VII is pretty awesome as well.

      1. Agreed, he should disappear for another 10 year’s until the the next ethnic Indian gets a big push!

  18. I like that roll up move by Xavier. Was like a roll up destroyer. Very good match

      1. Party seemed great last night by the way. My wife said she would take a short nap and head up with me but we both ended up passing out.

  25. Non-wrestling related question for the group…

    Has anyone brewed their own beer?

    I will be undertaking this as a new hobby come August for the fall. It’s relatively easy if you have cooking experience and monitoring yeast with his water temperature.

    I’m asking to see if anyone had any advice they learned through their own experiences.

    .

  26. If you wear patriotic gear in a fight in philly you got a good chance of winning. First Apollo creed now new day.

      1. I feel like one of the Sami Zayn matches was pretty good, and there was that Kalisto chair match that was shockingly not bad. Otherwise you’d have to go back to NXT.

          2. The weekly thrown-together tag matches have a relatively high baseline. Pairing him with Ziggy and Corbin out of the gate has sucked though. Maybe Owens is a feud they want to save for later, but it would’ve been a hot debut feud too.

      2. I liked the second match against Dolph, from SmackDown. Thought it was quite excellent.

  30. I don’t know haven’t bee. Feeling nak on main roster. It’s like Itami in nxt

  31. Nakamura is trying to keep the pace going but Corbin stumbles around too much

          1. Champion sweatshirts, no fear t-shirts and starter jackets that’s my 90s wardrobe

  44. Just caught up. Really dug the tag match. I like the idea of SDL turning New Day in to a workrate kinda tag team. Thought Nak and Corbin really picked up and became hard hitting. Like the finish if we get more of the second half. Corbin has developed but I don’t think he’s got the presence to hold a bear hug for longer than 30 seconds yet.

      2. Probably rushed it because of how long it takes to set up the Punjabi Prison match.

    1. Who is that in the first picture on the wall to the left of the 09 yanks?

          2. Your email said one autograph please and that was it, anything else and no autograph for you!

    1. The energy seems to have lasted till the end of the tag match and hasn’t really come back yet.

      1. Could be setting up a Summerslam rematch but there are countless better way of going about that.

        1. Yeah I’m fine with them going at it again at summerslam but that was dumb

          1. I think the WWE 2k14 session I’ve been in the middle of during this show has been more compelling.

  61. Still love Rusev’s entrance music, like something out of an action film.

  62. If only Bulgaria had a bigger population rusev would be the world champion

    2. I don’t know if its the crowd not being that into it or what but nothing outside of that opener seems to be clicking.

      1. I really can’t blame the crowd because I agree with them. Everything besides the opener has been underwhelming

        1. I can’t either but I think it might be affecting the in-ring performances too.

          2. I actually don’t mind chinlocks at all, but it’s all about timing for them. I love his trash talk, but sometimes I think he stretches them out too much and puts them in weird places. Doesn’t bother me otherwise, as I think chinlocks are great at times for getting the crowd rallied behind the face. It’s a fine line though, for sure.

    3. I’m waiting on Rusev to be as good as I always thought he could be, personally. Plus he and Cena don’t have good chemistry, IMO.

      At this rate, they should’ve main evented with the tag title match.

        1. Yeah I haven’t liked any of their matches. But honestly I can’t think of any PPV Rusev matches I love.

    1. How is the philly tables union? Because someone clearly slacked on the job and left them right near the ramp just poor judgement.

  78. What a bore fest. I was begging for a botch in that match. At least we were having fun making fun of over the top Americans. And they let the American flag drop. Surprising.

    1. This sort of thing is just dying for early 90’s Tony Schiavone, he’d sell it to an adequate degree.

  82. Mike Bennett is from the town next to me so I like rooting for the local guy.

  83. Digging the annoying lovers gimmick here. Sort of reminds me of that SNL sketch with Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch as “lov-ahs”.

      1. I tend to agree, some gimmicks have an odd way of making a person bullet proof.

      1. Haha, they should put up a section of wwe movies. The live chats would be hilarious.

      1. Does look like the external shots was of Nashville. (I live outside of Nashville and saw the batman building)

  90. “This is only the third ever and let me tell you why…”

    Because Jinder is only the second Indian main eventer since 2007.

    1. There’s a wonderfully cheesy 90’s action movie called King of the Kickboxers that has a cage like this in the end fight.

  94. If you thought the Flag Match had weird rules, the Punjabi Prison says “Hold my drink”

    1. I watched the Batista/Khali prison match and it was passable – sub ***, but the rules are sooo dumb

  95. I think the whole punjabi prison system needs an overhaul why would they leave the doors open for one min once a prisoner is put inside.

  96. So like if Jinder got out of the 2nd door, what would stop Orton from just having them open the third door and then also escaping?

    1. What hurts worse – bamboo or a cage? Why does JBL keep saying how much this structure hurts?

    2. Reminder – Batista jumped from one wall to the other to win. That was a good finish to make up for the weird rules when you don’t escape the initial cage first

  98. My favorite Punjabi prison match, was when Batista jumped from one cage to another.

  102. For what it’s worth my non-wrestling fan friends are really enjoying Punjabi Prison,

  111. Might as well use Khali to get Jinder heat.

    That was a show i will not be watching again.

  112. What an idiotic gimmick match. Didn’t like it at all. I think the tag was excellent, but sadly nothing else came close.

    First really bad PPV of the year, to me.

    2. They feuded the whole time and Khali left the company as a face, so while it’s slight storyline continuation, it’s still shitty continuation.

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