29 thoughts on “So what wrestling are you into right now?”

  1. NJPW – Probably my new favorite. Solid matches, no out-of-ring storylines, focus on it as sports competition.

    Chikara – Fun!

    WWE – I’m way into NXT, and I watch the main stuff to keep track of a handful I really like – Bray Wyatt, Bo Dallas, etc.

  5. I would watch Asistencia Asesoría y Administración or Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre but Eastern Europe cannot into Lucha Libre. I’m stuck with Polish TV translation of WWE with three week delay or download RoH (of which I know almost nothing) from torrents. 

    I hate you Americans 😉

  6. Tom Bowen everything since Summerslam has been the absolute pits, hasn’t it.

    Matthew Aaron oh man are you going to King of Trios?!

    Adams Tower if you can go to a live Chikara show, they are absolutely the best. I’m sure this is true of most smaller promotions but the crowd energy doesn’t translate onto camera as well (though I still pick up an iPPV every so often when I can)

    Maciej Sabat Yeesh. There has to be pirated AAA out there somewhere (NOT THAT I CONDONE SUCH BEHAVIOR!)

    Bret Gillan how are you watching AJPW? I keep getting overwhelmed by choice and not knowing what to watch.

  8. Nathan Paoletta I totally am going to King of Trios! It’ll be my first Chikara show and I’m definitely excited.

    I hope Ophidian got his gear situation sorted though. Sucks what happened to him.

  9. I should be able to go to a Chikara show at some point, I live right outside Philly. Unfortunately I’m going to be in Pittsburgh this weekend.

    I’m interested in them for the convoluted story, though, and I think following it is going to require watching a lot on video.

  11. RE: Chikara. The nice thing about it is that the storyline is optional for the most part and simple at a very basic level. It has a lot of intricacies, but they aren’t as needed to get the basic idea of Evil Invaders Returning and Want To Destroy Chikara.

    But yeah, I’m a big indie guy despite living in the Pacific Northwest, the black hole of indie wrestling.

  12. Status: marked out for WWE (mostly NXT, a bit of the main storylines). Not as much time to watch the full shows, but I’m surprisingly satisfied w/ catching summaries from youtube + random retweets.

  15. Yeah NXT is so good that the main roster should be embarrassed. Seriously how are they out-storytelling their main product? Or to flip it, why is it so hard to replicate what NXT is doing in the main product?

    3 shows a week/6 hours of television maybe vs 1 hour a week?

  18. I think one big difference is that there’s a single creative vision for NXT, while the rest of the product is just a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen mess. Also, it’s a stationary promotion with a home audience, so it’s more like a PWG or something, where the wrestlers grow and get better before the fans eyes.

  23. My faves right now are Chikara, Ring of Honor, Evolve/DGUSA, NXT,  AAW and AIW.  Current top two Chikara and AIW.  Don’t watch the weekly WWE shows (other than NXT), though I do watch the PPVs as I have the WWE Network (which I’m mainly using for NXT and watching the old WWF/WCW shows in chronological order, reliving those old days – currently in 1993.)  

  25. Terry Willitts  I’ve looked a little bit at AIW, and was interested because they seemed to be advertising women about as much as men. Can you tell me what you like about it?

  27. Adams Tower AIW does a lot with their women wrestlers – I like that they treat them as equals with the men.  In general, what I like about AIW is… well, they’re a lot of fun.  They’re a little “edgy” (and I’m an olde sk00l ECW fan, so I like edgy), but they’re a blend of edgy and silly and fun and smart.  They have a lot of themed, yearly occuring events.  In short, lots of fun, get a lot of great talent, good booking.  I can’t recommend them enough.  (Also one of their recurring events is Girl’s Night Out, an all ladies’ event, except for any matches where it’s women vs men.)  

    In fact (and I’ll tag Nathan Paoletta for this, too) – they’re having a sale on some DVDs as low as $5 each – http://www.aiwrestling.com/shop/sale.html 

  29. Adams Tower Excellent!  I just watched that earlier today and am mid-way through Night 2 (but paused to play a hangouts Fate RPG) 

    I thought the six pack scramble was great fun, loved seeing The Hooligans again as well. 

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