Official Cruiserweight Classic Thread

[Ill Lou Malnati]

only the introductions was on facebook...not that serious

Your butt's not that serious!

 

[stro]

WTF this is TWO MONTHS LONG? A 32 man tournament...two fukking months.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Superkick Party]

Dirtsheets say Teddy Hart is in the audience.

da god

also

Based on matches taped at Thursday's first WWE Cruiserweight Classic event from Full Sail University, below are first round brackets for the 32-man tournament that premieres Wednesday, July 13th on the WWE Network:

* Gran Metalik vs. Alejandro Saez
* Ho Ho Lun vs. Ariya Daivari

* Clement Petiot vs. Cedric Alexander
* The Brian Kendrick vs. Raul Mendoza

* Tajiri vs. Damian Slater
* TJ Perkins vs. Da Mack

* Lince Dorado vs. Mustafa Ali
* Akira Tozawa vs. Kenneth Johnson

* Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tyson Dux
* Drew Gulak vs. Harv Shira

* Tony Nese vs. Anthony Bennett
* Kota Ibushi vs. Sean Maluta

* Rich Swann vs. Jason Lee
* Noam Dar vs. Gurv Shira

* Jack Gallagher vs. Fabian Aichner
* Johnny Gargano vs. Tomasso Ciampa

 

[8WON6]

Getting hype watching this "meet the comp" vid.

 

[Superkick Party]

HHH treating this like a shoot tournament nikka got the winners getting announced like in UFC

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

WWE Cruiserweight Classic competitor Anthony Bennett reportedly twisted his knee during a match with Tony Nese at last week’s Cruiserweight Classic taping. There is no word on how serious the injury is as of this writing.

EVOLVE President and booker Gabe Sapolsky tweeted the following on Monday, revealing that there will be Cruiserweight Classic "showcase matches" at EVOLVE’s live events in July and August:

 

[Jmare007]

WTF this is TWO MONTHS LONG? A 32 man tournament...two fukking months.

I wonder how they are gonna fill the episodes once they don't have that many matches. I hope they do hype videos and shyt.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[HollywoodP]

I remember randomly watching a match with HoHo Lun like a year ago on youtube...i don't even remember how i got there...who he was wrestling or why I was watching it. Weird seeing him in this tourny.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

bump for the bracketology next

 

[The Rainmaker]

Bryan shouting out Chile a lot

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Bryan is so excited about this

 

[g-ice]

Watching this so far

UK getting the most love thus far

 

[lunchmeat]

Tyson Dux about to get that first round elimination