Official Cruiserweight Classic Thread

[Playaz Eyez]

Cedric Alexander is good. Not sold on him being a better Apollo Crews just because they happen to be floundering Apollo in WWE.

If you've any of his ROH work, he's way far ahead of Crews as far as charisma and natural ring presence goes. I like Crews, but so far in the WWE, he's just been the black Neville, a guy whose very good in the ring with apparently a dearth of personality.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Random thoughts on this first round of the tournament:

- I enjoy the overall look and presentation of this. Reminded me of a live action video game or Saturday morning type show (which wouldn't be a bad concept, thinking about it).

- Metalik showed what I expected to see from him. Impressive.

- Saez was impressive, considering I expected him to be a complete jabroni. While his facial and body expressions could be toned down, he's not bad for a guy whose country didn't have wrestling before him.

- Can't say the same for Hoho, who seemed to be over with the neckbeards solely for how they can chant his name. I don't wanna hate on him too much, but he was just bad. Weak strikes, not much grasp on selling, he couldn't chain together his moves like how he wanted. Just a general lack of...looking like he belonged in there. He seemed lost.
Surprised he got the W, but I'm guessing that's more because WWE's trying to get footholds in China.

- Daivari is already better than his brother in this short match I saw him in, and I'm surprised he didn't at least last another round or two based off his look and chinlocky style which is a WWE staple and preference.

- Glad to see the homie Cedric Alexander make it to WWE. ROH squandered him big time. He delivered like I knew he could.

- It's kinda hard saying much about the "big" names in this, I know what they can do. What's worth saying a bit more about is the dudes who are still a mystery to me, like a Hoho Lun or Clement Petiot.

- Speaking of Petiot, I liked the idea of a Malenko/Benoit style shooter in this, but he couldn't really live up to that archetype. He was good, but rather forgettable.

- Ibushi's rep and ring work speaks for itself.

- Sean Maluta was good. I thought that dive was a bit reckless, but I liked the sell of desperation in it, that you might not get a shot again. He probably gets a shot in the future based off bloodline and competent ring work.

- Bryan and Mauro are the best WWE commentary team in maybe a decade.

This is good, but will definitely get more interesting the further in we go, once we get past the first round.

 

[Kang Deezy]

If you've any of his ROH work, he's way far ahead of Crews as far as charisma and natural ring presence goes. I like Crews, but so far in the WWE, he's just been the black Neville, a guy whose very good in the ring with apparently a dearth of personality.

It took like 2 minutes watching his cwc match to determine he's better.

He should get signed

 

[23Barrettcity]

Loved it. Matches presented as real fights. D Bry and Mauro calling the action. The lil video packages. This is dope. The E knows how to do good shyt, hopefully down the line Raw and Smack change up for the better from shyt like this.

When you have a total package like this, then the work rate in the matches isnt even that important. Example, the match with the asian kid was whatever (not the Ibushi match), but the overall presentation made it worth the watch.



The highlight of the night for me was D Bry saying "THIS GUY IS CRAZY THIS GUY IS INSANE" and immediately dude does a shooting star off the apron. It showed D Bry knew his shyt, had genuine enthusiasm and concern for whats happening, plus it got over the logic of doing some dumb shyt like that.

My only complaint is I hoped smackdown would have some of these production elements in but seeing them in the Cwc most likely means not happening

 

[TBdaGhost]

People on Twitter are hyping the fukk outta Cedric vs Ibushi.

Probably like a month before we get to see it

 

[Riley Escobar]

Mauro and Bryan on Smackdown commentary together would be piff

Much rather D Bry does that than (apparently) what they've got planned for him on that show

 

[TheAlbionist]

This was GREAT.

I legit forgot all about kayfabe and marked to the results like proper competition sports for the first time since I was about 9.

The presentation is A1, but you also really feel that this means SO MUCH to a lot of those guys that some/all of them are genuinely leaving it all out there and CARE about staying in for the next round... obviously the final has probably been set in stone for months, but it feels like there's genuine kudos for wrestlers advancing in the early rounds and that the early rounds results may partially reflect the impression people have made in the PC over the last few weeks.

Count me in.

Then bring it back next year or turn it into some sort of on-running league.

Just give me MORE

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Tbh Mauro and works because they aren't being over produced on the headset by Vince like Raw and SmackDown are.

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Those New Wrestling of Japan inspired intros

The only match I didn't care for was Hoho's. Can't wait for Ciampa/Gargano. Y'all gonna see why they're hyped up online

 

[MightyHealthy]

Those New Wrestling of Japan inspired intros

The only match I didn't care for was Hoho's. Can't wait for Ciampa/Gargano. Y'all gonna see why they're hyped up online

shyt, Ciampa/Joe was a fukking classic to me.

And I'm glad to see Hoho getting clowned. Wayyyyy too green and mediocre, everyone knows he only win his match to throw Chinese folks a bone.

 

[Psychosis]

Spoiler

I didn't see the full mtch yet but
What exactly happened here, was that a botch? Regardless it looked pretty dope.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Can't see it, but I'm assuming that was Uso #3 attempting a diving 450. That could've gone very bad, but it actually looked pretty cool

 

[Kang Deezy]

Spoiler

I didn't see the full mtch yet but
What exactly happened here, was that a botch? Regardless it looked pretty dope.

The announcers playing it off that he had to lay it all out there against arguably the favorite to win it all was brilliant

Anyways, it appears Ibushi and gran Metallic have been signed

This is gonna turn into a weekly show

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Spoiler

I didn't see the full mtch yet but
What exactly happened here, was that a botch? Regardless it looked pretty dope.

it looked like he jumped too early, but if he was going for a 450 plancha

 

[TBdaGhost]

Spoiler

I didn't see the full mtch yet but
What exactly happened here, was that a botch? Regardless it looked pretty dope.

Definate botch lol. I thought it was hilarious. It could have been bad