The Other Wrestlemania Weekend shows *SPOILERS*

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Will add to the OP tomorrow but here is the basic schedule:

Ring of Honor SuperCard of Honor VII Friday, April 5th
CZW at WrestleCon Friday, April 5th
Evolve 19 Friday, April 5th

Dragon Gate USA Open the Ultimate Gate 2013 Saturday, April 6th
SHIMMER Saturday, April 6th

New Japan PPV Sunday, April 7th (7am our time)
Dragon Gate USA Mercury Rising 2013 Sunday, April 7th
WrestleMania XXIX Sunday, April 7th

Super hyped and aim to watch them all.

DGUSA probably has the best cards overall IMO.

EVERYTHING you need to know if plan to watch anything this weekend:
http://www.pwponderings.com/2013/04/02/the-official-pro-wrestling-ponderings-wrestlemania-weekend-preview/

Shimmer, EVOLVE, DGUSA are all available here: http://wwnlive.com/
Ring of Honor is available here: http://www.rohwrestling.com/IPPV
New Japan: I'll post the link when I get it.

Machismo Fan

One Night Only:p (though I suppose technically we don't get it until the Wednesday after WM weekend).

I might get one show, leaning towards New Japan purely because I'd be shocked if Okada lost again and I'd like to see him win the title.

GTR63

Not PW related but Gustafsson is likely out of the main even of the Swedish Ufc card next Saturday which is a disaster.
Get ZLATAN!

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Machismo Fan wrote: »

One Night Only:p (though I suppose technically we don't get it until the Wednesday after WM weekend).

I might get one show, leaning towards New Japan purely because I'd be shocked if Okada lost again and I'd like to see him win the title.

New Japan will definitely be the closest spectacle show to Wrestlemania compared to others and probably be a better Wrestling show.

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Not PW related but Gustafsson is likely out of the main even of the Swedish Ufc card next Saturday which is a disaster.
Get ZLATAN!

Don't forget out Conor McGregor fighting on the Facebook portion of the card.

GTR63

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Don't forget out Conor McGregor fighting on the Facebook portion of the card.

More thinking about the locals paying for a Pearson vs Couture as a main event.
If your reading this pick up the phone Rich Franklin

BohsJohnny

Will be getting the roh show,new japan and wrestlemania of course really looking forward to the new japan show,since last summer i can't get enough Puroresu still enjoy most of wwe and have gotten back into roh and love pwg but nearly all my favorite stuff is coming out of Japan.

Cherry_Cola

PWS are putting on some decent shows on the Thursday and Friday night too and they'll be available on Highspots.com I think.

Pretty good card for them and the Thursday show has a 30 man rumble match too.

I'll be heading to it and the CZW, Chikara and DGUSA shows too. In a weird way I'm looking forward to some of those shows more than WM itself

EdK

Hope you guys enjoy the various shows,Opted to attend ROH on Frida,Chikara on Saturday and DGUSA this year, Dragongate and ROH are always awesome this time of year but its my first time ever going to Chikara should be a lot of fun

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Updated OP and link for the New Japan show:
http://www.ustream.tv/njpw

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For anyone on the fence about the SHIMMER iPPV, this is one of SHIMMER's best matches, from Volume 35, Madison Eagles vs. Jessie McKay. They rematch on the iPPV on Saturday afternoon

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Anyone watch EVOLVE or ROH?

ROH was a great show with one really strong match in Mike Elgin vs Jay Lethal and a great show being told of Jay Briscoe finally winning the World title - think Mankind's first title win. However if you were watching live the otherwise excellent stream cut out for the pinfall. :eek:

Speaking of streams cutting out EVOLVE was just a mess started 30 minutes later due to technical issues. Then would cut out all over the place. The show itself was fine can't rag on the performances but the booking of the tournament was SO ****ty with screwy finishes and the final didn't feel like a climax at all.

GREATLY looking forward to Shimmer at 5pm. Hope people take a chance on it.

QikBax

Just finished the ROH. The Elgin Lethal match was indeed fantastic.

Really liked Corino's Matt Hardy intro.

Good show to start the weekend.

BohsJohnny

Watched ROH live really enjoyed it shame about the main event cutting out but I agree the Elgin/lethal match was great and I liked the tag title match a lot as well can't wait for New Japan.

Machismo Fan

It still baffles me that ROH haven't put everything they have behind Elgin yet.

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Machismo Fan wrote: »

It still baffles me that ROH haven't put everything they have behind Elgin yet.

Give it two months when he challenges for the title at Border Wars. :pac:

For serious have a gander at Shimmer if you are at a loose end:
http://ringbellesonline.com/2013/04/06/your-shimmer-vol-53-primer-for-ippv-viewers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Delighted for Briscoe. Been there since the very first show and has killed himself for ROH ever since.

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DGUSA probably had their best show ever last night. The only issue is that Shimmer ran an hour long which had a knock on effect on CHIKARA and then DGUSA. But DGUSA ploughed on and didn't shave any time off their matches despite most of them greatly needing to.

Ricochet/Tozawa and Super Smash Brothers versus EITA and Tomahawk TT were pretty special. The main event Johnny Gargano vs Shingo seems to be really polarising as it went excessively to some, they a zillion near falls even by DGUSA standards telling the story Gargano couldn't beat Shingo until Gargano went into his trunks and got athletic tape and choked out Shingo with the referee unaware. Johnny after the match cut his standard babyface show end promo like nothing happened to a chorus of boos.

Just started New Japan after a **** morning personally. Devitt's full heel turn was gold. He finally turned on the last babyface he was friends with being his Apollo 55 tag team partner Taguchi.

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Hope everythings ok rovie. Keep us up to date on how the rest of the New Japan show is.

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Some HUGE huge praise online for Okada/Tanahashi.

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Pete Campbell wrote: »

Hope everythings ok rovie. Keep us up to date on how the rest of the New Japan show is.

Just had to deal with a massive work break in after two hours sleep.
Keeping spoiler free but the main event Tanahashi vs Okada apparently is the new greatest thing ever and Meltzer gave it *****.

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Overall I didn't think it was as good as the Toyko Dome show in January.

I will remember the under card as being a showcase of established characters and personalities and the main event of Tanahashi vs Okada as a classic with off the charts drama. The replay is worth it for that one match but nothing on the undercard is under ***.

Wrestlemania could totally **** the bed and I'll still be a happy camper.

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rovert wrote: »

Overall I didn't think it was as good as the Toyko Dome show in January.

I will remember the under card as being a showcase of established characters and personalities and the main event of Tanahashi vs Okada as a classic with off the charts drama. The replay is worth it for that one match but nothing on the undercard is under ***.

Wrestlemania could totally **** the bed and I'll still be a happy camper.

How good is the main? I've seen people calling it the best match of not just this year but many years?

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Did I not make it clear enough?

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rovert wrote: »

Did I not make it clear enough?

I demand more hyperbole.