I'm in training for a new job this week.
Naturally, that means I spent some meeting time scratching out an All-Star wrestling weekend.
Card rules are the same as for the body of the Counterfactual, 8 matches a night, two of them are tags, plus a dark match for each show. I'd like every match for all 3 nights to approximate 20 minutes, making each night (considering entrances and exits) about 3 hours. I sort of like the idea that every match gets the same bell time so we can fairly compare them. Everyone gets 20 to have the very best possible match they can have. That's what I like.
I didn't have the benefit of much contemplation, could be I've overlooked someone.
Night One:
Dark: Eddie Edwards v. Roderick Strong
Opening Tag Match: Ikuto Hidaka/Akira Tozawa v. Hiroshi Yamato/Dragon Kid
Match 2: Hirooki Goto v. Kazuchika Okada
Match 3: Jun Akiyama v. Christian
Match 4: Daisuke Sekimoto v. Takeshi Morishima
Match 5: CM Punk v. AJ Styles
Match 6: CIMA/Mochizuki v. Kaz Hayashi/Ry Taguchi
Semi-Main: El Generico v. Pac
Main Event: Bryan Danielson v. Davey Richards
Night Two:
Dark: Daichi Hashimoto v. Taiji Ishimori
Opening Tag: Tetsuya Naito/Yujiro Takahashi v. Kenny Omega/Dolph Ziggler
Match 2: Kevin Steen v. Kazushi Miyamoto
Match 3: Go Shiozaki v. Togi Makabe
Match 4: Rey Mysterio v. Chris Jericho
Match 5: Yuji Nagata v. Masato Tanaka
Match 6: Briscoes v. Kings of Wrestling
Semi-Main: Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Shinsuke Nakamura
Main Event: Katsuhiko Nakajima v. Prince Devitt
Night Three:
Dark: Tyson Kidd v. Tyler Black v. Ricochet
Opening Tag: Young Bucks v. Atsushi Aoki/Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Match 2: Low Ki v. Austin Aries
Match 3: Shingo Takagi v. Kohei Suwama
Match 4. Kurt Angle v. Takashi Sugiura
Match 5: Kotaro Suzuki v. Kota Ibushi
Match 6: Yoshino/Doi v. Motor City Machine Guns
Match 7: Samoa Joe v. Brock Lesnar
Main: Kenta v. Marufuji
Older than Twitter. Not quite as profitable. A pro wrestling counterfactual: What if the World Wrestling Federation was organized around workrate, around the idea that the pivotal word in the phrase "sports entertainment" is the first? Can one Ricky Steamboat pinfall put right what once went wrong? Go to the earliest archived post; scroll to December 19, 2005 "it begins" and you're ready to roll.
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Triple H, October 2011:
“When I grew up, I hated Hogan. I thought he was terrible and didn’t like to watch him. I was like Punk in a way. I liked the Steamboats and Flairs and the ones that could go. Would I be right in saying that Hogan was the wrong guy to go with, and they should’ve changed directions and gone with Steamboat because he was the better wrestler? Ludicrous.” - Triple H. October, 2011.
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