The Collective 2024 in Philly - megathread -

[Chris]

 

[Chris]

 

[Deadd2009]

Why do I have a feeling Joey Janela is gonna actually win the GCW title this weekend only to be cashed in on by Mance Warner? Warner has that title shot he can cash in at any time.

 

[Chris]

That sounds like a very Joey thing to book

 

[Chris]

 

[Deadd2009]

Are we doing a live chat for all of the Collective stuff or nah.

 

[Chris]

Are we doing a live chat for all of the Collective stuff or nah.

Use this thread for any collective shows, yeah. That's what we usually do.

@Kross Rhodes is this one linked to a chat or nah?

 

[Chris]

Today's schedule thanks to PWPonderings.com

DEFY Can’t Deny It​

Thursday April 4th – 11am​

Tickets: DefyPhilly.Eventbrite.com​

Match card:

• DEFY Championship Match: KENTA (c) vs. Gringo Loco
• DEFY Worldwide Tag Team Championship Match: Bollywood Boyz (Gurv Sihra & Harv Sihra) (c) vs. Boisterous Behavior (Man Like DeReiss & Leon Slater)
• CCK (Kid Lykos & Chris Brooks) vs Moonlight Express (Mike Bailey & MAO)
• Trios 3 Way Dance: Sovereign (Evan Rivers, Judas Icarus & Travis Williams) vs. Dragon Gate (Shun Skywalker, Ben-K & Ho Ho Lun) vs. C4XKC (Cody Chhun, Guillermo Rosas & KC Navarro)
• 3 Way Dance for the DEFY Women’s Championship: Vert Vixen (c) vs. Trish Adora vs. Jazmin Allure
• BMF Battle Royale: SCHAFF vs. Luke Jacobs vs. Galeno Del Mal vs. Gene Munny vs. ???

Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport X​

Thursday April 4th – 4pm​

Tickets: SOLD OUT!​

Match card:

• Shayna Baszler vs. Masha Slamovich
• Fuminori Abe vs. Takuya Nomura
• Timothy Thatcher vs. Axel Tischer
• Akira vs. Victor Benjamin
• Matt Makowski vs. ???
• Nic Nemeth vs. Mike Bailey
• Josh Barnett vs. Johnny Bloodsport (John Hennigan)
• Minoru Suzuki vs. Royce Isaacs
• Erik Hammer vs. Lou Nixon
• One Night Four Women Tournament: Janai Kai, Marina Shafir, Lady Frost and Lindsay Snow

DDT Goes Philadelphia!​

Thursday April 4th – 8pm​

Tickets: SOLD OUT!​

Match card:

• No Rules Match for the DDT Universal Championship: MAO (c) vs. Billie Starkz
• Kazuki Hirata vs. Yoshihiko
• Yuki Ueno vs. Mike Bailey
• CCK (Kid Lykos & Chris Brooks) vs. Shota & Bryan Keith
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shunma Katsumata
• Tetsuya Endo vs. Andrew Everett
• Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Takeshi Masada &Nick Wayne

GCW & JCW vs The World​

Thursday April 4th – 11:59pm​

Tickets: JCWPhilly.Eventbrite.com​

Match card:

• JCW World Championship Match: Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Syuri
• Los Desperados (Arez, Latigo & Gringo Loco) vs. Team Dragon Gate (Dragon Kid, YAMATO & Shun Skywalker)
• Gahbage Daddies (Alec Price & Cole Radrick) & 1 Called Manders vs. Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura) & Rina Yamashita
• Jordan Oliver vs. Aigle Blanc
• 4 Way Tag Team Match: Los Macizos (Ciclope & Miedo Extremo) vs. Amboss (Robert Dreissker & Laurance Roman) vs. Boisterous Behavior (Man Like DeReiss & Leon Slater) vs. MAO & Yoshihiko
• Griffin McCoy vs. Session Moth Martina
• Yusaki Ito
• LJ Cleary
• Ho Ho Lun
• Shota
• Lou Nixon

 

[Deadd2009]

Ill never forget the Mania in jersey that had like 30 shows attached. That was a lot of wrestling to consume.

 

[Chris]

Ill never forget the Mania in jersey that had like 30 shows attached. That was a lot of wrestling to consume.

I had a weekend pass to the Collective here in Dallas, two years ago, I didn't even wanna attempt trying to go to more shows lmao It doesn't feel as hype outside of Bloodsport to me this year tho. I like a lot of the foreign talent they've brought in this year, but I don't give a shit about Spring Break

 

[Chris]

Wait I take that back, the clusterfuck Spring Break with the Punjabi Prison intrigues me but that's not the main show

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I had a weekend pass to the Collective here in Dallas, two years ago, I didn't even wanna attempt trying to go to more shows lmao It doesn't feel as hype outside of Bloodsport to me this year tho. I like a lot of the foreign talent they've brought in this year, but I don't give a shit about Spring Break

Outside some select matches here and there, this for sure feels less hype that last year. maybe its cuz we were coming out of pandemic mode still a bit, or maybe it's just that Mania with wwe this hot is kinda of sucking the air out of a lot of the indies in town?

 

[Chris]

Outside some select matches here and there, this for sure feels less hype that last year. maybe its cuz we were coming out of pandemic mode still a bit, or maybe it's just that Mania with wwe this hot is kinda of sucking the air out of a lot of the indies in town?

Yeah seeing 13k for the NXT show is insane how early it is. Everyone coming into town this year probably had WWE events as a way higher priority and not just Mania.

Supercard has like 3k sold I think but who knows about these shows

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Yeah seeing 13k for the NXT show is insane how early it is. Everyone coming into town this year probably had WWE events as a way higher priority and not just Mania.

Supercard has like 3k sold I think but who knows about these shows

3k for roh seems pretty standard for tk era ppvs ya? lower end of a dynamite crowd essentially

 

[Chris]

3k for roh seems pretty standard for tk era ppvs ya? lower end of a dynamite crowd essentially

I don't actually know for comparison but it was def higher than I expected. I think the most fair would be the last two Mania weekend crowds for the super cards tho