UseTheSledgehammerUh 0 Report post Posted April 27, 2006 CZW Best of the Best 6 CZW vs. ROH Saturday, May 13th, 2006 Doors Open: 1:30 PM - Belltime 2:00 PM New Alhambra Sports & Entertainment Center 7 Ritner Street Philadelphia, PA 19148 Previous Best of the Best Winners: The W*nger, Trent Acid, B-Boy, "The Original Playa from the Himalayas" Sonjay Dutt, and "Lightning" Mike Quackenbush. Tournament Bracket Set-Up Round 1 - Four 3-way matches. Loser of fall is eliminated. Round 2 - Four 1-on-1 matches w/ the survivors of the first match facing off against each other. Round 3 - Two semi-final matches. Round 4 - BOTB 6 Championship match. Announced Competitors ROH - "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels CZW - "A Wrestling Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma" Jigsaw CZW - "Double C" Claudio Castagnoli ROH - Austin Aries ROH - Matt Sydal ROH - "The Messiah of the Backbreaker" Roderick Strong CZW - "Pure Impact" Derek Frazier Pandora's Box - "The New Age Punisher" B-Boy Pandora's Box - "The Original Playa from the Himalyas" Sonjay Dutt The Blackout - "The Black Jesus" Sabian CZW - CZW World Jr. Heavyweight Champion "The Anamoly" Niles Young Plus One More! Plus: Lionel Knight & Christopher Bishop vs. The H8 Club (Justice Pain & Nick Gage) More to be announced. ___________________________ What's everyone think of the field so far? Davey Richards was to be included but will miss the show due to an injury. A number of wrestlers could take it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk 34 0 Report post Posted April 27, 2006 Since CZW got the upper hand on ROH's 100th show, I'm expecting ROH to win the BOTB and that should be Daniels to play up the CC turning on ROH and Daniels shaking CC's hand (which is huge for Daniels). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maztinho 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2006 Daniels is the logical choice here, for Hawk's reasons. Aries would work too, in my opinion. The question is will all the CZW guys team up on the ROH guys since the field is stacked in their favor? That would get old after the first two matches. It'll be an interesting first round. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UseTheSledgehammerUh 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2006 Just added: Jay Lethal is the 12th man. He has no allegiance to CZW and ROH, obviously. Should be interesting. Derek Frazier is cashing in his title shot. Match #1: CZW Jr. Heavyweight Champion "The Anomoly" Niles Young Vs. Derek Frazier Vs. ????? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Stanley 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2006 *yawn* Best of the Best 2001 was probably the best for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustJoe2k5 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2006 *yawn* Best of the Best 2001 was probably the best for me. I believe '02 was my favorite. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk 34 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2006 I think Jay Lethal might pull this one off, especially considering they made a point to emphasize that Lethal is NOT representing ROH. Some skeptics still belive that Lethal's "firing" was a work for the CZW/ROH angle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King Cucaracha 0 Report post Posted May 3, 2006 No Cheech!?! My money's on the money man Claudio. Probably with some interference from Hero in the final, which'd likely be against Daniels. Shoulda been Cheech's year though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cuban Linx 0 Report post Posted May 3, 2006 First two matchups officially announced: Niles Young vs Derek Frazier vs Christopher Daniels Jigsaw vs B-Boy vs Austin Aries At this point a Claudio/Daniels rematch from the last Philly ROH show in the finals seems to be a sure bet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King Cucaracha 0 Report post Posted May 4, 2006 That first match seems like it's booked to be CZW vs. ROH and so everyone's expecting Niles and Frazier to team up to eliminate Daniels, in order to get each other one on one. Obvious setup for Daniels to advance against the odds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cuban Linx 0 Report post Posted May 5, 2006 Final two brackets semi-announced: 3rd Bracket: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Roderick Strong vs. ??? 4th Bracket: Matt Sydal vs. Sabian vs. ??? Which would probably leave Dutt joining CC/Strong and Lethal added to Sabian/Sydal. Daniels/Niles/Frazier would probably be a 2-on-1 thing, expect that the Junior Title is on the line and with both men feuding for the last 100 years seemingly i'd expect a more standard everyone vs everyone-type match, putting them against Daniels looks to be giving them a shot to break out with a great performance. Daniels/Frazier interests me slightly as a second round match, but i expect Niles retains over Derek in the 3-way and face Daniels, and i really don't care to see that. Plus if Christopher Daniels loses to Niles Young i think i'll choke on my own vomit. Niles/Frazier ideally prove they're worth a damn with breakout matches while Daniels hopefully advances. Aries/B-Boy/Jigsaw is the most unpredictable match. With Aries/Strong vs Briscoes for the tag belts the same night Aries and Strong will probably go to round 2 and maybe the semis at most, and right now i can actually see CZW giving Jigsaw the upset win. They've made a big deal about how no qualifier for BOTB has ever advanced past round 1 and painting Jigsaw to be the undergdog that goes deep in the tournament against the odds, have Aries pin B-Boy to have ROH eliminate a former winner CZW wrestler, then let Aries/Jigsaw go wild and give Jigsaw the upset win and move on to face Daniels. Between Jigsaw/Aries and Jigsaw/Daniels they have a great chance to make Jigsaw the breakout star of the show, hopefully they take advantage of it. Daniels over Jigsaw to go to the finals. Bracket three i'm liking alot, stick Dutt in there to have a rematch from the finals 2 years ago between Sonjay and Strong, they have good chemistry together and Strong breaking Sonjay in half a million different ways rocked 2/3 years ago, with Strong's overwhelming improvement since then it should be even better now. Strong kills Sonjay in the three way, then we get the mouthwatering (and possibly first time ever) Claudio/Strong match in the second round. On paper that should be the match of the tournament, i've been looking forward to that particular matchup for a long time and the CZW/ROH feud added on top should just make it even hotter. Claudio over Roderick to move to the semis and let Strong travel to NJ. Assuming Lethal is in bracket four it could go lots of ways, a Sydal/Lethal match seems logical with the anti-ROH thing, but i don't see them jobbing Sabian either. Sydal is probably most likely to lose since i don't see CZW putting over every ROH guy, but Claudio/Sydal is easily the most interesting (and best) semi final match they can go with the highflyer/base dynamic they'd have. It seems a waste to have Lethal lose as well given he's an outside guy brought in for the show, so i don't know what they'll do. Screw Sabian, Lethal over Sabian since anytime two black wrestlers are together they either team or fight, then Sydal over Lethal, which could be a heated little match with Lethal being dumped from ROH and Sydal essentially tyaking his place as the spunky upper midcard underdog. Hell, Sydal even teamed with Joe recently to add to that. Claudio then beats Sydal in another should-be tremendous match. They'll probably have a spotfest fourway between the guys eliminated in round one to eat time before the finals, Derek Frazier vs B-Boy vs Sonjay Dutt vs Sabian seems to be exactly the sort of match CZW would do. That leaves Christopher Daniels vs CLaudio Castagnoli in the finals, with the CZW/ROH feud, their match on the last Philly ROH show, Daniels actually shaking CC's hand before Claudio followed up by turning on the company, plus the fact that they're Christopher Daniels and Claudio Castagnoli, should make for a damn good finals that could really go either way. Claudio could win and complete his super push through the tournament taking out a 3rd ROH guy, or since he's already likely had the 2 best matches of the tournament vs Strong and Sydal give ROH a win since CZW's had the upper hand on ROH's shows, and give Daniels the win. Plus having a big name like Daniels in the record books as a BOTB winner adds to the 'prestige' of the tournament, for those who care about that sort of thing. If i had to guess i'd say Daniels is winning. To me that sounds like a pretty good looking tournament, Claudio vs Daniels, Claudio vs Strong, Claudio vs Sydal, Lethal vs Sydal, Jigsaw vs Aries, plus non-tournament stuff weith BLKOUT and Hero/Necro/Dragon would get my money, and probably alot of other peoples as well. Of course it IS CZW, so who knows what they'll actually do. Probably something like Niles Young: Best of the Best champion, on a show i'll refuse to ever watch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo Effect 0 Report post Posted May 5, 2006 How much has Niles improved since his days tagging with Jude? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UseTheSledgehammerUh 0 Report post Posted May 6, 2006 It's going to be a great show, trust me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
