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  1. Ring of Honor's show doesn't usually excite me enough to make me post here, but on Wednesday it did. That Jay Lethal/Roderick Strong match was darned good. Definitely enough to make me post here. I'm not sure when the last time (if ever) I've seen a wrestler with four finishers use every one of them in a row to crush an opponent.
  2. Pleasantly surprised by Goldust's appearance. New Day's act is really something else (compliment). Ambrose/Owens was the best match, followed by Ambrose/Reigns. No match was bad, but none were particularly special either. The less said about the cash-in the better. Nothing else to say anyway.
  3. People are sleeping on Ambrose/Ziggler. It was good stuff. Or is Ziggler so unpopular here now that people don't mention him now? I liked Cesaro/Reigns too, but Reigns stopped selling the arm and that hurt the match a good deal.
  4. A little late, but I feel I should make up for my previous comments. I thought Nia Jax was terrific in her last two squashes. She added the smashing that I felt was too thin in her first match. I know she doesn't have a lot of experience now, but I see a lot of potential in her and WWE could really use an Aja Kong type.
  5. *Watches battle royal* Poor Solomon Crowe. I'm definitely in favor of having a large crusher diva in the division and was excited, but I was also underwhelmed by Nia Jax's match. My apologies to her opponent, but I wanted Jax to do more crushing and smashing. The Brazo del Plata butt ram was a good touch, though. Maybe more crushing and smashing next match? The NXT audience annoys me so often with their cutesy smarky smark chants.
  6. Xavier played the Final Fantasy victory theme twice tonight, by my ears' reckoning. Nobody else noticed? New Day were cracking me up all night. Amazing.
  7. Show was very good, top to bottom. No weak spots. Too many great things to mention. Most surprising thing though was Kana in the audience next to Flair and Slaughter. Sasha/Bayley was potentially my MOTY pick (Roman/Brock needs to be at #3 now). I'm not sure the work was better than Sasha/Becky, but the story was tremendous and the work was at LEAST better than anything this year that didn't have Sasha in it. The collective hug of the 4 Horsewomen at the end felt like Triple H's salvation. He was punished for doing the same with the Kliq back in the day, after all. Owens and Balor had to follow THAT match. I think they did a good job of it and the match was good, but it was still not an enviable position, main event or not! Good to see Liger in a WWE owned ring, too, doing his thing and hopefully teaching the young guys a thing or two.
  8. I'm definitely for Dean Ambrose going heel... when the time is right. He should be the #1 heel in the company. Anything less and the timing is wrong and he'd be better off staying face. He should have a run like year 2000 Triple H. A dominant and horrible bastard who likes to bludgeon people and will do anything to win. He doesn't always need to cheat but he does it anyway because he's evil and doesn't care. He's the blind leading the blind and he never serves anyone else. Having him be a minion to Bray would be utterly terrible in every way. It's just a completely awful idea from its very conception. It kills Ambrose's character. "Nobody pulls me by puppet strings. That's not the way I like it."
  9. You all discussed the best 90s albums days ago, but I didn't see anyone mention any Texas Is the Reason stuff. So... From "Do You Know Who You Are?" From "Texas Is the Reason" (self-titled EP) The band has been finished for years (minus some reunion shows), but a bit back an official CD was released that has ALL their stuff on it. Well worth it if you like this kind of 90s sound.
  10. Cena/Cesaro was indeed great. I was surprised when they didn't have a DQ due to interference for the finish. At least three other matches tonight had interference. Gotta say "enough is enough" before you become Bruce Hart or whoever was booking TNA in that time where every match ended with interference+roll-up. Anyway, the match displayed two things proudly: Cesaro is definitely good for a main event push and Cena will continue to be the champ/the man for as long as he's still here (and I mean that in the best way).
  11. Brock Lesnar killed a car on WWE Raw last night, as rumors say he had planned to do. He then reportedly took the WWE Championship Seth Rollins left behind, telling our cameramen "Hawaii is next, Kane" as he left the arena where the crime was committed. Our Hawaiian journalist took the following picture later that night: We lost contact with our journalist shortly thereafter. We'll report again as we learn more.
  12. I hate to tell J and J this, but... Brock's going to destroy that car very soon. I hate to tell Kane this, but... Brock's going to destroy Hawaii very soon.
  13. Quick thoughts: Dusty video was very good. Ten bell salutes always seem to soften me for the crying. Cena/Owens was GREAT. I know it had the finisher kick-out parade. It bugs me too. I still thought it was great. Two great workers who know how to do a match like this properly. Then Owens does terrific heel work post-match (as Ramsey said, Owens is a real heel in wrestling and I also loved that). Then Owens laughs like a megalomaniac clown perched atop a tower made of scrap metal and shooting a huge laser beam down at the world he's wrecked and conquered. All is right. The main event was good for what I could see of it. I had major WWE Network issues during it. Many, many freezes. Both guys came out of the match looking strong. Conflicted over the tag title match. Love the Prime Time Players (and they were the right ones to beat New Day I think), but didn't want New Day's run to end this soon. PTP might go against Harper and Rowan soon, I figure (not sure if wise at this point). MitB ladder match was rather unimpressive compared to the usual (despite a few nifty powerbombs). Not looking forward to Reigns vs. Wyatt feud (and Reigns really shouldn't be jobbed out to Wyatt the way Ambrose was... yet Wyatt really needs to rebuild his credibility... sigh). Is Swagger the only guy Barrett can beat at this point? I guess he'd probably beat Axel or Sandow. Ryback/Big Show was there. Not sure why Miz is being dragged into it (answer: to torture those who dislike him, duh). (note: I actually like all three guys at the moment, so whatever) The referee didn't even re-ring the bell for Paige/Nikki, did he? Just let the Bellas do whatever, apparently. Paige is right about the conspiracy, I guess.
  14. On a show with multiple ladder matches... the best single spot was Kevin Owens's amazing and creepy laughter. I think Dusty would approve of that.
  15. This filled me with melancholy. My dad and I talked about Dusty Rhodes for a while. He was my father's all-time favorite and hero. Dusty is my objective pick for all-time best talker without a doubt (and is a very underrated in-ring worker in SOME circles).
  16. What I liked best was the terrific Moxley-ish promo from Ambrose. He is simply the best talker in wrestling today. Nice Roman/Sheamus match despite the ending being what it was.
  17. Late here, but I will record my brief opinions for posterity. Best matches: #1: New Day/Cesaro & Kidd (Stole the show again. New Day's heel run is awesome. Xavier Woods's heel-work in particular is astounding.) #2: Ambrose/Reigns/Rollins/Orton (My favorite part was when Dean and Roman killed everyone else and were like "not much left to do". I liked that they were still buddies even in this sort of match, only fighting each other after murdering the other fools. Good job with that.) #3: Ryback/Wyatt (This will probably be really underrated because of the guys involved. Wyatt's lariat is great, yet somehow it wasn't his best move of the match, because THAT APRON SENTON WHOA.)
  18. The show was all around great and there was nothing to really dislike (Corbin is green, but has good energy). Owens/Zayn was GREAT for what little we got, and Joe's debut was STUNNING. A legitimate NO WAY moment for me. Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch was the best thing, though. I think it just topped Roman/Brock as my MOTY. Utterly amazing, the best women's match I've ever seen WWE run. I'm very happy seeing all of the "Sasha is the best wrestler in the world" comments. May the ladies finally get their chance to shine. With this level of quality, I'm eager to see the next NXT Takeover.
  19. Big Show and Reigns took a lot of big bumps in the match. They both came out looking really tough, too. I was disappointed that the banned RKO gimmick in the main event had basically no impact on the match until the half-baked finish. The announcers didn't even seem to want to mention it being banned for what seemed like forever. At least Seth didn't have to win with that weak move he did on Raw, I guess.
  20. The tag title match was GREAT. Cesaro and Kidd are really good. New Day (all three of them) are hugely improved now and have turned this previously failed experiment into a success with an already great heel run. Best match probably. But not far behind is Roman Reigns vs. Big Show. Great match and I was fine with the finish. Ambrose/Harper was also good for what it was, especially considering the booking. I just wanted to see the two of them tear into each other without getting too cute with the weaponry, though. Cage match and chain match were both hurt by being cage and chain matches in a PG era.
  21. Mankind brought me in. That was in 1998. Until that point, I had always thought of wrestlers as these big body-building types with abs of steel and didn't know about guys like Vader. Then I played WWF WarZone on the N64 (my dad sometimes would rent wrestling games from Blockbuster) and I became fascinated with Mankind. He was weird and not at all what I always pictured wrestlers looking like. Thus, I began watching the real thing. Mick Foley is my personal GOAT still.
  22. The way Punk did the curb stomp in that above GIF was exactly the way Super Dragon had done it for years. The first time (and last time, ha) I heard "Peace of Mind" I heard it as "Piece of Mind", from the phrase "give you a piece of my mind". It made sense to me to think Rollins is taking a piece of one's mind with the stomp. Regardless, as my beloved Finch has a song called "A Piece of Mind", I just continued calling it that for a while. I think Rollins actually may have been trying to reference the band Boston with the name "Peace of Mind". His God's Last Gift move is probably named after the song by God Forbid as well, as he's known to like that band. Avada Kedavra, for those who didn't know, is named after the "Killing Curse" spell from the Harry Potter books. Yep, he's a Harry Potter nerd. Deal with it. He could always go back to using the Paroxysm (I wonder if it's named after a song) for a finisher as well, though it's a sort of DDT, too (one not used by any wrestler in long enough that it makes one wonder if WWE banned it as well).
  23. YES! THIS! Unless you're Goldberg (or Big Show, because his spear looks crazy), then you shouldn't be doing the spear. The thing is, unless I'm SOMEHOW wrong, Big Show does the spear in a much safer and more neck-friendly way than most guys... and it still looks like he could break someone in half with it because HOLY SHIT HE IS ENORMOUS.
  24. I loved it when Christopher Daniels called him Bob Van Dam.
  25. Something I don't get: If Rollins needed a new finisher, why not just use Avada Kedavra or some variant of it? Has to be better than a midcarder DDT you might expect Sandow or Fandango to use. No offense to those guys intended.
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