Matt D

Maybe they could put Kung Fu: The Legend Continues on that network. Why the hell isn't that syndicated somewhere? That and Time Trax.

That kid's got the whole world in his hands, after all.

He rates too high. They should send Rosa Mendes and Justin Gabriel to do it.

Though, on second thought, this does just mean more room for MMA in the WON.

Finally, a WON Obit that I won't feel bad about finding so interesting.

If Fox got it, could it maybe end up as claymation? That'd be pretty cool.

Has anyone checked on EN099?

No, Russo killed TNA just like he killed WCW. Get your narrative straight.

The only possible reason to buy the TNA library is to set it on fire.

They crossed over and now they can't even TALK about it, it's so mired in legal issues.

Watching the 66 Batman episodes on IFC has reminded me how much I really love that take on the character, and how it probably shaped my moral compass in syndication in the 80s as much as Captain America comics did, when it comes to me growing up without too strong religious leanings. I'm not at all interested in the current DC movie stuff, but at the same time, I can just ignore it for the most part. It feels reallybelow my notice. We're most of the way through Arrow season 1. Roy just showed up. It's amazing how dumb a lot of the characters are but the balance between the villain of the week and the ongoing plot is good enough that I can kind of forgive that. Diggle is far and away the best character in the show. The only change that REALLY bugs me is Fryers, because it just makes no sense. Wintergreen is annoying but I get why they did that. Why keep him named Fryers if he's not a Hunter S Thompson burnout type, but instead a pompous foreign sounding dude. Very weird.

"Quality of opponent" aside, I really feel like we saw more than enough on the AWA 80s set to really get a sense of Bockwinkel in multiple settings. We saw him as the chickenshit champion, as the dominant champion, as a sneaky asshole southern tag heel, as a wrestler in a big, more neutral setting vs Flair, as the righteous babyface full of fury, as a bit more vulnerable as a babyface. You saw him vs the same opponent multiple times to see how he changes things up, even over multiple years. We basically saw everything but how he acts in a squash and there are a few of those out there. His versatility is off the charts and the set really shows that to us. I'm not sure what else anyone needs. You even get the hour long epic with Hennig, which was resoundingly the #1 match on the set.

Personally, Angela feels a little bit special just because she's more or less the first character that Marvel has purchased like this and so fully integrated into their universe. It's not like DC where it was done a bunch before I even started to read comics. Yeah, sure, Godzilla or Rom has been there before, but Marvel never actually owned them, not like this. And it does feel sort of important now, with the whole Thor's sister thing, even if it hadn't really before. Gillen will do an amazing job with her, and the Gamora/Angela friendship is shaping up well.

It's all the same to me.

I think that Bock does most of what Flair does as well as Flair. Watch him bump around or stooge vs Verne or Hogan. Watch him fill time in interesting ways for the first part of a match vs Martel. Watch him bring the stiffness vs Wahoo. On top of that he switches things up so much more, and there seems so much more thought and strategy to his matches. He does the things Flair excels at excellently and he does what Flair does poorly excellently too.

Aaron's entire run has been very, very good

Reading Aaron's Thor, I'd be amazed if it was anyone but Jane at this point.

Richards is so ridiculous that it's hard to take him seriously enough to hate him. I kind of pity him.

I absolutely love the first two or three minutes of almost every Bock match because it's obvious he comes in with a game plan and it's not always the same one.

I hadn't watched that match in years but I actually think Zack looked really good in it. He had a few moments of being not so smooth at the start, but he bumped huge for Christian (the neck snap from the outside in, the corner clothesline, eating the shots from the apron, the shoulder tackle from the top) and he looked pretty good on offense, managing to add some shots in with the abdominal stretch and getting the knee in there for the chinlock and making sure to switch things up. There was a sense of struggle. That has to be his career match, right? Christian was so good that year. He was the master of teasing a spot early in the match and paying it off later, or doing a spot early on and then twisting it later and so good at switching up things match to match. I really liked how Zack took over because Christian went to the top too much and Christian's comeback came because Zack went to the superplex twice, for instance, and the fight for the tornado DDT.

I watched zero WWECW. I had a few "gap years" where I just watched Raw and pretty much it. I have zero idea if that stuff was any good. By one cut off leg, do you mean he wore something like a Flo-Jo look? Because if so, my opinions on him have changed dramatically. The only Ryder I know is the one that my annoying friends from home who are even bigger nerds than I am about pretend wrestling whine and moan about all the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ6-di_dWzw

i actually think you would have been really into Zach Ryder in 2009, Gregg. (I say this not remembering if you were watching ECW then or not), but the song and the one cut off leg and the Saved By the Bell moments with Rosa where they filmed it in slow motion, totally breaking all semblance of reality. He had some fun matches that year too. That was then, though.

It's possible, but there is both a level of detail, and little moments, like him disputing the "nun" disguise story at the dinner party (I think it was then), that would make me feel otherwise. It's one thing to create a fantasy, but then to create an embarrassing way for other people to look at it that would annoy you? It doesn't ring true to me. It's certainly a possibility though.

Is this a tvtropes thing now or is Sam just a wrestling fan from NC?

I think it boggled everyone's mind when they had Miz turn on Morrison and not the other way around. Morrison basically ended up the 2010 version of what Ziggler is today.