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Matt D

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  1. I'm just gonna stay away from the Shibata vs Wagner thread. I know. It can be hard. You've been here a long time. The world's changed around you and you're left standing on the mountain where we all once were screaming at us from the distance, wondering where it all went wrong. We feel your pain.
  2. I would have never guessed that "pissed off Japan defender Dank" would have been the best part of this tournament.
  3. It's a lot harder for me to vote Goldust over Cesaro or Harper, to be honest. I think both of those guys have had a better year than Bryan too. I'm not a big proponent of "Great matches," though. I much rather like to look at wrestlers' work over time and the small things they do and find patterns in their matches. So much of great matches is opportunity and opponent. Looking at the entire breadth of a wrestler's year, you learn a lot more about them.
  4. I feel like Dustin's more consistent in his half year than Bryan is in the full year. Bryan does things poorly. He stops selling when he's hitting his stuff. He's started to take more and more of his matches, often to the detriment of the matches. I think he actually relies on shtick a bit more and it's fine to do so because it's over, but if you watch a bunch of his matches, the yes kicks start to get a little old after a while. I feel like he doesn't wrestle overly different against different opponents. I thought the Cena match at Summerslam was very "video game-y" with a lot of excitement and not a ton of space and selling and story. And these are all nitpicks but when we're on the level we're talking about they're the only thing we can really bring up. With Goldust, I can barely find any flaw in his work, and yes, tag work is different, but in some ways it's broader and more versatile too. For one thing, he's been playing both face in peril and hot tag, sometimes both in the same match, as well as doing shine superiority work. I fully admit I haven't seen the team hell no stuff from the time period since it first happened so I'd have to rewatch it. "BIG MATCH FEEL" is probably my least favorite way to judge good wrestling though, so I think the idea that this tournament should just be about single guys is BS. 2013 in WWE, at least, was a tag team year. Even then, there is big match feel in a number of Dustin's matches. He's one of the only guys in the states who can draw even the worst crowd into almost every match he's in. I honestly think Dustin's had enough weekly TV to offset the fact that Bryan has had more. It's not like we don't have a good sample size with him. We're not talking about Henry or Brock here.
  5. What's the argument for Bryan over Goldust? What's the argument for Cesaro over Goldust? Harper over Goldust? I'm not saying there aren't arguments there, but I want to hear them. Dustin did almost everything perfectly in the ring during this period, for about half of it on a weekly basis. He updated his act. He worked smart. He worked hard. He was the best FIP in wrestling, getting even the worst crowds into matches. He was a great hot tag. He was awesome on the apron. He has some really good singles TV matches. I know people will go "IT was Bryan's year! Of course he was better." Tell me how.
  6. I love the change of basically a pretty boy blond bomber Latham into Spot. I actually like the Moondogs vs Garea/Martel title change: but I think the Fuji/Saito one might be better. I always loved that there was a random Moondog Rex hanging out in WCW in early 91 and of course that he had been Smash for a taping or two. I've seen very little of Moondogs vs Jarrett/Lawler from 92 but I do want to see more. I have seen a ton of 93 though and like a lot of it from a storyline perspective, especially any time they got to beat the crap out of Brian Christopher. Harper and Rowan are sort of like the modern day Moondogs.
  7. I still think that Bryan is more of a "little guy with a napoleon complex" in how he works lately. He takes a lot more of matches than he used to and maybe he should but it's a bit offputting.
  8. The "Cenahashi" thing feels a little Junkfood Dog/Anabolic Warrior to me. And also confusing since Cena's a pretty amazing wrestling, or at least almost everyone here agrees on that.
  9. Don't you dare take credit for that. I was voting solely on my bracket. I would never do that. Sorry Aries, whoever you are.
  10. It's not overlooked so much as Harper came out of the match looking leaps and bounds better than Hero so people are giving credit for it to Harper.
  11. There is nothing objective about march madness! Vote with your heart.
  12. I think Bryan's sometimes inconsistent selling is more a reflection of Regal's influence than any desire to look more like a main eventer. You really need to break down the Regal talking point some time. Really write an essay on it with a bunch of matches cited. No one else seems to carry it. I see it more as a Bob Backlundish need to take a lot of a match in order to seem strong to overcome some of his obvious physical deficiencies. And switching gears: I'm AWESOME and a reality star. Ric Flair is my personal friend and gave me the figure four as his legacy. See? Miz.
  13. You're the Miz in 2011. A mild following. A decently fun act with Alex Riley,the Mania main event, but come on, let's be realistic.
  14. He convinced the ref that Rush low blowed him?
  15. Bryan drops his selling so that he can seem more main eventery despite his size. And... that's pretty much the only bad thing I could say about him other than the fact that he wasn't really allowed to own his role on the mic and he didn't step up to take it like others have in the past. It's hard to argue against Bryan this year unless we're talking the real top seeds in this. Chris Hero had some good matches but this is a doom draw for him.
  16. The Usos are like the world's best possible Hardy Boyz right now. They're able to manage both the crazy spotfest sprints (when was that match with the Wyatts?) and longer matches with build and payout. They work the crowd really well and probably had the feel good moment of 2014 so far.
  17. Henry being out hurt him but he's got the promo of the year and a few really high end matches. Rollins has been on fire. It's a shame that the last Wyatts vs Shield match is outside the period because that'd make this easier.
  18. It actively bugs me that I can't tell the difference between DreamBroken and LooseCannon when they have such wildly divergent positions and attitudes.
  19. Buddy Rose with a dinosaur is sort of like a Fred Flinstone gimmick.
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