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  1. Matt D
    So instead of railing against people, I will say that I'm glad if some people who hadn't seen much Casas before got to see him, and frankly, I got to see more 2014 Casas than i was planning on seeing and that was a treat, so i'm glad he was in here and did as well as he did, even if I think, personally, he should have done better due to his versatility, body language/smarminess, and willingness to both kill people and die for people.
  2. Matt D
    Yeah Undertaker was the one I was then going to troll about. Shame. Jae, look at this disruptive behavior. He's like the cocky bastard admitting to it and getting caught on camera. This is GTV in action. Flex your power. You were given the mandate of heaven for this exact reason.
  3. Matt D
    There. I hit my yearly quota for voting for Japanese guys.
  4. Matt D
    For some reason I cannot access the board at all on my CPU today. I can't make arguments on the phone
  5. Matt D
    And I think you are both scholar and a gentleman from your posts during this tournament.
  6. Matt D
    It's the dark side of looking at trends instead of great matches.
  7. Matt D
    So you're saying that we should vote Miz over Okada?
  8. Matt D
    Yeah, that was a good two years or so. It's how I saw all the mid-south that I did. That's a great thing to watch in season form.
  9. Matt D
    I'm going to roll with it. Hey! Serious question, actually. What was the name of that guy from ten years ago who came up with a mathematical formula for how to judge good pro wrestling?
  10. Matt D
    Do I have to post a ton of famous art in different styles and go "Which is better?" because that seems tedious as fuck. Also the fact that one of you is being serious and sticking to his guns and one of you is backpeddling is making this a weird path to travel.
  11. Matt D
    Friends don't let friends watch NXT out of context.
  12. Matt D
    Then might I suggest you just be quiet? Wrestling is an art form, subjective, and people like different aspects and different styles. They look for different qualities in what they enjoy. I'm all for variety and difference in style, as long as everyone acknowledges that the NJPW style is number one and the best. Obviously enacting Godwin's law would be a mercy killing here.
  13. Matt D
    If you can't accept that Okada is factually better than Ambrose as a wrestler and that anyone that watches a couple of his matches would inevitably agree and stop enjoying what they like, then I don't know what to tell you. Then might I suggest you just be quiet? Wrestling is an art form, subjective, and people like different aspects and different styles. They look for different qualities in what they enjoy.
  14. Matt D
    Hey, you just laid claim to it! No takebacks.
  15. Matt D
    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.
  16. Matt D
    I would have never guessed that "pissed off Japan defender Dank" would have been the best part of this tournament.
  17. Matt D
    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.
  18. Matt D
    Is a vote for Smith a vote for Billy Robinson?
  19. Matt D
    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.
  20. Matt D
    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.
  21. Matt D
    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.
  22. Matt D
    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.
  23. Matt D
    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.
  24. Matt D
    Uh uh, not tonight.
  25. Matt D
    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.
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