NintendoLogic

The Chicago matches were aired in syndication.

All Japan's ratings were great for their time slot. It's just that the time slot sucked. You have to understand that cable TV basically doesn't exist in Japan. And no Japanese company had been pulling ratings high enough to warrant a prime time slot on network television since the early 80s. Every company had to deal with having their hours cut and being put in progressively worse slots, which made it difficult to create new stars. How big a star do you think Steve Austin would have become if Raw had only been half an hour long and aired at 3 in the morning on Sunday?

What kept All Japan from going under was the return of Genichiro Tenryu, who Baba had sworn never to use again after he took a big money deal from SWS in 1990, and an interpromotional feud with New Japan, which in turn led to Keiji Mutoh jumping to All Japan and becoming its president. He was forced to step down after one wrestler (TARU) had a locker room fight with another (Super Hate) and put him in a coma, and he left a few years ago to form Wrestle-1. All Japan's current president is Jun Akiyama, who was one of the guys who left to form NOAH but came back to All Japan after NOAH fired Kenta Kobashi because they couldn't afford his contract anymore. Man, a lot of 21st century puroresu is depressing as shit.

If Trump tries to raise taxes on the rich.

As someone who was on the Cena/Styles hate train at Summerslam, I just want to say that all is forgiven after their match last night.

I'm mildly surprised that the high priest of the Church of Jerry Lawler didn't pick the Lawler/Dundee LLT match. You can't go wrong either way, though. When I made my list of top 100 matches a while back, I had Lawler/Dundee at #10 and MS-1/Sangre Chicana at #11.

Dolph Ziggler actually attended the March. Jesus Christ, that "Dumbledore's Army" sign. What the fuck is it with liberals and Harry Potter?

I'm not going to lie, a Trump presidency might not be so bad if it means we get Woke John Cena.

This is going to sound like I'm trolling, but I honestly think that Andre/Hansen is ***1/2 at best. Here's the rightful champion. Also worthy of consideration:

I'm hardly a fan of 60-minute draws, but this is one of the best I've ever seen. The only one I'm inclined to say is better is Bock/Hennig.

When I heard that folks at DVDVR were praising Chris Masters as a great worker, my initial reaction was to dismiss it as Armond White-esque try-hard contrarianism. This was the match that convinced me they might be on to something.

Especially when the challengers are tomato cans like Putski/Zbyszko. I hated the Mania finish because it resulted in Seth Rollins being champion.

How about Cena/Cesaro? I'm hardly a fan of workrate Cena, but that match is about as good as the style gets.

Speaking of non-Flair WCW matches, I rate this as Luger's best match. Even more so because he's the one who called the match according to Steamboat.

I wasn't feeling the Texas Death Match. It's an extended squash with Zbyszko only managing the briefest flurries of offense before pulling out a slip-on-a-banana-peel victory. It would have been better if Putski were a more dynamic offensive wrestler, but he mainly stuck to choking and posing. Honestly, it almost felt like a dry run of the Punk/Ryback HIAC match. It's not even close to the best WWF Texas Death Match of 1980, let alone the overall MOTY.

Wait, so did Hash work the Dome show and then hop on a plane to Memphis to wrestle Lawler on the same day? That's must've been how Hulk Hogan worked 400 days a year.

Yeah, 1989 is a total murderer's row. Matches like Flair/Steamboat and Jumbo/Tenryu are no-brainers, so here's something a bit more obscure. For my money, this is Vader's first great match. Do you want to see two fat guys club the shit out of each other? Do you want to see Vader do a sunset flip? Do you want to hear random 80s pop songs in between rounds? Of course you do. Drop what you're doing and check this out.

Here is the correct answer. If this match doesn't put a smile on your face, you should probably reconsider wrestling fandom as a hobby. Make sure and watch the complete match on Ditch's website.

Yet another reason to abolish the Electoral College.

[Thanos voice] Fine, I'll do it myself.

Someone needs to make a gif of Bossman hitting Misawa with his nightstick.

What was the third Vader/Dustin match?

How long has Alexa Bliss been a member of the Canadian Parliament?

If I wanted to play devil's advocate, I would say that Vader/Dustin is probably the finest example of a match stripped down to its essential elements with absolutely no filler while 6/3/94 has some fat you could trim if you were so inclined. Beyond that, I've got nothing. Vader/Dustin is one of my favorite matches of all time (don't listen to Rippa, it's their best match together), but it's not a serious contender for greatest match of all time. 6/3/94 is. There's no shame in losing to the best.