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I mean this in the least political way, but I feel like, at best, Roman Reigns winning Superstar of the Year is like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

I liked the Bray/Ambrose match. That is all.

Maybe this will be an excuse for Orton to give Cena a Summerslam-like A-Brock-a-lypse special, only with Punts instead of German suplexes. Outside of that happening, I agree with the rest. Orton/Cena in the Cell was underwhelming five years ago, and they've only gotten more stale since. The matchup is utterly meaningless at this point. I mean, are there even stipulations that could make someone genuinely care about the outcome?

The only thing I can think is, they always shove in this "rematch" clause, and they want people to believe that it's not a foregone conclusion. Didn't the same thing happen to the Miz at Wrestlemania 29? That guy has no follow-through.

Folks, A few months ago I made topics about the Fightingest World Heavyweight Champions and Fightingest US Heavyweight Champions. To complement this series, I've put together the numbers to find out who is the Fightingest WWE champion. Utilizing data from www.ProFightDB.com, I've determined that these are the top five individual reigns of all time, as judged by most defenses: Bruno Sammartino '63, 63 defenses Bob Backlund, 45 defenses Bruno Sammartino '73, 32 defenses Pedro Morales, 28 defenses CM Punk, 26 defenses In addition, if you go by total defenses for all combined reigns, here are the top five wrestlers: Bruno Sammartino, 95 defenses Bob Backlund, 66 defenses John Cena, 46 defenses Hulk Hogan, 41 defenses Pedro Morales, 28 defenses Now some of this is dicey, because the database might be missing defenses, and also Bob Backlund's initial reign is not split by all sources, but I tried to be as consistent as possible with what I had. If you want to see the raw data, you can download it from here. That will enable you to correct my inevitably incorrect math.

Maybe "Walking on eggshells" is insider-talk for, like, ritual child-murder or something. They edited out Roddy saying "Time is a flat-circle" to signify the start of a black mass led by Jimmy Hart in a plague doctor mask.

Maybe this is because I've seen too many underwhelming Oscar season movies in my life, but I really got a Roman Reigns-as-Jesus vibe during that main event.

I made a previous topic about who had the most U.S. title defenses in the WWE. I went ahead and did this for the World Heavyweight title, too, since there were a relatively small amount of champions, and I think this sort of stuff is fun. Here are the wrestlers who defended the WWE's version of the big gold belt the most in a single reign: Triple H/Sheamus, 8 Christ Benoit/Batista/Kane/Mark Henry, 6 Undertaker/Edge/Daniel Bryan, 5 Interestingly enough, if you take combined title reigns into account, the pack cleaves a little more neatly: Edge/Triple H, 15 Batista, 10 Sheamus/Undertaker, 8 Here is the spreadsheet for reference. I got the data from www.profightdb.com.

I counted four: Ric Flair, Matt Hardy, Kane, Rey Mysterio This is subject to ProFightDB.com missing defenses, of course.

I was thinking about how people complained about Dean Ambrose's lack of title defenses during his reign, so I began to compile title defense data from www.profightdb.com. Ignoring the initial title win, dark matches, "MSG shows," and the title loss, I was able to determine that these are the WWE U.S. champions that have had the most defenses for individual reigns: Dean Ambrose, 14 defenses Antonio Cesaro, 13 defenses Kofi Kingston, 9 defenses Miz, 6 defenses Dolph Ziggler, 5 defenses In other words, far from having too few title defenses, he actually has the most of any WWE U.S. champion. They're just spaced out over a longer time period. I have the data in a spreadsheet, if anyone wants to see... I've got to go to something, but I'll likely post everything on GoogleDocs later on just in case anyone is curious. If anyone has suggestions on a better document storage tool, let me know! Update - Here is the link for the spreadsheet.

My girlfriend and I watched it, and she had no idea who anyone was. She just said, "I think it's a show about how old people complain a lot."

That was 100% scripted. I wondered if that was the case, since the ending beat fit so patly. The people in the dome were getting really worked up.

Triple H was a terrible ace for this era, but a lot of Chris Jericho's MVP stuff is in it. So is 95 percent of Angle's good stuff. I personally love this era. It seemed to blend in the more athletic styles found outside of the promotion with a lot of the "storytelling" it had been pushing for decades. .

Wrestlemania is in my city. I don't want this to happen! New Orleans already has a bad enough reputation So, you're saying no to a surprise appearance by Hurricane Helms? I would accept it as long as he's beaten by Papa Shango.

Wrestlemania is in my city. I don't want this to happen! New Orleans already has a bad enough reputation

One of the cool things was, Christian never pins with that springboard sunset flip - I can only remember one Survivor Series where he got Ted Dibiase Jr. with it - but he did it to Jack Swagger on Monday! I was wondering why. Then when he went for the springboard again on Friday, it made me think he was planning for that finish. Christian's avoided doing it to Orton in the past because of the world title loss finish from 2011, but they haven't fought in a long time. Maybe he reverted to old habits and it bit him. Neat little detail! One of the reasons I've always looked at Christian as an underrated guy.

Human sadness is not comedy, SNL! Stop reminding me old people will exist. (I did like the sketch)

Also, Bill has a bullet going through his head in that picture. I really loved Goldberg back in the day, but I soured on him after his WWE return. The way he left, it made me think he only wrestled for money, and that made me regret cheering him.

3MB means Three Man Band. The team consists of Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal. The name derives from when Slater was calling himself The One Man Band. I, personally, have not got to see too many of their matches, myself. So, as far as personality wise, I couldn't tell you and matchwise, the best that I have gathered from other people's opinions is that they are the 2013 version of the Mulkey Brothers. Jobbers who take insane bumps for our entertainment. For a while it seemed like they had air guitar champion gimmicks, but one time they tweet-threatened to subject the RAW audience to a concert that may or may not have involved instruments. It never happened. If the Santino "snake charmer" match is to be believed, Jinder can play the flute, so I imagine they would have sounded like Jethro Tull.

I have a feeling people will have number one favorites across the board. The majority of the members being gaijin, I believe all federations (and positions on the card) will appear equal. That being said, Kawada all the way. He was a quiet MVP, and that speaks to me.

That little bull is going to bring the Matadores to the top of the merchandising pile once he starts laying in the head scissors on Antonio Cesaro.

Sabu for X division champion. Make the catchphrase, "It's not about weight limits; it's about toxicity limits."

Man, I love Cactus from this period. He takes so much from Pillman, yet you can believe that he's still going to win with just a few running elbows.

Dave Meltzer obviously has a thing against lucha, but he's also a good guide for what's good throughout the ages. Is there anyone that provides a similar service so I can easily identify the best of Mexican Pro Wrestling?

Please do Triple H vs. Rikishi!