FUDGE! REDO! POLL! 10/1-10/7/2022- WHAT WAS THE FREE TV MATCH OF THE WEEK? HERE WE GO.

[DEAN]

That original list was jacked up.  For some reason it cut 8 matches, including the IWGP Junior tag match and fricking Wardlow vs Brian Cage..  Please revote if you voted in the original poll.  I HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS EXPERIENCE AND IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN! PROLLY!  It still hurt to have to cut the good IWRG match.  Others also hurt.  I'm broken from the quality wrestling I had to replace with other quality wrestling.  It's a good time to be a wrestling fan.

[The Natural]

GUNTHER vs. Sheamus II.

[The Natural]

Liking fudge in the title. I've always loved that since a boy. Fudge > Toffee.

[DEAN]

Oh this is going to be a crazy one.

[John E. Dynamite]

MJF/Yuta and GUNTHER/Sheamus tried valiantly but Jarochita vs Reyna Isis is far, far too steep a mountain to climb. What an absolutely stacked week.

[DEAN]

We now await GUNTHER/Sheamus to steamroll the competition.

[Curt McGirt]

I have been sitting on the two CMLL matches ALL WEEK LONG and got Smackdown recorded. I shall return!

[Eivion]

Finally caught the CMLL matches. Only made it five minutes in to the triple threat before I stopped. Just couldn't get into it. Dug Jarochita/Isis and Stuka/Atlantis a good deal. Went with the men's match since I liked the ending more. Neither match was quite great, but I dug them a bit more than anything else from this past week as far as free tv goes.

[Boydy]

I went with Sheamus Vs GUNTHER even though it wasn't as good as their match they had at Clash At The Castle but it was still for me the best match of the week.

 

[Curt McGirt]

Sheamus/GUNTHER was really hurt by the commercials. It isn't getting my vote. 

I STILL have to watch the damn CMLL matches

[The Natural]

1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

Sheamus/GUNTHER was really hurt by the commercials. It isn't getting my vote. 

I STILL have to watch the damn CMLL matches

That's the downside to TV unless picture in picture/international feed ala AEW on Fite TV. I remember WWE briefly putting an ad free version Cena/Punk RAW match from February 2013 on YouTube before taking it down. I don't know if anyone grabbed it before WWE removed it.

[DEAN]

This one is all over the place! 

[Curt McGirt]

Me and @Eivion are the only people to vote for Stuka Jr./Atlantis Jr.? That one is so good. Atlantis is a king sized bumper, doing a back flip over the rail on an Irish whip (which is totally logical and nobody ever does), completely nuking his kidney and hip on the rail on a dive. All the dives are king sized themselves and just gorgeous. Best ones were probably from Atlantis again with his beautiful tope con giro and the stage-dive over the ropes plancha that was like some kid just clearing the head of a Samoan bouncer at some giant DK's show in Cali circa '84. The crowd is losing their shit the whole time and definitely pro-Stuka. The finish is brilliantly simple -- both guys retrying what they think is gonna finish the other off. And then at the end 

Spoiler

they show a guy in the crowd with a Stuka mask giving it up for both guys while clearly breaking out in tears under the hood. 

Heavy emotion is what you need in a mask match if you aren't getting blood and they nailed it. The suspense of every nearfall sealed the deal. 

My runner-up was probably Maclin/Moose; I thought Maclin was just gonna be some guy but his performance sold me on him, plus he will bleed hardway like a stuck pig. The Dynamite matches were all good but they didn't surprise me like that one did. Jarochita/Isis was marred by a terrible finish, though the ladies put on a clinic in cardio out there.

Spoiler

Isis removes her mask to reveal... Rosie Perez?

 

[DEAN]

Yuta/MJF get a LATE SURGE!  

[John E. Dynamite]

My knock on Atlantis Jr. Vs. Stuka Jr. is that it took five matches to tell the whole story, what with the Parejas Increibles tournament and whatever that seeding match was doing. CMLL TV only aired the final of the whole shindig, obvious though the result was it still feels like a nibble as opposed to a bite. Jarochita/Isis felt like an entire event, maybe even a starting point to a new surge in Mexican women's wrestling (hopeful about that Gran Prix lineup). But I recognize that Stuka losing his mask was more emotional, that Atlantis Jr. starting his inherited duty of taking masks posseses more long-term gravitas. And that missed tope was far and away the best televised spot of the week.

[DEAN]

IMPACT! is on the board!  So much BLOOD!

[DreamBroken]

16 minutes ago, DEAN said:

IMPACT! is on the board!  So much BLOOD!

That is what pushed it over the top!