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Craig H

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  1. I think people are underselling Punk's year a bit, to be honest. There are very few matches of Punk's where I outright thought he seemed burnt out or lazy.  I think his quality this year was pretty comparable to his quality last. I'm still sort of torn on this but I think the votes against Punk might be more against his fans than against the guy himself. 

     

    I'm with you. If you want to purely go match for match, you have Punk vs...

     

    - Undertaker

    - Jericho

    - Brock

    - One of the Punk vs Shield matches, whether if that was one of the singles or handicap matches

    - Any number of Punk matches after that

     

    And then there's Brock vs...

     

    - HHH at Wrestlemania

    - HHH again

    - Punk

    - Big Show

     

    Again, the Wrestlemania match was...weird and the Big Show match was nearly a throwaway match. Folks, folks, Gonzalez is gone. There is no need for the anti-Punk fan vote. 

  2. I feel bad for all of the families involved, but all I can ever think of when I see stories like this is LOST.

     

    And now I just realized that the LOST title used Arial for its font.

     

    Anyway, moving on, this also reminds me a lot of the flight that was bound for France or departed from France that was lost for awhile. 

  3. I voted for Punk. I didn't see him stop giving a shit like some people here did and I thought his match against the Undertaker at Wrestlemania was a breath of fresh air. In fact, the entire build to that match was amazing. After that, he took his time off, came back and had the great match against Jericho at Payback, then came his program against Paul Heyman that had a satisfying end, which included the Punk vs Brock match. After that, Punk had the great series against the Shield, putting on great matches with most of those guys, except for the one match with Reigns. He was a little directionless during that period and after though. At times it seemed like he and Bryan would be a force together, but that didn't turn out to be the case. Then it seemed like it would be HHH against Punk, but that didn't turn out to be the case for the most part. He had the nifty Royal Rumble run, and then he left.

     

    Brock on the other hand had a few matches that were all pretty good, he destroyed Mark Henry, and he had the nothing match against Big Show where he beat the shit of Big Show with a bunch of chair shots.

     

    I love Brock Lesnar, but I don't see how his resume from this past year compares to Punk's. Casting my bias for Punk aside and looking at this objectively, it looks like people are voting against Punk more than they're voting for Brock.

  4. I'm also sad that this will be the end of Marty and Rust's adventures together. Maybe a season or two down the line they'll be brought back, but I don't know how any other season lives up to this.

  5. See, over the course of the season, I never bought that these guys even liked each other, let alone loved each other. You'd actually have an easier time convincing me they hated each other. When Marty referred to Rust as "my friend," I was like, "WHAT? That's bullshit, man."

    I'm willing to believe they are something akin to friends at the very end, going through a traumatic near-death experience together tending to create strong bonds and all, but I feel like the story of this season is less "Bro Love Overcomes All" and more like HOW I MET MY NEW BEST FRIEND.

     

    That's kind of what I was getting at. Both of these guys came from messed up backgrounds. Rust's is particularly dramatic, but Marty is a womanizer, destroys his marriage multiple times, etc. Through that time they're these super-detectives, but while they have this common bond, this fissure grows and grows until it all comes to a head when Rust and Marty's wife get it on. I look back to that moment and I realize that Rust was particularly upset because he knew it meant the end of the one and only friendship he had, as backwards as it was.

     

    There's another moment around that time where Marty tells Rust that he needs to go and get laid and how when he was getting some he was normal. I don't think there is any normal for Rust, but what really mattered to him was having Marty in his life.

     

    Skip to these last two episodes. At this point, their lives have gone so far off the rails that all the distractions are gone. Marty can finally see that Rust isn't crazy and Rust knows that he himself isn't crazy because Marty validates him. When Marty asks Rust if he went light on him, he clearly knows that Rust went light on him and could have seriously hurt Marty, but he didn't. The tension and pressure builds while they hunt down the Yellow King, and at that point they're all each other have. Both of these guys went on such an incredible journey to find out that, hey, we're really the best of friends even if our relationship is skewed at times. Not once did I ever think about that journey during this season until the finale and that's what I loved most of all about this season. Looking back, yeah, the story was about catching the Yellow King and unraveling the conspiracy, but the greater story was about Marty and Rust.

     

    Goddamn though, that re-telling of the events by Rust at the end of the episode was heartbreaking. If I lost my daughter, I would be just as fucked up.

  6. I think what made me happiest is that it really felt like the completion of a 10 year journey between these two guys who fucked up every relationship they ever had, but somehow the love they have for each other was stronger than anything else. I find that to be incredibly touching and sweet.

  7. It wasn't even a few weeks ago. It's the epitome of creative having nothing better for a couple wrestlers and they just keep sticking them out there hoping it will forward along a feud or storyline and it's lazy as hell. The match itself was fairly by the numbers, not bad, but also not that good. It reminds me of what they were doing with Cesaro as US champ with just running him out there against ADR or Orton every goddamn night with no real feud or anything.

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    Did half the board turn into Phantom Lord socko accounts overnight? Chanting stupid shit during good wrestling matches is a shitty thing to do. I hated it during Christian/Sheamus, I hated when people chanted "boring" during any match lasting more than 2 minutes in the attitude era, and I'll even admit I hated it during Cena/Orton at the Rumble (though I understood that a bit more).

    BUT OH NOES WE SAW THEM WRESTLE LAST WEEK! WE PWECIOUS WITTLE CHICAGO SNOWFWAKES NEED FWESH MATCHES!

    I think what is in debate here is whether Christian-Sheamus from Monday would be classified as a "good wrestling match."

     

     

    It wasn't. Moving on...

  9. Chanting "end this match" is a hell of a lot worse than singing a song.

     

    So derailing a match and constantly disrespecting both guys from the very start of the match is worse than fans at one point chanting "end this match" for a match that was already run once on 2-21, again on 2-24, and again on 3-3. Fuck that, man.

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