For Great Justice

MITB was bad. "Doink" and Steph were especially embarrassing for a company that, if nothing else, can pride itself on production values. Vince looked rough. Asuka is the 2020 MVP of the entire company.

Last Ride pt 1 is up.

And oh man I marked out hard at that Show/Kane chain wrestling match at the time. That shit was great, and totally out of left field. I presume that was a rib. 14 years ago!

this could be nostalgia misremembering but WCW got really fun circa December 2000 until the closing stretch. Cruiserweight ace (in trunks!) Shane Helms with the vertebreaker, the main event built around Steiner and Booker, Flair and Dusty doing really fun old man comedy stuff. I enjoyed it a lot. Who was booking then?

This is where I parked my car 1) Kevin Sullivan is a highly underrated squasher with a very unique squashing style. 2) The afore-mentioned Big Daddy V in a 3-on-1 squash. Greatness.

Woah woah woah, we're putting McMichael sub-Roma now? Gotta disagree sir - "naturally charismatic big dude that is sloppy and dangerous in the ring" was already a defined Horsemen archetype and Mongo carried himself like a Horseman in a way more legit way than Roma. Roma to me is an early version of the 10.0 Perfect Execution Guy in the ring and had go away heat. Give me Mongo dropping fools with sloppy tombstones and talking shit into the camera over Roma every time.

WM XI is the lowest point in company history, right? What a wretched, forgettable show. Love this series @Dolfan in NYC!

That entrance. Wow.

That main event was fun as hell. I am sure many will question a choice of a big crowd brawl in your first show with a crowd given all that's going on. I won't go there - I just enjoyed the match. Sammy made that golf cart look like Brock Lesnar on that bump. Holy shit son. Ending image was top notch.

It's interesting to me seeing both WM 8 and WM 9 have twist endings (for better or worse) and it got me realizing how rare those are nowadays. Rollins at 31 is the last notable one I can think of and that was 5 years ago. And before that, I guess the Rock stuff leading to Miz winning at 27, then before that, hell, a decade earlier with Austin's turn.

JR on today's TIJ. A lot of the usual stuff but Jim and Chris have good chemistry and its Jericho's first wrestling pod in a while so worth a bump.

You just know it's in Vince's DNA to have "the first major attended sporting event since the outbreak". this is kind of what he does. I won't be surprised if he rents out the Citrus Bowl and tires to put 20k fans on one side of the hard cam.

Just give me one segment with Yoko talking shit while Dick Togo sentons some ham and egger and its a win in my book.

I can easily see Russo turning Yoko into a Yakuza boss in 1999 with Kaientai doing his bidding. That actually sounds fucking awesome

I’m ready for Jerry Jones’s WWE. Unless you meant Shahid Khan showing up on a live Raw from Club La Vela. In all seriousness I can see a sell to Disney or Fox happening.

Shout out to Bill Watts in the category of “promoter/booker on color commentary to help get his stories over”. He was great at that. I also will never understand the pre-internet dirt sheet crowd view of Gorilla as terrible. When I first discovered this, I thought well maybe I was a kid and it was all nostalgia and he sucked, but even watching now he’s really good. Never understoood it.

Seems like they’ve legitimately given Apollo a few “brass ring, pal” spotlight opportunities dating back to the Black match but the dude’s Charlie Hass-esk personality stylings and the empty arena setting have created this tesseract of charisma-less nihilism for 30 minutes every week.

I’m thinking that they’ve shot themselves into a work and have silently hired him back. If this was a work the entire time then Spud is the greatest acting wrestler alive in that Twitter video a few days ago.

Jericho during the Omega match was amazing. Omega sure does give a lot of offense to jobbers, but Jericho sold it well.

We are presently underselling the revelation of Miz wearing a mouth guard in favor of Bix nonsense

Honestly Vince should just let him keep it for the season and have the Bucs use it as their turnover chain or whatever. More pub than that belt would get you otherwise.

The Viking Raiders thing. I meant WTF. Humanizing characters is one thing, but this would be like showing Ric Flair driving an Oldsmobile in 1985 singing about how he isn't really a rich jetsetter but he sure does love that lifestyle.

I thought Liv/Ruby was really snug. They were laying it in. Nia Jax has to be the worst pro wrestler on a major roster. It’s just so bad. That turnbuckle spot was a near disaster.

It’s fun to try and line a power level up with a gimmick and find a decent match. Taker is The Spectre. Basically God tier when fully powered; only shows up occasionally.