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Great WWE tag match or Greatest WWE tag match?

I personally think S4 gets bit of a bad rap. Sure its a come down from the heights of Mil Muertes and Prince Puma and feels like "who we got that can make the show?" but I felt it was leagues better the endless Hogan promos and Russo booked crap of late period WCW, or the Kiss my ass club and horrible creative of mid-aughts WWE Re Chavo: is his story basically Hamlet in Wrestling? Fakes going mad to mess with his Uncle (Such as the Eddy trap consisting of a box with a string and a burrito) only to actually lose it?

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/45607153/jake-paul-tops-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-improves-12-1 Jake Paul picked up a win over JCC Jr, in a fight I was unaware of even though it was maybe 15 miles from my house

I'm excited for this. I watches about 2.5 seasons of LU on Netflix and then all of it on TUBI during the pandemic so it will be fin to go through again. Lucha Underground is made by wrestling fans from Hollywood. So they "Wrestling Larry Sanders show" works cause they actually know how to make a tv show. This is like what Vince was going for with his "room full of tv writers" forgetting that they needed to be wrestling fans first! Its also why this show is shot so so well compared to the ADHD cutting of Kevin Dunn. Also hiring an actual trained actor to play Dario was a stroke of genius. Funny watching SuperBrawl Revenge when Chavo smacked Rey with the chair I was like "Shades of Amigo!" The announcing; At this point in my life I've become so anti-Jerry Lawler that anything sounds good. (food for a starving man), If you've ever had a public speaking job you know its easy to feel like "Silence in the enemy" when in actuality its really good to let a comment breath sometimes. This is the problem in my opinion, Strike tends to talk things to death, try to make too many points. Women's wrestling; I'm on record as not being a fan of intergender wrestling. I'd much rather watch a well booked women's division (I'm actually a big fan of women's wrestling and thought for a period of time when the men's main events in WWE where all Suplex City and finisher spam the women's matches where much more enjoyable do to layout and execution). To my point LU has Io Sky, Kari Sane, Chelsea Green, Sexy Star, Ivelisse , Mayu Iwatani (it can be kinda fun to play who's under the make with LU) but by my recollection none of them wrestler each other! finally one hour wrestling shows. To butcher a quote from Lou Reed, One Hour is all you need, Two is pushing it, and with three now you've got Jazz (not the wrestler sadly)

I do think not having similar interference finishes in a row helps

Finally saw the new Wes Anderson film and I can't decide if I liked it or not. Not much of a plot, and what is there just seems to provide a reason for the performances. Certainly his most experimental film yet. (Like when Douglas Adams wrote Dirk Gently' Holistic detective service as a novel with out a plot, or The Big Lebowski as a character study where the plot doesn't matter)

So I found the Sting v Vader match on Facebook of all places. Remember when you said Scott Hall was a large man who was great at working small? I'd say the same thing about Sting. Some of his best matches are working underneath against Vader and The Giant.

When me and my friend went to see Orville a while back we both remarked that he really seemed have gotten into working out

Yhea its bland if unoffensive pop

This showed up on the WCW vault so some thoughts. Opener is very Aughts TNA YMMV on this. I found it fun for what it was. Chavo v Rey was predictably excellent. I thought to myself "wrestling in overalls seems incredibly difficult" and then Rey proceeds to blow spots, I wonder if his choice in ring gear had something to do with it? Did he ever wear those things again? Wall v Hugh wasn't bad but made me wonder why this company was so head strong on pushing Hugh for so long? Thrillers explode was decent. These guys all seem solid but I don't know if any of them had a particularly high ceiling if this promotion stuck around. really surprised at how much I enjoyed the mic work of Totally Buff, and I was legit surprised and fooled by Mike Awesome's disguise, now I do question not blowing this off on a PPV. This felt like something that belonged on Nitro and I think not giving people definitive finishes on PPVs hurts overall as it says don't both paying. Now Cat/Storm, DDP/Kanyon & JJ, and Steiner/Nash where all a little too much sports entertainment for me. one of these matches would have been find but three off them just feels too Russo. great performance by DDP for sure. About the main event. I said in the Greed PPV that Nash in the tag teams division as an aging veteran was the best use of him. This is why. He obviously thinks he was a bigger star than he was. He never really had a great Main event singles run. to me he's like Jeff Jarrett a great buy for the top of the midcard in a tag team or a secondary champ. (Nash was better teaming with HBK or as IC champ that World Champ in WWF). He's no someone to build the company around

The OJ stuff was also largely pre internet, so him having a domestic violence incident wasn't going to go viral like today. A lot easier to hide in plane sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVN-ckxR44

The Sting - Cactus match is up on The Vault with Jesse Ventura's commentary intact. The version on The Greatest Hits and Misses DVD had only Foley and Coachman. I'm a fan of Jesse's WCW run working with either Ross or Tony. Jesse might be my favorite color commentator and I wonder what a Ross/Body team during the MNW might have sounded like (lets say if Lawler goes to prison). On the DVD Foley said this was his best match up until he wrestled HBK and Austin. As for the top rope rule Watts claims is that he banned top rope moves so that the heels could us it to get heat behind the refs back. Only problem with that is a top rope spot is a high spot (at least back in the day, now everyone just GTSI) so the faces should be doing those moves on their come back.

The Full Monty (I saw it once when it came out on VHS) is fine but kinda an odd choice for a best picture nom

Mick Ralphs, Bad Company and Mott the Hoople Guitarist, Dies