Go2Sleep
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Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with triple threats, they're just harder to pull off. This one was great as you'd expect with 3 of the best wrestlers going today all with perfectly complementary styles. My favorite aspect of this match was as soon as someone hit a cool move and tried to celebrate, someone else was there to strike. The pacing was so good with just the right amount of Pentagon and Puma fighting each other, but knowing they had to pull out all the stops to slow Mil even a little. Mil Muertes came out of that looking totally unstoppable.
The Cage/Taya match is obviously going to be polarizing, but I think that was actually the first LU intergender match that actually was what Matt Stryker always tries to say LU intergender matches are. No light working around the women and no cheap sexual harassment heat for a change. I won't try to convince anyone it was appropriate, I'll just say that for what they were going for, they pulled it off very well. Mundo's heel work at the end was great, and you're probably lying if you didn't bite on the lead pipe nearfall.
Cheerleader Melissa's new gimmick is... Interesting. Not really a big Moth fan, although he did bring back the curbstomp.
The bathroom fight was vintage LU ridiculous awesomeness.
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Yeah, I'd say the match was certainly good, but not MOTY level for me. I think it would've worked better as a one-fall match with Joe wearing Zayn down with his nifty strike combos then ultimately winning by ref stoppage. The slow opening gave away that they were going long, and didn't make a ton of sense with them "feeling each other out" in a long-ish match two weeks ago plus the margin for error being greater in a two-fall format. Definitely some cool sequences in the second and third acts, but the epic-ness was a bit forced.
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Just give him the Play of the Day.
Guys we haven't had an Overdrive in a while...
Nice 2-post combo here.
I liked the springboard knee strike he was using when he first came in.
I was surprised they didn't transition him to some sort of knee-strike finish after he busted Cena's face. It would've had instant cred and fit in with his flashy opportunist style, much moreso than the clunky pedigree.
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Is there a pending lawsuit where a kid died because he took this move or something? I just can't fathom how they went from building up this move as an elite finisher to never speaking of it again seemingly overnight.
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Which one lands on the frozen planet and develops space madness while she locks herself away in cryosleep hoping someone finds her?
Definitely AJ.
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Paige, AJ, and Nikki were like the first astronauts sent to a distant planet with minimal resources tasked with making it habitable for future generations even though there was a good chance they wouldn't survive to see its success. The horsewomen are the better-prepared second wave who discover the breakthrough that makes life sustainable.
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Dario Cueto, while being a psychopath, was also a businessman who liked to have a professional, well-rounded product to keep that payoff drawer full. Catrina's motivations are more ambiguous thus far, but she's clearly got more on her mind than bumper music.
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The tag title match was very good. Lots of nice nearfalls, and the finishing run was strong. The turn was logical and executed fine, but that doesn't change the fact that I don't want to see more Jeicho/Styles matches.
Even with the women already doing a triple threat, I wouldn't mind Owens/Zayn/Neville for the IC.
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Lucha Underground won't be everyone's cup of tea. If you don't like it by about Episode 10, you're never gonna like it. Either you're gonna dig the wacky storylines and match style or you won't. That said, the first two episodes are among the worst in the series. Showcasing Blue Demon Jr in back to back weeks isn't the best hook, I know. If you're new to LU, you could probably just start at the S1 Aztec Warfare (Episode 9 I think) and go from there. You won't miss too much (and the important stuff gets recapped) and you'll get a better feel for what you're in for.
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In other news
RVD thinks that marijuana can prevent CTE and will donate his brain to science to prove it.
If only more football players and wrestlers smoked weed.
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Is Rey actually gonna wrestle? I'm sure he'll be more physically involved than Konnan, but I get the vibe he'll primarily be a manager.
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Orlando's also already a tourist city, so the logistics are probably a lot better than Minneapolis.
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I'm glad they went with Ambrose/Brock for Mania since it's legit good angle/match which is something that show desperately needs, but I am disappointed if it costs us Brock/Harper. Is Bray even gonna make the main card this year or his best hope winning the battle royal?
HHH/Ambrose will be better than HHH/Roman in every way, unless you're really into trainwreck matches where both guys give up in the first 2 minutes because they know there's zero chance they can win the crowd.
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Owens could definitely withstand a clean job to Styles at this point, especially if he gets a program with Zayn or even champ Roman after Mania.
Even as a "wins and losses matter" guy, I'd still say a loss to AJ in a good match is more high profile than a win over the freaking Big Show.
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27... Shouldn't have fast forwarded all those Ryback main events.
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Neville/Balor in the battle of underappreciated NXT aces was really good. They made Neville look like a big deal despite not doing anything significant for months, and they structured the big finishing run around avoiding finishers rather than taking them and kicking out. They did a good job making it look like the first person to hit a big move was going to win. The escalation was good with Neville's selling of the Pele and subsequent kick flurry, then regaining the edge with a lightning quick German. Then they went into "who can hit their move first" mode and had a couple good teases despite the obviousness of Balor going over.
The drifter is the first person's match I've skipped in probably close to a year and a half on NXT. Nothing about this guy connects at all and his gimmick is all over the place. I guess we can wait and see, but he's looking a lot like more like Solomon Crowe than Baron Corbin. Although Crowe did at least show some occasional flashes of excitement in his matches, Samson has all the in-ring excitement of Curt Hawkins.
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I think the ladder match was the least of the Cuerno/Fenix matches this season. Outside of Cureno's sweet-sounding kicks, there wasn't much in the way of good filler to balance out the obvious spot setups. The opening dive with Cuerno obviously moving the ladder and both guys not even attempting a transition to the truss-hanging spot were particularly glaring. Still some positives here, though, like Fenix's dive over the ladder and his disgusting bump into the ladder from the stands (Vampiro's line "he just broke his ass" made it).
Pentagon/Puma was fun despite the obvious finish. Mil was very effective in his short time, and I'm liking the tease of a power struggle between Mil and Catrina.
Rey being cast as a wise old kung fu master is hilarious to me. I might have missed something obvious, but who is playing Dragon Azteca 2.0?
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Looks like a ton of Lucha Underground guys will be at Wrestlecon Saturday (including Pentagon Jr!) which prompted me to buy tickets to the convention. I would've bought tickets to their supershow also if I didn't have WWN tickets already.
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What is Becky supposed to do in the meantime? You better have a good answer for me.
Have fun out there, entertain the WWE universe, and earn their respect with a great performance as her #Wrestlemania moment.
Sasha's totally pinning/tapping Charlotte for the finish though.
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Pleas bring up Bayley to make this a fatal four way at mania.
What would they do, have the exact same match they had at TO: Rival? I'd rather just have Bayley give 100% against Asuka then debut on Raw.
Mania should be Sasha's moment and rightly so.
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I think I would've like this show a lot 15 years ago. I watch the first episode and there was maybe 2-3 minutes of good content, but it definitely wasn't worth sitting through the other 20.
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So they are not doing the Kevin Owens vs AJ Styles for the IC Title? Instead we are getting Kevin Owens vs the Big Show and fucking AJ Styles vs Chris Jericho IV or Y2AJ vs The New Day?
I hate this fucking company's hatred of simple booking logic on the main roster. God I can't wait for NXT Takeover Dallas.
Yeah, lost in the shittiness of HHH/Roman and Shane/Taker is how terrible the undercard for Mania is shaping up as well. AJ/Jericho 4 has zero value. I wasn't crazy about the idea of a 2/1 split between them, but it served its purpose well enough. These two continuing to be around each other after Fast Lane is ridiculous. AJ gains nothing by going over Jericho again and the match structure doesn't change a lick even if Jericho is a *real heel* this time. This program continuing only benefits Jericho, and I'm not sure why they'd be making his credibility a top priority these days.
Then there's Owens/Show, which could conceivably be fun as a 2-minute squash where Owens goes all high-flyer because he's the little guy for once and of course would be a massive face in this situation. Unfortunately, the more realistic scenario of a standard 5-7 minute match with no adjustment to the face/heel role reversal that Stevie Wonder can see coming is thoroughly unappealing.
You also can't forget that ND/LON with ND delivering vintage WWE scripted babyface comedy is coming down the pipeline too.
I mean using just those guys, you could run AJ/Owens which would be a high-energy match with the right face/heel dynamic, re-unite JeriShow as faces to put over ND in a perfectly acceptable 5-minute filler match, and try to kick the tires on the LON/Wyatts (since they're doing god knows what) feud that looked promising a couple months back. But nah, let's mix and match these pieces into the least interesting combinations instead.
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I will say this for the Sasha/Becky finish: It was a rare "double pin scenario" where both wrestlers' shoulders were down the entire time and both were convincingly on top of each other.
I'm not sure I get the direction they're going with Ambrose/HHH. Do they really think that because the crowd will boo HHH against Ambrose, they will boo him against Roman as well? This doesn't seem the best route unless they're doing a WM 30-esque re-write. Ambrose/HHH should be a hot program (remember their Rumble finish) and will only make HHH/Roman look worse in comparison. Dean's been killing it with his opportunities the last couple of months.
I assume Byron having to take that sloppy bump was punishment for his indiscreet capsule passing last week.
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MARCH 2016 - WRESTLING DISCUSSION
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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The triple threat was easily better, probably early front runner for MOTY. Even as far as WWE/NXT goes, Neville/Balor from last week was significantly better than the 2/3 falls, which was badly hindered by the time constraints (in the opposite direction than that complaint usually indicates).