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... It's "Helloova Kick"? All this time I thought the announcers were saying Puma Kick. A New Day-Loreon was gold... and what a way to build up The Vaudevillains with the proceeding beatdown they took. That's how you book!

He'll still have nothing on Lawler. Cena's reigns mean absolutely nothing to me. As do anyone's from the Attitude era onward. It became a prop after 1998.

I think Cena has 2-3 more runs left. He's not even 40 yet.

Once Nia "clicks" with her offense she's going to be a lot of fun. I wanted to see a brainbuster out of that countered guillotine.

well, the Ancient Romans exhumed Pope Formasus, dressed him up in his Papal gear and put his decomposing cadaver to trial. So I could absolutely see Hogan doing the same.

If I was to design that classic ideal of a main event wrestler they would be in that Bret / Perfect mold. That could have been the mid 90s version of Flair vs Steamboat... that's the guy Bret truly needed during his main run... he had Owen... but Owen wasn't Perfect.

How does it work with them copyright ing Gallows and Anderson when they've used that all over? When they're done are they still able to use their names with no royalties going to WWE?

You really wish for JBL to perish via the glorious death by Snu-Snu?

Magnum and Jake always had the same look.

All this talk of announcers makes me miss Gary Michael Cappetta and Dave Penzer.

This is precisely why I think wrestlers should have off-season so they remain fresh character wise.

That would be the San Francisco Demons

Summer Rae has promise. Eventually they have to consider a tag team division. I think she'd be perfect for that.

I haven't followed Japan in 15 years... do they even do three way or or fatal four way matches?

He was on a wrestling contract? I would think they would have released him from that then out him on a Legends type contract.

Austin didn't even need to have a match over 10 minutes. He was a talking head that would kick punch suplex mudhole kick stunner pin. He was Hogan. You just wanted to get off your ass when you hear the glass and watch him chug beers and flip the bird. Much along the lines as you sang along to Real American and posed along with The Hulkster after he vanquished the freak du jour

Austin even as a brawler was extremely limited. He wasnt Stan Hansen.. more like Ronnie Garvin out there. He was great because of his character. His aura drove the match - not his ability.

He should be retirement age, no? According to his wiki he's 55.. and surprisingly studied biochemistry in college.

It's an absolute fact that Austin had to change his style after his injury. It wasn't so much from a character driven standpoint because he was on fire leading up to it and stealing the show everytime he hit the ring. He could barely turn his head without moving his shoulders. Towards the later years when he became bionic (oh the irony!) He really regressed to just being a caricature. Cena is good and dedicated to his craft. I don't think he's on the level of Austin ring wise, but instead has always reminded me more of a modern day Sting.

I was watching Spring Stampede 94 last night and I forgot how bad ass Bunkhouse Buck was.

I absolutely forgot about his work with Angle.

Did you guys watch Austin during his WCW years? His work with The Dangerous Alliance, The Hollywood Blondes or his US Championship run / feud with Steamboat? Austin lost his performance aura after his injury. There is nothing truly rewatchable after Calgary Stampede. Cena is a guy who I wonder what he could really do if he wasn't held back.

Brisco County Jr was still the superior show to Walker!

Don't forget Austin vs HBK at KOTR 97. 100x better than the crippled WM match.

Hence why he's a "poor man's". It is a different style today. That hurts the artform a ton for the WWE. But look back at how Austin wrestled before the injury and tell me he wasn't infinitely a better ring performer than most of the guys on the current roster who just do over exaggerated done to death spots. Cena had it called out on him back at ONS 06. Even look back at the lower card guys back theN their matches made sense and their offense made sense. Not like Apollo Crews who needs his opponent to flip over after the gorilla press slam so he can do a standing moonsault for a pinfall attempt. That's absolutely horseshit by anyone's standards. All Apollo has to do is invert the Press slam so he automatically falls on their back. Guys like Regal, Orndorff, Double A and Larry Zybisco sucked? It's not nostalgia for their characters... it's nostalgia for the fact that their shit look good, made sense, and could get the crowd involved without shortening their careers or looking like morons with blatant assists to their opponents offense like Kalisto needs.