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And a new one coming each year, so you're going to have to give a ride per year anyway, if you want to keep the list finished.

At least the Cruiserweight Classic was awesome! Anyway, Neville, Cedric, Murphy and Nese were my favorite champions. You may notice a pattern if you look closely enough...

I appreciate it, but I think I'll live, even if I end up not seeing any of his matches. I mean it's pretty unlikely that his style is that much different from the typical Lombardi/ Brooklyn Brawler matches, right?

Let's see, I have witnessed not that many matches live, but Rey & Edge vs Benoit & Angle, AJ Styles vs Jonny Storm, Shane Douglas vs Steve Corino and British Strong Style vs War Machine & Jeff Cobb would probably be the only realistic possibilities.

If you go back this thread a little bit, I believe there was a hint towards NXT Takeovers, so that could be a possibility...

Remember this, always, my man!

Yeah, it has not been great! Neither was last year. It should start to get better someday soon, goddammit!

When it seemed like WWE UK title wouldn't pick up any steam, I figured the unification match between then king of the cruiserweights Neville and Bruiserweight Pete Dunne would end up taking place back in 2016(?), never did. I'd imagine Hayes prevails here, but who knows?

Joins Thatcher as a trainer, maybe?

When this comes up, I always refer to the PAC vs WALTER match from OTT Wrestling, where PAC landed wrong, his index finger was bent 90 degrees sideways, for real, and he just pulled it back into place and continued the match for another 20 minutes. Never had any issue with Dunne finger bend after that. If you are enough of a bad ass, a dislocated finger is just an inconvenience. The problem is, only Tyler Bate and Alesteir Black have ever remembered to "pull the finger back into place" in order to get the hand working again. It's not the move, it's the incoherent selling of the move that is the problem.

Ok, so I guess their names weren't Rand and Jake, but I recall seeing a little bit of that Barbarians movie at my school mate's house in the late 80's. We didn't watch the whole thing, because he didn't think it was all that good.

Some remake of those 80's "Barbarian Twins" (or whatever the F those two were called) B-movies, at the very least!

I was wondering whether Allie Kat and Allie Katch were the same person, leaning towards she has to be, but thanks for inadvertedly clearing that one up for me!

So were they really meaning to say "Fuck Happy Corbin", then?

Obviously not, if those three matches managed to escape!

So, did I understand this correctly? Abe "Knuckleball" Schwarz character for Steve Lombardi was made for the sole purpose of making fun of Baseball strike of '94 as well as rather constant pitcher/catcher jokes by Vince? I have yet to see a single match by him, except that he was in that IC-title battle royal which had Razor and Rick Martel as the final two. I think his name was MVP, originally.

I remember Armstrong and Enos touring New Japan a lot back when Malenko, Eddie and that one other guy toured New Japan in the early to mid nineties. Now that you mention it, I recall nWo Sting's name on the PWI results over there, others I was not aware of, at all. Harlem Heat and High Voltage would have fit right in those Ring Warriors shows that were on EuroSport!

Not even "We're going to just drive thru, get the booster and drive right back home, won't even turn off the engine in between"-level of deal?

This I didn't know/remember! Sounds exceedingly stupid.

I recall Scott Norton and Buff Bagwell spent some time over in New Japan when they were part of NWO-Japan, but other than that, a lot of the guys who used to go there, ended up not going anymore.

Yeah, I tried to explain that it's not really about convenience, but you can probably see how it would look kinda odd from an outside perspective, right?

Somehow, he managed to drop 10 more pounds from his '93 WWF look! And shaved off his moustache...no, wait, that's still there, sorry!

My wife was wondering this same thing this one time she saw women wrestle on NXT. "How come none of them have their hair tied back? Seems very inconvenient to me!"

Hmm, seems like nothing much changes over the next 12 months...

Now this was a thorough, an insightful and well-written piece of analysis to go with my morning coffee! Thank you! I could read stuff like this for hours on end! As far as Alex Wright goes, once he turned heel in '97, he won the cruiser and TV titles in short order, and if you think about it, that's like a Chris Jericho or Ultimo Dragon trajectory, which in WCW would have been his ceiling at very best. So, no shame there, whatsoever!