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If that happens, I will thoroughly enjoy it. Jordan's got size, babyface fire, and real wrestler cred, so him.

Uh, I never act like that. You are creating strawmen in your head that you can rail against. In fact, the very post you quoted is one in which I acknowledge the criticisms and say that it is fair to critique the holes in ZSJ's game. I love talking wrestling with most anyone, but it is hard to have a useful discussion with someone who ignores what I write in order to make his or her argument. Re: Brock, I just desperately want him to lose at this point. They could have Kane beat him to avenge the Undertaker, and I'd irrationally be like, "Well, at least Brock lost clean!"

I've seen a number of those AJ tags. Terry Funk makes Dory Funk Jr. interesting and fun, which alone makes him a top ten wrestler of all time.

What seems ridiculous to me is that you took that out of context. I said that he's underrated on this board, which I think is perfectly fair and does not necessarily run counter to the idea that he also has holes in his game. On this board, people are arguing that Sabre doesn't sell (when as a couple posters pointed out, he sells stoically mixed in with selling that he's trying to think out his next counter), that his body shape and mass means that he can't possibly do damage to another worker realistically, etc. I know that you shit post with regularity, so I'm not expecting much from you, but if you're going to disagree with me, at least present my argument as I made it.

In wrestling, only the last thing you did counts for (or against) your character's character.

Not to belabor my dislike of the booking of the tournament, but they should have put the gold on Swann. He's got a lot of the same problems with mechanics and layout as the actual winnner, but with way more charisma and likability. Looking forward to ZSJ getting to Raw eventually. On this board, he might be the most underrated wrestler there is.

No, I'm not a fan because I don't think he's good now and I've never enjoyed him. Sweet fuck, some of you guys jump to silly conclusions.

Who said I was hating on Hunter? I just pointed out that Hunter basking in the praise of his former most-hated enemies, the internet nerds what live in their parents' basements, was classic Hunter.

I usually agree with this dude, but we part here. Where can I get a cheap sack of penises? Costco?

I know I'll hear it, but mediocre show for me. ZSJ/Metallik was excellent and clearly MOTN in my view. The booking of TJ Perkins as some sort of ace is absurd. Yes, they protected the kneebar (which is nice), but dude has been a good athlete and a mediocre wrestler since I've first seen him. Manik was mediocre, Perkins now has weak strikes and offense that looks pretty rather than like it hurts someone. I give him credit that he's smooth on transitions and has decent mat skills, but the Ibushi match was a lesser version of the Cedric Alexander match and the Metallik match had a solid finishing run, but was disjointed as the two guys had a few timing issues. Tag match was solid. Perkins being champ and the centerpiece of the division immediately puts me off of it. My interest for it went down about a hundred notches. OK show, but not one I'll watch again. Hunter soaking in the nerd love was pretty priceless and such a Hunter move.

I dig when two wrestlers just agree to beat the crap out of each other in the back. I quite enjoyed Itami/Gulak. Roode in the ring is sub-HHH in 2002. I'm glad that Jose was still over even when matched up against Roode's entrance. The Authors of Pain seem like they might be the Ascension except, y'know, good. High hopes for them.

I look back at some of those Paige/Emma matches and realize that Emma was the one who was the glue in those matches that made them good. I hope they send Emma to Smackdown when she gets back because Emma/Nikki, Emma/Becky, and Emma/Naomi all sound like things I really want to see. She should be the heel centerpiece of that show's women's division, maybe with Natalya as her Starscream.

I don't really get how the GM who worked his ass off to become champ in a clean way not liking the guy who cheats like a bastard makes the GM the heel. Especially when the guy who cheats was pretty shitty about the GM's injuries and continues to cheat like a bastard. On another note, Becky Lynch is definitely over with the girls in the crowd. Bayley is too over on RAW, but I'm glad for Becky that she got over like that, too.

I mean, there is a difference between wanting a different champion than the one who beat John Cena cleanly because he's just too small for your liking, and wanting a different champion because your current champion needs his wife to blind his opponents with hair spray to keep winning.

Might be just a hot take, but I will take Smackdown's women's division over Raw's every day of the week. Becky/Nikki/Naomi are a good core, Nattie is totally unlikeable and works well in contrast to those three faces, and even the dead weight like Alexa and Carmella have some value. Carmella never did get a run as a heel in NXT because they swerved us and turned Alexa, so it's enjoyable watching her figure things out as a heel for the first time. Becky will drag something fun out of Alexa, who at least throws awesome temper tantrums on two-counts. What I love about Smackdown is that so many guys have taken the opportunity to try and make a run, especially with Cena as a part-time player and with Del Rio leaving the company causing a void for guys to step into. Styles looks even better than he did in New Japan, The Miz is having an incredible heel run. Heath Slater busted his ass to get himself over. Crews and Corbin are rapidly improving in the ring. The Usos are revitalizing themselves with this heel turn. Then there are guys like Ziggler, but most everyone is stepping up. Miz/Bryan is the best storyline they've run on non-NXT television since they stumbled into Bryan going on a big run and winning the WWE Championship. If I have one nitpick, it's that I hated Cena pinning Miz offhand in a nothing tag match. Miz should not be eating pins right now, especially not in a fashion that is ultimately meaningless. When he loses, it needs to be cathartic because everyone has been waiting for it for so long. Jobbing him in tag team matches like that runs contra to this. Speaking of, if you'll all indulge me in a bit of fantasy booking: The Miz and Bryan find themselves at a stalemate in terms of negotiating a new contract for Miz. Miz, true to his word, refuses to defend the IC title, and Bryan strips him of the title, though Miz still holds the belt. Bryan announces a tournament for a new IC champion, and out of the eight guys picked to be in it, Samoa Joe turns out to be one of them. Joe wins the gold when Miz shows back up, claiming that he is the real IC champ rather than Joe. Miz cheapshots Joe again and again backstage and in matches until Bryan calls for a title-vs-title match to determine the undisputed IC champion - they'll hang the belts above the ring and force both men to fight over the title in a ladder match. Basically, it's been over twenty years since the HBK/Razor feud, so let's re-use what was an effective narrative again!

The making fun of ADR and Paige is just the same wry humor that pretty much everyone here has about stuff. Personally, I laughed at all the Paige jokes not because I'm laughing at Paige, but because they're funny and because there is some humor in the whole thing. When I was 22, I made terrible relationship decisions, too. I get where Paige is coming from. Hell, she even got what is usually the kiss of death: a tattoo of her partner's name. Come on! That's too cliché not to laugh at. I do hope HHH and Stephanie get that Paige's brain is still developing and that she's something of a slave to her lizard core right now, and even if she sort of torches a bridge on the way out, they leave the door open for her to come back someday. She's young, sometimes you make dumb mistakes when you're young. Hell, I know old people who make worse mistakes, for that matter.

YOU'RE THE GUY, HUH?! OH, THAT'S NICE!

I kind of only half-watched some of this, but I was glued for Owens/Reigns, which was a great fucking match.

Yeah, Miz is a competent worker who cuts many good promos and occasionally a great promo. This isn't really to tear him down because what he does is better than what many guys do, and it is certainly worth something, especially because he garners actual heel heat in the age of chanting for cool or technically sound heels.

Also, the jumping superkick to the back of the knee is my favorite move in wrestling right now. It is nasty, and it should be death. I don't want to see some face fight out of a submission after being kicked with it. It either gets whiffed, or it gets the win. That's how that move should be treated.

What's nice is that the writers and bookers on Smackdown can do two things at once. Need to facilitate a Dolph Ziggler heel turn and advance the Miz/Bryan storyline? Here's a quickie Miz/Ziggler feud and match to do that! Need to turn the Usos, keep AA unbeaten so they can be the transcendent, hard-to-beat team, and pay off Slater not getting drafted? Hey, we can do that all in this tag team tournament! Just simple booking that interweaves simple stories, that's all.

That show massively overachieved. I somehow enjoyed a long Miz/Ziggler match (mostly because of Miz spamming movez to troll Bryan and the crowd) and a Kane match here in 2016. Hey look, you build a guy as needing a win badly for money, and people respond! We need more bounties and cash prizes in 2016 WWE.

What's your team name this year? The Common Clay of the New West? Wait, no, it should be Not The Irish.

Tecmo Super Bowl '17 came out a couple days ago, and it. Is. Life. It needs a revision though because it's a little buggy.