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  1. Matt D
    My limited knowledge of BattlARTS makes me confused at how exact a tag match would work in that setting. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvm8nu_mil-mascaras-jimmy-snuka-bob-backlund-vs-hector-garza-eliminators-1995-japan_sport Looks like most of the WAR stuff isn't online.
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    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xegoeb_bret-hart-vs-bob-backlund-pt-1_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xegowq_bret-hart-vs-bob-backlund-pt-2_sport Made more impressive by the fact that this was just a day off of Bret's KOTR performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VyGOiXXQ8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFkMjL-5HM
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    Yeah, I'm with that. Rey's more than just bouncing off the ropes and flying around. I like watching mid 00s Rey more than mid 90s Rey, for instance and he could DO way more stuff back in the mid 90s. He can take a beating, garner a lot of sympathy, pepper in some great hope spots and make a hot tag as well as just about anyone on the roster, I bet. I'd happily watch something like 30 match Rey/Rowan (or Titus) vs Gold/Stardust series.
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    I'm wondering if Skye doesn't end up Captain Marvel to be honest.
  6. Matt D
    I'd much rather read Essential Spider-Man 2 than Essential Spider-Man 1.
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    I'm not always the most perceptive wrestling fan apparently. Matt D Posted 02 December 2013 - 11:00 AM You know, I actually kind of like Pandering Punk. I felt like his babyface run before was a bit too forced with a bit too much pressure. He never seemed like he was enjoying himself because he was trying to be too cool (save for maybe when he brought Fink out). He actually seems to be having a ball now, especially on the apron in tags. That's way worse than me screwing around about Cody Rhodes' facial expressions during dropkicks during March Madness.
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    http://io9.com/evangeline-lilly-almost-quit-ant-man-when-edgar-wright-1666558394 This is worth reading. It could be spin but I pretty much believe it. I like Wright as much as the next guy but I fully believe that he was going to go way off the rails and probably didn't really want to play ball in the way that they needed him to and that a competent-even-if-not-brilliant corporately minded talent could take most of the best stuff from his script and make it work far better within the MCU than he would have been willing to.
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    I'm planning on dipping my toes in on the ones that interest me the most (mainly the ones written by Nicieza which is a happy coincidence), and a few others like the Speed Force one and the JLI one, and then I'll just go back to not reading DC at all.
  10. Matt D
    We need a new Clem. I nominate Justin Gabriel.
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    I honestly wonder why they didn't go with Psycho Pirate instead, unless they're saving him for Crisis stuff in season 2-3.
  12. Matt D
    What's weird is I find Austin, who is from a different generation than me, and is one of the biggest stars of all time far more relatable in his fandom and how he appreciates and interacts with wrestling than I do Cabana who's only a year and a half older than me and probably had a far more similar first 15-16 years of his life as it came to wrestling to me than Austin did..
  13. Matt D
    Diggle was the best part of that episode, and maybe Caitlin being the one to toss out rainbow raider.
  14. Matt D
    Sanderson does teach writing at BYU (or at least he did) and he has writing podcasts and what not, but his work is so thoroughly in his voice. It's extremely easy to recognize his work despite the different subgenres he writes in. It's almost too easy to pick out his personal voice, to be honest, which is the problem I have with Peter David, for instance. That he annotates (eventually) almost every chapter he does on his website is pretty striking too (and part of my own personal problem in not always being able to separate the writer's voice from his work; I read too much about why he did what he did). He's just that prolific.
  15. Matt D
    If Punk comes back does he get fined? EDIT: I also think one reason why Austin always says how much he regrets leaving from a business sense is that he has ex-wives to support.
  16. Matt D
    It's not so cut and dry. Hunter has his opinions. NXT is right there. Steph has hers. The lead writer of Smackdown generally puts together a show that feels different than Raw. People might like watching Titus on Main Event. Maybe people just want to watch the big matches on PPV. I really think that in 2014, if you're watching Raw at 8:00 on Monday night, by yourself, you're doing it wrong. Catch what you want to see on youtube in bits and pieces later in the week. They're not going to give you everything you want? Fine. Don't watch the show the way they want to present it to you. At least watch it how you want and maybe that's on 2x speed or maybe that's just skipping to the matches you care about. I have a lot less time than I used to, but I'm happier watching WWE now than I was when I actually had time to watch the entire show when it aired.
  17. Matt D
    The issue with the promo hook is that Vince makes it seem like every episode of Raw is most people's first or something. I get that he doesn't think his viewers can follow what happens from week to week because he can't, but most of them can or else they wouldn't still be so hooked.
  18. Matt D
    Sure, but can you explain why Sabu's opponents hold on to the ropes so he can legdrop them? Sabu is beyond me. I think he's some sort of space/time vortex possessing a human form. We can only perceive one aspect of him with our feeble human minds and the video cameras that Public Enemy stole from the next door public access show for ECW TV.
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    Obviously they need to do another one of these and have Cesaro come out and bash Vince with a chair. Like this:
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    I can explain how Russian Leg Sweeps and Downward Spirals work too.
  21. Matt D
    I would actually love to hear about Big Fresh's cooking ability. Also, does he know how to do his own laundry?
  22. Matt D
    I think the idea there is that the other wrestler is going to do some move instead and the leapfrog is a "game of human chess" quick thinking counter.
  23. Matt D
    I think the point of the move was that you would remember it the next day. It was something he used to stand out. It was a character-driven move based around the idea that Cactus wasn't afraid of (or even liked) pain. Eventually, it became something which had inherent meaning because of how it was presented, to the point that, if it was teased in 1998, for instance, the fans would anticipate it and know it meant something.
  24. Matt D
    Great tangential response that doesn't really argue against what I just said, no matter if it's true or not. Are you going to talk about dumping people in swimming pools next?
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    It worked at the beginning of this year. Then they took the swing away from him, used him as a cog to build up other feuds (though not as bad as Axel a few years ago) and cooled him off, even when they let Bray keep the singing. The WON reported that they cooled him off because they felt they could only push one guy (Reigns) at a time and that they wanted to have Cesaro waiting in the wings for later or in case something happened. By the time that something DID happen, Cesaro was so cooled off that Ambrose was the natural person to push. He was on the rise while Cesaro was on the decline. You can believe that rumor or not, but I think your statement is pretty disingenuous considering what's actually happened.
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