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Here you go: That is really Steen, isn't it (I haven't seen him for him for years). I didn't recognize him at first. If the WWE really signed him, I'm.... amazed. Somewhere, Chris Hero is looking at skinnyfat pics of himself and weeping (I assume there were more issues with Hero besides his gut). You... you know that was a joke tweet, right?

Oh, I get it now.

I think having KENTA in NXT is good for a few reasons. 1) It will help them figure out a gimmick for him that works without throwing him out there to sink or swim (cf Husky Harris vs. Bray Wyatt) 2) If there's any language issues, he'll have that much more time to work on his English before hitting the main roster 3)The overlap between NXT viewers and puro fans is probably decent (better than the greater WWE/puro ratio) but definitely not 100%; with luck, it will result in a) a bit of a boost to viewers/the Network; b) more familiarity with his work amongst the WWE viewership. Sure, you could fantasy book KENTA vs. Daniel Bryan til PPV headline matches til the cows come home, but rushing anyone into a main roster debut is a good way to risk another Sin Cara or Tensai. (At least if Tensai had started on NXT they might have eliminated the fetish diaper before everyone saw it.)

That top rope slam/dropkick/footstomp not being the end of the match is okay, on its own, seeing as how both guys are out of the ring and there are other participants. I haven't seen the match (I only watch CZW in Botchamania form) so I can't comment on the sanity of what came after it, mind.

Stooging Hunter is good hunter.

Someone with a very unfortunate tattoo Here it is getting covered:

I have to say, I live in Ottawa, and I'm pretty glad I didn't bother to go to this taping. Even ignoring the bus ride to get out to the venue, that is not a card that fills me with excitement.

Don't Stand So Close To Me.

With special guest referee Shane Douglas!

You say that like there aren't a dozen guys in the indies with names like that.

I'm pretty sure Emma will never be on tv again now.

I wonder if this is what John Titor and DBC Cooper have sunk their money into.

I remember them billing her as being "from Korea", which might be even worse.

He's still better than his dad.

They've got two singles titles, a women's title, and the tag titles. They don't have the roster to support another one.

1. Ugh... way to Davey Richards that... Mammoth Sasaki gets to no sell pearl harbor And at least he falls over kaput at the end. Not my favourite type of spot, but as far as they go not too bad.

I just watched Maffew's long-awaited SinCaraMania video, and two things occur to me 1) Del Rio was decent when he was beating up Sin Cara. 2) Sin Cara must be the biggest high-profile flop in recent memory, no? I mean, he got a press conference to hype him up, got to tag with Cena on Raw, got his own lighting -- and then just stank up the joint. He was like if you took Blood Runs Cold, the Shockmaster, and Nathan Jones in a blender and then poured the resulting grey goo into a generic luchador outfit.

I thought that was at a house show where he did a table spot and it had fiberglass in it that fucked his leg all up. Yeah, that's my bad. I skimmed the article and conflated the two incidents.

Wikipedia says Finlay suffered nerve damage so bad in that junkyard match he almost lost the use of the leg - which may explain the fact that him winning the tournament was pretty much not mentioned again, since he had to rehab for months.

Since when was Wade Barrett's gimmick "snappy dresser"? "Guy Ritchie thug" sounds right up his alley.

For all three? It was one championship that changed names, so yeah. It started as the Legends title, then Eric Young won it during his phase as a Serious Wrestler and leader of the International Elite and renamed it the Global Title. Then at some point it got rebranded as the TV title, and later Abyss won it and went away.

What about Nick Gage?

Finally. I was disappointed by the lack of Australia-targetting humour.

Maple Dust Come on, Dust Storm is right there.

Well, here you go, as per PWInsider: