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Michaels was a dick, sure. So was oh let me see... Hogan, Bret, Austin, [insert all top guys ever here]

On Jericho's show he and Edge mentioned that you have to be an asshole to get to be a top guy.

 

 

Is that why Edge fucked Lita? He had a rep of being too nice of a guy?

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Throwing in Bryan and Harper on the final Raw of the year. Harper beats the hell out of Bryan. His stuff is stiff as hell. He breaks out his Michinikou Driver and a Top Rope Powerbomb that was one of the craziest spots of the year. Bryan fights to survive, being the sympathetic underdog. He hits two GREAT dives to the floor that Harper eats like a champ. There's no surprise there -- Harper did a lot in Chikara and spent a lot of time as a base for small guys doing a lucha interpretation. Bryan's the best in the WWE. Harper has somehow climbed up the rankings and is probably Top 5 right now. Nasty stuff.

Is there a way to get Harper/Cesaro somehow?

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I'll put this in for Best Promo of the Year.

 

Ok, after seeing that promo AND the Doctor Who Christmas episode, I want, no, DEMAND that Regal lose an epic war of a match, regenerate into a young, lethal English shooter and destroy his opponent. Legit, he just did in two minutes what some guys never EVER learn to do in months of angles and skits, make me give a shit.

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Regal is the absolute prototypical "good hand" in wrestling.  Can cut a promo, can work with anyone, can play heel, play face, be deadly serious, be legitimately laugh out loud funny...

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Regal is the absolute prototypical "good hand" in wrestling.  Can cut a promo, can work with anyone, can play heel, play face, be deadly serious, be legitimately laugh out loud funny...

Good hand (to me) is Val Venis or someone else who you keep around for jobbing and teaching. Definitely what Regal is at this point. But he's so much better than a "good hand".

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Yes and no.  I mean, he's obviously a massively superior talent, but he was never a main event guy, and barely ever even all that close to being one.  He was just an absurdly talented mid-card guy for years and years.  Maybe "great hand" would be a better way of putting it?

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Yes and no.  I mean, he's obviously a massively superior talent, but he was never a main event guy, and barely ever even all that close to being one.  He was just an absurdly talented mid-card guy for years and years.  Maybe "great hand" would be a better way of putting it?

He had his moments. It felt like pre-illness he could have been a bigger star. Then there was the 2008 push that a piss test killed. Just seeing those play out would have been amazing.

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My final list:

 


1. Punk vs. Lesnar (Summer Slam)

2. Del Rio vs. Ziggler (Payback)

3. Del Rio vs. Show - LMS (SD 1-11)

4. Bryan vs. Rollins (Raw 6-10)

5. Bryan vs. Cena (Summer Slam)

6. Bryan/Usos vs. Shield (SD 9-20)

7. Punk vs. Taker (Wrestlemania)

8. Hell No/Kofi vs. Shield (Raw 5-20)

9. Cena/Sheamus/Ryback vs. Shield (Elimination Chamber)

10. Bryan vs. Orton - No DQ (Raw 6-24)

11. Del Rio vs. Christian (Summer Slam)

12. Punk vs. Cena (Raw 2-25)

13. Usos vs. Rollins/Reigns (Money in the Bank, pre-show)

14. Cena vs. Sandow (Raw 11-18)

15. Orton vs. Christian (Raw 8-26)

16. Cody/Dustin vs. Rollins/Reigns (Battleground)

17. Bryan vs. Orton (Raw 12-16)

18. Bryan vs. Swagger/Cesaro/Ryback - Gauntlet (Raw 7-22)

19. Bryan vs. Harper/Rowan/Bray - Gauntlet (Raw 12-30)

20. Cesaro vs. Kofi (Main Event 5-1)

 

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My final list:

 

1. Punk vs. Lesnar (Summer Slam)

2. Del Rio vs. Ziggler (Payback)

3. Del Rio vs. Show - LMS (SD 1-11)

4. Bryan vs. Rollins (Raw 6-10)

5. Bryan vs. Cena (Summer Slam)

6. Bryan/Usos vs. Shield (SD 9-20)

7. Punk vs. Taker (Wrestlemania)

8. Hell No/Kofi vs. Shield (Raw 5-20)

9. Cena/Sheamus/Ryback vs. Shield (Elimination Chamber)

10. Bryan vs. Orton - No DQ (Raw 6-24)

11. Del Rio vs. Christian (Summer Slam)

12. Punk vs. Cena (Raw 2-25)

13. Usos vs. Rollins/Reigns (Money in the Bank, pre-show)

14. Cena vs. Sandow (Raw 11-18)

15. Orton vs. Christian (Raw 8-19)

16. Cody/Dustin vs. Rollins/Reigns (Battleground)

17. Bryan vs. Orton (Raw 12-16)

18. Bryan vs. Swagger/Cesaro/Ryback - Gauntlet (Raw 7-22)

19. Bryan vs. Harper/Rowan/Bray - Gauntlet (Raw 12-30)

20. Cesaro vs. Kofi (Main Event 5-1)

 

 

Not including NXT huh?

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What are the best NXT matches? So far I have seen Sami/Cesaro I, Sami/Cesaro 2/3 Falls, Sami/Neville, Bo/Sami, and Cesaro/Regal. Is there anything worth searching for?

 

I remember people talking up Regal/Ohno which I have watched and Paige/Emma which I haven't. The only pimped NXT matches I've managed to see so far are Regal/Ohno, Cesaro/Sami 2/3 Falls and Cesaro/Regal.

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Here are my favorite matches of the year in a loose order. I didn't see any WWE PPVs before SummerSlam so I'm missing a lot of stuff.

1) The Rhodes Boys vs. The Shield, some episode of Raw -- Cody and Dustin win the belts over one of the most dominant tag teams (plus corner man) of all-time. The work in the match was very good -- not great, but very good -- but the ending is what made it. The rules were tailored to tilt the match in favor of The Authority's lackeys. This is the same Authority that fired Cody over petty reasons (HHH and Orton not getting invited to his wedding/Cody lipping off to HHH), fired Dustin in order to further humiliate the family, and tried to force Dusty to choose between his sons only to get punched in the face by the indentured Big Show. However, the fired Big Show comes out from the crowd and saves the day and punches Roman Reigns to get payback after being forced to punch one of his idols in order to keep his job. The match ends with Cody and Dustin celebrating as Show goes into the crowd and does the Yes chant -- reminding everyone that the larger story is the arc of Daniel Bryan, which is why this whole thing happened in the first place.

For everyone who says the WWE is incapable of telling a layered, complex storyline, please look at that. That's legitimately amazing storytelling. If you want to rank matches based on work alone, be my guest. But I think the bigger context of the match and those intricacies and callbacks is way more important. Legitimately, I don't think the WWE ever told anything like this as well as they did. The only match I can think of off the top of my head in US wrestling as good was Raven/Richards vs. The Pitbulls in ECW, which is only probably the best match in ECW history. This match is on par with the best match in ECW history.

 

This my MOTY and on the short list of best matches ever on Raw.

 

2) The Rhodes Boys vs. The Shield, Battleground -- Superb and masterful work that ends with Dusty punching Dean and the good guys defeating The Shield. Another amazing match between a lot of amazing workers.The work in the match itself is better than number one. And if anyone wants to say it's overall better, you won't get much of an argument from me. This is one of the best tag team matches in a ridiculously long time.

 

3) Bryan vs. Cena, SummerSlam -- This match was essentially a reset button for the WWE. It was so friggin' crazy and wild -- the Ganzo Bomb, the flying knee, etc. Bryan as maybe the best all-time underdog vs. Cena, who got to work as an ace, and he's terrific in the role. Bryan beats the WWE's lone icon and cements himself forever. Then the crazy ass end comes with HHH and Randy, creating The Authority. This match essentially launched the best six months of in-ring WWE wrestling since at least The Smackdown Six and maybe even longer. There were so many classic matches and angles (the two above, so many friggin' awesome Shield things, the Wyatt's reign starting, etc.) that happened because of the aftermath of this match. None of that has the gravitas if those two didn't put on one of the great matches in SummerSlam history.

 

4) Punk vs. Lesnar, SummerSlam -- 1B to one of the WWEs best-ever PPVs. A complete and total war and awesome story. Punk has to somehow survive Lesnar in an effort to destroy Heyman. He uses his guile and wit to do so but his hubris and obsessive quest for revenge leads for him to lose to the monster.

 

5) Punk vs. Cena, that Raw -- The culmination of a two-year rivalry that saw Punk consistently win the upper hand on the way to a historic title reign that lasted longer than any of Cena's multiple reigns. Up until SummerSlam, Cena and Punk were the WWE's two most compelling figures -- Cena, the mainstream hero and face of the company against the anti-hero Punk. Both guys have to break out stuff they've never done before -- the Cena-canrana, Punk's piledriver -- in order to try and end the match. Cena wins and makes it clear that he's better than Punk and goes on to take back the title against The Rock.

6) Del Rio vs. Big Show, LMS -- Del Rio as a face sucked but this was a terrific moment. Del Rio's biggest kayfabe strength is his cunningness. He works body parts, finds weaknesses, looks for flash moves (and cheap shots as a heel), etc. Here, he manages to figure out a way to defeat the giant in a super clever fashion.

7) Jericho vs. RVD, the Raw in Brooklyn -- This match wasn't for wrestling nerds. I'm sure there's a ton of stuff old Jericho and RVD do that we'd all rip apart. But these two had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands like it was 2000, and that's more important than anything. It felt like a US Open tennis match between Sampras and Agassi after Federer took over -- two long-time favorites going at it, without a lot at stake other than the personal pride in beating the other.

 

8) Sami vs. Cesaro, NXT -- The best pure babyface in the world showing fire against one of the greats going right now. This was just an awesome spot-fest, but told magnificently well -- Sami's crazy dive and his insane tornado DDT spot, Cesaro getting a fall off of a nasty spinning chinlock, and one of the most insane feats of strength from Cesaro to end the match. So friggin' great.

9) Punk/Bryan/Rhodes Brothers/Usos vs. The Shield/Wyatts, Raw -- The WWE became tag team heaven the past few months and tag wrestling is the best wrestling. This was such a friggin' awesome match. The six faces against the two heel factions. The Shield and The Wyatts the week before squared off in one of the most hot segments of the year. They don't trust each other to start things but learn to work together during the match, which resulted in all of them jumping the faces in the corner all at once in one of the most fun sports of the year. It ends with all of the insane dives, etc. that has made this year so awesome.

10) Emma vs. Paige, NXT -- The NXT women's division is terrific. These two put on a really good match made even better by the great crowd. They have such a great juxtaposition -- Emma is the bubbly ditz who is really very good, Paige is the ultra-serious "anti-diva" who believer her hype a little too much. Paige becomes the first NXT Divas champion.

11) Emma/Santino vs. Fandango/Summer Rae -- An insanely great comedy match, something we should always support and want to see.

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What are the best NXT matches? So far I have seen Sami/Cesaro I, Sami/Cesaro 2/3 Falls, Sami/Neville, Bo/Sami, and Cesaro/Regal. Is there anything worth searching for?

 

I remember people talking up Regal/Ohno which I have watched and Paige/Emma which I haven't. The only pimped NXT matches I've managed to see so far are Regal/Ohno, Cesaro/Sami 2/3 Falls and Cesaro/Regal.

 

For some reason I was thinking the Regal /Ohno matches weren't this year. I don't really hear them get the same amount of praise as the other matches. Paige/Emma was decent, but kind of overrated. Paige/Nattie from I want to say last month was better. As were the two ppv Kaitlyn/AJ matches.

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I think people rated Paige/Emma so highly because it was given kind of a main event level feel.  Also add in the skill level of Emma, and you have a match that was worlds better than it really should have been.

 

Yeah, the atmosphere made the match. The match itself was a very acceptably good wrestling match but the build to it was great and the split crowd was good, too. It's sort of like college basketball in a way -- the level of play isn't nearly as good as the NBA, but a heated college crowd has a great atmosphere that makes the game so much more epic than it probably is.

I know I forgot Regal/Ohno and Regal/Cesaro. My list is pretty much just random crap that came to my mind after the Top 4. I'm not about to sit-down and rank all of them but man oh man are we lucky people.

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As the year is now over I have gone back through and updated my list of notable matches below, for more explanation see my original post on page ten.

 

As before, we don't get Main Event over in the UK and I have not had a chance to watch Superstars, but please feel free to suggest matches from those shows if applicable.

 

 

RAW 07/01/13

Dolph Ziggler vs John Cena

Great Khali vs Antonio Cesaro

CM Punk vs Ryback - TLC

 

NXT 09/01/13

Big E Langston vs Seth Rollins

 

Smackdown 11/01/13

Big Show vs Alberto Del Rio - LMS

 

RAW 14/01/13

Wade Barrett vs Randy Orton

John Cena vs Dolph Ziggler - Cage

 

Smackdown 18/01/13

Antonio Cesaro vs Kofi Kingston

 

Smackdown 25/01/13

Wade Barrett vs Sheamus

Alberto Del Rio/Team Hell No vs Big Show/Rhodes Scholars - elimination

 

Smackdown 01/02/13

Rey Mysterio/Sin Cara vs Team Hell No

 

RAW 04/02/13

Ryback vs Antonio Cesaro

Rey Mysterio vs Daniel Bryan (Mark Henry return)

Chris Jericho vs CM Punk

 

Smackdown 08/02/13

Randy Orton vs Mark Henry

 

RAW 11/02/13

Mark Henry vs Great Khali

Daniel Bryan vs Chris Jericho

 

NXT 13/02/13

Adrian Neville/Oliver Grey vs Wyatts

 

RAW 18/02/13

Daniel Bryan vs Jack Swagger

Shield vs Randy Orton/Ryback/Chris Jericho

 

RAW 25/02/13

John Cena vs CM Punk

 

Smackdown 01/03/13

Antonio Cesaro vs Miz - 2/3 Falls

 

RAW 11/03/13

Daniel Bryan vs Dolph Ziggler

 

RAW 08/04/13

Miz vs Wade Barrett

Alberto Del Rio vs Jack Swagger/Zeb Coulter

Alberto Del Rio vs Dolph Ziggler

Mark Henry vs John Cena

 

NXT 10/04/13

William Regal vs Kassius Ohno

 

Smackdown 12/04/13

Dolph Ziggler vs Chris Jericho

 

Smackdown 19/04/13

Alberto Del Rio vs Jack Swagger

 

RAW 22/04/13

Dolph Ziggler vs Chris Jericho

Team Hell No/Undertaker vs Shield

 

NXT 24/04/13

Antonio Cesaro vs Adrian Neville

 

Smackdown 26/04/13

Alberto Del Rio vs Jack Swagger - No DQ

William Regal vs Wade Barrett

Undertaker vs Dean Ambrose

 

RAW 29/04/13

Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes

John Cena/Team Hell No vs Shield

 

NXT 01/05/13

Chris Jericho vs Bray Wyatt

 

Smackdown 03/05/13

Daniel Bryan vs Ryback

 

RAW 06/05/13

Shield vs Kofi Kingston/Usos

 

Smackdown 10/05/13

Daniel Bryan vs Dean Ambrose

 

RAW 13/05/13

Team Hell No/John Cena vs Shield - elimination

 

Smackdown 17/05/13

Shield vs Usos

Jericho vs Cesaro

 

RAW 20/05/13

Team Hell No/Kofi Kingston vs Shield

 

NXT 22/05/13

Sami Zayn vs Antonio Cesaro

 

Smackdown 24/05/13

Jack Swagger vs Daniel Bryan

Kofi Kingston vs Dean Ambrose

Randy Orton/Sheamus/Kofi Kingston vs Shield

 

RAW 27/05/13

Dean Ambrose vs Kofi Kingston

Team Hell No vs Shield

 

Smackdown 31/05/13

Seth Rollins vs Kane

Roman Reigns vs Daniel Bryan

Dean Ambrose vs Randy Orton

 

RAW 03/06/13

Shield vs Team Hell No/Randy Orton

Ryback vs Daniel Bryan

 

Smackdown 07/06/13

Shield vs Randy Orton/Daniel Bryan

 

RAW 10/06/13

Dean Ambrose vs Kane

Randy Orton vs Roman Reigns

Seth Rollins vs Daniel Bryan

 

NXT 12/06/13

Antonio Cesaro vs Sami Zayn

 

Smackdown 14/06/13

Sheamus vs Antonio Cesaro

Shield vs Team Hell No/Randy Orton (Shield first pinfall loss)

 

RAW 17/06/13

Antonio Cesaro vs William Regal

Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan - No DQ

 

NXT 19/06/13

Adrian Neville/ Corey Graves/Kassius Ohno vs Wyatts

 

Smackdown 21/06/13

Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton

 

RAW 24/06/13

Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton

Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton

 

Smackdown 28/06/13

Sheamus vs Damien Sandow – Dublin Street Fight

Shield vs Christian/Usos

 

RAW 01/07/13

Shield vs Christian/Usos

 

Smackdown 05/07/13

Randy Orton vs Christian

 

RAW 08/07/13

Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan

 

NXT 10/07/13

Wyatts vs Adrian Neville/Corey Graves/William Regal

 

Smackdown 12/07/13

Daniel Bryan vs Christian

Jey Uso vs Seth Rollins

 

RAW 15/07/13

Chris Jericho vs Rob Van Dam

 

NXT 17/07/13

Adrian Neville/Corey Graves vs Wyatts

 

Smackdown 19/07/13

Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett

 

RAW 22/07/13

Daniel Bryan vs Jack Swagger/Antonio Cesaro/Ryback- gauntlet

 

NXT 24/07/13

Sheamus vs Luke Harper

 

RAW 29/07/13

Shield vs Usos/Mark Henry

Alberto Del Rio vs Christian

 

Smackdown 02/08/13

Randy Orton vs Christian vs Rob Van Dam

 

RAW 05/08/13

Randy Orton/John Cena/Daniel Bryan vs Shield

 

Smackdown 09/08/13

Randy Orton vs Rob Van Dam

Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett

Christian vs Alberto Del Rio

 

RAW 12/08/13

Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett

 

NXT 14/08/13

Shield vs Adrian Neville/Corey Graves/Xavier Woods

 

Smackdown 16/08/13

Shield vs Big Show/Mark Henry/Rob Van Dam

Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett - No DQ

 

NXT 21/08/13

Sami Zayn vs Antonio Cesaro - 2/3 Falls

 

Smackdown 23/08/13

Alberto Del Rio vs Christian

3MB vs Mark Henry/Big Show

Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan - Steel Cage

 

RAW 26/08/13

CM Punk vs Curtis Axel

Randy Orton vs Christian

Daniel Bryan vs Shield Gauntlet

 

RAW 02/09/13

Cody Rhodes vs Randy Orton

 

NXT 04/09/13

Jack Swagger vs Sami Zayn

 

Smackdown 06/09/13

Rob Van Dam vs Alberto Del Rio

Real Americans vs Usos

Daniel Bryan vs Seth Rollins

 

RAW 09/09/13

Santino Marella vs Antonio Cesaro

Randy Orton vs Goldust

Daniel Bryan vs Dean Ambrose

 

Smackdown 13/09/13

Dolph Ziggler vs Dean Ambrose

Dolph Ziggler/Usos vs Shield

 

RAW 16/09/13

Usos vs Real Americans vs Tons of Funk - Elimination

Daniel Bryan vs Roman Reigns

 

Smackdown 20/09/13

Shield vs Daniel Bryan and Usos

 

Smackdown 27/09/13

Shield vs Kofi Kingston/Dolph Ziggler/Rob Van Dam

 

RAW 30/09/13

Shield vs Usos/Dolph Ziggler

 

NXT 02/10/13

Luke Harper vs Kassius Ohno

 

RAW 07/10/13

Real Americans vs Santino Marella/Great Khali

Shield vs Brotherhood and Daniel Bryan

 

Smackdown 11/10/13

Shield vs Brotherhood

 

RAW 14/10/13

Brotherhood vs Shield – No DQ

 

NXT 16/10/13

Bo Dallas vs Sami Zayn

 

Smackdown 18/10/13

CM Punk vs Big E Langston

Real Americans vs Usos

Brotherhood and Daniel Bryan vs Shield

 

RAW 21/10/13

Daniel Bryan vs Dean Ambrose

Shield vs Usos

 

Smackdown 25/10/13

Daniel Bryan/Brotherhood/Big E Langston vs Shield/Randy Orton

 

RAW 28/10/13

John Cena vs Damien Sandow

Usos/Big E Langston vs Shield

Real Americans vs Brotherhood

 

Smackdown 01/11/13

Shield vs Usos

John Cena/Brotherhood vs Damien Sandow/Real Americans

 

RAW 04/11/13

CM Punk vs Luke Harper

John Cena/Brotherhood vs Damien Sandow/Real Americans

 

NXT 06/11/13

Luke Harper vs Kassius Ohno

 

Smackdown 08/11/13

Daniel Bryan vs Luke Harper

 

RAW 11/11/13

CM Punk vs Real Americans

CM Punk/Bryan Danielson vs Shield

 

Smackdown 15/11/13

Wyatts vs Usos

 

RAW 18/11/13

Big E Langston vs Curtis Axel

Daniel Bryan/CM Punk/Brotherhood/Usos vs Shield/Wyatts

 

Smackdown 22/11/13

Real Americans vs Brothehood

Shield vs Usos/Rey Mysterio

Daniel Bryan vs Luke Harper

 

RAW 25/11/13

Shield vs Brotherhood/Rey Mysterio

Wyatts vs Daniel Bryan/CM Punk

 

NXT 27/11/13

Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn

 

Smackdown 29/11/13

Shield vs Brotherhood

Shield vs Brotherhood/CM Punk

Shield/Wyatt vs Brotherhood/Usos/Rey Mysterio/CM Punk

 

RAW 02/12/13

Eric Rowan vs Daniel Bryan

Big Show/Brotherhood vs Shield

 

Smackdown 06/12/13

Brotherhood vs Curtis Axel/Ryback

CM Punk vs Dean Ambrose

Rey Mysterio/Big Show vs Real Americans

Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan

 

RAW 09/12/13

Daniel Bryan vs Fandango

Rey Mysterio/Big Show/Brotherhood vs Real Americans/Curtis Axel/Ryback

CM Punk vs Dean Ambrose

Wyatts vs Usos

 

Smackdown 13/12/13

Eric Rowan vs Daniel Bryan

Brotherhood vs Real Americans

Shield vs Usos

 

RAW 16/12/13

Rey Mysterio/Big Show vs Brotherhood

Mark Henry/Big E Langston vs Real Americans

CM Punk/Usos vs Shield

Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan

 

Smackdown 20/12/13

Brotherhood vs Wyatts

Shield vs John Cena/CM Punk

 

RAW 23/12/13

Wyatts vs Brotherhood/Daniel Bryan

CM Punk/John Cena/Bi g E Langston vs Shield

 

NXT 25/12/13

William Regal vs Antonio Cesaro

 

Smackdown 27/12/13

Wyatts vs Usos

John Cena vs Seth Rollins

RAW 30/12/13

Daniel Bryan vs Luke Harper

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