Mad Dog

Update is he's gotten some movement back and can pick things up.

Best of 21 Series. I like it!

Who would you even match Bully up with on the roster for any sort of compelling matches?

Lol. It's because he's a NXT reject who doesn't fit in a workrate promotion (or whatever ROH tries to be these days) and clearly got booked just because he was an ex WWE guy they could roll out . That your first thought would be "is it because he's fat?" is hilarious. A company that books the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and brings in Okada/Tanahashi fairly regularly. Weird that that audience doesn't give a shit about Bull Dempsey. And you could literally find hundreds of guys on the indy scene with more upside that you could have brought in instead of Bull James.

It sounds like Honma got seriously injured at the last show.

I docked Nigel a lot because I always felt he was better outside of RoH. Plus, I kind of hated his World Title run.

I think Bullet Club idea of cool and what you describe are two different versions of it. I see what your definition is, I just don't think it's compatible with the nudge and wink you're in on the joke deal with the Bucks.

Seeing Big Show in shape and kind of mobile like he was when he was younger made me really sad. What could have been if he could have managed his weight his whole career.

I think he's a good sleazeball heel. RoH trying to push him as a cool heel with the Bullet Club doesn't work at all though. Adam Cole is not cool and no one buys him as being cool.

Seth Rollins is in my top 5 guys that could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't care. This goes back to Age of the Fall days with him in RoH. His inring is solid to good but dear God he gives you zero reasons to give a shit about him. He gets way too much of a pass for tanking ratings to historical lows during his title reign and he's been a pretty big failure in the current run. I would say he's a bigger failure than Roman is.

Who are wrestlers you like? My top suggestions are to watch Mid-South/UWF from when the Midnights and Rock N Rolls show up through when JCP bought them. Or get something like Pro Wrestling This Week that is a TV show that will expose you to multiple promotions at once.

I also liked the touch of Suzuki shit talking Tanahashi who was doing commentary in the early goings. I also really like the camera angle they took under the rope when Okada was desperately stretching for it towards the end of the leglock spot. I also liked that 2 days later at a house show that Suzuki kept attacking the leg and used the same leglock to eliminate Okada from the match.

I also liked the elimination match that had Okada and Suzuki in it from the 2/7 show. I thought it was fun that Suzuki went back to attacking the leg and using the same leg lock to eliminate Okada was cool. I'm hoping they have a rematch in the spring.

I thought Kelly and Corino were the absolute shits as a commentary team. I would take Nana over Corino. I thought they could be passable on TV but if you got a house show you would just want to throat punch both of them by the end of it more often than not.

It will never happen. The RoH way seems to be waiting until the ship caught on fire and sunk before addressing it.

Yes to Okada/Suzuki 2/5. Just finished watching it and it might be my favorite New Japan match in awhile. I knew it was 40 minutes going in and it didn't feel like it. The final leglock sequence was great as you wondered how Okada was finally going to get out of the hold. I really enjoyed this and hope there's a rematch down the line.

Finally watched Okada/Suzuki. I thought that was a pretty fucking great match. Didn't feel like 40 minutes at all. Great selling from Okada for the whole match. I loved when Suzuki had him in the leglock and he was just kicking Suzuki in the face trying to escape. Okada is really good to a great start in 2017.

Wouldn't PG-13 have been a little too early? I could see them as regulars in Special K in RoH, doing some TNA shows and hitting Japan and doing Zero One before moving over to something like DDT. Plus, I could see them building a huge social media and YouTube following.

It seems like I see some tale of his mismanagement every couple of months like this.

That's been kind of the word for over a year now from what I've seen. I think that's why Kevin Kelly had taken over talent relations to try and get morale back in line.

I don't think it was great or anything. He just wrestled a few matches and stood around looking tough.

I kind of liked Animal as hired muscle for the Mag 7 at the end of WCW.

William Regal and Lance Storm. I like both guys individually but they combined to make one of the most boring and flavorless tag teams ever. They had no chemistry and it's like they brought out the worst in each other. I think their team only lasted a couple of months but it felt like forever at the time and in hindsight.

I think the four corner elimination style with tags is the way to go. Chikara does the four corner tags really well as you get a point per elimination so a team can earn a title shot from that match alone if they eliminate the three other teams.

They haven't proven Cornette wrong. Omega and Owens might be headliners, but they are headliners in a declining wrestling period. Omega/Okada drew one of the smaller Domes ever at only 26,000. Yeah well, Bret, Nash, and HBK were headliners in a declining and dead wrestling period. Does that mean they weren't important or successful? Do you think they feel it doesn't count since the business wasn't as hot as it was a few years prior and a few years after? Kenny Omega just main evented a Tokyo Dome show for the title in front of 26,000 people in a match that the most famous wrestling critic and reviewer gave 6 stars to. Kevin Owens was just in a title match at the Royal Rumble in front of 50,000 people. Why do they give such a shit about what ONE asshole who, at his absolute peak, never was performing in front of crowds those sizes has to say about them? I'm sure Kevin's pay check from merch alone per year is more than Cornette was making in his prime in JCP. I'll bet you when it's all said and done, more people will know Nash, Hart and HBK than they will Kevin Owens. There's been a lot of matches over the years that were great and Dave gave no time or care to. There's people like Ayumi Kurihara who never even had one match reviewed. That was one of Dave's most bizarre ratings ever and makes me questions his ratings all together. They shouldn't care about what Cornette has to say much like he doesn't care what they have to say. I would hope Owen's worldwide merch makes more than Cornette's US only pay did. Who knows what they make, but it's not that hard to make above $40,000 a year on a developmental deal. Tyler Bate is making $20k/year.They're making well into six figure territory right now and that's not counting the merchandise. They pretty much have conned RoH into giving them the keys to the castle.