Timbo Slice

MST3K PTBN is something I'm fully behind.

I think it's actually very cool that WWE is in the mold of trolling people in this way because they do a pretty dang good job of swerving people on arrival times and such nowadays. Will make the timeframe these guys arrive look pretty interesting.

None chance. Still remember the limo story from Ring of Hell and I think he worked the hell out of him just like he does Shoemaker.

I'd imagine AJ being a surprise at the Rumble and Nakamura coming in soon after. Wyatt is a huge Nak mark so there's a good chance you're gonna see that feud.

My list:

No selling is basically both of their gimmicks. Hence it worked.

Above all else, though. CHEESEBURGER was trending on Twitter last night. And he got to work Fujiwara. Insane.

The main event was not a great match. There were great moments, but it was not a great match. The main reason I got into Shibata and Ishii is because out of any of the guys in NJPW who SHOULD be doing strike exchanges, those are the two who should be doing it. So it worked for me. AJ/Nak was REALLY good and to me better than Nak/Ibushi. Awesome transitions, really well built to near falls, truly one of the more well put-together matches I've seen in quite some time.

Not really feeling the English announce team.

Didn't disappoint.

Oh, and Big Mike is going to crush Lethal for the ROH title tomorrow night.

Styles goes to the top for the Spiral Tap sometimes, which would make sense for why he went up top there. I thought this was good too, although I agree people throwing all that snow on it is a bit much. It might make my Top 10 for 2015, but I'm not even sure it was a Top 5 NJPW match of the year to be honest.

The New Day face turn is going to be the best thing ever this year. Big Mike will win the ROH title, drop it to a returning Daniel Bryan by year's end, but will also get a shot at the NJPW IC belt. Dalton Castle will win the ROH TV Title this year. Jeff Cobb will be a standout on Lucha Underground. An NXT match will get a top billing at SummerSlam this year. Bayley will get a call-up offer but refuse it. Same with Balor. Zayn will get called up and face off against Kevin Owens after WM. They'll feud throughout the summer. Cesaro will main event a PPV. Kota Ibushi will win the IWGP title this year. If not him, Tetsuya Naito. La Sombra will debut in NXT but won't be long for the main roster. Rush will sign with NXT, as well. Atlantis will lose his mask at the Anniversary show.

Really can't wait till you get to the Vader match, which is a candidate for best sub-10 minute match ever.

Ohtani always gets overlooked. Was really good as early as 22-23 years old.

Kansai's right there. She did have that crazy match with Kong with the cut hand that was downright uncomfortable at times. Not seeing it.

So 50/50 booking in WWE-speak is guy we push as heel that gets over as face or guy we push as face that gets over as heel...but do nothing in either scenario. Makes sense.

Load up the first six months of the year with as much wrestling as I can before grad school comes and whoops my ass for a year.

That match was fantastic in a lot of ways. First was the fact that there were as many guys in the stands as there were in the ring. Second was that they actually played up the damage right away and made it count. Third was me actually cringing at the headbutts on the outside. Fujiwara wouldn't have taken some of those headbutts. Finish actually worked with Hero basically finding any hole he could and exploiting it. Really great stuff from Rotten, who had some awesome fat guy matwork,

Yep, that's the Sato match. Fucking fantastic stuff.

They booked themselves into a corner with Rollins. Only way he could have cashed in with Lesnar was how it happened, really. Although I really do think The Shield reunion happening as opposed to another Authority schmuck is the right call. The ending made sense, but objectively, the main event shouldn't have a finish like that. Should always be clean, regardless. But hey, Vince has been wanting the ending to WM17 to happen again for almost 15 years now, so.

Judy Martin could go, and looking back at some AJW Classics, it was apparent that there was good women's wrestling from Americans back then. Sherri Martel had good stuff in AWA, too. It is a little bit of both, but Sasha really is turning out to be an outlier. The other women can work with her and she's the one who can really dictate things in a way that nobody else can out of that group. Bayley isn't as natural as Sasha is in the ring, but she's up there in putting things together.

This is a hell of a resource right here.

That's the type of match where from an archetypical standpoint, you think of what a match between those guys could be like and they do basically everything you'd think they'd do. Both guys are nuts, both guys lay it in, both guys have inventive and ridiculous spots, both guys know how to make it seem like a fight as opposed to a wrestling match. Just fucking insane. A feather in both guys' caps.

No chance. Mean Mark had no juice at all. His ability to get something over notwithstanding, generic badass wouldn't have worked.