Timbo Slice

EDIT: Adam Pearce was indeed backstage helping out in the production of the show. Pretty sweet.

Kikuchi worked a lot down in the card. Most of Japan's juniors, actually. Mid 90's WCW luchadors. i understand why this thread was made, Parv. I know you're trying to prove a point. My point is that card placement doesn't really matter in the end.

I'd like to point out the first guy that was nominated for this thing was Meng.

It's all relative. There's guys who work on the lower mid-card who do good enough stuff that it's tough to not consider them, and then there's guys who work at the top of the card, work a completely different style and it still works. If you're looking for a specific style of work, there's going to be a smorgasbord of wrestlers that are going to be very similar and card placement won't mean a damn thing.

Part of me thinks after Thursday that the main roster is going to want some of their shine back and will work their ass off, but I think the big problem is that with them being locked in with their writing, nobody is gonna change anything major right now. It's akin to firing a coach more than halfway through a season. If anything, they should feel the need to prove themselves en lieu of the booking, but I'm not sure that'll hapoen.

He's one of the best bumpers I've seen. Him rag dolling for everyone when he was in ECW was like watching a completely different guy than the guy I saw on the indy circuit, and he had himself some good moments there, too. I'm not sure he has enough to put him on a list like this, but I'll consider him one of the better indy guys..

Everything I hoped for and more. Top to bottom it's the best show WWE produced all year long. Owens coming in as a top-level guy right off the bat is what I was hoping for, and he can definitely carry a program with Zayn. The theory about how Triple H is behind all this and deciding to make this his own brand as opposed to a developmental brand might start to pay off because even back when NXT was en vogue, their roster was never this stacked. For guys where you thought there would be overkill, they've toned it down a ton. I haven't regularly tuned in to Raw or SmackDown! for a good couple months now and it's because it really doesn't hold a candle to what NXT is doing on a regular basis. Fantastic stuff. Haven't been this amped about wrestling in a while.

So Owens is actually gonna wrestle tonight? Awesome.

Corey Graves retires but is now an announcer.

There normally is. I'll tell you this: I can't even fathom how NXT exists considering the gap there is between how its produced compared to RAW and SmackDown! It boggles my mind.

A lot of that was on my end. I won't use that headset/mic again. Also, this is the film we talked about with Andre from 1968: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061454/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_17

Dailymotion is now on Apple TV, making me think they'll start rolling apps out for everything here relatively soon.

8/31/93 vs. Kobashi4/16/94 vs. Kawada 7/28/94 vs. Misawa 9/3/94 vs. Kobashi That's a good start for now considering I'm on my phone and it's off the top of my head. The final MWC tag title defense against Misawa/Kawda where they drop the belts is really good, forgot the date. I want to say something like January of 1993.

Doc will make my list, but more as a personal favorite than someone whose body of work lines up against the all-time greats. He had a tremendous run in 94 and had some really neat tags earlier in the decade for AJPW, but his US stuff leaves a lot to be desired, sadly. He did have some good stuff in UWF, I'll give him that. He'll be in the bottom part of my list.

Next thing you know, someone's gonna tell me that Jimmy Del Ray wasn't actually a gigolo. I fear my innocence is completely lost. (RIP, Jimmy.)

Yeah, you're gonna fit in just fine here.

Telling you right now if anyone was expecting what happened last week, you're gonna be disappointed.

iTunes has it up. They fixed that server issue they were having.

THE RETURN. It's up for anyone who wants to listen.

I seem to remember a much better card happening somewhere else that night. This is just...well, it has to be seen to be believed and I'm not sure how much it can really be described. Yet another one of those Takada oddities.

I remember really liking this match the first time around because it seemed like Bull wanted to show she still had it and she really put on a hell of a performance. This is also one of the few Kyoko singles matches I really like, too. I'm not sure if it was better than the main, but it's a very good match.

That being said, Vince dropping the "I own this thing. We're going on for 15 more minutes." line was legitimately incredible.

Obviously, this was going to be full of softballs, but at the same time, it was at least entertaining. Anyone looking for Austin to dig in deep and get the tough answers out of Vince was going to be sorely mistaken in the first place.

Okay, Vince basically waving the magic wand and saying this is gonna go on for 15 more minutes is the TV moment of the year.

Naylor said something similar a few minutes ago. That's too bad.