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I wanted the Steamboat 89 Bash finish myself.

Fair enough. But people saying that was a Daniel Bryan showcase or Trips did the big moves just because he was facing Bryan are missing the point.

Because the pace was a Triple H match. The structure was definitely a big Triple H match. He brought the majority of the stuff to the table. Bryan actually did more to work his spots in to the match more than Trips did.

For as much as we talk about Bryan, that was Triple H's match and it was really fucking awesome.

Okay, this might be the best Triple H match in at least a decade.

Well, if your opening segment isn't gonna be a match, that's the best thing you could possibly do.

Hogan selling the word "Superdome" is his best work in years.

AGAIN! SILVERDOME! GOOD LORD, HOGAN!

Not a bad thing, either, Loss. Just made the moment better.

CESARO'S JACKET.

Feed already having some type of audio issues, it seems. Video seems fine but the sound is definitely grainy.

Man, Cena really knows how to put over big angles. That sit-down interview was fantastic.

How the fuck does Cole lack the tact to ask that question? You've been with the company for how long now?

It's more like which episode doesn't he talk about it. That and the Dr. D thing.

What the fuck does that passage even mean?

Here's what I wrote on my blog, The Best of ECW: The ECW rematch of the duo’s 1995 series, which at this point seems like it had been done in like 70 countries or something crazy like that. Always like that this started out with Gertner doing the ring introductions in Spanish. And he did it well, too! So consider this your normal lucha dos a tres caidas match, so the tecnico is going to go nuts and win the first fall, as Mysterio does a plancha off the apron, another over the top rope and then finishes the fall with a standing rana. Psicosis starts the second fall with his awesome missed corner dropkick spot and then Rey starts with the ranaing and all that. Psicosis makes his comeback and starts slamming Rey all over the turnbuckles. Great powerbomb for a near fall. Rey avoids a corner charge so that Psicosis can show people why he does the post bump better than anyone else. Rey then gets his incredible handspring spinning rana and tries a springboard moonsault, but Psicosis catches him and destroys him with a martinete for the win. Always liked that wrinkle. Third fall begins with Psicosis hitting a powerbomb through the table and an absolutely nutty tope into the front row. Psicosis then continues the nuttiness by missing a corner splash and bumping off the post to the floor, where Rey follows with a springboard somersault silla. Then, they realize they’re in ECW and start kicking each other on the floor, throwing chairs with Rey doing most of the damage by wrapping the chair around Psicosis’ head and ramming him into the post. Rey is an absolute highspot machine in this match, hitting a beautiful triangle somersault plancha to the outside, too. Psicosis then gets SUPER nutty, hitting a friggin KAORU diving senton on Rey through a table and a chair on the floor. After another powerbomb, Psicosis finishes with his fantastic corkscrew senton with a chair laid across Rey. Immensely better than the first match, which was really about them just introducing the crowd to their style. This match saw them take everything up 10 notches and put their own twist on the ECW style. Fantastic stuff for the time, and for a pure spotfest, there are few matches that touch it. Still holds up extremely well today.

I see what you mean now, Loss. Steenalized is on the right track. More like the minor leagues than anything. Shouldn't have anything to do with the developmental business model.

April Fools?

Well, by ruling, if the unionization works, players become "employees" of the school whereas wrestlers are considered independent contractors. WWE has been able to get around this for years, but much like the NCAA, they've become the only game in town. So at some point, if a change was going to happen, it would have to be a collective effort by all the wrestlers who work there to do so. The NCAA has definitely said that this will go the Supreme Court, and in all honesty, they don't have much of a case. I'm not sure it would really impact the WWE all that much considering the majority of people who go to the WWE at 18 instead of college for athletics want WWE to work out more than anything else. That, plus they probably aren't getting offers from big-time NCAA schools. The only possibility that could arise is if the official dropping of the term "Amateur" becomes a part of this deal. If WWE wanted someone to come work out at the Developmental Center when they weren't preparing for the college sport of their choosing, that's something that actually could happen, but it would be very unlikely to actually happen.

This was a great match, kills the Triple Crown match 10 months later. This was the first time I had seen Mutoh's new wrestling style and I dug it, especially with Kawada really putting over everything so well. The Wizard to finish was awesome thanks to how Kawada took it. Going forward, Mutoh really had to dig-in deep to make his matches compelling, and it normally didn't happen if he wasn't in there with a great seller.

I think one of the big reasons people thought the 6/7 match was better was because Ace came out of nowhere with the performance of his life. Kawada/Taue vs. Misawa/Whoever had been seen plenty of times and while there was the shock of Akiyama getting the pin for the belts, Ace was a force of nature in that match trying to step it up with Williams. I know I was definitely impressed with him in the match, but I'm with you in thinking the 5/23 match was better.

As it is with most math errors, the calculation was correct but the numbers were wrong. I'm the one going back to school for math and here I am messing up a simple multiplication problem.

Definitely. Right when Bryan started getting into the shitty stuff with Orton, there was one time where I think he got put through a table and Brie came out to stop the beat down. They then acknowledged that they were engaged.

Fucking zeroes, man.

Yeah, the more I think about what I said...I'm gonna chalk that one up to an unbelievable amount of optimism on my part? I got nothing.