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  1. Loss
    I don't see how it was poor writing. The finish set up a new heel champion with multiple quality challengers. Del Rio is not over enough to be the champion. That's my point. And I have always hated the idea of putting a title on someone to get them over because it never works the way they think it will, yet they never learn. Not sure how they really set him up for success any more than they did Miz either, and Dave going on for months about Miz being someone who can't draw TV ratings ... it just looks like they're setting Del Rio to go down the same path. It didn't have to be exactly how I wanted, but this mindset of blaming fans for not enjoying bad TV instead of blaming the people who produce it for its flaws has to stop. I know people here like Punk, but liking Punk is preventing people from being objective.
  2. Loss
    I don't think Punk was buried at all. However, I do think the writing is terrible and this is no longer special.
  3. Loss
    He's not? I guess I imagined the crowd chanting for him loudly in the opener tonight. Oh, well that settles that. Seriously, I would be surprised if your average channel changer who watches wrestling knows his name, which is fine, but it's way too early to put the belt on him. And I'm sick of all these fake pushes. If the promotion has no intention of attempting to push whoever they make the champ to be as big a star as Cena, then it's a waste of time. This was funny. I also really hate MITB as a concept, by the way. It worked with Edge because it was a novel concept and Edge was more established than the other guy who they've done it with since. All it has done since is create second-rate champions who are considered guys who could never win the title in a "real" match.
  4. Loss
    Involving Stephanie McMahon and Kevin Nash in the angle and taking the belt completely off of both Punk and Cena. I'm not OUTRAGED or anything, but I am genuinely surprised, in the sense that it reads like they brainstormed on picking the absolute worst possible scenario and this won out.
  5. Loss
    Del Rio is not over.
  6. Loss
    It's really hilarious how bad this has gotten. Maybe now Punk can mention that Nash dyes his hair to hide the gray and killed WCW in a promo or something, and people will be convinced as a result that this is still going great.
  7. Loss
    Funny that with a few exceptions, most WWE guys have to wear their wrestling gear ALL THE TIME on camera, even if they aren't wrestling. I think this is an old quirk, but I've really noticed it on the 1992 yearbook, when Flair is almost always in his robe when he's doing an interview, even if he's not wrestling, and Tatanka even visited a reservation wearing his wrestling gear. I noticed it a few weeks ago when Punk came back after his absence and put on his wrestling gear just to have a staredown with John Cena. I also laugh at how everyone always has their belts with them. I understand that belts are important and wrestlers should have them around, but making it an unbreakable rule makes for some awkward moments, especially if you have someone who is a champion who is a bit player in a backstage clip just standing there holding their belt for no reason at all.
  8. Loss
    Vrij is great because in addition to being a wrestler, he's also a total showman, which is a nice change of pace in RINGS. There's a psychology present here that isn't present in other RINGS matches, and this has the feel of a big time main event. I need to see every match these two ever had. Awesome match!
  9. Loss
    A PRESS SLAM IN RINGS! Shtorm Koba doesn't even show up in a Google search. Fun little match.
  10. Loss
    I suspect Jumbo was already sick here. He looks a little different, and not just his haircut. Anyway, I thought this was a terrific match, second only to the 5/22 six-man in terms of AJ six-mans in '92. They get 30 minutes, so every pairing gets plenty of time and focus. Kikuchi in particular spends a lot of time in the ring and his selling and offense are both top notch. This also may be the best I've seen Ogawa look in one of these matches. Jumbo secures the win for his team by landing a backdrop driver on Kikuchi.
  11. Loss
    Brian Christopher is also part of this and they call themselves the New Memphis Mafia.
  12. Loss
    The Summerslam '92 Program gets hawked to start. Hey, I had that! During all this, they cut to a crying Diana Smith saying Bret is treating her like the enemy and she doesn't believe Bret and Davey Boy will ever be friends again. We also get comments from Bret and Bulldog. We also get hype for Natural Disasters/Beverly Brothers, with John Tenta on fire! There's also hype for Undertaker/Kamala and Michaels/Martel.
  13. Loss
    The Summerslam hype continues, as Gene is interviewing Randy Savage when Perfect comes out to tell him that Warrior has made an offer to him to be in his corner. I was never really a fan of this build, even though it seems like many people liked it.
  14. Loss
    So Yamada pulled double duty? Quite the night for her. Fantastic match! All of the reversals and counters leading to big spot, leading to kickout, repeating over and over make this quite possibly the best spotfest match ever. I do think the recent criticisms MJH had about Cena/Punk being "empty" would also apply here. There's not a real focus to the wrestling other than trying to win. (Of course, the action is light years beyond that in Cena/Punk, and considering the stakes, maybe that's more fitting in this context.) They do get over the overall desperate storyline and adding in the haircut, this is an incredibly dramatic scene.
  15. Loss
    Where I half disagree with that (are we down to quarter disagreements now?) is that Mr. McMahon has a history of not taking the obvious route first. If wrestling operated where everyone involved always took the path of least resistance, CM Punk would have been fired and pulled out of the title match and Steve Austin would have been fired for attacking his boss in unprovoked fashion the first time it happened. I equate so easily deciding to run a tournament to that. Yes, running a tournament is standard operating procedure, but it really no sells Punk leaving in that it had no impact. Punk didn't even get storyline credit for taking Vince out -- HHH said it was based on some of his decisions lately, but didn't isolate this one specifically, which also should have happened.
  16. Loss
    Hell of a match with quite a bit going on. Really well booked in that it furthered two big feuds. Hokuto and Yamada's infighting ends up being their demise. The duel guillotine legdrops to finish were nice. Aja and Bull tease their continued rivalry after the match too, which is great fun.
  17. Loss
    One of the Headhunters either gushes within seconds or is already bleeding before the match starts, I can't tell. Really a proto-ECW match. Didn't do much for me, but it stands out in the context of the time.
  18. Loss
    Fun match to see these guys working before the PG-13 gimmick. They would both get better later, but this is an interesting early glimpse, and what will probably end up being Wolfie D's first chronological appearance on a yearbook (I expect some Jamie Dundee angles on the '91 stuff). These guys are old school, so they have a really strong command of the basics. That's not to say they take it easy, because they don't. They cut a pretty fast pace and take some really good bumps. Anyone have any clue what promotion this is?
  19. Loss
    There's actually a lot worth saying about this -- the whole presentation, the announcing, the camerawork, the booking, the wrestler performances, the semi-freaky post-match angle and the clumsy mic work from Chaz. The words just aren't coming to me now. But this is one of the strangest things I've ever seen in wrestling.
  20. Loss
    This was without a doubt Rick Rude's finest hour. In a career filled with some great performances, in a year that was easily his best, this stands out above all of them. Now in terms of match quality, the Steamboat match is comparable to this, but as an individual Rude performance, this is a master's class. Selling at just the right times, setting up Chono offense, really well-timed kickouts, cutting a pretty intense pace from the beginning and putting Chono over strong. Chono shines here too, and this is one of his best matches. But this may be the best performance of Rude's life. Now, I have to ask, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED AT HALLOWEEN HAVOC?
  21. Loss
    I keep wanting to watch Watts and Dusty at ringside react to something, but they're pretty stone-faced in all of these. Anyway, I really loved this match. Super fun. Muto and Sasaki mocking the Steiners pose was awesome. I thought this was a small glimpse of what a Steiners heel run may have been like because they do fake tags in and out and get shown up. Lots of bomb throwing and stiff shots, as usual for a Steiners match. Big fun.
  22. Loss
    Terrific match! From an action standpoint only, this is one of the best matches on the set. As far as juniors matches go, I like the February match better just because it has such tremendous selling from Liger and action almost as good. But as an all action sprint, this is on another level. It's a bit emptier than some of the best NJ juniors matches and even feels a bit like a tour version of their match if they were to take it to other territories. But it's still really great, and they are the two best at this style at this stage. Benoit takes the win with a gutwrench into a powerbomb off the top rope.
  23. Loss
    Wow. In a year where Dandy/Casas never happened, this would be peerless. This isn't *quite* as proficient as Dandy/Casas, but it does have other things going for it that are huge positives. The story of the match is pretty consistent throughout all three falls -- Emilio works over Atlantis' arm. It gets him a first fall win, and in the third fall, Atlantis takes a really prolonged, dramatic beating with some outstanding attempts to reach the ropes, where Emilio counters this by grabbing his free arm. Atlantis tries creating space between them by rolling outside, tries getting away, tries doing everything he can ... nothing really works. He's in major peril. Emilio has a pretty wide range of arm submissions at his disposal and all of them look great. Really basic psychology and more great matwork. I don't care for the finish. Atlantis took SO much of a beating that he either should not have won, or the match should have been slightly more even. As it is, he got a lucky flash pin and feels a little like Ric Flair squeaking out a title match. Some of the nearfalls rival those in the best Flair matches, especially the reeeeally close two count off of Emilio's sunset flip. Still, this is yet again one of the best matches of the year, and yet more proof that in 1992, the best wrestling in the world was happening in Mexico.
  24. Loss
    Again, I have no issue with the logic of running a tourney. My issue is that doing one that quickly doesn't really put over Punk's departure as a big deal. What if the next champ does the same thing? Oh well, no problem, they can always do another tournament. Life goes on.
  25. Loss
    Unless Paul Heyman is employed by WWE at the time, in which case he gets a share too. Sorry, I laughed when I thought it and had to post it.
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