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  1. Phil Schneider
    I actually thought this was more of a Titan showcase then the Casas match. I of course chock that up to the greatness of Virus. Casas is more of flashy showman, Virus is a rudos rudo, he makes the guy he is wrestling look on his level, even if he really isn't. The mat section at the beginning is the perfect example, it isn't Negro Navarro schooling a scrub, but a competitive impressive mat exchange which made Titan look like a capable mat worker. No one puts together finishing runs like Virus, he would have been amazing in WCW PPV Juniors matches, or 2002 ROH. I am not sure if Titan is as good as AR Fox for a flashy guy with nice highspots, but the end of this was pretty edge of your seat. The big nasty apron bump by Titan leading to that insane somersault senton will be a spot of the year contender for sure. Let's hope we get some more Virus showcases this year.
  2. Phil Schneider
    Super impressive match and a real testament to the WWE training program, no way Husky Harris/Thoruf/Brodie Lee v. Tyler Black/Jon Moxley/Leakee would be anywhere close to this good. I really loved how the Wyatt's out Shielded the Shield, as for over a year the Shield would win by isolating people and picking off the weak link, and here the Wyatts did it to them. It was like watch a fast break basketball team run into a team who can out run them. Man did I love Ambrose here, he always kind of had a Piper feel in promos, but here he really was wrestling like peak Piper, an out of control lunatic who was always popping off and throwing wild hands. I think the RAW singles match showed it couldn't work in big doses, but the Bray v. Roman battle of the bulls was perfectly pulled off here. It is too bad they rushed this feud a bit, I would have loved to see this a hundred different ways, really the best heel v. heel match in US wrestling history, and the rematch wasn't far behind.
  3. Phil Schneider
    This is a match type I never get super excited for, but always really enjoy. We were missing Rey who is the maestro of the Elimination Chamber, but otherwise we had a damn good group of dudes. I am not sure why they have run 50 Sheamus v. Christian matches lately as the Sheamus v. Cesaro match up is one of my favorite match ups right now. Sheamus can get a bit repetitive but Cesaro seems to force him out of his comfort zone. Really liked Christian as he got to do all of the athletic spots which Rey normally does. His top of the pod dive was really nuts because he doesn't have the smoothness of other guys who have done that spot and it looked really out of control and nuts. The booking finish was pretty bad though, I suppose they were in a spot if they weren't going to give the belt to Bryan (which they shouldn't have, no reason for him to get it in a fluky multi man match like this before Wrestlemania) but the run ins have been so overdone, that it just killed the match dead. Still the vast majority of this was great, I can't in good conscious put it above matches with satisfying endings
  4. Phil Schneider
    Harris brothers as a baby face team with long flowing blond hair has to be up there
  5. Phil Schneider
    Mexicools v. Blue World Order is worth watching just for the weirdness of Juventud and Blue Meanie wrestling on a WWE PPV in 2005
  6. Phil Schneider
    4. Funk's Last Stand, Steel Cage Match for the ECW TV Title: Superfly Jimmy Snuka vs. Terry Funk - Escape the cage rules. Snuka was never a great worker or even a good hand, but he had some career highlights, for sure. Seeing Superfly enter a cage just brings back great pro wrestling nostalgia. Sadly, at this point in his career, ain't no way in hell Jimmy Snuka is doing a splash off the top of the cage. So, almost a bit of false advertising based on nostalgia there. However, Terry Funk can turn a shit-stain into gold bullion. The punches, the selling, the hate. It's all here in prime Funk form and he does his absolute best to put this whole thing over, and entertains in the process of winning the TV title. Post-match, Funk starts throwing chairs around the building, as he's pissed he didn't actually pin Snuka to win the belt. *** Didn't Snuka do the cage dive during one of those terrible Russo Nitro's?
  7. Phil Schneider
    Dundee v. Dutch is on tape, Dundee is awesome at on the pole matches too, anything involving climbing
  8. Phil Schneider
    Is there anything from this batch which was a new discovery?
  9. Phil Schneider
    Henry was the World's Strongest Man, he won a bunch of competitions
  10. Phil Schneider
    I should really get off my ass and write something else for them
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  12. Phil Schneider
    Possible Gancarski socko?
  13. Phil Schneider
    I am coming home from my honeymoon that afternoon. I am not sure I can pull off heading straight to Philly, but man fuck there hasn't been a live card I wanted to go to in years. LA PARK v. Wagner, Cassandro, Navarro and Solar.
  14. Phil Schneider
    What is the card?
  15. Phil Schneider
    I tried to C+P one of my FUTEN reviews but got an IPS error
  16. Phil Schneider
    Pretty much the wrestling version of Hagler v. Hearns round 1. The bell rings and Ikeda runs right into an Ono right hand and it goes from there. The story of this match is that Ono is the lower ranked member of their tag team (Apparently called Team Taco, Japan is weird) and he is going to throw the kitchen sink to take out Ikeda. Ono is a buzzsaw, throwing vicious punches in bunches square into Ikeda face and body. Ikeda absorbs these shots and fires back with big punches and kicks of his own. The finish is amazing wrestling, they both quickly counte multiple submission attempts, with Ono slipping out and landing a hellacious knee to the back of Ikeda's head, I expected cerebral fluid to fly out of his nostrils. Ono gets mount and starts pounding out Ikeda but gets caught in an awesome armbar from the bottom and is forced to tap. The best under five minute match I have ever seen, even though it was short it was a complete satisfying. Everything I love about FUTEN in one intense blast, the wrestling equivalent of a Bad Brains song.
  17. Phil Schneider
    This really felt like a classic lucha trios match building to a big singles match. The match they were setting up was TAJIRI v. Finlay although this could have easily set up Finlay v. Fujiwara or Finlay v. Ohara as Finlay gets awesome sections with all three. Finlay has said that an early 80's match with Fujiwara is one of his favorites, and three decades later we get a glance of what that might have looked like, and it was awesome. I loved Finlay bullying Fujiwara into the corner and cheap shotting him, just to see Fujiwara fire back with this great "not in my house motherfucker" look on his face. Finlay pummeling Ohara to get under TAJIRI's skin was great, as was Finlay's interactions with TAJIRI. I don't really think of TAJIRI as a matworker, but he hit the mat hard here. The turks were mainly there as window dressing, although TAJIRI's berserker chopping down of Big Boy was one of the cooler finishes of the last half a decade. Great stuff, and one of the better matches of the year
  18. Phil Schneider
    No Panther v. Casas?
  19. Phil Schneider
    Some examples, I really don't want to read a Scott Keith recap but wouldn't mind some racism to smirk at.
  20. Phil Schneider
    I love Johnathan Abrams Basketball profiles. Some of the best sports writing around
  21. Phil Schneider
    Big segunda caida revamp in 2014
  22. Phil Schneider
    How can they discuss it if they haven't seen it? It's your site, so you can shill as much as you want, just I don't think the timing was appropriate. You of all people are going to complain about shilling? You make 20 posts a week at DVDVR linking to your blog,
  23. Phil Schneider
    Everyone knows Lawler is a notoriously slow starter
  24. Phil Schneider
    Maybe Ian Rotten
  25. Phil Schneider
    I think Race's best career match is with Lawler. Lawler was the way better guy in it too
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