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So Impact just put on the best show they've done in a long time, maybe ever. Slammiversary blew away anything WWE has done this year by a large margin, which seems an amazing and unlikely thing to happen...yet here we are. OGz vs LAX was a great crazy brawl, Penta vs Callahan was such an AAA apuesta match all that was missing was Hugo at ringside, and I didn't think Aries and Moose could possibly deliver after all that yet they did.

Not to mention once you see Spider Lady in her bodysuit there's no one else it could have been. It's right up there with WCW wondering who Doom could be when they only had two black guys on the roster at the time.

WCW used to do this all the time, most of the matches on their PPVs were really good, but the top couple matches when they were bad were often horrendously bad. Thus a lot of people left WCW shows thinking they sucked despite most of the show being excellent.

The in ring work is usually solid to great on a WWE show depending on who's featured, the creative usually sucks. That seems to explain it pretty good to me. WWE having top to bottom the best roster in professional wrestling (yes other places have better workers on top, but I'm looking at the whole roster here) yet doesn't seem to know what to do with any of them save the 2-3 guys you've deemed worthy.

Plus there's a whole cottage industry of workers trying to troll Dave like it's the wrestling version of "triggering the libs" only they don't seem to realize how lame it all comes off as. *random Twitter person who listens to podcast* Man, Wrestling Guy With A Podcast sure owned Meltzer on that one! *Dave, mookie, or Bix type person* Here's all the actual legal docs and proof that shows Dave was right and/or Wrestling Guy With A Podcast is full of shit. *second random Twitter person who listens to podcast* YEAH HE GOT OWNED, SUCK IT DAVE MARKS HASH TAG CASTRATED . ...repeat ad nausem

The popular theory is that Becky fell victim to Kevin Dunn's dislike of accents, which seems like a silly reason to depush someone but at this point it makes as much sense as anything else.

Santo was such a transcendent figure it's impossible to think anyone could have been as big as him. He could have been at the Blue Demon level though.

The story goes that Vince ambushed Wendi as she was going to the ring to sign a new deal or else. Clearly Moolah and the ref were smartened up to know if the play was on or not, I would assume there was only enough time to let them know and the announcers would be an afterthought. You'd have to believe at least Jesse was not clued in since he'd normally be all over a heel winning a title.

Yeah, for all the LOLTNA moments there have been, they've been doing Knockouts only PPVs for years.

See to me, it's the opposite. The build has been done great and all but I just don't buy for a second that there's any chance Pentagon will lose. It's not like Sami is someone like Rush famous for his hair either.

For the record, I didn't click on the spoiler tag before I made my post. I just assumed there's really only one thing they'd bring Steph back to announce, considering she invented women's sports and all.

Can't wait for the announcement of the Historic First Ever Stephanie McMahon Visionary Female Empowerment Extravaganza Presented by Stephanie McMahon.

I'm guessing Moose gets the win and they see if they have anything with him as the top guy. Impact is in the unique position where they can try stuff and it won't hurt too much if it doesn't work.

Slammiversary Card: Austin Aries vs Moose for the Impact World Title Su Yung vs Madison Rayne for the Impact Knockouts Title Rich Swann vs Johnny Impact vs Ishimori vs Fenix Pentagon Jr vs Sami Calahan Mask vs Hair Matt Sydal vs Brian Cage for the Impact X Division Title Eddie Edwards vs Tommy Dreamer in a House of Hardcore match and just added... OG LAX vs New LAX in a 5150 Street Fight for the Impact World Tag Team Titles Tessa Blanchard vs Allie What's amazing is what is probably the worst match on paper (Edwards/Dreamer hardcore match) has a pretty solid angle behind it. Eddie's feud with Sami causing him to lose his mind and go crazy, and Tommy having to go old school hardcore to try to stop him. I only hope Tommy doesn't wear his silly Dusty tribute polka dot gear in this one.

I mean, right or wrong the idea was to have Okada become the guy with the most defenses. So while I wouldn't have had Naito come up short in his big chance, at least I can see why it was booked that way. If he beats Kenny before January and Okada wins the G1, at least there's a story of him never beating "THE GUY" for the title. I would hope that's the plan they are working on, since keeping Naito out of the title scene would just be baffling beyond words.

It was a match, kind of like a proto-hardcore match.

Dave spent a large part of today's WOR show on the Hogan stuff, and the takeaway is a lot of the people he talked to seemed to indicate a lot of the roster felt that having the takeaway be "be careful, you might be getting recorded" rather than "don't be a racist" came off as tone deaf. Also he mentioned that despite worrying about sponsor or fan backlash, there was very much a feeling that "the boys" would all have his back because that's what wrestlers do.

While the messages of support are the vast majority, it's still depressing to see the "you guys are the REAL RACISTS for not welcoming back my childhood hero" style comments. Like it would be different if Hogan has at any point shown one bit of remorse for anything other than being caught, but he hasn't. And yes, it is also fucked up he was being filmed without his consent, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have to bear any responsibility for what was heard. Another thing that kind of gets lost in all this too is the black guy he was talking about was the son of the person helping Brooke with her music career, and someone who thought he was friends with Hogan. Instead to him he's just a wealthy n-word who's only purpose is to bankroll his talentless daughter, and his son better stay away.

I feel like sometimes people overanalyze what's wrong with current WWE and that the answer is just that simple. Could you imagine them ever booking a Hogan or Austin type as bad as today's babyfaces are?

Just wanted to add that I purchased a Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 shirt from the link Loss posted on Twitter to support the site. In related news, my wallet is also cursing Loss for the upcoming abuse it's about to get from me finding this site.

Based on Sasha's declaring her love for Bayley, I got so scared WWE's going to try to hamfist this into the gay angle Steph claimed they want to do some day.

Well I can only go on the shows I see on TV on a weekly basis, but the local indy I went to a few months back didn't have any incongruious chanting, but if they do it's still kind of on the company to put on a product that engages the audience so as to give them reason not to go into business for themselves and give a shit about what is being presented in the ring.

Arena Mexico has been a rudo crowd forever, a lot of the casual audience that Mistico brought in were more of the typical "cheer faces, boo heels" type. When he left so did they. In fact a lot of the reason the houses have gone up (prior to LA Park's run) is the tourist buses that make going to a CMLL show part of the package when you visit. The last time there was an earthquake in Mexico City it took them a while to bounce back despite only being shut down a week or so because the tourists were scared to come back for a while. *editied to add* Even we were to use that as examples of a crowd rejecting what was being offered, what did CMLL do? They created a heel faction that got over with those rudo fans. When the company that has long been labeled the most stubborn promotion on the world was more effective combating fan backlash, you're officially doing things wrong.

I just watched the match where he won the AWA title from Larry (in the Tokyo Dome no less), and I remember how surprised I was since most of my memories were him being lumbering WWF tag team guy. I really hope Florida is next on the list of footage to make it to the WWE Network, I really need to see a Saito/Ivan tag team run.

I think it was a matter of just getting confirmation on the date. It's been known Brock has one date left on his current deal. They took a guy they already were paying millions a year to work only a handful of dates, and gave him go away heat. It hasn't helped Roman one bit, and the NYC fans are going to eat another Brock/Roman match alive at Summerslam.