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I feel disconnected from both sides at times. I've watched wrestling from all over the world for over 30 years and never stopped for a second to consider a star rating. I've also watched modern epics everyone raves about and thought they were so-so. Last night it seemed both sides clashed like two head butting rams. It's funny seeing people arguing over a quarter star as if anything less than the full five is trash, while others argue this year's show was WORST EVAR because they did one too many finisher kick outs. I mean, everyone seems to forget at times that the point of pro wrestling is to draw money. Are acts like the Young Bucks everyone's cup of tea? Of course not, but they make probably the same money or maybe even more than they would in WWE working half the dates. That's Kevin Nash levels of winning in pro wrestling. Is that a too simplistic view? Perhaps. But I think sometimes super fans like us lose sight of the forest among all the trees. There's good stuff to be had. If one company doesn't tickle your pickle, there's tons of options.

So on my iphone it just opens up what appears to be instructions to open up the NJPW site in a mobile browser.

When Ward was writing NXT everyone was mentioning how smoothly it built week to week for upcoming events like the next Takeover show. How funny is it that he might be the best callup they've produced so far.

Another bonus of the brand split is John Cena finally is on a show with a good writing team. I've always maintained that easily 75% (if nor more) of the reasons people disliked Cena was due to the horrible way he was written most of the time.

IIRC she was out because she had knee surgery, not because of this.

So is that why they are bringing Mickie James back, to play Batista? Pretty sure she's going to eventually be the reveal for the La Luchadora angle on Smackdown.

I just signed back up with NJPW World again after my last go round ended because my former bank kept freaking out that a company from Japan was trying to access my debit card. I see they have an app for IOS/Android now, but the description is in Japanese only. Is it an app like the WWE network app or like the CMLL app that just embeds links for their live feeds?

Even if Jimmy was in perfect health, 30+ years is a long time to bring back a murder case. Evidence gets lost, witnesses/experts die, and unless you have the suspect on tape confessing there's too much reasonable doubt to overcome.

Sucks for the family, but it was the only likely outcome.

They really want people to believe that the plan was to get Bryan over all along despite the fact it was a clear repudiation of what the company was pushing at the time.

Cracks me up that people would get mad at that, it's just Business 101 that the best way to get a company's attention is to stop giving them money.

Was there anything to the rumors that Steve Corino's Performance Center visit was at least in part a move to try to gain more power in ROH? I remember hearing he was making a power play and the PC trip was a way to send a message that he has options if they turn him down.

Maybe Ronda can have a come-to-Jesus moment and embrace the fact that her personality makes her the most naturally born heel ever. Have her side with the heels at first and have her join up with the babyfaces to have their WWE Approved Smiles On Faces Wrestlemania Moment they can put in every video package.

Per Dave, Cena vs Taker is a 90% lock and Brock vs Goldberg 3 as well since someone finally convinced Vince that Goldberg is a bigger star than Shane.

Give Ronda some time, she just did the "two bad losses" part of the Tyson plan, ear biting should be just around the corner.

...and the angle around it was utterly pointless.

If they brought in Ronda and basically redid the Austin/Tyson angle with her and Charlotte I could see it being huge. Unfortunately I'd see them most likely wasting her appearance on another Steph S&M cosplay Mania moment so she could flex her alpha female nuts.

Rush vs La Parka's super libre match was my lucha MOTY.

The Botter thing is puzzling, Guy's been with them seemingly forever and was doing all the PR work for them only to get ousted seemingly out of nowhere and replaced by someone doing some kind of weird Twitter gimmick. Unless he shit on someone's desk it makes zero sense.

That would be awesome, but doesn't the Japanese TV network that aired All Japan (NTV?) own the rights to most/all of the library? Yes, I think that's why some cross promotional matches are missing from NJPW World too.

Poor KO, the Abobo of WWE.

KO isn't setting the world on fire,but the booking isn't helping things when he's portrayed as someone Seth is just wasting his time on until the real end boss shows up.

If someone wanted to argue that Flair not hanging it up in the nWo era hurt his legacy, I'd be open to that. Between times and tastes changing and Bischoff's seemingly unending hardon against him, had he seen the writing on the wall and called it a career in 1996 I doubt there'd be a discussion like this today,

Well WWE didn't want him when he was a TNA guy, it was only after he was a top star in NJPW that they had interest. He's just lucky they didn't feel he needed to spend two years in NXT learning where the hard camera is like other guys from that "indy" (Balor, Nak).

It sounds like "get off my lawn" old man complaining, but it's hard to look at the varied opponents he had as NWA champ in the early-mid 80s and think he's overrated. He made complete lumps look like a million bucks more than anyone I can think of. Now he did have his flaws, of course, but the whole idea that he's overrated is just lunacy. It just comes off as the pro wrestling version of a HAWT SPORTZ TAEK you'd hear on talk radio or an ESPN shouty head show.