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At Royal Rumble, it sounded to me like Booker T. was legit getting mad at Corey but now it feels way too overblown. Pretty sure it was at Rumble. It has to have been either Rumble or RAW 25 as those were the only two shows I watched other than NXT Takeover.

Felt like they blew a lot of the surprises by just having the women come out on the stage the RAW before. Molly Holly was great & a surprise but after seeing Jackie, Kelly Kelly, Michelle, etc. you knew Trish was 30. I did mark for Vickie Guerrero though. Also, a part of me was hoping that Layla would come out in the Piggy James outfit again when Mickie was in there. But then I guess Steph wouldn't have been able to talk about how it made history.

This is the best news I've read in awhile. Especially if it's pre-Nitro Saturday Night, back when that was pretty much their flagship show.

World Tour 1992 (WF106) 10/03/91 The Mountie vs. Kerry Von Erich 04/19/92 The British Bulldog vs. Irwin R. Schsyter 10/05/91 The British Bulldog vs. Earthquake 10/05/91 Roddy Piper vs. The Barbarian 04/14/92 Battle Royal 04/19/92 Bret Hart vs. Rick Martel 04/14/92 Randy Savage vs. Shawn Michaels So you are right about that. I can find no evidence of a Beverly Brothers vs High Energy match on a CHV. Upon researching they had a match in June taped for Prime Time Wrestling, but that's not listed as being on any CHV. When I was a kid, this was one of the only VHS wrestling tapes that I actually owned. The Savage/Michaels match is pretty good, with Savage still selling the leg from when Flair worked it over. The Mountie/Tornado match is the drizzling shits though.

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Certainly a bad take, anyway. Y'all are fucking nuts if you thought tonight was better than Saturday. Every match on Saturday was good and the main event was great. Tonight both Rumbles were fun & every non-Rumble match was trash. And the women's Rumble was sloppy. But whatever...

My favorite part was Bayley coming out at #29 and the crowd not giving a fuck.

My friend is convinced that Braun is going to lose the 3-way title match & be a surprise entrant in the Rumble & win that. I'm not saying he's wrong, necessarily, I'm just saying seeing a 385lb man pull double-duty on a PPV would surprise me. Even if the 3-way goes on early and he's #30, I can't imagine him not being gassed. I'm hoping The Miz wins the Rumble at this point. And I hope Braun wins the title. Strike while he's hot, right?

Nothing in the world will ever be universal, including pro-wrestling. If everyone hates something, someone will speak up with their love & vice-versa. Especially in the internet era. "Bret/Austin at Mania 13 sucked!" "Flair/Steamboat? Pfft. Doesn't hold up." Look at Okada/Omega from last year. Almas/Gargano was great pro-wrestling, regardless of the circumstances people had while watching the show. And just like Okada/Omega, the naysayers (which I was apart) will fall on deaf ears to everyone else enjoying it.

Great, great pro-wrestling show. Every single match was good. Main event was off the charts. Gargano is a next-level babyface. Good luck following that, Royal Rumble. So much drama. It felt so old school. Just fun pro-wrestling. Johnny Wrestling has that Ricky Steamboat sympathy. You can't teach that. His facial expression are incredible. He dies so well.

Maybe the gimmick will try to be to get high school graduates that "go pro" instead of going college, since NFL doesn't do that? I have no idea. It seems really bad. It was really bad the first time around & everyone said it was a terrible idea. Then it failed. Now he's doing it again & everyone still thinks it's a terrible idea that's going to fail... but Vince McMahon doesn't give a fuck because he's a stubborn prick, so he's going to do it anyway, and fail again.

Great charisma & star presence is what is missing in professional wrestling. I would take an entire roster of wrestlers like Elias or Velveteen Dream over guys like The Young Bucks that Meltzer is always putting over. There's so much more to wrestling than match quality, which is subjective anyway. Not every match on every show needs to be attempting to be some technical match-of-the-night masterpiece. It gets boring. Just like I don't want every wrestler to be some dude with kickpads & a beard that does flips, Cutters and Superkicks. I actually actively dislike the meta wrestling social media era we're in. Watching a New Japan Pro-Wrestling PPV and hearing English commentators talk about match ratings was surreal. How many wrestlers in prowrestling right now feel like kids that grew up watching both HBK & RVD and they're role-playing as them? At least Elias stands out. Velveteen Dream isn't doing anything we've not seen in pro-wrestling before, but he's making it work & it's entertaining.

Here's a bet I would make: Tomorrow is the first ever women's Royal Rumble match. This time next year, I don't think there will be a second women's Royal Rumble match.

A better success rate at what? Getting strangers to tell you you're strong? What about actual arrests?

People need to get off fucking Twitter & go to the goddamn cops. File a criminal report, don't post that shit on social media for likes & retweets. What on earth is wrong with this generation?

I didn't know fans like this still existed! Incredible.

I don't care about the women's Rumble but I'm guessing Rusev for the other. I honestly have no clue, but Rusev is a favorite, he's pretty over right now, and why not? They let Del Rio win a 40-man Rumble and then lose in the 'Mania curtain jerk. Vince McMahon has won a Rumble before. It's not exactly a prestigious thing. At least Rusev would be different & he's over right now. They can use the Feb. PPV to set-up the 'Mania matches they want anyway. Outside of WWE some how miraculously getting AJ Lee & CM Punk to comeback, I don't think I'm much going to care about Wrestlemania season anyway. Just going to be more McMahon wankfest.

He reminded me of WCW-era Vampiro, without the face paint. Which felt dated back in 2000. Eighteen years later? Still pretty damn hokey. And it's not like Vampiro was exactly lighting things on fire with his ring work. Remember when Vampiro was doing the shit with The Misfits? That's what Jay White reminds me of. One of the Misfits trying to do a run-in on Nitro. He's fucking corny. Like Christopher Daniels at 40-years-old calling himself The Fallen Angel corny. But at least Daniels matches were sometimes good.

That feels backward though. Reigns would have gotten a lot more from being the first person to beat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania than doing it after Brock did it first. The end game should have been The Undertaker's Wrestlemania streak, not beating Brock after Brock beat the Streak. Brock has lost, up until the Streak ended, The Undertaker at Wrestlemania had not. It just feels weird. Instead of having UT retire with the Streak in-tact, or using that big win on someone that'll be around for a long-time, they gave it to Brock which just seems weird to, even still a few years later. Not that the fans would have accepted Roman winning it though. WWE was kind of damned if they do, damned if they don't... which maybe that's why they gave it to Brock, just to "get it over with." But at that point, it should have just remained unbroken.

A lot of bad booking. A lot of the wrong guy going over. A couple decent matches. Worse show than last year. Omega/Jericho was fun. Main event felt lackluster. Never reached that next level & I felt ended abruptly. Suzuki/Goto was pretty good. Maybe MOTN. Exceptionally disappointed in Naito/Okada. I expected so much more. And a different outcome.

Show wise, I think I'm done with WWE weekly TV. But I'll watch NXT Takeover shows, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania & probably SummerSlam. Definitely going to watch Wrestle Kingdom. Would like to see more Lucha Underground (I haven't finished the third season and I know a fourth season is coming) & maybe more PWG - they have some people that I like. Mostly I just don't want to burn myself out. My resolution I guess would be to watch more old stuff and less new stuff because the newer stuff tends to bum me out & the older stuff tends to hype me up. Especially if they're adding a bunch more stuff to the WWE Network. I was thinking that maybe I should start burning shows off to have/catalog too. Just to have DVDs back-ups. Like, what happens if the WWE Network goes away? I just won't have access to any of those shows anymore. Not sure about this one though.

Steve Corino had one of my favorite spots from a match in ECW. It was against Balls Mahoney, of all people. Corino grabbed a chair, like he was finally going to get hardcore and instead opened it, sat in it and applied a side headlock. It was great!

1. Hiroshi Tanahashi Vs. Tetsuya Naito; NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 11 2. Tyler Bate Vs. Pete Dunne; WWE UK Tournament 3. The Authors of Pain Vs. DIY; NXT Takeover: Chicago

I'm not a big Cody Rhodes fan & I too think Dalton should have won the ROH World Title a long time ago but I have to be honest, I kind of like the whole ROH ring & "kiss the ring" shit. I don't so much like how the fans buy into it like it's some funny thing when I think it should be a heelish thing like something a Ted DiBiase would make peasants do but I like the idea of it.

I agree with this. I think this is a runaway year for Okada & would be shocked if anyone else won it this year. For me, the real question is who is number two? I expect Kenny Omega to get a lot of votes & probably AJ Styles.