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Day of the WarGames PPV and Ember Moon was on Twitter posting pictures of her fingernails. I've never been rooting against a wrestler winning a match more in my life! Ha. Pulling for Peyton Royce. 4/5 of the matches are interesting to me. I don't really care about Lars/Hero, but it might be OK. La Sombra/Drew Mac should be good. Dream/Black has had really good build. The women's 4-way is intriguing. WarGames is WarGames so that'll be fun. Wants: Hero, Royce, La Sombra, Dream, Undisputed ERA Predictions: Lars, Sane, Drew, Black, AoP/Strong If Peyton Royce wins the Women's Title, you can have her as a heel getting matches with Moon & Sane while starting to tease her & Billie Kay showing animosity. Then down the road you could split them and have on go babyface. Can get quite a few weeks of TV out of that. Plus, I like the idea of Sane chasing the belt longer.

I have no problem with Alexa Bliss, personally. I think WWE see her as the new Trish Stratus. She's super pretty, she's vastly improved (and continues to improve), she's getting better in the ring all the time & most importantly, she plays a great character. At the end of the day, being a good character is always more important in WWE than putting on highly-praised/rated matches. It's about making people buy into the character(s) & stories. That's how you get to the point where there's heat & interest in the match outcomes. Sasha Banks & Bayley are both super overrated & have been since their NXT days. Remember the whole "Sasha is a top ten worker in the world" bullshit? Alexa winning with a punch was... odd. Very peculiar. I love that she's been winning with just a normal DDT though. I would be OK with going back to having the bar not be so high on finishers again. Alexa Bliss wins decidedly with a DDT. AJ Styles does a Springboard 450 Splash for a 2-count... lol. If we can get to the point where you don't see the telegraphed finish coming, don't know when the match will end & can buy into near falls, in this day & age, that would be pretty amazing. Alexa is being booked strongly but they have to book someone strong, so I don't see why it shouldn't be her. They tried with both Sasha and Bayley & maybe WWE didn't think they were connecting at the level that they had hoped? I would rather have Becky at the top than either of them.

I guess more releases aren't coming. Looking at the roster on WWE.com, I figured the likes of Curt Hawkins & The Ascension might have been in trouble. This is the first time WWE has released people in quite awhile. They had just been letting contracts run out recently.

So Alexa Bliss finishes with Big Show's WMD punch now?

That was my exact thought. That Asuka PPV debut makes even LESS sense now and it didn't make any to begin with.

Y'all are forgetting, Nia is not like most girls.

Watch it again. Take a liquor shot for every single chair shot. Then, after doing that, try to reply on here post-match what the number of shots was. Even if you get rid of the garbage truck crap, the stretcher job crap, the Kane crap... the actual match itself was still the shits. Kurt looked like he was completely done physically. The match didn't make any sense or have much structure. It was just a garbage brawl featuring too many people where the brawling all looked pretty bad. And it was too long.

For fuck's sake. What I said about Kane yesterday. Again. I don't remember if it was at the PPV or on RAW (which I watched on Hulu) but Michael Cole said something along the lines of "Kane is one of the best of all-time!" and I audibly said "eww." Never been a good promo. Not a great worker. His entire gimmick is piggy-backing off of the success of The Undertaker. Pre-Kane he was awful. I don't get their love for the character/gimmick. I'm sure Glen Jacobs is a great dude, by all accounts he seems to be, but holy hell do I not want to see him on WWE programming anymore. He was stale a goddamn decade ago. Now it's like a joke that never ends. If you didn't see it, on RAW, Balor went up top for the double stomp. Kane sat-up and grabbed him by the throat, dragged him down from the top and Chokeslammed him. Picked him up and did it again. Picked him up and did it a third time. 1-2-3 clean in the middle. :-/

Michael Cole also wasted no time in pointing out that Asuka "just likes to have fun out there!" She'll be cutting promos in no time making silly jokes & being treated like Nakamura on Smackdown. Whom also debuted in a match where his opponent got way too much offense when they'd been a glorified jobber lately, much like Emma. Seems really counter-productive. I like Emma and wish WWE did more with her but that wasn't the time. That showcase should have been to make Asuka a star on the main roster. That match did a helluva lot more for Emma than it did Asuka.

This is one of the worst main events I've seen in a long, long time.

I feel like the whole PPV was worth it just for this shot:

They're giving Emma way too much in this match. Same problem they had with Nakamura against Ziggler. It's taking away the aura.

Mickie looks like she's lost quite a bit of weight.

So a couple friends and I have been talking about trying to figure out a way to do a Fantasy Sports style pro-wrestling draft. With the idea being that it's like Fantasy Football in that you have a pool of talent, you pick wrestlers from the designated era (for us it's 1988-1994 United States) and then you compare lists/ideas. There's a few different ways to approach it. You can take the big stars, like Hogan, and use the idea of drawing money. You can take the best workers, and just try to have great matches. Or you can take perhaps underutilized guys with the idea of doing better with them or guys that you know later became bigger stars (like Austin). Or you could just pick your favorites, of course. We're still working out the details. I don't really want it to just turn into a fantasy booking post-draft and I don't really know how to avoid that. Maybe some sort of peer review for best draft or something. This idea actually spawned from a road trip from Indiana to Georgia. We stopped at an Antique mall & found some old TOPPS WCW trading cards from 1992-1993. We each opened a couple of packs & tried to draft them & make a main event. Yes, we're all full grown men. Anyway, it gave me a pretty good idea for a thread though (at least I think so). If you had the top three picks in something like this, which people are you selecting & why? There's a lot of talent in that era. You have guys like Ric Flair, where we know they can work, draw & promo - plus he can pretty much work with anyone. Guys like Barry Windham, that were young, handsome & showed ridiculous promise & fire. Or do you go for a big heel that stands out because of how different they are in look/size, something like that? Does someone not draft Flair because he was 39-years-old in 1988? What about in a different era, like the modern era? What about if we open it up to areas outside of the United States to include Japan, Mexico & other promotions? There might be some sort of project here I try to do later. It would probably work pretty well on a message forum if you had participants, a selection order & an actual pool of names to choose from. In the 1988-1994 era, my first pick has to be Ric Flair. But I have no idea on second & third pick. It's too hard to decide what I would want. I'm leaning toward Rick Rude & Ricky Steamboat. I'm a fan of a more sports/athletic contest style of wrestling. Maybe Ted DiBiase would be a better pick than Ricky Steamboat. Sometimes I wish DiBiase went to WCW in the early 90's instead of staying in WWF and doing the Money Inc. stuff. I've always been really high on Dustin Rhodes too but I figure I could get him a little later on in the draft. In the modern era, from the current landscape, I can't imagine not picking A.J. Styles first. Not a great promo, not a great look, but a helluva talent so I guess that speaks to me valuing in-ring work above most else. My second pick is Roman Reigns. He's really good. Not much else to say there, I think he works as a top guy even with the backlash he gets in WWE. He's a good worker with a great look. Third pick would probably be Rusev but that might just be because I'm a mark. But I think he's a good worker, decent promo & a good heel. He's also only 31-years-old. If you open it up to non-WWE promotions as well, A.J. Styles is still in the running at the top but there's a lot of other talent elsewhere that would be interesting to me, like Pentagon, Jr. & Tetsuya Naito. I'm not as high on Okada as some but hard to deny the year he's having. So, who you picking in 1988-1994 & present day with your top three picks? Who do you think will be the most popular picks from each era? Is anyone not picking Ric Flair or A.J. Styles? I'm curious how the selections of picks from a fantasy draft would compare to final order rankings in the GWE list. '88-'94 (U.S.): 1. Ric Flair 2. Rick Rude 3. Ricky Steamboat Present (WWE): 1. A.J. Styles 2. Roman Reigns 3. Rusev Present (World): 1. A.J. Styles 2. Tetsuya Naito 3. Pentagon, Jr.

In the pwg and lucha underground i have watched the sound of every strike is the extact same due to post production in the case of LU and insessent leg slapping in pwg. It does not matter if it is to the head, arm, leg, chest or is a chop, kick, punch, elbow or miss altogether they all sound the same. its quite funny as everything sounds equally as brutal but that makes everything less brutal and if a strike the finish it just makes me think 'is that it?' as there has been a ton of them in the match or the same night all sounding the same. My buddy & I noticed this pretty early on in Lucha Underground. He calls them "mouse trap shots" because it sounds like a mouse trap going off on literally every strike.

To be fair, on the internet this is literally what people say every time they don't like someone & want to justify disliking him. So it has lost its meaning over the years. Same as the infamous X-Pac Heat.

Concur. Loss, anyway you can admin change the title to like Ric Flair Catch-All thread or something similar? Maybe the Jim Ross thread too.

I would be pretty bummed if Johnny Wrestling was delegated to 205 Live. I know he's a smaller dude but there's something about that guy that clicks for me when watching him work. He's a great babyface. In WWE, to me, Cruiserweight still feels like a dirty word. When wrestlers dream of going to WWE, they dream of it like how A.J. Styles panned out. Not just making the roster or being delegated to 205 Live on the Network. At least lately they've been getting a lot of time to shine on RAW but even when they give them the main event slot on RAW, it feels really out of place. I'm fine with someone like Enzo going there but it stinks to watch guys like Austin Aries & Neville leave the company. Even Enzo I feel would be better used as a heel manager.

The Usos Vs. New Day was great & there was no way that anyone was going to follow that anyway but the rest of the show was really downhill. It will probably be a MOTYC for me but the rest of the show was completely skippable. They brought an intensity in that match that was both unexpected, appreciated & not matched on the rest of the card. Good stuff.

It wouldn't be such a bad move to use if he didn't apply it so damn loosely. It looks like crap when guys give up to a glorified hold that looks as devastating as a guy on the apron holding your arm back so his partner can take a shot at you. Bob Backlund used to do it like that a lot too, during his crazy return in the early 90's. In matches with guys like Bret, he would slap it on legit sometimes but like during the non-match in-ring segments & shit with people in street clothes, it was mostly a hand on their face while holding an arm.

I do want the Thunders to be added but I more so want WCW Saturday Night. Specifically from the pre-Nitro era, when that was one of the main WCW shows. I know WWE has a hard-on for the Monday Night Wars & them "winning" but I want more shit from before that era. More from the era of Dustin Rhodes, Rick Rude, Ricky Steamboat, etc.

Don't forget about his stupid spin taunt before going for the Chickenwing!

Except in both cases, it actually doesn't mean anything, really. I've seen plenty of movies with critical/public consensus which I thought were not good at all, so it's never an argument to me. (it works better the other way around usually, when there's a consensus on something being really horrible, it usually is, although there are exceptions) It doesn't ultimately, naw. My favorite comedy ever is UHF and it has like a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. My favorite Survivor Series match is the Doink Vs. Lawler match featuring all of the minis.

Dave Meltzer is one guy, sharing his own opinions and his own biases that are treated as gospel. Rotten Tomatoes provides access to 20 plus reviews for each movies, some from respected film critics at major publications, some from random random bloggers. If a consensus of the reviews are positive, the film is certified fresh, if a consensus of the reviews are negative the film, its certified rotten. In wrestling there is no consensus, its just Meltzer. With movies if you think the guy who reviews for one publication is an ass, you read the reviews from another publication. There isn't that in wrestling because there isn't anybody who does what Meltzer does on the same scale, so we are kinda stuck with the guy for better or worse. On Rotten Tomatoes, you look at the percentage. If it's good, it might sway your decision on if to see it or not. Meltzer praising a match is the same thing to smarks. That's what I meant. Not really. With rotten tomato I can find if the critics who usually like sort of movies that I like gave the film a good review. The databases of wrestling matches (profightdb, cagematch, etc) only have ratings from 1 critic. Yes, really. I go to Rotten Tomatoes. I look at the number. I don't read the reviews because I don't care that much. If a movie has like an 80%, it's probably pretty good. That's the entire thought process that goes into it. I'm not looking to read a review and have the shit spoiled before I watch it. That was the comparison. If Dave says a match is like 4+ stars, its like if a movie is 80%+. You're really over thinking this. Shame, cause that was a good ass quote too. Bleh.

Just now getting around to watching the PPV from last Friday. No match has really been bad but no match has reached that next level either. I only have the main event left to watch but every match so far has felt like it was about five minutes too short & that the performers are holding back. It reminds me of a house show before a big PPV where everyone is trying to be safe. I don't know, it's weird. It doesn't feel like a big show, it feels like it's sort of just there. Like watching a throwaway Smackdown episode.