NintendoLogic

If this is the Rocco/Yamada match you watched, I thought it was pretty great. It's apparently regarded as one of the classic UK matches of the era.

Not even memeing, Taichi is my favorite wrestler in New Japan, perhaps even overall. I greatly appreciate the fact that he doesn't go out there trying to prove he's the toughest man in the world or be too cool for school like the Bullet Club. Plus, he's a sleazy loser who deep down is desperate for Kawada's approval. That's just a great character regardless of what you think of him in the ring.

You youngsters obviously never heard about Magic scoring 42 while playing all five positions.

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Keep in mind that CJ Perry is a trained actress, so she's actually on the high end of the roster when it comes to acting ability. If she doesn't possess the range necessary to pull off a soap opera angle, virtually anyone else in the company would be even worse. It's for that reason that soap opera storylines in wrestling are almost always a disaster. If wrestlers could act, they'd be in Hollywood, not pro wrestling.

Remember when Gargano was in the Royal Rumble and looked like a child next to everyone on the main roster?

That's only if her career is actually over. She still has plenty of good years ahead of her if/when she decides to return. The problem is that WWE wasn't successful with her as the top star. If we're going to call Roman Reigns a failure on top, the women post-Ronda have been even bigger failures by any conceivable metric.

I think it's safe to say that Smackdown is going to get slaughtered in the ratings tonight.

I think Ronda Rousey has a much stronger case on those grounds. As hot as Becky was, there's no way she would have been considered for a Mania main event without Rousey as an antagonist. And it was her success in UFC that forced WWE to treat women as more than a T&A sideshow. "MMA is pro wrestling" is a longstanding punchline on this board, but the fact remains that plenty of voters take it into account.

Why does she keep trying to kill herself on free TV every week? And why do the producers let her?

Most sexual assault cases, especially ones that took place years prior, don't have witnesses or physical evidence, which makes it nearly impossible to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. So police generally don't bother investigating allegations unless they absolutely have to.

Interesting how so many guys buried by politics in 21st century WWE (Matt Morgan, Alex Riley, Tyler Reks) turn out to be chuds. Maybe John Cena was the woke hero we deserve all along.

Dorks like MSW who make mountains out of molehills and pull quotes out of context to try to rile people up are the absolute worst. Case in point, Meltzer literally says "she was a real college hurdler" right before the excerpted clip. Please keep that trash off this board.

With Prichard, there's no reason to think he's doing anything but giving Vince exactly what he wants no questions asked. Come to think of it, Vince McMahon absolutely belongs in the conversation for worst bookers, although certainly not the worst. Vince the booker is a far cry from Vince the promoter. Booking and promoting are two distinct skills, and it's rare for someone to be brilliant at both. Vince's biggest successes have come when actual wrestling minds had significant input into the booking. When left to his own devices, the results have been embarrassing.

Count me among those who doesn't see what the big deal is when Aalyah is a consenting adult in both real life and storyline. If they try to imply that Murphy was grooming her while she was underage, that's a different story.

That doesn't warrant a response because you clearly didn't read past the first sentence of my post. Come on, man. You're better than that.

Family members engaging in brutal combat isn't authentic emotion. It's either too over-the-top to take seriously or too uncomfortable to be entertaining. The same problem as intergender wrestling, really. Cody/Dustin only worked because they reconciled immediately afterward. I can't think of any protracted wrestling feud between family members that was successful other than Bret/Owen, and even that would have flopped if it had risen to the level of homicidal violence. Hell, the climax of their feud was a cage match where they spent half an hour running away from each other.

Is that the story WWE is presenting or is that your headcanon? As best I can tell, they stuck Reigns and Heyman together and expected fans to fill in the gaps themselves.

Imagine if Roman had done that five years ago when it would have mattered instead of saying sufferin succotash.

All the guys you mentioned would have been multi-time world champions in modern WWE. Is Cesaro really less suited for a main event run than Jinder Mahal?

Riki Choshu got a title shot at the Tokyo Dome in 1997 after winning the 1996 G1, but the G1 winner traditionally got a title shot in the fall unless he was already IWGP champion. Okada in 2012 began the tradition of the G1 winner earning a Tokyo Dome IWGP challenge rights certificate that he carried around in a briefcase and had to defend until Wrestle Kingdom.

You can see Sika say something like "We won't take this lying down" to Roman at the end of WM34.

Roman's comment is unintentionally revealing. Good steak should be eaten rare (medium rare at most). If you leave it on the grill, you're cooking all the flavor out of it.

PWinsider is reporting that Mercedes Martinez will be known as Retaliation and Mia Yim will be known as Reckoning. Did Rob Liefeld join WWE's creative team and no one told me? Also: "My brother SLAPJACK." My fucking sides. You know what, I respect his commitment to playing this lameass gimmick completely straight without trying to be self-aware and winking at the audience.