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It's pretty amusing to hear the commentators shit on guys for allowing their opponents to hit moves.

I'd say so. Not a MOTYC, but enough good stuff to make it worth checking out.

Page/Sabian definitely overdelivered. The leg injury angle made it much more interesting than it would have been otherwise.

I'm still not sold on the Dark Order gimmick, but I like them in the ring. I would have rather seen them in a regular tag match with Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus. Evans and Angelico didn't really add much to that match.

Yeah, not feeling the Dark Order. It's like if the Wyatt Family were led by Shark Boy.

Actually, Brandi shouldn't be wrestling at all. She can't really be anything but a heel, and I think we've all had enough of the promotion presenting itself as the heel.

Trying to present Brandi Rhodes as a sympathetic babyface strikes me as ill-advised.

Guevara's is worse. Quite possibly the most punchable face of any wrestler since Yoji Anjo.

Baker's never going to live that down.

A largely flawless junior vs. heavy slugfest and an absolute clinic on how to build a 20-plus minute match almost entirely around strikes and power moves. There's also a surprising amount of depth, as many of the exchanges have a distinct King's Road flavor. Sasaki mostly dominates, but thanks to KENTA's impeccably timed hope spots, it never feels too one-sided. Sasaki simply bullrushing KENTA into the corner late in the match was an awesome way to reassert dominance. The GTS near the end was an effective nearfall because it looked like KENTA didn't quite hit it flush.

I'm quite familiar with Jebailey and his role in the FGC and I still think he had no business working an even remotely competitive match.

I don't really know what AEW sees in Riho to have her on each of their events so far. I remember reading that they think joshi could be for them what luchadores and cruiserweights were for WCW, but she's kind of a curious choice as a standard-bearer.

It's always great when journalists who cover other forms of sports and entertainment talk to WWE wrestlers and are incredulous as to how they're treated. "What do you mean you guys have to drive yourselves from town to town? You're superstars, shouldn't you have drivers? Why isn't that covered in your CBA? You guys have a CBA, right?"

The new shirt for the Kabuki Warriors is much cooler. It looks like it could be for a female Japanese rock band. Always remember that the key to a good wrestling shirt is that it not look like a wrestling shirt.

You guys know how Dave likes to claim that no one during wrestling's heyday thought it was real and cites as evidence a poll conducted in the 80s by the Charlotte Observer that found that only 1 percent of the audience thought it was real? Well, I went into the Charlotte Observer archives, and the real story is quite a bit different. First off, the poll was conducted in 1990. More importantly, while only 1 percent of respondents thought wrestling was "very real," 21 percent thought it was "somewhat real." 72 percent said it was "not at all real" while 6 percent had no answer. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus four points, so that means that even as late as 1990, roughly a quarter of the population of the wrestling hotbed of North Carolina had yet to be smartened up. That's obviously nowhere close to a majority, but I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of ticket sales came from that sliver of the population. To me, that's pretty clear evidence despite all the protestations to the contrary that wrestling's appeal has historically been rooted in the perception of realism.

So the strongest argument for the librarians is that they're not quite shitty enough to drive away viewers en masse. Duly noted.

I saw a comment on Reddit that nearly 5000 people left the Fyter Fest Youtube stream during the librarian segment and the live view count never recovered. Doubling down on an act that actively drives viewers away for the sake of getting some meta humor over doesn't strike me as a particularly sound business strategy.

New #1 for 2008. I also revised my top three for 1984 and 2019.

Or maybe it's more likely than not that Heyman and Bischoff will book complete dogshit of their own accord. It's seriously insane that people are looking at Eric Bischoff as a potential savior.

Also consider that the non-compete clauses in WWE contracts have no conceivable relationship to protecting WWE trade secrets or critical business interests and thus are almost certainly not enforceable. Maybe Impact felt like going YOLO and calling WWE's bluff.

Keep in mind that Janela had challenged Enzo to a shoot fight a few months ago. I can't take either guy's side here because they both come across as massive dorks.

Was last week's Raw really that much better than usual? The impression I had was that it was basically the same shit but with more explosions and cursing.

To top it all off, Alexander got pinned clean and needed Roman to rescue him from a post-match beatdown. They managed to completely botch a timeless wrestling trope (babyface wears a disguise to get one over on the heels) in both conception and execution. I genuinely wonder if this company is capable of doing anything right.

Count me in. I'm tanned, rested, and ready with plenty of matches to recommend.

Taker reforming the Corporate Ministry with Corbin/Lashley/McIntyre as his acolytes is either the best or the worst thing WWE could possibly do.