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Three Jumbos on this list and none of them are named Tsuruta. Interesting.

It's a euphemism for a handjob at an Asian massage parlor. It was also the name of Gail Kim's finisher in TNA, because TNA.

Some fans were chanting "happy ending" and "Pearl Harbor" at Kairi Sane at the NXT show in St. Petersburg. Yet more evidence that Florida needs to be napalmed out of existence. Or at least sawed off like in that Bugs Bunny cartoon.

dawho5's match pick was Invader 1 vs. Ron Starr. My negative Nancy review is as follows: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/35550-invader-i-vs-ron-starr-street-fight-81786/?p=5833169

This was my thought as well. I don't think any amount of money could convince me to mix it up in the stands at a Puerto Rico wrestling event. I wasn't really feeling this. The vast majority of the match consisted of Attitude Era-esque aimless crowd brawling of the "let's go for a stroll while I grab your hair" variety. Stuff like that is fine for a couple minutes, but close to ten minutes is a bit much, especially when the total match time is about thirteen minutes. I did enjoy the use of Starr's weightlifting belt as a weapon. Whipping the opponent in the back, clubbing the opponent in the head, wrapping it around their fist before throwing a punch, jabbing the opponent in the throat-it was all pretty fantastic. Things settle down a bit once they make it in the ring. The highlight here, of course, was Starr landing crotch-first on Invader's knees in a Whoopie Cushion counter. I enjoyed that spot, along with the shenanigans with the belt, enough that a strong finish might have redeemed this match. Unfortunately, we get a teased double KO followed by an actual double KO. On the bright side, there was no Abdullah.

I don't see this issue. She's a named party in a civil lawsuit. Her name is a matter of public record at this point.

For the inductees, having "WWE Hall of Famer" on your resume increases your name value for bookings and on the convention circuit.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. It was a nice look back at the days when lucha was primarily an arena (or gym, in this case) attraction rather than a TV product. Casas was undoubtedly the star of the show. I've never viewed him as a strong offensive wrestler, which is part of the reason I'm not nearly as high on him as some. But everything he did here looked crisp and impactful. In addition, his stooging in between the first and second falls was something to behold, and he took a pretty nutty bump off the top rope in the third fall. Dandy was his usual reliable self. Piloto and Loverboy busted out some impressive proto-Richochet/Ospreay acrobatics, and Kung Fu had some nice strike combinations. El Brazo...well, he threw a chair. There's some furthering of the Piloto/Loverboy feud at the end, but for the most part, this is the equivalent of a send-the-crowd-home-happy house show match.

I've always loved the one Austin did for the Bret match at Survivor Series 1996. I also have a soft spot in my heart for the promo video for Benoit/Kane at Bad Blood 2004 because they did a surprisingly good job at making a match that was pretty much put together as an afterthought seem like a decades-long blood feud.

HHH/Jarrett would be interesting. They're both good wrestlers who think they're great wrestlers, which more often then not makes them shit wrestlers.

For what it's worth, Graham was a legit shooter who performed policeman duty for his father in Florida. Not saying he could take Saturn, but still.

Jarrett's not a terrible pick in terms of qualifications, but I can't imagine anyone actually being excited to see him. He's one of the guys I think wouldn't even get a nostalgia pop at the Royal Rumble.

Didn't Anthem pay back Corgan's TNA investment?

WWE signed Mahabali Shera. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

Tim Evans, here's something that popped up in my Youtube feed recently. Match date is 3/26/17.

It was reported at the time that the girls wrote a letter to the judge admitting they made everything up. Is this not true? Does the letter not exist?

But all styles aren't created equal. The fact that joshi and shoot style are basically dead, and lucha has no currency outside of Mexico, indicates that they are inferior styles, at least on a certain level.

My match assignment from southofheavy was Masahiro Chono and Sabu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami and Junji Hirata in a SUPERHARD SYNDROME match from the 1/4/95 Dome show. We get off to a hot start with a Pearl Harbor job from SabCho, and Sabu hits a nice crossbody off a chair on the entrance ramp. Things settle down after Sabu accidentally dropkicks Chono. I enjoyed Chono and Hirata being dicks to each other (I especially liked Hirata putting Chono in the STF). But Sabu was mostly useless and looked lost whenever he didn't have a chair at his disposal, although I did get a kick out of Fujinami showing absolutely no respect for his offense. There was a spot near the end when Sabu legdropped Hirata through a table (or tried to at least-damn those unbreakable Japanese tables) only for Hirata to get up like nothing had happened. I don't know if he was supposed to roll out of the way and mistimed it or just felt like no-selling, but it was pretty funny. SabCho picks up with win with a chairshot followed by a Yakuza Kick. Pretty middling overall. Still, good on Sabu for getting a Tokyo Dome payday.

Stephanie wasn't a corporate executive and brand ambassador when she was on the creative team.

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WWE PR's Twitter account just shared a Breitbart article.

Let's not turn this into a "the dread Meltzer has brainwashed the masses into liking the wrong kind of wrestling" thread, thanks.

Baba had to have known when he brought the R&Rs in that there was no way Hansen was going to sell for them. He should've just brought in Morton and had him team with Jumbo or Tenryu.

The list of highest-rated matches at Cagematch is pretty similar. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=111&view=list&sortby=colRating&sorttype=DESC The main difference is that the latter list has a lot more Kobashi and Danielson. And the only 80s matches represented are the Flair/Steamboat trilogy.

For what it's worth, his exact quote was that Sabu was "night-in and night-out the best performer in the country today." He's also stated that he defines working as "reading the crowd and the ability to figure out how to work a dead crowd." It's entirely possible that Sabu was better at consistently getting responses from crowds than anyone else in the country in 1994.