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Other than not attacking and laying out Kairi after the match, I loved pretty much everything Baszler did in the finals. Kairi no-selling the arm work was disappointing, though.

Bret/Perfect from KOTR 93 placed #12 in the SC poll. And I might be the world's biggest fan of that match, so I have no problem with that. Rude/Warrior at Summerslam 89 and the Hogan/Slaughter Desert Storm Match at MSG are also high on my list of favorites. Pre-Savage/Steamboat, I'm a big fan of the Backlund/Patera Texas Death Match (not an actual Texas Death Match, that was the WWF term for a no-DQ match).

Even when wrestling was at its peak of mainstream popularity, Mike Tyson made more in a single fight than Steve Austin made in a year. Why should we give a crap about mainstream interest if plenty of companies are doing good business and plenty of wrestlers are making a good living?

Heel Dolph was the shits. He had the same problem as early 90s heel HBK: he was a big bumper and seller with virtually no offense. That's not as much of an issue as a face since he can spend most of the match selling.

I've heard three different origin stories for Test's ring name. There's the testosterone one, the mic check one, and one where the idea was you had to pass the test if you wanted to see the band. Who the hell knows.

KB8's post reminded me of something I think about periodically. How often do you guys watch your favorite matches? I generally only watch the matches at the top of my favorites list about once a year, if that. Part of that is an attempt to prevent the matches from seeming less special due to overexposure. If I'm really into a song, I have a tendency to listen to it repeatedly until I get sick of it, and I don't want that to happen with matches I like. Also, I'm all about the thrill of discovery and reevaluation, and there's basically zero chance of my opinion of 6/9/95 or Hart/Austin changing meaningfully.

They had a good match on Smackdown sometime in 2008. I can't recall the exact date, though.

I guess Trump has entered the Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter phase of his presidency. In other news: If Juggalos fighting Nazis in the streets of DC isn't peak 2017, I don't know what is.

I haven't seen it online in years. It used to be on Youtube, but the guy who uploaded it (his account is the one with the barbed wire match IIRC) took it down for some reason.

He also apparently retroactively gave 6/3/94 ******, which kind of undermines his argument about wrestling being about time and place, but whatever.

That reminds me, Dave's been dropping some pretty interesting information on Twitter recently. It seems that the star rating system originally maxed out at four stars, but then Jim Cornette saw the Lawler/Funk no-DQ match. Also, Arn Anderson is apparently a big fan of Hirooki Goto.

He supposedly got torn a new one by Vince McMahon backstage for saying "title shot" instead of "title match," so who knows.

And now Mooch is out. Guess he's closer to Ahmed Johnson than The Rock.

It is. Legendary arm selling performance from Liger. As for the topic in general: Chekhov's gun, people.

I'd say it's more like Kurt Angle turning on the Alliance at Survivor Series and then going back to being a heel the next night on Raw.

That New Yorker interview was Mooch raising his eyebrow to give the signal to kick Faareibus out of the Nation of Trumpination.

Any Revival match at a Takeover event will be worth going out of your way to see.

I guess that makes Jared Kushner Lance. When does Donald cut a promo disowning him?

And Asuka in NXT.

I'm not sure what to make of that match. It wasn't an epic main event slugfest, but it felt like a real fight.

Assuming you are talking about the HHH matches, 2001 or 2007? 2001. I'd say the Shield matches were quite overrated in retrospect. They didn't do much for me the last time I watched them.

I 'd say that was the best tag match on the main roster since the quad tear match.

And now CNN has turned this into a heel/heel matchup by threatening to dox the guy. Surrending the moral high ground to a Pepe. Amazing.

According to Dave, "everyone said" Casas was phoning it in in the 90s. Dave has a history of placing a great deal of weight on contemporaneous consensus opinion and relatively little on how well someone's work holds up decades after the fact. And for all we know, Casas was in fact phoning it in on all the shows Dave attended.

Dave's thoughts on the GOAT debate: