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Logan Paul vs. Volk Han would be dimes.

Pat McAfee and Logan Paul aren't just guys off the street. They're legitimate athletes. By the way, it always amuses me when people are shocked that former pro athletes take to pro wrestling so quickly, as if it isn't primarily an athletic endeavor.

Mid-South was by no means lacking in technical classics. Barry Windham vs. Dick Murdoch, Butch Reed vs. Murdoch, and Chris Adams vs. Terry Taylor all finished in the top 15 in DVDVR voting. It's just that none of them involved Ted. Part of that was the role he played. Bill Watts used him mainly as a catalyst to get angles over and make guys like JYD and Jim Duggan look better than they really were, so he wasn't really put in a position to have great technical matches. It could also be a matter of semantics. I suspect that when his peers praised him as a great technician, they were thinking more in terms of timing and execution than pure mat wrestling.

Looks like the folks who watched nearly got two career-ending matches for the price of one.

They already did that at Mania. No need to do it again. Brock couldn't beat Roman with a fucking tractor. What's Drew going to do with a measly sword? Strongly disagree. Almost all of them are dragged down by the referee's count being way too slow and an overreliance on contrived set pieces. The only ones that managed to overcome those obstacles were Cena/Umaga and maybe HHH/Jericho. Brock/Roman still had those issues to a degree (not to mention the ref having an absurdly generous definition of what constituted being back on one's feet), but I appreciate that their focus was on beating the hell out of each other rather than setting up elaborate arrangements of furniture. I'd peg it as the #3 LMS match in company history, which I guess makes it the #3 LMS match period. I still need to check out AJ Styles/Bully Ray from TNA, which has gotten rave reviews from people whose opinions I trust.

Road Dogg has been begging for an AEW job for a while now. Combine that with NAO vs. Foley/Funk being the only dumpster match anyone remembers and I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up on Dynamite. He'd be fine as a one-off, just don't bring him in full-time.

The AWA actually didn't draw that well in the Bay Area even with Hogan. Cable was stronger there than in most places, and the AWA seemed old and slow compared to Georgia wrestling on TBS. Verne got a date on Tommy Rich and he drew double what Hogan was drawing in the area. By the way, if Cagematch is to be believed, Hogan's last AWA match was in Phoenix of all places.

Isn't Regal a huge Smiths fan?

The AWA was by far the most geographically dispersed territory, stretching from Wisconsin all the way to northern California. He wasn't wrestling before the same crowds every week like Lawler at the Mid-South Coliseum or the Von Erichs at the Sportatorium. Also, he was gone a good part of the year due to his New Japan commitments, which surely helped prevent him from wearing out his welcome.

It does bother me that there are so many Motorhead songs that would be great entrance themes but are off limits because the band is so closely associated with HHH.

Motorhead appeared at Wrestlemania twice to play HHH's theme. Lemmy forgot the lyrics both times.

Fightful is reporting the injury is a work and they pulled the match so they can run it at the UK show.

Actually, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of Cody with HHH in charge of creative. After all, he surely remembers this: He hasn't been the type to forgive and forget in the past, but maybe his health scare changed his outlook.

Vince and Dunn both being out is huge. WWE could very well be unrecognizable several months from now.

The key to turning things around creatively is more skulls and ladder matches.

There's only so much that can be done with a jacked-up mini who has zero charisma and wrestles a grounded style. Gresham having competitive matches with the likes of Claudio and Samoa Joe would simply look absurd.

The thing is, Tony only fires people for cause. If he simply doesn't have anything for someone, he rides out their contact and doesn't renew them. It would probably behoove him to have someone play bad cop on his behalf as opposed to freezing talent out and hoping they take the hint, but at least they're getting paid. That's what makes the Gresham situation so unusual. He had just signed with the company. And the Observer daily update seems to indicate that the way he did business didn't win him any fans in the locker room.

Claudio's match with Cena on Raw is probably the best PWG Cena match, for whatever that's worth.

Keep in mind that a lot of folks on Wall Street think Vince is the only person capable of running a wrestling company. Even if he intends to continue running things behind the scenes, the fact that he would risk damaging the share price with the perception of being out speaks volumes. Also, Real Sports is working on a story on the allegations. They're not going to waste their time simply regurgitating what's already out there, especially for a story on an industry most legitimate media consider beneath them. Don't be surprised if the floodgates open.

This is probably the biggest indication that it's legit. Brock only deals with Vince.

For Borne, wouldn't the 2/3 falls match with Marty Jannetty qualify?

I liked Mauro well enough when he was doing NJPW on AXS. I don't remember anyone having a problem with him back then either. I'm hesitant to judge anyone based on their WWE work because they bring out the worst in everyone.

The HIAC match with the New Day would probably be the closest.

When I saw people saying that Flair was teaming with his son-in-law, I initially thought that Conrad had worked his way into the match.

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