Chess Knight

Anybody who included the Big Gold Belt- any reason for not including Benoit?

Isn't this 'guy with so much passion and pure understanding of this sport' the same piece of shit who left a Twitter message saying wrestling was grown men pretending?

I love a lot of Regal's WCW run, but their are *some* disappointments. Never huge on the 93 Arn match, but I really like SuperBrawl. Steamboat matches are all good, but I know a lot of people who rate the Fall Brawl higher than I do. Love love love the 9/93 ten minute they had, though. Love it. The WCWSN Zbyszko match is insanely great. Slamboree is just regular great. Clash one is good. Has other really good stuff sprinkled in his run with Terry Taylor, Johnny B. Badd, the Patriot, etc.

Guess I'm the only one here who really loved Arn/Josh, then? Nikita was pretty passable for me in 1992 WCW, but I really liked the thing where he might backstab everyone come WarGames. Not sure how many other guys they could have plugged into that role at the time.

I think everybody missed this. I'm not 100% sure myself what the exact criteria this is based on, though.

I haven't seen a ton of Mascaras, but whatever I've seen from the 70s is typically good. The Destroyer matches are extroadinary and I don't remember thnking they were remotely Destroyer carry jobs. Kind of seems like Mascaras became the biggest grouch in the history of wrestling come 1982 or something and just shrugs everything off he deems unnecessary. Which includes his opponents' offense.

Was this before or after that? Anyone know? -- On Cole: Yeah, I watched Raw and how bad he is is actually shocking. Who's idea was it to keep him employed for this long? Probaby the worst non-indy commentator ever.

I've never seen (heard, I guess) Tony to be a guy to bring up history. When Tenay pulls some fact out of his hat Tony would just chime in with "I was there when it happened!" but not really....know anything about it. I watched Judgment Day 2000 yesterday and Ross randomly name drops Dick Murdoch when someone uses a brainbuster. He also called a cross armbreaker a Fujiwara armbar. *boos* Tony definitely gives you more of a vibe that what he's saying about the past is already scribbled on his notes by the WCW Higher-Ups.

I don't get the hate for 'control segment'. it's not really a Wrestling Term, but it's a segment where a guy is in control of the match. 'Psychology'. That term needs to be renamed in a hurry.

His tag team with Murdoch is one of my favs. v Samoans 6/16/84 v Briscos 12/28/84 v Fujinami/Inoki 12/84 that's the best stuff from them I've seen, I think. Never seen the Backlund matches, but I know some folk that think the 1/18/82 is like a top ten WWE match ever.

The only thing Cody Rhodes has over Drew McIntyre is last name and WWEs insistence on pushing second/third generation guys. Drew is better in every way, and even had a better match with Christian recently with no storyline on the C Show. I think it was Dylan who said something about Cody one time that I realised applied to me as well- he's won me over a couple of times, but then just falls completely out of interest. Like I'm disappointed whenever he starts getting boring because there were multiple weeks I'd warm up to the guy. Drew is just fifteen stages of awesome all the time, and I thought the Christian match on Superstars was better than anything on this show.

Hopefully, but I'm seeing a bunch of possible Be A Star promos and Santino/Ricardo Cobra Sock on a Pole matches. Honestly if they want to make guys even somewhat meaningful, they might want to reform a tag team division that consists of more than random dudes being paired up with a manager that has to do all the talking for them. Even the tag teams they have now, they've done literally nothing to build them; crowd were dead a shit when A.W. (A.W? the FUCK is A.W!?) turned on the Colons and went with the NXT guys. Ten years ago you had Booker T and Goldust doing amazing skits and the crowd loved them. I'm no defender of 2002 WWE, but even looking back THEN...kinda depressing that so much of these shows are filler. Gotta have squash matches on these PPVs to fill time, FFS. If they couldn't hold my attention for a three hour PPV then there's less than 10% chance of them holding my attention for 3 hour Raws. Probably just do what I should always do and wait for people to say 'Henry and Punk was good tonight' and just watch that.

I was bored senseless for most of the show. I actually thought as well they should definitely at least attempt to give Dolph a face run, and Cody.....eh. No clue how his father is Dusty Rhodes. Absolutely no clue. If they both didn't share the mega-lisp and those kind of eyes that looked like they've been punched, I'd swear there is no relation. Cody's the most boring thing I've ever seen. I can't fathom why anybody in the back looks at Cody, then looks at Drew McIntyre and think Rhodes is more deserving of a spot higher on the card. thee-way was fine, but hopefully Punk and Bryan can do something....else. Without Kane. I kind of like AJ's involvement, but I'm giving this "Thinking Without Your Penis" thing a shot, so they can do without her as well.

This was aritcle was put up on a website today/yesterday. yeah...... ......true or not? IDK, but I can't imagine how Trip is going to be when he gets old. Probably be 25 times more batshit and paranoid than Vince ever was.

I watched one of the 86 Jake matches a few days ago and noticed this now more than ever. It didn't bother me, but it stands out. He sells like some dude getting beat up by nunchucks in a 70s Japanese karate movie that has English dubbed voices over it. It's awesome.

I meant he should have been kept to shortish matches instead of ten+ minute upper-card stuff, but WCW obviously weren't going to change the way they work things. It is shitty how the Nash/Rey stuff wound up, though.

Rey v Malenko from the German WCW show on 6/19/97 Thought this was really fucking good. I have more than one gripe with Malenko, but he looked good as hell here. I haven't really thought the rest of their matches hold up very well for a few reasons- I wasn't a fan of Malenko working the arm and letting it go nowhere at GAB, plus it was kinda boring. Instead of working Rey's body part in this one he just stretches him places and doesn't let him string anything together for the better part of the 16 minutes or so they worked with. Plus, Dean doesn't use that stupid Pull Up Head After Pinning Him spot. Rey was working from the bottom, so naturally he ruled. Loved his vocal selling. Like I said I'm not HUGE on their matches as a whole, so this is my favourite one they had. Rey v Nash (Nitro 2/22/99) This is sort of thing Nash should have been working his whole late WCW career. Rey was pretty obviously the guy making Nash's offense look great by bumping like a car crash victim, but even Nash's selling looked better than usual. The match going three minutes doesn't give Kev the time to completely blow up and start filling time with useless shit. The finish is fucking great; Nash gets him up in the powerbomb and Rey starts punching away with Kev wobbling before going down and being pinned. Million stars for a three minute match.

Depending what they do with it, I could be buying my first WWE DVD release since 2009. Kind of excited about this.

More than certain this is the five star one, yeah.

Sort of surprised the Mikey/Jack Tag Title win was left off. Not that good a match, but it seems like a kind-of biggish deal to include. Watched it recently and enjoyed it; I kind of liked how the Public Enemy didn't stay on Mikey and use him for the peril guy, but instead just wiped him out so they could work on Jack without any interruptions. The ending parts were done well.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of this. I actually preferred the cage match (curious to see what people think about that) when I watched them both last year, but this sort of blew me away because, like Loss, I didn't expect to like it as much as I actually did. I think this was the match that also made me a huge Sherri fan.

I've posted (or, been a member, really) on that site for quite some time, and though I really can't stomach 99% of the wrestling threads there anymore, you'd be stupified at the posters on that site. I think I've lost multiple IQ points since reading some of the crap there (which is why I avoid so much of the forum). There's threads made time after time about a wrestler's hair. Seriously. What Mr. Wrestling X is saying has some truth to it. They obv. don't bame Vince Russo for rain, stubbing their toe or JFK, but I'm going to do anything to defend Russo anyway. I think Mr. Wrestling X should have left the quotes out for what he typed because it made it look like it was actually said by people. "A match isn't good unless it's a 30 min spotfest" isn't really a direct quote (unless someone shows me one), but it's more an opinion, sort of. Though "the Attitude Era is the best era in wrestling history"......yeah, that's said. A lot.

Went and watched the Volk Han that didn't make the set. I hadn't watched any shoot style since listening to the most recent Wrestling Culture (which was great, btw), so it was really interesting to see that, for the most part, the crowd was pretty damn hot for the matches. I haven't listened to enough of the podcasts to tell who's voice is who's, but someone said the crowd for shoot style can be silent just because they're bored out of their minds, and I agree, but it wasn't the case for these. v Nyman 1/24- Watched this last year. Remember nothing. v Vrij 3/25- If this had some more time they could have built a really, really good match. Fuck, with the six and change they got they built a really good match with. Vrij is a big intimidating bastard and the whole match he tries to knock Han out. Han opts for the submission route so by the time they're six minutes in Han has a flock of red bars from knock downs and Vrij has yellow from rope breaks. Crowd were pretty hot, but I thought it might a "no rolling on the mat" thing. v Zouev 4/26- This gets upwards of ten minutes, and my thoughts of crowd excitement being a "no rolling on the mat" were washed. They're not reacting on a historically loud level or anything, but there's tons of claps for rope breaks and yells throughout. Really good match. v Nagai 6/29- Shit hot crowd. Unsurprising seeing as they typically get louder than usual when of their Japan hometown boys is facing an alien. Nagai is such a great Han opponent and this might not be their 93 match, but the key word is "might". I love how Volk makes a submission move look like the end of the world by popping it out of nowhere and giving the guy a panic. Tremendous near 10-count or two in this as well. Who works sub-fifteen minute matches better than Han, ever? v Tariel 12/21- Han tried what he could to make this interesting and actually did by himself, but Tariel looked useless here. Talked about Han making a submission move look like the end of the world for his opponent, but it means little when your opponent doesn't move. Weaker Han match. I've seen a few people call Han one of the best guys of 96, and I'm not sure where I'd stand on that, but he'd definitely go up for me after watching the Vrij/Zouev/Nagai matches. Might not look AMAZING if you put them on the same comp as the best Kawada (who I thought was the best guy in 96) of the year, but watching it all in a row....looks pretty spectacular.

I remember him taking out all of the Nexus with it last year. I don't think Husky Harris was on TV after that either. I haven't watched the recent SmackDown but I think he used it on Sheamus which lead to the ban of it. Definitely used it less since the face turn, though.

I'll need to watch it again but I've always had a soft spot with the Warrior match at Mania. I'd definitely put BATB and Halloween Havoc 94 v Flair up there.