Chess Knight

If you right click on Dylan's (or anybody else's, I guess) avatar and click "view image" the pic comes up big. I might actually watch Tajiri v Finlay before the year ends unlike any other Finlay match of his return. Tajiri's sweat wiping thing sounds amazing.

I want to see a chicken-shit heel who always needs to win matches by cheating morph into a psychopathic murderous blackheart who isn't afraid of anything, while still being a heel. The shame is, a lot of wretling companies have shitty writers and would have no idea how to do it. I'll take a minute to think it up. ----- Part 1- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel loses matches because he's shitty. Part 2- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel starts cheating, only winning matches by count-out every now and then. Part 3- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel eventually wins with pinfalls and submissions. Still, of course, cheating. Part 4- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel eventually becomes IC or US Champion. Part 5- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel is put in a match with an upper-card (why not an alledged "psycho") like Randy Orton. Loses, but does surprisingly well and brags. Part 6- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel gets a re-match with Orton, say, if he wins, he gets a shot at Orton's World Title. He "walks away from the match" down the ramp, only for Orton to follow him. He kicks Orton in the head and wins by count-out. That cheatin' bastard. Part 7- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel v Randy Orton for a World Title on PPV. General Manager makes it No count-out/DQ. Chickenshit cocky cheating heel doesn't act cocky, doesn't cheat, or doesn't act chickenshit to everyone's surprise. Chickenshit cocky cheating heel gradually becomes evil psychotic killer and wins Title with a new gimmick. Part 8- Chickenshit cocky cheating heel cuts a promo next TV taping. Something along the lines of "This is the real me" or "I fooled you all." That has a ton of flaws, but can be touched up with some real thought and it's probably better than Sheamus talking about winning the Royal Rumble only for Cody Rhodes to come down and say "nah they'll remember I eliminated 6 guys" out of fucking nowhere. Seriously, the amount of feuds that begin in random interruptions nowadays is bullshit. ------ Also, in a slightly different scenario, I'd like for a "fluke" World Champion to get in over his head, then lose the Title, and then go nuts with psychopath rage because he didn't realise how important the title was to him, and that he took it for granted. I like psychopath heel gimmicks.

WCW going to custom entrance themes is good, but I don't know if I ever want to hear Steamboat's or Windham's themes again. Some of them are brutal. WCW had some good stuff by Jimmy Hart & Howard Helm through most of the 90s, but others would peel the enamel from your teeth. Bret Hart's themes in WCW were fucking ear-shattering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CozGhCuSo These ruled though.

A Davey Richards match + Toyota's screaming. Oh lord.

Wrestler's are seemingly never threatened with fines anymore. I'd always hear Gorilla Monsoon say Wrestler A will be fined for attacking a referee and now it's just fuckhead announcers like Josh Mathews and Michael Cole spewing bullshit about how they "like this new aggressive side of __" and how "___ needs a mean-streak." It's ok for Coel I guess because he's a heel, but Booker T says that crap a lot too and he's supposed to be a babyface. I don't even know what Mathews is. Except a fuckhead. How many times is a WWE match NOT started with a collar-and-elbow tie-up?

I'm not sure why Vince doesn't think he'd benefit from it. Does he think that kids are going to Google "Bryan Danielson," se he was from ROH and then turn on the 'E and start following them instead? Woudl having the name "Bryan Danielson" on you program not make the ROH fans want to see it? They're not exactly going to turn away if it is "Daniel Bryan" on there, but still, it's head-scratching. Gotta wonder where exactly it started. I mean CM Punk isn't a WWE-original name and Punk debuted only 5 1/2 years ago.

Which did you think was better, out of curiosity?

People tend to talk him as a shitty worker in his old age (and, well, the rest of his career), but I thought he put in a likeable performance against Sting at the 98 SuperBrawl. Basically did what he could to get heat and lived by the "don't do what you can't do well" rule, and I think it wouldn't been ok if that had happened at Starrcade. I've always been a Hulk fan. Skipping around to the nWo segments and promos on the 96 yearbook made me realise how goddamn great he was that year.

WWE's hang-up with not using real names has always been so stupid to me. Would it REALLY have hurt to call him Bryan Danielson? Whoever the fool is coming up with names like Dean Ambrose and Derrick Bateman should be fired without a second thought. Even "Alberto Del Rio" sounds silly to me. Is there a worse one that Michael McGillicutty? On a side-note- Looking at the photos of half of that roster made me die laughing. Can't wait to see this guy on WWE programming.

There was another 3-way at the original Cyber Sunday (in 2006 when Taboo Tuesday was killed) where the 3 Champions went against each other. It was Cena v Book v Show. There have been tag stuff like 2007 No Way Out's main event. I struggle to think of any single matches that haven't been mentioned.

That's was what I noticed about the Rumble above all else. Pretty much all the midcarders and shit from today looked like Create-A-Wrestlers who had no special features added to them while there were stupendous Booker T chants floating around the arena. The crowd looked disappointed as hell when someone like Epico or that Uso came out, and guys like Justin Gabriel got bad responses in the ring. One thing I really hate about current WWE guys is they all randomly yell. All the time. They press slam someone, they yell. They get on the top rope to pose, they yell. They give a clothesline, they yell. They don't even yell anything specific; just "AAOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" with them flexing muscles. How can WWE not see that a guy like Drew McIntyre stands out from the rest? I really don't know what else they want from him.

I've only been to one live show ever and like I said that was at 14 y.o. I'd probably be silent during the shows noawdays as well. Hell I only remember making noise back at that show because I was on the entrance way seating and got some high-fives from wrestlers coming to the ring.

I became a wrestling fan at 20. It was by watching Flair and Cornette, enjoying their rap, and enjoying them poking at the babyfaces. Why wouldn't I root for Corney and the MX against those idiots that R'n'R Express? Exactly what appeal would the R'n'R have for a 20 year old stoner into some garbage entertainment? Those guys played to the 11 year girls out there. John I wasn't really trying to wonder why people think that way, I was trying to wonder why I care that people think that way. Like, I'd watch them and go "you should be booing, arseholes," when realistically I'm gunning for the heels as well. I'm not sure why heels getting a lot of positive reaction bothers me so much (not *that* much, but two years ago it didn't bother me at all). Shit, I was at house show at 14 years old and was the only kid there cheering any heel. Pretty sure Edge even looked at me funny when I asked for a high-five. Then he ran around the arena calling everyone a wanker because it's Australia an he didn't know what it meant. I watched Rey v Guerrero at GAB 2005 and after everything Eddie did to Dominic he still got guys chanting his name. And for whatever shitty reason that got under my skin a little. They could have been "smart~" fans that know about "a work" and "kayfabe" and all that, but then I literally thought "what if they aren't and are in fact dickheads who'd cheer a child's torment?" No idea where I'm going with this but I think the general idea is that I over-think crowd reactions and shouldn't give a shit overall. I'd obv. prefer it either way when a heel gets heat and a face gets pop, though.

I thought I was the only who thought like this. I've had stupid feelings towards heels being cheered too which can distract from a match recently too. This doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes I look at specific crowd members and wonder what goes through their head that would make them cheer Jim Cornette uing his tennis racquet or something.

I don't get any praise Kanyon gets either. Furthermore I never understood why Sean O'Haire was viewed as a "missed oppurtunity," honestly I think he just sucked.

I've been doing this since 2010 and he hasn't bothered me. Actually, I found him more annoying in his first few WWF years. His call of Hart v Austin at Survivor Series was just bad and he came off to me as someone that had been commentating for about 2 months. Watched the first half of Capitol Combat (the 1990 WCW PPV) today and I found him perfectly good. Except when RoboCop came, but I'm blaming WCW since no one could have gotten that right.

Actually that reminds me, Minoru Suzuki annoys me. A lot. Probably a visceral thing, but yeah, feels liek a guy I "should" like. His oddball hair is terribly distracting though. I still like NOAH Kobashi, but I tend to only be really interested if he's facing an opponent I like. I still think the 04 match with Big Tak is likely a top ten MOTD and the best NOAH match.

There's Takayama, and I haven't ever been annoyed with NOAH Misawa. That's mostly it.

Jun Akiyama really annoys me post-2001 or so. Seen a few things which was suplex-after-suplex and irritating chop battles that turned me off. I probably should have watched early Akiyama before late Akiyama so I didn't have a bad taste in my mouth going into that awesome shit he actually has. The 2/00 Misawa match took me by surprise because I thought he was really great in it.

Mark Henry was largely average before 2006. Took him like ten years to get real good.

When was Finlay's peak? 2006? He looked amazing in some cases in 1996/1998 but only got little time by WCW to work his stuff. He was pretty consistantly great and wherever his peak is there's great stuff before it. Worst pre-peak wrestler may be Bret Hart. I might only be thinking of him becaue of how good his peak actually was, but the Hart Foundation weren't THAT great a team and Bret's singles stuff didn't seem to get good before 1991 unless he had an opponent like Ricky Steamboat or Randy Savage. I remember loving the 89 match with Hennig though. Misawa maybe? Guy never sucked but his calling in life obviously wasn't to play Tiger Mask. -I've always thought Mick Foley looked good really early. -Dustin Rhodes a few years into his career. -Arn Anderson debuted in 82 and was looking really good by 85. He's actually another shout for best pre-peak worker if you share the thoughts I do and think he peaked in 1992. -There isn't much footage of his early stuff (from what I can tell), but El Hijo del Santo looekd pretty terrific from the get-go. -I'm not 100% sure I agree with Dylan on Michaels peaking in the 80s, but he definitely got it early. -Vader was awesome a few years in. -I like Austin a ton after mid-92. He's got a lot of good before that as well but looked a little below everyone else he was working with before WarGames 92 or so. Peaked like a decade after but yeah, I like WCW Austin. On the other side I have a tough time *truly* enjoying most Eddy Guerrero before his 97 heel turn. Watched a shit ton of WCW in 2011 and by the end I had little interest in watching anything that babyface Eddy had to offer. Thank God he became the babyface he did by 2003.

I'm fairly certain Herd was the one responsible for Flair cutting his hair. I remember Ric saying Herd wanted him to have an enormous diamond earring at one point too.

The Big Show's matches with the Undertaker smoke Kane's as well. I can't imagine why anyone could think Kane is the better of the two, honestly.

Don't think much of his Roddy Piper stuff?

Pettengill reminds me of a 90s Josh Mathews. I abhore Josh Mathews. -- Randy Orton or Owen Hart?