Chess Knight

Earl Hebner annoys me to no end. His two counts are absolutely awful and you can almost nwo that the wrestler will kick just because Earl changes body position every time. I love watching him getting wiped out at SummerSlam 95 by Mabel. Was watching some 96 BattlARTS recently, and the ref there has this habit of yelling "GIVE UP, GIVE UP, ESCAPE, ESCAPE, GIVE UP" whenever someone's in a submission move. He's likely told to do that, to ask them if they give up, but I'd rather he'd not yell and scream single words. I honestly can't say there's any referees I truly like. The best ones are the ones I'd take no notice of.

What's the reason Benoit/Regal 23/9 didn't make it?

Liking this thread a lot. Started watching the comp of Rose last week that Goodhelmet put together, and him throwing up in the middle of the bloody ring after Lonnie Mayne dropped on him was surreal. Buddy was a better promo than I thought, the one with him having a bloody head and him talking about watching his own blood drip into his hands was terrific. I'm also kind of surprised how much I like Ed Wiskowski. Always gotten the impression he was just "there" from others before this stuff.

Didn't like that cage a whole bunch when I watched it years ago; hoping I like it next time because I love GAB 07 between Jeff and Umaga. Overall, I like 2008 WWE a fair bit. I think there's more under-the-radar stuff than people seem to know. Michaels/Jericho had their feud, which can get really overrated, but is still good. I liked the Unforgiven and GAB ones a lot on last watch. I've still never watched the Michaels/Batista Stretcher from One Night Stand (which ties in the to Michaels/Flair/Jericho story), but that's supposedly a goodie. Edge has his feud with Taker, and it's..ok, but outside the HIAC (which I hardly like anyway), nothing is worth too much. The TLC especially is horrid. Cena/Orton from No Way out is something I liked, and others I talk to tend to worshp it, but I haven't seen it since it aired. Rey and Punk had a really good one at Armageddon. I like HHH's year a lot. Being a fan of him more than....I suspect anyone else here helps enjoy it, but it's a big step up from what he doing in DX before injury and again in 09. Doesn't have anything blow-away great, but I could see anyone liking something from him that year. There's a nifty set of stuff on TV. ECW has a lot of cool stuff with the midcard guys. Chavo/Punk had a really good series. I remember a Chavo/Bourne being talked up somewhere, probably Segunda Caida. I remember an Undertaker/Festus being talked up as well at WKO. A Finlay/Mike Knox belfast brawl took place that year IIRC and I remember digging it.There's a Flair/Michaels v Chavo/Edgeheads/Edge (was Edge in it?) cage match before WrestleMania which I've seen get praise. Unless my memory's fucking with me, Matt Hardy had a good year overall. I remember him feuding with Chuck Palumbo and Mark Hnery at points. Speaking of Chuck, Jamie Noble had this program with him, got a win over him, and started wearing a t-shirt which read "Noble 1, Pulambo 0" (With Palumbo misspelt and everything). I think Regal had a chunk of good stuff, 2008 was his King of the Ring push which he screwed over in favour of substances. He had a couple of matches with CM Punk that I liked. No Mercy's my favourite WWE show of 08 by a lot. Most prefer Mania, and I like Michaels/Flair, JBL/Fit (which doesn't get the love it deserves, btw) and Show/Money a lot, but the rest of the card doesn't do anything for me at all. No Mercy has the Hunter/Hardy I like a ton, the good Show/Taker, a surprisingly watchable Kane/Rey, a good Henry/Hardy, a fine-for-what-it-is divas match, and the Michaels/Jericho ladder match which I like (albeit not as much as most). Taker/Show LMS from Cyber Sunday would be my WWE MOTY. The whole program between is good (bar the crappy casket match from whenever); I def. prefer it to Edge/Taker. I've talked too much about the positive and not as much on the negative (Kane/Rey was a waste of Rey fuckin' Mysterio, Chavo/Horny was in 2008, wasn't it?), and made this post a random mess, but take it for what it's worth.

Watched this a while back and adored it. Thought it was about as good a match as I've seen from either guy, and I *might* call this the best non-All Japan singles of '95 I've seen. Thought it was at least as good as any Benoit/Finlay/Regal combo match as well.