Yo-Yo's Roomie

That Masters Vs McIntyre match from Smackdown. I think that was under 5 minutes even. Edge Vs Matt Hardy from Summerslam, and Kane Vs Matt Hardy from another Summerslam.

If they were gonna do this one, they shouldn't have done the one after the title change match.

My plan was (and still is) to watch something of everyone, just working my way down the list of nominees. I'm still on C. Currently on the fence about submitting a list.

I think Edge was heaps better and more natural than the majority of wrestlers in terms of acting ability.

Rusev should be a babyface anyway. My dream booking scenario is Dolph turning heel and dumping Lana in humiliating fashion. A broken Lana is then brainwashed by Bray Wyatt. Wyatt and Lana have an evil cult wedding on Raw, and when the reverend asks if anyone objects, Rusev's music hits, and he destroys the wedding. Then at Wrestlemania you have Rusev Vs Wyatt. Rusev wins. After the match Lana slaps Rusev, but then realises she always loved him, and the two embrace and reign over wrestling for roughly forever. Summer fades into obscurity. holy shit i now want this more than anything ever the only tweak I'd make is that by this point Bo Dallas would have joined the Wyatt's and become "Reverend Bo Dallas" and he'd be the one performing the ceremony. Rusev would leave him laying while the others scramble. Love it.

I always think of the way Virgil was booked vs. the way they booked the Miz/Mizdow deal a the perfect example of how rotten the booking is in WWE these days. They really milked a lot out of Virgil turning on Ted; they had the Mania match, the Summerslam match which was the natural blow-off some 6 months+ after the initial split, and then even at the following WrestleMania Virgil was in the 8-man tag getting the pin for his team, before he fades down the card into a jobber role (which was inevitable really since he wasn't very good). Still, that's a year plus of mileage they got out of a limited talent. The fans were hot for Mizdow and chomping at the bit to see him turn on Miz, but like a month after it happened he was pretty much gone from TV. A pointless waste of an over talent, and the contrast is pretty glaring.

Rusev should be a babyface anyway. My dream booking scenario is Dolph turning heel and dumping Lana in humiliating fashion. A broken Lana is then brainwashed by Bray Wyatt. Wyatt and Lana have an evil cult wedding on Raw, and when the reverend asks if anyone objects, Rusev's music hits, and he destroys the wedding. Then at Wrestlemania you have Rusev Vs Wyatt. Rusev wins. After the match Lana slaps Rusev, but then realises she always loved him, and the two embrace and reign over wrestling for roughly forever. Summer fades into obscurity.

Thought Jericho looked like crap, to be honest. Really sluggish. Match wasn't up to much, in my opinion.

They need to put Rusev back with Lana ASAP. They just meant so much more as a double act, and Summer is a really poor substitute.

Like I said, I get the distinction between calling someone a great gimmick match worker, and saying someone only has great gimmick matches. I shouldn't accuse anyone of having an agenda, and won't, because I think we're all selective about who we choose to praise and how we choose to do it. It's just funny seeing Edge written off as just a smoke and mirrors stunt worker, while seeing the same qualities praised in other wrestlers. But it might not even be the same people doing that, and maybe everyone is perfectly consistent with how they view this stuff.

There's something to knowing when to fall off a ladder to get the best crowd reactions too, to be fair. I think Edge was a good gimmick match wrestler, and generally a smarter worker than people give him credit for, although most of the criticisms of him are accurate. It's interesting to me that some workers get praised as being good gimmick match workers (Carlos Colon, Bill Dundee, etc) whereas with someone like Edge the fact that he has been in lots of good gimmick matches is almost an insult. I get the distinction between 'great gimmick match worker' and 'all his good matches are gimmick matches', but it's just interesting to me how people use these arguments to fit their agenda, or point.

The win over Bryan killed him. He was really over and building lots of momentum to where it seemed obvious, to me at least, that he would win the rumble and have his coronation as a made man at WrestleMania. But the fans totally turned on him beating Bryan like that, and he was never able to win them back.

But never The Granddaddy of Them All. Because that would make it sound old. It's okay for everyone who wrestles on it to actually be old though.

Another vote for sledgehammer. Just terrible. I hate shit like cookie sheets and garbage cans too.

Tajiri/Rey, a decent Benoit/A-Train match, Zach Gowen Vs Matt Hardy in a fun little match, Vince Vs Steph, which is surprisingly effective, Angle/Cena which is nothing special, Show Vs Eddie, fun, and Bashams Vs APA, forgettable.

This is timely for me, as I'm rewatching all the B pay-per-views, and I just got done with 2003. Here's how I rated them: No Way Out (Rock/Hogan, Hunter/Steiner, Austin/Bischoff) 2 1/4 stars Backlash (Rock/Goldberg) 1 3/4 stars Judgment Day (Lesnar/Show, Nash/Hunter) 2 stars Insurexxtion (Nash/Hunter) 2 stars Bad Blood (Nash/Hunter cell, Redneck Triathlon) 1 star - probably the worst ppv I've ever seen Vengeance (Lesnar/Show/Angle) 3 3/4 stars Unforgiven (Hunter/Goldberg) 2 stars No Mercy (Lesnar/Taker) 3 stars Armageddon (Goldberg/Triple H/Kane) 2.5 stars

Isn't the feuding tag team partners typically thought of as more of a Russo thing? Babyfaces with questionable morals would be Vince though, right?

Hingis is Shawn. Super talented brat, career-ending injury, successful comeback. Sharapova as Windham? Crazy successful really early, could have been an all-time great, but plateaued. Questions of motivation. Mauresmo would be an Eddie Guerrero type. Wonderful to watch, no-one thought would ever win the big one, finally broke through in crowd-pleasing manner.

Serena as Cena seems to make sense, given the resistance to her in certain circles as the ace, and GOAT contender. Whereas as the years have gone on, her critics have seemed to warm to her more, and kind of accepted her place in the pantheon.

I didn't think it even looked that good in the moment. Kinda unnatural looking, and contrived. It doesn't seem like terribly risky a move though, comparatively. They just got it wrong.

MJH's post sums up pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Shawn was a guy who could bump around more limited guys and make them look better than they generally were, whereas Austin didn't really have that type of performance in his locker. Austin I'd say though was more capable of crafting something more meaningful for other talented workers. As an aside, I don't think Good Friends, Better Enemies is a Shawn carry-job, as Nash puts in a really strong performance in that match, and actually out-performs Shawn in my view.

97 is probably your best bet for that kind of stuff. I wanna say he had a couple of matches with Vader and maybe one with Goldust that had to have been around 10 mins and were certainly fun. Come to think of it, most of his matches with Lawler didn't go very long, but I thought they always worked well together. I think the Summerslam 93 match with Doink is under 10 mins, and that was fun. How long was the Backlund heel turn match, because that was really good. I'd guess that was probably a little longer though. Pretty astute criticism though.

Luger's Attitude Adjustment.

She reminded me of the cool girl from Arthur, who was in Binky's clique. I'm sure nobody knows what on earth I'm talking about, but I'm too lazy to get a pic.

Bull is the best. I had a weird crush on her back when she showed up in the WWF, and, after going through some of her stuff for this, I think I still have a weird crush on her. I don't know if she quite matches Aja for monster heel offence, but she definitely sells better, and conveys more emotion and vulnerability than Aja did. Maybe not a great long-term seller, but I thought her in-the-moment selling was excellent, and she could be really sympathetic when the moment called for it. I'm nowhere near the point of thinking about where people are going to rank yet, but Bull has a very real shot at being my top female wrestler.