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WWE Title MITB That match was extremely long and had the worst booking decision I've seen ever.

Cena-Henry My WWE MOTY. Outstanding in pretty much every way.

ADR-Ziggler Very good match with Del Rio looking really good. The finish sucked.

Ryback vs. Chris Jericho Not bad. Ryback did a couple of cool spots. The finish was weird.

AJ-Kaitlyn Good match. Solid pysch match. Liked Kaitlyn hurting her arm on the spear.

Miz-Axel Pretty good match for who was involved. Show's going pretty well so far.

WHC MITB Another fun ass match. Really a great spotfest with a great swerve finish I thought. Good stuff in all.

Shield vs. Usos Fun as fuck and the finishing run was molten. Really good opening match on the pre-show.

It was great being on the show again guys. It was a lot of fun!

Piper could be outstanding at times in Portland and very good a lot of times in WWF up to his retirement tour in 87. I find him to be one of the best sprint match wrestlers I've ever seen because he was so intense, had incredible charisma, and was a fucking awesome brawler. When he came back, he has a few good moments but he never reached the same level he had during the Rock N Wrestling era.

I like Marty a lot and have always recognized him as a tremendous tag wrestler. That Kurt Angle match from 05 is probably the best example of him proving that he had the potential to be a singles star because it was Kurt Angle long after Angle turned into a "get my shit in" guy and as Loss said the crowd really had no reason to give two shits about him. Whether or not Marty would have ever been a successful singles star is something that comes to mind from time to time while watching his tag matches.

I'm with most everyone else in that the possible disappearance or vanquishing of the 80's project forums would be devastating. DVDVR was the first board I had ever heard of but Smarkschoice was the first board I ever got involved in during it's really hot period. I do like the ability to search through old show reviews in DVDVR and the March Madness thing is always fun. PWO has always been the premier board I discuss wrestling on though.

HHH vs. Brock - Steel Cage Match Very good match I thought all because of Brock's brilliant selling and the right finish happened.

Cena vs. Ryback - LMS Well, my stream was absolutely terrible but from what I could gather this was really good and had a well done finish.

Randy Orton vs. Big Show - Extreme Rules Match Holy shit this match was good. Big Show was fucking GREAT in this. That ladder bump was insane. The finish fucking ruled too. Hell, this is my match of the night so far.

Shield vs. Team Hell No - Tornado Tag Good spotfest with a great finish. There were a couple of great spots in this too. It was a fun little match. I have to say though that all of these matches are just getting no more than seven or eight minutes. That means the LMS and Cage matches are going to be really fucking long. I'm mostly dreading HHH-Brock.

Del Rio vs. Swagger - I Quit This had some really nasty weapon usage and violent exchanges. This was a really good sprint minus the frequency of the ref asking if one would quit. The instant replay was hilarious and great I thought.

Sheamus vs. Mark Henry - Strap Match This was okay. I wanted more stiff strap beatings. They tried too much stuff in so little time too. There was some creativity but it wasn't to be really.

Ambrose vs. Kofi This was pretty good. Ambrose looked really good and I loved him pulling out the crossface chickenwing and the double underhook off the turnbuckles. The finish was well done too.

Jericho vs. Fandango This was fine. There were a couple of lousy screw ups but otherwise this was a pretty decent opener. I missed some of the pre-show Miz-Rhodes match but it looked fine for what it was.

We recently had that best match of a guy's career thread a few months ago but I seem to remember something similar to this too. I was on SC in 08-09 but I don't recall a thread like that.

Yokozuna & Owen Hart vs. Bob Holly & 1-2-3 Kid (Raw 4/17/95) I’ve been avoiding Yoko tags for the most part because I want to get a good glimpse of how he worked singles matches which is often the best way to analyze a wrestler’s work. I decided I’d jump into more of his tag work and especially his tag team with Owen. I picked a great match to start with. This was the Yoko/Owen tag’s first title defense after they won it from the Smoking Gunns at Mania. Owen and Kid start the match off with fast paced mat work and swift counters. Holly then came in and did the same with Owen. These were some nice exchanges to open things up and let us know they’re giving this a lot of time. Owen tags in Yoko who throws a nice big punch to Holly’s face. Holly fights back and pulls Yoko on his ass by his ponytail off the ropes. The crowd pops big and Holly goes to the ropes again but Owen holds them down and Holly takes a big bump to the floor. Owen ends up slamming Holly’s back into the ring post as Yoko distracts the referee. We go to commercial break and when we get back Owen and Yoko are working over Holly’s back and spine area. Owen hits a suplex and pulls Holly’s arms back and jams his knee into his back. Holly starts to fight out of it and turns it around but Owen recovers and gets him back on the mat. Owen changes into a chin lock and tags in Yoko. Yoko comes in and throws a couple of strikes on a prone Holly and mocks him. He tags Owen back in for a minute to do some more damage. Yoko tags back in and puts in his nerve hold. Holly fights out of that and goes to the ropes but Yoko side steps him and throws him over the top rope. That was a good bump from Holly there. Yoko distracts the ref and Owen gets a hold of Holly and body slams him on the floor. We then get a couple of really awesome spots between Owen and Holly including a great near fall and hope spot from Holly on a small package. Owen gets a good near fall of an enzuguri. He tries for a superplex but Holly counters it into a cross body for another near fall. Both guys get in a nasty collision off the ropes and tag their partners. Kid is awesome on the hot tag here and Yoko can’t keep up with his quick feet. Kid gives Owen a spinning heel kick then knocks Yoko off his feet with another flying heel kick after some great staggering selling from Yoko. Kid then hits a somersault plancha on Owen and a cameraman on the floor which ruled. He then went to the top for a cross body on Yoko but that ended up being a big mistake and Yoko caught him and fucking crushed him with a belly-to-belly slam for the win. This match was really, really good. The in peril segment was very good from Holly. The finishing run was fantastic. As far as Yoko goes he wasn’t in nearly as much as Owen but he definitely played his role very well and was excellent in the last few minutes.

Yokozuna vs. Adam Bomb (Raw 7/25/94) I don’t want to get too excited about Yokozuna but this guy was pretty good. Here, he gets a really fun match out of Adam Bomb. Bryan Clark isn’t someone I go out of my way to watch matches. Yoko really made Clark look good on this occasion. Adam Bomb just turned face so Yoko was set to be the guy to make him look good and he succeeded. The match starts with the usual stare-off when it’s Yoko and another big guy. Yoko slaps the shit out of him and then chops the shit out of him. I love Yoko’s chops. He doesn’t do them a whole lot but when he does they’re real nasty. Clark retaliates though with some big clotheslines and a flying shoulder block that sends Yoko through the ropes and to the floor. We got to break and it comes back with Clark challenging Yoko to a test of strength. Yoko’s reaction to this is great and he talks with Fuji about it. Yoko goes up to Clark for the test of strength but chops the fuck out of him instead which ruled. Yoko then choked and chopped Clark really hard a few more times. He got Clark down on the mat and put in the nerve hold. The crowd really was for Clark here and he fought of the hold and went for a big move off the ropes but Yoko showed off his extraordinary timing with a clothesline to Clark. Yoko regained control with the nerve hold and Clark battled out of it again. Clark got Yoko staggering with some clotheslines then went for another one but Yoko bent down to avoid it. However, Clark caught him with a jumping DDT instead. He then went up top and hit Yoko with a flying clothesline that took him down again. Harvey Wippleman and Kwang showed up though and distracted Clark. Clark went out there and beat up Kwang and Wippleman but was counted out. The whole purpose of this match was for Yoko to make Bryan fucking Clark look good and he did. He bumped big for all of his offense and made people believe Clark could beat him.

Yokozuna vs. Diesel (WWF Coliseum Home Video 9/26/95) This match lasted about fifty seconds but ruled regardless. They did a brief stare off before exchanging blows and Diesel got the upper hand. He hit a couple of big clotheslines off the ropes but couldn’t take Yoko down. Yoko did his awesome teeter selling and Nash went back to the ropes and hit a flying clothesline that finally did Yoko down. He then went for the fucking jackknife but Yoko countered it with a back drop. Yoko then gave Nash his huge leg drop which looks great all the time. He dragged the prone Nash over to the corner and went for the Banzai drop but Nash moved and Yoko took a crazy bump on his ass. Nash pinned him to retain the WWF title. That was one of the better fifty second matches I’ve ever seen. It got in Yoko getting knocked down, Yoko taking advantage and teased title switch, then the crazy finish. That was a lot of fun. Yoko is the king of fat men in five minute matches or less.

Yokozuna vs. Koko B. Ware (Raw 1/11/93) This is the first Raw match ever. Koko is still very over at this point and he gets the crowd to clap along before things got underway. They go to a lock-up and Yoko just tosses him across the ring. Koko tries it again and meets the same fate. Koko ends up going to the air instead and it works for a minute as he gets Yoko to stumble from a dropkick but Yoko catches him off the ropes and drops him chest first on the top rope. Yoko then gives him an avalanche then a throat thrust. He hits the Banzai drop for the definitive finish. This was a fun little match. It’s nothing special but it shows how the minimum can work really well. Yoko is really great at working with the minimum amount of time and even energy in some respects although he was pretty agile at times. I liked this as a competitive squash that shows how Yoko can make a three minute match fun.