WingedEagle

Always fun to watch someone make their way through a year and see their thoughts. Love the recaps and looking forward to '92.

You take the silver. Will likely gets gold for seeing the tag title match and then checking out for thrones, but he may very well be docked serious points on the judges' cards if he stuck around for Baron/Nak.

Agree with this. Its one thing to separate things on some sort of objective basis (even while acknowledging its not flawless) -- region, age/period, or any other clear criteria. But when the overarching theme or organization is that vague it may take the discussion away from the matches and towards these other abstract concepts.

I just remembered I watched Lion last night, which feels like a lifetime ago. That was a really terrific movie. This show fucking sucks.

I hate you because you're smarter than me.

Honestly, running this nonsense past the top of the hour is just rude.

That's why they're the lucky ones.

I've seen far worse. This isn't good but something like Starcade 99 was worse by a mile. Okay how about WWE PPVs?

How does this rank with the all time bad PPVs? I never ordered any of the contenders back in the day, but this feels like a real bottom of the Network era.

*Except for New Day/Usos.

Since Corbin/Nak.

Correct. Looking forward to it! Yeah. A far cry from his debut with the Cena feud. Loved him then but we are along ways away from that.

And I *love* a well worked headlock. Owens' is not that.

I mean, when you get the opportunity, I know some other matches you couls watch... At this rate, with NWAonDemand down, i'm going to have to lose bets just to figure out what to watch. I'll have both of yours watched/written up by the end of this week barring disaster. I'm running casual and noteless tonight. (which means I'm not writing up this Bate/Dunne one either, though I will say that I love how into everything Dunne is. Surly teenager isn't necessarily a hard character, but the commitment is charming). Try the Stardom streaming service. Lots of content and it's broken up into matches. Cosign. Take DDT for a spin -- they have a women's group on their service as well so plenty to mix it up, although DDT is very hit or miss for me. The comedy stuff just doesn't do it for me but they've got some really great, young wrestlers as well. G1 is an obvious go-to. A few fun workers in Sendai Girls which is easily accessible in the archive.

Yes and yes. And yes.

An appropriate finish as that match did to each of us what Corbin just did to Nakamura.

This Corbin match is as boring as the opener was entertaining. I don't get his push at all. He's nothing in the ring and on the mic, along with a zero in look charisma. Just baffling.

I thought the tag title match started out a bit slow and bland, but from the Usos cleaning house on the floor it was pretty damn great. A few big near falls that the crowd absolutely bought into, but not so many that it became overdone. Some incredible timing on the cutoffs and big spots, and I appreciate that they even had Kofi MIA for a while after that powerbomb rather than returning quickly and rendering it meaningless. The finish felt a bit sudden after the last Woods save, but hardly a major flaw. Fun opener! ***1/2

WOW. That powerbomb on the floor! Slow start but business has indeed picked up.

Although I'm not sure how much I can take away from so many short matches where the goal may have very well been to carry non-workers to non-disasters. Not on her, but its certainly very limiting. Almost like a clip reel of highlights rather than game film.

You're just not going to get anything that compares to the best stuff of this era of Women's Wrestling. It just didn't happen. But that's all about opportunity. Ric Flair or El Hijo del Santo couldn't have a "great match" in 1:25 against Torrie Wilson. That's just not something that's feasible. So Trish's case isn't going to be about "look at these hidden gem MOTYC's that we found! Holy Crap!" Her case is more like Buddy Rose's than Mitsuharu Misawa's. You gotta watch everything. However, I have no doubt if she came back on RAW tomorrow and was getting thrown into 15 minute matches with Sasha or Becky or Charlotte, that Trish would be more than capable of holding up her end. Oh I don't doubt it. She definitely requires a different eye and was simply never put out there to have great matches. No doubt she'd hang in the current environment.

You may very well be out of touch! But there is very much zero interest in this show. I'm hoping that along with my super low expectations lead to a pleasantly surprising evening. Not holding my breath.