Badlittlekitten

Baba is awesome. He's more likeable and charismatic than the later AJ headliners. He contributed a great deal to his (many) great matches. Yeah, he don't have the best execution but that's not something that bothers me especially when it's timed so masterfully. Plus seeing his guys take huge bumps for his chops is part of the fun. Also, top 10 commentator.

Umm, not getting on with a style and overlooking it is fine with me. I've no time for recentish indie and puro and don't feel at all guilty. But jazz? Jazz is the most diverse genre of music there is. The screeching blitzkrieg of Brotzmann's 'Machine Gun' shares practically no common ground with say, Ella Fitzgerald. Jazz covers a spectrum that can't be dismissed like a wrestling style. It does. In fact you pretty much described the four pillows* of All Japan for me. *because they put me to sleep.

Very good raw this week. Stephanie can be overbearing but the fact is I would have skipped straight past that segment if I didn't catch her with a mic. Glad I stuck around, the NXT women making their mark was a cool moment. Orton was hilarious again with his jerky goofiness. Quite enjoying him in this stripped back role. Ambrose has no direction but it's semi promising he's not jobbing. The U.S. title stuff was epic. Rusev is a phenomenal performer at this point. He has the range, the dimension, the credibility. He's a guy you could plug into various roles, we saw him play a good babyface last night. His perfomance leapt out, especially in contrast to Cesaro. Cesaro is Jack Swagger with some added awe inspiring spots. And that's cool and often exciting, but he's not a guy they should be pushing towards the top.

Kevin Sullivan, Portia Perez and (Scottish ICW star) Red Lightning are three of my favourite wrestlers of all time, but it's all character and promo work. I'd love to highlight them on my list. But they don't have the matches. I'm really struggling with what to do with people like that.

Is the Lana/Ziggler thing over with the live crowds? Don't watch their segments so I'm genuinely interested. I find WWEs refusal to commit to anybody as frustrating as anyone. But Cesaro? His pre match promo made Ziggler sound like Dusty Rhodes. Titus verbally slapping JBL into silence was the best bit I caught of the show. Especially sweet after Layfeild's bullying of him a few years back.

Love me some grouchy Dylan Another enjoyable reaction podcast for a show I'm never gonna watch. I might actually have to track down the Makabe match to see what the fuss is about. Pete's reaction to it was Parv-fuming-over-Backlund levels of hilarious.

Words learned from today's browse of PWO, pt 42: ☑Doxa ☑Nomenclature

Nice to here my two boys relaxing and chatting shit. I don't enjoy Flair in this environment as much as I should but he sounds happy and has a real pleasant voice. Did make me laugh how relatively well he's holding up after all these years. Keith Richards of wrestling. I somehow had no idea about the Steamboat injury situation from a few years back. Holy moley.

Always loved the gimmick. Elvis impersonator in a wrestling context who can't play for shit. It's quite a riot. Haven't really watched his matches since I was a kid. Wasn't somebody (Matt D?) planning to re-evaluate him?

A couple of years back there was a spreadsheet list going about of the best puro matches of the 00s with vid links and shit. Where can I find it now?

Had a good to great run in 2012 and was the best thing about that oddly watchable period of TNA. Most of his work before that left me cold. He was bland and overrated for years. Not a shot.

I've said it before but Brock would make my list from his comeback work alone. There's simply nobody in wrestling history like him.

Grimmas, shut up.

. . . ah-haa!

If this is the barrel chested guy that appears in all them big 80s New Japan matches then yeah, love him. What's cool is that he looks credible when he has to step in yet he's small enough and great-enough-a-bumper enough to never look like the toughest guy in the ring.

Arn Anderson was the bollocks the day he was born.

I might do away with the Meltzer quarter stars and use a simpler RYM style system. Something like 5 - GOAT 4.5 - Proper love 4 - Awesome! 3.5 - Very good 3 - Pretty decent 2.5 - Not so hot 2 - Lousy 1.5 - Tripe 1 - Dogshit 0.5 - Dead babies Actually I only rate from 3.5 up. Where all the good stuff starts.

Seth Rollins run as the honky tonk champion has turned me and others I know off the product. While he no longer Daffy Ducks his way through promos they're still overlong and boring. I can see the HHH comparisons although at least Trips looked the business. To be fair I'd put him in the b and c categories. Nobody's going to convince me his heel turn wasn't - at best - a monumentally stupid decision. He's dull as fuck as an in ring heel. He needs a Jeff Hardy style repackaging quick time.

Queen still suck though.

Definitely. I'm generally someone that would take Diana Ross over Bob Dylan. All the best people I follow on Rateyourmusic turn out to be gay or transgender.

Spot on. That's the whole fucking point in art.

Love this guy. Agree his Tiger Masks best opponent, love watching him ground him and twist him into the mat. Cool as fuck too, especially in his red trackies. He looks like the anti hero in some old war comic and he probably smells of whiskey.

Blehschmidt, that signature is amazing.

Yuck. Queen suck. And that's a fact.

For a brief moment following the conclusion of Cena/Owens it felt like the crowd was about to stand and finally deliver an adult male led 'Cena, Cena, Cena!' chant. I was all set to get something in my eye, for the second time that night. But it was not to be. Not this time. You just keep me hangin' on.