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The crowd singing the WOAH OH OH of Paige's song was nice. Also if Asuka jobs to Carmella in any possible way I'm quitting.

Is it not weird that Drew bangs on about the complacent dorks in the locker room when he's standing next to the most complacent dork of all? Or is that the 'hypocritical heel' part of it.

Pretty much this. Plus I find when the agent issue is pushed heavily it's usually as a way to criticise women wrestlers disproportionately. Except you Matt, you're a different egg and I get you.

Do you watch sprint cars at all? My dad used to race.

I think it makes this objectively the worst thread on the board.

How do you feel about late era Dexter?

I think in general it's much easier to look at TNA with fresh eyes now and concentrate on picking out the good stuff, and it probably comes off as not as bad as its reputation. But I know from my memory of the time, TNA was almost always such a hard show to sit through, and the good stuff didn't stick out nearly as much as the bad stuff or the general idea of them squandering their chance to be a strong #2 promotion all those years. They were just...frustrating. Now when we're just looking back at what it was, not what it could have been, you don't feel that as much. You can just look for good matches and be pleasantly surprised.

Y'all are forgetting about Heel Cole real quick. #1 and the worst. Also Striker was garbage after the first year.

I've been making my way through these and they're a lot of fun. Good work guys. The Batista/Khali Punjabi Prison is basically the same, but the pace is x5 slower because Khali, which makes it super tedious. They book it in terms of the doors and etc. pretty much the same way (because as you pointed out, it's the only way to book it that would make sense). If you're taking requests, I want the TNA Lockbox Challenge.

I partly blame the angle for the backlash against Nia. I know Alexa Bliss is hilarious and everything, but those segments were like...too good. She got cheered for them, instead of creating any sympathy for Nia. And turned the idea of bullying itself into a jokey punchline for the heel, instead of a real thing like it was pre-Mania. Like, Alexa was saying "you're a bully!" to her during the match. So you turn the idea into a joke like that, and afterwards try to give her this heartfelt moment...the tone was all wrong. If they really wanted to do it, tonally that promo would have fit better after Mania. Here it didn't fit at all because Alexa used the word to get over as a hilarious heel in the build. Regardless of Nia's delivery. Also for the fact that the match itself did NOT sell the idea of Nia getting righteous babyface revenge against a bully at all. She got beat up for a lot of it and seemed to escape with one big move, rather than teach Alexa a lesson. It was just all wrong.

Yeah there's a lame duck period between the announcement (September? October?) and the 1/4/10 show where they just redid classic matches like AJ-Joe-Daniels and AJ-Daniels as PPV main events and just got all the workrate out before Hogan came and it was at least some good wrestling.

If they do Roman/Brock again in New York I can probably get my nap during Roman's match over as a meme.

Joe is gonna job like a dork at the end of all this.

Oh my God EL-P where have your French dudes gone??

Oh my fucking God hahahahahahaha.

Is Corey Graves standing up and moving between the Raw and SD desks between matches?

This is an example you point to when people say "But they're not really pushing Roman, look at his win-loss record!"

This is Matt D for "What the fuck kind of bullshit is this???"

I do like that her strategy has been "If I just give her post-concussion syndrome she'll get Bryan'd and I win the long game." Nothing but head shots.

I get that Charlotte is trying to sell "I just got kicked in the head and I'm concussed" but it's coming off like she's mildly annoyed in there.

The visual of Charlotte casually waiting with her hand on the post for Carmella to run away was money.

Holy Shit Bryan had to GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO GRAB CASS' ARM REPEATEDLY BEFORE HE REMEMBERED THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BLOCK THE YES LOCK. What a fucking dork.

It was 100% in the bank that the Cena/Nikki on screen break up would be on some Callie/Arizona ish. Frankly stealing storylines from Grey's Anatomy is just good booking.

Randy Orton doing clean midcard jobs to total indifference is the kind of content I am here for.

Welcome to 2018 Jeff. Did Corey just say Orton was deep throating Jeff Hardy?