Bierschwale
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[2013-12-27-WWE-Smackdown] John Cena vs Seth Rollins
Bierschwale replied to Loss's topic in December 2013
I'd only put the Ambrose street fight over this as Rollins's best 1v1 match in WWE. I like Shield Heel Rollins so much more than Singles Heel Rollins. Ambrose and Reigns could help tremendously for character stuff and keep it very organic, and Rollins's instincts to break out the big face offense worked because he was just one of the three hounds, not THE ARCHITECT. And by late December, they were so over that it didn't matter as a failure to "stay in character", anyway. Not that it's an all-time thing, but between this, the two Sandow matches (Sandow's cash-in from October and then the rematch in January), and the Cesaro match in February, Cena put together an outstanding string of midcard showcases. -
Pedro still does need to drop the IC title, though. He wasn't bad in that last run but he only had about two matches, so he's not really elevating the belt. I think that Savage-Tito is the money feud there. Hennig has stalled out hard. He was in desperate need for the bump up to cult so he could get a good tag partner to challenge Arn/Tully.
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For all the shit we give WWE about their stop-start pushes, I'm definitely ready for them to give up on Bray Wyatt and toss him in the Adam Rose/Fandango trash heap. He's too good of a worker for them to just drown in the river. He needs character motivation, something that they've ALWAYS failed to really give him.
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I completely hated SummerSlam 2014 at the time and on rewatch. That is just not a match that I'll ever understand people enjoying. It didn't feel like Vader in UWFi, it was just a 20-minute angle. I kind of like NoC, but it had a mix of somehow seeming molasses-slow and wildly rushed because of time, and it had a lame ending. I'm absolutely the minority on the Rumble triple threat, because my two primary takeaways were just hating Rollins as a heel worker even more, and killing my interest in Brock going forward unless he had a decisive, decisive loss, because they made him unkillable. Sure, the double back suplex to Mercury/Noble was cool and looked like it was done without any regard for their physical well-beings, but that's not going to save a World title match.
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This is great for wrestling, since it means more Brock Lesnar in WWE and that's always awesome. Of Brock's ten matches since his return, I'm going to say that I only genuinely enjoy two of them. ER 2012 and SummerSlam 2013.
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He beat Fandango in a two-minute match in July, apparently. Next before that was the 11-on-3, which is what I assumed that it had to be.
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Perro Aguayo Jr. (July 23, 1979-March 21, 2015)
Bierschwale replied to sek69's topic in Pro Wrestling
He looks punch drunk in a way even before that spot, like on the set up to Rey's rana that sent him out. I don't want to Zapruder this any further though, because it doesn't matter, and this is awful. CMLL in '04-'05 was my first sustained run of watching real lucha and it was great to watch a guy become a STAR like he did. -
I just love this match. Everything about it felt like the platonic ideal of a modern G1 match with neither playing it as a squeaky-clean face, and it even had a FIGHTING SPIRIT finish that was the best possible version of the Ibushi-Nakamura 2013 finish that you'll get on a WWE b-show.
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[2013-12-30-WWE-Raw] Daniel Bryan vs The Wyatt Family
Bierschwale replied to Loss's topic in December 2013
The first match (against Harper) was my favorite TV singles match of Bryan's in 2013, and definitely over the Cesaro match from July. Such an incredible, intense segment to end the year. Going from this to Rollins holding Edge hostage as the closing RAW segment for 2014 might be my personal example of the zenith-to-nadir over the last year. -
Let's not forget the Rhodes Bros. ambush on The Shield before the match. This is such a dumb match in theory that ended up feeling so IMPORTANT, it punched way, way above its weight in execution. Sixteen different guys on the roster came out better than they were going in.
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In terms of lower-level guys, what level of cachet do Gilbert and Santana have? Is Dino Bravo stuck in AWA limbo? Where the hell is Rick McGraw? Is a Soul Patrol split-and-feud worth trying? Not that any of that's gonna fill up Shea Stadium, I'm just curious as to how they're viewed by the game and if they can give you anything at all.
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He had a foot injury and was supposed to be back by the Rumble, and now he's in creative limbo.
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I think that Ambrose has surpassed Bryan as the conspiracy theorist's superstar-that-isn't. Like, they've fucked up with Bryan, but people know why. It's impossible to figure out why they've nerfed Ambrose. I saw multiple people say that the Rollins/Stewart segment went into the fight when it did because Stewart was about to call Ambrose the rightful MITB winner and they don't want fans to remember that.
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Makabe for a NEVER challenge seems totally pointless. It's not like that they'd need him winning to justify booking an Ishii-Makabe title match. I have to think that it'll be Ibushi for a 1/4 rematch.
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This was more just me wondering what his health is like. He's a guy who by some accounts has subsisted on coke, pills, roids, and roast beef since 1985. But for all I know he could have incredibly good genetics. Wikipedia says that Jess died at 72 and Vince Sr. at 69, but his mother is still alive at 94/95 and that his paternal grandmother died at 105/106. So who the hell knows?
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I beat the drum, man.
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Whereas I, if they do it with Cena costing him the belt as speculated above, will think it's a great piece of storytelling. And gives Axel an added push to this gimmick that's getting over, adds to the personal hatred in this Cena/ Rusev feud, and moves Rusev from the US title level to main event level without him cleanly losing the belt...for people who care about that shit. Not that I think that's gonna happen, but I can see it making sense. That would be a horrible piece of storytelling and would make zero sense, all while cheapening Rusev's year-long reign. I mean, holy crap. For the record, his actual title reign has been under five months. You can't really "cheapen" the no pins/subs streak. It just has to end at some point before it becomes a legit burden.
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It depends on how much value the Cena-Rusev feud adds to the US title. Rusev has to eat a pin EVENTUALLY; I don't think that you can really have that streak go until a World title match at SummerSlam. It being a fluke is as good as it can be, though I think that he then does need to beat Cena at WM, and does anyone buy that happening? Axel might as well be Gillberg in this equation. Is he going to get the US title and break Rusev's streak without being pinned/tapping and then have an incredibly nondescript reign like when he won the IC title in 2013? Is he going to have as close as it could get to an HTM reign in 2015 (which, with their terrible booking of secondary titles, really won't be meaningful)? The problem is that they consistently provide reason not to have any faith in their booking.
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Rollins needed Big Show, Kane, Mercury, and Noble to actually make him seem like a heel tonight.
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Dustin's last singles win on a WWF/E PPV available in the US was over the Blue Meanie as "Bluedust" at SVDM '99. It's just an interesting fact.
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Yeah, I highly enjoyed Orton, even if I don't like that as his return or Orton-Rollins as a WM match.
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Well, Rollins looked strong eating shit on that Fameasser, I guess.
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They protected Reigns from taking a fall into September until the 11-on-3.
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I really want a Harper/Rusev team now. Make Harper into the "Redneck Rasputin".
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Wasn't Russo on the writing staff by WM13? Did he try to argue against the finish to Austin-Bret?