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Agree with the above. Really strong PPV. the 6:05 time limit puts a nice twist on those matches, giving a reason to be so quick and short. Loved loved loved Thunder Rosa vs. Allysin Kay. what a match, that was so good. I picked Starks winning the TV title but didn't get much else right, still wanted Tim Storm, especially after he got a bye to round 2. Nice ending to the Rock n Roll's brief reign.

I forgot til you mentioned it about the 6:05 time limit so I imagine that will definitely come in to play for at least one match. I'm gonna guess Murdoch/Question Mark go to a draw, allowing Zicky to sneak in to the final, where he loses to Starks. But man I really wanna see Tim Storm come out on top and I really don't wanna see him go out in the first round but I'm kind of expecting that, coming off Anderson's heel turn. but Tim had so much momentum from the Aldis beat down and the incredible Dusty promo that I would hate to see that lead to nothing for him.

Final card for tonights NWA Hard Times PPV: NWA TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Tim Storm vs. Ken Anderson Ricky Starks vs. Matt Cross Zicky Dice vs. Dan Maff Trevor Murdoch vs. The Question Mark NWA WOMENS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Allysin Kay(c) vs. Thunder Rosa NWA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS MATCH The Rock N Roll Express(c) vs. The Wild Cards vs. Eli Drake & James Storm NWA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Aron Stevens(c) vs. Scott Steiner Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon

This is so true. I strongly recommend her recent WOW Women of Wrestling run as her matches throughout season 2 are an absolute master class, especially in selling, bumping, and facial expressions. Particularly matches against Serpentine (Thunder Rosa), Reyna Reyes (Gisele Shaw), Jungle Grrl, and the Beast were excellent and Tessa comes off like the world's best touring world champ throughout.

Just to clarify, only one of the three Aries/Pac matches was on the preshow. That being WrestleMania which I thought was pretty memorable for the setting and the time they got being on first. The next two were both on the main PPV card of Payback and Extreme Rules. My favorite series in WWE that year.

For whatever it's worth on the Brian Cage front, his wife Melissa Santos denied his signing and said he's still a free agent. While Tommy Dreamer said he didn't believe that Cage had signed but the torn bicep could have him out for 6 months. A shame he missed a lot of time in Impact due to injury, especially while champion, but he managed to have some great matches there in the past year when he was active.

Eddie/Elgin was great again, as good or better as their match last week on Impact. Moose/Rhino was a real fun hardcore brawl. Tag titles match suffered the loss of Swann but still really entertaining for a handicap bout. Main event lived up to expectations and put on an epic. Sucks we don't get to see RVD vs Cage.

Agreed, I'm changing the channel every time, and their promos/backstage "skits" have been cringeworthy since first appearing on Raw.

Agreed. Reminded me of the audible pop when Sasha said I love you to bayley last year and people thought it might go another route. Do feel bad for Sonya. According to what they showed on Total Divas, her and Mandy were supposed to have their angle at WrestleMania but got pulled. Then it was around June when they were really teasing it and it went nowhere as usual.

Sounds like an interesting one lol! Cagematch does not seem to have results.

that's how I would do Last Man Standing on Fire Pro R. "SWA Rules" I dig it.

the setup for Elite v. Inner Circle in the Match Beyond was so perfect. With Cody even throwing the mention out in his classic promo before Full Gear. I really hope they find their way back to that.

LMAO. I stopped watching NXT after the first 2 USA episodes, but the references has been what I missed the most, although I had heard in the weeks that followed he was way toned down. Judging from this thread, it sounds like Mauro really returned to form tonight!

Master class in selling from the Viper. Better than the whole of TLC IMO, great match.

This stood out as especially awful. Like where was New Day, who were feuding with the Revival and who Roman JUST saved on SD last week or Shorty G and Ali, etc... but then apparently he does have friends for the closing fight? speaking of New Day/Revival, felt the overly choreographed ladder spots were in overkill throughout that. That spot with the superplex where Big E didn't land on the ladder, Dawson did but just gets up and puts Big E back because they *had* to break the ladder at that moment.. ridiculous.