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Roode's matches with Nakamura were excellent and my favorite of Nakamura's WWE matches. Itami's match with Roderick Strong last year was incredible, his best here.

Agreed 100%. No reason to believe Becky's suddenly this big threat to Ronda who has been unbeatable to this point. Real momentum killer IMO. Going back to Asuka, she got a pretty massive pop when Becky was choosing who to replace her at Survivor Series and she passed by her. There were reports that even Vince was impressed by that and it may have played into Asuka getting added to the TLC match. In spite of whatever booking, she's remained super over and I'm glad she's been built back up to the top spot. Definitely looking forward to Asuka/Charlotte II one year later if they go that route. Also since it was mentioned earlier - HHH was the first to target Brock's diverticulitis and work the stomach at Summerslam 2012.

Glad to know it's not just me driven away by the gargano/ciampa crap. As such, I don't watch NXT anymore but Bianca has always been awesome, hope she shines.

I also remember it seeming like in his later days WCW US title push, that it was treated like a feel good this hard worker guy deserves this push kind of thing but I haven't rewatched any of that since so it sounds like it certainly doesn't hold up well.

I would think Batista's film schedule would keep him out of WM, possibly same for Cena. But I'm interested to see who HHH ends up working either way.

I use Cagematch if you mean for results, if you were looking for the actual match - it's the Nov 2000 Nitro Sting/Steiner vs Kronik match

I admit I didn't see much of his ROH run, but he always came off top notch in Impact for the year he spent there.

2016 babyface Ziggler was my favorite incarnation with the Ambrose summerSlam feud and the Miz feud.

Mike Bennett had some really good matches/feuds with EC3 and Moose in Impact, I don't think he's bad at all... very solid in the ring and on the mic. Great act with Maria and fun character stuff like the Laurel/Braxton wedding.

I've never thought negatively of the JR/Barnett duo in NJPW, not his best sure but haven't thought of JR to be terrible there.

Announced for Raw is Ronda/Sasha vs. Nia/Tamina and Rollins v. Ambrose v. Lashley for the IC title. Tomorrow is also Shane McMahon's 49th birthday so Miz is promising the best birthday bash in the world.

I thought this past week's Kross/Johnny no DQ match was good stuff with Kross looking great as the monster that can't be kept down. Agreed on the above mentioned Moose/Eddie match.

Probably my favorite Shimmer match ever was between them, nobody did as good but Kay also had a really good series with Nicole Matthews there as well.

I would've loved to have seen Drew in his 2010 incarnation ascend to being WWE or World Champ, he was so perfect as the cocky prick IC Champ back then and it seemed like such a natural rise up the card until it was abandoned. His Impact run was really good, showed he could also be a surprisingly effective babyface.

2002-2005 was my favorite era of PPV themes. I don't always pay attention to NXT but I've loved when they've used Halestorm and the like.

Agreed 100%. Exposed horribly this past Monday and I think they might finally lose faith in him after that, knowing how much WWE favors promos as a strong point for top guys. They've already Brock beat him twice, first in under ten minutes in 2017 then in under 5 minutes a few months ago... so not much interest in what else they will do at the Rumble but I'm beyond ready for Brock to move on to anyone else, Seth or whoever.

Co-signed on the Eagles love. The best in the world IMO during her Shimmer title run 2010-2011 before the knee injury took her out of 2012, also felt was Shimmer's greatest run.

It went out for like 15-20 mins, came back and they resumed.

Great review, Thread Killer. I agree with most points though I did like Johnny/Cage a good bit before the finish (and I actually like Moose a lot). While Tessa/Taya was good, the first match from Bound for Glory, which was their straight up wrestling match without any outside gimmicks, was pretty great.

I would love an all out ECW tribute style match filled with run-ins and cameos like Raven's. Could also be looked at as an Asylum tribute as they've been using a bunch of 02-04 clips in video packages leading up and back then, there was no telling who was gonna show up next.

Homecoming this Sunday looks like another really solid card from Impact Final lineup:

Decent, just four basic tag matches with the first three being 6 minutes or less and the main going 10 but nothing really standout. Ronda/Natalya vs Nia/Tamina vs Riott Squad (this was the most fun match of the show I thought) Balor/Elias vs. Lashley/McIntyre Becky/Charlotte vs. Sonya/Mandy Styles/Rollins vs. Bryan/Ambrose

Co-signed on Razor's gear, always great in all different colors. Similarly with Michaels. Ultimo's pink gear was always my favorite of his. Loved when Triple H switched up the colors in 2003, wearing red, purple, and blue. Very Flair like. Randy Orton did that as well around that time.

Agreed, the Thanksgiving tradition is always classic. Love to see more old vets included in Impact like Gilbertti, Dreamer, Raven, Steiner, etc. Last year's was also pretty hilarious with Josh Mathews & Borash cracking each other up on commentary.