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Agreed on both accounts. Of the Shane matches, this felt like the one he could've come away with the win considering he was avenging Vince and all.

Agreed. Asuka/Emma is one of my all time favorite NXT matches and maybe my favorite Asuka in NXT match. Well-built feud with those mentioned spots adding amazing drama when Asuka's streak was still early and Emma was at her heel best so it was totally believable that the Emma/Dana duo could have pulled off cheating to win.

This is absolutely not true and is almost completely opposite. Alexa lost clean to Nia on Raw just last week. She lost the title clean to Sasha at SummerSlam after losing by countout to her at Great Balls and in between those lost clean to Bayley on Raw to originally set up SummerSlam. Yes she won the title back and retained it here (which I think is clearly to set up her eventual destruction by Asuka), but her losses are a lot more than her wins. Even her last month on Smackdown, she lost to Mickie and put over Naomi three straight times. She's gotta have some credibility so she has to win the big matches sometimes, even if it's rare.

Maven, I marked for him all the way and loved any time he got near the main event scene, and Alex Riley who I wished would have been the breakout star of 2011.

It is a matter of Jeff Hardy being a fucking terrible pro-wrestler. I have yet to see a single match where I can say he was *good*. I loved his last WWE run 2006-2009. Don't know if you'd like any of it but thought he had some great matches with Johnny Nitro in 06, Umaga in 07, Triple H in 08, and Punk in 09 among others.

Amen to all this. Sums up my favorite period in TNA history, 2011-2012, and agreed that shortly after Lockdown 2013 was when things took a downturn

I'm in the minority but I thought last year was Ziggler's best. The promos building up to SummerSlam were his career best (Ambrose's too IMO) and the Miz feud was consistently delivering good-great matches.

They were planning on showing footage of Lashley and Moose from TripleMania on the episode, so they probably figured they'd cover the Rosemary part too since it got the most attention. But no Sexy Star hasn't worked GFW.

Maybe we'll get HHH/Angle since it was a rumor at one point for Summerslam. If they are gonna have Angle do anything in the ring, I feel like it would be against HHH.

That actually got "This Match Sucks" and boring chants. Thought it was one of the worst reactions to the division yet.

Khali fan here as well, reading that post about the coverage when he won the title is awesome. Wish he stuck around after returning last month, at least as a special attraction. Aside from the great Cena matches, thought his title run and feud with Batista was a lot of fun, really dug the match vs HHH at Summerslam the following year too.

It was going to be live this coming Thursday, surprised they didn't just have Ki go over him for it.

Greg the Hammer Valentine using Roxette's "The Look" though, was greatness!

That bizarrely led to a double turn at the end of 2015 with Paige re-turning face. Before she left as mentioned she was sorta back feuding with Charlotte. She beat her on Raw twice then lost the title match. Her last match was teaming with Sasha against Charlotte & Dana in June 2016

I was hoping for HHH/Angle, but it seems too late now for them to try to rush HHH back for SummerSlam. Starting to wonder if they're going to put Kurt back in the ring after all. Maybe for Mania.

I'm one of the very few fans of Mike here, loved their TNA run and thought he had plenty of good matches against different guys.. Moose, EC3, Edwards, etc. But I definitely agree it feels like WWE is already giving up on them being anything special here. Losing on the PPV *and* taking the fall 2 days later teaming with Aiden English... like damn.

Agreed 100%. Afraid it's going to go back to nothingness now. Aries added a lot to that division. He and Neville had some amazing matches, great overall feud. He won the second match by DQ but yeah. I always thought he was very good as a babyface, huge fan of his 2012 TNA run and as mentioned always over. But agreed that the run was far too brief to give it a real chance, a shame as there was a lot of great potential matchups.

I love both Hardyz runs from 06-09. Jeff from WWE return to WWE exit was on fire, so many good matches with a wide variety. And Matt really picked up as one of the best TV match workers around at that same time.

Damn. Now she really does work like Iron Mike Sharpe. That was stupid. Both nights were. Turns out they're going with Lana says her shoulder was up, so there will be a third match on next SDL.

They ran live events mostly in minor league baseball stadiums throughout the summer of 2015 and ran three sets of TV Tapings in Las Vegas where they crowned World/Womens/Nex*Gen/Tag champions, but they never got a TV deal so it never aired. Then they mostly did co-promoted shows with various promotions in 2016.

They already did an invasion type angle in 2015 when Jarrett returned the last time and briefly took over Impact. It ended in Lethal Lockdown for control of the company with Dixie's Team TNA vs. Jarrett's Team GFW.

I wouldn't say he's that bad. He had some really good matches last year against a solid variety of opponents. I hope they get a decent push here like they did there.

Exactly. Adam Rose, sure. Bayley, no way. How do you screw up the best babyface you've had in years? By WWE being WWE, that's how What have they really done with Bayley that's so bad though? She came in, won the title in about 6 months, ended Charlotte's PPV streak and beat her numerous times, retained the title at WrestleMania, and held it for a few months (longer than Sasha ever had it and all of Charlotte's reigns but her first). She has been in the title picture ever since being called up and has wins over everyone she faced except for Alexa yet.

I agreed with JBL on that point. Some things that get so over in NXT just aren't going to work on the main roster or connect with a much larger audience. Most NXT acts probably will work fine but there will surely be a few like that which end up being flops.

From the list above, I love the Edge/Orton matches the most (Vengeance 04 and April 07). I'd also throw a mention to a couple of his matches with Angle in 2002.