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I always love Orton's 2011 run. He was on fire with tons of good to great matches with a wide variety of opponents. The Christian series, matches with Cody, Barrett, Sheamus, the Henry series, even had some fun TV matches with Khali and Kane.

I enjoy all the HOF shows so I'd recommend them all, but Lita's is one of my all time favorite speeches for sure, loved that one. Agreed on Maria Menounos and Candice, huge fan of both. The Candice/Beth matches were awesome at the time. And I love the Beth/Gail story there.

I thought it was very enjoyable. Loved DDP, Cornette, Beth's speeches. Teddy was great. Only wish Angle went a little longer but it felt like they were a bit crunched for time by that point.

Agreed as well. I thought Storm was one of the very best promos in wrestling during that 2011/2012 period. Awesome babyface and he was on fire at that time along with some great matches. Still capable of great stuff on occasion, really dug his match with Lashley last year. Would've been interested in a WWE run for sure.

I remember really liking the blood feud match when Beer Money broke up. James Storm Vs. Bobby Roode. That was a good match too. I don't remember the date but I remember it involved a beer bottle being broken over Storm's head & I think Roode won even though I think everyone wanted Storm to win. Loved that feud. Roode broke the bottle over Storm's head to turn heel and win the title in what was initially a face vs face match which kicked off the feud (Nov 2011), then they had the cage match at Lockdown 2012 where most everyone expected Storm to win (build up to this was awesome), but Roode won by Storm superkicking him out the door. Eventually having the blowoff in the bloody street fight at BFG 2012 where Storm finally won, breaking the bottle over Roode's head

Agreed with the above. And I like Roode more than Ohno. I find Ohno often times disappointing with the 90% elbows offense in some matches. Roode vs. Nakamura is my current match of the year and my fav WWE Nakamura match. Roode vs. Aries is my all time fav TNA match. That whole TNA title run was full of good-great stuff. Roode vs. Tye Dillinger is the only Dillinger match I've enjoyed. So I do expect greatness out of Roode matches more than most.

Rewatching that it seems even more awful. I've never gotten the hype about Bayley. Always thought she was average at best in the ring and not on the same level as Charlotte, Becky, or Sasha.

Agreed 100%. Fantastic and I loved the crowd being so into it.

He did get a little "In Memory Of" graphic on Raw.

with Hall of Famer Teddy Long coming out to "have ourselves... a tag Team match!!" would be perfect.

Depressing to see Ziggler go from the awesome Miz feud with great exciting matches to the way he was booked here.

Glorious! Didn't expect a title change but Roode is probably my favorite guy in NXT so very cool.

Agreed. Loved all of this and I enjoy Sexy Star, always thought the hate for her was a bit overblown.

I loved Batista's original 05-09 top babyface run alongside Cena. Always super over. Never seemed like Batista got the same kind of backlash that Cena got, in those years.

Ambrose and Kevin Owens are two that did nothing for me on the indys, but once they came to WWE I turned the corner on both fairly quick. I thought Ziggler sucked for a few years before turning face in 2014 and having a good to great last couple years.

Yep, Kurt says it's a no brainer and wants Austin to induct him

I hope so! But last week on Talking Smack, Renee kinda teased him about maybe entering the Rumble but he was all "no I'm good"

Agreed. I miss the early 2000s way of some guys having themes from somewhat mainstream bands. Had some killer PPV themes then too.

Love the venue, thought this had a very old school feel to it and I liked it more than the beginning of the CWC.

The latest Observers are saying Taker is not challenging for the title, so if it's Taker/Reigns I guess Reigns wouldn't be champion.

I thought Lemmy would go in last year. If they ever do induct deceased celebrities, I imagine HHH would push for that. Also could see Muhammad Ali being inducted to the celeb wing.

Agreed. Kills me every time the supposed monster Nia Jax constantly jobs to bayley.

I could've seen it being a much shorter version of Shane/Angle as far as him getting ragdolled and tossed around. With Shane/Lesnar off the table, does anyone think Shane still wrestles at Mania? Not sure of any other opponent for him really and maybe the mid-air spear at Survivor Series was the end of his in-ring career.

Honestly I would've rather had Lesnar/Shane since we just had Lesnar/Goldberg and it would've been a crazy spectacle kind of match I'm sure.

Great set of reviews as usual!