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If you work things on a 10 star scale, I've found his ratings make more sense.

Here's the CM Punk match

Joey Ryan uploaded a clip of Rhodes superplexing him off the top of the cage. My gasp wasn't at the spot, but rather at how empty the arena looked:

(Terribly) cosplaying Brick from The Middle?

This would be the finale to their AJPW feud and, even if that wasn’t in their minds in delivering it, they most certainly wove it into their battle here. Both being tied in number of victories within singles encounters up until this point, the match would abandon their slow and methodical pace that became synonymous with their previous encounters. The very fact that their previous Carnival Cup encounters had ended in time limit draws also drove home their need to adapt a new, more hastened approach in finally beating their opponent. The end result, thus, feels even more iconic in that this would also be the first time Misawa could ever hit his Emerald Flowsion upon Kawada. This wasn’t a blow-away match by any means, and nowhere near their greatest, yet it still hails itself as a good match, nonetheless. Kawada’s selling of punches/elbows is as awesome as ever.

Victim blaming aside, I'm pretty sure these are all older photos. From what I gather, celebrity nudes are traded/sold until they hold little/no profit before they're leaked.

Out of interest, what is the difference in available merch at specific PPVs/cities compared to live events? This "well, they only sell Cena merch!" argument struck me as an odd one to hold if they're focusing on live events where the vast majority of attendees are Cena fans. It'd be rather stupid to diversify merchandise for the odd fan, especially seeing courier delivery/online shopping is an actual thing (and something I'd see more used by "smarter" fans). If they're still running 99% Roman Reigns in Chicago or at Wrestlemania then I concede, otherwise jury is still out on the validity of this claim.

Sgt Slaughter won via pinfall against Ultimate Warrior albeit after Randy Savage interfered (Royal Rumble 1991). Hogan pinned Warrior at Halloween Havoc 1998 - obviously amidst many "swerves". They were all countouts, iirc.

Has this match completely slipped under the radar? I don't ever see anyone giving it much love, when they talk about UWFi but it's certainly up there in terms of pure exhibition greatness. The opening few minutes were art. Usually the initial feeling out process in matches is a paint-by-numbers, rote-affair but these two produced some of the finest matwork I've ever seen. The speed at which they transitioned between holds was mind-boggling. I agree that this never really created a narrative arc in its build, but the way in which they presented each other as equals added a foil of danger to their moves. Each hold was fought for or scrambled out of as if the ending could happen at any moment (it did!). An Ankle Lock being responded with an immediately swift kick to the knee was a brilliant counter and a welcome break from the typical overdramatic "will he tap?" segment one's used to when watching Kurt Angle. Phenomenal match!

Isn't Jinder simply the answer to catering to the Indian market? They've endlessly thrown things at the wall hoping to stick a new Rey Mysterio, perhaps they're trying for a new Khali, now? http://www.exchange4media.com/tv/wwe-appoints-sheetesh-srivastava-as-vp-and-gm-in-india_68462.html

Traversed back in time after seeing a 65 year old Satanico take it to Blue Panther; guy is just ageless. Brilliant build of hatred between these two, with Chicana getting into Satanico's head from the opening handshake and slowly driving the devil mad. Meat of the brawl comes in the third fall, when it looks like they just binned the script and starting duking each other for real. Satanico's got a great quick jab but holy hell does Chicana potato the stroppy bastard with some of the best hooks I've ever seen in wrestling. That's just one moment in an entire fall of spots that I feel like making a gif of the next time someone says that wrestling needs blood to feel real. Nothing is more real than Satanico stomping Chicana's head into the hard floor after a vicious takedown. Nothing. Bless these two, because that third fall was the tits.

I haven't seen this in almost two years but I recall I'm less a fan than most. Tremendous start, and a real good way of shifting the tecnico/rudo dynamic but, boy, does Shiro fall off. I quickly went from enjoying Koshinaka's violent start, and the majority of the first fall, to sticking out the rest of the video in the hopes Satanico would just maul the ever-loving shit out of him as a penance for making me sit through this. The latter happened in parts, but nowhere near enough. I'd make an off-hand comment that Shiro being posted, and walking around like nothing happened, only to fall over, exhausted, after DELIVERING a piledriver is the most Ibushi thing I've ever seen but, at least, Ibushi got better.

Mauro made a tweet about returning to calling "pro wrestling" soon, and a weird tweet about karma and being in Japan. Mauro to call NJPW ?

Is it really a bad thing if something terrible has been known for years but its only being picked up on/cared about now? Differences in viewers' mindsets or the topic being "out of sight, out of mind" could be factors as to why its only gaining steam now. Your post seems to indicate that you believe people are feigning sympathy to a cause solely as a means of looking cool and not because they're genuinely disgusted by it. I'm largely pessimistic about the outcome of these "revelations" but I don't think that's all too fair a summation. Fans do care and, at the least, people's stories are finally being told. Even if this doesn't lead to an internal change within WWE, it's letting people feel the support and compassion of others after scenarios that deeply hurt them. Something that is deeply incongruent to what those who are bullied feel. Better late than never, but never late is better.

You'd think there would be easier ways of viewing nipples than hoping for a wardrobe malfunction in a wrestling match. Guy sounds like a repressed teenager still living with his parents hoping to get a moment to jerk off because they've set parental controls on "better" channels. Though, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by anything Russo does/says.

According to Justin Roberts' book "HHH had a thing about trying to pull down Justin's pants."

Only twice to my knowledge: **Broke his leg in a motorbike accident while in TNA (vacating the tag title) **Hardy was let go/left WWE in 2009 to rest up and recover from a neck injury and herniated discs Does Wellness apply to part-time wrestlers? I thought that it didn't?

I think that would've been bigger news considering Punk outsold Cena when Cena was still by far the n°1 merch seller in the company. Like, if AJ is drawing to that level I feel it would've had more impact, no? Then again he got a Mcmahon match and is moving to RAW so that kinda makes sense... Howard's conjecture is based solely on Google Shopping Trends (search interest?). I'm honestly not sure how applicable that data is. http://www.fightful.com/google-shopping-rankings-wwe-talents-2016-incomplete

Tye getting a "promotion" to the main leagues after finally winning would be a good moment for his fans, but the backstory is there and they could build off that in him finally securing a victory in a much deeper pond that's more out of his league.

That finish was an absolute kick to the dick of an otherwise exceptional match. Pity.

Straight madness. You should know with a La Parka match that you're not going to get a genuine ending, so the focus should be on how well the wrestlers build to the fuckery. Said fuckery is also always entertaining, as Parka punching referees in the face never gets old. Miss the days when he'd bottle a bastard then simply chuck the beer cooler haphazardly into the back of an unsuspecting referee's head. Parka + Monterrey = excellent wrestling viewing. I'd have to go back and watch the Wagner/Parka TXT brawl, because I'd like to call that a smarter/tighter worked affair than this, but that's not to dampen the quality here cos what Rush/Parka did is simply disgusting brutality. Moreover, they built a damn nice narrative with Rush going from the confident shitbag that he always is to having to try moves out of desperation to win. RUSH. DESPERATION. This wasn't as shocking as their Arena Mexico brawl, for the sheer fact that that was so out of left-field, but the work within was definitely better. Rush/Parka was my MotY of 2016, and it's going to be my MotY for 2017. Can't wait for their caballera/mascara match in 2046.

Isn't that from his string of Youtube videos he did a few years ago pretending to be "lost" in a cave?

Either I misheard or this seems par for the course to others, but Josh Matthews pretty much called Tough Enough (not only a bigger stepping stone but) a bigger show than TNA and I've not seen that marked down anywhere else. During the entrances to the X-Div match, Josh relates a story about how he was signed to TNA many years ago, was booked to be the next X-Division champion only that he LEFT HIS CONTRACT TO BE A BIG STAR ON TOUGH ENOUGH. Because literally Tough Enough is "watched by millions of people and TNA isn't". I... what?

Could we basically sum this up as another TNA-level flub? For years fans have longed for a product without Dixie. Now that we have that, and a wrestling product that was catching on as watchable entertainment for a POSITIVE reason, TNA's pulled the plug and alienated itself by going back to everything people loathed in the first place.

I believe that mach is TAJIRI vs. Shinya Ishikawa- Dradition 29/05/2013