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From what I've seen, he definitely cares and is trying. He just looks like he's trying to recreate 2004 but his body is clearly saying its 2015. It's surprising that after his debut that the crowd quickly started seeing him as just another guy.

People are sleeping on Devil Masami. She didn't have the long break that every other 80's joshi worker has so I'd say she rung up at least a 13-14 year run of being at least a pretty good worker. I hope anyone thinking of voting for Chigusa because of the Dump feud checkout the post-Dump stuff. The All-Pac title matches Leilani Kai and Tateno, the '86 GP final and '87 title win over Ohmori, and all the stuff with Lioness should definitely move her up people's ballots.

The '04 G1 final with Tenzan, 12/10/06 title match with Nakamura, '06/'07 stuff with Nagata, and the '08 All Japan Carny run were all pretty good if not great.

I'm not a big fan of either of them, but you have to put Balor and Bayley over. They're over enough with the fanbase that they both deserve a chance to have a run as champs. Both Owens and Banks are starting to get the college kids hanging around high school vibe so everybody would be better off to move on at this point. While it's not P.C. nowadays, the tag title match really needs the put manager/valet in cage gimmick. I don't think every tag team needs a woman with them, and the WWE needs to mix in some different gimmicks. Joe vs. Corbin is pretty important for both guys careers. Can Corbin make the next step? Can Joe make a star in NXT? What happens if the match falls flat?

Shouldn't Stardust and King Barrett be feuding with Adam West and Burt Ward?

Is there an easier rumor to start than Kevin Dunn told 'x' person to say 'y' thing about 'z' NXT person? I'm happy that they found something for Summer Rae to do? I thought she was really good at promos/back stage stuff in NXT. Btw, how did they explain Rusev going from being Russian to Bulgarian?

They've been booked as tweeners since the beginning of the angle. Faces vs B.A.D., heels vs whatever the other 3 are called this week. honestly a huge portion of the roster needs to be allowed to wear street clothes regularly. forcing everyone to wear their own merch makes everyone look lame and stifles individual personality so much. Well if your not getting a push because your merch isn't selling, then you might as well. I do get a kick out of Ryback wearing his own merch. I'd be disappointed if I order his shirt and it wasn't a overstretched musleshirt. That's false advertising.

Forget what's going to happen on the main roster, just imagine what that NXT crowd is going to be like when she beats Bayley for the Women's title.

Hmm, I don't think it really played of the last match. The number one thing that I loved about the June match was that it was a struggle for almost the whole match. You had to earn what you got. Here it seem like the typical give and take of a match, with Satomura having the advantage simply because she was the stronger more experienced wrestler. That sort of negated the growth that Hojo made during the last match. I guess you could say that Hojo made a strategic error of thinking that she could go straight at Meiko and paid the price, but that didn't really come through with her character. They ended up having the match that you would have expected last month. Maybe I'm overreacting since I think that Hojo's title run has been great and I didn't want it to end this way cause she could potential end up being something special. I don't want her to end up being a flash in the pan like Momoe Nakanishi because she is a more complete worker and has a more genuine connection with the crowd, (that was a big crowd for a recent joshi show.)

'99 was her peak. The tag with her and Sugar Sato beating Aja/Ozaki is right up there Aja vs. Meiko for the best match in GAEA that year. She also had a pretty good singles match with Aja on a Oz Academy show too. The last few years she's been really good at shooting herself in the foot when it comes to her performances. She'll being going along and you start thinking to yourself "Wow, Nagashima looks why was I down on her?" Then she'll do something incredibly stupid like a finisher/pop up sequence then you remember why. Definitely someone who should have been better but wasn't because she couldn't kick her bad habits.

Well, that was... good. I dunno, I'll try and watch it again tomorrow cause I'm tired and I need the booking of it to sink in. I wasn't expecting such a decisive finish. Thought last months match was way better.

Just so there's no confusion, this is there 9/17/84 match not the one listed earlier. It's also off of TV, not Classics, so there's about a 1/4 of the match clipped. I actually like this one the most out of their matchups. A great mix of the typical fast paced joshi work and some crazy brawling. These two just really click together, I'd say that Galactica was Jaguar's best opponent.

He's been there for, what now, 17 years. You would think that being in wrestling for that long you would have to be passionate about it but has anyone ever got that feeling from Michael Cole. Maybe he looks at his got the same way that someone who works in a cubicle and stares at a computer screen for 8 hrs. All he really has to is just say whatever his boss tells to say through his headset. If you compare his job to others in sports broadcasting, Cole probably has better job security and it's less cutthroat on his end. Maybe that's the reason hung on for so long.

You could do a sequel were you try figure out which of Vince beliefs cost or prevented him from making the most money. Interpromotinal stuff alone, especially Flair in '91 and Goldberg, would be a full show.

I don't think Meiko ever had a great match that I'd call a carry job. Out of the matches listed in this thread, all of them had her opponent had her own in it. The dynamic in joshi is certainly different in the last 15 years. Satomura isn't going to recreated ThunderQueen going up against Ice Ribbon's tween roster with her own roster that isn't much older. The closest that I've seen her be in that type of atmosphere are the matches in Stardom with Takahashi and Hojo but the credit for that should go to those two for getting the crowd to rally behind the "home" promotion. Meiko has really good presence in the ring but isn't really able to use it to work the crowd. On Hojo, she's only been great for the last few months, after she won the Stardom title. Her first title defense against Mayu Iwatani in May was the first great singles match of her career. I pair her up with Sasha Banks because they both have similar development curve over the same time. Neither looked special in their early days, then became good through hard work (although Hojo had help teaming with Takahashi a lot,) then seemingly became great overnight.

I wonder what Aries would say if someone replied to him saying the headbutt was real but also sloppy and unprofessional.

Or Aja, or Kansai, or Kyoko, or Kandori....

Add: vs. Misae Genki (GAEA 3/21/04) vs. Ayako Hamada (SENDAI 7/22/07) vs. Azumi Hyuga (SENDAI 12/20/09) vs. Io Shirai (Stardom 7/10/14) w/ Ayako Hamada vs. Kana & Ayumi Kurihara (KanaAyu 6/15/13) vs. Kairi Hojo (Stardom 6/14/15) That match happen after Kimura hooked up with Mariko Yoshida and was trying to move away from her deathmatch career. She pretty much ditched that style when she formed her LCO-lite heel group and started working like a Mima Shimoda knockoff.

There's multiple layers of stupid here. There's Bryan coming back from an injury too soon, if he even should have come back at all. Then, instead of booking their feud as a rivalry between two top faces, (i.e. Hogan vs. Warrior) they book it as a feud between two unlikable jerks. Finally, the fact that they invested so much time in pushing Reigns only to bail on him right after what should have been performance that put him over the top.

Whenever anyone in the WWE does an interview backstage, the person being interviewed never looks at the camera? He/she either looks at the interviewer or off to the side.

Really good match. Much better than the one with Charlotte in NXT a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully a sign of what Sasha can get out of the women on the main roster.

Weren't they a huge mess financially.

Watched the Divas matches from this week's TV. The Bellas vs. B.A.D. tag from Smackdown was the first good match that they've had since the NXT women got called up. Sasha got to be Sasha while Naomi had a had some fun offense. I liked her bulldog into the corner and the modified codebreaker where she used her feet instead of her knees. Brie was a decent enough face in peril, and Nikki threw some really nice elbows after the hot tag. Only real bad spot was Alicia Fox showing that you shouldn't try to do a spear with heels on. On NXT, Bailey cut a promo saying she was going after the NXT women's title, and then challenged Charlotte. It will be interesting to see how they handle this, whether it will be similar to Balor/Owens or they do something different. Can't see them putting Bailey over both Charlotte and Sasha when they're already pushing them to the top of the main roster.

Give Brian Kendrick a Caitlyn Jenner gimmick. Meiko Satomura, Azumi Hyuga, Yoshiko Tamua, Kana. Actually, Kana would be exactly the person to bring in to work on strikes and matwork. Hell, Kairi Hojo has had 2 MOTYC in the last 2 months and would be the perfect face to work against Sasha.

The one thing I noticed from the segment on Monday was how each of the NXT women had a define unique character while the WWE women were pretty much the same, catty and short tempered. With Paige, her charisma and personality are her big strengths. In NXT, the announcers would always push how different she was than the other women, with the main roster they didn't even try anything like that with her. That's whats most important about this angle, more than giving them longer match, can they give the audience a reason to want to see the Divas go 10+ minutes rather than seeing if they can actually put on a good match.