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Apparently the two had some sort of legit heat, and Yoshiko thought the best course of action would be to go after her eye she's partly blind in and shatter her orbital bone. This is now up and it's about as weird as it is disturbing. Looks like they tried to turn a major back stage issue into an angle but it blew up in their faces in the worst possible way. I want to feel bad for the younger girls because some of them have really improved in the last year but most of them were in Yoshiko's corner and did nothing to stop it. Even Act had multiple opportunities to stop the match but ended up having to be forced to the back.

Overrated - Late 80's WWF tag teams. Sure there was a lot of talent, but it sure didn't produce much. It got better once the Rockers and Brainbusters got there but if you compare it to what was happening Crockett at the same time there's it is night/day in terms of match quality. Underrated - Recent Joshi - I sure a lot of people thought joshi fell into a black hole in the mid-'00, but there has actually quite a few good workers still around. Yoshiko Tamura, Azumi Hyuga and Meiko Satomura are debatable top 10 GFOAT. There's also a bunch of really good young workers like Arisa Nakajima, Kana, and Hiroyo Matsumoto now.

WWF/E didn't encourage their fans to speak their minds as much as they do now. Was there ever a face that got booed back then? Maybe it's an apple/orange type comparison due to the change in culture, but I just don't see Cena being booed when he's at the legend stage of his career.

You don't think that the kids that cheer him now won't cheer for him when they are older. I am sure a lot of the people who boo him now cheered for Hogan and Warrior when they were kids.

Wasn't there a tape dealer who had a website listing a ton of 80's AJW, but every description was super creepy. When I was a kid, my uncle would tape PPVs for me and usually put cartoons to fill up the rest, but there was one time that he forgot which was when he used one of his old porn tapes. Let's just say my mom wasn't impressed.

Dump & company were good at the "hide the foreign object" game, as well as just bullying in general.

I'm not sure where he would fit all time wise, but Mark Henry has been the best big man since prime Vader.

I personally think that the whole "Changing Standards/Modern Eyes" argument is just a mask for people who don't want to state what they truly like in wrestling. On Meltzer, I'd respect him if he just said "That's what I thought of that match when I saw it and I either don't have the time or the interest to go back to rewatch it." For others, it's probably fear that they'll get roasted for simply saying, "I love matches with big flashy moves and don't really put much value in context." It just seems like they are trying to make their opinions have more thought behind them.

Any sort of sloppiness or blown spot that hurts the momentum of a match. I can go from being completely into a match until somebody misses something at a key moment, then I just want the match to be over.

Another difference is that if someone is on TV for NXT, there's a reason for that person to be there. There are some weeks that the WWE struggles to find reasons for their main-eventers to show up on Raw, much less the rest of the roster.

Io Shirai vs. Natsuki*Taiyo - 1/26/14 - Stardom - Tokyo Korakuen Hall Io Shirai vs. Cheerleader Melissa - 3/16/14 - Stardom - Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Well Del Ray has a bit of size advantage, but they don't work the match she's a monster more like her size gives just enough of an advantage in that area. Other than that, it's a Kana match.

A question on copyright stuff. If a promotion posts a match on it's official Youtube channel are we able to link to it here or is there still a problem? There's a fair bit of good stuff on the WWE's channel but I'm not sure if it's okay to mention any of it.

I haven't seen the Chikara match, but the one they had in Shimmer (10/1/11) is pretty good. There were a couple awkward moments but nothing that really ruined the flow of the match. A good story of Kana using her matwork to counter the power and striking of Del Ray.

This is bush league Kardashian stuff. Kris Jenner wouldn't let anything like this get out.

My name is Don. I've been an on/off wrestling fan for 25+ years now. I use to post at Smarkschoice and Chris Coey's board whenever those boards were popular. Decided to try this place because I've wasted some weekend afternoons sifting threw the match archives and I might be able to add something to them.