El McKell

Here's that STF clip: AJW 1/4/92

I think everyone who buried him aggressively in this thread in 2016 has been vindicated by everything Shane did from wrestling The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 32 until the loser leaves town match against Kevin Owens 3 years later. He proved himself to be truly awful. The post that says he has better strikes than RVD is crazy. RVD doesn't throw good strikes, but nobody is worse at them than Shane McMahon, he somehow manages to potato everyone with punches that on camera look like they couldn't hurt a fly.

Obviously signing a TV deal with AMC is good for TNA from a popularity point of view as it gets more eyeballs on them. I think it's also a sign that Anthem might want to sell either TNA or AXS TV. It seems irrational to me if you run AXS TV to take TNA off the network while it's your highest rated show. If they want to sell TNA it makes sense to get it in a TV slot where they're getting paid real rights money, if you want to sell AXS TV it makes no sense to leave TNA there because once you no longer own AXS that TV situation doesn't help you at all.

This is not an argument in Warriors favour in the slightest. Everyone votes for who they think is best, we shouldn't avoid a pick because it might be thought of as a weird/bad pick. But this is not a case in favour of Warrior, it does not explain why you or anyone else would vote for him. If we're comparing these guys who's case mainly revolves around having a bunch of squashes, I don't think Warrior is some 'perfect version' of that. I think Goldberg is on the same level. I think when laying out this it's unfair to Goldberg to give Warrior credit for having the "most ludicrous" squashes when Goldberg squashes are usually much more entertaining (which should be the metric we use here) and when Warrior never had a squash as ludicrous as Goldberg vs La Parka anyway. "His look and mannerisms were the most insane." I love an Ultimate Warrior entrance but again I think "most insane" is choosing the criteria specifically to favour Warrior. Why can't we just ask the question which is cooler or which gets you more hyped up: Warrior sprinting down the aisle and shaking the ropes or Goldberg walking through pyro and breathing out the smoke? I also think Goldberg has just as many great matches as Warrior (and nothing so awful/unwatchable as Warrior vs Goldust or Warrior vs Hogan '98). Goldberg loses the promo comparison but not talking helped his aura.

I think this is a total understatement. Message boards on the internet are all dead (unless reddit counts), the fact that this place stayed active for so long is a testament to it being something special in some way. I hope that even if this place dies in the sense that nobody posts anymore that the archive of match threads is preserved, I think it's an invaluable resource, even with cagematch.net offering something similar.

I think it's interesting that this nostalgia match is actually better than any of the matches they had in the original ECW.

The match Elliot linked was this:

Some posts from the Discord on TNT/Savio Vega. Is anything he has on the Puerto Rico 80s set worth talking about?

How high are you going to go on Blue Panther? You ranked him pretty high last time around and I think you're saying you think he's one of the 5 best workers of the past decade, is Blue Panther a number one contender for you?

Will Ospreay is my prediction for person who jumps up the most places. And I think I’m gonna say Nick Jackson will be the highest ranking person who didn’t get any votes last time (of people who actually made a case since March 2016)

My take on The Sheik is that he basically sucks, but that's not universal it seems

I'm kinda shocked at how few thoughts there are on Magnum TA since the last poll, both here and on the discord