El McKell

The way they clearly have to use a nickname every time someone is mentioned when they first come up with a nickname now and calling Hogan 'Hulkster' is not the same thing. The problem with this stuff is that it makes the way people speak seem very unnatural. Saying the full name of the PPV every time is bizarre especially if it's got a name like 'Fastlane: End of the Line'. Calling the crowd 'The Universe' even in the context of wrestlers brawling into the crowd. Not using the word belt no matter what, Jinder Mahal stole the belt from Randy Orton and a commentator told us that Orton is the champion but Mahal 'has the title'. That makes no sense 'This past week' instead of ever saying last Monday or last Tuesday. 'Medical facility' instead of hospital. You can never say US champion it's United States champion every time. Everybody having to say things in a particular way makes it obvious that everything is a script and not feel real.

Ok i've never seen the match so what is this? you almost make it sound like these guys just showed up after the finish to do this crazy stunt and honestly I sorta hope that's the case.

1950s Buddy Rogers vs Lou Thesz (1/26/51) 1960s Giant Baba vs The Destroyer (3/5/69) 1970s Harley Race vs Terry Funk (7/1/77) 1980s Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (4/2/89) 1990s Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toskiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (6/9/95) 2000s John Cena vs Shawn Michaels (4/23/07) 2010s Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi (4/7/13)

Joey Jannela's Spring Break featured what was by far the best Dan Severn match i've ever seen

I got more entertainment from one of the commentators telling us that 'all holds are barred' than the actual match. After watching this i was shocked to realise it was only 10 minutes long, felt like much more.

If the one new world of sport episode around christmas last year is anything to go by this won't be good

I wanna take issue with Elliot repeatedly saying there were only 3 empty arena matches. The NWO did all those Saturday Night squashes that nobody should every watch.

I firmly believe that wrestlers and fighters have roughly the same goals when it comes to the categories they're voted on together: best on interviews, biggest draw, most charismatic. There are separate awards for Fighter/Wrestler of the year, most outstanding and best match because when they step into the ring/cage they have totally different jobs. The job they have outside of that are largely very similar.

yeah probably. I think if a poll was held clash 6 would have the plurality. And i think Chi-Town is better than WrestleWar for what that's worth

Everyone's already said 6/9/95, but it's my pick too. With Clash 6 a close second

vs. Tomoaki Honma - 8/3/14 was about to post this match as one to watch but of course case beat me to it

Is there ever a pin or submission in the 4th or 5th minute of round in world of sport match? Does this bother anyone else? Can the wrestlers not be trusted to keep track of time so 90% of the falls must come in first 90 seconds of a round?

Who in lucha should have won MOTY/WOTY/Most Oustanding Wrestler but didn't? lots of people would say Atlantis vs. Ultimo Guerrero as the 2014 MOTY. You could argue for Mistico as wrestler of the year in 2005 or 2007. Maybe Hijo Del Santo in 1997. Negro Casas for most outstanding in 1992.

"like I’m working baby face out of Mid-South in the ‘80s. I kept a blade hidden in my wrist tape" is a lyric in this Wonder Years song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Z3IQqKbdQ

c'mon this is ridiculous all grimmas is saying is that you're wrong to think they'd cover up Hero's body because the company has changed its position on stuff like that. I haven't got a dog in this fight, I'm not really on Grimmas' side i guess they probably wouldn't make him wear a singlet or whatever but i wouldn't be too surprised if they did or if they asked him to lose some of the weight.

He may not actually even be signed, although this tweet is a little vague https://twitter.com/thechrishero/status/808323313244237824

Sorry to be a dick fact checking when i basically agree with what you're saying but that Ziggler ladder match at TLC wasn't until 2012. At TLC 2010 Cena had a pretty crappy chairs match with Wade Barrett.

Volk Han & Seiji Sakaguchi

the entire thread has been a fucking trainwreck

So much this, reading reviews/discussion on matches before I see them affects the way I think about the match too much and I end up thinking about reviews while I'm watching which kills a lot of the enjoyment for me. But at the same time star ratings are a great help for knowing what is and isn't worth my time.

I loved this so much. Bryan's angry yelling promo with Michael Cole was phenomenal not to mention all the shades of Terry Funk for no real reason in the last video great stuff.

Of course he's serious. By comparing the two words and talking about them like they're on a similar level shows a real ignorance of how the n word affects/affected people, it's a pretty clear example of white privilege.

This exceeded my expectations. Dory heeling it up was unique to see and i thought he did a good job of it. Inoki brought a pace to it that his matches often lack. Weird to have a two out of three falls match go an hour without a single fall though. ***3/4

Pretty good show that got me even more hyped up to see a match i might never get to watch, cos I'm not spending €12.99 on the network. I dunno if this is the right thread to mention this but as a reminder to all of us of how small of a niche we are even among hardcore wrestling fans. The Last Battle of Atlanta did not feature in the 20 most watched stuff on the network this week. The only things from the hidden gems section that did was Rollins vs Kassius Ohno and Undertaker vs Unabomb. http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2016/09/09/9816-top-20-most-popular-shows-on-the-wwe-network-right-now/

Really liked the brutal intense feeling that this match has with the heel vs heel thing. crazy first fall, intense second fall that ended with a forearm exchange followed by what was basically a fucking powerbomb, real shame about the last fall though.