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I think Peyton is generally seen as better in ring, though I don't think there's much in it. However, when you think of the best parts of the Iiconics, the bits people enjoy, it's generally Billie yelling "Hey Kayla" or "You've gotta be joking me", while Peyton is just there

At the moment, Bayley is the Smackdown women's champion. It's not been the most exciting run, but she's been getting clean PPV victories for the past few months, so she's doing ok

It feels like they'll have to evolve the Cassidy character somewhat for it to work on a national scale. It's kind of a one-note joke and, while you can play it up as mindgames for a week or two, you can't just have your heels watching this guy slowly walk the ropes or throwing slo-mo chops without them kicking the shit out of him. It'd make your heels look like idiots. I think the guy can be a decent wrestler at times, and his Paul-Rudd-in-WHAS character has a slacker appeal, but he can't just be the slo-mo guy on TV.

Luckily Scott Keith gave it 6 stars and thinks it's the best match in WWE history, and I don't think he's being sarcastic

Gotch is also very thin skinned, a vanity-searching blocker on Twitter. I'm blocked for mentioning - without tagging him - that I'd watched a show on IWTV where he was on the poster, but not on the actual show. You'd think being one of the few people to own a Vaudevillians t-shirt would earn me a reprieval

I think the time he wore a patch with "Mega Death" written on it kinda killed his metal cred.

Sad thing about Gunner Miller is that he's very good, certainly a better wrestler than Marko Stunt. However, coming across as a bitter prick on social media, about a wrestler significantly more popular than you achieving success, is not a good look

I guess the difference in opinion stems from our views of him as a worker, I think he's generally lousy. To me, he's a guy with weak looking offence who's too busy getting his wacky schtick in to adequately sell. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

I like the other guys mentioned, but Chuck Taylor is the dictionary definition of "unathletic comedy wrestler"

Ah sorry guys, I've been away the past week, didn't spot that we were restarting last week. If I can be included on the next shuffle, I promise I'll be more on the ball

I think comparing KO to Val is downplaying Owens a bit. He's a former world champion and has been an upper card player for his entire run. Yes he lost to Kofi, but Kofi is the world champion and is getting a good run with the belt. Plus KO has just turned face, and the pushed face always outsmarts the heel. Here, Dolph was caught unawares by a Stunner, which is a death move in WWE canon - and the pushed face won.

Enjoyed this at Christmas, I'll hop back in

Tom Phillips and Vic Joseph are comfortably the best play by play guys in the company because they just quietly and competently get on with it. They also give the colour commentary room to breathe- it's notable how much better Nigel is when paired with Vic than with the aural anthrax that is Mauro Ranallo.

It's been such a good story, loved their section in the Infinite Gauntlet, where Dasher wanted to teach his son a lesson in the ring, but every time another entrant got in, the Hatfield's took them straight out. Boomer's post match promo was great, and the mask vs mask was excellent. All this, plus the ladder match with Mr Touchdown at the Mania weekend show, had Dasher surprisingly high in my WOTY list, but Drew Gulak has been awesome this year.

Match of the Year - Matt Riddle vs Roderick Strong (NXT Takeover XXV) Major Show - CHIKARA The Infinity Gauntlet 2019 Promotion - NXT (assuming I can't pick 205 Live as a promotion) Interviews - Daniel Bryan Feud - Dasher Hatfield vs Boomer Hatfield (CHIKARA) Most Improved - Kris Statlander Wrestler of the Year - Drew Gulak

The head trainer is, or at least was, Yuki Ishikawa, so possibly quite good.

As I recall, Cornette said he didn't want to be a hypocrite by slamming Omega and the Bucks, then making money by piggy-backing off their event. Like Vince Russo was going to do, before Cody had him kicked out.

TBF, the crowd was hot for last nights show. A bit quiet at the start of Jack/Gable, but they soon got into it, and the main event got over huge, with "205" chants busting through. There may not be many size differences to the main roster, but something about the show feels fresh in comparison, the wrestlers felt like they were going all out and were given time to do so.

Absolutely, Chad Gable vs Jack Gallagher was just terrific. Some lovely matwork to kick off, before Gable unleashed some beautiful suplexes and Gallagher laid in some big bombs of his own. Good to see both guys get some time to work with, would happily see the two paired up again.

Goldberg hitting a shoot brainbuster on Taker probably wasnt in the planned match.

I think that was the crux of his NXT gimmick, terrifying monster in the ring, but calmly and politely talking to "Mr Regal" in the back I loved it when Mike Knox had a similar gimmick. One time he came to the ring and just destroyed Rey. He goes backstage and gets stopped by an interviewer asking why he hates Rey Mysterio, where you'd expect an angry, raging promo. Knox stops, looks puzzled and calmly says "I don't hate Rey Mysterio" and walks off. That was great stuff.

Obviously comparing football to wrestling is like comparing apples to oranges, but Tony Khan's stewardship of Fulham is not the example to be looking at. They were a freshly promoted, promising team when he decided to become more 'hands-on'. In the following 12 months they spent £100m on transfers, went through three managers in a season, were comfortably relegated with a month left of the season and Fulham fans dislike him so much that he was trolled into an embarrassing public tantrum on Twitter over a clearly photoshopped flag proclaiming "Tony Khan wanks dogs". Not saying this will have any bearing on his running of AEW, and he seems to be hiring wisely with experienced heads, but I would be loathe to use "runs a large-ish football team" as proof of his acumen.

Thomas Santell was one of the Heartbreakers, right? I love the fact you never know in wrestling who is going to get a late career reinvention

I think it's a fun idea. Gives TV time till guys who would otherwise only appear on Main Event, and if one or two of them make themselves stand out in the process, then it's worth it. A little bit of chaos to liven up the shows. Plus those guys who are more creative can use this as a vehicle- already Drake Maverick is on Twitter, shooting videos hunting down R-Truth for the belt

If it is suicide, that's terribly sad and really hammers home that you never know what's going on in people's lives. Her last tweet from a day ago was a cheery message about sending out some fan mail, while Bull James tweeted that she'd been training for a wrestling comeback and, in his words, was SO excited about it. RIP