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That was always going to be the danger with that match. At least I was right in thinking it was a match you'd enjoy. I'll swap it with this one, pretty good chance you won't have seen it previously.

I checked out Microstatistics's Greatest Match Ever list, and saw Bret/Owen was top 5 and Bret/Bulldog was in there too. There's a decent chance you'll already have seen this, but it's a good bedfellow to those two matches.

Maybe I've got a weakness for mouth guard wearing wrestlers, but I've got Shayna Baszler and Pete Dunne battling for the top spot. Both have kept knocking out good match after good match all year, working a convincing level of stiffness without letting their matches go into overkill (we'll ignore Wargames for Pete). They're the two wrestlers I'll go out of my way to see.

I remember thinking, up until the Alexa Bliss interference, that Nia/Rousey was very good, pretty hard hitting.

Almas/Gargano still feels pretty untouchable to me. It's been top of my list all year and hasn't come close to moving. Special mention to Fred Yehi vs Cain Justice from the first Action Wrestling show. Just a beautifully worked match

"MAMMA F'ING MIA' Yeah, Mauro is just the worst, a man who manages to take me out of the matches by shoehorning in terrible references or yelling like a lunatic. Really makes me appreciate just how good the NXT pairing of Phillips and Graves were, they had an easy chemistry, told the match stories nicely and got excited at the right times.

Nia's wild punch was definitely reckless and should receive some punishment, but people on Twitter calling for her immediate sacking is a bit much. Seth Rollins managed to injure the Universal champion, cave in the nose of the company's biggest star and end Sting's career, and didn't receive this level of abuse. Plus, I felt the Vega injury was more on Tamina for totally failing to catch her

For real, the card is sneakily really good. AJ had one of Brock's best matches last year, Becky/Ronda should be a blast, AoP/Bar is going really under the radar but should be awesome, and I'm always a sucker for the elimination matches. Plus Ali/Murphy! Genuinely looking forward to the PPV

He's the brother of Johnny Ace and Road Warrior Animal, so you may see a family resemblance. He was the least successful Laurenitis brother, Marc, though he did work an AJPW tour in 87 as Tom Zenk's partner in the RWTL

This is an incredible watch. Bless Tom Burton still playing to a non existent crowd. That's a professional. "Press the button, Greg!"

Word is that Vega is nursing an injury after landing badly in the Evolution Battle Royal, so I wouldn't read too much into her absence

He said that Michaels doesn't compare to Will Ospreay. I don't even like Michaels, and that feels like a real slap in the face.

Does the winner get a title match? Because I'd be pretty into an Orton/ Styles match. They were in a triple threat (with Jinder) at a house show I went to last year, and they paired up pretty well.

I remember Scotty Riggs saying he'd faced Loch Ness in his first Nitro match, and that Loch Ness had fallen onto his head, which caused Hogan to instantly nix any programme.

Looking forward to seeing a few more of the PC trained women getting integrated into NXT over the coming year, the way Lacey Evans and Bianca Belair have in the past 12 months. In particular, Xia Li and Taynara Conti have shown a load of improvement from last year, thought both of Li's matches this year have been really good.

Not suggesting it's likely, but if she did have a good showing, they could still use her in NXT UK

Shawn and Terry Taylor are both on the Performance Centre website as coaches. I think Taylor runs the finishing class, last I read. As I recall, Johnny Moss is apparently going to be working with a lot of the NXT UK guys, so he's been learning the WWE way in the PC. I also read there's been an NXT UK camp this week with Bloom, Brookside, Moss and James Mason as coaches. Jason Jordan was apparently backstage sitting in on production meeting while injured, but apparently they do that with a lot of inactive talent.

I'm guessing it's nothing more sinister than Nia not considering herself Australian. Just because she was born there didn't mean she has to identify herself as bring from there. I've got a friend who was born in Canada to two English parents, left when he was three and has never returned, and he's certainly never referred to himself as Canadian. Nia's wiki says she was brought up in Hawaii and San Diego, so she probably has no memory of Australia as part of her upbringing. Besides, the show had the Iiconics and Murphy, who are all openly Australian, they didn't need to force that onto Nia to muddy the waters.

I'm assuming Joe didn't grab the ropes because theres no rope break in a no DQ match, so it wouldn't do him any good

Cena's sixth move of doom was delightful. Is it just me, or did the Iiconics not seem particularly over?

Based on current storylines, I'm guessing this was Eddie Kingston

My first indy tape was Best of the Best 3, where Hatred won the battle royal, and I've had a soft spot for the guy since. The H8 Club were pretty fun at just wrecking guys, this is a real shame

The Becky turn feels a lot like when Bayley attacked Sasha, where turning a natural face on a miscast face didn't fit, and instead the crowd were just happy to see the face finally standing up for themselves. Just have to hope Paige doesn't force Becky to undertake therapy sessions with Charlotte

What's great about this show is that you could ask four different people and get four different legit picks for match of the night (sorry EC3/Dream). Sane/Baszler takes it for me, just the perfect mix of likable pure face vs nasty bully heel. Loved that Kairi showed no fear to Baszler, as one of the few women to beat her, and took the fight to her. Mental to think Shayna has been wrestling less than three years

To be fair to the wrestlers, a lot of the same people called out Lio Rush when he made his ill timed joke after Emma's firing, so it may be a sign of a close knit locker room who don't take kindly to a colleague being slighted