NotJayTabb

There's 3 guys in my 90-100 range I thought I might be the only voter for, so I'm really happy they've had other voters.

I'm sure I'm not going to be the only person who's now been looking at the Nominees list to see who isn't included here, thinking "What, THAT guy got a vote??". Such a huge list of names that have charted, can't wait to see the results roll out

Just realised I'm going down to London that weekend anyway, so going to this show on the Sunday seems entirely do-able. I like the little Stardom I've seen, and Nixon and Storm are both really good, so this is very tempting

Joe was a last minute placing for me. It was towards the end when I placed a few 00's indy guys, and I realised I'd overlooked him entirely. He's my #99

Shock because it didn't feel like the finish, rather than at the result. No, that was at the result I feel. That crowd LOVES Bayley. Her losing the title was a pretty big deal. Exactly. It was because they cared should have read the rest of the thread and replied later, but I'll reiterate. If they cared so much then why were they all sitting when the finish came? I totally agree with the guy who said that the shock was at least in part b/c that didn't feel like the finish. And IMO it's not because the work didn't make it feel like a finish but because the crowd was inexplicably not treating it like a finishing stretch. No one was expecting Bayley to lose by submission, either by tap or pass out. My impression was they got a little to cute and decided to copy the Meisha-Holly finish and no one picked up on it. I know when the bell rang my reaction was of the "wait, what just happened" variety, I thought for a second maybe the timekeeper messed up. I think it didn't help that it missed a few visual clues that we've become accustomed to as fans. Normally you get a tap out or the referee doing the three-arm-drop, so the fans are expecting a bell, but here there was nothing. Bayley's arm slumped to the mat, but that won't play to someone 5-10 rows back. I think the ref trying the arm three times would have signalled to the crowd that they needed to react.

Kinda hate to burst your bubble, especially as you enjoyed the show, but Asulka isn't a heel. She's been portrayed as a face her entire NXT tenure and was only in the title match after helping Bayley beat the two biggest heels in the women's division in a tag match. She's not as overwhelmingly virtuous as Bayley, but she's still a face

Not just that, it felt like the Horsewomen thought Bayley would win because they'd fought her, and knew how hard she worked, but they'd never faced Asuka. Dana and Emma had both been on the receiving end of an Asuka beating and knew what she would do to Bayley. Made it feel like Becky, Charlotte and Sasha had managed to leave NXT at just the right time to avoid getting Asuka-d

Ridiculous that a match as great as the tag opener ended up being only the 4th best match on the show. Absolutely fantastic show from start to finish. I do wish there had been time for the Drifter match, partly because I dig Samson, but also letting the crowd have a chance to do some mass booing after Zayn/Nakamura might have improved the crowd reactions for the women's match. Tiny nitpick aside, that was so good

Lovely Travis tribute from Balor tonight with the Shooting Stars painted on his hand. The PCW Twitter feed also highlighted that Joe/Balor had the same ending as Travis/Masters, which was one of Trav's breakout matches. Could well be a coincidence, but it'd be a nice touch if not.

One of my friends,when we discuss this, will always refer to the shortlived team of the Godfather and Val Venis: Supply & Demand As for my favourite team names: Powers of Pain (it doesn't make much sense, but it SOUNDS terrifying) The Faces of Fear Calamari Catch Kings

Six months on from this, I'm confident I'm still the high vote on Kevin and Fritz, as well as Bret, Jarrett, Davey Boy and possibly Sheamus. I'm likely the only voter on ZSJ, Zenk, Shelley, Barbarian and James Mason.

First 7 guys announced. ZSJ, Noam Dar, Tozawa, Swann, Gargano, Ciampa and Ho Ho Lun. Amused and delighted to see Lun involved, saw him wrestle a few times in Coventry whilst on his UK tour and really like him. Really infectious personality. Good to see Dar involved too

Trav was so talented and versatile. I remember the first HOPE show, where he faced faux-superheroes Battle Squad Awesome in a comedy tag match (including Travis disappearing halfway through to put on his own superhero costume as Spider-Trav), then he appeared in the 4-way main event with Mark Haskins, Chris Andrews and Doug Williams, and looked totally natural in both situations.

Well, it's got to be either Brian Knobbs or Jerry Saggs, but I can't work out which one

News seems to have broken on Twitter that Kris Travis died this morning. Absolutely heartbreaking news. Aside from being a standout performer on the UK scene, he was by all accounts a lovely guy. Only met him once, where he was very friendly, and he's done loads of work to raise money for the local cancer hospital which looked after him since his diagnosis. His in-ring comeback last year was genuinely inspiring before the news broke though that the cancer was back, and this news is a real sledgehammer blow.

How about Regal? Decent size (6'3, 245lb), excellent promo, can brawl or mat wrestle with the best of them, absolutely loves playing the stooging heel, plays fired-up face well, comfortable any place on the card. Legit tough guy and stretching credentials would have made him popular with bookers in the 70's, could play foreign heel or popular-friend-of-the-Bulldogs in the 80's, and we know he could get over in the 90's.

In football, Neil Warnock has always struck me as a great heel manager, but the kind you love to hate like a Heenan's character. His comments when asked if he'd manage Sheffield Wednesday, rivals of his beloved Sheffield United, were absolute gold: "As long as the whole of my salary was paid within 28 days, I would buy so many tosspots - although, come to think of it, their current squad would do - and fuck 'em up so badly. Then I'd retire to Cornwall and spend the rest of my life laughing my fucking head off."

Not normally a podcast guy, as it feels like a few hours I could use to watch wrestling rather than listen to people talking about it, but I've loved these list podcasts. Only an hour and a half through, but it's really fun to listen to, love the enthusiasm you both have.

How about sneaking over you friend's house to watch Royal Rumble 94 and ... MAINLY being there to root for IRS's bid to win the IC title from Razor? I'm wondering if that made me legit the least coolest kid in the world for a few minutes there in 94. I was forlorn when he lost. Ha, didn't IRS win the title only for the referee to restart the match and let Ramon hit the Razor's Edge whilst IRS was still celebrating? You must have been crushed.

British singer/songwriter Sam Duckworth, formerly known as Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, is a big wrestling fan. I know he did a couple of Spin Cycle's for TNA on their UK tours, and the video for "The Real McCoy" (a song about Kid McCoy) featured Austin Aries and Alex Shelley wrestling in black-and-white. I once DJed a show he was headlining in London, and knowing the above, played Mark Henry's ring music as he came onstage, which he enjoyed.

I seem to remember Elizabeth whacking Russo with a baseball bat at one point (I think he'd kidnapped her) so her WCW run wasn't totally without merit

There's a Flair/Tatanka match from a year later on a CHV tape called "Grudges, Gripes and Grunts" that's perfectly acceptable without ever veering into "good" territory. It's the same tape that has a really great Bret/Savage vs Flair/Michaels tag match, so it's worth hunting down.

The key problem with face New Day is that Woods is wildly irritating.

Yeah, considering there are 92 teams in the Football League, and only one gets to be champion (never mind the countless teams in the non-leagues), for most football fans it's ultimately depressing. Especially when your team is the football equivalent of Barry Horowitz

If anything, the ongoing Lovejoy/Charlie Gimbert feud kept Sunday night BBC in business for years