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That's another issue not really talked about when it comes to WM. There is SO MUCH wrestling content available at any time that it's hard to get too excited for any given show. When WWE alone puts out nearly 10 hours of TV a week that's impossible to keep up with unless you really hate yourself, how can you expect people to get super psyched for single show that is 7 hours long? On a 3 day weekend where there are wrestling shows every 90 minutes, no less. Even if WM was a super well booked show with lots of great matches and angles, 7 god damn hours is pretty hard to get excited about. The 4 hour WMs felt like they lasted a day even if they were decent.

I'm sure that his 20+ year career in WWE will definitely be boiled down to "He got punched by Joey Styles".

If I didn't know better, I'd say this JBL fella is a bit of a jerk.

Jerry Lawler has been terrible for many, many years and should have been removed from the booth at LEAST a decade ago. I can't believe anyone would have an issue with that.

Once they had Balor win the title, he didn't even have an angle for almost 5 months. Then he had what felt like a never ending feud with Joe, but in Balor's whole reign that lasted 11 months, he had all of 4 title defenses. 2 were against Joe, 1 was a rematch with KO, and a random TV match with Apollo Crews. Every week they'd tell you how great he was doing as the face of the brand, how popular he was, but then he would be off TV 3-4 weeks at a time and they'd just show you the same clips over and over while telling you how great he is. That was his whole reign. That's what they've done with Nakamura, except for him they didn't even bother with a storyline, they just put him into the title match immediately and kept up the Balor booking.

The only way to watch WWE is for the lulz and good matches. If you're watching any of it to be good wrestling shows, you're fucking up. It's also best to be a bit lit (with whatever it is you ingest to get there), paying 70% attention to any given show, and definitely not watching every week. Basically watch it like you would WCW 2000 and have a giggle before going to bed.

NXT as TV hasn't been must see for almost 2 years. Takeovers haven't been must see for over a year. The Balor era pretty much ruined NXT.

It's amazing how WCW fans hated Terry Funk until he got moved down to jokey hardcore stuff with Norman Smiley in 2000. At one point Jeff Jarrett and the Harris Bros got face pops beating him up.

Do you remember there being any hype for the last Takeover? Basically there hasn't been a Takeover with hype since last year's WM one.

I haven't seen the show, but I don't know that I could ever confuse Taker for the shrunken head guy. The Deadman's got a forehead the size of a mini-fridge.

I hope HHH wins clean. I'd rather see another decade of HHH pushing 60 than another year of shitty ass Tyler Black pretending to be a main event talent.

Luke really is great and if you watched various shows in 2014, you'd really think he was going to be a huge breakout star in 2015- on, and then...nothing. Right now he's in great shape and getting a go home match against the champ before WM seems like it should be a big deal, but it doesn't seem like audiences buy him at all in the position he's in even with strong performances.

I skipped Raw, but I did see the Taker/Roman segment. Roman's promo was dope. Taker's on tron promo was hilariously bad, made sure to get in the WM tag line, and he looked like he was the shrunken head guy from Beetlejuice. I watched Smackdown and was in a state of confusion that AA and Usos are relegated to the pre show battle royal, that Rhyno is getting a WM payday in 2017, and that the last thing before WM was a nearly 20 year old clip from Austin's Titan Tron directly into "AND NOW, CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST".

Liz was absolutely useless, though. She couldn't get involved physically, couldn't talk, and only existed as an entity in wrestling because Randy demanded it. At absolute best she was there to prove how much of a shithead Randy was, but that wasn't her role as FACE manager at all.

Yes. Nash had a lot of respect for Bret and always brought his A game to their matches, even at that point when Nash stopped trying YEARS earlier and Bret's brains were scrambled. I think their Rumble 1995 match is certainly in the top 10 WWF matches of the decade.

Hated anything and everything related to George Steele my entire life, too.

WWE has about 13 million more Youtube subscribers than Network subscribers. I don't think it should be an issue that they throw up 5 minute exclusive videos on Youtube that link to the Network.

I typically hold matches claimed to be greatest of all time to a higher standard, yes, but as I mentioned it also bored the shit out of me when I was a kid and had no other context besides whatever was going in in the WWF at the time. In context and in a vacuum I don't think it's a particularly impressive match. I never have and I never will, but my opinion of it has certainly gotten even lower with the added context over the years. Macho is my all time favorite or at least in the top 5. I still didn't like the match as a kid.

Has nothing to do with PWO for me, since outside of the booking part, I had the same opinion of this match as a kid as I do now. It's just not particularly entertaining to me and never has been. It actually gets less impressive the more you put it into the context of its era where nearly every major territory and AJ/NJ had been doing "workrate" matches that blow Steamboat/Savage out of the water for years. It's touted as this state of the art match when in fact you can go back a decade and find matches in just Stampede that go harder and are far more athletic and "modern". This isn't even taking into consideration what guys like Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid had been doing for the past 7 years, let alone that Steamboat and Savage THEMSELVES had better matches within weeks/months of this. Or Midnights vs RNR. Or a ton of other shit. When I was a kid and had one of those best of WM comps they put out, Savage/Steamboat would legit put me to sleep 9/10 times.

No one has really ever said he couldn't work, though. They're just saying he's fat because...well, look at him. He's already lost a noticeable amount of weight on the recent house shows, so I'm sure the fat talk will die down.

Steamboat/Savage was built to be Steamboat coming back with his righteous rage and getting his pound of flesh from Randy. Instead, it was 15 minutes of arm drags and sloppy roll ups, both guys got gassed about half way through the match, and it had the horrible finish of Steamboat needing outside interference to win anyway. Even without the context of the feud, it's not a particularly good match, as neither guy has a focus during the match and there's not really anything going on story wise to get attached to. They have plenty of much better matches at MSG/Philly/Boston/Toronto over the years at are easy to find and at least a couple are on the Network.

Roman is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Ambrose. Ambrose has never carried a match in his WWE career.

Lol that's similar to one of my friends who is Mexican got in a huff watching Logan because the girl in the movie was speaking Spanish and actually IS Spanish, so despite the character supposed to be Mexican, it sounded completely off to him.

Been catching up on a lot of WMs for the site since for some reason I've avoided doing them. 3 is pretty good even though none of the matches are good. I really think Steamboat/Savage was not a good match, as it made absolutely NO sense with the angle, was sloppy, and both were blown to shit by the end with a shitty finish. Hogan/Andre was better, imo. Also liked Herc vs Billy Jack better. 4 is a miserable experience all the way through. Made even worse that they had Ted/Macho on SNME 2 weeks prior in a much better match. 5 isn't good either, but it's such a big improvement on 4 that it gets a pass. Hogan/Savage legit has a 3rd of the match devoted to Savage working Hogan's HAIR. 6 doesn't really have anything worth watching besides Hogan/Warrior and Jake/Ted, but I love the show. The perfect apex of the Golden Era. Hogan/Warrior is really incredible, Pat Patterson at his best. 7 is dope as hell. I can't believe people act like this is one of the worst shows. Warrior/Savage is also Pat Patterson at his best. Warlord/Bulldog is a dope hoss power match. Rockers vs Faces of Fear. It's a good show. 8 is whatever. HBK/Tito and Piper/Bret are the only things worth watching. Macho/Flair is probably their worst match together, and everything else is garbage. 9 is a very well booked show with multiple career performances (Tatanka, Yoko, probably Crush, Lex in WWF) multiple intersecting storylines that clearly laid out TV to Summerslam. I feel like people just stayed pissed at the Hogan thing at the end of the show, but they forget that 1. Hulk clearly challenged the winner before the match and wanted Bret to win so he could see if Hulkamania could still run wild 2. Yoko and Fuji CHALLENGED HIM 3. Bret told him to go for it and it was clear that Bret (who had been KO'd by Lex earlier in the day and got cheated in the finish) would face Hogan later in the year, where Hogan would pass the torch. People also forget that it was by far the biggest reaction of the night and people were happier to see Hogan beat Yoko than they were sad to see Yoko beat Bret. 10 is horrible despite two all time WM classics. Literally everything besides Bret/Owen and HBK/Razor is absolutely horrendous. 17 extremely overrated, but similar to WM 6 where it's the peak of the era with a great main event. Austin/Rock might be the GOAT WM main event. 18 better than 17, Rock/Hogan might be the GOAT WM match, Austin/Hall is very underrated, and Taker/Flair is one of my favorites from both. 19 has the most stacked last 4-5 matches, although I don't think there were any classics or anything. Hogan/Vince was incredible fuckery. 26 is much weaker than I remember. HBK/Taker 2 was much weaker than I remember, especially. 31 is very fun. Sting/HHH is the best. Uh...I think that's all I've done recently.

I disagree. They both have that accent very clearly to me. That sing songy flow. KO has it more pronounced, but English is his second language.