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He's very serious about his shoulder shrugs. Is normal.

Terrible clash of styles that didn't work at all. I feel like I'm on an island thinking Okada is not only not having the best year of anyone since Flair in 1989 (and he wasn't even the best dude in 1989), but he's not even on pace to have a better year than he had last year. He had better matches at last year's events than this year's. Not only that, but Naito has consistently out performed him in big matches this year as well. Omega/Okada was a fun spotfest not too common in NJ main events, yet doesn't hold a candle to Tanahashi/Okada the year before at WK. Okada/Goto was better than Okada/Suzuki. Okada/Naito was better than Okada/Ibushi. Meanwhile, Naito/Tanahashi was clearly better than Okada/Omega, and Naito/Elgin (FUCKING MICHAEL ELGIN) was better than Okada/Suzuki. There's just something about Okada that, 5 years into his push as top guy, it feels like he still doesn't completely believe it. Instead of him bringing guys up to his higher level, he still needs the right opponent for him to reach that higher gear.

AJ going after the US Championship isn't a step down for him, he's elevating the title. The WWE Championship is clearly secondary now that AJ is going after the US Championship. i wouldn't be surprised at all for the next SD PPV to have Orton vs Jinder (or whoever by that point) 3rd from main behind AJ/KO and whatever Nakamura is doing. I'd argue the pecking order of SD goes something like AJ Nakamura (might change when he becomes active) KO Corbin Charlotte Orton

I'm saying he's on TRT at a minimum. Not just saying. Actually saying. TRT is legal. HGH can be legal in the right situations. No 60 year old man looks like that naturally even if he's been hardcore dieting and exercising for decades. You don't GAIN muscle as you hit middle age, breh.

`I didn't say he was on steroids, but he's definitely on TRT and probably HGH as well. He's bigger now at almost 60 than he was in the 90s.

I'm not sure Dave "I'm 60 and have better abs than Johnny Mundo" Meltzer has room to talk about a guy taking enhancements.

I actually hope he doesn't win anything big, because I get more enjoyment out of seeing how they find new ways to have him lose every match than I do seeing him get the win and celebrate.

For some reason I can't really explain, I listened to Alvarez rant about Jinder for 7 minutes. What a tool. His main argument seemed to be the less people are watching weekly wrestling than ever because they're being beaten over the head that it's fake, using Jinder even getting a chance to be in a number one contender match being an example. Meanwhile, he didn't say anything about the other 5 people in the match who also had no business being in the match, including Sami Zayn, who loses like 70% of the time and just the week prior lost a number one contender match for the secondary title. Or Dolph Ziggler, who hasn't won a match since February and whose victory over someone higher on the totem pole than Apollo Crews and Kalisto was back in December. Or Erick Rowan, who hasn't won a match since returning from his injury, and has all of 2 singles wins in the last 2 years. He basically went on a protect the business rant in 2017. Which is absurd. I agree that it's not like Jinder is setting the world on fire or anything, but fuck it, something new is something new and people always complain about how WWE doesn't do anything unexpected anymore.

My main issue with him has always been that once he made it to the top, he only gets motivated for about 2 months a year and shamelessly halfasses it the rest of the time. He couldn't even bring himself to put in the effort against AJ or in a WM title match. The only guy who goes through the motions more than him is Ambrose. When he wants to be, he can be great. But he almost never wants to be, instead settling to be that kid who can pass his classes with a C without having to study instead of putting the effort in to get As.

KO being essentially a more serious Rougeau Brother is kind of a weird departure for him. Doing a weekly challenge with jobbers goes completely against his prizefighter thing.

I'm not crazy, they hyped Nakamura's in ring debut before the show and twice during the show and then Nakamura didn't even make an appearance, right?

As if ROH couldn't get any worse

Be excited for an Eric Young cage match in 2017, brehs

Cage matches in NXT Samoa Joe vs Finn Balor Samoa Joe vs Shinsuke Nakamura Eric Young vs Tye Dillinger The fuck? That's really happening?

I don't think anything Braun doing has anything to do with Roman. He's a bad ass who gets cheered because he's a bad ass who does bad ass things and no one is going to cheer Roman for beating him. There will be no sympathy for Roman getting smashed. Obviously. No way WWE isn't aware of this, especially after WM.

The previous Show/Braun match a few weeks ago was better

SD has had allergy meds sponsoring matches for the past month and a half. SD in general has had "this match is sponsored by X" matches for the past 3-4 months. I only caught the last hour but LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL that they did the Show gets superplexed and destroyed the ring spot AGAIN. And acting like it hasn't happened before. AGAIN.

Wasn't a big fan of this. I think it was hurt by being on such a dull and lackluster show beforehand, then doing a 40 minute match with 30 minutes of leg locks. It was hard to keep my attention at that point of the show, and the match that had such heat and violence during the build being centered around submissions also felt off to me. And all that leg work was really kind of pointless since it didn't prevent Okada from doing any of his normal jumpy moves. He still go all of his shit in regardless. I was getting real HHH vs Rollins vibes from the whole thing. There was a big chunk devoted to leg locks with Gedo thinking about throwing in the towel, and it had zero drama for me because Gedo's comedic over acting, plus Okada had shown the leg work wasn't that bad anyway since he could still do his dropkick/missile dropkick/flying elbow. I found it mostly pretty dull. Weirdly, Okada sold his knee better in the 6 man tag at the Osaka show than he did during this big title match. I don't know how we live in a world where Michael Elgin was in a better match than Okada vs Suzuki, but here we are.

No. They deserves all the shit in the world. I would blast the fuck out of them if I was him. I agree. But he isn't, he's doing it in passive aggressive tweets and comments, which is teenage girl shit. I said it a few days ago: Either say what you have to say or don't. That went for JBL, Mauro, and Dave. So if JBL/WWE comes back with more petty shit at Mauro, I'm not feeling bad for him since he's intentionally trying to stir shit up without actually saying anything. The digital equivalent of your little brother putting his finger an inch away from your face and saying he isn't touching you.

I meant specifically from the time he resumed his public life, not what did or didn't happen to him while in WWE, fwiw. When he comes back to the world of social media and calling other shows and takes the time to stir the shit with WWE/JBL, it's hard to feel bad about whatever comes next is what I meant.

I just want to point out that whatever happens now, it's hard to feel bad for Mauro since as soon as he got back to social media and calling MMA, he started throwing passive aggressive barbs at WWE and JBL, just trying to stir shit up.

This match is amazing. Adonis was tremendous in it. The reaction from the crowd when Inoki gets the win is excellent. One of about a million matches that makes me wonder where the fuck the "Japanese crowds are quiet and respectful" thing came from.

I'm not offended. I'm rolling my eyes. The reason there's still a stigma on mental illness is because of conversations that go like "Well, he's mentally ill, so you don't know how he'll react" and treat someone like they're unpredictable wild cards because they can't behave or control themselves like a person without mental health issues. There's a difference between mentally ill and living with a mental illness/health issue.

Trying to catch up with NJ this year, hadn't watched anything since WK. New Beginning in Sapporo has a typically dull as dishwater undercard where all the matches exist just to tease matches for other shows and everyone works at half speed. Suzuki-Gun is already back to being boring as shit, just being booked like they were before/Bullet Club and it feels stale from the jump. Probably should have just been Suzuki himself coming back. So after the dull undercard, Suzuki/Okada doing a 40 minute match with 30 minutes of leg work that ultimately went no where as it didn't prevent Okada from hitting any of his normal jumpy moves, and there was no drama in 10 minutes of Gedo thinking about maybe throwing in the towel. Working this almost 1970s AJ style match after such a long show and then having a ref bump/run in brawl felt completely incongruous and inappropriate for the match they were working, and completely unnecessary as they immediately went back to leg locks like the run in never happened anyway. I have to say I was getting HHH/Rollins vibes from the match, where you're "selling" as long as you're grabbing your knee once in awhile, and grabbing your knee means it makes sense that you can go from not walking to jumping over your opponent's head like it's nothing.

Mauro is a dude able to be working for what, 4 different corporations at once, in an unprecedented position as being lead announcer for wrestling (in a company that doesn't allow people to do outside work), MMA, boxing, and sometimes kickboxing all at once, in addition to anchoring a MMA TV show and doing a podcast. To call him "mentally ill" is to both downplay what he's been doing for 20 years and overplay his mental health issues.