Boss Rock

Oh I mostly feel the same, I'm just having fun.

That's sort of how I feel at the end of the day. If they weren't going to imitate guys like Kobashi badly, they'd find someone else to imitate badly.

Low Ki Blessing: Hugely innovative, tremendous striker, great mat worker, lots of intensity, worked fast but knew how to make things count. Curse: Wrestlers who watched him decided kicks and working fast was all that was needed to be a good wrestler.

Anywho, Sasha-Becky was great. Really thought Sasha should've gotten the win here, but Becky is the ace so I get it. The tornado tag was awesome as well.

Take a hot character against a failed babyface. Seriously, how do you screw that up?

Kenny Omega vs. Toru Yano (G1 Climax 27) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x76krtc

Daniel Bryan Blessing: All-time great wrestler who could get over and stay over despite whatever booking had been thrown at him. Curse: He basically broke Vince McMahon into thinking all babyfaces should lose matches to gain audience sympathy.

I really wish they would just stick with two-person booths. Put Tom and Corey on one show and Cole and Nigel on the other.

Very good, competitive workrate match and honestly one of the best Page singles matches I've ever seen. PAC came off like a big star here and continued to carry himself as a potential top heel while Page was valiant in his comebacks. The match went a bit longer than it needed to (especially when it came to PAC's disrespectful stomping segment) but it was a good showcase for both while leaving the door open for a continued feud. ***3/4

While not the fast-paced, brisk affair you'd expect from most opening matches on a TV broadcast, Cody being such a huge star made this the obvious match to go first. Guevara is a bit generic as a flippy dude but he has such a punchable face and comes off as such an asshole that it was easy to get behind Cody. And while Cody's offense has always been rather weak, he acquitted himself well here, especially with the springboard cutter (despite it being an odd move to pull off midway through the match). And apart from said cutter, the pacing was overall pretty good and they did a good job building to the bigger spots. ***1/2

Really liked this a lot. Nyla is still green but she has all the potential in the world. It seemed like she sold a bit too much from (Riho's forearms should have been shrugged off like nothing), but she also did a good job imposing her will and beating Riho down. Riho meanwhile is a terrific babyface and her comebacks did a great job getting the crowd behind her. A bit too long maybe, but still a really strong match to crown the first champion. ***3/4

I never watched during the Monday Night Wars, but from what I HAVE seen of Nitro, I totally got that feel, all the way down to the intro. Love the aesthetic.

Shame they couldn't fit that match on the broadcast.

Really digging the build to Cody-Jericho thus far. And when it comes to wrestlers' looks and the expectation of them looking like athletes, I get it but at the same time I look at how Bobby Eaton and Jerry Lawler had the most unimpressive physiques of any wrestlers I've ever seen and that didn't stop them from becoming huge stars.

For a Fox debut, they needed to have Junior Dos Santos come in and KO Cain.

I don't think PAC would be in the running for a title run any time soon, but I definitely see him as a potential title challenger for Cody.

Pretty awesome news for AEW.

I was sort of worried they were going to blow it and that the show would be an absolute mess. There's still kinks to be worked out, but I think they passed their first test tonight.

Jericho with his own stable is pretty cool. And of course conspicuous by his absence MJF... I agree the pacing with the commercials wasn't great and they could've used more promos and a little less time on matches, but I liked this a lot. Some cool developments

Good match, post-match was...something.

I stand corrected.

Weird commercial break, not even an intro for the title match.

I think late 2016-early 2017 SDL and most of NXT is proof that TV-PG can work. WWE just sucks at long-term storytelling.

Great showcase for MJF.

OK this I'd be down with.