Boss Rock

I do agree that wrestlers usually lost more in losing to Alexa than to Charlotte, but I think that had more to do with Alexa being a bully and her taunts being proven true by beating them cleanly. Charlotte was more "I'm the best" as opposed to "You're a loser who won't amount to anything".

My issue with Charlotte is that she's a good asskicker and heel, but a terrible babyface and promo. Alexa isn't a great wrestler, but is loads more charismatic and a better talker. I personally would have given the rocket to Sasha as she's always seemed to be the most popular and can play face and heel well.

It's been my running theory that she gets booked the way she does because someone in creative wants to have sex with her. It's the only thing that makes any sense to me as they just continually sacrifice better talent at her feet. Bayley, Sasha, Becky and Nia have all taken serious hits because of programs with her. I try not to think like that if I can help it. I do think she is a Hunter or Vince project. More likely Hunter, because Vince can't keep his projects over. I'd say Vince considering she never even got a Takeover singles match. The Horsewomen were always Trips' favorites. Although Trips always seemed to favor Bayley and Sasha over Charlotte, who seems like another Vince favorite.

I'd have her beat Nia in just a few minutes, but every single babyface working underneath for minutes at a time seems to be their MO.

Married for almost 3 years, one kid.

WWE CAN NOT book babyface well at all. Daniel Bryan broke them. We'll see how things go with Ronda.

Hard-hitting, fast-paced, back-and-forth action all tied up in a neat, 20 minute package. Very worthy successor of their 2015 classic and already one of the best matches of the year. Not much more I can say other than "Watch this match." ****3/4

Lariato! on Twitter has an amazing match rec list going all the way back to the 70's: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsZCBTpKjHzdbCpKZ1No1KAdpmOd2OcgSMfC1-oa7pI/edit#gid=0 As for more footage being added, I'm not sure. I think the biggest issue is that TV Asahi owns a lot of it.

Interestingly enough he mentioned in an interview months ago how much he wanted to punch like Lawler, ha.

Barr is a great call. And as broken-down as Tenryu was, I thought he and Okada put together a pretty solid match.

Really liked the Braun and Seth matches. I do think he's long overdue for a face turn, though.

As unfortunate as the circumstances were, Katsuyori Shibata.

Tom and Corey work really well together. Tom actually seems smart enough to be able to keep up with Corey, and occasionally get one over on him. Cole's call of "It's BOSS TIME" actually makes me like Sasha less, makes me not want to see her wrestle so I can avoid that awful call They have arguably the best chemistry of any team. My favorite interaction between them was when Tye Dillinger lost to Oney Lorcan and Corey proclaimed him to be "just a 5" and Tom faux-gasped in horror.

Did Tenryu work a lot of punches earlier in his career? He had some really good ones in a few of the 2000's matches I've seen him in.

This one is my favorite.

My wife and I were lucky enough to get tix.

I'm cool with that too.

WWE is where it all started for me so they'll always be one of "my promotions". I'm not sure I would have ever gotten into wrestling without them. TNA was important in me seeing there was wrestling outside of WWE and Lucha Underground would act as a further gateway to other outside products like New Japan when my interest in WWE was waning. New Japan has been my favorite "current" promotion since then and that ultimately led me to discovering 90's All Japan, which is my all-time favorite of any wrestling.

I've sort of wondered that too.

All of the usual suspects have been nominated and with good reason, but I love a bunch of the lesser-known matches that have been discussed. Not sure I would have ever known about Satanico-Koshinaka if it hadn't been nominated.

Almas was in one of them, ha. And the match with Black was probably one of the best matches of the year.

In terms of in-ring work? I'd say so.

Ohno-Ciampa was really good and the segment with Ricochet and Dream was great. And in regards to Johnny-Ciampa, as much as I don't really want it to continue, I'd be fine with a hell in a cell match to blow it off.

Speaking of, I didn't realize it until now but the Daniel Bryan vs. Brock Lesnar dream match is back on the table (in theory atleast). Ideally, it should have happened at some point in 2014/2015 when Brock was at his best but better late than never. Would have loved a repeat of the Morishima match.

I'm happy Bryan is back in WWE but I do sort of wonder what a return to the indies would look like. Not to mention he'd finally get that aspuestas match he's always wanted.