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That dude's lines would be corny and lame in 2003 when John Cena was saying them. I swear he's used the cuck line multiple times on TV.

Yeah they really should have thrown him off the balcony, imo

That was about as safe as you can take a bump down the stairs. Half of it was sliding on his feet and he's definitely padded up.

Cody's tights are getting close to late stage HBK high rise.

Yes, and I'm sure he's going to triple down on it since people didn't like what he did and then complain about fans not getting it or some shit.

I find Bob Backlund to be fascinating more than entertaining. He's just so weird and idiosyncratic in the ring that even if the match is boring, I can't help but be drawn just to watch him sell weird and make weird noises. It's not that he doesn't have good matches, but that's definitely not what draws me to him. Really enjoy some of his NJ work with Inoki/Hansen/Hogan. The UWF matches are interesting. I think the match with Harley in MSG gets a lot of shit in these kind of circles but I think it is a very entertaining match and Harley's beer gut is in peak form.

Russ Davis is the Christian Cage of 1950s announcers. Discuss.

Only truly psycho fans would hold it against him for signing with WWE without going on a world tour of 6 star matches.

It's probably the paunch + KO always lands flat on his back bumps just like Harley. Also tough guy tats.

If Shawn Spears doesn't bleed out in the ring, this will be a dud just like the barbed wire explosion.

How many of the WWE partnered promotions are even running shows or still active at all anymore? Seems like it is just UK or Euro promotions that are already fully co-opted by WWE or inactive. He should just go do what he wants to do wherever he wants to do it. There's no way they're going to not sign him back for whatever role he wants just because he went and did a run in NJ or AEW or something. If he wants to work Okada and Omega, he should go do it. He has all the power in the relationship with WWE.

I have to feel like that's more of a negative on ROH than positive on PCO. "Holy shit remember the fat Quebecer and pirate that stole Bret's jacket? He's now old and Frankenstein and still doing flips to the floor and now he's ROH Champion" had a very, very short shelf life of novelty.

It doesn't even make sense, because Vince seemed to love what he brought in 2019, which was about as pure Keith Lee as he gets, and then pushed him like that for about a month upon call up and then was like you know what never mind why isn't this guy working like King Kong Bundy.

Interestingly, my first and really only venture into tape trading that ended up being very short lived due to videos on the internet becoming so much easier to find and watch shortly after, also included Mr. Pogo. The tapes consisted of 6/3/94, a collection of some young fella named Kenta Kobayashi in Zero 1, and a couple of horrible deathmatches with Mr. Pogo in some tiny gyms just digging his scythe into a forehead and back for what felt like longer than the Misawa/Kawada match. Mr. Pogo fucking sucks. Nothing enjoyable about his brand of deathmatches, and the pre-death match stuff I've seen from him in various territories also sucked.

Old timers suck. That guy is a treat to listen to. Gets over psychology, explains what holds are doing and why they're being done, injects some personality and color when needed.

I'm thinking of the guy on all the Chicago Film Archives matches on Youtube. That guy is a delight.

Greatest commentators ever The guy who did the Chicago NWA matches in the 50s/60s Lance Russel Tony Schiavone Ed Walen

It's just such a ridiculous thing to say because in the same little interview he brings up the Dusty and Dustin and Cody legacy with the match. That's a lot of AEW shit I guess, though. Want to do as many JCP/Dusty/WCW things and nostalgia as possible but don't want people to think they're just strip mining all of Dusty's ideas at the same time.

Could have sworn there was a long stretch on the internet where Natalya was hyped up as an all time great female worker

I would put Tully/Arn in my top 20, top 10 if I could include them as one entry.

Jericho doing some great media work this week First saying they shouldn't be doing an invasion angle with TNA, but should be doing it with NJPW. They shouldn't be doing an "invasion" angle at all. It's talent exchange and for mutual benefit, not something to win, but also pretty poor form for one of your top stars to openly shit on a partnered promotion and want to be working with a different one instead. Then saying Blood and Guts definitely isn't War Games, they can't go back to those matches to look for inspiration because there's never been a Blood and Guts match, which definitely isn't War Games and they're not calling it Blood and Guts because of trademarks and copyrights with War Games, but because it's a unique thing that's never been done before.

His TNA run is excellent and that WWECW and beyond run doesn't exist without it. Christian vs Monty Brown Turning Point 2005 Christian vs Jeff Jarrett Against All Odds 2006 Christian vs Abyss Lockdown 2006 Christian vs AJ Styles Genesis 2006 Christian vs Abyss vs Sting Turning Point 2006 and Final Resolution 2007 Christian vs Kurt Angle Against All Odds 2007 Christian vs Joey Samoey Destination X 2007 Basically without exaggeration, almost all of his singles/triple threat PPV matches in TNA are worth watching outside of some of the extra gimmicky multi man matches that are skippable in general. Dude's run in TNA was every bit as good as his return to WWE. I think he actually has better matches with Joe and Angle than they had against each other, great matches with AJ, carrying Sting to probably his best TNA matches. Definitely at least watch Christian vs Kurt/AJ/Joe matches.

Steve Austin had gigged in the past, but not bladed. A very distinct distinction, you see, so Bret is correct.

There's all these Tiger Mask matches and Misawa is throwing the weakest, shittiest, most awkward looking elbows and it is so bizarre every time.

What I remember of the WK tag was Nakamura absolutely smoking him with a wheel kick or some shit that looked absolutely gnarly