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There's quality Savage work all the way up to mid 1998 when he finally took time off to get knee surgery from that insane and utterly stupid ax handle from the super cage at Halloween Havoc 1997.

I could probably agree with Tully being better than Arn if only because he had more opportunities at a higher spot in the card to produce matches of a quality that higher up the card matches would require. They both were fucking awesome at everything they had to do in a wrestling ring and promos.

A bunch of pro wrestlers hubbed and mixing with Florida Man. It's actually astounding there haven't been more huge stories coming out of the PC even pre-COVID era.

Hopefully Inner Circle loses, disbands, and everyone can get away from mid life crisis Jericho for a year

Nick was fine because he was actually working like a douchebag heel and not a guy working as a parody of a douchebag heel. It was like PWG/NJ Young Bucks turned up to 20 and was just fucking weird and bad. Real DX reunion vibes.

I don't know why Matt Jackson was working like a parody of an 80s sitcom wrestling episode but it fucking sucked. I don't think that LOL I'M A HEEL, I'M SUCH A HEEL GUYS, LOOK AT ME BEING A HEEL LMAOOOOOO shit works on a bigger stage than PWG. Also now into the back half of his 30s.

I've seen almost all of his career outside of Southeastern/Continental and I have never seen Arn not put on a 5 star performance in whatever his role was against any opponent, no matter how good or bad. Literally any role you could possibly need in a wrestling match and Arn would nail it. There may not be a better mid card guy in all of American wrestler history. Not to mention top tier promo skills on top of that, frequently better than Ric's promos in Horsemen segments.

Hard disagree on the Reigns match. I think that was absolutely Hogan/Warrior tier in the storytelling and scope, and in fact they reference that match among some other big Golden Era matches and Attitude Era stuff in a much, much more subtle and elegant way than the Orton/Edge match in 2020 that just screamed all the references and shot outs directly in your face each time. It's bizarre they did it with three months of build on a random B show and then basically never mentioned again as they never did any kind of send off or mention of Cena wrapping up his full time run, so it didn't feel like the passing of the torch match it should have. But yeah PWG Cena novelty wore off pretty quickly and I'd actually say the KO feud was the worst set of matches he had during that time doing that style.

Not that I have a lot of time for Mike Rotunda under any gimmick, but specifically under the IRS gimmick, there might not be a more boring wrestler in WWE history. Or sweaty.

I find her reign interminably long and mostly pretty boring, and for someone that has all these big strikes, her strikes often look very very light if not missing all together. It also feels like despite being champion, she's in a completely different division than the rest of the women. It's all very reminiscent of Asuka's booking but without the swag and entertainment value Asuka brings.

Does ROH mean anything anywhere anymore?

Jumbo absolutely torturing Kikuchi and presumably giving him the brain damage he seems to have been sporting in the past few years is actually a better feud than Jumbo vs Misawa. I almost feel like Jumbo was legitimately abusing his position in the company to hit Kikuchi as hard as he possibly could with no chance of reprisal. At times it feels gross, tbh.

He's definitely in my top 20 for beating the fuck out of jobbers. Those poor Mid Atlantic guys. I think he was harder on those pukes than even the Road Warriors or Barbarian would eventually be.

Yatsu is pretty cool. He definitely carries Choshu tags probably 95% of the time. Also lol that he got a WWF Championship match and double lol that he absolutely BLASTED Hulk in the face with a missile dropkick.

I think the pay off is probably Moose brings the title back home and it will be barely mentioned on AEW TV and the whole belt collector thing is just some side story that really has nothing to do with anything. Kenny has been MEGA champion for like a year and a half and I think he's brought it to AEW TV twice.

I want to say the first episode Kenny was on, there was a backstage segment with Tommy Dreamer telling D'Amore this is exactly what would happen, that AEW was going to use them and make them look bad and move on, and D'Amore was like BRO WE GOT KENNY OMEGA ON OUR SHOW THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT. And then 4 months later, AEW has completely big leagued TNA the whole time and TNA looks even lower rent than they did before this started. I really thought Tommy Dreamer was going to weasel his way onto TNT and take a One Winged Angel on thumbtacks, though.

Shelton has a better WWE HOF career than a good chunk of guys inducted since 2004 based on just WWE careers. It would not be weird or out of line at all for a guy with as many IC/US/tag title reigns as him would eventually be inducted. But I'm still gonna rage when Dolph Ziggler gets into the HOF.

I would definitely not expect any of those people except maybe Chelsea Green to be on Slammiversary.

I would say it is pretty incredible Warlord is alive at all and his heart didn't explode 20 years ago

Every UWF show was on the various archive google drives for a couple of years so I'm sure that stuff is still pretty easy to find. In fact: User Account (archive.org) I've seen most of his UWF work and while it's much different to what you got out of him in WCW, he wasn't exceptional in that style or company and it probably wouldn't change your opinion of him all that much unless you truly have only seen him in WCW 2000.

FinJuice/Good Brothers themes back to back might be the two worst entrance themes I've ever heard in a single match. I'm unreasonably annoyed that they kept talking up like there's never been a champion vs champion match when Don Callis is explicitly aping Heenan/Bockwinkel stuff and Bock himself was involved in multiple champion vs champion matches, and there were also plenty of AWA vs NWA and NWA vs WWWF matches not involving him.

Idk if they are "classics" or not but Boss Man vs Hogan cagematch Boss Man vs Barbarian at the Rumble Boss Man vs Mr. Perfect at WM Boss Man vs Bam Bam at the Rumble Wanna say there was a real solid Ted vs Boss Man match either on MSG or MLG show

As I mentioned before, the Macho/DiBiase match on the SNME right before WM4 is basically that match exactly except much better for various reasons, including a much hotter crowd and two guys that hadn't had 3 other matches in the night even if they were short. There were FIFTEEN matches before DiBiase/Savage at WM. There was no energy left for anyone or anything by that point. Miserable show.

Brock vs Otis has been ruined because Bianca could easily carry Otis around on her shoulders so why should I be impressed if Brock can throw him

Tenryu has matches with all those guys, but even early into his career his best matches are with Jumbo. And I mean as an opponent. Tenryu has quite a few matches teaming with or against Billy Robinson, Dory, The Von Erichs, Baba, Brody, Hansen, Flair, etc in his first couple of years. He rarely pulls it all together but there's definitely an extra gear he gets even in his earliest days when in the ring against Jumbo.