MikeCampbell

I always remember Gorilla Monsoon commenting that Skinner would make a good tag team partner for the Brawler.

The 12/19/11 RAW, following the TLC PPV. One of the better RAW openings in recent years, with a promo from CM Punk to celebrate his win, and then bringing out Zack Ryder and Daniel Bryan, who had also won titles the night before, and setting up a main event of the three champions against The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, and Alberto Del Rio. It happens to take place in Philly, so the crowd was already hot just for Bryan, Punk, and Ryder all being champions, and they keep it up for that main event.

Marc's comment about Bill Dundee being the tallest midget wrestler got a good laugh out of me.

BROCK LESNAR vs. ROMAN REIGNS (vs. SETH ROLLINS) Another Goc recommendation, but, I liked this one a hell of a lot more. Reigns still isn't doing the heavy lifting as far as offense goes, but, it makes a lot more sense against Brock. The little bit of offense that Roman shows feels more natural (for lack of a better adjective) this time around. When Brock takes the header into the post, it makes perfect sense for Roman to start teeing off on Brock with his best strike. Roman dodging Brock's shoulder tackle on the apron and pelting him with kicks is another smart moment like that. It's a great example to show that it doesn't necessarily matter *what* one is able to do, as long as they're smart about how they do it, like Roman is here.

Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns (RAW 12/14/15) Goc pointed this out as an example of Roman pulling his weight, after I remarked in the Payback thread that Roman didn't seem to be able to do so when he was working in main events. I'll admit that this match did a lot more for me than Roman's matches with HHH and Styles, but, it didn't feel like Roman was performing marginally better, or different. The few things that he was given to do were well done, like putting over the midsection after Sheamus did rolling senton, and he was good about milking the near falls at the end. But, that's part of the problem I've had with him, he doesn't seem to have much at all to do other than his four main moves (drive by, jumping lariat, Superman punch, and spear). Now granted, the angle here is that Vince is trying to stack the deck against him, so, it makes sense to have him behind the 8 ball for most of the match. But, the finish run kicked off with a Superman punch near fall with Vince pulling out the ref, and it's not like the Superman punch has ever been made out to be a potential finisher.

Except he's already pulled his weight in main event matches numerous times. But I realize a lot of people are married to the "hurr Roman sucks!" narrative despite all evidence to the contrary. Care to provide a few recommendations? Last night with Styles, although I still plan on re-watching it, and Mania with HHH both struck me as uninspired efforts from him.

I may have to watch Reigns/Styles again, because I seem to be the only person here who didn't really care for it. It had a few great moments, like the Superman punch while AJ was airborne, and the near fall from the 450. But, it seemed to be booked and structured to try to hide the fact that Roman isn't good enough to pull his weight in a main event match. I'm assuming that tonight will be a trios between Bullet Club and Reigns/Usos with AJ getting the pin on him, to heat up Extreme Rules.

It's up now! 5/31/01.

With the network presently on a big Smackdown! dump, two episodes seem to be noticeably absent. SD #25, featuring the in-ring debuts of the Radicalz, and also the 5/24/01 featuring TCL III. I assume the main reason for their exclusion is Benoit being featured so prominently. Edit: And what do you know? 5/24/01 is uploaded now!

Dare I say that his rant was Cornette-esque!

I won't see it until tomorrow at the earliest. How did the crowd react to Gallows and Anderson attacking Roman?

I think Cornette would have been a good mouthpiece to put with Dash and Dawson.

It doesn't seem like such a big stretch. They lumped in ECW on TNN with ECW Hardcore TV, so lumping in WCW Saturday night with the existing World Championship Wrestling episodes would work.

"We ran three shows a day, seven days a week!"

Based off FPT's comment in the giant TNA thead. Which of them has had been worse for the business over the last ten years?

OMG yes. Jim did a really good job at keeping Greg on track, but once Greg got going, there was no coming back.

It looks like that's how it's going to end up, just like the end of ECW.

Did they say whether or not Gallows is going by Luke Gallows or Doc Gallows?

I did a google search, to make sure I'm not crazy (I still might be, but not about this. . . . ) They credit Meltzer with the report. I let my sub lapse, so I don't know if there's any validity to it, or if they're just using his name for the hell of it. http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/backstage-news-why-kassius-ohno-was-fired

I believe it was reported that Hero was released because he was complaining about not being called up to the main roster, and saying the he thought he was better than some of the ones who had.

That's brilliant!

Why is Ambrose/Brock a street fight? Considering where the show is taking place, a Texas Death Match would be more appropriate.

VINCE RUSSO Where do you even begin? David Arquette as the WCW Champion. Vince Russo as the WCW Champion. The Voodoo Kin Mafia. Team Pacman. Beaver Cleavage, GTV. Terri Runnels miscarriage. Judy Bagwell on a forklift. He tries to take credit for everything that was good, including just recently claiming the Montreal screwjob was his idea! And when something didn't work or get over, then it was somebody else's idea or fault. Hell, try to read his blogs, and you'll see that he doesn't even know English. He says shit like Kevin Dunn is always at Vince McMahon's "BECKON CALL" or talks about the great "SEDIMENTS" he has from remembering the glory days of the attitude era.

How well did Steen's involvement in EVOLVE 9 go over?