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I understand not liking tag team wrestling, but I don't understand liking wrestling and not liking tag team wrestling. What is your favorite kind of wrestling? Just saw this question. I tend to prefer one on one. It's more realistic to me. You don't really see tag team boxing or tag team MMA. Furthermore, there are a lot more options in terms of how to map out a singles match, but with tag team wrestling you tend to fall into a formula where there are less interchangable parts in a match. Basically I am not saying all tag team wrestling is the same, it is not, but it is relatively close, compared to singles wrestling.

Dylan, it seems like, and I could be off base here, that you just simply hate Tanahashi?

After reading the WON awards related threads talking about Tanahashi, it got me wondering... Whatever happened to Shinsuke Nakamura?

I would take it a step further, I don't like tag team wrestling, period. RnRs vs MX is a big part of why.

Wasn't Delirious their booker before? I don't really watch RoH, so I don't know how bad Cornette is, but is this really a positive move?

There was advertising for the past month or so on local TV for a WWE show taking place in September, a hour away from here. Their selling point? John Cena. So yes they do spotlight certain wrestlers to try to boost ticket sales.

About Show, from the list above, it seems like he averages a turn per year. Punk is averaging a turn per 1.5 years, not much better.

Forgot about Cena debuting as a face and Orton's 2004 face run but honestly I think point stands. Orton has only one extra turn with about 3 years on Punk in WWE. Also lets be honest, Punk is turning face again by next year. No way this sticks longer than 6 months. It's just excessive for a guy who is supposed to be a true main eventer.

Only problem I have with the Punk angle is this is like his fourth or fifth turn now. He's approaching Big Show/Kane levels and will run a risk of damaging trust if he keeps doing it. Compare that with Cena and Orton who has been on top longer and only turned once or twice.

No, that's not at all why the Rock attacked Cena and gave Miz the match. In the go-home Raw show before Mania, Cena gave the Rock an AA to end the show. As petty as it may be to you, THAT is why the Rock did what he did.

When I get drunk, I tend to get a little more active, so I don't watch wrestling. I do drunk wrestle a lot though. However, high on pot? I love watching just about everything wrestling related. I tend to like deeply psychologically based wrestling matches or "OH SHIT!" wrestling spot-centric matches.

Reminds me of middle school when I tried intramural wrestling and I tried to hook my opponent's leg in a pinning situation. He was like "What the hell are you doing, pervert?" Also got yelled at for trying to do a snap suplex (failed miserably due to my opponent sandbagging justifiably so).

I got the sense Hornswoggle was the anonymous GM for one night only, and not the same one who wreaked havoc back in it's run.

I may be wrong but didn't Jericho win with the enziguri once or twice in WWE too?

Yeah but come on, is anyone really going to stand here and tell me Ziggler was a better champion than someone like Mark Henry, on virtue of body of work as a non champion? Really?

It was during that bullshit with Edge when Vickie was GM of Smackdown and banned the Spear. He only had it for like 20 minutes, then lost it right back to Edge when Teddy Long re-instated him or whatever. I don't think it really counts. Yeah I remembered that but also did not count it, so was confused why people were ranking him and thought I missed something else.

I think Vader has more of a cartoonish appeal to him that people can instantly get behind. Sid was just an old skinny man.

When did Ziggler win the title?

I hate Shawn, and there is no way he doesn't make my top 50 US workers. I think with him, it is a case of the sum being greater than the individual parts.

I really think that line was this year's "I'm back and I'm never leaving again!" line. Just something designed to get the crowd to pop like crazy thinking he would figure in plans a little more prominently. The most I can see them doing with the Rock is MAYBE letting him win the Royal Rumble as a surprise entrant and then losing the title match at Wrestlemania to really close the chapter on the character.

Because like I said, the booking said so. Rey is booked to beat bigger guys more often than Kendrick is.

Size only matters when if the booking of the character dictates it. For example, no one in the world would buy a Brian Kendrick beating Brock Lesnar. But Rey beating Brock? Maybe. If people were completely re-trained to believe talent and ability conquers all, then no it wouldn't matter.

And Rey beating Brock with gymnastics wouldn't? No it absolutely would. I DO have a problem with Rey as well, but he has had a LONG career of wrestling huge guys and it's understandable he knows how to strategize against them. Look at his match with Kevin Nash in WCW. It was a banana peel victory for Rey but that's the sort of thing I would expect for him to beat someone like Brock. It would be hard for me to envision a banana peel situation with Danielson, because again, Brock would just lift Danielson off the mat while in a hold and shake him off. If all Danielson would do is roll him up in a flash pin, perhaps, but that's not his game.

Not to excuse him, but it's no surprise. Dude's a juvenile insecure guy who runs a company that is strongly rooted in high school level culture, who was drunk, and fucking around with his buddy Patterson.

I've met both Danielson circa last year and Angle in his WWF/E heyday, and I can say, yes. Considerably. Angle looked to have a legitimate 40 pound advantage over on Danielson. Angle was really around 215-220 whereas Danielson was around 175-180. Of course, Danielson is miraculously adding weight through a rigorous workout regimen but he was still smaller than Angle. Then again, Angle was also a gold medal winning wrestler. What REALLY is Danielson's claim to fame? Again, to bring up Benoit, he was roughly the same size as Angle but was not put over Brock as much as Angle, because all he was is a "fake" professional wrestler, albeit however good he was at it. Brock is a 260+ pound beast who was a NCAA heavyweight champion and a former WWE champion before adding a MMA heavyweight title to his resume. In what world is Danielson ever really going to be able to compete with that? Yes, wrestling is fake, and I would not have a problem with a match between Brock and Danielson where Danielson somehow won, but that would require for me to truly suspend my sense of disbelief.