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MNM is one of the most creative tag team gimmicks ever.

I forgot Van Hammer. If I recall, didn't Steve Austin try to get a good match out of him as well?

Well, Bret was more professional than Shawn. Shawn just cared about himself. Bret caed about putting on the best match possible, sometimes at his own expense.

I'd probably go with Diesel myself. Their KOTR '94 and SurSer '95 matches really hit the mark. Yeah Diesel was surprising in a way. I think his matches with Bret were better than Diesel's matches with HBK.

HHH? I'm not sure people expected Foley to drag out two consecutive good matches out of this guy.

Bret "The Hitman" Hart: When I first became a fan, it was his cool demeanor and good wrestling skills and professionalism that won me over as a Hart fan. While his attitude after the Montreal screwjob and WCW embarrassed me a little, I will always consider him "The best there is, the best there was and the best there will ever be." Best Opponent: He had many good opponents, but my vote is for Owen Hart, his brother. Just a tremendous series of matches at Mania X and Summerslam. Worst Opponent: Probably Goldberg. It's very hard for me to think of a "bad" Bret match considering how much of a mark for him I am, but the match with Goldberg wasn't very inspired. I'm sure he had worse matches, but I can't remember them at the moment. Most Surprising Opponent: Take your pick- 1-2-3 Kid, The Quebecer, Patriot, even Stone Cold. Most Disappointing Opponent: Ric Flair, without question. The way those two were hyped as technical masters, and they never seemed to be on the same page. Chris Benoit was another disappointing match. Just a random match reliant on spots and sentiment for Owen. Dream Opponent: Hulk Hogan. Do the job, brotha!

I think that Batista is going to go over HHH in the cell, jump to SD, and leave HHH to feud with Cena. And now that HHH would have put over Batista three times in a row (once in his match) it gives HHH enough ammo to have the stroke to go over Cena in a future match. (HTQ brought this up at TSM and I agree with this theory).

I'm an unclaimed booker! No, seriously...

Tim, I agree with you for the most part. However, while we popped for the beatdown, it was because we wanted A GOOD ENDING. When we got that in the form of the beatdown, we did go nuts, but after the show ended we realized, "Wait, JBL did win... This sucks." Though you're right about everything else. And I value your opinion over Scott Keith's anyways.

That's true, but as a person who was there, my point is the finish didn't exactly send the fans home happy, like Tim Cooke apparently claims. After the show I heard a lot of grumbling about the DQ finish. They all wanted to be sent home on a positive note. A postmatch beatdown doesn't change the fact their hero LOST, albeit by DQ. Not to mention it was very unsatisfatory for the people in Los Angeles, who invested themselves in the storyline, seeing JBL crap on their heritage and et al, and we all felt Eddie didn't get the sufficient revenge. Though I do admit the match was great in its own way, it just wasn't what the fans needed.

I'm referring to the card, not the name itself.

The problem I have with this match, being in Los Angeles for the show, is that while the DQ ending "made" sense in term to the match build and such, what reviewers fail to realize is the show it was on. Judgment Day 2004 was just horrible horrible horrible. So for us fans to sit there and take that crap, only for them to end the show on an unsatisfatory note such as this DQ finish, it served only as a "Well fuck you guys. We'll run the real finish elsewhere." By this virtue, in context to the show, its a **** at best. By itself, if you just happened to pop the match in, without watching the previous matches from the show, it suddenly looks a lot better. That's just my opinion.

Why couldn't anyone bite down on Foley's finger when he did the claw? Element of surprise plus once the move is locked on, there's nothing much you can do but pass out. Have Rey's Six Seconds be like that. In theory people could drop him on his head, and it will likely be a spot in the future (should they go this route), but Rey has the speed to be in one place at one moment, then in the Six Seconds move quicker than you'd say "6-1-9!" and once it's locked in, the opponent should sell like they're being choked out or something, and they start buckling before collapsing.