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  1. tim
    Incredible match. Many juniors matches -- many matches period, really -- open up with matwork and then shift into another distinct phase of the match; but here the matwork and hold trading was just as offensively significant as anything else, and it was all integrated seamlessly. And it's not genteel sportsmanship type matwork either, there's tons of aggression and nastiness. In between holds there's aggressive stomping, grinding the boot into the opponent, hair pulling, etc. Otani's demeanor is especially nasty. That's one of my favorite things about Otani, he's just about the most "normal guy" looking wrestler ever but he's so expressive in the ring. His performance was really magnetic in this match. The dueling limb work gets over tremendously and submission attempts get reactions from the crowd as big as any near fall. Otani's springboard dropkick rule in this match, two awesome ones to the leg and then the big one toward the end followed by the dragon suplex for as close a near fall as you can get. The ending is tremendous, each move executed and sold so perfectly. Otani's selling of the final arm breaker was something else. Definitely an all-time classic. 1996 has some pretty high end matches, interested to see where this ends up on my final MOTY list.
  2. tim
    Good TV match. Wolfie D's apron hurricanrana was a cool, unexpected spot; and I also loved it being proceeded by Armstrong selling a face bump off the apron after going over the top for a clothesline. The leg work was good and Dundee survives it to the time limit draw. Wild post-match brawl is cool. Good stuff.
  3. tim
    NOTHING in this match went right. Every big ladder or table spot botched somehow to make it 100 times nastier than it should have been. Psicosis totally misses a moonsault off the ladder and splats on the concrete. Ultraman tries to powerbomb Psicosis through a table to the outside but the table slides away and Psicosis takes the powerbomb on the ground. Psicosis is meant to dive into a table set up on the guardrail, but the table falls while he's in mid-air and he crashes between the rail and the concrete. There's also tons of outside guys running around beating each other up amidst the chaos. There's this great moment where one of the seconds keeps hitting wild dives on the other seconds to the outside, while Psicosis and Ultraman try to pull off spot inside the ring standing on a table, and you know with every fiber of your being the table is going to collapse under them, and it does. Completely ridiculous spectacle and a lot of fun.
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    Watching this and liking it quite a bit it occurred to me that I've only watched a small handful of classic formula Flair matches over the past several years. This would probably be a good time to go back and watch some of the classics now that it feels fresher to me. Good match, and a pinfall figure four ending! The Luger/Sting thing is pretty fun pro wrestling soap opera stuff. Afterward, Savage/Hogan bickering was a step below in that category.
  5. tim
    Awesome angle. Gilbert's motivation is clear and understandable but he still gets over as a heel. The promo exchange is great. The kind of angle that makes me want to see the match.
  6. tim
    I'm tired of these short Brock matches. Remember his 2013 match vs. CM Punk? It was long, competitive, but Brock still used his unique style to make it memorable and very different from every other WWE match going on at the time. He needs to go back to that, and he definitely should have gone back to that here. They should have had an intense fight for a good 15 minutes. Very, very disappointing.
  7. tim
    There were some wild dives but mostly this was a mess and uninteresting for long stretches. The ending was cool though -- the avalanch victory roll Psicosis hit looked really sweet and I liked the idea of him taking the time to dispatch the other opponent and then come back for the pin for something different.
  8. tim
    I didn't like this match nearly on that level. I thought Okada's offense looked really bad in comparison to Suzuki, who looked like a killer. Selling wasn't good enough to warrant 40 minutes of leg work, nor was the crowd heat. Lots of good stuff in the match from Suzuki and the final sequence was cool as usual, but overall it was a good match that went waaaaaay too long.
  9. tim
    6/9/95 is my one unquestioned pick also. It stands clearly above the rest for me and I have no doubt that it's the best of all time.
  10. tim
    I like the look of the NXT card in the sense that it's not really a card loaded up with smart fan dream matches. It looks more like a real developmental card. Even though guys like Roode, Strong, Young shouldn't be in developmental they're not worldwide elites like Joe or Nakamura, and Nakamura/Roode isn't a dream match like Nakamura/Joe. I think it will prove to be a very fun card though it isn't a blockbuster on paper.
  11. tim
    I thought the clip that we have here was great, actually. Very BattlARTS -- moonsault followed up with a kimura and everything. Very different tempo from a regular pro wrestling match. Crowd was super hot and really buying the submissions.
  12. tim
    It's been a long time since I watched this one last and I really liked it here. Really had the feeling of a blockbuster NJPW Dome match, the aging legend vs. a super killer. Vader unloads the offense, the famous suplex but also a killer chokeslam and moonsault. I loved Inoki's brief comeback on the outside, whacking Vader with a chair leading to a great overhead camera shot of Vader tipping over a barricade and freaking out. I feel like the ending was too abrupt -- it works to keep Vader looking strong but for what the match was I think Inoki needed more offenses in places and a somewhat more decisive win.
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    Is WWE a monopoly?

    tim replied to dkookypunk43's topic in WWE

    It isn't a strict monopoly but its success definitely owes in large part to its monopoly power. Only promotion with a strong TV deal (and stations are generally unwilling to give potential competitors a similar deal) keeps it by far the most visible and accessible promotion despite fairly significant fan discontent. It has a much stronger brand than any potential competitor owing largely to its age, media exposure and recognizably. These are the sources of its enormous advantage over its competitors and they don't have to do with the quality of their existing product, management, etc. I do think there exists a good opportunity to challenge WWE and make good returns if anyone had the will to hire guys with the right minds for presenting wrestling the the money to back it right and put it on a major platform. AMC seems to me to be a channel such a project would want to aggressively try to get on. But none of this will probably ever happen. Somehow WWE's two major competitors, WCW and TNA, ended up impressively incompetent.
  15. tim
    I don't see what was bad about that match. There were a few awkward moments but I thought it was a perfectly good short, fast paced tag.
  16. tim
    Wow, unexpected number 1. Liked seeing that #2 so high, which I'd never even heard discussed until the 99 Yearbook and would probably be in my top 5 or definitely at least top 10 of the decade too.
  17. tim
    The context of 1930s Germany is a recent history of intense partisan political violence, intense global economic depression, a political system viewed as fundamentally illegitimate (in a way majorly different than any similar statement you can make about the US political system), real anti-Communist paranoia and a major party openly espousing doctrines of aggressive racial superiority and advocating the end of liberal democracy. You can be troubled about Trump's win and the context in which it occurred but to claim it has "strong parallels" to 1930s Germany is a huge(yuge) overstatement.
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    Yep, being told your own country hates you is no reason to feel impacted at all. Trump won thanks to swing voters who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, so this isn't the conclusion to draw from the election at all. Stating that the parallels between this election and 1930s Germany are "pretty strong" is really out-there hyperbole.
  19. tim
    "the SJW pile-on in spite of his apology is still horribly unnecessary" I guess that's for me. Read the letter. It's self-serving bullshit that's all about him and he lies multiple times in it. The whole thing has zero credibility and is very obviously designed to frame him as a "good person." Plus he clearly has no idea why people were offended (even if it seems like he gets he was fired because he flagrantly disobeyed Gabe's orders and flipped him off in the process). Like it has anything to do with if he said the word "pussy" or not. It's because the "joke," which was barely ever structured as a joke, was basically "Joanna, you look super molestable tonight, and Stokely, you're comparable to female genitalia because that's hilarious and not at all insulting women as being weak a group even if you give it 30 seconds of thought." Plus it came off as bragging because his "team" won. Again, it barely even had the structure of a joke. He was calling the ring announcer "rapeable," more or less. The 'humor content' of the joke would be the absurdity of the President-elect having been on record making such a statement. The joke is very crude and in very poor taste but can't be read as any condoning of sexual assault.
  20. tim
    They decided to run a really hot angle last minute before the second debate.
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  22. tim
    I was thinking the same thing. Does Dillinger always look this good?
  23. tim
    This match ruled. One of the best tags of the decade for sure. Awesome mix of old school tag structure with high spots and a great home stretch. Lots of intricate exchanges that were pulled off really well and didn't feel contrived. Toward the end they just walked the line between a series of dramatic nearfalls and over-kill, but never went into overkill territory. Bucks were really good as heels here, so much better than their wink-wink smark schtick. Crowd was great too, nice to hear an authentic crowd reacting to a heel/face match how they "should". Jeff hits a crazy suicide dive here. Maybe my favorite spot in the match is an exchange on the outside built around a couple dive attempts, ending with one of the Bucks superkicking Jeff while he was going for an Asai moonsault. Phil is right about the Bucks using their superkicks as really effective signature moves at important points in the match rather than gimmick spamming them. Hell of a match. Wish the Bucks could work like this more and had the right foils to do so.
  24. tim
    The slingshot is a move I like that a lot of people seem to hate.
  25. tim

    Your ballots

    tim replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    1. Negro Casas 2. Bryan Danielson 3. El Satanico 4. Toshiaki Kawada 5. Mitsuharu Misawa 6. El Hijo del Santo 7. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 8. Jushin Liger 9. Genichiro Tenryu 10. Stan Hansen 11. Yuki Ishikawa 12. Blue Panther 13. Rey Mysterio 14. Jerry Lawler 15. El Dandy 16. Shinya Hashimoto 17. Ric Flair 18. Daisuke Ikeda 19. William Regal 20. Finlay 21. Kenta Kobashi 22. Jun Akiyama 23. Terry Funk 24. Dick Togo 25. Aja Kong 26. Akira Taue 27. Kiyoshi Tamura 28. Negro Navarro 29. Black Terry 30. Shinjiro Otani 31. Koji Kenemoto 32. Chris Benoit 33. Bobby Eaton 34. Eddie Guerrero 35. Virus 36. Ricky Morton 37. Dustin Rhodes 38. Alexander Otsuka 39. Sangre Chicana 40. John Cena 41. Jumbo Tsuruta 42. Akira Hokuto 43. Vader 44. Pirata Morgan 45. Ricky Steamboat 46. Bill Dundee 47. Barry Windham 48. Arn Anderson 49. AJ Styles 50. Cesaro 51. Volk Han 52. Riki Choshu 53. Shinsuke Nakamura 54. CM Punk 55. Samoa Joe 56. Bret Hart 57. Nick Bockwinkel 58. Atlantis 59. Steve Austin 60. Tatsumi Fujinami 61. Dynamite Kansai 62. Randy Savage 63. Dick Murdoch 64. Meiko Satomura 65. La Fiera 66. MS-1 67. El Samurai 68. Tommy Rogers 69. Psicosis 70. Jay Briscoe 71. Mark Briscoe 72. Brock Lesnar 73. Solar I 74. Minoru Suzuki 75. Hiroshi Hase 76. The Great Sasuke 77. Chris Hero 78. Masa Fuchi 79. Naoki Sano 80. Yoshihiro Tajiri 81. Tomoaki Honma 82. Tomohiro Ishii 83. Sheamus 84. Necro Butcher 85. La Parka 86. Christian 87. Mark Henry 88. Shawn Michaels 89. Osamu Nishimura 90. Rush 91. Billy Robinson 92. Yoshinari Ogawa 93. Atsushi Onita 94. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 95. Tamon Honda 96. Super Astro 97. Steve Williams 98. Ted DiBiase 99. Emilio Charles Jr 100. Mocho Cota
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