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Interesting to hear Patterson's response to the screwjob (on SCSAS), talking about how he was angry and went to the bar to drink for a while, compared to Prichard, who sounded more let down by thinking Vince couldn't trust him.

Ouch. And I was thinking that part could have been all Sasha after she saw Amber O'Neal call Dana that in a tweet last Monday.

that promo was gross.

not only are great matches irrelevant, anyone can have them!

Glad someone finally points an element that has been ridiculously overlooked when you hear that John Cena is a great worker. In today's environment, I dare say that the Warrior working modern WWE main events carefully plained out by agents would be considered a great worker too. Hell, he had one great match against Randy Savage, and we know how that one worked out. The modern WWE style is the most manufactured and self-conscious style of all time. And in essence, the "fakest" of all time, simply because it says the least about the workers involved. How did this turn into bagging on the guy that's constantly calling the match loud as fuck in the ring for not being a great worker again?

barely being on TV or having any mic time a year out of developmental will do that, too.

I think it's from the Terry Funk's Wrestlefest show.?

Even Sasha's character at this point is just a theme song and sunglasses.

http://blogofdoom.com/index.php/2016/02/18/rf-video-shoot-interview-with-mr-fuji/

He threw his arm out because he was trying to minimize the impact on his back/neck. I agree he probably thought he was landing short, which is a different problem when you can't trust the guy tossing you, but when you watch the video it really doesn't look like he actually would have and Balor simply panicked. It might have been uglier if he hadn't thrown his arm out or it might have been okay, like it was when Ambrose took the same bump.

Wrestling is an art, where knowing the result doesn't ruin it, while MMA is a sport and if you know the result, then why watch? Yeah but 6 million people watched Diaz-McGregor 1 on youtube over the past two weeks. Doesn't seem that the drama, art and technique involved is lost once the outcome is known. I never heard that "needs live" coverage argument compared to pro wrestling but whenever Meltzer says he's gotta talk about MMA first on the show it's usually because it's the "bigger" story that day across all sports media or "people keep asking me" or something like that.

Sometimes it's not that simple. Especially considering they could have agents in their ear feeding them these ideas to do in the match and the company is encouraging dangerous spots all the time across the roster. Anyway, it looked like Balor tried to break the fall with his arm and him turning to his side like that is what got him fucked up.

they did it last night. Not at all. Nak doesn't work like he was in New Japan, doing a lot less actually, but the Joe match was excellent. Code Red... Cena needs to dig up the Canadian Destroyer at this point. The submission exchange is sad. They went into the final stretch almost out of nothing. Your finisher, my finisher, my finisher, win.

they did it last night.

Yeah, that's not what happened.

I had a ton of fun watching Naito-Omega. But I also thought Omega executing a spring-board, flips, and multiple lifts - with perfect form! - after having his leg constantly worked looked ridiculous. Worse than Okada, given how strongly he was selling it earlier in the match. It was a really good match and the crowd was red hot and didn't seem affected by any of it, but it came off like he over-sold early on and instead of telling a story where his offense worked around excruciating pain he really was able to perform everything fine, with some wincing in between, until just the end. That also kind of took away from the drama of the ending for me when he finally did buckle but powered through. He'd been doing that the whole match anyway. Okada-Tanahashi seemed much sloppier to me and the ending looked botched (if not, I couldn't buy it logically) like they wanted the time to run out mid-count but went too fast so Tanahashi had to hit a second HFF instead of just going for the first cover.

I enjoyed these https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/762384284975894528 https://twitter.com/ProjectCiampa/status/762420025042964480

Totally understand why it's not for everyone, but think it's fair to ask why you don't see the head-scissor attempts / counters in that sequence? Regal also gave his opinion: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nmenas Bonus gif https://gfycat.com/SelfreliantAggressiveJunebug

https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/status/736307748309073920

Yeah, but they didn't. Yes I must be imagining the quietness between the spots. Dude re watch the match, the proof doesn't lie. Unless you can point out where/when this happens in the match, you are. Cuz every time I watch it the crowd is reacting to the selling you say they should have given up on.

Yeah, but they didn't.

I still have all Blitzkrieg's matches on my hardrive so I think this one will hold up just fine as a fun, tightly worked 15 minute match that's doesn't have the lagging set-up spots or stop-start taunting of the RVD-Lynn matches.

Guess we're working with completely different definitions of "heat" and "wrestling match" then if it's just a coincidence that a number of those spots ended on notes that were about them going neck and neck together and the crowd was only eating up because it was so stiff (when it wasn't actually "brutal" in any sense of the word).

Now I'm wondering if I saw the same match as everyone else. I watched this twice now and hear: crowd counting along with near falls. crowd chanting and clapping for them to get back to their feet several times after kick outs. Cheering ricochets comeback, then towards the end solid chants for Ospreay I see: entire rows full of people smiling, leaning forward in their seats with their mouths open (between big spots, not during), women holding their hands to their face looking concerned And the crowd popping BIG for exactly those spots that were about the sense competition, the double head kicks, headbutts etc that punctuated the exchanges and were telling the story of the match. not hearing any of this "shut up" silence during the match tho

It's funny how people on twitter were also retweeting gifs of Roman-AJ and how that was what movie studios pay to have done in CGI. Thought it was a super fun match. For me, what hurt it was the loud spot-calling and Ospreay's facials are really goofy. I understand why people don't like it, but surprised it's getting that much negative criticism, maybe as a backlash because many people actually liked it? Crowd dug it and everything Richochet and the Bucks etc have been doing on undercards doesn't seem to have killed the believability of other matches on the shows. When Vader says he's seen enough of that bullshit he's referring to what exactly? the old float over, kip up, handstand, face off that Jrs were doing 20 years ago or what? Would Bix be retweeting Nash if he said the same thing? Have seen much worse in the last year, even with a supposedly "good story." Would rather watch a super tight, well-timed and choreographed, mostly safe-looking, Jackie Chan stuntshow than a badly-timed choreographed women's NXT match, which I've seen people far more forgiving of and actually praising.