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This was quite disappointing to be honest. First of all, the match is heavily clipped as we only get about 25 minutes out of a 60 minutes draw. Secondly, some of Jumbo's limbo work was quite generic and seemed done to buy some time (I figure they did the same at the beginning of the match, especially as it wasn't broadcasted). That being said, it's still these two and so you can expect a solid match, good selling and an easy time when it comes to getting the crowd involved. Robinson killed it with selling his leg, especially towards the very end, when the pain prevented him from beating the clock and led us to the time limit draw. Not bad at all, but it looks like the second solid part of a throwaway title defence and I can't go really higher than this ***

Seeing older fans laughing and having fun at ringside is very cool, but at times this match had too many comedy spots for my taste; this also happened because the crowd wasn't taking seriously a couple bumps that were not supposed to be comedic. However, they are two experienced grapplers and all the sequences looked clean and flawless; this style is the most similar thing to old school Lucha that you may see. While Costas was solid, this was the Ken Joyce show and he had several counters to trick his opponent, like the winning pinfall combination ***1/2

Woah, I haven't seen one of these Houston two rings multi tag matches in a long time. I'm not a big fan of the stipulation, as sometimes it's hard to follow everything that is taking place, but they planned things quite wisely and you would see a bump in a ring while the other one was buying time with a rest-hold. Gino's selling was great, him and Kerry were clearly one step above the others and von Erich's dive across both rings was very creative. The finish also made sense, because Gino and Markus cheated to win the first fall against Conway, but they lose the match once they try to cheat again. A bit too messy at times, but the match was fun ***1/4

Hi everyone, my name is Mark and I'm from the UK. Started watching wrestling at a very young age in '95, despite my parents hating it, as my uncle/cousin where big WWF/WCW fans and my grandad had lots of Joint Promotions tapes. WCW was my thing, but I remember becoming a WWF addict after watching a clip of Foley falling from the top of HIAC. Plus, while too young to know who Russo was, his shows felt so dirty and rushed anyway. Thanks to JP and a few local UK shows I knew what the indies were, but I was a full WWF/E fan until 2006ish, when I just grew tired of it. My cousin went to the ROH Unified show in 2006 and when I watched the DVD, another world opened up for me. 2006-2015ish was just the best time ever for me as a wrestling fan. Apart from watching 'Mania, I completely gave up on WWE and started watching pretty much everything else possible. My love for wrestling died when indy promoters that I respected (Gabe) or liked personally (a few European ones, but can't disclose much) sold their soul and dreams to WWE for a miserable dollar. The indy scene, but especially the UK indy scene that I loved and I supported (with my wallet as well) for years, completely died. It hasn't recovered and will never recover, not in my lifetime at least. Since 2017, I have watched little to no current pro wrestling. AEW killed it definitely for me, as they hired lots of great wrestlers and just can't get their stuff together, being a proof that great wrestlers are not necessarily good bookers and that sometimes they should be told what not to do. Furthermore, while I appreciate Tony for saving ROH from HHH's claws as Levesque has done more harm than good, the best company of the last 20 years is now a premium development territory for a TV company that can't write a good show to save their lives. Wrestling to me is a woman I used to be with and still love very much, even though we are not meant to be. I can't look at her anymore, because realising I don't love her today hurts, but I like to look back at pictures of us when we were happy together. After a few years without watching a thing, I restarted in 2020 as Covid gave me lots of free time. In the last 4 years, I have rewatched peak ROH, ECW, Joint Promotions and found out that I still love it very much. Then, gradually, I did watch a Wrestlemania, whatever AEW PPV it was and a bit of New Japan and it's just not for me. For the time being I'm sticking with the good old stuff. I have recently started rewatching lots of the stuff from the 80s, I have a list of 1000 matches and have currently seen about 100 of them. This forum definitely helped with the list and I'm looking forward to share my thoughts with you all!