Grimmas

For those who have seen the NJPW matches, are they all worth the nominations? I've read on twitter there has been at least three five star matches the last three nights.

Harts vs Killer Bees is the only thing close for me. Grimmas, I know you are from Toronto. Were you of the right age to have attended the Frank Tunney Memorial Tag Team tournament at Maple Leaf Gardens? I was there, and (as I recall, although this may be nostalgia, not an accurate reflection of quality) it was great. The Killer Bees won the tournament and got a shot at The Hart Foundation in the Main Event. For a long time, many of the matches were available on YouTube but sadly I don't think they are anymore. Anyhow, +1 for the Killer Bees vs. Harts love. I grew up in Brockville a 4 hour drive away. Never got to Maple Leaf Gardens. However saw that show on dvd a few years ago and it's a lot of fun.

Harts vs Killer Bees is the only thing close for me. Gotta be Strike Force vs Islanders Shit, forgot those. Harts are fresh, b/c I'm rewatching every Bret match ever. The Bees was their best opponent. Yeah, SF-Islanders is outstanding. I don't like the Rockers-Brainbusters series, but people like that as well. I think Demolition-Brainbusters is an all-time great feud, but what do I know.

Harts vs Killer Bees is the only thing close for me.

I signed up for Stardom World like a week ago and have already watched every Kourakaen Hall main event, plus everything else that looked cool from 2017. I am loving this promotion, great characters and variety and awesome matches with logical booking. Subtitled promos and no announcing are other huge pluses. Very pumped to follow this tournament along. Lots of fun potential matches, and it will be neat that the entire heel stable is all in one block. Going to be wild. Lots of different ways to go with booking, but I'm hoping for a Mayu vs Toni Storm finals.

Yes you do, the Glamour Girls ruled! There is a good amount of Jumping Bomb Angels vs Glamour Girls matches, that were on par or above anything else going on the WWF in the 80s.

Me too, I thought it was a great show. Plus it was nice to watch something wrestling with my wife and having her really like it. That only happens with Bayley in NXT.

Come on people:

I think this is something that could be a lot of fun. I this thread, nominate any awesome matches you see (that took place in August 2017) with a little reason why. We can discuss the match, people can approve and disagree. Sometime later on, we will pull the top nominations and do a poll. This is something that can keep going with a new thread every month. Anyways, it's August, what is great? I'll start it off with the only August match I have on my database, so far. Nomination: John Cena vs Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE Smackdown, 8/1) This gave a glimpse of what could be a great rivalry, as they chemistry is really good. The charisma really stood out here. Absolutely loved Nakamura's not seeing and then seeing Cena motions. It was a bomb fest sprint, as it was a TV match, but I thought it was super entertaining. **** for me, and an easy nomination.

It was definitely used for a gauge on what people think are the best matches.

There should be tickets at the door, but I wouldn't count on it.

Somebody says: Every time I watch an Ishii match I think he's legit hurt. Either he's a great seller or I'm right. Meltzer: He's the best seller in the business. Some recognize it. Some don't understand because only understand a singular pattern of wrestling. I really hate shit like this. The options aren't Ishii is the best or people are stupid.

Can't we just stick at 5 or go to 10? This 6 star rating system is just bonkers. I'm sorry Dave just because you over use 5 stars, doesn't mean you need to try to fix that with pure sillyness.

https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/royal-ramble-pilot It's the pilot episode of the Royal Ramble! Join Steven Graham, Tim Livingston, and JR Goldberg as they loosely watch the 1990 Royal Rumble and talk about: What the fuck Randy Savage is wearing, The Globalization and Homogenization of Pro Wrestling, The Young Bucks, Ring of Honor, plus more. When you hear the buzzer turn to the 1:37:23 mark of the 1990 Royal Rumble on the WWE Network to watch along at home, or don't, because we barely discuss the match. Except when Earthquake arrives, of course!

Any word on a Switch release? I know there was an interview with someone involved saying it would be ideal on the Switch, but I haven't seen anything official.

Rumour is Jon Jones for Brock to fight.

Why would we? WM6 didn't do great numbers.

Well that gets us to the core question that we have got to address: Should this Hall of Fame be a place for revisionism to happen? Yes or No? I think that is up to the individual. There are a few that feel wrestling is for that moment, while others feel it should be judged as any other art.

Can anyone watch the April 1990 SNME the one with Harts vs Rockers? Every time I try it skips to the next show automatically.

Part of the WON HOF discussion isn't about whether Steve Williams is Japanese. If it is this colors that process in an entirely new way. In the WON people are grouped with others that are similar in order to get fair comparisons. What the person decides make a HOFer is up to the voter. This system is the same, just instead of area it's just category A and B. If we removed the titles to the regions and just said this is region A and this is region B would that work?

The way to look at it is not as importance and quality categories, but more like the WON as a region. Even though Steve Williams is in the Japan region, you don't just count his work in Japan, you count his Mid South and WCW work too.

I forgot how much I was against separating the two categories at first.

That's a valid point and we will discuss that. One of our first model had no regions at all. There was a complaint that people didn't want to debate an Andre-Hogan vs a Chono-Mutoh match, for example.

Whats WWE's obsession with India? I mean they have a tour but that doesnt warrant to giving a Indian star the WWE Title. It's just so very very dumb to assume that WWE fans in India need to see an Indian wrestler on top in order to be interested. It's like NJPW thinking that putting Billy Gun on their card will draw more American eyeballs. Nope! That's not what the vast majority of American NJPW fans want to see. NJPW fans want to see NJPW wrestlers fighting the NJPW style. WWE fans want to see WWE wrestlers, plain and simple. They would draw huge crowds in India with or without Jinder, or any Indo-Canadians, on the card, believe me. No idea why so many promoters struggle with that basic concept. What makes it even more stupid is that Jinder is a heel. If they really wanted to appeal to the Indian market, than Jinder should be a babyface champion ala Bruno or Pedro.

or time too.