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I would agree with your ratings for everything on the show, except the women's match which I have at **** 3/4 You watched WrestleWar and there was a LOT of filler. This match had little to no filler. Everything was either good or great. That's high praise. Also for being show of the year, you forget that there isn't a lot of great shows this year. Plus the build up was pretty great and the moment of Bayley winning has been built to for years almost and was a huge moment.

I completely disagree and it's my match of the year! How is telegraphing hope spots bad work? Yes we know Bayley will counter when Sasha is cocky. How is that bad? When I saw Sasha doing her trash talking I said to myself I hope Bayley kicks her ass right now and she did. That is perfect wrestling. As for the two big bumps. The first one and Bayley jumping up is that she missed a move. She wasn't hit with anything. It didn't feel out of place at all. As for the finish I felt the impact bumped her up. Great storytelling though, Bayley misses the big corner move once and when she tries again she does a different variation. The hand stuff was some of the best in wrestling in years. From Bayley using her other hand to strike to the selling, to the variations on the beat down by Sasha. The other thing about the match to make it great as the emotion. Sure it was smartly worked and had great spots and an awesome story. However, the fact it was a classic under dog babyface story with the crowd so into it and such a huge moment with the babyface finally winning only helps it.

At this point if they just cancelled Smackdown and put NXT on in it's place as the brand split, that would be great with me. Maybe steal some talent from Raw. Then take the NXT on the network and replace it with NXT Kids and use more development talent.

Thanks! Maple Leaf Gardens is the place to be! Yeah.. neither could afford a loss for me, so had to go draw. Just a dark match, will never air probably.

Maple Leaf Wrestling presents Wrestling Night in Canada August 21, 1983 at Civic Center in Brantford, Ontario The opening video package of Wrestling Night in Canada opens the show featuring clips of: Greg Valentine, Wahoo McDaniel, Stephen Petipas, Jesse Ventura, Ivan Koloff, Leo Burke, Rocky Johnson and ends with a clip of Rick Martel being awarded the NWA Canadian Title. Billy Red Lyons and Jesse "The Body" Ventura welcome us to the show, hype Andre the Giant being here and Jesse having Martel on The Body Shop later tonight. Jesse has some big news for Martel on The Body Shop. They then talk about the Halifax Forum show and throw it to a recap of the huge Elimination Match! Highlights of the Team Japan vs Team Canada Elimination Match. Lots of clips are shown, about 7 minutes of the nearly two hour match. These include Saito getting DQ'd against Martel and destroying him. Martel getting pinned by Choshu, Choshu destroying a bunch of guys and then Burke winning it in the end for Team Canada. Commercial #1 1. Jerry Brisco & Ben Bassarab vs Killer Karl Krupp & Rick Patterson Technical wrestlers vs brawlers. Technique wins. Winner - Jerry Brisco & Ben Bassarab @ 5:54 Commercial #2 2. Al Tomko vs Bob Marcus Al Tomko goes over to Ventura & Lyons before the match. He does a long rant about being the NWA Canadian Champion and the NWA Canadian Tag Team Champion. He is the greatest wrestler to ever lived and he is Vancouver wrestling! He runs down Toronto and says all Torontonians really want to move to the west coast! He then proceeds to squash Marcus. Winner - Al Tomko @ 4:25 Commercial #3 3. Gary Royal vs Leo Burke A fun squash by Burke, who continues to look strong. Winner - Leo Burke @ 5:51 Commercial #4 It's time for The Body Shop with Jesse Ventura. Ventura has his bodyguard the Masked Samurai watching his back. Ventura is very excited and immediately brings out Rick Martel, the NWA Canadian Champion. Ventura mocks Martel being defeated in Halifax and asks him if his title reign is coming to an end. Martel tries to respond, but Ventura mocks his French accent. Ventura goes back to talking up Mr. Saito taking the title on August 30th. Ventura will not let Martel talk. Ventura finally lets out his bomb shell. Riki Choshu will be getting the NWA Canadian Title shot on September 27th in Maple Leaf Gardens. Ventura hypes up a Mr. Saito vs Riki Choshu title match as the biggest match in Maple Leaf Wrestling history! Finally Martel has had enough and grabs the mic. He talks about Saito being a great challenge, but he will get through him. Choshu has beat him once, but he welcomes the challenge. As Martel is talking Masked Samurai sneaks attack him from behind and blinds him with salt. Security rushes in and the segment ends. Commercial #5 After The Body Shop being so explosive, Ventura will not be back on commentary for the rest of the evening and Don Carson has joined Billy Red Lyons. 4. Little Tokyo vs Little Coco Just a fine quick match to show how dangerous Little Tokyo, the NWA World Midget Champion, is. Winner - Little Tokyo @ 6:47 Commercial #6 Nick McMann is in the Maple Leaf Wrestling Event Center! He runs down the card for August 30th in Maple Leaf Gardens. Main Event for the NWA Canadian Title Champion Rick Martel vs Mr. Saito with Jesse Ventura NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles Match in a Steel Cage Champions Ivan Koloff and Super Russian with Don Carson vs Wahoo McDaniel and Buzz Tyler with Alexis Smirnoff Toronto Street Fight Rocky Johnson and "Big" Stephen Petipas vs Cuban Assassin and Chicky Starr with "No Class" Bobby Bass NWA Midget Title Champion Little Tokyo vs Tiger Jackson WWF Intercontinental Title Match Champion Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs Greg "The Hammer" Valentine Plus Andre the Giant and much much more! Commercial #7 5. Cuban Assassin, Chicky Starr & Bobby Bass vs "Big" Stephen Petipas, Rocky Johnson & Andre the Giant The Cubans come out with salsa and ponchos and are in a great mood. However the match does not go there way. They do a great job triple teaming Petipas and Johnson. Finally Andre gets the hot tag, Starr, Assassin and Petipas, Johnson brawl around ringside as Bass and Andre were left alone. A quick squash from there. Winner - Stephen Petipas, Rocky Johnson & Andre the Giant @ 11:40 Dark Match Dick Murdoch fought Greg Valentine to a 30 minute time limit draw.

I know eh?

Match of the year!!!

Jobber who got super over in NXT.

I can't wait to hear Parv's thoughts on the Vaudevillians.

The crowd is awesome and if this hold's up will be the best crowd since Canadian Stampede. The look is amazing with the darkened arena and all dark ring. Commentators are on point. The opener was really fun and I hope Liger goes in the HOF this year. Breeze held his own, great start to the show.

On the other hand, Phil Schneider wrote in the nomination thread:

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-for-august-22-2015/ As promised.

Dylan mentioned them and I think they deserve a nomination as they were a really great team for two-three years. What a breath of fresh air they were coming into the division. They have great matches with Hardy Boyz, Eddie/Rey, Batista/Rey, other Smackdown teams. Seemed like the complete package.

Discuss here.

Discuss here.

I WILL be the high vote on Masarita Dorada. I am toying with getting Little Tokyo and Mascrita Sagrada Jr on my list as well, so I may have the most minis.

I got to say this was a lot of fun. 3 hours of us shooting the shit, arguing and making jokes. Look for Pete going overboard on a phrase, the continuing of an argument through out the show and lots more different takes on everything in this week in wrestling.

Frustrated Pete, math nerd Steven and tap dancing Johnny are ready to kick it to This Week in Wrestling. The first fall (0:02:36) starts off with a discussion of our NWA Classic match for the week involving Black Gordman and Jose Lothario. How does this match compare to Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch from the NXT special? We then head into ROH TV where Johnny and Pete collide over The Young Bucks. We talk about EVOLVE 47 and 48, including some great matches and then end the fall with talk of the NXT TV go home show an Saved by the Bell. The second fall (2:00:35) is a short one looking at the finale of the G-1 Climax. The third and final fall (2:18:42) starts with our review of the go home Raw TV show. Including the Brock Lesnar homecoming and the John Cena vs Seth Rollins contract signing. How does this contract signing compare to the one on NXT? We end the show giving our predictions for SummerSlam! PTBN link to follow.

Bull and Hokuto will be high for me, top 25 maybe? I'm still going through both 80's and 90's joshi so not sure. From the limited viewing Aja Kong, Dynamite Kansai, Manami Toyoto, Kyoko Inoue, Jaguar Yokota all have a great shot of making my list too. Maybe more girls too.

One thing we should discuss is if someone drops out there should be an option to switch promotions. For example there is a few promotions that should not die now, like WWF, Mid-Atl, etc.. If someone like that drops out, I think someone in a lesser promotion should be able to bail on theres and move over.

Maple Leaf can run Florida. Lots of snow birds up there

Of course they did, just like they hated John Cena getting pushed as company ace. Looking at the real problems of why the company was broken makes certain corners of wrestling fandom uncomfortable, so the brand split became an easy scapegoat. That things have gotten vastly worse since the split ended, and that, in retrospect, the split was an unambiguous good (and seemed like an unambiguous good to me at the time) is besides the point. OK, but why was it a scapegoat? Like, what was the IWC talking point that was being used back then that made people think unification would solve problems? I guess I can picture folks thinking that the SD/ECW guys were getting hosed on PPV time, but my memory of it is that even back then most people recognized that it was a net positive to get Vince's eyes off SD and keep like, Mysterio as far from HHH as possible. The problem was two belts that were treated equally (or they pretended at times). Once you have that and it is clear it is all one company then you have issues. The main issue from that is if everybody is a champion or the ace, then nobody is.

I'm an ECW fan, so I don't hate the style. I don't think Spike is good at much of anything but be thrown around like a rag doll, and even that gets old after a while because I can't stand the character so I have zero interest in what happens to him. Total one trick pony to me, his single matches consist of him trying to hit his one annoying spot (which wouldn't be as annoying if he had anything else worth a damn in his repertoire). I can't stand the gimmick, which is something I went through in great lenghts in the past already. Mediocre at best worker, annoying as fuck character. Balls is a decent worker ruined by his godawful gimmick of trying to permanently maim his opponents by hitting them with ridiculous unprotected chair shots to the head. I thought it was retarded back in the days, it's even worst today. It's too bad because of all these guys, he's probably the best worker if you take the gimmicks away. And yeah, like Tim Evans said in his review, Balls took insane bumps just for the sake of it, in a proto-Abyss (the stupidest "mainstream" worker ever in my book) way. As soon as you get the gimmicks away from Balls, I enjoy him much more (cf his matches with Matt Striker in WWECW for instance, which were fine and kinda fun too, final chairshot aside) I think the Duds were complete garbage worker, and I'm not talking about the style. Bubba is decent but was much more fun as a goofball fat guy bumper before teaming with D-Von, who's just plain bad. They got better in the WWE, and there I'm getting both redondant and irrelevant since I was supposed to tall about Balls & Spike. (and yeah, I know some people love Spike, including Dylan who has him in his top 10 ECW workers ever, we discussed that to no end a few years ago already. ) A way better post then say they are unwatchable! I like the team. I think that match is great for all the reasons listed above. This team seemed to get the best of the Dudleys and wish they had more of a resume to look at. Nowhere near my list, but I enjoy them.

To be fair, I think it's always been a part of wrestling, for decades and decades, that when they hammer home too hard the idea that someone has someone else's back, a turn may well happen. They usually tease something first. They have teased nothing except them being good friends even family.Maybe in the match they can tease it so it makes sense, but nothing before now indicates anything. Usually but not always. They sure didn't tease it when Rollins turned on the other two. I wouldn't count the one time he walked out of their match in February either since they were as close as ever for a solid three months afterwards. Shitty booking is shitty booking.