Grimmas

It's "Three and three-fourths," damn you. What would the metric version be? Also, you are off my Christmas card list, Steven. I moved away from Ottawa 2 years ago and couldn't be happier! Come to Toronto and see the Pan AM games anyways, it's better. Border police stink.. we are all sorry about that.

I was trying to say you could make an argument for him each year, but was the wrestler of the decade.

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CZW Best of the Best (4/11/2015) The first round is all three way matches, but with elimination rules to make it less frustrating. First Round: Aaron Williams vs Caleb Konley vs Tommy End This was a lot of fun, especially when it came down to End and Williams, who both impressed big time. Just great striking and bombs. It's like these guys know how to do NJPW better than a lot of NJPW guys do. I want to see more End and Williams, but I am glad I get to see more End at least since he advanced. Tracy Williams vs Jonathan Gresham vs Trevor Lee Williams came to the ring like a bad ass Pride FC guy. Gresham came in an octopus mask and arms. Finally Lee came to the ring to Taylor Swift. I was pumped and this match was great. I was impressed by all three guys. Gresham did work like a Muta octopus with quick movements and bending in weird directions. He even hit a tope into the first row. I really want a Williams-Lee match as these two were killing it. The match came down to Lee vs Gresham where Gresham won with an ink mist. I thought only squids did that? A really fun match that I loved. Joe Gacy vs CJP (Yes CJ Parker from NXT) vs Joey Janela Janela was the first to go and didn't leave much of an impression. I liked the look of Gacy, but he did a lot of shitty flip moves (would probably be real good if he cut it out), while Parker looked way better here than in NXT. There was an angle finish where David Starr (he was out earlier setting up an angle with Tim Donst) cost Gacy the match and Parker wins with a huge palm thrust. I can live with that. Andrew Everett vs Buxx Belmar vs Mike Bailey The final first round match. I love Bailey and I know Everett is good, but have never seen Belmar. Belmar's prematch promo was pure gold. He talked to the moon and a squirrel and he will be the best of the best. I swear I have seen Belmar in Smash, but I can't tell for sure. He's purely a character, but has some in ring talent. These match did the best job of doing a three way. Just really neat spots done to damage both guys at the same time. Belmar completely hung with these guys, but was beat by a 630 by Everett. Bailey immediately hits a shooting star double knee to pin Everett. Great finish. A really good match. First round over and we have End vs Gresham (sounds awesome) and CJP vs Bailey (potential, maybe) Devon Moore vs Connor Claxton (Scaffold Match) Weirdly this wasn't a scaffold match. It was a decent bloody garbage match with a scaffold at ringside which was used as just a higher top rope to do dives off of. This goes on way too long, considering how short the first round was. I missed the finish due to making popcorn, but it seemed like an alright match... not my stuff. Although there seems to be an alright story of Claxton doing a trial death match series. Tommy End vs Jonathan Gresham (Semi-Finals) The grappling was pretty good at the beginning, but when it turned into a real match Gresham was not at the level he was in the shorter sprint in the first round. End was doing his best, but it just never clicked. Gresham won with a figure four. I guess Gresham is a local guy, so he goes to the finals, but.. I wasn't feeling this. Reading a review it looks like Tommy was legit injured, so this all makes sense now. CJP vs Mike Bailey (Semi-Finals) Bailey is a great opponent for CJP as he is smaller and sells like crazy. Strangely Parker stole the flexing pin and the triple power bombs from Jericho. Bailey is such a great undercard and he really made the match with his selling and working underneath. CJP hits this HUGE palm strike while Bailey is on the top rope which knocks Bailey out to the floor. What a great spot. CJP misses a moonsault and Bailey has a crazy comeback with a million kicks and amazing fire. Shooting star double knee to the back follows that for a win. A really really good match, I would recommend. The crowd chants CJP afterwards and gives him a standing ovation. Never would had guessed that. OI4K vs Danny Havoc & Lucky 13 This was looking shitty and all reviews are bad, so I skipped ahead to the finals. Nick Gage is back and there is a super long angle about it. I kept skipping ahead and it kept going. Then there is a million promos by various guys and Gage. It's weird having a babyface that just got out of prison after 4 years. Now a promo by Gresham. Holy shit get back to wrestling I want to watch the finals. Jonathan Gresham vs Mike Bailey (Finals) Finally here we go. Classic formula here with Gresham cheating like crazy and working the leg with Bailey getting in hope spots along the way to keep the crowd into it. It works even better here because Gresham already won once with a figure four, so when he hits it here you think it could work again. Bailey ran the ropes and held his leg and then did a flip and held his leg. Which was nice, but that was followed by a million kicks. He then held his leg again and it is clearly slowing him down. Bailey misses the shooting star double knee and lands right on his hurt knee and Gresham locks on another figure four. Crowd is really into this and it's telling a real good story. A slap exchange inside the figure four leads to Bailey reaching the ropes, but his leg his shot. Some sick huge moves back and forth and then Gresham hits the shooting star for 2! Bailey counters a superplex only for Gresham to shove the referee into the ropes to crotch Bailey. Another great hope spot. Superplex is countered again and Bailey hits the shooting star double knee into the back for the win! 3 3/4 and a really great display. Bailey may the second coming of Waltman and the best baby face in wrestling today since Zayn is injured. Bailey was insane all night having two awesome matches. One thing i appreciate here is that Gresham actually gets heel heat. He is actually booed, as was Parker earlier on. Heels in indie wrestling? That is really cool. A real enjoyable show, but skip everything that isn't in the tournament itself

Since he's essentially retired, how high can we go with him. Since you could make a case that he was the best wrestler in the world for a decade that is quite the resume. I really could see a case for making him number one.

As for companies teaming up I found out that CZW and Smash share the site service. Wouldn't take any effort to over a discount if you have both.

My tapings are on Sunday mornings and the show airs Sunday evening, so I don't have this issue.

The criticism of Cesaro-Cena was pretty stupid as well.

Ishi-Makabe a new dimension of believability. Holy shit!

However, generally, when a match is just trading big moves it doesn't make for much of a story. I thought the match was pretty good for a Devitt match. I had it at about 3 3/4, so really high for me.

All subjective words. Your original point was that the match felt "your turn / my turn". It depends on what you subjective stance of what makes a good match is (which you have indicated above whilst unknowingly expressing it's subjective) but at the end of the day wrestling matches do tend to be "your turn / my turn" in a competitive match, it's the nature of the beast. But you are implying this is some form of dirty method and the choice of wording "your turn / my turn" sounds patronizing. It's meant to be a competitive contest. You can have a competitive contest with control segments and transitions.

I was huge into him in 2005 time zone, but he seemed to fall off due to drugs. If he had many years at that 2005 level he might sneak in. I thought he was the future of wrestling back then.

watch the Pierrithito matches and you will be convinced.

CZW and Smash both have streaming services too.

The WWE is full of useless ppvs right now just killing time until bigger events. I would say about 4-6 ppvs are not useless on the current WWE schedule.

The re-watch is a more valid assessment, because you have time to reflect and being there live always makes things feel way better or way worse (depending). Then again, according to Meltzer, only the initial reaction counts and you can not re-evaluate things. Thinking about it though, you could ask the same question about watching a live ppv and then re-watching the match 10 years later.

I loved this reaction show. Great job as always. There is nothing better than hearing Dylan pick apart New Japan and Will pointing how much Pete loves The Young Bucks. Personal pet peeve that I have heard Pete do forever and I heard Johnny do it here as well. "Four and three and fourths" sounds incredibly awkward to my ear. "Four and three quarters" sounds much better.

I was on thehistoryofwwe.com and came across the card for the very first wrestling show I attended. The one and only time the WWF/E has ever put on a show in Brockville. WWF @ Brockville, Ontario - Memorial Centre - May 26, 1993 Tatanka defeated Razor Ramon Doink the Clown defeated Crush Owen Hart defeated Terry Taylor The Undertaker defeated Giant Gonzalez WWF Tag Team Champions Ted Dibiase & IRS defeated Rick & Scott Steiner I actually remember a lot of this. Giant Gonzalez was huge in person. Looking back, this show isn't so bad actually. What do you guys have as your first?

Maple Leaf Gardens would gladly host the title change match.

I haven't seen this match in years, but I'm going through old SummerSlams and this was a huge surprise. This is the period where Jimmy Hart left the Harts and was giving information to Fuji and Demolition before this match, so Demos have Fuji and Hart in their corner. It pays off well at the beginning, because Demolition ends the shine sequence the way the Hart Foundation always used to with the kick in the back while the opponent is running the ropes. After the first face in peril, we get a second where Demolition whips Bret face first into the turnbuckle busting the cane in half and Bret hitting the post as well. Demolition than become the Andersons and destroy Bret's shoulder with submissions, punches and slams. It's really a great face in peril beat down. Bret finally makes a hot tag, after some fun teases, and Neidhart is a great hot tag just hitting dropkicks and slams and then a freaking assisted slingshot plancha! Holy shit. There are some real nice nearfalls for the Harts, but a distraction and a mega phone shot gives Demolition the win. I LOVED THIS! It told a great story and used the storylines coming into the match. Both teams looked great.

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More bizarre than The Bushwhackers being Dudley Boyz in ECW for an evening?

http://placetobenation.com/the-paywindah-1/ On the debut episode of The PayWindah, Pete, Johnny and Steven break down all of the action from the prior week, from indies to international to WWE. Marty joins in to report on a WWE house show he attended that had a surprise from The Rock. Come back next week for a brand new episode as the crew find their groove in this new adventure.

Well it looks like Jack Tunney is trying a new method instead of relying too heavily on other promotions.

Toronto wasn't a real promotion. It was just another loop of Crockett with some Canada Titles and talent mixed kind of. Strange stuff.