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I am completely conflicted on these right now. On one hand I loved the Survivor Series and Lethal Lottery at the time. On the other hand, I hate Hell in a Cell, Elimination Chamber, TLC, Money in the Bank and Extreme Rules. I think the Rumble gets a free pass, because it is a once a year match to determine the main event of the biggest show of the year. While, the others are frustrating. TLC, Hell in a Cell & Extreme Rules are the laziest of bookings. These type of matches can be cool, when a feud calls for them. Knowing that it is October so it is time for the blow off to the biggest feud i the company, always feels forced. It is never the right time for these type of gimmick matches. Elimination Chamber & Money in the Bank are at least acceptable in the way that they are there to build up something for the future. The Chamber I might be cool with if it gives the #1 Contender for SummerSlam or something, but it's bullshit for the champion to defend the title in that type of match. MITB's gimmick is beyound stale and useless. It's just an excuse to not properly build someone up for the title and usually leads to depushing a guy in the future. Where do you guys stand?

I loved everything about the match until Rollins showed up. 4 1/2 from me, due to that. The money in the bank gimmick is so played out and I think the finish of the show was a major cop out.

The match does not suck in a void. Watch it now, it's a good match with an insane crowd and it is really fun to watch. Hogan is great seller in the match and the lay out is perfect. This notion that the match stinks, seems to be the same notion that wrestling has changed and without speed and huge athletic spots it sucks.

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Damn it Kelly, I forgot the awesome honky Fuji promo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Re-editing and re-posting..... if you download now you are missing out.

Click here! Host: Parv (Where the Big Boys Play) Guests: Kelly (Titans of Wrestling) & Steven Graham (All Japan Excite Series) On the first Super Show of the monthly format, the group takes a look at the wrestler career of Mr. Fuji (mostly in the 1970’s). Kelly provides an amazing bio, including a great story on his title run in San Francisco. Here is the amazing playlist that Kelly provided: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6RCTo_Cd0BU1a6Snab1xk55NMKk5hNi

Question: Do we boo Rusev because he is Russian or because he has destroyed all the babyfaces and is a better athlete than all of them?

That was actually my point, but I forgot to go back and argue. Thanks.

NWA SAW?

WWE is trying to present itself as a worldwide organization. Running territorial gimmicks that were aimed at a regional audience just further points out their hypocrisy. And there's nothing novel about the act either, especially for someone who's not from the US like myself. Pretty much everyone I know has cut at least several Lana-esque promos about how stupid americans are, which kind of diminishes her success. I don't know, it seems like every country is pretty against Russia right now. Heck, Canada has laid sanction after sanction on them. Imagine how over Rusev would be in Ukraine? Anyway, the thing that seems to be missed here is that being pro Russia is not all Rusev is about. He is a bad ass dude who throws everyone around and kicks them in the face and makes them submit. The only person who can beat him was Cena and Rusev has beat him in the past. Russia is the starting point with Rusev, not the whole point.

You do realize there is about 6 administrators too, it's not just Charles and Will? We all discussed this and sent in our feedback. Also, can some please tell me the appeal of leaving one off comments with no response on a discussion board? What is the purpose? If you aren't here to discuss wrestling, but are just here to make one off comments and read those then we have completely different views of what a discussion board should be. EDIT: The too many topics being discussed thing seems ridiculous, because they are all maintained on the front page. If there was so many topics that the discussion sections went through a couple of pages, I could see everyone's point.

Not what they will do, but what I would love to see. Rusev defends WWE Title against Brock Lesnar 3-Way Ladder #1 Contenders Match between Rollins, Reigns & Ambrose Undertaker's retirement match against Luke Harper IC & US Title Unifcation match Cena vs Bryan Then just add Cesaro, Zayn and Titus into respectable matches and I am sold.

Rollins' muscle?

That would be freaking awesome, with the BIG IF being they treated it as a big deal.

How is a Russian heel outdated???????

I like the idea that repetitive actions is boring and a bad thing, when that is the stuff that gets over. When you have built that stuff up over time and then you change things up a bit it gets even more over.

What is a one liner or thought about wrestling that you can't spin into a discussion, if not what is the point of posting it on a discussion thread. Anything you can think about relates to a broader topic.

What is your favourite or the most bizarre you can find?

See the issue is that post had no responses, while you could had started a thread about kayfabe brother teams and had an interesting discussion. The mega threads lead to a stifling of conversation or great discussions being buried and missed due to so many any other posts.

I agree that Extreme Rules just being a better version of WrestleMania is annoying, however doing three stright ppvs is not a bad thing. Vince Sr. used to book MSG title programs one way. 3 straight matches at the Garden. It worked wonderfully then and still could work today.

As long as you don't shut these types of threads down once they (inevitably, IMO) veer off into a bunch of different directions or start getting multiple replies to posts that may be worthy of their own thread just like the comments megathread did, it's got a good chance of working. We'll still lose some of the randomness that made PWO so much fun and unique compared to other boards, but hopefully we'll retain a good portion of it. I guess it's up to us board members who enjoyed all the neat things in the comments megathread to now bring as much of that type of thing out into the regular board if we want to keep that vibe going. Challenge accepted! I don't understand the point of the post that doesn't deserve a response? Isn't that what twitter is for?

If I remember correctly 1/1/96 was a year in review show or something and they just aired a ppv match from 95.

You legit think Lance Storm was as over as Rusev is?

The only guy who has gotten over as a heel. He has been wrestling for five years and only doing long matches for a year. In that time he has had great matches with everybody and seems to get better every match. He does every small thing great and is tremendously charismatic and great on the mic. Bray Wyatt had a similar run into a match with Cena at Mania and look how more important the Rusev match felt compared to the Wyatt match.

Orton, yes. However, you need someone as a top heel. Rusev is the best candidate, so screw everyone else.Best as in "better than Luke Harper?". Yeah, no. Luke Harper is great and can be a great guy near the top of the card, but Rusev has proved he has something really special.