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Because Nia being Australian doesn't go well with the story of her being related to The Rock and Roman Reigns, who are Samoans but good ol' red white & blue 'mericans, god damnit. She has to be from San Francisco and make a difference.

So I've reached EP6. It slowly kinda progress into a nice little show, although some of the most über indieriffic matches I've really not cared about. Not too sure about the kinda revivalist stuff either as of now (I mean, trying to really go into full 80's mode with the Stud Stable... it's reaching). On the other hand, I've really enjoyed Schiavone on commentary. Salina de la Renta is quickly becoming a favourite of mine, she seems to be an excellent heel manager, which has been such a lost art. Tom Lawlor and Gotch are quite a good act too. Although I know it's different in nature and context, it kinda amuses me to think of Lucha Underground as ECW and MLW as SMW...

I agree. Cody as a character and working along with Brandi as an old-school heel + valet >>>>> Cody by himself doing the modern workrate style match.

DDPY update. 6 months in of using the App (+ one year of the old videos). I've done my best Extreme Psycho workout ever (got up on those damn extreme push-ups, no reps but going up twice was already a feat as far as I'm concerned) and finally hit the 10 Ten seconds push-ups today (ok, 7 done allright, the 8th was a struggle and the last two were as godawful as that Taker vs HHH aussie match, but I never hit the ground with my knees so it counts damnit!). Yay me.

One thing that struck me, is that Ronda really looks like she's on the verge of being "just another girl", if that's not already the case. It's crazy, she should be nothing less than a super special attraction working very near or at the top of the cards (of course, we're not there yet in term of women in WWE). You know, kinda like Lesnar (except without the suckitude).

He's both underrated (by Meltz, in this case) and overrated (by the "he's as good or better than the other Four Pillars" crowd). There has been points when he was actively bad when he was teaming with Jumbo or Kawada up to 95 (after that point, not so much anymore). His best stuff in NOAH is terrific, but overrated in the sense of it's been often portrayed as him "carrying overrated Kobashi/ broken Misawa", when it was clearly not the case. For instance, I just watched the infamous (and great) Kobashi title defense from 2004. Taue's best performance since the Nagata match. Yet, people are confusing the fact that he looked great and better than Kobashi and the fact that the story of the match was him looking great and better than Kobashi, while Kobashi had to give a more subtle, understated performance of a guy who was exhausted by his title reign and had to hang by a thread and use an killer death spot at the end to escape his fate. It has been described by some as "Taue carried Kobashi to a great match and reigned his worst head-dropping tendencies", while in reality, Taue was great at what he did, being a terrific offensive worker, but Kobashi actually made the match really great because of his performance and psychology.

The ending was like the Curtain Call at the glue factory... (until the angle to set up the Saudi show of course, because that's what it was all about)

Remember when the WWF was making fun of 45 year old Hulk Hogan main-eventing in WCW ? And now, we're having *this*. Australian fans deserved better.

Yeah, it was not much better then...

Taker's face is orange. A Hulk tribute maybe.

Wow. I had not seen old Micheals yet. The arms though. He's training...

This show is still going on ? Damn. I want to see the living-deads already.

I enjoy the longer episodes too also. The last few shorter cards one felt very rushed and by-the-numbers. Carlito I couldn't give a shit to begin with, so I'm not expecting much (maybe some stuff about that piece of shit father of his ?).

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't paying a lot of attention to that match, it was lunch time. Piss-break match now I guess.

I enjoyed that 6 tag a whole lot. Ronda is soooo good doing the clean-up job.

No kidding. Ok, is Brie gonna kick someone in the face again ?

Cracked me up. The hair are a bad idea, especially when you're balding.

Like I said... Becky being Irish, wouldn't she be the defacto babyface here ? (I'm getting intercultural tips)

Come on...

Beautiful, progressive Melbourne.

I can't stand that shit. This is so stupid and totally breaks the pace.

Where's the royal family ? I mean, you also have one, don't you ? Say hello to the cam, Stacey ! Bar vs New Day ? Ok,so this is a house-show.

I was watching all the iMPACTS too, imagine that... I guess the 2012 hype will get me back at some point, but for now, I'm done.

I was watching all the iMPACTS too, imagine that... I guess the 2012 hype will get me back at some point, but for now, I'm done.

Thanks. Fuck no. (well, I'll probably put it in the background, like I said I don't mind watching the women's matches in prep for the historical #Evolution(actually we're the last ones joining the party with and at best 10 years late behind TNA, yes, TNA was actually more advanced than us but we can't say shit about Gail King and Amazing Kong unless we buy their tape library and joshi puroresu never was a thing ever) PPV. )