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Honestly, yes.

Shark Tsushiya was the drizzling shit. And really, I have a soft spot for Bad Nurse Nakamura, but no Megumi Kudo ? Come on, be real now... I guess you were an LLPW fan, but Yasha Kurenai ? Come on now. And damn, I haven't seen the name Yumi Ogura since, like, ever ! I seem to remember she was quite a good little worker. And those awful luchadoras like Xochilt Hamada & Esther Moreno, but no Ayako ? Yeah, no logic at all, this is random as fuck ! Bitsadze Tariel ? Like, one of the worst guy I've ever seen, anywhere in any context... Still, I'd have loved to have you during the GWE poll. At least it would have brought some variety. And Parv would have gone insane too.

(Well, yep. I take that as a compliment, too.) One of the biggest "never happened dream match" to me was Austin vs nWo Savage in 97. So, that had to be the main event. I've been watching tons of Angle in TNA and I gained a new appreciation for the guy. Him vs Backlund in their prime would have been amazing.

You don't have to pay hommage to someone that's dead. They could have picked any name. They picked Moolah. Ok. They should have the Godfather do the ring introductions on that one. Ya know, pimpin' ain't easy.

WrestleMania Back to the Future - Hill Valley, CA - Marty McFly Stadium - 04/05/2045 Pre-show : Deathmatch : Chris Benoit vs Jimmy Snuka. Special referee : Jose Gonzales. No contest. Main card : WWE World championship : Stone Cold Steve Steve Austin (97 pre-injury) vs Macho King Randy Savage (1990) with Sensational Queen Sherri. Austin wins. You won't get your win back match : Bret "Hitman Hart" (1995) vs Hulk Hogan (1989). Bret wins clean. 30 mn Iron man match : Bob Backlund (1979) vs Kurt Angle (2005). Backlund wins with the cross face chicken wing submission and a score of 2-1 Ladder match for the IC title match (aka "fuck Shawn Micheals") : Razor Ramon (1994) vs A.J. Styles (2017). Razor wins. Falls count anywhere match : Mankind (1996) vs CM Punk (2009, Straight Edge Society days). A very bloody CM Punk finally wins. Women's title match : Charlotte Flair (2017) vs Trish Stratus (2005). Charlotte wins. Tag team title match (aka "I want Chris Candido & Tom Prichard on my card") : The Rockers (1990) vs The Body Donnas (1996) with Sunny (1997). Rockers win. Shawn fucks Sunny in the back while she's putting lipstick on. No DQ match : Diesel (1995) vs Bryan Danielson (2014). Danielson wins. Mixed tag match : John Cena (2015) & Nikki Bella (2015) vs Brock Lesnar (2012) & Sable (1997). Cena & Nikki win after Nikki elbows the fuck out of Sable. Lesnar destroys Cena afterward. Grudge match : Rick "the Model" Martel vs Rey Mysterio Jr. . Martel cheats to win, you know how...

This is the only HoF he'll ever be a part of. Is Kid Kash available ?

#WomensEvolution > Moolah Battle Royal Yeah. WWE. Before. Now. Forever. Dumbfucks and hypocrites. The worst will be all those girls having to talk about how Moolah was a legend and shit and how great she was, while doing the whole "empowering" stuff... That being said, the fact they still do the Warrior award to get some PR charity is probably worse, all things considered. It's crazy how fast people have forgotten how horrible the guy was and the hateful stuff he was preaching for years.

"WWE women's matches are overrated now because people overrate WWE women's matches because it's the new hip thing" of the night : Charlotte vs Ruby Riot. Except it was the best match in the show, and the most compelling. Charlotte was also the best all-around performer of the night I thought. It's not like Ruby wasn't very good herself. A few sloppy spots here and there, but it was the case in every match too, so it's neither here nor there. The shenanigans with the women outside was well done and got more heat. The post-match was cool as hell, as Asuka slapping the shit out of Charlotte was way better than her pointing at the Mania sign, which would have been lame as fuck. Charlotte vs Asuka is gonna be the best match at Mania and haters gonna be haters yet again. Hot opener match of the night : Shinsuke Nakamura vs Rusev Seriously, why the fuck are Baron Corbin & Dolf Ziggler in the main event ? Where the fuck is Lana ? I gotta say Shinsuke still is coasting like a mofo, but considering the abuse he took after years of big matches in NJ, I won't blame him. Rusev was excellent here and actually the better worker of the two, but overall it was a very good, well worked opener. Deaf tone booking to put Nak, who's not over at the Mania Main Event level against a heel that is getting over big time as a babyface. You know, if 97 Steve Austin would work in the WWE today, he would probably be treated the same way Rusev is. Ponder this for a second or two. Set-up tag team match of the night : New Day vs Usos Underwhelming but understandably so considering it was all about the Bludgeon beatdown. Still a nice spotty sprint. You just can't get a bad match out of these guys, although I don't like Big E staying on the outside. The Bludgeon gimmick with the giant hammers is goofy as fuck. I want a Berzerker comeback so we can have giant hammer vs sword fights. Surprisingly cool tag team match of the night : Carmella & Natalya vs Becky Lynch & Naomi I enjoyed Carmella's heel work here. Sue me. She's so vulgar too. The whole bit in the corner grabbing Naomi's hair was quite fun. Can you believe out of the godforsaken no-talent team of Enzo & Big Cass, she's the only one left on PPV at this point ? I didn't pay attention to the rest. Becky was sporting a Bam Bam Bigelow outfit (as referenced by French announcer Christophe Agius, he's just the best) and her work was solid as hell. She was holding things together here. Overproduced clusterfuck of the night : Cena vs AJ vs Owens vs Zayn vs Ziggler vs Kane. I can understand people liking this match because there is a lot of spots and kick outs and save and what the fuck, but I don't care one bit. Especially when the result is obvious. Way too many overproduced bullshit with people selling forever outside a spot they would sell 20 seconds in a normal match too. AJ still rules. Cena still looks like the biggest star in the company. Where the fuck is Rusev ? Wonderful, more Shane-o-Mac at Mania. Whatever. "Supernova dying" match of the night : Bobby Roode vs Randy Orton Roode's entrance is such a case of way overproducing things. I'm watching this guy in TNA right now. He was always super solid in-ring, without much charisma and not much promo ability. Never found a real character either (he was an awkward mix of Rick Rude & Ted DiBiase). Now he's "Glorious", which I guess makes him a Paul Orndorff circa 1995 rip-off. Orton is 37 ? I hate to say this, but when they do close-up on his face, the guy looks OLD. I'm five years older and I look younger than him. I'm also way more fucking entertaining IRL. Hey, they are throwing Jinder into this mix ? Wow. Three way BLACK HOLE OF DOOM match at Mania. Opener and women's title match were very good. The tag matches were fun enough. The rest can go fuck itself. Mania in a month. It's gonna be a long, looooooong night.

Yeah, great work. This set is insane and messy as hell, so it's a task to organize this stuff. Thanks for making it available like this.

Oh. Well. Who ? SHE STILL LOOKS LIKE BISON WITH THAT MAKE-UP ! (what the mind can do on his own is fascinating) Hey, so Emma landed a job in ROH ? Good for her.

Ok, so at 46, Sumie Sakai hasn't aged a bit and still rules in the ring as a true to the master Jaguar Yokota student. EDIT (the following is me fooling myself) But then, her opponent is named Hana Kimura so I just realize that she's infact Bison's daughter. The fact Bison Kimura's daughter became a pro-wrestler and is a bitchy heel to boot just made my pro-wrestling fan day. With the make-up, she really looks like her mother at times.

This whole exchange has to be put in the Rape Culture thread.

I passed over the NJ anniversary show because the card didn't do anything for me. However, I just saw that the ROH anniversary show had Sumie Sakai, the 46 years old great self. I haven't watched a Sakai match in over 15 years most probably. I'm so watching this, at the very least.

Come on people. JR never said anything about taking roids to get a job in the WWF in Beyond the Mat. He DID NOT SAY IT. It's all *individual choices* from "independant contractors". wink wink nudge nudge I still want Cena to do a heel turn based on Lance Armstrong. With all the synthol he probably injected in his arms over the years, it's not exactly a stretch. Bitchy Nikki elbowing naysayers left and right at his side would be so much more fun than the dreafull stuff we get on top now.

Yes, it was pretty funny actually. I can understand the sentiment too. The Juicer…. Only WCW. Not to mention he had rape charges on his ass (don't correct me on the legal details). Damn, when you think about it, the splash from the top rope is the seediest move ever. It's either a tribute to Snuka or to Art Barr. Ugh...

"Never getting popped" is never a reasonnable argument for drug use in sports. Just sayin'. Also, Neville was largely considered as a good worker and he was used at his own small level on the C-show. Meanwhile, Jinder was a complete tool who only got his main event push because of his brand new, fresh and natural body (and the fact he was the masterplan to conquer the India market, yeah, that turned out well), who got speared to the main event status of the company and effectively killed the title matches (and interest in the brand) for the months he was in the spot. So yeah, different treatment indeed, because they weren't the same kind of workers and weren't recieving the same kind of a push, and whereas one's body was pretty much irrelevant, the other one was at least half the reason why he got his spot (again, with wonderful and exciting results).

I don't believe so. FWIW, Meltz seems absolutely sincere and considering what style he has always put over, it absolutely makes sense. From Tiger Mask to the AAA luchadors & Sabu to ROH to current NJ. Yep. Totally makes sense.

What a fucking shitty thing to do. Some people really would need to get a fucking life (I know it's a cliché, but still). Well, it sucks. Nothing lasts forever, but if this is the reason... Fuck these people.

Pro-wrestling at its very best, including the pre-match very short angle with Karen at ringside, thrown away by Kurt (and she throws a few "Don't fucking touch me !" at the security goons which made the thing real). This is what TNA could have been about. Hell, this is what US pro-wrestling could have been about, as opposed to those dreadfull WWE overproduced self-conscious epics. The more I watch Angle in TNA, the more he comes off like a great worker to me. Years of unfair stereotyped criticisms have made him a very underrated guy. Joe was still a great worker in TNA, has been since he arrived in 2005. This is just terrific. The only negative is a bunch of stupid assholes chanting "we want wrestling" and "boring" at points during matwork sequences, but the crowd is mostly molten and restless. Some terrific stuff here, including the best Jim Brunzell ear slap ever, a magnificent heel move by Angle of using the ref shirt to get closer to the ropes and just all around wonderful way to mix MMA-shootsyle stuff with classic US pro-wrestling. The stip of Joe retiring from wrestling if he didn't win kinda gave the result away, but still at some point you believe he's done. That's masterful. MOTYC. Hell, probably MOTY.

Political hit.

How the fuck did he fit in that 4L ?!! (that's the car you see a 1:25) I look forward to this. Also, Grenoble "in the French Alps" is quite a cool little city.

That's one other thing about him, he's godawful at selling because he oversells everything like a clown. His facials make Edge look like Misawa.

First symptons of senility at almost 60 isn't great news by any stretch of the imagination.

"And if you're one of those people who think Will Ospreay isn't any good you probably should avoid watching this match (ie Ospreay vs Okada) because it's gonna short-circuit your brain because it's freaking great." Yeah. Sure. I will avoid it though, but for other reasons.

Forget it. The limo driver got in. Koko got in. I guess Damian DeMento and Duke Droese are a stretch.