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As I'm still going through it (reaching end of 2007), this is what should be emphazised. Shitload of good to legit great stuff has gone under the radar because "oh, it's TNA", which is ridiculous. If you look at the amount of shitty wrestling and storylines going on in the WWE during the same time, I'm not sure the ratio would be that much different, honestly.

Mayweather sure can beat up a woman...

I think it was the Nasties switching with Scorpio/Bagwell also...

Is Nickelback big in India ? KAYFABE, Jinder, kayfabe.

And really, Tiger Jeet Singh, fucking atrocious in the ring but drew a whole lot in Japan against Inoki.

That part was tongue-in-cheek (not the rest though). I know he's not Snuka. (nor... Kensuke Sasaki ?) Actually, the one thing I'll give Khali is that he's got a freaky presence and character that Giant Silva really never had, and that made him kinda fascinating to watch for car crash matches and Royal Rumble spots. BTW, remember Giant Silva ? I used to love him back in 98 and hoped he would get a push and be the next Andre. Yeah, I know...

Exactly whom I thought about. (and for the record, I don't give a flying fuck about "HOF" wankeries in general, so there) ((plus, Jinder Mahal will open the India market. Ah ah ah.)) (((was Bret Hart German BTW ?)))

Harris Boys vs ICP streetfight ?

Indeed. They could have been a real star act for the company in the long run, both as babyfaces and heels. WWE's inept booking made sure it wouldn't happen past that one Mania match against Cena. If it's not true, well, good luck to them, they seem to not be in any plans whatsoever at this point. Gotta have those Jinders and Cass on TV.

Can't wait to go up to that point. Crane has been growing on me in the earlier phase of the tournament. His match against Taya was all kind of good. Taya is another one that has seriously been growing on me. Dante Fox, not so much growing on me however. He's a complete video game worker, which is impressive on pure athletic level, but I don't connect. The whole Marty vs Fenix deal, with Melissa Santos getting in the way of Mariposa was quite fun, as was the post-match with Marty going all Abby on poor Fenix. Dunno where that goofy Cage stuff is going. Not too sure I care that much honestly. Enjoying the whole Texano & Famous B stuff. As the girl said, Texano is kinda boring and dull, so that makes him more fun to watch.

Let's see : He's a godawful worker who can barely make a step without looking like shit. Barely above Giant Gonzalez. He actually killed a guy during training. He arguably opened the Indian market which is probably why Jinder is pushed today. And from all acounts, he's got a big ego to boot while having zero talent. Yeah, great legacy, for sure. Ah, 2017...

Come on, people in the US used to watch the Tour de France during the Armstrong days, weren't they ?

The Nitro re-announcing is pretty damn funny. Coolest moment for me, during a Villano IV & V vs Lizmark Jr. & Garza match which had brutal (and funny) lucha libre insensitivity calls from Tony (it would made some fragile people cry) : "Then again, I watched some Lucha Underground and some of the stuff there is pretty cool". The idea of Tony Schiavone casually batting an eye at LU and liking some of the stuff made my pro-wrestling fan day.

Not to mention Tony making sense of Wrath's gimmick by going all GoT, with a Cersei reference. Tony's awesome.

Come on, it's a fucking figure of speach. Everybody does that. Who cares about % and *, really. The match was no good, especially for a Cena PPV match, that's what he meant.

Considering it was not even a good match and considering Cena's record on PPV, I don't see how that's an outreagous statement. Funny how people bitch about "Meltz hates WWE" but no-one mentions how he loved the main event and how Braun came off like the biggest star to him. Doesn't fit the narrative of the thread I guess. (I don't really care about any of Meltz idiosyncrasies nor snowflakes, unless it's to reflect something about how it can influence the style of the indies, but the constant one-way bitching is getting totally ridiculous. Rename this Bruce Prichard's R'US already.)

The Beach Ball is more over than Roman Reigns. They should have Roman throw Beach Balls in the crowd before his matches. Leaping Roman. Merchandise heaven for each summer.

Sooooo. John Cena vs some scrub. Really, I never saw shit in Corbin, and he was particulary exposed again here as a guy cosplaying a wrestling heel. His whole body language is plastic. He "acts", and he does it badly, he seems completly self-aware. And he's a boring, plodding dull-ass nothing worker with two good spots per match at best. Sp, next to Cena… yikes. Well, bye bye Corbin push, we hardly knew ye. And good riddance. Okayish match, all thanks to Cena. Natalya vs Naomie. A bit awkward and spotty (damn that blockbuster outside was wasted), but overall quite a good match, Natalya is a very solid heel and Naomi brings tons of color, pun intended as I never get tired of her intro and outfit and she has a flashy moveset to boot, and good babyface feel. Cool to see Natalya finally get the nod, especially in SummerSlam which had tons of cool Hart moments. Likes this quite a bit. Well. Bwahahahah, I ain't watching this shit in non fast-forward. Looked god awful anyway. Fuck me. Randy Orton bringing more uncharisma to the show. Rusev looks quite awesome. I liked him better with a greasy, fatter look but let's be honest, I'm sure Lana prefers it that way and it appears that he's actually quite a good looking guy too. It's a shame they killed their act, it was gr… WHAT THE FUCK ? Oh, fuck you already. Wanna see Rusev & Lana go to New Japan at the Dome for a special attraction. Fuck this. Sasha Banks vs Alexa Bliss didn't connect at me first, although I can't get enough of Bliss. Love the petite bitch heel stuff. Matt killed me with the Jem comment too. Yeah, I realized a movie got released, but that actually brings me back to my childhood. Yeah, I was watching Jem and the Holograms. Yeah, it was a girl's cartoon. Fuck off. So, it developped into quite the good match and I though the final stretch was actually excellent. Hope Sasha was just selling the arm though. Hope Bliss push will keep on going (and well, she was in that next PPV vignette, so, one could hope). For now, the girls are 2-0 Well, I dreaded this match, but much to my surprise, I enjoyed it. They twitched the Demon entrance, which is nice as I was bored by the endless crawling back in NXT. Bray could still be saved, maybe, he's actually capable of working when he's not doing a bunch of bullshit. Good story of Bray being in over his head with Face Fuck Me Demon. Did a good job making the character a bit more special too. Liked this. Ambrose/Rollins vs Cesaro/Sheamus. Excellent stuff. Loved it. This show is actually turning around. This is a clear case of the whole being better than the sum of the part (and that is true of both team I guess). Of course, Cesaro going for the beach ball was hilarious and the spot of the night thus far. Crazy finishing stretch, cool ending (yeah, kinda sloppy but at least it was different), feel-good moment. Awww. Shane MacMahon. Well…. Ok, I don't get the hate for Kevin Owens, he still brings stuff to the table. And this was quite a good match I thought, even with Shane-o Mac sweating his ass off and taking focus off the match at the end. AJ Styles is still the best guy in the company. Shane looked bloated. And orange. Looked like a 50 year old Brutus Beefcake actually. Well I liked the match and the bullshit was actually rather well done, so… Nak vs Jinder. The less said the better ? Jinder is repulsive. Between the veins and the acne, it looks like his skin will explode any minute. His work is the shits too, but he's not bad enough to be entertaining. Nak jobbed out to fucking Jinder Mahal. Hope he gets a sweet amount of money, because his best day in WWE will forever remain his first as far as star power and work goes (BTW, where was Sami Zayn ? Not enough room for him I guess, so much talent displayed so far). And then, the show savior. Battle of hosses turning into a gigantic car crash from the get go. For the first few minutes, this was the most fun wrestling I've seen in forever. BRAUN. Yeah, no need to say more, this was killer. To me the match took a bit of a downturn with Brock going on the gurney. Stopped the momentum, and it was typical WWE booking for drama instead of letting things flow. When Brock came back, the finish was kinda obvious (not the fact it would be Roman eating the pin though). So yeah, a bit repetitive at points in the second half but still the best stuff by a wide margin. Super fun match, Braun is the best monster in the US since Vader in WCW, cool finish (yeah, I was bored with Lesnar forever but he was revitalized here). Not *that* bad really, as I enjoyed both women's matches, the US title despite the bullshit, the tag match and the main which was great. But tons of offensive shit too (see > Corbin, Cass, Mahal aka "they're BIG"). Murders Mania. Not seen Takeover nor the Climax finals yet. Glad I didn't try to watch this live though. Matt calling the Singh brother Merry & Pippin cracked me up good.

Damn, South Side of the Sky is still a ****** song, easy. Ok,, time for Yours Is No Disgrace now. Keeping the long ones to put me to sleep into beautiful dreams. You may proceed with the wrestling people.

I'd rather listen to Tales From Topographic Oceans on loop than watch this stuff live. Cherry picking tomorrow morning or something. Enjoy yourselves though. And, well, bon courage.

2008. Actually it was not a female wrestler, it was an employee of the company, Big Japan. He was basically sexually harrassing her until he was denounced by Big Japan's ring announcer. Public apology, got fired, disappeared from basically all the promotion he was working with at the time, and he was everywhere back then. I think he promoted for a while, but that was really the end of the game for Kanemura.

Nevermind, I just checked the card. Yeah. I have zero interest in about 70% of this shit. Only thing I want to see is Nak vs That Indian Guy, just to see if they actually job Nak (which would be kinda hilarious in an ironic way), Alexa Bliss vs Sasha Banks (although I guess they won't get much time) and the main event which could be really fucking good if the four hosses just beat the piss out of each other and it's not all gimmicky and contrived and overbooked. The rest. Major yawn. Yeah, that tag match maybe. I was planning on watching it live like Rumble and Mania, but this card is way too fucking weak. Not staying up the whole night to see Bray Wyatt and his video projections of worms vs the Kiss Demon and yet another boring Orton match no one cares about and Baron Corbin vs John Cena (yeah, it can be allright thanks to Cena, who cares) and Big Show in 2017 and shit. As far as the Trump shit goes, well, I guess they could bring out the Harris Boys and have them squashed by the New Day to make amend of sorts.

This qualifies as corruption of minor BTW, not pedophilia. Not the same thing, really. But anyway, this is neither here nor there. He sucks, and not just…. (refrain from making a joke here). (and yeah, Snuka, Barr, Rockers drug-fucking "rats" (which qualifies as rape BTW) etc… this is (was ?) a sleazy business. One case I can think of was Kanemura, after he sexually assaulted a women wrestler in a locker room, he was basically blacklisted)

With the *free* weekly podcast, this is more irrelevant than ever. Wish he would work with KC though.

Just saw Corbin choking up with the MITB and being rolled up by Jinder fucking Mahal. All of this totally reeks of nadir of irrelevancy in term of WWE history. It's the mid-00's again folks. Yikes.