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Ain't no stopping him now (unless he gets injured again).

I'd argue (or perhaps agree with your arguing) that something is innately broken/out of whack when you feel that way for a match you gave 4 stars.

And once again, you don't enjoy a dick spot. (because he's a heel... a dick... see what I did here ?) See, I'm not going to be a stingy reviewer like you. You're getting 4 1/2 stars for that joke. Thanks. I'm trying to work comedy posts inside the context and conventions of PWO. Your selling is the pits.

He sure is a cowardly chickenshit heel.

It's always more impressive to build something up than to tear it down. When the comedy works within the conventions of wrestling, I'm way more impressed than when it just dumps them or mocks them, especially when the next match on the card has to embrace them once again.

There is a difference between comedy that makes fun of the heels or the ref and comedy that makes fun of wrestling.

Is that the month with the Fuji vs Strongbow match? (kidding, but if so the best choice we probably have that people would have access to easily is Bruno vs Patera; I should have probably said August, 87).

I'm going to nominate something from August 1977 instead.

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/29998-judy-martin/?hl=judy I didn't get very far and most of the matches are down now. It follows Stacey's diva logic to a degree (just, you know, far more balanced). She didn't have a ton of opportunity to have traditionally great matches, but you can see just how good she was by watching her work.

Martin is the best wrestler in those matches.

Corbin Baronsen. They can hire Leah Vaughan to be his valet as Leah "Wild Thing" Vaughn.

I mean regardless if matches happened there that qualify as the Best of the 80s they should be counted. I think a case for Flair vs Kerry from Hawaii as the best match of the 80s can be made. Just because Hawaii was a layover/working vacation spot doesn't DQ it from contention. Leave no ROCK unturned I can think of one that can be left unturned (at least for a certain era):

How do you mean? https://books.google.com/books?id=whe0idKbGXMC&pg=PA136&dq=shawn+michaels+demolition&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwippqOZ0MzVAhVGSiYKHRfpCJsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=shawn%20michaels%20demolition&f=false The idea that they didn't give for the Rockers in that match is crazy. Heels giving too much (unearned especially) for babyfaces was the biggest problem of the 80s WWF tag team style. Demolition (Ax especially) made their opponents earn it (not unlike how Hansen is lauded for doing the same thing) but if they earned it, they sold and it mattered. Rockers came out of that match looking better than if Eadie worked it 50-50 with them. Moreover, pecking order DOES matter. Through being careful with their selling (including reacting) against the Rockers (or Rogs or Bees), when they have a match like they do at Summerslam 1988 with the Hart Foundation and suddenly put them over way bigger, even begging off from Bret, it makes them, who the Fed was pushing way harder, look like huger stars because there's built up expectations from the fans. It's just a totally backwards view of what matters and an egotistical one of how that match should have work, ironic in that he frames it as the complete opposite. Not every "great match" looks the same.

I like how excited Gotch seemed that Enzo was selling so well for him.

I really like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5STdkX-Vs But I'm not sure if it's "OF THE 80s" material instead of just being really freaking cool.

Is the first half actually what happened?

Except for when we do GWE again next month!

I know you're like 6 months past this part now but I did just get the full episode where Bob Armstrong gets turned on in the Cage by Robert Fuller and uploaded it on my channel. I might double back to that as everything will resonate more now. All I have to say currently is that I really enjoy whenever Brad Armstrong and Tom Prichard are paired together.

Nothing exciting in Hidden Gems 3 unfortunately.

I'm not too worried there because they always do two collections.

This isn't current but this channel's been posting stuff for about two weeks and someone should take a look at it. I just don't have time. Some 90s stuff from Nueva Arena San Luis https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6KVUK9heGjBkcjfa00tqYw/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

There are three levels of this. 1.) Limb is worked over at a point in the match. When it comes time for a transition, limbwork is forgotten. It's never come back to or referenced. 2.) Limb is worked over at a point in the match. This sets up a transition somehow (for instance, babyface's back gets hurt and worked over allowing for the transition to heel offense. After a hope spot/cut off, the heel shifts to the leg because either a) the back wasn't working anymore or b> the heel's finisher targets the leg). 3.) Limb is worked over at a point in the match. Even after meaningful narrative transitions elsewhere, the limb is still remembered through subtle reactions or big narrative sweeps. All that said, it's a microcosm of a bigger issue: Everything in a match should have meaning and weight and should be reacted to. Nothing that happened in a match should be dropped, or if it should, it should be paid off and moved on and some things are easier than others to do that with. It should all be built to a bigger whole. Sometimes limbwork can be transitioned out of in a satisfying, meaningful way. A lot of times, they don;t even bother. (Note: I kind of want to type FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR FLAIR here, because you'd hope he'd do #2, but he really, really, really doesn't)

To be fair, weirder things happen every month in wrestling.

Great match which Michaels totally misunderstood.