Matt D

I feel like we should be Wrestling Observers.

Tajiri came really close to making mine, and that's saying a lot. I really need to watch that Finlay match.

With Angle, it's a heresy thing mainly. There'll be a manifesto someday.

Williams looked real good real early in the Houston footage. I wonder if that helped him with abut one.

The way they would ANTICIPATE Lothario's punch in Houston?

And Rude.

They wouldn't have since he was working as his gimmick demanded?

Trust me. The confusion is a good thing.

I really love the MSG Piper vs Perfect match too.

That's a great way to look at it... I agree! It'll also confuse people way more than one without such wrestlers, admittedly. How do you even begin to dismiss this juggernaut of contradiction?

It definitely wasn't what she said. That's a more springboardy thingee. You'll note very earnest discussion of Christian afterwards so if it is a troll, it's one with a lot of heart, dammit.

For everyone's sake, I'll promise not to say another word about Angle so long as he doesn't end up one slot over Buddy Rose or something insane like that. I just had to get it out of my system. It's out. I'm good. We're good.

I'm not a big fan of the SNME one. I'd need to see the Main Event one again. But I don't think it was all that hard to get a perfectly decent match out of Warrior by even 89 or so. He had a lot of raw tools that someone good could utilize and surprisingly for someone so nuts and potentially egotistical, didn't seem to have strong views about pro wrestling should be (as opposed to someone who thought that selling instead of hitting more spots was an absolute sin, for instance).

(I wouldn't want to see the Undertaker/Sid bodybag matches from 91 again, actually. I'd rather see the few good Angle matches over those. I have my limits).

Warrior was pretty good at following directions. The only guy I can think of that's talented in the least who couldn't get a pretty good match out of Warrior at least once was Dibiase. (But I like the Andre/Warrior WON WMOTY match too, so hey).

He regressed and became worse than crap wrestlers. He was actively bad when others were just passively bad. One is far more offensive than the other.

Or they just limit it to facebook posts.

I'd watch any 1991 Undertaker match over any Angle match ever, even the 2-4 good ones. But then, I really kind of like 1991 Undertaker.

It's too bad there wasn't a master list of nominees. That would have really helped things, especially if it had links.

We're comparing two of the absolute worst wrestlers of the 21th century. You got to dig deep to compare.

It's better to have less tools and know how to use what you got to have mediocre matches than have more tools and use them the wrong fucking way to ruin matches. HHH knows how to use the tools he has to have bloated, terrible matches. I still think that's better than Angle occasionally lucking into something that doesn't completely suck while using his tools to piss all over things that have every reason to be really good.

Which makes it even more tragic that he knows better but still has shit matches most of the time anyway. That makes him worse in my eyes. At least Angle is doing what his fans want from him. I don't think Angle keeps the fans in mind. I think he just does the only thing he knows how to do. He's got one gear and it's "moron." HHH has one gear... asshole. Absolutely, and we're heel fans. We'll take self-obsessed asshole over idiot with really great athleticism anyday. We'd just take 500 other people over either of them first.

Which makes it even more tragic that he knows better but still has shit matches most of the time anyway. That makes him worse in my eyes. At least Angle is doing what his fans want from him. I don't think Angle keeps the fans in mind. I think he just does the only thing he knows how to do. He's got one gear and it's "moron."

Hey, good showing for Piper. Anyone who knocks him can't do so without seeing his Portland run. But that's not the entirety of his case.