Matt D

i'm still playing catch up, but I'm looking forward to getting a better sense of Conway, Jr as a wrestler.

I got a kick out of the Mark Briscoe > Jumbo talk from last week's Exile, but it would have been even better if the talk about how good Bossman was that immediately followed it had been tied in.

If they are serious about making Reigns, feeding HHH to him in February would be the way to go. I think Hunter would veto that on the idea he had to look strong for whatever Mania match he has.

Throwing this out there: would people rather see Reigns vs Brock II or Reigns vs Cena at Mania?

They should absolutely get credit for doing something well. It's just not some sort of grand plan. There's also no reason to think that the next few weeks will go well based on history. Good on them for tonight though.

Props are due but it was a different crowd. That Rumble was mainly a travelling crowd.

"The Mike Jackson principle."

I'm too lazy to find the general lucha thread, so I'm tossing this here. I know what I'm watching tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDBb2s6nPiA

If they're going to go that route, have him fired or suspended off screen and not come out for a long opening interview segment. Then when he comes out at the end, the crowd wouldn't have seen him for the whole show and they'd be excited and ready to. I'd find him doing the Randy Savage sits in a chair in the middle of the ring and destroys people opening acceptable too.

His performances in matches is generally amazing. Being great in a match is not enough? Enough for #10? I think so. Enough for #1? I honestly don't know.

So if he comes out tomorrow night, they can use that as part of the build to a Rumble match.

Did I read somewhere that Brock was booked against Del Rio sometime in the next month?

Now if we get that and Brock vs Sheamus...

Cena vs Taker has to have some sort of stakes. I have no idea what, mind you.

The TLC concept is such a mess. We've already seen a crazy ladder spotfest, a thousand chairshots and a complete ECW style weaponfest. How little are the spots in this main event going to mean? How much less than if every other match on the card was wrestled straight?

I look forward to Ric turning on Charlotte for Bayley's heel turn that lasts five weeks in six months.

I have no idea who this guy is. But good luck to him getting yelled at by Vince McMahon.

I'd hate to be the thing to follow that.

Hit on Sasha?

I kept falling asleep during the Chavo vs Fujinami match. I gave up on that idea back in August. I have a loose plan to get the NJPW DVDVR 80s set AFTER the deadline though. I can only get so much familiarity between now and the deadline and I'm focusing on the last set of lucha guys I really need to work out (Solar, Villano III, Perro, Sr. Navarro, Black Terry, etc) and the WoS guys (Breaks, Grey, Cortez, Collins, etc), plus the few US guys I have a problem ranking (Vader, for instance).

I may have Mr. Saito for Japan.

Honestly? I have no idea. Almost all of them look interesting but I don't have the time to delve deep. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Th5H5_S4zGyHhRjNBzAcBN0SxJ-WiRkc2VHGWySArGA/edit?usp=sharing There. 60+ matches. It took me 15 mins to put together. Have at it.

There are a ton of Eaton singles matches from 90-99 on youtube, but a lot of them are

It's an opportunity for added narrative richness. It's just that some people can make their own opportunities.

And how many PR people will make your list, do you think? Roughly? I'm trying to decide where best to focus my last couple of months. PR was a place I was considering.