Matt D

In the set up promo to the Sasha vs Bayley stuff it bugged me a bit how much they hyped being the best at "woman's wrestling" instead of just wrestling, if that made sense. It didn't seem real to their characters.

Also, they can make a delineation on screen. Sasha giving Izzy her flowers is okay. Them showing it as part of the live special would not be not ok. Them showing it on a backstage special is maybe ok. The curtain call was okay. Them showing it on a backstage special was probably okay. Them showing it on the live special was probably not ok.

I would have bitched if they had showed Sasha giving Izzy the flowers. What they did show, I was okay with.

Maybe he heard Ray Stevens tell it once.

I haven't been posting about it but I've been working my way through things lately. A few Zoltan Boscik matches. A bunch of Cortez. Liberal amounts of breaks. I'm just getting a sense of things still.

I watched the 26 min Jones vs Finlay match last week. I'm ready to watch some more Jones now.

I'm super high on the finishing stretch of the main but as a whole, it might have been overly ambitious. In general, I agree with Will. Some great moments. Not nearly as strong a total package as their last match. The heeling on Izzy was really striking. All that said, the post match stuff was one of those things WWE does so well. They made it feel like an unquestionable success. Sasha collapsing was a way more emotional moment than the horsewomen thing to me.

I know that Bayley has watched the Rude ones from the 90s and that's the most distinct spot.

Usually (as much as I hate the fact) I don't think that the work you guys do moves the needle too much. Here, though? Colon seems like he just needs a few more votes, so maybe it's enough.

I predict that Sasha is going to get intentionally dq'd in order to pick up a fall.

Jerry Jarrett in the 90s was basically a mercenary. It's in his nature.

You guys basically need to settle all of this by having Chris Harrington be in charge of attendance numbers.

I want to see Chris talk about Sting

They're ironic heels. They were mocking Cena's genuine nature and his charity work?

I will admit that I am missing the daily uploads. Got spoiled.

Kris needs to lose his voice so I can play catch up.

I forgot about Ziggler trying to get the crowd to call Bryan names.

Smackdown would have definitely been in better shape if Bryan was still here.

This was really good. Great escalation within the rounds and within the match itself. I wonder if the finish is better or worse than many TNA finishes that you're watching tonight though.

I'm going to watch some more Jon Cortez on youtube instead.

I thought the Valentine vs Brody stuff was really interesting too and that he got more out of Brody than most people usually do.

I remember thinking that Robinson and Jumbo were like an old married couple bickering and I enjoyed it for that. But I also can't back that up on my memory either.

Very interesting match, being heel vs heel. I think this brought out some of Harleys' better qualities. The way he took over both in the first and second fall were both very gritty and effective. He gave Gino a lot, but it never seemed as over the top as you'd see in matches where he was putting over a babyface. Absolutely loved the paralled spots on the floor to set up the ends of the first two falls. I'm not sure if I buy into how much the crowd was getting behind Gino, but there was an element to that and ultimately a tragedy that even though he was basically doing everything right and on the level (even the chair shot felt warranted), he lost his shot at the belt due to no fault of his own. Then he had a temper tantrum and all the good work as a competitor he had done was washed away. I do wish it had just a few minutes more to heat up the finishing segment, but the sudden nature of the finish sort of played into that feeling of Gino doing nothing wrong. We're lucky to have it.

I remember being unduly high on Brunzell vs Jumbo but I couldn't tell you why with all of those threads on DVDVR lost forever.

It's pretty ironic: Cena overreacting to the notions that he can't wrestle has done a lot to make him someone who can't wrestle instead of one of the best in the world like he used to be.