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He sounds like Chad to me. I've never seen them in the same place.

They really need to stop putting the Rumble in places like Philly.

It's always possible that some other Lawler match might turn up too. Greg Valentine was a guy I didn't expect us to have any of from the initial match list so I was surprised when he showed up battling Brody in that battle royal.

Yeah. Like mine. His is "R."

Good. You found Eva Marie's new gimmick.

Sting may have even moved the needle, so far as we can tell these days. WWE was much more socially active than for usual PPVs and it was up against football and the emmy's.

Hey, they'll almost certainly be in my top 30, and probably higher than that. It's a personal preference thing. I can appreciate that something is effective but still not prefer it or think it is superior (even if it's potentially more effective).

I've done the legwork. I'll write a lot about this sometime in the next month. I think it has to do with implicit vs explicit storytelling though.

It's a personal thing. I think this is my biggest problem with Flair and Hansen and why I lean so heavily towards Bockwinkel. I want, at the highest level, at the very least, the illusion of intent.

I doubt I'll be the low vote on Hansen but he's going to be outside my top 20. I think I have a pretty good sense of him now. In general, I find him unimaginative in Japan. I'm not saying anyone could do what he did, because he's talented and very good at portraying consequence and I enjoy him more elsewhere, but I think the "unrelenting guzzle," which is what I'd call his style there, is about the most uninteresting style imaginable. It's real in all the ways that wrestling should not be real.

Are we sure this isn't just WWE realizing that they need more guys at the top of the card over the next few years and keeping Cena out of that scene? Or is that too logical?

The injury actually protects Sting a bit.

The best thing about Sting is that he forces everyone not to work the super indy style.

Rollins finally gets to work like Honkytonk Man like he should be instead of like Blitzkreig on steroids.

It's easy to have a decisive finish if you're putting the loser over in the main event right after.

When you have to argue away gravity, it's probably not the move to do, yes.

I hate it too, except for in trios when the partners hold the guy up. I actually kind of liked this one because it looked like Rollins was standing on Cena's hand (held on the top rope) to keep him there

Don't we have one or two people here really into Rollins?

When was he good? Sleeper era? Granted, he was wrestling Rey a lot.

Sorrow's hat lives to be worn another day.

For a match I didn't really want to see(past the antics) that was very solid.

Owens' stuff is way more tolerable (and even enjoyable) when it focused and not so back and forth-y.

Johnny promised to eat his hat and record it. Remember?

Thankfully, Sting is better than 95% of the roster at working out of holds and getting a crowd behind him.