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AWESOME match. It's so good. One of the best Cornette performances I've ever seen. One of the hottest crowds for the hottest tag I've ever heard. I think I gasped when I heard the level increase for it because the whole match was hot, but I wasn't expecting that. A picture perfect shine where the timing was spot on and the little things like how fluidly the MX would go for the hair to force the whips worked. Then all the Cornette Shtick which was so over the top and the crowd was so into. That led up to the transition where Rogers played an amazing FIP but Fulton especially had this sense of near-desperation in being unable to protect his partner. You get the stupid babyface who keeps distracting the ref but this felt more genuine somehow. Rogers with a few really solid hope spots and the MX grinding down and punishing him and Cornette getting his licks in again and again, and finally that hot tag and a fun finish. Crowds don't get better than this. No, this was great. Stop what you're doing and watch this. EDIT: It's way better than the one from World Class from around the same time, which is a good fundamental match with fire and great heeling, but this was so much more.

cha ching.

More this:

I read his comments as the parable of the blind man and the elephant, mainly, and I was okay with them for what they were. Look, I'm the last person in the world who thinks you have to be a wrestler to have an opinion on wrestling, or even strong opinions, but at any point we are dealing with incomplete information. We can only go off what we are shown. Opportunity is an idea that comes up a lot in ranking wrestlers and what have you, and part of that is their opportunity to perform or show off or to have different sort of matches and part is our opportunity as viewers to see those things. So, maybe a guy like CJ Parker is better than people have been given reason to believe. Without the matches for us to see, we can't judge that. All we can judge is what we have to work on. There are plenty of ways to judge, mind you. Matches and ratings, performances, roles, etc, and if you've watched enough wrestling, you can extrapolate some things outwards, or at least try to. There are always things we simply can't know about a match, let alone a wrestler, but so long as we're consistent in our metrics, it's generally okay. There are times where we'll be wrong. There are more times when we'll be right or at least right to our own feelings. At the end of the day, it's a personal thing anyway. When we start interacting with one another on it, it's still okay. we just have to try to understand and admit our biases and blind spots and try to adjust for them best we can.

These are getting me through work this week. I just got through #5 and am starting here. I'm looking forward to this one because it's probably the absolute sweet spot of me watching wrestling as a kid.

I watched the Jones tournament final last night and liked it. I'll probably check out the McHoy match this week too. He's more kinetic than Breaks, but I need to see more before I have any real thoughts.

When's the last time they did one?

We talked a little about this here back in April: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/30781-wwe-the-two-fanbases-hot-crowds/

One of the only two teams in the entire world I'd want to see wrestle the Young Bucks.

I think that Vince is personally frustrated about the Reigns stuff. I think he's frustrated with millenials, especially the fan base. I imagine he's proud of Hunter and Stephanie for NXT though.

Make sure to watch the MSG cage match. I haven't seen it in 13 years but it was fun live.

She said on Jericho that they told her to work completely differently, to basically do the opposite of everything she did in NXT when she came in and be a vulnerable young babyface.

I'd love to see that gimmick where the second turns heel on the babyface.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RobBrazierJr/videos There's a bunch of weird stuff on here that I've never seen though it's all been out there for years (even on the channel for five years).

One's Bret. One's Neidhart.

His beer guzzling bro taunt thing was probably a mistake to introduce.

They'd almost have to put over Sting way bigger than if they had the show in that case.

Great, you brought it back to Molly Ringwald. We're doomed. She's going to be #84 on Chad's list now.

Chavo's jumping kick to the back of the head was awesome. Some great arm drags in that match too. It was basic (and had that Guerrero stuttering heat thing) but I liked it.*

Jingus is correct.

I am satisfied.

Liger vs Jericho seems a not bad choice to celebrate Jericho's 25th year in wrestling. I kind of dread what condition Malenko's in but that might have been a fun one too. Maybe a tag.

No match yesterday, which is okay. It happens sometimes. Tharpe and co. are busy. It's funny that he said on twitter, in response to someone "Everyday!" on when new matches would go up on the first day in a while that they didn't post one, but it happens. But then, today is Terry Taylor vs Tom Lintz. Like a kick to the gut.

The crowd sure didn't like him. He was even getting booed in Canada by the end.