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It's not that he does the comedy, but when in the match he often does it.

Unfortunately, this is what happened to it at the turn of the century:

There is a December 92 Nastys vs Money Inc match I like

You don't think Arn/Larry vs Dustin/Steamboat is excellent? Just to name one.

I watched 10/12/86. It felt about 40% longer than it actually was, which was a testament to Hansen's violence in the beginning. I really like Hansen outside of Japan so much more than Hansen in Japan. Colon's offense on the comeback was starting to lose me a little right up til the point he bit. I think it came right after an unfortunate back body drop, but the bite pulled me back in and I loved the revenge low blow. Really, the fact that Hansen was so giving on the comeback meant that it barely mattered what Colon actually did. I thought the BS on the finish took a few seconds too long to happen, but that was partially counterbalanced by how quickly Hansen hit the lariat, as if he realized that he needed to really just take care of business and get out of there. It goes on that ever growing "best matches that are under ten minutes" list and has me looking forward to watching more of this. Thanks for goc for putting it all together.

I don't feel qualified to rate them and won't be by the time voting happens

I know my limits, which apparently are "able to help source 1983 broadcast TV shows for references that Buddy Rose would probably make in promos after using his cutting edge VCR to record his 'stories' all day." Though we are back from all the summer vacations as of about 25 minutes ago. Now I just have to catch up on work.

While I am STARVING for some Bock we haven't seen, I can live with stuff like the Bracero match.

It's interesting how split everyone is on this.

Piper would do the escalating punch drunk comeback.

That's the exact joke I made on the latest This Week In Wrestling podcast.It scares me how our senses of humor match up sometimes. Then there was the time Parv commented how Johnny logic isn't that far off from the connective narratives I overlay onto matches sometimes. Truly terrifying stuff.

Callahan can be their Spike Dudley

I'm going to help out Wahoo's Leg starting next month. That's where I am here. Mid-south is awesome and I look forward to reading what rainmaker or lowblow does with it. Also I will either try to keep goc from doing anything rash or egg him on depending on the moon.

The Meltzer criticism wasn't the comedy but laziness, right? I'm asking if that was basically the same thing in Meltzer's eyes.

I never really made the connection of "comedy = laziness" with Murdoch before. I wonder if that's a point of disconnect between Meltzer and people who support Murdoch. I do think that sometimes he goes to comedy (even good comedy) at the wrong time. It never comes off as lazy to me, though. He seems to put a lot of effort into it, maybe even more so than if he went with more conventional work at that point in a match.

Even with the ratings as they are now, you have to imagine some good number will hit at some point (maybe around Mania), and someone could probably make a few bucks by buying relatively low. Hogan didn't mean a whole lot to their bottom line recently. I get a sense that WWE's stock is more based around BS than a lot of things. There's not a lot of understanding on how the business operates and thus it can get affected both ways by things that are pretty meaningless ultimately or are outright fantasy.

Now I want Tully/Gino vs Tito/Mil.

Bracero vs Tully is a really fun five minute match of Tully reacting to Bracero doing crazy things all around him.

The first Kamala vs Reed match is lackluster, mainly because it needed a couple of more definitive hope spots out of Reed. The lumberjack match was better but it needed a few more minutes. I don't know if Reed demanded the lumberjack stip after the finish of the first match but if so, he came off looking really bad. Honestly, I would have liked to see the first end in DQ due to interference. , EDIT: I'm looking at the results now and we're missing a few. The first singles match after the Battle Royal WAS a DDQ, but then he beat him in another singles match AND a tag (w/Parsons vs Kamala and Williams) before the Lumberjack one too. So in five matches, Reed wasn't able to beat Kamala once, and lost to him four times. Geez, and after the lumberjack match, Barbarian (who interfered in it) beat him in a street fight. Weird run for Reed there.

Bonnie Blackstone in WWF is thoroughly weird.

Cornette sort of felt like the first guest he had that really understands how these things work. There were times he was trying to steer Flair away from things in a "don't you realize other people listen to this and we're not just talking for fun?" which was sort of amusing. It's pretty plain to see that Flair had been censored by CBS after the last couple of weeks too.

I sort of thing that the mainstream media might jump on this more if there was one place that really cataloged all of WWE's institutional racism that they could look at in three seconds like a digest. Anything more complex than a simple list is probably too hard for them to look for.

Obviously ROH should bring Hogan and Piper in to declare war on NXT.

They weren't exactly using him meaningfully.

The match especially can put me to sleep if it has Japanese commentary.