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How much money does Corgan have again?

Like I said, 10-15% at the beginning, but by the end, I really didn't care. I cared enough to mention it but with the caveat that the match overcame it.

Just finished the woman's match. I loved it. I thought the opening stuff might have been 10% or so too choreographed/practiced but by the end of the match I really didn't care. At first watch, I'd call that the best NXT women's match too. I can see the argument that Becky may not have sold her arm quite enough at first, but once things got going, she definitely did. I've no real qualms about that since it was progressive.

Will, you should watch NXT tv if you get the chance. It's a well-paced studio show and i think there are elements of it down your alley. I'm sure Johnny would agree that it's a lot of fun generally.

There was almost nothing to that match. Nothing meant anything. The match was basically just Rhyno getting clotheslined when he went for the gore and the End of Days. That could have happened one, five, or ten minutes in. There was some stuff like the weak corner barrage and Rhyno's power moves but none of it had any ebb or flow to it. A match like that can work with enough intensity but Corbin can't begin to bring that yet. You can learn clever wrestling and good execution, but you can't really learn that. The switch just has to flip and there's no promise it ever will.

This match is making me want to see a Valiente/Rhyno tag team. Unfortunately, they'd probably be up against Corbin/Thunder.

Dana is definitely not ready for primetime, especially when she was feeding for Charlotte after the hot tag. I thought that Emma was really good in getting her character across though and Charlotte was having so much fun with the Bailey pairing. Match needed one more cut off during the heat and a lot less Dana miscues.

Real life got in the way and my plan to catch up on NXT failed horribly. I made it about half the way there but I still have 3-4 episodes I didn't get to. Ah well.

Man, Bret bombed the question on why he's better than Flair. Any of us could have done a better job there.Even Flair did a better job answering it.

On a message board, I'll take someone who's negative about everything but tries to explain why they're negative in a well-thought out fashion over someone who's positive about everything but doesn't bother to explain anything in any real depth. I'd probably rather WATCH wrestling with the other guy, mind you.

My list is going to be absolutely ridiculous due to lack of time (and another year wouldn't help so it's not about that).

I don't think Parv's criteria for Greatest Wrestler is necessarily the one who is Greatest at Wrestling. EDIT: That's not a knock either. I was just typing it on my phone at midnight last night. I think he places "value" much higher than most of us do.

I'm with El-P on the headbutt thing but his dislike of "character work" is one of my pet peeves today.

Most telling is that the announcers didn't bury him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsuWP7q-mQ Meta Powers is the WWE name for them.

Don't you listen to your brother's conspiracy theories?

That was actually a star making replay on the arrow.

I don't give Barrett enough credit for his body language.

Oh, I was just highlighting the years and years of main event level matches we don't have.

After this, I figure Lana won't have the accent in two months.

I naively still thought they'd do the "Lana fools Cena" finish, which was malicious when they did it to Foley but would have gotten so much heat here. I guess we should all get used to social media pushed baywatch Lana.

This goes against the rules of the most famous I Quit match in their history. So that's not good.

They should have used a different camera angle on the reply since we really saw Ryback bump himself into the corner. In general,I thought that was a well-built finished for a match where neither guy should lose.

Ryback's is like if the Star Trek logo was a shark. The kick block of the clothesline was pretty boss.

I'd much rather be seeing Ryback vs Harper.