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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.

I had no problem with the finish. They've got similar tights and that's all the ref could see from his vantage. Re: Devon's go slower comment: the time where I wish they let it sink in a bit more was after Cesaro's catch powerslam on Big E and then the press slam. Those should have had another 20 seconds to breathe and play to the crowd each. Make it matter.

They did a very good job of justify the relatively early pins in this relative to other WWE tag 2/3 falls matches. Some of the tandem moves were way off though. I'm glad they at least tried to do the freebird rule.

Cesaro and Kidd have such a good freaking act.

Baltimore's about 15 miles away so I could have gone to this one but it just didn't feel worth the headache. I hope it's good enough that I regret it (because then everyone gets to benefit).

To be fair, the only 12 year old we have here is Johnny Sorrow.

I need to see way more 2015 Strong. I really liked what I saw in the Thatcher match from earlier this year.

I think there are ways to spin this, to highlight that they're giving local talent a chance, or that they're making grassroots efforts to find the next big stars, or something, but yeah.

So are they puling the trigger on Dragon Lee?

I actually hadn't been too worried about the star power, relative to other people's concerns, but those shows don't have main events.

I love that they call them the "Meta Powers."

Just a taste of what we DON'T have: 2/20/64 Medford Card held at the Armory 1. Tony Borne beat Pedro Lopez 2. Bobby Duranton defeated Don Duffy 3. Mad Mongol & Haru Sasaki defeated Paddy Barrett & Nick Kozak MAIN EVENT In a 2 out of 3 Falls match for the NWA World Heavyweight Title 4. Lou Thesz drew with Nick Bockwinkel when Bockwinkel tied Thesz one fall a piece and the 3rd fall ended at the 60:00 minute mark to make it a draw --- Bock was going for the NWA title as early as 64. Just think about that.

I just don't think Arn had the size to be a good draw against Hogan. Hogan had beaten so many monsters by then that it would have felt really weird for him to suddenly end up in a feud against Arn especially when Arn was only a tag guy in the WWF. In my mind, the feud is all about trying to take out the leg to get rid of the legdrop/big boot. But yeah. That wouldn't draw with anyone but us 25 years later.

I guess I was mainly thinking of matches I wanted to see. But with Heenan doing the promos, I bet they could have at least matched Hennig. Hogan had feuded on house shows with Bossman, Savage, and Bad News Brown in 89. He basically hadn't feuded with a Heenan guy since Summerslam 88. I bet the crowds would have been ready for that again.

He would have been a great early 90 opponent for Hogan instead of Hennig if he stayed but Tully got canned. Just saying.

I imagine we'll have to at least discount the Brody argument at some point.

For what it's worth, I'm much higher on Demos vs Islanders than Demos vs Patera/Ax/Boone.

I think the GFW model will be to fleece a money mark.