Matt D

It's march.

It's March. Mania's almost here. ROH just had a big show that people reacted to. There's the Demott scandal. 65% of us are also heavily focused on 2014-2015 matches due to March Madness over at DVDVR. April will be better for the rest of you.

I don't blame the placement. You wouldn't really know that without watching the TV.

No, I get it, and I get that the matches have buzz and its a facet of our community to watch things with buzz, but so much of what makes NXT special is that it's a studio show built not necessarily for touring but just for TV and the payoffs at the special. It's one hour a week which gets a quarter of a year to build to something. If you're just going to pick and choose after the fact, that is what it is. For the purpose of this note, I don't think that you can judge how ready someone is to be called up or not from the specials alone without seeing how they handle shorter TV matches, for instance. I just don't think there's much point to following NXT at all if you're not going to watch the TV. Even binging it the week before the big shows works really well. Otherwise, it's like skipping to the last chapter of a book and then complaining you don't know who the characters are.

I don't get the point of watching the NXT Specials and not the tv. The whole point is the build and payoff.

Literal ones to prop up and drink beer with?

Generally people are selfish when it comes to these disputes want to be able to watch what they are used to watching without any disruption or change.

There should be a vote option that just says "Johnny"

Oh, I'm excited for Sting's pop too.

I'm now watching for Rusev's entrance.

I just want to say the idea of Yoko as Hogan's heater amuses me to no end.

The flip side is that Chad Gable might get better wrestling Samoa Joe or Biff Busisk than he would wrestling this Dylan guy?

Does this cancel itself out? Is Total Divas real?

Dude got a fruit basket.

Zayn has absolutely toned down his style as did Rollins and others before him.

What the heck happened to Sheamus? I guess if they keep him off the Mania card, they could redebut him as Reigns' first opponent or something.

Pretty much proof positive that the Rumble last year was people coming in from other places like they do for Mania.

It is like all of those young adult novels where you think you were living in a utopia but really what happened is that history was erased after a great disaster. The bland, lifeless food that you are eating and that you think you love is just a pale reflection of what once existed before the mysterious fall of the territories and the man who you think is your savior is really your oppressor. Don't be a smoke-dulled sorrow, young Parv. Fight the future with the past.

The Killer Bees would be on my tier 2 with MVP/Henry. You had the feeling that the Rockers, Rogs, and PoP had moments when they should have won it or could have (SNME with the ropes breaking, if the Brain Busters hadn't come in, and during the Fuji turn, respectively). I never had that feeling with the Bees.

I'm on the 94 boat too. One thing I was thinking of the other day that's tangential is what the top 10 teams to never win the WWF/WWE tag titles were, at least from a kayfabe perspective. I've got Rockers, Rougeaus, Powers of Pain, Mark Henry/D-Lo Brown, Test and Albert, Rhodes Scholars, maybe some combo of IRS/Bigelow/Tatanka.

What bothers me about it is that it hasn't hurt her reputations with either casuals or the history as told by WWE. Her game ended and she won.

Moolah is up there right now, especially after seeing her HOF induction.

How does this compare to 09 ECW?

You searched the world to find him. To be fair you were probably looking for the next Kamala.

Can we call this other Matt "Maniac Matt" or something? I don't want to start getting sound level complaints. I get enough complaints for other things I do. I think he's a Matt D too.