Matt D
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There's much more of a chance that Hunter would work an overblown WWE Epic 10 minutes too long match with Sting than what he did with Bryan. The best thing about the Bryan match was how succinct it was. It was by far the least overblown big match of Hunter's career. It was the perfect length because Bryan had to go later in the night and because the spotlight had to be on what happened at the end of the night. It's MUCH more likely that we'd get the Hunter that made us suffer through the Brock matches than the one that did the Bryan match. I could list twenty relatively realistic guys on the roster I think would give us a better match vs Sting than Hunter.
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HHH vs Sting would be brutal. He's pretty much the worst choice possible for a Sting opponent.
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I kind of want Ziggler to get a title shot now. I think he could get a few really exciting near-falls and that Brock could kill him the rest of the time. They've built him up in one month to the point where he could be reasonable in that spot for TLC or the Rumble.
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Good idea/Terribleidea? Sting appears but it's Orton under a mask.
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The way Rusev caught him was pretty good too.
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If this was a CMLL match then Dolph would get swarmed by all 5 to start the match and it'd be really satisfying.
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They did a great job keeping Mizdow out until the end.
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Wait, how does it work? Does Stardust always job when he's wearing the red tights?
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I actually don't think it' necessarily Sting nostalgia so much as WCW nostalgia. He's basically the only guy they could bring in, other than Tony Schiavone that would make things, for a moment, feel like WCW. There's so much ECW pandering that the network does and even when they say anything about WCW, it's all Monday Night Wars era. Sting's something from the old pre-Hogan WCW, even if his current look isn't.
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The fact that he can turn something that should so blatantly be a negative on paper into a real positive when you actually watch a lot of the matches is hugely impressive.
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I'm starting to come up with a personal theory on Hansen but I haven';t seen enough to be sure. What I really wanted to do was to find a match that would go outside that theory. People have talked up the Funk matches so I gave this try 4-14-83 : Funk vs Hansen. And I liked it a lot though it didn't push hard against the theory. Funk was great because he didn't just run back against Hansen. He sold and his comebacks seemed tortured and desperate. I loved the dropkick on the outside and how Hansen was right on him when he came back in. I liked going to the leg as equalizer and I especially loved the battle over the spinning toe hold. Watching Hansen matches are exhausting because he only seems to have one gear (Dolph Ziggler Speed), but Funk really made this great with his selling and his fighting from underneath. It really seemed like Funk had his number before the ref bump. They layered hope spots in well early and i'll reiterate that the battle for the toehold was brilliant. This was really good but I'm seeing Hansen more and more as a tool for other wrestlers. I really mean to take a look at the Colon series soon, and yeah I'll have to look at the matches vs the pillars but I have less hope than ever for those.
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Like I said, when I started watching again in 08-09 I was amazed by how well he was working both it and the failed attempts of it, into his matches. I have a feeling it wasn't nearly as good in 03 or whenever he started using it. I didn't remember it being on the level as above.
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I think this is blatantly wrong about 70% of the time. Rey goes to great lengths to position them there. I completely and utterly buy this. This too: I'd buy it symbolically in the first place, but there's a way that Rey arches his body that makes it LOOK like he's sending the guy into the ropes EXACTLY how he wants to. There's an execution element to it that makes it look feasible.
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This is one of those things that go by the wayside because I just don't have enough time right now. I'll probably watch a bunch at once in a few months. I am glad it's another thing for people to enjoy though.
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Honestly, his inventiveness in making it seem fresh and interesting and NOT contrived over a large number of weekly matches is a pro more than a con to me.
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I thought i was going to hate the 619 when I started watching back again in 2009, but what really impressed me was that guys didn't just haphazardly fall into it. Nine times out of ten, Rey strategically placed them into it in ways that worked really well in the match.
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I would have liked to see an extended run of them against Gold and Stardust. I want to see Show in a tag role right now, more than anything else.
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This is more me asking questions than suggesting anyone: Bobby Shane Jerry Jarrett Mr. Wrestling II Bob Armstrong Dusty and Murdoch? Watts? Blackwell was at his physical prime, no? How much did Heenan actually wrestle? How good was Eaton by the end of the decade?
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Rose has a hell of a 79 but he starts relatively late in the decade.
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It'd probably be more along the line of reality shows based on the wrestlers, no? That's the impression I got from the press.
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If Dave's argument is that Brock drew wrestling fans to watch MMA and he should get in for that, shouldn't Ventura be a lock? He obviously mobilized the lapsed AWA fanbase. Politics is way more like wrestling than MMA is anyway.
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Where the Big Boys Play #68 - Clash of the Champions 17
Matt D replied to JerryvonKramer's topic in Publications and Podcasts
Yeah, don't get me wrong. I mean I wrote 20,000 words on the match and all and Steamboat was great, but he the shadow-kicks after he lost the mask had him looking like someone's Uncle who was a green belt in karate and showing off at the family Christmas party to kids who are just now old enough to realize he's neither cool nor a Ninja Turtle after all. -
I kind of like the stip, not necessarily for now, but for later. If they ever want to do a heel turn with Cena as he's getting older, they could put the belt on him and replicate this scenario. Then they can have him turn in the middle of the match to have 4 of his top contenders fired at once.
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Where the Big Boys Play #68 - Clash of the Champions 17
Matt D replied to JerryvonKramer's topic in Publications and Podcasts
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What was happening in wrestling when you first started dating?
Matt D replied to Sidebottom's topic in Pro Wrestling
My (then) 11 year old stepson could do a better figure four than the Miz too, which should have been a sign, but really, everyone can do a better figure four than the miz.