Matt D

Was it just two years?

They're doing well enough financially that there's more to lose in trying to take a risk than to gain by actually taking it.

I hope that the lack of a world champion means we have a traditional Survivor Series match on top for November. I want Wyatt, Harper, Rowan, Stardust, Goldust vs Ambrose, uh...well, the Usos, so that'd be two of them. I can't even think of who to slot in there. Is that a me problem or a WWE babyface depth problem?

I hope they talk about how he got buried after he jumped and how Kane had a better 99 than Jericho.

Hey, they finally got to use the hologram. I can't wait for hologram Andre vs hologram Rusev.

Maybe they'll go past the 48 minute mark or whatever?

Done just once, in 2014, it almost feels fresh though.

It felt like the camera was on him at least 50% of the time.

It's still surreal to me that Sandow is doing the gimmick I saw him do (selling on the outside what happened on the inside) back when he was a rookie in 2000.

Maybe they saved more of the cell spots for the main?

Orton's hit a few spots in this which have just shown excellent timing and placement. Really prime stuff so far as that goes. That counts more to some people than others, of course.

Maybe that's it? I love the 60s Batman show and get a kick out of how heel Doink and Repo Man are both inspired by Batman villains?

Glad we're getting Ambrose vs Rollins at the end too. I have no idea why I like Stardust more than most of you but it's definitely not for his in ring stuff. I love him on the apron reacting to stuff though. It's hilarious.

I was getting bread into the bread machine instead of seeing Dolph vs Cesaro. Bella match was perfectly fine though. I would have liked the kick out to the bella buster maybe a little later in the match, but past that, it was fine.

96 Goldust doesn't qualify as a good/great heel run? He did have fans sending him threats at one point. He doesn't have the matches. For 96, There's the brawl with Piper and the ladder match with Michaels, but not a hell of a lot else. KOTR with Johnson is a hell of a spectacle and such great gimmick work from Dustin, but that's revisionist thought. There's some okay stuff with Vega and Mero but not enough. The matches just aren't there for the level of run he needed.

I'm still really into the Rhodes' brothers. I love watching Stardust interact with various heels that he's teaming with, and as crazy as it sounds, Dustin really needs this heel run to bolster his career versatility marks, since he's never had a really great heel run before and he's doing pretty well with his role.

That's Brie's finish too I think. The Bella Buster. What about this thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1T0UW0wpkg

Again, it's not necessarily a moral thing with me. I mean hell, I'm going to have Buddy Rose in my top 5.

I'm not even sure what a facebreaker is. Is it the Codebreaker? A flapjack? Who did that move which ended with a face on a knee? Kidman? Or was that the back of the head. Let me go google TOP TEN MOVES OF KIDMAN. Wait, 65 moves? What the hell. What's #63? Belly to Back Suplex. #10 is fireman's carry neckbreaker. That's what I was thinking of. Nevermind. What? the Kid Krusher 01 is only #9? He turned that right into a pin by rolling over. HA "Don't try to powerbomb kidman" is #8. Anyway, what the hell is the facebreaker?

Cena vs Orton is deserving? Because I think that's what the show is ending with now. With the way the network functions, there's probably no harm in them ending with Rollins vs Ambrose, is there? What potential harm could that cause, really?

Again, a lot of it for me is just that I don't want to watch Benoit. I don't think there's anyone else I feel that way about (Well Buck for different reasons, but I don't want to watch him anyway). If I need to watch him to see another wrestler I'm considering rating, then I will, but that's as far as I'm going in the name of the project.

I will likely be one of the low ratings on Misawa, I assume.

With Benoit, it's two fold. One, it's personal so I can't detach in a way I can with Invader. If you can, that's fine. Two, I fully believe that his style partially led to what happened. You might not. I do. I don't think Invader's great selling led to what happened. It doesn't mean I'm going to take off 20 places for Benoit and put him at 60 instead of 40 or whatever. I'm just not going to rate him. That simple.

I think there's a real distinction between Macho Man Savage and Macho King Savage, personally. I don't think the Macho King could walk down the street, but the Macho Man could be a pro athlete.