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I don't know, they certainly made points like that on the Best of Nitro DVDs they put out. Johnny 1, Matt D 0. I underestimated just how much they were going to brazenly rewrite history on this one. That's on me. One point to Johnny in the name of my naïveté.

We were going to get Rollins/Ambrose HIAC anyway. The point is we were going to get both matches and now we're just going to get one and the other one was thrown away in a short segment, making a PPV that felt like it needed to be more stacked actually less stacked than it was a week ago.

My favorite are the people who will chant for both guys in the "Let's Go .... " "Let's go .... " sequence. I bet there are people who chant both Let's Go Cena and Cena sucks actually.

I think it was a terrible decision to pull the Cena vs Ambrose pole match from the PPV and I don't quite get why they did it. I imagine that segment didn't really pop any numbers and it made the PPV much less of a fresh feeling draw, which is something they needed without the WWE title on the line.

Grimmas is right.

I imagine we're not that far away from some complicated computer program that will be able to look at the video and compute how many people were there.

Was Global a bigger deal in Texas than it was elsewhere?

How do people feel about the 2/10/85 Dibiase match?

I think most indy guys are hugely helped by going through the WWE system, but I'll listen seriously to the idea that Bryan is the exception.

Will Chris/Mookie be helping out with this?

"I know some people said that they could guess the finish to my match vs Randy Orton (where he went up to the top rope to do... what? -MD), but come on, we all know they're all lying. It was great." Is the RVD match rant still online? I wonder if I can find it. Got it.

I'm not typing that rant out again but honestly, it does play a little bit into Shawn Michaels "performer" and as a guy who would take certain parts of the match that he shouldn't to the detriment of the match.

I kind of love Countdown. It's a lot of fun to see the WWE guys as talking heads for the most part.

That still doesn't explain Robert Gibson.

I'm not saying this with Tanahashi necessarily, but just in general: I can appreciate someone who connects with the crowd and not with me, but given the sheer number of great nominees on the table, that will very likely make that person an honorable mention at best.

A wrestler giving the fans what they want is a very, very tricky thing to weigh in all this.

Not for nomination's sake, just in general? Do we reduce for style?

Do we feel the same about John Zandig? If not, why not?

Tag champs too.

In general I don't disagree heavily, not because it shouldn't be done but because it's not done to the extent that when it is, it does stand out. That said, re: Late Michaels, it's more of an issue to me when he dropped the back selling, because so many of his matches were built around his opponent working over his damaged back. The more the limbwork is an essential part of the narrative, the more of an issue it is when it's dropped.

Thanks. I'll hit them soon. I'd love for someone to make a Hansen list like the LaserLossFlairList, too, because he's someone who probably deserves it as a number 1 contender.

I will say that Martel looks a hell of a lot better vs Buddy than he does vs Harley that year.

This was generally the thread I showed people when trying to explain PWO to them.

If any note needs to be formatted, it's this one (and you know, my Buddy Rose stuff. That's hell enough to read as it is I bet, even without formatting problems).