Matt D

I'll watch any joshi Chad thinks I should watch. You do the legwork. I trust your opinions.

The Grantland doofus?

Has anyone ever written about Blue Panther as a draw?

Do people think that either Sting or Taker would be willing to do the job in a match between them? Sting's the sort of guy that i think would do business, but for his "One Big WWE Match," it seems sort of weird to bring him in to lose.

I still see Cena winning at NoC so I'll chip in on that sort of thing after we see if Brock is even in the title picture.

Wrestling is magic. But I sure wish Negro Casas would strip falling for Rush's direction change clothesline. One of the reasons I'm so high on Christian is that he would constantly evolve his stuff in rematches and what not.

It doesn't hurt that he's maybe the easiest guy in the history of wrestling to heat back up and be instantly credible with a huge chunk of the audience and he's also one of the best wrestlers on the roster.

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

I think if they put Show with HHH and not Orton it would have worked. He was crazy over for a few weeks.

Is it more of a case of Steamboat/Youngblood making sense too?

They popped Mid-South too, no? That's not just a myth right?

I think we need a note to compare Steamboat/Savage and Regsl's greatest hits. I'm not discarding the possibility out of hand.

Must be. Cena's winning.

Dusty is excellent at controlling crowds through his ring work. Also, can I only watch stuff from japan that people actively think I will like?

I think I'm more a tools guy, weirdly Enough, but it's tools over time. My big thing is whether the wrestler shows me he understands the art of pro wrestling. Who shows me he can understand and utilize it the best in a wide range of situations, wins.

For Sting's appearance on the video game panel?

Vote Sting!

Who the heck is Hoshino? This is getting off to a fine start.

That is our definition of greatest right there then.

I'm not married to drawing. I'm less married to drawing than most people, to be honest, since I think you can tell everything you need about a wrestler from the matches we have, generally, whether they're main event matches or opening matches on cards. I'm very much a proponent of looking for patterns in how wrestlers deal with specific situations over time as opposed to putting all the stock in GREAT MATCHES. So yes, drawing isn't actually something important to me. It's just the #1 WON HOF metric from what I can see, and certainly the thing that's argued the most in those notes, so I thought it had to be raised.

Is there any argument for Monsoon as a promoter? Also what's the precedent of people getting in for combinations of things. Wrestler+Promoter+Announcer, etc?

I do think we've got time to work this out. If we go down a road fairly far, decide that there's no destination in sight, we can at that point just set up shop where we are and run with it. If we were doing this tomorrow, there'd be more of an issue.

I wasn't involved in the 06 version, but every single time we have a discussion about the WON HOF, I'd say the #1 criteria is drawing and card placement. Now that may be because Dylan is pushing for guys like Patera and Blackwell, or that may be the nature of the WON HOF relative to the PWO GOAT or what not, but I'm not sure I can disengage it from in-ring work because I'm so used to that being part of the discussion on this high level. I think we have to start from a common answer for "Does drawing matter?" with the breakdown of "How much does drawing matter?" being a personal thing. That sort of common ground.

Serious question: How important is it to harmonize criteria? I'm not saying 20% drawing! 30% GREAT Matches! 15% able to carry someone or anything like that. But should we spend the next couple of years at least trying to work out what Greatest of All Time means for the sake of this project, because I think everyone's criteria is slightly different, if not wildly different. It's one thing when one person values an element more than someone else. It's another thing when they think they're talking about something different.

It's far off but I'm hesitant to do some of the legwork on certain guys that I've been reluctant to watch for one reason or another. I still have huge gaps. I can probably get cajoled into it though and I'll, of course, spew out words on anyone I have an opinion on.