Matt D

I can see what they might think they can do. For one, Vince loves hillbillies. I could see him pushing that way with it. Not quite Hillbilly Jim but more "We're going to take you behind the woodshed." I also wouldn't be surprised if they don't think they can't siphon off some of Daniel Bryan's stuff onto him. He's a bearded misfit too and maybe the fans can relate to that, with the sing-along gimmick not that far off from Yes in some ways.

If appearances don't matter, you're saying you'd get the exact same enjoyment out of Kawada if he wrestled his entire career in a chicken suit. I'd get more enjoyment out of that probably too. Especially when he does the thing where he grabs the head and kicks a lot.

We need King of the Ring back.

Hunter is always better when he has less muscle on him anyway.

Pray it happens sooner cause this Stardust shit is embarrassingly horrific. Everyone likes it but you!

Their main agent is Joey Mercury but that's not what you mean.

Talk about a match getting dragged down by genre conventions. I know nothing about any of this, but whenever I see a random Taue match that's only 15 minutes long or so I'm going to give it a look now, since he's my new favorite Japanese guy. This had all the shapings of a great big vs little match. Marufuji's shooting himself in the foot by going for gutsy power moves or staying in holds long enough for Taue to get his hands on him only to fight back by going to the leg was all extremely effective. Taue really used his size well, from the opening dickishness with the sunset flip and dropkick to all the sense that if he just gets his hands on Marufuji, then the poor guy is doomed. I like that a lot of the big chokeslams were countered or escaped from instead of just kicked out of, and the blocking of the hand into the cross arm breaker was an incredible moment. That said, there was just too much. There's no economy in this at all. The biggest nearfall in the match was probably after the massive powerbomb and it might have meant something more if it wasn't surrounded by other ridiculous two count kickouts. I don't blame the match too much because it was something the crowd was conditioned to and everything was fairly clever, but it grated because there was a legitimately great little match in there and it got damned by its own very nature.

They should just do a gimmick tag match. Cena/Ambrose/Reigns/Sheamus vs HHH/Orton/Rollins/Kane or something. Just kill time. It's better than having Cena defend against any of the usual suspects.

Cena gets cheered in Boston. I kind of wanted Reigns to win and Rollins to immediately cash in (and I didn't want that at the start of the night but after Reigns took everyone out, I kind of did).

I'm kind of looking forward to Rollins stalking Cena and Heyman's promos on Cena.

I'm not sure I loved the first ladder match. When I said I was desensitized I meant that it felt longer than usual and there was SO much ladderness to it, so when I saw them make the ramp again in this match it seemed weird. The first one being frenetic didn't mean that the second one was better for being plodding. That said, I liked the Rollins/Ambrose stuff for the most part. Also, and I kind of hate saying this, but blood does make everything better.

The Everyone-in-the-Ring stuff has been kind of fascinating in this though.

I will say that Kane's a little bit interesting as a guy not trying to win himself. But just a little bit. Things like how he just broke down the ladder since Orton wasn't in a position to use it. I like the idea at least.

I feel sort of desensitized from the first ladder match of the night.

Gagne Lock = Match of the Night?

They sort of had to do that to justify the heel turn but man did it feel like they were about to really make a star there.

Sometimes HD is a problem. Seeing rows and rows of totally apathetic fans as Paige celebrated was just sad.

Of all guys that it would be reasonable for us to have footage of, Masked Superstar is pretty high up on my list of those I wish we had more of.

I thought we didn't have that episode.

Detroit is the funniest thing Parv's ever done, I think.

You (being Dylan) like AWA heel Hennig more than I do. I think I'd put Heel Rip over Heel Hennig though. Probably not the total package.

If Johnny Sorrow is eating anything, it's probably this. And this is full of carbs.

Family visit the first half of the week. Work catch up and now household wide sickness the back half. I have things to say but don't know when I will be able to. Edit: Probably all moot after the last post. Let's be realistic here. I would have just taken 3000 words to say almost exactly that.

Thoughts on Luger?