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I kind of want to see a Ziggler/AJ Styles tag team getting beat up by Mark Henry/Big E. Does that count?

Someone should remind Parv that this is what an athlete looks like.

In a year and a half when I finish all the Buddy there is, I am totally going to watch Terry Rudge.

I love that WWE has decided to fill 3 hours with tag matches. And we don't even have Sid breaking them up.

I actually like later career Erik Watts more than most people but

I actually mostly believe that, because you can see a huge difference in the Race vs Martel match from the very beginning of 1980 and the Buddy series. You can also see a huge difference in Martel between 80 and what we've seen in 83 onward but the Buddy matches are still so damn good.

Why the hell doesn't anyone like Stan Stasiak? I'm watching him vs Brett Sawyer here and he's king-sized in it. Sawyer's just a physical mess when it comes to coordination and Stasiak is great as this lumbering old bastard who just walks around the ring locking trapezius claws that would be boring if he wasn't such a looming presence and getting pissed off everytime Sawyer does a goofy Leaping Lanny taunt. There's one of the best jerkiest king of the mountains I've seen in Portland with a really good payoff. He's also pretty great at focusing on a body part with really, really simple but effective stuff. He's like my father in law if he was a wrestler. I really liked him as a face vs Buddy too. He's just a great Mean Old Bastard, like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino or something. The first fall is something like fifteen minutes and it just flies by because Stasiak is such a pissy old codger. I mean he was only forty something but he seemed like he was going on sixty, but in a good way. Old man has great facial expressions. He also sort of sells like Popeye with this great little bobble of his head but is also willing to bump over the top. Also the sideburns make him look like some 18th century British highwayman that'd be a side villain in some Dick Turpin story. When he has the mustache he's kind of like one of those 1910s strongmen and his posture is downright simian. Also, he's got the best heart punch ever. I want to see him wrestle Sangre Chicana or something. also, Brett Sawyer is the biggest doofus ever to wrestle. I can't really put it in a non-offensive way. I guess, alright. You could commentate over his matches with a funny commentary and people watching would get uncomfortable thinking that Hack Sawyer was probably not "in on the joke."

Who's more physically awkward? Greg Gagne, 1993 Erik Watts, or Brett "Hack" Sawyer?

How DID we define that? That they're all too obviously pretending to have a professional wrestling match instead of having a professional wrestling match? You can see the strings?

That Will can still mark out to that level for Cena thanking him silently during a match despite being the wrestling version of Peter Lorre from Casablanca is pretty damn adorable. Rick, you need to hide this comp of wound-biting wrestlers for me.

Yeah, but also boring as fuck considering who will likely have it (and I like Cena as much as the next guy and would think that he'd be the right choice). I was a bit cooler with the idea when there were territories.

I'm hoping for some BS finish where they switch belts. I love the World Title. It doesn't mean much anymore, but I doubt Bryan gets elevated without it. Mark Henry sure as hell doesn't get a "world" title run without it, likewise Christian, and those are three of my favorite wrestlers right there. If there's only one world title it's going to be held by just a handful of guys over the next few years. I'd be curious to have Chris do an analysis of who was in main events before and after the titles split and the level of variety. On one level it'd be okay if they could use this to really make the IC/US titles meaningful, but you know that's unlikely.

A point that Bix made that I agree with is that the ending segment, while doing a fine job building up Cena vs Orton, with even the pandering helping, made the handicap matches with Bryan and Punk feel like afterthoughts.

If they have every Mania/All American/Spotlight, that would interest me. Some of those you can't even find results for.

I think I posted here that not being the case after was my greatest fear when he got signed. I hope his long term prospects with WWE become clearer soon. As ambiguity can really weight on a person. Wrestling is a terrible thing to be good at in 2013. If Naylor was an Accountant or Marketing man he could just walk down the street to the next firm. But then he'd have a hugely unfulfilling professional life like the rest of us.

Definitely lots of appreciation for Naylor for his optimism and enthusiasm. I'm not going to go all "woe is us" or anything but as a community, we had a pretty hard 97-09 or so from the death of Pillman to the death of Misawa, with the death of WCW and ECW and the monopolization of the industry in the middle. It's part of why there's more business talk than anything else a lot of the time. Moreover, I think one reason why we do better than other places is because we so thoroughly escaped back into the past. I'll be honest: for those years I didn't stray far from DVDVR, but it actively surprised me when looking at something from the mid-00s on an rspw archive recently to see DVDVR referred to as a "mark board," which isn't even a term I was familiar with. We've sort of pushed against so much of what we found enjoyment in ten+ years ago and found other things to like to the point where I can only imagine what outsiders think of a place like this now. Anyway, that Naylor could not only live through all that but experience the seedy underbelly of the industry firsthand in a way that I doubt any of us has and still be Rob Naylor is pretty impressive and he's probably a happier guy than I am so more power to him.

Well, this time they'd be ready for Hunter. He can only turn heel once. He can't turn Heeler. You obviously feel very strongly about this but I think that there's at least an argument the other way and you're not meeting anyone half way on it.

Cena highlighted that if he, the good guy, won this Sunday in the unification match, then justice would prevail and all would be right in the world as opposed to what's been happening currently with the corrupt bad guy in charge.

You have an insane crowd. Why not use it? One of Cena's "Merits" is that he chose to make Daniel Bryan the #1 contender even though he was untested in that role and the Company didn't want him there. It was a valid point for him to bring up and it actually sort of elevated Bryan by saying that he ought to be the #1 contender again. I'll agree with whoever said that Michaels was really good at doing basically whatever he wanted to last night. It's one thing I don't give him enough credit for. He's really good at understanding how to move a crowd, both in ring and out. I think the issue is that he used it in ultimately nonconstructive ways over the years at various points.

WWF @ Springfield, IL - Convention Center - October 26, 1992 (4,500; 3,300 paid) Television taping: Included an untelevised podium interview with Jimmy Garvin who insulted Randy Savage & the Ultimate Warrior and predicted all the heels to win at Survivor Series What the heck was this about? EDIT: Ah, I found this (http://wccw2001.tripod.com/id11.html) JG:I only said ten words to Vince. I dont like him and he dont like me. Vince asked me in 1992 to tryout. Ive been in the business so long I didn't have to tryout. I was always a rebel,a outlaw. It was a stage in my life and it wasn't my life. I went to the WWE one time to vist and see friends. He never called me back. Thats because I looked at him and he looked at me and he knew we wouldn't get along. They asked me to change my name. What about Doc Hendrix? Who the hell was that. That was bullshit. I never had to kiss ass too much. We all have to kiss ass within reason. Tell me to change my name "Go fuck yourself"! All the NWA went up North and worked for Vince. Dusty wore polka-dot trunks. Ronnie Garvin with 2X4,Michael Hayes become Doc Hendrix. I wasn't gonna change my name.

I refuse to actually order these, but I've come up with a working list of 50. The order is "when I thought of someone." Nick Bockwinkel Buddy Rose Terry Funk Jerry Lawler Steve Regal Bobby Eaton Dustin Rhodes Mark Henry Daniel Bryan Ricky Morton El Satanico El Dandy Mocho Cota Sangre Chicana Bill Dundee Rick Martel Bill Eade Eddy Guerrero Barry Windham Arn Anderson Bret Hart Greg Valentine Tito Santana Tully Blanchard Jerry Blackwell Rey Mysterio, Jr. Fit Finlay Brian Pillman Big Van Vader Ricky Steamboat Ric Flair Too Cold Scorpio Billy Robinson Steve Austin Randy Savage Mr. Saito Jim Brunzell Curt Hennig Roddy Piper Stan Hansen Tracy Smothers Rip Rogers Andre the Giant Ernie Ladd Mick Foley Antonio Cesaro Christian Larry Zbyszko Chris Masters Bobby Heenan The only guy on there that's really dubious is Hansen because I really just haven't seen enough, so if you want to, you can sub him out for Chris Colt. And yes, like I said, my only Japanese guy is Saito.

I hook up my laptop to the TV with a HDMI cable if I want to watch something off of it, generally. That said, we just cancelled our premium channels that we only got because it was basically free due to a gift card from Verizon two years ago, just to save $15 a month. I don't think we spend much of anything for "entertainment" on a monthly level past cable. Granted, we use my father-in-law's netflix occasionally and visit the redbox maybe once a month. I'm not sure how many people in our boat. When I was in college I would have jumped at $10 a month though.

If Cena does win I could see him getting his win back against Bryan at the Rumble.

Well the most important part of working, to me, is getting the story across, and I think he listening to him talk about specific matches is always interesting because of that. He's probably as good as anyone at the sort of overbooked, overdramatic, Shawn-Michaels-making-funny-facial-expressions sort of matches WWE loves to kick out now and again.

To me, Foley was a very good storyteller. He was able to get to the heart of a match conceptually and then try to figure out how to get there through his work. He's one of the better big picture guys I can think of and I don't think he gets enough credit for that.