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and then Edge!

When does Sheamus come back? HE'd be a good heel opponent for Bryan for a few months.

He had a hand in the FCW booking though, right? That's what Naylor was his assistant on, no?

So do title matches just suck then, or what? You're very good at making lucha not nearly as fun, you know. I swear it's some sort of karmic thing getting back at me for my past transgressions.

Does Dusty book NXT or is it the Junior version of the normal WWE writers? I do sort of hope we get the Bryan/Punk Mega-Powers I wanted last year after Mania.

We're burned every single year after the summer story gets us all drawn in. At least we get a ton of really good matches out of things this year and a very unexpected Goldust return.

They could add Heyman to the Authority and toss Ryback at Bryan. It's a shame that the Real Americans aren't built up more.

Alright, what about Bryan then?

What should they do with Show for the next couple of months?

"SHAWN, SHAWN ARE YOU OKAY!" If they were going to do this, they should have done it back during month one and then kept Bryan away from Orton subsequently.

It's like having one of those fake twitter robots on the board. "Buy Crest!"

Alright, I just watched the match again. I wasn't watching it with you guys (I got ran off during the last match, sorry), but this time I picked up on a lot more subtext. I'm still not 100% sure on what I saw, but it felt a lot more like what people have described to me when they describe a title match. It may not be my favorite one on the set so far though, because others have elements that are less "perfect title match" but that call to me more. Here's what I just said at DVDVR:

I just saw the first fall of Lizmark vs Satanico and it sure as hell felt like it mattered there. Also, neither here nor there but Wiskowski has an awesome "body dive" where he just does that jumping sit on the neck that Lizmark does here.

How much 77-83 Santana exists?

What about Undertaker vs Hogan for, let's say, people under 25?

I watched it before the set. It was the very first title match i saw so I'm looking forward to going through it again now that I know a little more. It was also my first Satanico match. I did do a write up of it. Let me find it. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?show...t&p=5557495 In the exchange that follows, I'm a glorious, reprehensible ass to OJ too.

Isn't another problem with UK workers the nature of the UK wrestling industry? It's tough to prove anyone's a "draw," no? That sort of means everything has to be work and historical significance. You can't make a Ken Patera argument for a lot of these guys, basically.

So far, to me, the hard part isn't necessarily "keeping up," though that's obviously hard. It's keeping up while still making the matwork actually feel like it means something. I feel like the matwork's been good in all of the title matches on the first two discs so far but it's only felt like it mattered on about half of them. That's what I was trying to say.

One thing Will says here is that you can't criticize Super Astro's comedy magic if you're going to criticize Chikara's comedy magic. I kind of feel like you can extrapolate that to some of the spottier stuff on the set or some of the bloodier brawls/cage matches on the last set and maybe some of the stuff here relative to other current indies. I also am with Will that the selling (and thus in a lot of ways the psychology) is stronger in the brawls. If you just explained things to me on paper coming in, I would have thought I'd like the title matches far more than the brawls but it really hasn't been the case. The lucha brawls are really primal and logical. Maybe I'm still not reading the psychology in every title match, but about half of them really do have good storytelling that I can pick up on and the other half feels like it has a lot of matwork done for the sake of matwork, basically. It's cool matwork but I'm not 100% sure I want to just write off some of the "this is just the style in a title match" excuses when about half of them really feel gripping to me.

Maybe how it felt to get the pop he did on the last WWE Europe tour?

Shawn vs El Torito would be awesome. He could put on camos and try to hunt him.

I think the MSG crowd would have gone absolutely nuts.

Which again is why I think Edge would have been a better choice. It's not like they really used Austin at all much after that.

I always think that if they knew both guys were gone they should have sent out the returning Egde at the end to take them both out. I think he came back a week or two later.

Easily the best part of this show was picturing Kris, Phil and Johnny doing an It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World race across the United States to get Will's collection after he dies in Mexico.