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I felt bad for Will for having faith in his committee during the Adonis vs Hogan match. (Granted, on my draft list that comes in at 138 for me).

I feel bad doing this to Dylan since we've been in agreement in a lot lately, but My pick's going to be Real World Tag League AJPW - Funks vs Can Am Connection: 11/22/86 (I think it aired 11/29, but there's only one and it's not hard to find). I think this match tells a great story based around Zenk being the odd man out and how the Funks decide to deal with that and then how Martel responds. I might hotshot it up in between the two JCP matches to keep things fresh, but we'll see.

Do they release the full HOF night on DVD now? As things stand now, we wouldn't even get Backlund's induction in the hour version.

Obviously the PWO podcast should be called the PWOdcast.

We should come up with a pool for when he quits.

Honestly, the live reaction is the only worry and these are the die-hard NYC fans. I think even the kids will be okay. Who cares what the order is for the TV ratings.

I actually think they should do Rey vs Henry at EC, or even Rey + Cara vs Henry.

I think Foley would step aside for Bruno, no? He grew up watching New York wrestling in the late 70s and early 80s.

It's not like Lanny didn't wrestle a ton of matches at MSG either.

Honestly? My guess is that he's on the way out and will put over Ryback at Mania. They'll put him over someone at the PPV to build him up and then feed him to Ryback.

When does he start hyping his softball team?

All around I think the answer is yes if we are looking at the last two years or so. I'm not sure anyone is a better promo. No one is a better character. There are one or two guys you argue are better in the ring, but I'm not sure I'd buy it. Who agrees?

So according to Dylan, Henry is the best wrestler on the WWE roster?

Show's had a monster two years, no?

Who on the roster is better than Henry right now? Bryan? Rey? Anyone else?

I wonder if that means Hunter inducts him.

This thing will be archived, right?

How does he compare to HHH?

I think I was mainly focused on crowd reaction, babyface clapping (and the response), and maybe Ace's pluckiness. I think it was worked fairly evenly from a face/heel perspective. I'll give you that me trying to work through that match is a lot like trying to use babelfish to understand an Italian document when you have college level Spanish under your belt. I'm sure some things are getting lost.

Past the heat segment on Misawa, I'd probably call the gaijins the faces in that match, from what I saw. They received the bigger pops at the beginning. And they weren't just clapping like Heenan or Cornette, but the fans were clapping along with them. They were leading the fans in the claps and Hansen and Williams are wildly different characters/personalities than Sherri or Heyman. I can pull out the exact moment where they were desperately reaching if we need to. That's definitely how I took it but I'll admit it might have been a different hold. There are certain other effective ways to work a tag match and even the specific elements of a tag match (such as the hot tag, etc) than the Southern Style. And I admit that I wasn't totally familiar with what I was seeing, but all I could critique the match on was someone with the background that I have, and that's what I did. I thought Chad's response was really helpful in sorting out the subtext that wasn't apparent from the match itself in a vacuum.

Really, the biggest (but not only) Kane fan is gone. And I'm not a Kane fan in the least. I just hate generalized statements and will attack them if I see them and feel they're not accurate, because that's kind of one thing we do here.

This place has been hopping.

I think it's against the Geneva Conventions.

Objectively speaking HHH is a good worker? By what objective metrics? I'm not in the business of lobbying for HTM one way or the other, but I don't think it would be impossible to name several hundred guys I would rate over HHH. 1000 doesn't seem impossible either. If he says it one more time, it'll be three and he'll have to do it or be cursed for seven years. Someone goad him into it.

I'm not doing the legwork. Do people consider Honky to have been a draw as the vulnerable champ for a year and a half, headlining the B Shows? How does that compare to HHH as a draw in the 00s as The Man.