Matt D

Agreed that the reviews are great. For now, most of these that are reviewed here are being posted at Segunda Caida every Tuesday, so you could watch them this second. As for the rest, I imagine there’ll be news soon and then OJ will either follow along... or outpace us and I can crib from his notes. Links to the last three here. Watch and share freely: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2020/03/tuesday-is-french-catch-day-luis-el.html?m=1

In my review, I likened it to the familiarity of a title match structure, but that's because it felt like a late 70s Harley Race NWA title match (or maybe even Flair from five or six years later; they're similar and there are different traces of both), not necessarily a UK/European title match. I think that Royal's leeway to bend the rules came primarily out of the ref's frustration over how blatant Oliver was being about it.

Hopefully by then someone will have cracked the 80s Mexico TV vault and we have new footage and then Uncovered 80s Satanico will be best.

I did a whole bunch of write-ups a few years ago, midway down this page: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/search/label/Hector Garza Blogspot is not great so the earlier ones might be hard to find, but really, just go to the lucha match finder: http://www.luchadb.com/roster/matchfinder.php and find some Garza matches from 2010-2011 with him as a rudo (red) and a video online.

I mean, this is his family. Hector Garza is up there with Mocho Cota and Negro Casas as the most charismatic rudos of all time. Watch any throw away 2010 Garza rudo performance and there's like twenty things to take note of.

In this case, they'd be well suited to do a sit down interview with Drew talking about his journey/love of wrestling, maybe an on-location thing with Christian talking about the attack on Edge, and show a couple of old Elimination Chambers (like the one Edge snuck into and won).

Some of it just comes down to batting average. Orton gets a ton of at bats. Fifteen years' worth of weekly chances. He's had a few home runs. Whenever he gets annoyed and complains about being at a city when he'd rather be home or does a random jumping jack as a babyface, that's a solid double. He's still batting .0175 at best.

Bayley vs face Sasha would, I think.

I imagine he's probably pretty happy for Drew. He's still going to get the slot vs the Fiend at Mania, likely.

It's amazing when they more or less do something right.

Everyone killing Rollins will be cathartic after last year's debacle.

All I can say at this point and as someone who was in the crowd in Philly in 2015 is that putting Roman over would be disastrous given the build of this Rumble.

Uh, they wouldn't actually do this, would they? Brock's going to run in and eliminate him in a minute, right?

Well, now they just have to keep running with it. Have Drew do for the second half what Brock did for the first and they'll have made him like they haven't made anyone in years.

They're basically sacrificing all sorts of opportunities in the name of the overall story.

I got a real kick out of the Benjamin stuff. Brock as a troll is the best Brock and we see it so rarely.

Misery in Motion is the best Rumble spot I've seen in forever.

I just tuned back in for the other Rumble. The visual on the mist was great.

Yeah, what I said was right before she came in and things got better after that.

Is it just me or is the execution on this pretty rough? Lots of people stumbling about and moves hitting at weird angles? Some of the layout has been fun but....

I haven't been following the shows heavily but Corbin is my pick to win the Rumble.

Literally the worst thing I've ever seen on WWE.com

I dunno. Feels about time for them to push Steph again, no?

Seriously. Can we just blame Shawn Michaels instead?