Matt D

How much Prince Puma have you seen?

The people who usually know these things (or figure them out) are saying we just get the one match today. I've only dipped my toe in but it's JIP (only slightly? 2-5 mins, I'd say), a little over 20 mins, with 3 minutes of Ole screwing around beforehand which are absolutely gold.

Worth noting that the WCW March 1984 shows setting this up are on youtube thanks to Kris. You can see the Brisco tournament matches vs Sweet Brown Sugar and Brad Armstrong, plus Horner getting a surprise roll-up on Hawk and the Horner/Armstrong tournament match where the Roadies take out Armstrong by accident and the subsequent promo where Brisco wouldn't give Armstrong a week to recover. Plus another Brisco and Flair promo setting up the match. Always better to watch stuff in context when we have it.

Yes, but if it's just one match, at least it's that match?

To me, I think this fits nicely into your new character thread. I think fans at the time were so ga ga for the spots/pace that they totally overlook the character a guy like Psicosis put into his work with his behavior and reactions. I read reviews from the time and it feels like they're only watching half the match.

I'm a big Short Arm Scissors fan.

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Week 21. Still nothing from Ippon/Oldbirds so they are forever united. Edger's taking a week off. Random.org says:: DR Ackerman Nintendo Logic Grimmas SmartMark15 HeadCheese fxnj Victator Matt D dawho5 JoeG jetlag, you're the odd man out. Happy to double up with you if you want though. Victor, we'll talk.

I want to make the cheap Bella joke first.

We're a couple of days away from having some sense on just what this is going to look like on a week-to-week basis. I don't know how the network works. Will we have some sense tomorrow or Weds or nothing til Thursday?

Bischoff struggling to remember the name of "Game of Thrones" but then likening Meltzer to Varys by name and calling him the "Lord of Whispers" multiple times is peak 2018.

Someone somewhere brought up Great Match Theory and I was about to write a treatise and the board gods were generous and stopped it.

Glad you enjoyed it. It's been a long weekend here. I'm going to reroll tomorrow morning. Anyone on/off?

The O'Connor/Brisco training session from the CWF episode is phenomenal. Just such cool kayfabe stuff that makes everything better (especially as it foreshadowed the finish of the non-title match). The Steinborn vs Dory match is something we had before but it's really spry and fun. The matwork in Brisco vs Matsuda is off the charts great. And the picture journey from the year before felt really special too. Good stuff.

Five minutes of Rip Rogers stalling against Adrian Street is the way to go.

Like Savage/Taker. Enough already.

Next week's are Thursday at 10 am. That'll be the first real telling sign of how this will go long-term.

Bossman was a super fun three minute b show tv worker in 00-02. He put so many little touches into such short matches.

Honestly? I thought it was executed weakly. They needed to keep the beatdown going for at least another minute to ramp up the pressure. Park and Hijo de Park pretty much just followed Los Ingobernables out, like they were overeager to get out there. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things since them just being there is all that matters but I was disappointed when I saw it. They were out literally six seconds after the beatdown started. All payoff, no build.

Not sure of the date or if there's a thread, so replying here. This was right in line with part of why I started this project. I haven't seen any of this stuff, really. I haven't seen a Toni Storm match. It's not that I haven't had any interest but there's only so much time and so much to watch so I'm glad I had a chance to. This was a very fun sprint which was part comedy, part quick paced action. It felt like it's purpose was to cement the Storm/Mayu team/friendship by showing them overcome a well-oiled machine unit. I thought the early comedy stuff with Hana was tremendous. Just absolutely confidence and commitment to character. Likewise the heels (they're heels to me at least) utilization of the ribbon/objects felt like pure ritual, things the fans would know and respond to. Great execution on the rope running/most of the spots though I wish that maybe they went slightly more simple on things that were two degrees too complex (Storm's corner backcracker thing, for instance, but on the other hand, I absolutely loved the roll up into the corner spot). Wolf is the world's best Skandalo. There were a couple of instance of the story just dropping out. I liked that it kept going back to the heat due to the heels working together/cheating, like with the double suplex spot, but then one rotation later, they had another suplex spot that really went to the heels without incident. I would have liked to see a callback or the first one built upon because it would have furthered the story more than the heels just reestablishing their dominance for no reason. Likewise, I would have liked a break-up from Storm after the top rope double knee (especially since it was immediately followed by Hana running interference on her, really for no reason since she didn't break it up). Those are nitpicks though. In general, I thought this accomplished what it set out to do pretty effectively and it's obvious what Storm brings to the table both with her explosiveness and with her ability to react to character appropriate comedy spots..

Who is this person? Someone who says IWC and thinks everyone is being buried except Roman Reigns? Beats me. I just follow Benjamin Wittes, Walter Shaub, and Natasha Bertrand on twitter, no wrestling people.

I can't understate how great the crowd is for Piper vs Valentine.

And, our eternal corollary, what else might have?

It all goes back to people (fans) feeling like they can be a part of something. They can be part of what feels like a smaller more in-the-know "elite" group if they walk around wearing a Prichard shirt. It makes them feel better than the common fan and gives them something to identify with.

If they release this much stuff every week, it'll be nuts. I'm believing this thing will peter out within a few weeks because history hasn't told me to believe otherwise. It's possible that they have a month or two of this queued though.