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Making my way through Global Wars now and I enjoyed the 3-way tag match a lot even though I thought it was a 2-man show with The Briscoes. Mark coming in on a hot tag with his crazy strikes and reckless dives was absolutely great. It's a damn shame that their potential WWE run got kiboshed because Briscoes vs. The Usos would be awesome.

The Jeff Hardy matches in late 2008 are definite candidates for this list. The pair have a really good chemistry, they're in front of really hot crowds and they do great jobs in keeping Hardy strong in defeat.

We're going back a little bit to that list of things "coming soon in 2014" but I really want to see Saturday Morning Slam, just to see which guys could work the style they had in place for it (though I know for some matches, they just cut away when there was any strikes to the head etc) but, it was interesting that they're starting The Monday Night War show and putting up Nitro episodes. How do you think they do it? Chronological with eps covered in the shows they're putting out or just shows with the memorable Nitro moments like they have for Attitude era Raws atm? I'd love them to dump all of 96 there but that might be wishful thinking.

Was just coming to post this. A real slugfest of a match with Ambrose being absolutely spectacular. I love how he incorporates Nigel's lariat and thought the transition to Sheamus' 10 count spot was one of the most natural I've seen for a while. It was almost like Sheamus saw him on the ropes and thought "fuck it, I'm going to hit this dude in the chest a lot". Really loved the finish too, the Brogue Kick to the outside spot was great and I really loved Ambrose's crawl back in for the ten count. Just another crazily good match to add to WWE's list this year. This makes it sound like I'm discrediting Sheamus' role in the match but I'm not; he was, and has all year, been super great. I would love to see an extended Sheamus/Mark Henry series for the US Title.

Definitely and I'd say that the past 18/24 months have been Kane's best stuff ever. He's no stranger to goofiness so jumped into the Hell No skits with no hesitation and he and Bryan made it work, their matches were fun right up until the break-up. The Wyatt stuff was hokey but I actually really enjoyed Corporate Kane being a dick to Brad Maddox and stooging about for HHH. I have no doubt they'll be able to have a good gimmick match. Also, I think the fact he dropped Bryan with three tombstone piledrivers is proof that even WWE know that they need to work hard to rebuild Kane's monster image, even just for this PPV. I'd expect him to do something crazy next week too before Bryan returns to conquer him.

I don't have a problem with Bryan vs. a monster as his first title defense, I just wish it would have been a rehabilitated heel Mark Henry. Unless they play up Kane and Bryan's history, it's not interesting in the slightest. And it wasn't even a year ago that they stopped teaming.

Oh man, a babyface getting taken out with a piledriver to the floor! Also, it's amazing how quickly Kane grows that hair back.

I think it makes a good visual for Bryan as he's chanting "Yes" too.

Are they giving him a Texas Ranger gimmick? The brother of Braden.

From the looks of Smackdown, Vordell Walker got a try out in the dark match (to which the spoiler recapper called him Cordell Walker) and from what I've seen of him on the indies, recommended in Dylan's posts on here, he'd be a really smart pick-up. Unless there's a dude called Cordell Walker who has completely passed me by.

I guess they're out of print, so to speak. Or Vince is about to snap them up for his Bryan and Punk DVDs

I've also wondered why they don't use the Triple Powerbomb as a finish. I think it's because their 6 mans usually end up with guys sprayed out all over the ring so getting those three guys in the ring at once doesn't really happen.

Rusev looks a potential Cena summer opponent to me.

i think he's a made guy now. Say, if he loses the belt to Lesnar (though I think it'll be Batista who transitions to Lesnar), there's going to be people pissed that he's dropped the belt full stop and people pissed that he lost the belt to the guy who broke the streak so that's going to guarantee a crowd willing him to win the belt back no matter what.

I'd bet Cena, Sheamus and Show are three guys who really know their wrestling. There's an interview where Orton acknowledges that everyone in the back knew who Bryan was and knew he could go. Maybe Miz didn't but I guess pairing him up with Bryan was inspired if so.

Ziggler is a guy who desperately needs some direction and Swagger desperately needs a new partner since he's pretty shitty by himself. I'd like to see him continue trying to hit the ankle lock out of lots of crazy positions though.

Wyatts vs. Shield III was another great match. I thought Ambrose was the stand-out guy with a performance full of awesome little touches. The way he sells the Wyatt's strikes, the way he fights out of their submissions and how he went into full FIP mode and looked a total natural at it. It looks like he's damaged his ribs badly but I loved how he turned it into this crazy, rambling rant when he was needed on promos. Roman Reigns is going to be such a star, it isn't even funny. It's almost like WWE are cheating having him.

I think my only major hope for this is that we get some long Chris Masters main events out of it.

When you look at that show tonight; no Ryback, no Miz, no Del Rio, no Rhodes Brothers and you wouldn't say they were missed in the slightest. I'd prefer to see more of the latter pair, especially with the tag belts possibly transitioning to Batista and Orton. Those matches would be great fun.

If they can mix in Heyman's guys with Bryan vs. The Authority, I am on board for the next 6 months of WWE like you would not believe.

I had no idea they had the capacity to bring about this much excitement to their product anymore. Yeah, there's been bits and pieces throughout the years but this has had new guys getting positioned prominently, angles and workers people care about, debuts on the horizon with the potential to heat up the midcard nicely and great matches on every show. Main Event is now getting awesome main events (HA!) to bring in Network subs. It's not perfect, it never is but it's hitting all the right notes for me.

If only Hero wasn't gone. I'd actually love to see Sheamus as Cesaro's next program after this mini-Swagger feud plays out.

I would be so down for Dangerous Alliance 2014 going after Bryan. Can someone get on the phone to Chris Hero?

CESARO AND HEYMAN!

Yikes, that was a real awkward little match with the minimum amount of thought put into how it actually came about. Great crowd to debut Paige but that's a big disconnect between her on NXT and what we saw there.