Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4

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The Sandman's retirement match at Janela's Sprink Break was the clusterfuck it needed to be. Although like everytime on Janela's shows, it went overboard. Cut the middle part of the match and only do the Invisible men bits (keep Missy Hyatt showing up because come one, although it looked awful it was cool to have her), the HILARIOUS hundred ref run ins and the awesome Mick Foley appearance (yes) and it would have been perfect. Then again, perfection for Sandman would have been wrong. 

Brodie Lee Jr. vs Joey Janela was as good as you'll see a 14 years old work an epic main event match. Give Janela tons of credit for this (he's still underrated), but Brodie looked great for what it was. Maybe if he's serious about it he can be the next Nick Wayne, teenage prodigy. Chris Bey showing up was cool, it's always cool to see Chris Bey walking around. 

Jack Perry teaming with Marko Stunt was tons of fun too.

Masata Tanaka is 53. How the fuck does he looks and works so *great* still ? 

Show was overall way too long though and really it doesn't hit like it used too, as the context is very very different from 7-8 years ago. Effy vs Allie Katch was pretty horrendous, the Atticus Cogar vs Hayabusa match was kinda there, it was odd for me to see Hayabusa II as I was a huge FMW fan back then but he has the blessing of Ezaki's family and looks decent at it (but nothing special either, although I probably should not judge from an Atticus Cogar match). The one thing that is obvious watching these indy shows on Mania weeks is that really, unlike years ago, most of the best talent is already signed or featured one way of another in a major company.

Josh Barnett basically saying it was the end of Bloodsport for now and making vague reference about keeping his integrity tells me some shady WWE business was going on. The latest shows, which I passed on, was tons of WWE people, which really negated this idea of cool super indy matches in a shoot-style environment. I always came off feeling the the Bloodsport shows were better on paper than execution anyway. There was usually 2-3 really cool matches, but also tons of tedious stuff on these. Oh well. Maybe he'll just do straight WWE Bloodsport next year for Mania week-end.... (see what I did there)