NintendoLogic

Networks are throwing money at WWE to produce hours of garbage while wages have been stagnant for decades. Our economy truly is broken.

I was actually going to say that Alexa is a good promo in the Miz sense of having good delivery of the bullshit they script for her but not saying anything that makes you more interested in her upcoming match. Come to think of it, that is pretty unfair to Miz.

For joeg:

Like what Sek said, the article has him as part of a group of guys charged with attacking a teenage girl: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19212498/mr_wrestling_ii_johnny_walker_rape/ Am I reading this right? Were there really three separate gang rapes in Honolulu in a five-day period?

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/996424982468030465 The funny thing is, the tweet Dave was responding to was sarcastic and the three subsequent tweets were clearly defending Dave. Not a huge deal, but still pretty funny coming from Mr. Reading Would Be Your Friend.

Ronda going for the title is fine, but this has to be the worst possible way to set it up. They might as well have uploaded footage of taking a pile of money and setting it on fire. At least, that's what it would be if booking still mattered.

Did Hulk Hogan feud with Don Muraco for six months before beating the Iron Sheik?

Anything that gets the belt off Nia is an unalloyed good in my book. And really, if Ronda is that much more of a star than the rest of the women (and she is), she should be the champion. An extended storyline with Natalya is more likely to cool her off than lead to bigger things. The interminable Sasha/Bayley feud hasn't exactly done wonders for either woman.

Bryan also has a family to care for now. In other news, Dave referred to Jumbo Tsuruta as "the Okada of his era" on Twitter today.

What exactly is your point? That we should want fans to be too stupid or emotional to separate fantasy and reality?

How do you figure? Nobody's going to pull a gun on him in the parking lot or anything like that, but the fans seem to be genuinely invested in seeing his character get his comeuppance. It's not like he's Elias and they're booing because it's fun to play along.

I've decided that Jumbo Tsuruta had the best stomps in wrestling history. I don't think anyone looked as vicious as him when laying the boots to someone. Yoshihiro Takayama is up there as well.

I'd like to believe that the fans won't allow Bryan to fall below a certain level, but I'm not at all confident. WWE tried to replicate the Bryan formula with Sami Zayn and Bayley and killed both of them dead. Even Cena hardly feels special anymore after losing too much.

As amusing as it may be for people to offer authoritative comments on matches they haven't seen, let the record reflect that Okada/Tanahashi did not contain a single big move 2.9 kick out. As for Bryan, Dave on Twitter said that his Google profile has declined significantly since Wrestlemania, so WWE's master plan to keep him strong clearly isn't working. Since post-comeback HBK was brought up, the contrast between the two is instructive. Shawn was never the top guy, but he was heavily protected both in who he worked with and in wins and losses. It was over a year into his comeback before he had a PPV match that wasn't for the world championship or against a former world champion. And he almost never lost clean, let alone on TV. When he did job, he usually got his win back shortly afterward.

Amazing that it took two agents to put together Bryan/Cass. They couldn't just tell Bryan to go out there and give the big guy seven good minutes? The product is way too micromanaged.

Luger turning down the title win was reported in the March 5, 1990 Observer. Dave was just speculating on the reasons why.

For oldbirds, here's Great Muta vs. Super Strong Machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2H9CAe1u4

I liked Panther's match with Sam Adonis from last year.

I'll say it: Shawn Michaels. Nearly 24 years between Midnight Rockers vs. Rose/Somers in 1986 and the Undertaker match at WM26.

For the record, I haven't watched WWE regularly in years. I catch maybe half the PPVs in real time and cherry-pick matches with positive buzz from the ones I don't. And I tune into Raw once in a blue moon.

Wasn't it Bill Watts who came up with the spikes and face paint for the Road Warriors? I'm not sure how well the Village People version of the team would have gotten over in the long run. As for Luger, would his career trajectory have changed if he had beaten Flair at Wrestlewar? Supposedly, he was offered the belt and turned it down because he saw the company was going down the tubes and didn't want to be the scapegoat.

Flairs 1981 match with Jumbo was better than the 1982 one. How about Tatsumi Fujinami? 28 years between the Go matches in 1978 and the Nishimura match in 2006.

I'm fascinated by the vitriol this show has inspired. Don't get me wrong, it was a bad show, but people are reacting like it was Heroes of Wrestling. None of the matches were completely atrocious, and two of them were good-to-great. And the booking was just more of the same shit they've been doing the past few years. I guess it's just a case of the audience finally reaching the breaking point.

I'm sure a few gems can be picked out even during TNA's darkest periods. But it's like, I'm sure Nickelback has a few good songs too, but I'm not going to scour their discography to try to identify them. Life is too short.

Cena/Styles at Summerslam is legit one of my least favorite matches of all time. Quite possibly the worst match I've ever seen involving two established great wrestlers. Then again, Cena has been mostly unwatchable since he reinvented himself as a PWG wrestler. But the Roman matches are awesome (I'd say Payback is the better of the two), as is the Lesnar match. Being able to drag something worthwhile out of Suplex City Brock is almost as impressive as doing it with Jinder.