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Bayley participated in a 5-on-1 beatdown of a babyface.

Wow, what a shitty biased article. So yeah they didn't give people puppies, they held events where there were puppies. What is wrong with school's doing some things to help people deal? If you are a women, LGBT, a mexican, or a muslim in America right now it is pretty fair that you'd be freaked out right now. If school's want to do something to help those people, what is the issue? People are acting like this was a normal election with a normal presidential winner and everybody is just over reacting because their side loss. Oh, come on. An election result, even one involving someone as horrific as Trump, is not a traumatic event on par with being sexually assaulted or serving in combat. If it's having that kind of impact on you, you need to seek professional help and not expect the world to accommodate your neuroses.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/elite-campuses-offer-students-coloring-books-puppies-to-get-over-trump.html

This is fine as a general principle. The problem is when offense is defined so broadly as to encompass any contrary viewpoint. Right now, college campuses are literally providing coloring books and puppies to help students deal with the "trauma" of Trump's election.

Now Styles has been canned by Evolve for making a grab-her-by-the-pussy joke to ring announcer Joanna Rose during Evolve 72, which has led to plenty of complaints about what a beta SJW cuck Gabe Sapolsky is. Of course, the issue wasn't so much with the comment itself as the fact that Styles disobeyed a direct order to not make any political comments. Plus, by all accounts, he was doing a shitty job on commentary.

There's actually speculation that Linda will be named Secretary of Commerce in the Trump Administration. The Idiocracy is upon us.

There may have been a lot of working of holds, but there wasn't much in the way of hold-counterhold mat wrestling, which I think is what most people think of as matwork. And when it did happen, it was usually canned sequences like hammerlock->drop toehold->front facelock->grounded hammerlock. The typical Flair title match probably had as much working of holds as the typical Triple Crown match of equivalent length, and people bitch about the lack of matwork in All Japan all the time.

At least there's one leader who can unite us all:

Kobashi/Honda is a Honda carry job in the same way that Flair/Luger is a Luger carry job.

I really hate this idea that Kobashi was a big dumb wrestler. He may have had moments of excess, but he's one of the smartest wrestlers who ever lived.

Dave said last month that his current favorite promotions are PWG and CMLL because he loves the atmosphere.

Something Dave wrote last month:

Charlotte easily. If you can't work a match without breaking your neck, I can't consider you a great worker.

Considering that it's geared toward mainstream US wrestling fans, the brackets are mostly fine. The only really egregious selection is Ellsworth. From those brackets, my Final Four would be Hansen, Vader, Misawa, and Kobashi.

I thought the selling from both ladies was pretty spotty. Charlotte being on offense like 30 seconds after going through the chair stuck out to me. This complaint seems rather misplaced considering that Charlotte is one of the few on the roster who does get genuine heel heat.

There were way too many table spots on this PPV. The fundamental absurdity of taking five minutes to set up a table when you can just pin someone is bad enough when it happens once, but it's even more egregious when it happens over and over again.

I do think that their relative positions played a big part of it. If you want to see how Hansen worked with a peer, look at his matches with Jumbo, almost all of which were disappointing. It's a lot easier to go all-out every time out when you only work one match a month. Could Tamura have worked his style on an All Japan schedule without taking nights off or getting physically destroyed? I don't begrudge anyone for not liking the lack of matwork or bloody brawls in 90s All Japan. To that extent, it's just arguing over which flavor of ice cream is the best. What I'm arguing is that a lot of the issues with King's Road were exacerbated by the lack of variety in the main event scene, both in terms of the talent involved and the lack of gimmicks/angles. Things would've been fresher for longer with more guys in the mix and/or less conservative booking.

Apparently, the rationale behind the pre-show is that Vince doesn't like the visual of fans filing in and wandering around, so he has one or two matches before the show starts so everyone is seated and paying attention once things kick off.

Lawler and Dundee had gimmick matches and angles to spice things up. I'm sure it would have made things more interesting if Taue had thrown something in Misawa's eyes and partially blinded him shortly before a Triple Crown match with Kawada, but that's not how All Japan operated. The closest equivalent would be "so-and-so has an injured arm/leg/neck/whatever going in." It's no surprise that so many of the great All Japan matches are centered around body part work. Sure, that's a valid criticism. But nobody always had great matches, so that's kind of trivial. And I'm not inclined to penalize anyone for going all-out to give the paying fans their money's worth as opposed to doing as little as they thought they could get away with.

But then the build would consist of the women talking about how excited they are to be making history and thanking Stephanie for starting the Women's Revolution.

I found where Dave talked about Finkel:

I'd say that most of elliott's criticisms of Misawa and King's Road in general are reflections of the fact that it was the same handful of guys wrestling each other over and over again. There's not much you can do to make the tenth iteration of Misawa/Kawada interesting besides turn the volume up. The problem is that the Four Corners were too good for their own good. No style is sustainable in the long run without periodic injections of fresh blood. But King's Road wasn't a style that you could just plug anyone into, and the only wrestler All Japan developed in the 90s who could work at that level was Akiyama. It's no accident that most of the great All Japan matches between 1998 and the split involve Akiyama in some way. It's also no accident that All Japan was stagnant for most of 1997. All the big matchups had pretty much been beaten into the ground at that point, and Akiyama hadn't yet made the leap to top-tier status to freshen things up. I would also dispute the notion that Taue was the smartest of the Corners. I suppose he was smart in that he recognized his physical limitations and knew how to work within them. But it's not like the other three did more than they were physically capable of.

Hogan/Vader drew well, so it evidently didn't hurt his mystique that much.

If a wrestler's offense is strong enough (Vader), no one's selling can ruin it. If a wrestler's offense is weak enough (Raja Lion), no one's selling can save it.

I would say that offense is more important in my evaluation of wrestler, but selling is more important in my evaluation of a match.