NintendoLogic

I thought the WWF stopped drug testing in 1996.

No fanciful scenarios, I just posted my suggestion on the board. Don't worry, though, my dreams are very rarely that dull. Most of the time, they involve sex, beer, and/or zombies.

I had a dream last night in which I suggested that there be a best-of compilation after all the 80s sets are done consisting of the top 10 or so matches from each set. How does that sound?

So it seems that Missy Hyatt is on the membership rolls of the National Socialist Movement. http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php...14&lang=en_ Isn't she Jewish?

Is it possible that his account was hacked?

After delving a bit deeper into Tenryu's singles oeuvre, I'm still finding him to be a bit hit or miss. I think the issue is one of expectations. The way he's often described, I expect him to be a straightforward asskicker like Hansen or Vader. But he's a lot more sluggish than either of them. I'm finding that his best singles matches feature him spending the majority of the time working from underneath. When he controls a significant portion of the match, it inevitably grinds to a halt at some point.

I'm not really feeling Blue Panther. It's not the style, because I can get into guys like Dandy and Navarro. But Panther leaves me cold for some reason. When I watch him I do his thing, I think "Yep, that sure is some quality matwork all right", but nothing really knocks my socks off.

I stand corrected. My broader point stands.

Remember how the crowd exploded when Dolph cashed in the last time Raw was in the NYC area? Now he's reduced to leeching off ZACK RYDER'S heat.

I've turned the corner somewhat on title match lucha. I don't think I've acquired "lucha eyes" or anything like that. I still think a lot of the matwork is too contrived/cooperative for my tastes, and for the life of me, I can't get into trios matches at all. But a few title matches are clicking for me in a way that they hadn't previously. I've updated my list to reflect my newfound appreciation. That, and I felt that the list could use a bit more stylistic variety.

Curly Bill whipping Silver King into his own corner might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Nothing with Orton vs Cena sounds interesting. I mean they have tease this many times and most of the time the crowd could care less. At wrestlemania it will be mean even more less (can't think of better word ). Right now the only thing we can hope for is that it isn't the main event It's like, "How much more less could the crowd care about Cena/Orton?", and the answer is none. None more less.

My stream died right when Cena came out. What exactly happened?

The Punk-in-peril section of the tag match was pretty dull, but the Bryan-in-peril section was great. "One guy has to go it alone because his partner got taken out" might be my favorite tag match storyline. I would've liked to see a couple of instances where Bryan tried to tag out but couldn't because Punk wasn't there, though.

Cena/ADR was pretty good, but the lack of heat hurt it a lot. It kind of reminded me of a 2005 Cena match where he'd get his ass kicked for 90% of the match and hit an FU out of nowhere.

Henry/Ryback was kind of disappointing. Mizark busting out the JYD headbutt was awesome, though.

That match was great. I love Rollins' new finisher. Guess we all need to get ready for the Reigns singles push. Does anybody else cringe every time Rey takes a bump?

I think Bret forgot to tuck his shirt in.

I think it'll be a good crowd tonight. Boston is a pretty smarky town to begin with, and most of the city will be watching the Patriots game, so those in attendance will be the hardest of the hardcore.

The spinning toe hold is a wrestling move.

No love for the (Midnight) Rockers? As far as Japanese teams go, Baba/Inoki is pretty legendary.

I figured this would be a fun question to ask given all the matwork fans on this board. If you were to create a matwork primer, what matches would you include? I'm not necessarily talking about the best grappling you've ever seen, more like textbook examples of fairly basic stuff executed at a high level. Off the top of my head, I'd say something like El Dandy/Black Warrior would be a good example.

As for least favorites, I hate this one I've seen Blue Panther do a few times where he puts his opponent in an inverted Gory special and then gallops around the ring like he's giving the guy a horsey ride.

Sabu was the one who landed on his head and broke his neck in that match.

I think this is to some degree the case. At the same time I'm sometimes at a loss in really understanding what Tanahashi fans mean by "structure" and how they ascribe some kind of highly positive quality to Tanahashi just for working the general "epic match" blueprint that has been around for ages. It's actually something that really struck me back when I started watching Tanahashi matches in 2009, especially his much lauded match v. Nakamura that year. It struck me as something I'd be impressed with if I were unfamiliar with main event style puroresu (which isn't meant to take a condescending tone or anything); it had the opening mat work into a longer but low key body of the match and then jumped off into the hot homestretch. But, I mean, a lot of matches do that. A lot of good matches do that, a lot of okay matches do that and a lot of boring matches do that. What matters is how those segments are worked, not that they're there. A lot of these super pimped New Japan matches feel to me like shells of epic main event style matches. They have that broad structure but they don't do anything interesting with it; the opening matwork isn't good, the middle move trading/control segments are just there and not worked in an interesting way and the home stretch is pretty by the numbers. I don't see what great quality there is in a guy working the basic structure of an epic main event if he can't do the "stuff" that makes it interesting. I guess some people can like "epic main event match" for the sake of it but I've seen it, and to me for something to be great it has to do something interesting. I think you're really selling Tanahashi short here. If working the epic match blueprint is such a simple thing, why are so few wrestlers any good at it? My guess is that 90% or so of the guys currently working in Japan would be unwatchable if they were regularly working matches of 30 minutes or more. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my experience mirrors OJ's. Based on where the praise was coming from and my experiences with modern Japanese wrestling, I expected Tanahashi's matches to be a ridiculous orgy of finisher kick-outs and head drops and fighting spirit no-selling. I was pleasantly surprised when that wasn't the case. Tanahashi's not an all-time great, but when the modern Japanese scene is littered with worthless loads like Suwama, he can't help but stand out.