NintendoLogic

Captain Charisma has become Captain Notalgia.

WOS matches tended to favor comedy and slick grappling because the TV audience consisted mainly of children and grannies and the concern was that anything too violent or aggressive would scare them off. With that said, matches with serious heat did sneak through on occasion. Check this out.

It should be noted that seemed a lot more impressive back before everyone knew that aikido was a fake martial art.

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No, it was an honest-to-God riot. It led to New Japan being banned from Sumo Hall for over a year. As @Ma Stump Puller stated, though, the actual cause was a booking bait-and-switch. The advertised main event, and the match the fans were clearly most eager to see, was Inoki vs. Riki Choshu. Long story short, massive amounts of fuckery ensued and caused the card to change. Inoki/Choshu did take place, but it went six minutes and ended with a run-in.

It was only a matter of time before Dark Brandon turned his attention to the wrestling realm.

Probably because the last time there was, it caused a riot.

According to Finkel's Observer bio, he was the best play-by-play man the WWF had in the mid-80s. When Larry Matysik praised his work in that regard, he told him that guys like him weren't what the company was looking for no matter how good they were.

I guess he finally got over Colon helping Brody's murderer get off scot-free.

With the beard, he's a dead ringer for The Gambler. I'm not sure which is worse.

My guess is it's more a reflection of the industry. A few months ago, DDP talked about how hardly anybody in the business went to Gene Okerlund's funeral. And it was in Florida, where like 99% of all wrestlers past or present live.

Mike Barton was part of some legit great matches in Japan after leaving the WWF. And he was teaming with the likes of Johnny Ace and Jim Steele, so it wasn't simply a matter of him letting his partner do the heavy lifting.

Billy isn't even the best member of the Smoking Gunns. I feel like it'd be harder to list long-time tag wrestlers who are worse than him. Stevie Ray? Titus O'Neil? Crush? The Harris Brothers?

I know you didn't say that, which is why my comment wasn't addressed to you.

The least talented Armstrong is the one who became the biggest star and had the most enduring career. Go figure.

Complaining about Christian taking TV time away from younger talent misses the point because the whole reason he's on TV is to get younger talent over. The point of the Jungle Boy feud is to make him someone the audience has an emotional connection with as opposed to simply liking him because he does cool moves. It's basically a rehash of the Bret Hart/Jerry Lawler feud.

Christian strikes me as a case of being a much better worker as a face but a much better character as a heel. Regardless, he's made it clear that he's the better half of E&C. Say what you want about him going for the gusto with cheap heat, it beats the hell out of Edge's mountain of omnipotence or whateverthefuck.

Bringing in Madison Rayne to help coach the women is certainly a choice.

Supposedly, Brody's plan was to go to the WWF and end his career with one last big-money run with Hogan once he was too broken-down for Japan.

Logan Paul vs. Volk Han would be dimes.

Pat McAfee and Logan Paul aren't just guys off the street. They're legitimate athletes. By the way, it always amuses me when people are shocked that former pro athletes take to pro wrestling so quickly, as if it isn't primarily an athletic endeavor.

Mid-South was by no means lacking in technical classics. Barry Windham vs. Dick Murdoch, Butch Reed vs. Murdoch, and Chris Adams vs. Terry Taylor all finished in the top 15 in DVDVR voting. It's just that none of them involved Ted. Part of that was the role he played. Bill Watts used him mainly as a catalyst to get angles over and make guys like JYD and Jim Duggan look better than they really were, so he wasn't really put in a position to have great technical matches. It could also be a matter of semantics. I suspect that when his peers praised him as a great technician, they were thinking more in terms of timing and execution than pure mat wrestling.

Looks like the folks who watched nearly got two career-ending matches for the price of one.

They already did that at Mania. No need to do it again. Brock couldn't beat Roman with a fucking tractor. What's Drew going to do with a measly sword? Strongly disagree. Almost all of them are dragged down by the referee's count being way too slow and an overreliance on contrived set pieces. The only ones that managed to overcome those obstacles were Cena/Umaga and maybe HHH/Jericho. Brock/Roman still had those issues to a degree (not to mention the ref having an absurdly generous definition of what constituted being back on one's feet), but I appreciate that their focus was on beating the hell out of each other rather than setting up elaborate arrangements of furniture. I'd peg it as the #3 LMS match in company history, which I guess makes it the #3 LMS match period. I still need to check out AJ Styles/Bully Ray from TNA, which has gotten rave reviews from people whose opinions I trust.

Road Dogg has been begging for an AEW job for a while now. Combine that with NAO vs. Foley/Funk being the only dumpster match anyone remembers and I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up on Dynamite. He'd be fine as a one-off, just don't bring him in full-time.