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Agreed 100%. When she got put with Bryan and then became GM, I was beyond sick of her - and that was before she even won the title and had people pretending she was a great wrestler. Terrible acting with the forced psycho gimmick as well.

Yes and they aired a tribute video with various photos and RIP tweets attached along with some video clips later in the show.

And then Pop's response was to promptly drop Days of our Lives a few weeks later!

Agreed. Oct 2011 to Oct 2012 is my favorite TNA year.

Agreed, I definitely wanna watch it.

I always really enjoyed Chris Harris in singles, a shame his career ended up going nowhere in the end. the Viscera debut is a classic in those times of literally anyone can show up in TNA

The build to Jarrett/Raven was some of TNA's best stuff. The actual match is glorious.

Smackdown and Impact don't have people signing NDAs at the shows. Lucha Underground is definitely a show more fun to watch when you don't know what's going to happen. Last season had some excellent story based stuff. Not necessarily the Observer but I've always browsed wrestling news sites and never had an issue avoiding LU spoilers, rarely seeing a mention of them until just recently.

Sad to hear. One day after his birthday. Always liked his match with RVD from Anarchy Rulz 99. Enjoyed that he got that brief WWE run too, fun ONS match with Tanaka.

Agreed. I liked their match at Roadblock but the mic work makes me cringe.

This thread was a great read to catch up on, classic. Couple notes over the last few pages. On HHH/Reigns being no dq, I'm pretty sure commentary said that HHH would get DQed if he used the sledgehammer. So I guess that was a misprint since it was never officially announced as such. On the cues for the crowd to cheer thing, it only happened for New Day and Charlotte, where the big screen showing the action would suddenly change to a big "Wooooo" across the screen if Charlotte attempted the figure 8 or chops and a couple times along with New Day's "new day rocks" or "hey we want some new day" chants. A bit odd but nothing major.

Yes! Great to see this return, missed these reviews

I've always liked Aries as a face, especially in TNA. My favorite run of his was his TNA return in 2011 as a heel in to turning face and winning the world title in 2012. He did some of his best heel work then in the X Division but kept having such great matches with all kinds of opponents that he just naturally turned face with the crowd's growing support. Then the title win felt like a genuine star making moment at the time and his match with Roode remains one of my top favorites. He was a fantastic face in that series as well as his matches leading up to that with Joe and Bully Ray. I think Aries/Corbin was a solid start for him here and look forward to what he does next.

Loved it. Freebirds speech was perfect. Hayes performing Badstreet USA, incredible. Hansen's speech was really awesome too. Sad as well that Sting is officially retired, thought they'd try one more year to do Sting/Taker at 33.

Checking out NWA Parade of Champions Thursday, watching the NXT show on Fri then attending Mania on Sunday. I'd be more interested in the Shimmer show if it was a regular one of their events instead of a one night tournament.

Love it. Start suit and by the end of the night, Iron Fist tee and jeans, possibly with hands taped.

I don't think face New Day is going to be nearly as good, judging by that Raw segment and last week's Smackdown. Their act is far better as annoying heels rather than corny babyfaces imo.

Most likely, but they did tease a flaming table spot a couple months ago and not deliver

In regards to limited HHH/Rock interaction, they also did that face to face backstage segment on Smackdown in October 2014 which seemed to initially start up the rumors of a possible HHH/Rock Mania match this year.

I loved the brand split for reasons others stated like the growth of new stars. Always dug how it felt special when guys switched brands or interacted with guys from the other show during the big 4 PPVs. Like when Angle got drafted to Raw in 05 and was in the ring with Triple H, it was a cool moment that stood out as 'wow these guys really haven't been involved with each other for years!' or when Evolution and the Cabinet met in the back at the 05 Rumble. Also was a good way to give guys fresh starts on the oppostie show.

With Triple H currently in the reign of 'win the title, don't defend it until it's time to lose it', I don't think there will be another HHH reign to tie Cena, much less two for 16.

Thought this looked interesting from the trailer so glad to see you do this one, thanks for another great writeup! Looking forward to more.

Yeah they have added the Wyatt Family vs The Titans of the WWE to the ppv, so things look more complete with 7 matches + Edge & Christian show.

I like the Taker/Miz idea as well as Taker/Sheamus, moreso than Taker/Strowman. I feel like Sheamus has been built up enough to be somewhat credible and has enough signature moves to create some solid near falls, especially after hitting multiple Brogue Kicks and having seen even Reigns go down to that. While I feel Miz not being totally squashed but putting up a solid fight could go a ways to making him closer to the top heel he used to be rather than a joke since I think he can still be pretty useful. Agreed, for what's supposed to be the Biggest WrestleMania Ever from an attendance standpoint, having a huge card would've made it feel that way much more than how it looks to be going. And agreed. That double main event would create a lot more suspense than the predictable triple threat. And I love the idea of Roman beating Brock there but not decisively so after he beats HHH at Mania, his first defense is Brock in an Extreme Rules match to finally settle the score. I dig Triple H as champ but the worst thing about it is that he's not going to defend it even once until he loses it. Just hate the predictability there as even the Rock defended once against Punk.