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Nice work with this Charles

Really liked Meanie on this show. He would be great to engage if we ever do a series of ECW shows. Nice work Will and Johnny. Loved your story at the end about your 15-year-old breakup and watching wrestling with your Dad at the Civic Center.

I thought AJ was pretty candid about his negotiations and how woeful TNA was. That was just shitty to hear.

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That's a big main event - they've been building that Briscoe/Cole match for months. Also looks like Bobby Fish is back from Japan (he was not in Pittsburgh). reDRagon is awesome. No Hero or Styles but otherwise very solid.

Disagree here. This is the post-Mania RAW arena. People on the east coast will travel in for the PPV. Probably will be louder than Pittsburgh.

"Garea" to the tune of Maria from West Side Story definitely needs fleshed out lyrics. I'm sure Johnny could whip those up in just a couple of minutes. My Titans deadpan of the week goes to Parv in this sequence: "Parv, a designated hitter is a baseball thing. Since that probably went over your head" Parv: "Right" (totally disinterested)

VOW gets a shout-out during Justin's intro. Looking forward to you joining us for 14 (I'm on 28 with Will so far).

Some of this is tricky, because a sprint can be a match but it also can be a section of a match with a lot of rope-running. Heat can be the section of a match where the heel is on top and the babyface is garnering sympathy, but that can also be face in peril. Generally, a face-in-peril only works in a tag match, building to a hot tag but a heat segment can be in any match. At the same time, the heat can be the actual emotion of the crowd itself, angered at the heel. Or it can be a legitimate dislike between two wrestlers, or that one wrestler has with the locker room/crowd. Base, I personally use most to describe a hold or series of holds targetting a specific bodypart or telling a specific story that wrestlers go back to in structuring a match. A lot of times you can have a match where a lot of the meat of it is based around working in and out of a headlock, or in WWF matches, a chinlock. USUALLY it's found in the first part of the match, because if in the middle, that'd really be more likely to be a heat segment. So again, tricky. And yeah, a base could also be a wrestler who a second, flying wrestler can work against and that can catch all of his moves and make his logically low impact flippy stuff look good. I love classification. Deconstructing matches is so underdeveloped as a field that it's like the Enlightenment whenever we try, in that a lot of what we can do is try to classify, qualify, and quantify common elements between matches. I think a Kindle book going into all the terms as well as deconstructing matches would be pretty entertaining. I enjoyed your responses.

YES Solid six-minute match and Sheamus makes his opponents look so good as he builds to his comeback. The shoulder work fit in great and made Axel look smart. So good to have Sheamus back in the ring.

I'm holding out that they ramp this up with the remaining shows before the ppv. This could very well have a TLC 2012 type vibe - especially if they decide to make it tornado (which would be great).

They sat behind me at the Rumble.

He really blitzed through his promo didn't he? You could tell he conciously didn't want to take a breath and break that fast cadence.

From what Funk says on Borash's Forever Hardcore documentary, he was the one that turned down the WWF's contract (substantially more $) in 1997 to go back to his friends in ECW. His wife was not pleased.

There were a number of people in the same hotel where the PTBN contingent was staying. Saw them at breakfast, the bar the day before, the shuttle, etc. We had guys drive in from Michigan and fly from as far as Wisconsin and Georgia (chad!). It's the second biggest PPV as you said. Definitely a good chunk of out of towners. I think the Rumble being in Pittsburgh - and being at the very convenient convention center (i've seen two ROH shows at convention centers and it's a very comfortable atmosphere with plenty of room to walk around), absolutely contributed to the big gate for ROH. Sucked that London was a late cancel due to flight issues.

I enjoy his NXT recaps and his Royal Rumble 2014 one was pretty good :shrug:

As long as he doesn't interject himself into the main event and have everyone waiting for him to show up later in the match. I know you had to suffer through that at 27.

Thought it was as logical as one could work a match with this stip. Good tension, with the drama and spots escalating at a fine pace. Used alfonso and others coming out to stretch out the carnage (since Sabu was all messed up anyway) which was fine. Sabu still taping his arm in mid back bump through the chair was amusing. At first I didn't like Funk kicking out of the first attempt after the leg drop but I started thinking more about the feeling I had when it happened (and I assume those "live" as well). That "Oh shit, this is going to continue?" and then being relieved when it was done considering how brutal it was. I'm not a big ECW guy but I liked this a good bit.

I'd like to read more around who the better worker was in their 2000 matches - HHH or The Rock. Scott argued for HHH while Dylan was on the side that the Rock was better in those matches. Where does everyone else stand? I need to re-watch them but I didn't think Rock was at HHH's level workrate wise until later in the summer of 2000.

http://placetobenation.com/wrestling-with-...eat-hhh-debate/

Will: it was the apostrophe in "We'll" that was the culprit Also - if you downloaded it yesterday through iTunes, please re-download as the correct length is 2:58. Thanks.

Will is joined by Scott from the Place to Be podcast and Dylan from the Wrestling Culture podcast to debate one of the most powerful figures in wrestling. Triple H! We'll discuss his early Blue Blood gimmick, being a member of the Kliq and DX, his run as a World Champion, his role as a power player behind the scenes and his treatment of other wrestlers. If you hate HHH, you will enjoy this show. If you like HHH, you will enjoy this show. Time to play the game! http://placetobenation.com/wrestling-with-...eat-hhh-debate/

We'll talk more about it Friday (I should even have my voice back by then!) but in-person I thought it was "We Want Divas" - which is considerably funnier than "We Want Refunds" (which doesn't mesh anyway since the rumble hadn't happened and we all thought Daniel Bryan was still in it).