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AJ to be in the IC clusterfuck and win at Mania. Congrats on all your hard work Becky Lynch, you won't be in the probable match between Charlotte, meta face/booked heel Sasha Banks, heel Nikki Bella and a face Paige who will act like a heel. Why couldn't Ambrose win and get screwed at Fast Lane? Reigns to beat Triple H in a fake epic at Mania, DVD in years time will overblow the match and who it defined and made. I hope I'm all wrong, lets check out till the summer lads.

Becky Lynch did really well, should reach to the natural conclusion of her not winning the title at the Rumble before he eventual title win when the level of interest is not maintained.

American Male Scotty Riggs

Yeah I rate matches in this scale *load of shit *didn't do it for me *meh *it was alright that *really, really enjoyed it *tell other people to watch it, fucking loved that.

I don't want to be trivial, but do you really add a snow-flake for the potential social or political significance of a given match? Should I be marking Iron Sheik vs. Sgt. Slaughter down for its jingoism and xenophobia? Should I be marking the Dudes with Attitude angle up in 1990 for its commitment to equal rights (for black guys, JYD, for both South Americans and Giants, Gigante, for the disabled, Orndorff, and for the mentally challenged, Rick Steiner)? We also don't seem to do this for other historically significant matches ... Do you give Hogan vs. Andre an extra snow flake for the booking behind it? Do you give extra significance to the Ron Simmons title win? I am being serious on this. Yes, I'd add something if it really played into an overall move forward. If it sold you onto the story and the match then add all the stars you want. It's subjective to the viewer.

Sasha/Bayley was better for everything it had attached to it. The hype, the build, the story, the crowd, the match structure, the finish, the payoff. Reigns/Lesnar was a superb hoss brawl with an a horrid build and a babyface that while putting in a right tough shift was neglected as the hero and had a cash in, fuck finish swerve. Has this match even been talked up much since on TV? and Sasha/Lynch was better than both for a match story and the workrate the body part hard on column, plus it pushed Becky over to the acceptance of the audience. Young lass deserved that round of applause. All three are MOTY contenders for me personally. Lesnar is something special and I don't think the NXT girls getting more time to rehearse their matches makes it any less of an achievement. Savage and DDP did the same and the only people who complain are old lads stuck in a certain mentality, regardless of their talent.

Hold up. Cena and Trips have beef?

Robert Roode/Bully Ray. Ref takes a bump via the wind.

Been watching TNA through 2004/2007 (2005-2006) being a bloody great period of TV for TNA, and Christ it's depressing what became of TNA. So I thought since the TNA thread is such a depressing car crash I thought about a three column idea for listing what you would consider genuine TNA moments (did they have any?) As well as your personal hits and misses and maybe why so. MOMENTS *Skipper walks the cage. TNA's version of the Superfly on the cage for several reasons. TNA were canny about always showing this and letting the visual sell itself rather than the modern day manufactured moments in wrestling. *Angle headbutts Joe. Brilliant angle, superb stuff. The shot of Angle screaming at the camera while a bloody Joe creeps into shot behind him in superb. *Hogan is coming. It went to shit, but at the time I felt that it could lead to something positive. It didn't, but hell when the announcement was made it spiked my curiosity. HITS *2005-2006. A cracking run of TV/PPV. It was a mix between national promotion/territory and I just love this period, the tag division was great fun at this time and the X Division was probably at it's peak roster wise. The rise of Joe was also great stuff. *Paparazzi Productions. Pisses on the New Day personally. Shelley was absolutely brilliant as the rogue camera man for hire. A wrestler/TMZ sleeze hybrid. Once paired with Nash (in one of his best roles as delusional semi retired wrestler) it was solid gold stuff. Some of the funniest stuff in wrestling ever for my opinion. *James Mitchell. A hit and a miss personally. A cracking promo/manager for Abyss. I love the bloke. *Additionally, Beer Money, Bully Ray, the Angle/Jarrett 2009 Match, Scott Steiner rejuvenated, Black Machismo, Flair in TNA were personal highlights. MISSES *Dixie. Fucking mark, nasty woman when you peel the layers away. A moron, a PR spouting moron with her hands too involved... Bloody Serg. *Monty Brown, how the fucked it up is beyond me. He was always good fun and they let it slip. An idiots mistake. *Monday Nights. No, it was never going to happen and damaged the brand more than aided. That's just a few, I'll let some others explain more.

Why can't he just let his wrestlers wrestle, tell their stories and be successful at it, and save the party and applause for backstage ? Because the story is not "Good girl Bailey triumphs over evil Sasha Banks", the story is really "Look at how Triple H and Stephy are revolutionnizing women's sports-entertainement." That's the actual narrative, because like everything else, the true narrative of everything about WWE is the WWE itself. And WWE is Trip and Stephy. For gods sake, stop taking wrestling so seriously. The Trips are not the story, but it's an on-screen approval of Bayley/Sasha. I said earlier for me personally it didn't bother me, I left the show thinking that was an awesome match, Sasha got a joshi style NXT send off, women main evented and Triple H really gave Bayley a nice moment. I didn't leave thinking Triple H was a prick totes going over the girls. Sometimes the veil can be dropped when everyone knows the score I think, especially when analysis of the rise of the NXT girls. It's always been a bit meta. It's not 1985, it's easy to get over it.

I'd avoid the new WWE 24 then to be honest.

Yeah at the end he should have pedigreed Bayley. I can see Steph on NXT being bad, but NXT is a semi meta developmental show so I'm grand with it.

The ending with the flowers was a mix of a joshi ceremony and the finale of the NXT is advancing women's wrestling story, with the main event spot. It was brilliant stuff, the whole roster coming out was a nice touch too. The acceptance that women can main event in WWE was the ending piece. Regardless if that will ever happen in such a way on the main shows. I love wrestling being about money, and I love when it's referenced, but the whole business seemingly has moved on from those references. It's almost nostalgic and thus fun to see it called upon now and again. Brilliant stuff, and the division should do good now with the new crop with Dana/Emma/Asuka, as well as Nia Jax coming in, and super awesome heel Eva Marie.

Has anyone moaned about the postmatch, breaking Kayfabe bollocks that people give out about? Don't bother, it was grand... I love Dad Triple H.

Thanks for the suggestions. I started with what I assume is Dreamslam I. It features Tori from the WWF in it (looking a right state). So currently up to Chigusa/Masami. Masami is a heel right? She must be, she looks so heel.

Random thoughts but I was always a massive guilty pleasure for AJ Lee's Avril punk tune she had before getting her more famous tune and skipping like an arsehole for years. Bad call scrapping that theme. No idea if there are any other examples but I love what I call the 'hidden' part of the theme. When Jim Johnston thought 'aye, they're probably in the ring now, throw in some weird shit'. Mr. Perfect is the *cough* perfect example. Listen to his theme over a minute in and it has some slight changes. Then at 1:48 it completely loses it's shit and has this very dark sounding middle 8 bit before going back to the main theme. No reason for that at all, but I absolutely love it. There must be more examples but my minds blanking.

Never watched a Joshi match in my life. What are the essentials? Want to try something new.

Is Lana a complete fucking idiot?

What location in the UK? Or not announced?

Introducing my sister to some of the older stuff on the network. Can anyone suggest the true stand out stuff to catch from any ppvs, clashes, WWE, WCW or ECW? There is so much on there it's hard to whitle down.

It was in private, banging his mates wife and rat arsed, his etiquette was probably not as the make a wish level that night.

It's quite easy. You just don't mention wrestling history on your broadcast. Unless is Mania season in which by this time the story will have passed. He also won't be erased. Everyone knows Hogan, it's Hogan, the references will just be smartly relaxed. Absolutely terrible play from Hogan. In public or in private, those be dickheadish remarks to make that someone on the role of a company ambassador should avoid.

What where the cards and why? Never seen either

Kane. Fucking hell it's definitely Kane. At the moment he's such an anachronism.

Is there a more diverse use of styles and matches on a ppv than Spring Stampede 1994. I'm not really meaning loads of gimmicks and themes in a Russo sence but just a good variety that was also entertaining. At Stampede you have *Badd/DDP - standard undercard opener. *Regal/Pillman - hybrid styles match that worked. *Chicago Street Fight - nutcase arena wide brawl *Austin/Muta - mudcard title match, played out pretty even. *Sting/Rude - standard sports entertainment match with a little smoke and mirrors thrown in. *Rhodes/Buck - Classic southern brawl *Vader/Bossman - big lads smacking the fuck out of each other *Flair/Steamer - classic NWA style main event.