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Punk has thought of himself as a locker room leader vet giving out unsolicited advice and annoying people since the IWA MS days.

The only good things to come from the entire trilogy are the soundtracks and John Carpenter getting the money actually owed to him, which he spends entirely on video games.

They should have to pay people for Halloween Ends. Absolute dogshit. Truly hard to believe that the team behind Eastbound, Vice Principals, Gemstones could make the 3 worst Halloween movies. In a row, too.

The WWF/AJPW deal is weirder to me than MPro or FMW. Attitude Era WWF and late stage King's Road styles, as well as Vince's and Baba's booking philosophies and presentations, could not have been farther apart.

Jungle Boy definitely got absolutely fucked by Christian's injury. I don't think there is a good way to keep that going for something that's a 9-12 month injury for Christian. The Lucha turn, then maybe sorta turn back, then turn again all in like 3 weeks was probably not the best way to go.

What move scrambled him?

Thought the Hangman promo was great. Thought the main event was pretty good. I hope to never have to see another Jericho match that isn't from 1998 for the rest of my life. Everything with him is so self-indulgent and I really wish TK would use him more sparingly. He has these never ending feuds and goes on and on about how he made whoever it was against a star and all this shit, but the feuds are all boring and the other guy ends up doing nothing for 6 months after.

Heel tactics as a face seems to be a McMahon thing, as pretty much every IC and World level face going back to Bruno would do them, always to cheers from the crowd and face announcer.

LG shows personality all the time, but his personality fucking sucks as much as his ring work.

Finally, Chase Owens vs Taguchi will get the title match treatment it deserves

How can one forget Arachnaman in WCW? It actually got them sued. Dexter Lumis is the most blatant one I can think of in the past like...15-20 years. I'm sure TNA has a gang of IP rip offs over the years.

Steamboat is so good in his second WCW run. I think the Rude iron man match is the perfect wrestling 101 match that you can show to someone who has never watched wrestling and they'll understand wrestling psychology, face and heel dynamics, how selling works. And something that even vets can watch and improve their knowledge. I also think the SS Steamboat/Flair match is better than 2 of the 3 in 1989. I can never keep straight which match is which and which one is the one pretty universally thought of as the best, but the Spring Stampede match is better than the other 2, imo.

Agreed. But by the end of 2014 and feud with Dean Ambrose, shit was dire and only got worse from there. I guess the cage match with Cena is probably a sign of how bad things were going to go for that character.

Everything Bray Wyatt related and adjacent has been some of the worst shit of all time since around the end of 2014.

I can not imagine how stupid that looked in arena with camera crews and stage hands getting into position and moving props around. And it was real fucking dumb on TV to begin with. Way, way over produced. Imagine the whole thing was just the lights out, audio playing, and then a lantern lights up.

Real good show besides Edge/Balor, which was dreadfully boring and Balor in this role is working like he's taking the piss at all times. I did lol at Dom beating the shit out of Rey.

She didn't no sell at all Everyone on this card is going to be sore as fuck tomorrow

Will Sammy make a snarky tweet about it or not

Remember when Cody was banging the drum for a wrestling union, with everyone having benefits and healthcare, only to never mention it again once he was actually management? But he, his wife, and the other Elite guys did get benefits and healthcare as office?

Give Bryan the ROH book and let him cook

Andrade did what he said he was going to do, Sammy got out of pocket with his tweet, got that two piece and a biscuit. Still, not great to have another backstage fight. But also fuck Sammy.

I think Sammy already has X-Pac heat online and in person. I'm not sure what the way back from that is. X-Pac really didn't until he was mostly retired and popping up as a legend.

Sammy seems like a vortex of drama

Lmao at the idea of Sammy CRYING because someone was too stiff with him in the ring. Eddie should have tagged him up afterall.

Man how fucked up did Adam Cole get, haven't even heard rumblings of a projected return date for him