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I caught up on the Edge & Christian show. After the first show was pretty average I must say that there are surprisingly many funny segments. My favorites were WWE guys reading Twitter hate posts about themselves (Cena and the Big Show are great in that), Edge, Christian (and Stardust) showing Wrestlecrap gimmick pictures to pre-schoolers and "Will WWE talk about it" (a fake game show with AJ Style as "candidate" making fun about his wrestling past and TNA).

The finish of the first match was not confusing by design, it was just that somehow they had problems with the ring bell (there was no opening bell either) and the wrestlers did not realize that and thought that the referee did not end the match. Judging by all the people looking under the ring between matches 1 and 2 I would guess that they just "misplaced" the ring bell, as stupid as that sounds.

A couple of random thoughts: - Bossman's daughter and Buddy Robert's son did really good for two people who (I suppose) are not used to speak in front of such big crowds. - The introductions by APA and the Dudleys were pretty funny. While the APA one fell really scripted the Dudleys are either much better actors ore ad-libbed much of their introduction. - I wonder how Hayes would have dressed if there was no Godfather introduction. - Godfather said nothing in the couple of minutes he spoke, except that the Godfather character is really him. No talk about this career, I mean he wrestled longer than the two years that he was the Godfather. - Sting omitted quite some names I would have expected him to drop. In addition to the already mentioned Luger other people that come to mind are Rick Bassman (he was the one to come up with Power Team USA and trained Sting, correct?) and Eddie Gilbert (wasn't he the guy who took Sting under his wings in the UWF and basically taught him the business?).

Roberts, not Hayes

According to this reddit page they are (up to December 2015) at 731 of 1179 episodes (or about 62%) online: https://www.reddit.com/r/wwe_network/comments/4cixm7/wwe_network_content_upload_progress/

On the Heroes of World Class documentary Gary Hart actually went with the non-foul play story. On both documentaries Hart was in tears when talking about Gino's death. I guess Gary Hart took Gino's death much harder than all the other WCCW deaths as he blamed himself for it (and he probably was much closer to Gino than to any of the Von Erichs). I think the story was that Gino called Gary one or two days before his death which was basically a cry for help and Gary Hart did not take it seriously enough.

Didn't Gary Hart do the same in the WCCW DVD documentary that is on the network as well?

I usually have no problems ignoring the announcers but JBL shouting "you still got it" one minute straight hugely annoyed me, especially considering that the Jericho vs. Swagger match was full of clumsiness (on both sides). For someone considered a mechanic Jericho tends to blow a lot of stuff.

Did they really look for the next Steve Austin? Who did they push in 2001 until the Cena era that was anything like Austin?

Did Puppet H show up yet? That's the only thing from the trailer that I'm looking forward to. I think there was Puppet Cena, but no Puppet H.

I watched the first episode. It was not as horrible as the preview indicated. There were a couple of mildly amusing segments (including Corey Graves going to a gym and asking random people about Edge & Christian; of all the people they showed only a not-thin not-beautiful woman had any clue who he was taking about) and a couple of yawn-segments.

I quit the show after Ziggler vs. Owens. Maybe I will watch the rest of the show tomorrow or so but Ziggler is so bad that he can kill any show for me now. I think would rather watch Cameron vs. Eva Marie in a 60 minute iron man match than another 15 minute Ziggler match.

How was the TNA cage match called where you have to climb out of a dome-cage which most people had difficulties doing so?

I haven't watched any JBL interview (yet), but wasn't the critic with the Bischoff interview that JBL was not prepared at all and therefore let Bischoff get away with a lot of shit?

I have watched the first episode of Ride Along yesterday and this were 20 minutes of my life that I will never get back. It is not as if it's horrible but it's just boring. The only interesting thing worth noting (at least to a European) was Kofi and Big E not using seat belts.

Styles won pretty convincingly wrestler of the year, Tanahashi, Okada and Nakamura were close together on places 2-4. Best WWE wrestler was Cena on 5. The top 10 in most outstanding had 6 New Japan wrestler (Styles who won, Tanahashi, Okada, Nakamura, Ishii and Ibushi) plus Rollins and Cesaro from WWE, Hero and Strong. The rest did not contain many noteable results except maybe that WWE only ranked 7 on the promotion of the year award (when was the last time they were that low?). Of course TNA smoked them in worst promotion.

Is there some kind of (accidental) segregation here? In the front row of the celebration are only black and Samoan people while the whites keep themselves mostly the in the background.

It depends on if you count Bret vs. Yoko. You could argue that it does not as the for WM X it was not clear if Bret's opponent in the main event is Yoko or Luger.

The way he phrased it did not sound that positive, the gist was "even in his heyday 30 years ago he did nothing but headbutts and holds and he can still do that".

That Goto vs. Naito rating is absolutely insane. Both are mediocre guys when they are working hard and they did not show much here. Honestly I though that was the worst match of the night.

I did not follow TNA at all but in the last two years or so I cannot remember any Angle scandals so either ( a ) he has become more careful when and how to do drugs or ( b ) he cleaned up.

How would a Mania flop in the post PPV area by measured?

Was there any time in its existence when TNA had the more family friendly product than WWE?

It's definitely not the worst thing the WWE ever did but "Your little baby brother, he did not have much fight in him, did he?" was scummy as hell, especially everything that went with it (not warning Reid's parents beforehand, blaming it on Charlotte afterwards etc.).

I get Nakamura and Styles u. to some degree Gallows, but what do they see in Anderson (besides his Randy Orton tribute spots)?