Matt D

Real life got in the way and my plan to catch up on NXT failed horribly. I made it about half the way there but I still have 3-4 episodes I didn't get to. Ah well.

Man, Bret bombed the question on why he's better than Flair. Any of us could have done a better job there.Even Flair did a better job answering it.

On a message board, I'll take someone who's negative about everything but tries to explain why they're negative in a well-thought out fashion over someone who's positive about everything but doesn't bother to explain anything in any real depth. I'd probably rather WATCH wrestling with the other guy, mind you.

My list is going to be absolutely ridiculous due to lack of time (and another year wouldn't help so it's not about that).

I don't think Parv's criteria for Greatest Wrestler is necessarily the one who is Greatest at Wrestling. EDIT: That's not a knock either. I was just typing it on my phone at midnight last night. I think he places "value" much higher than most of us do.

I'm with El-P on the headbutt thing but his dislike of "character work" is one of my pet peeves today.

Most telling is that the announcers didn't bury him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsuWP7q-mQ Meta Powers is the WWE name for them.

Don't you listen to your brother's conspiracy theories?

That was actually a star making replay on the arrow.

I don't give Barrett enough credit for his body language.

Oh, I was just highlighting the years and years of main event level matches we don't have.

After this, I figure Lana won't have the accent in two months.

I naively still thought they'd do the "Lana fools Cena" finish, which was malicious when they did it to Foley but would have gotten so much heat here. I guess we should all get used to social media pushed baywatch Lana.

This goes against the rules of the most famous I Quit match in their history. So that's not good.

They should have used a different camera angle on the reply since we really saw Ryback bump himself into the corner. In general,I thought that was a well-built finished for a match where neither guy should lose.

Ryback's is like if the Star Trek logo was a shark. The kick block of the clothesline was pretty boss.

I'd much rather be seeing Ryback vs Harper.

I had no problem with the finish. They've got similar tights and that's all the ref could see from his vantage. Re: Devon's go slower comment: the time where I wish they let it sink in a bit more was after Cesaro's catch powerslam on Big E and then the press slam. Those should have had another 20 seconds to breathe and play to the crowd each. Make it matter.

They did a very good job of justify the relatively early pins in this relative to other WWE tag 2/3 falls matches. Some of the tandem moves were way off though. I'm glad they at least tried to do the freebird rule.

Cesaro and Kidd have such a good freaking act.

Baltimore's about 15 miles away so I could have gone to this one but it just didn't feel worth the headache. I hope it's good enough that I regret it (because then everyone gets to benefit).

To be fair, the only 12 year old we have here is Johnny Sorrow.

I need to see way more 2015 Strong. I really liked what I saw in the Thatcher match from earlier this year.

I think there are ways to spin this, to highlight that they're giving local talent a chance, or that they're making grassroots efforts to find the next big stars, or something, but yeah.