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Honestly? Having seen a lot of heel Martel, I don't think it holds a candle to his babyface stuff. I know people talk about Heel Hennig not being nearly as good as face Hennig but I think Martel is far worse off in that regard.

You guys did not appreciate that Test of Strength nearly enough, though the Barnett reference was hilarious. Ok you guys are turning the corner on it, at least. Look at the DVDVR note. It's all we wanted to talk about.

"Come on hippy!" Johnny gets no respect. Love but no respect.

The Mad Dog + Hogan joke was pretty great. That was probably my favorite exasperated Kent announced match so you guys missed out there. He went as nuts about the eye rake as you guys did. Also, the thing re: Tenta isn't necessarily that his stuff is different than we remember when we were younger but that we've all changed as watchers since then. We value different things as a community than we once did. That's just my theory.

Looking at my list, it might slip down a few spots, but just a few. I don't know how much thought I'm going to put into spot #142, you know? I kind of like Kent relative to a lot of the other guys on there. The one match on the set with the worst commentary is the Marshall overlay on the 83 Hogan/Bock match. My god.

I do love that it really is sort of a Wrestling Podcast All Star Team

I felt bad for Will for having faith in his committee during the Adonis vs Hogan match. (Granted, on my draft list that comes in at 138 for me).

I feel bad doing this to Dylan since we've been in agreement in a lot lately, but My pick's going to be Real World Tag League AJPW - Funks vs Can Am Connection: 11/22/86 (I think it aired 11/29, but there's only one and it's not hard to find). I think this match tells a great story based around Zenk being the odd man out and how the Funks decide to deal with that and then how Martel responds. I might hotshot it up in between the two JCP matches to keep things fresh, but we'll see.

Do they release the full HOF night on DVD now? As things stand now, we wouldn't even get Backlund's induction in the hour version.

Obviously the PWO podcast should be called the PWOdcast.

We should come up with a pool for when he quits.

Honestly, the live reaction is the only worry and these are the die-hard NYC fans. I think even the kids will be okay. Who cares what the order is for the TV ratings.

I actually think they should do Rey vs Henry at EC, or even Rey + Cara vs Henry.

I think Foley would step aside for Bruno, no? He grew up watching New York wrestling in the late 70s and early 80s.

It's not like Lanny didn't wrestle a ton of matches at MSG either.

Honestly? My guess is that he's on the way out and will put over Ryback at Mania. They'll put him over someone at the PPV to build him up and then feed him to Ryback.

When does he start hyping his softball team?

All around I think the answer is yes if we are looking at the last two years or so. I'm not sure anyone is a better promo. No one is a better character. There are one or two guys you argue are better in the ring, but I'm not sure I'd buy it. Who agrees?

So according to Dylan, Henry is the best wrestler on the WWE roster?

Show's had a monster two years, no?

Who on the roster is better than Henry right now? Bryan? Rey? Anyone else?

I wonder if that means Hunter inducts him.

This thing will be archived, right?

How does he compare to HHH?

I think I was mainly focused on crowd reaction, babyface clapping (and the response), and maybe Ace's pluckiness. I think it was worked fairly evenly from a face/heel perspective. I'll give you that me trying to work through that match is a lot like trying to use babelfish to understand an Italian document when you have college level Spanish under your belt. I'm sure some things are getting lost.