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Went with Misawa/AJ/Bryan. I'm a big show me, don't tell me kind of person. I've been told a lot that Bret and Shawn are all-time great wrestlers. Yet, when I watch them, I'm consistently underwhelmed. I'm almost 40 years old, so I came up with Gorilla constantly telling me that Bret was "The Excellence of Execution". I bought that and always considered him great. The more I watch, though, the matches just aren't there. Same with Shawn although the narrative of him being an all-timer is newer (post-first retirement). I've seen Misawa, AJ and Bryan blow me away. All three have the performances to back up the claim to being all-timers, in my eyes. That's the difference for me.

I'd say stopping a very large, publicly-traded company from honoring her on a show viewed by millions of people is a pretty tangible effect. It stops them from convincing a bunch of people who don't know any better (most of their viewership) that she was some trailblazing saint.

WINNER I don't know. I feel like Jack White would wrestle like it was the 1930's and find anything past that inauthentic.

I believe Powerbomb.TV has some IWAMS. On night 2 of the 2007 Ted Petty Invitational, there's a Chris Hero/Eddie Kingston match that is one of my favorite brawls ever. So brutal.

Whats the time period of the stuff they have up now? Id be tempted to sign up to catch that Mysterio/Ki match from a couple years ago.

Whats Batistas beef with OVW?

I think Percy Watson played a cop on the Atlanta season premiere. Great show, btw.

They should bring back Neville and have Cena face him on the pre-show and leave it off the dvd.

I dont follow indie wrestling super closely anymore. I check out pimped stuff when I can. That said, Im more excited about Riddle/Ki than I have been about a match in a long time.

Double post (Annoyed grunt)

Booker finally gets to use his Fave Five!

My 10-month-old son has started doing that baby thing where they just randomly point at stuff. My wife asked my 6-year-old daughter what she thinks hes pointing at. She said, Probably the Wrestlemania sign.

Savage dvds must sell well. This is what, his third collection?

Nah. Just constant motivational posts and stuff about people being two-faced, etc. Just waiting for him to start selling protein powder.

Austin Aries is a 20-year-old girl on social media.

I told my wife that if I ever get fired from my job, Im just going to go around destroying things at work. Then Ill threaten to throw the most annoying guy there off of something and theyll just hire me back. Apparently thats how it works.

Im not sure about all the other stuff, but I think its safe to say that the AWA would NOT have become the number one promotion. Verne was way too out-of-touch to pull that off.

True. Only surpassed in thinness by college football head coaches.

Saw a little thing about the kid who won the big Powerball jackpot on the news. He was wearing a Kevin Owens shirt in one of the pics they showed. Get ready for a new money-mark fed!

Speaking of Nak in New Japan, what are his best matches from NJPW? I've seen the AJ match, and it's a ton of fun. My six-year-old daughter is a HUGE Shinsuke fan. Might look for some stuff of his to watch while we're stuck inside on a snow day.

I don't understand why the girl hosting the recap show keeps calling Vega Almas protege? Isnt she running things with Almas? I dont know why someone wouldnt correct the host there. She said it a lot.

Wow. That Kane/Lesnar pull-apart at the end of Raw was...uh...something. WWE production tried their best to make it look chaotic with the quick cuts, but nothing could mask how tepid that thing was.

I got behind on NXT. Caught up on the last four episodes this week. They are on fire! There was at least one ( sometimes more than one ) really good/great match in every show.

Not a wrestler, but I got a reply from The Mountain Goats John Darnielle. Hes obviously a big wrestling fan as he did a whole album of wrestling songs. Before that hed written a few about wrestlers here and there. One was Ox Baker Triumphant. I tweeted a video of Bakers tv debut when he got interviewed as a fan and said hed like to try wrestling. Darnielle replies, incredible! I was totally geeking out.

The way I read it ( and I could be wrong ) is that you pay $9.99/ month and you get all the video on demand. Live events are half-off or something, but they go into the VOD library two weeks after they happen. Is that right?