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I'm a bigger fan of Spike than most, I think and I really enjoy matches where he gets to bump around so I definitely enjoyed this, even if it's status as a PPV main event meant that it went longer than it had any right to. I liked all the table spots, with Spike bumping huge on that first one and the repeated attempts at the Acid Drop didn't bother me in this context since it really felt like a guy who knew he had the one killer right hook and knew he needed to go for it ASAP to win the match. With a few minutes shaved off and positioned as a TV main event, this would have done a great job in establishing Awesome as a killer champ and elevating Spike in defeat. As it stands, it strikes me as a strange match to headline a PPV, even if they did have the crowd with them all the way.

A simple but effective little tag match with some perfectly fine heeling and some perfectly fine babyfacing. You can definitely see the potential in Spanky and Dragon and Danielson adapts really quickly to the ref fucking up his dive by moving onto a moonsault which I thought showed some good instinct for a rookie. I agree that Spanky's bumping is pretty fantastic; I think he landed just about vertically from his dive and folding up on the spear looked fantastic. It really looked like the move had just completely wiped all energy and will out of him. For 3 rookies and a trainer, I thought this was a neat little match that would serve it's purpose on the undercard.

This is my first time seeing Bradley having only knowledge of his rep as an RVD-type guy but I came out of this more into TPT, purely on look alone, mind you. I thought this was a fun little brawl but could have done without the extra minute or two after the table spot; I thought that looked good enough and felt like something that would have solidified this match as a great sub-5 minute sprint if it had ended but we had to get extra shenanigans. Enjoyable enough.

I've really liked these glimpses into the indy scene of 2000 and this whole concept is, maybe, the indiest of the bunch. But, I do LOVE the name Y2Kaos for a show. Kind of wild seeing Toad just straight up lift a gimmick from X-Men but there's something very endearing about it. This was chaotic and I felt pretty bad for the small camera crew and announcers tasked with following it but it seemed to work live.

I agree that it's pretty damning to see how little Killings has improved in his time but I actually enjoyed some of the more exaggerated selling he was doing. I didn't see any of his heel WWE stuff opposite Cena so I wonder if he reprised that there. I think Killings was also helped by the sheer blandness of Estrada opposite him but, nevertheless, always good to hear Jeff G Bailey and another interesting little look at a guy who went on to work in a major promotion.

Ric Blade's outfit is a fantastic relic of early 2000s indie wrestling where enough time has passed that I greet it with some kind of reverent nostalgia. I actually didn't think he was too bad in this kind of situation since he cut a pace alongside Ki who was super quick and super crisp, as you'd expect. The Ki Krusher through the table seems like something that you shouldn't be using as a near fall but I guess it was that kind of match in front of that kind of crowd.

Really well-worked match that is making me super excited to see what Puerto Rico has to offer. I, too, loved the old school nature of it, even if it did lull in the middle with the chinlock but, man, what a hot ending. Carly really did have a lot of potential considering that this is only a short while into his career and it's clear he had a connection with the crowd as they swarm him in celebration in a really great wrestling moment. And hitting dudes with a shovel seems like it should have been co-opted by HHH in his meta-Authority gimmick. Someone get him tapes of Ray Gonzalez

Watched this out of curiousity and it just...upset me on many levels. Obviously, Bret is in bad shape, Terry Funk is Terry Funk in the Year 2000 and there's nothing too wrong with the work. It's plodding, Funk runs through his crazy old man spots and that's that but everything surrounding it is just awful. An nWo beatdown, two old guys in your TV main event, David Flair in general. It's been years since I've seen end of days WCW and it's even more depressing than I remembered. Over on WWF TV, you have blazing hot crowds, guys like The Rock and Foley putting together electric segments and, in about, 3 weeks, they're going to rob WCW of 4 very good hands. Just a sad indictment of what's to come. Nash's powerbomb through the stage looked suitably nasty though.

A great way to end a great show. I blow hot and cold on Sasaki but enjoyed a lot of what he did here, considering he was laying it in as hard as he could. Tenryu is my man though and he was great here. I loved him selling the rights to the jaw with a fantastic glazed look. Like you would have when rocked with a huge right and you're struggling to figure out where you are.

Black Suit Liger beats the crap out of Kanemoto like he's Venom-infused Spiderman, destroying some poor bank robbers.

I enjoyed this but it definitely had it's flaws. I think Miho has this really good, fiery babyface charisma but man, Maekawa really made this difficult to get through. Her inconsistent selling of the leg was pretty annoying, especially when the finishing stretch involved her using the bad leg to kick Miho into defeat. There wasn't a progression, as much as she was able to fire back at full strength because it was coming to the end of the match. Still, definitely a decent little match and I hope to see where Miho goes from here.

A match that really sums up HHH before he was working with over babyfaces; heatless matches, really boring on offense but a big bumper. I thought this was a good Show performance, probably better than it deserved considering the shitty finish but the pieces are in place for 2000 WWF going forward and it gets better from here. As an aside, I was wondering why we had no Nitro matches from this date, then checked the card to see a ton of Lethal Lottery Tag Matches that barely went longer than 3 minutes. WCW were gone by this point.

I enjoyed this and, like said, found it really engaging for its length. The second crowd brawling spot seemed a tad superfluous but the in-ring work and story were both excellent. I thought Miho was the standout as young girl trying to make an impression and show herself off but all 4 were really good at their roles. I agree that Maekawa's offense was pretty poor throughout but I thought she showed some good work, kicking about Miho and she cut a good pace herself down the stretch. Fun tag match that also set the seeds for the future at the end.

I ended up being disappointed by this which was unfortunate. Largely for two reasons; it went too long, I'd say and, despite the big spots landing great, the hurricanrana to the outside kind of felt like the move that should finish a guy off, or at least lead into the finish from there. And the crowd brawling was pretty terrible; it was the old "guys walk through crowd holding the others head" with very little in the way of intensity or, you know brawling. Looking at Honma as a WOTD candidate, I did think both guys were good here, despite my criticisms, and Honma had some great moments. His selling of the suplex in the crowd was fantastic and the plancha over the boards was beautiful but the match, as a whole, just didn't really click for me.

Kind of feels like the two best trainees in school having a showcase match which, I guess, it sort of was. Spanky's entrance is fantastic and I thought he was the stand-out here. Dragon's strikes look good but Spanky is leaning into them all and making them look like killer blows. He's bumping around like he's getting launched around a wind tunnel and I loved his dive where he just throws himself at Dragon at high speed. A decent little match that, maybe with hindsight, shows that these two are going to become fantastic workers.

Nice little opener to PWO2K as I'm trying everything to see what I'll stick with going forward. I won't try and repeat too much of what others have said but I agree that Mr. Mexico has a great look but he was sadly overshadowed by his fellow rudos here. I thought Zumbido looked fantastic; he was getting awesome height on his bumps (the bump over the turnbuckle was incredible) and cut a great pace and smoothness on offense. The third caida was a great chaotic finale and, for what this had to do, it was fine.

Yeah, I can imagine a WWE-produced Broken skit coming off as po-faced as the Wyatt/Orton House of Horrors match. Or whatever it was called.

http://globalwrestlingnetwork.com/ So, they have their own On-Demand service with, it appears, the full run of TNA ready to watch, along with some classic stuff and a slot for "Indy Wrestling" but there seems to be nothing up there yet. It seems like you can actually watch the last year or so of TNA without signing up so go wild, I guess? The main point of interest will be in what they can throw up in the classics section. But, don't worry, there's still some TNA-ness to the launch of this. Their site appears to be unsafe - showing up a non HTTPS url and they advertised the launch of the network on Instagram with a picture of Hulk Hogan.

The Dungeon of Doom fit the old campy horror aesthetic well. Well, at least The Yeti and Braun the Leprechaun are the stuff of nightmares anyway.

The opening tag was fucking wild! Everyone was bumping like total freaks from the first bell; Big E's spear straight into the cell was an insane bump to take in the first minutes of a match and it only got stronger from there with awesome moments. Woods eating the chair, The Usos swinging off with kendo sticks like they were hitting for home runs and then shit talking Kofi, the handcuffs and continued kendo beatings, guys getting punched in the ear, the ridiculous uranage onto Woods' knees that looked even nastier because it was sloppy, just some violence ass violence and an awesome performance from all 4 guys.

This looks fantastic and has also reminded me that I need to catch up on a TON of Exile on Badstreet eps.

Norman the Lunatic was an underrated painter.

Yeah, this is what I hope for, extending a bit further to European/Canadian/Mexican territories that all have presence and build to matches on super shows down the line. Something like WWN or Powerbomb.TV would be great too. A centralised hub where you have access to all the promotions, their shows, promos etc and a live stream of any big events. Ive now set myself up for disappointment having said all this.

I think a wrestling version of RateYourMusic may be more manageable. User ratings and reviews for albums/singles/EPs/etc that are tallied up and put in lists, customisable by year, genre, what have you.