Now we're really going in circles. WWE wrestling is patterned and formulaic, there's a ceiling with most of these matches. I see matches better than Brock/AJ all the time.
Did see Final Battle. I watched A LOT of wrestling over the last two days
Matt Taven/Ospreay - 4
The Young Bucks & Hangman Page vs Dragon Lee/Titan/Flip Gordon - 4.25
Jay Lethal/Marty Scurll - 4.25
War Machine/The Addiction - 3.25
Dalton Castle/Cody - 3.75
MCMG/Best Friends - 3.5
Matt Taven is probably gonna be a star for ROH at some point, Ospreay made the match special, but he's got a presence and look with The Kingdom stable that I've liked what I've seen of. Can hold his own on the mic from one of the Texas shows and is a very good worker. The Young Bucks match is getting a lot of shit for one spot (some UFC guy tweeted about it) and of course the anti indie crowd is tearing it apart. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously at all and nobody took the two prior sequences into context, or what the match would become afterwards. It's definitely a flippy shit match, but the established the story right away of each tag partner matching each other in sequences and it just happened to lead to a silly payoff, as is tradition for Bullet Club. The match itself was absolutely insane, The Bucks (and Hangman!) have mastered the spotfest six man over the last few months, the stuff they can all do is out of this world and when you have Dragon Lee/Titan in there it's just magic. Flip Gordon isn't a great wrestler yet, but I've seen like six matches from him now and about 1000 flips.
Jay Lethal/Marty Scurll is the best match on the show from a storytelling POV, did lots of cool stuff including a new spin on an old spot that had me, the crowd, and everyone online going nuts. The angle going in was that Marty was a villain and him and Lethal are the same because of his past. Did a great job playing that out in the match.
Cody/Castle would be a very good TV main event, just had no real heat and it felt like they were going through the motions of a main event match. Admire the effort and can't downplay it all too much, but it was kinda just a match. Cody's a superstar now.
ROH also did like three nights in Dallas and some other event over the last little bit that all hit the net around the same time. Glorified house shows so the Highlights are The Bullet Club show. These guys are SO over.
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs Flip Gordon/Best Friends - 4
Kenny Omega/Arrow/The Young Bucks & Cody vs The Addiction/Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky - 4.25 (sloppy and silly but so great)
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs Dalton Castle/Kenny King/Jay Lethal - 4
The Young Bucks & Hangman Page vs Flip Gordon/Scorpio Sky/Coast to Coast - 4
The Young Bucks vs Dalton Castle/Jay Lethal - 4
Cody vs Christopher Daniels (Texas Death Match) - 3.75
Itami looks like a child on RAW even compared to Axel and Dallas.
The Revival is back. I'm happy.
Women's Rumble is happening. Might be a train wreck but I'll be watching. It will be interesting to see if they have some surprise entrants like the men's rumble.
I'm guessing Ronda Rousey will the big surprise and then maybe a blast from the past like Madusa.
I'm happy to hear Revival are back.
Itami has some serious work to do, he doesn't look in good shape after all his injuries and hes just struggled in general. I like the guy though, hopefully he catches a break.
I think it's a testament to all the women in the business, past to present, who have sacrificed their blood, sweat and tears and come so far as to have their own Rumble match. Now who do you think has the nicest tits?
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Now we're really going in circles. WWE wrestling is patterned and formulaic, there's a ceiling with most of these matches. I see matches better than Brock/AJ all the time.
Just how it is marks
Bless
I originally planned to start watching Raw and Smackdown again in Jan for the road to Mania but I'm really not missing it.
Yea Jinder tapping isn't good for him. He will probably win the Rumble
The women's match was a train wreck from beginning to end.
Somewhat interested to see where Bryan and Shane story goes.
I don't understand why I keep doing this to myself. It's like a bad relationship I can't walk away from.
I think the Jinder experiment came to an end when ticket sales and Network subscriptions in India flopped.
Did see Final Battle. I watched A LOT of wrestling over the last two days
Matt Taven/Ospreay - 4
The Young Bucks & Hangman Page vs Dragon Lee/Titan/Flip Gordon - 4.25
Jay Lethal/Marty Scurll - 4.25
War Machine/The Addiction - 3.25
Dalton Castle/Cody - 3.75
MCMG/Best Friends - 3.5
Matt Taven is probably gonna be a star for ROH at some point, Ospreay made the match special, but he's got a presence and look with The Kingdom stable that I've liked what I've seen of. Can hold his own on the mic from one of the Texas shows and is a very good worker. The Young Bucks match is getting a lot of shit for one spot (some UFC guy tweeted about it) and of course the anti indie crowd is tearing it apart. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously at all and nobody took the two prior sequences into context, or what the match would become afterwards. It's definitely a flippy shit match, but the established the story right away of each tag partner matching each other in sequences and it just happened to lead to a silly payoff, as is tradition for Bullet Club. The match itself was absolutely insane, The Bucks (and Hangman!) have mastered the spotfest six man over the last few months, the stuff they can all do is out of this world and when you have Dragon Lee/Titan in there it's just magic. Flip Gordon isn't a great wrestler yet, but I've seen like six matches from him now and about 1000 flips.
Jay Lethal/Marty Scurll is the best match on the show from a storytelling POV, did lots of cool stuff including a new spin on an old spot that had me, the crowd, and everyone online going nuts. The angle going in was that Marty was a villain and him and Lethal are the same because of his past. Did a great job playing that out in the match.
Cody/Castle would be a very good TV main event, just had no real heat and it felt like they were going through the motions of a main event match. Admire the effort and can't downplay it all too much, but it was kinda just a match. Cody's a superstar now.
ROH also did like three nights in Dallas and some other event over the last little bit that all hit the net around the same time. Glorified house shows so the Highlights are The Bullet Club show. These guys are SO over.
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs Flip Gordon/Best Friends - 4
Kenny Omega/Arrow/The Young Bucks & Cody vs The Addiction/Flip Gordon & Scorpio Sky - 4.25 (sloppy and silly but so great)
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs Dalton Castle/Kenny King/Jay Lethal - 4
The Young Bucks & Hangman Page vs Flip Gordon/Scorpio Sky/Coast to Coast - 4
The Young Bucks vs Dalton Castle/Jay Lethal - 4
Cody vs Christopher Daniels (Texas Death Match) - 3.75
Also
"The guy who created Viagra on a pole match is talking to me about ring psychology" - Nick Jackson
Poor Russo and Cornette
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Watching Raw. Joe/Rollins was a signed match. Jordan pushes Seth. Seth gets mad and the ref decides they get to have the match instead. What?
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Jesus they did another one
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs Best Friends & Rocky Romero - 4
The Revival is back. I'm happy.
Women's Rumble is happening. Might be a train wreck but I'll be watching. It will be interesting to see if they have some surprise entrants like the men's rumble.
I'm happy to hear Revival are back.
Itami has some serious work to do, he doesn't look in good shape after all his injuries and hes just struggled in general. I like the guy though, hopefully he catches a break.