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[fieldy snuts]

It can all be summed up with this line ""Nobody wants to see Hogan, he's an old piece of shit!" and he elaborated on his comparisons with 1999/2000 WCW.

[syxxpakk]

Day 123 (yesterday).

I watched Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen in a Steel Cage from the Bloodbath DVD that WWE released years ago. This was their first Cage Match DVD. The match is good, fun stuff with both men trying to maul the other. Backlund emerges from the cage victorious, fun is had by all.

Match of the Day goes to Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen, of course.

[GLX]

[Log-Man]

I really wish Flair would retire. It's actually depressing to see him now.

[jeremiahvedder]

Still, another good episode of TNA. Two in a row!

[syxxpakk]

So I spent all week watching the Marvel movies to build up to The Avengers last night, hence the erratic schedule of my posts. Hopefully after tonight things will get back to normal.

Day 124 (yesterday).

I watched one of my favorite matches: Sting vs. Cactus Jack - Falls Count Anywhere. You'll recall that I said I gave up on watching the YouTube matches, and I have, but I'm still participating in that I'm posting matches for other people to watch. This was my last pick. I didn't watch it on YouTube, though, I watched it on the Mick Foley DVD. I'd rather watch it with regular commentary, but that's small potatoes. The match is so good and if you've never seen it, you should find it on YouTube and watch it. It's a great brawl that proves that wrestling doesn't need to be PG13 to be awesome.

Match of the Day goes to Cactus Jack vs. Sting, of course.

[Stephen Day]

So I spent all week watching the Marvel movies to build up to The Avengers last night, hence the erratic schedule of my posts. Hopefully after tonight things will get back to normal.

Day 124 (yesterday).

I watched one of my favorite matches: Sting vs. Cactus Jack - Falls Count Anywhere. You'll recall that I said I gave up on watching the YouTube matches, and I have, but I'm still participating in that I'm posting matches for other people to watch. This was my last pick. I didn't watch it on YouTube, though, I watched it on the Mick Foley DVD. I'd rather watch it with regular commentary, but that's small potatoes. The match is so good and if you've never seen it, you should find it on YouTube and watch it. It's a great brawl that proves that wrestling doesn't need to be PG13 to be awesome.

Match of the Day goes to Cactus Jack vs. Sting, of course.

Great match that still stands up today.

[syxxpakk]

Day 125.

I watched Cactus Jack vs. Vader from WCW Saturday Night in '94 or '93. What an insanely brutal match, but not in the usual manner. There are no weapon-shots or tables breaking or barbed-wire. There's some interplay with a steel guardrail, but not much. This match is brutal simply via the amount of punishment that Vader gives Jack. Vader mauls him, essentially. If you haven't seen it, find the Foley DVD version and watch it. You won't be disappointed.

Match of the Day goes to Cactus Jack vs. Vader, of course.

[misac]

I really wish Flair would retire. It's actually depressing to see him now.

I like him in a manager role, he's still great, but he looks really bad.

[syxxpakk]

Day 126.

Today I watched last week's episode of Ring of Honor on SBG. It was a good episode that did a good job of building toward's next weekend's Border Wars iPPV.

The opener with the C&C Wrestling Factory vs. The Briscoes was fun. I'm a big fan of Cedric Alexander and I hope this is leading to a big run in the promotion for him and Caprice. Them getting the win over the Briscoes, even if includes WGTT interference, earns them a title-shot and hopefully that'll be in a place or time that will give them a lengthy showing.

Rhino joining the House of Truth is easily foreshadowing a departure for Michael Elgin, as when Elgin ultimately is kicked out Rhino will be able to fill Elgin's role. Rhino's quick match was the perfect way to use him, on top of that.

The Kevin Steen/Davey Richards-segment was excellent. I'm not sure they needed to create this backstory of Davey and Kevin being friends, but overall they did a great job of treading the line of shooting and working. Kevin bringing up some of Davey's threats of leaving really adds to the match, because we all know it's true. This needs to end with an epic double-turn of some sort.

Lance Storm's Inside ROH promo was the best I've seen from him, possibly ever. It did a good job of establishing his motives and the importance of his match with Bennett.

The main event was a good match between Adam Cole and Roddy Strong. I'm a big Roddy-fan and I'm glad he's gotten the Triple Crown achievement. Adam continues his pursuit of breakout star, but Roddy going over was the natural move here. I can see Adam as TV Champ by end of the year, though.

Match of the Day goes to Roddy Strong vs. Adam Cole.

[The Shadow]

I like him in a manager role, he's still great, but he looks really bad.

I don't get TNA and I know he's looking old physically... but how's he wrestle? Can he still do it and make the young guys look good?

[syxxpakk]

Day 127.

I watched Smackdown! this morning. In some ways, it was a great episode. Those ways are nostalgic though. It reminded of how the shows used to be in the early 2000s when they would be standalone episodes that would have a centralized story and still build to a PPV. We don't get those as often anymore. On the other hand, there was some genuinely bad stuff on this episode - and a lot of it has to do with the story they were telling. I have mixed feelings on the episode, ultimately.

Opening with Bryan Danielson vs. Sheamus lit up klaxon bells in my head. This is the quickest way to kill the PPV business - by giving away the matches you just had on PPV on free TV. TNA has destroyed their PPV business doing it, WCW destroyed their PPV business doing it... This is BAD BUSINESS. Ending with a no contest would have been a bit of a saving grace, but I've seen the whole episode so I know the fail it leads to.

Kingston/R-Truth vs. Hunico/Camacho was a perfectly fine match. The tag division is in such shambles now that it's not even remotely funny. The Brodus Clay/Team Guerrero stuff is starting to wear thin, as well.

Damien Sandow's promo was a genuine bright spot on the show. He's ridiculously good with a promo. And I love that he found Bateman to be beneath him. Ryback continues to impress in these short matches, but ultimately they're going to be face with a Goldberg-dilemma in that he'll have to wrestle longer matches which will just kill his appeal.

Randy Orton/Big Show vs. Kane/Cody Rhodes was perfectly fine wrestling. Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes are so ridiculously good in the ring these days. It's a shame Randy is bogged down in a boring story with Kane, because it brings both men down. Big Show continues to entertain in the role he's in.

So finally the main event. Sure it's a great match, but the business-sense of it is just fail - in multiple ways no less. There's aforementioned PPV-killing. Plus, now that Sheamus has beaten Danielson so many times, what does that if CM Punk loses? And really, why should anyone care if Danielson can beat Punk? He's been jobbed out to Sheamus so badly here, it's almost like it's not a contest. And then if it IS a contest, it makes Punk look like someone who has trouble hanging with the guy that Sheamus has mauled billions of times. I liked the booking at Wrestlemania - it fit the storyline. And having a real feud-ending match at Extreme Rules is perfectly acceptable as well. But when you continue to beat the guy down, all you're doing is beating down a potential moneymaker for you. It's like Zach Ryder. You just know they say, "Well we tried with him and he didn't really work out." Putting him in a ring with Kane and having him get beaten up every week, then get beaten up by Eve, etc. is dooming him for failure. Anyway, /soapbox.

Match of the Day goes to Kane/Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show/Randy Orton.

[Stephen Day]

Day 126.

Today I watched last week's episode of Ring of Honor on SBG. It was a good episode that did a good job of building toward's next weekend's Border Wars iPPV.

The opener with the C&C Wrestling Factory vs. The Briscoes was fun. I'm a big fan of Cedric Alexander and I hope this is leading to a big run in the promotion for him and Caprice. Them getting the win over the Briscoes, even if includes WGTT interference, earns them a title-shot and hopefully that'll be in a place or time that will give them a lengthy showing.

Rhino joining the House of Truth is easily foreshadowing a departure for Michael Elgin, as when Elgin ultimately is kicked out Rhino will be able to fill Elgin's role. Rhino's quick match was the perfect way to use him, on top of that.

The Kevin Steen/Davey Richards-segment was excellent. I'm not sure they needed to create this backstory of Davey and Kevin being friends, but overall they did a great job of treading the line of shooting and working. Kevin bringing up some of Davey's threats of leaving really adds to the match, because we all know it's true. This needs to end with an epic double-turn of some sort.

Lance Storm's Inside ROH promo was the best I've seen from him, possibly ever. It did a good job of establishing his motives and the importance of his match with Bennett.

The main event was a good match between Adam Cole and Roddy Strong. I'm a big Roddy-fan and I'm glad he's gotten the Triple Crown achievement. Adam continues his pursuit of breakout star, but Roddy going over was the natural move here. I can see Adam as TV Champ by end of the year, though.

Match of the Day goes to Roddy Strong vs. Adam Cole.

Yeah, it was a good episode. My friends and I are going to be at Border Wars. I can't wait to see what happens.

[GLX]

Random Smackdown thoughts (taking a cue from Syxx:

Alberto Del Rio greatly benefits from Ricardo's presence. It wouldn't surprise me if Ricardo became a highly over face, in the future.

Damien Sandow's theme rules. I'd kill to see him form a tag team with Daniel Bryan. The latter could revert back to his classical intro and could be a "refined comrade" of Sandow.

Ryback is slowly getting some tougher opponents. Slowly.

Glad to see that Camacho got some in-ring time.

Is WWE going to make "AJ slaps Kaitlyn" into a weekly segment?

Bryan's loss disappointed me.The problem wasn't that he lost, but that he lost to an injured Sheamus. If Bryan can get taken down by an injured man, how can anyone expect him to take on Punk? Outside of that, it was a good match that was hampered by its ending.

[misac]

Day 127.

I watched Smackdown! this morning. In some ways, it was a great episode. Those ways are nostalgic though. It reminded of how the shows used to be in the early 2000s when they would be standalone episodes that would have a centralized story and still build to a PPV. We don't get those as often anymore. On the other hand, there was some genuinely bad stuff on this episode - and a lot of it has to do with the story they were telling. I have mixed feelings on the episode, ultimately.

Opening with Bryan Danielson vs. Sheamus lit up klaxon bells in my head. This is the quickest way to kill the PPV business - by giving away the matches you just had on PPV on free TV. TNA has destroyed their PPV business doing it, WCW destroyed their PPV business doing it... This is BAD BUSINESS. Ending with a no contest would have been a bit of a saving grace, but I've seen the whole episode so I know the fail it leads to.

Kingston/R-Truth vs. Hunico/Camacho was a perfectly fine match. The tag division is in such shambles now that it's not even remotely funny. The Brodus Clay/Team Guerrero stuff is starting to wear thin, as well.

Damien Sandow's promo was a genuine bright spot on the show. He's ridiculously good with a promo. And I love that he found Bateman to be beneath him. Ryback continues to impress in these short matches, but ultimately they're going to be face with a Goldberg-dilemma in that he'll have to wrestle longer matches which will just kill his appeal.

Randy Orton/Big Show vs. Kane/Cody Rhodes was perfectly fine wrestling. Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes are so ridiculously good in the ring these days. It's a shame Randy is bogged down in a boring story with Kane, because it brings both men down. Big Show continues to entertain in the role he's in.

So finally the main event. Sure it's a great match, but the business-sense of it is just fail - in multiple ways no less. There's aforementioned PPV-killing. Plus, now that Sheamus has beaten Danielson so many times, what does that if CM Punk loses? And really, why should anyone care if Danielson can beat Punk? He's been jobbed out to Sheamus so badly here, it's almost like it's not a contest. And then if it IS a contest, it makes Punk look like someone who has trouble hanging with the guy that Sheamus has mauled billions of times. I liked the booking at Wrestlemania - it fit the storyline. And having a real feud-ending match at Extreme Rules is perfectly acceptable as well. But when you continue to beat the guy down, all you're doing is beating down a potential moneymaker for you. It's like Zach Ryder. You just know they say, "Well we tried with him and he didn't really work out." Putting him in a ring with Kane and having him get beaten up every week, then get beaten up by Eve, etc. is dooming him for failure. Anyway, /soapbox.

Match of the Day goes to Kane/Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show/Randy Orton.

I thought it was shitty how they had Sheamus steal the Yes chants.

It’s been like forever since I’ve really seen an Orton match, this feud with Kane has just killed any interest in seeing him.

I don't think this will hurt Bryan. I don’t think they’re doing it on purpose like with Ryder and he’s just too good that he doesn’t look as bad.