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[syxxpakk]

Day 162 (6/10/12).

Next up on the comp was Rey Mysterio/Volador/Misterioso vs. Psychosis/Jerry Estrada/Heavy Metal. So basically the same match minus La Parka. This match didn't take as long to get going, but man did Heavy Metal come off as a douche. It seemed like he just kept trying to steal the spotlight. It was Teddy Hart-esque. Anyway, in the first fall (won by the technicos), Psychosis seemed to hurt his ribs. After the rudos took the second fall, Psychosis landed a flying splash right to the knee's of Misterioso and that was the finish to give the technicos the last fall. Good stuff here, but again while he had time to shine - this didn't really strike me as anything specifically related to Rey Mysterio.

Match of the Day goes to Rey Mysterio/Volador/Misterioso vs. Psychosis/Jerry Estrada/Heavy Metal, of course.

[syxxpakk]

Day 163 (6/11/12).

Next was a rematch: Mysterio/Volador/Misterioso vs. Psychosis/Jerry Estrada/Heavy Metal. This one wasn't the best match, honestly. It really played like the other, but with minor differences. The rudos took the first fall, the technicos the second, and the rudos the final fall with a fast-count from the heel referee. It was OK at best, and again, Mysterio didn't really "star" here or anything. This wouldn't be an issue to me if it were a "Best of AAA" or whatever DVD, but it's kind of a misnomer to call it the best of Rey Mysterio.

Match of the Day goes to Mysterio/Volador/Misterioso vs. Psychosis/Jerry Estrada/Heavy Metal, of course.

[syxxpakk]

Day 164 (6/12/13).

Next up is Rey Mysterio/El Hjio del Santo/Octagon vs. Psychosis/El Espanto/Jerry Estrada. Honestly, at this point they were starting to run together. I think this one ended up with the technicos being counted out in the final fall to give the win to the rudos. There wasn't anything remarkably memorable about it, but it could be a situation where I should go back and re-watch it. I will say though that the trend continues and it's nothing spectacular on the Rey Mysterio-front.

Match of the Day goes to Rey Mysterio/El Hjio del Santo/Octagon vs. Psychosis/El Espanto/Jerry Estrada, of course.

[syxxpakk]

Day 165 (yesterday).

Last day of the cruise and I finished off the disc with Rey Mysterio/Heavy Metal/Winners vs. Jerry Estrada/Fuerza Guerrera/El Espectro. The thing is, this was just as unmemorable as the last one and I think this might have been the one with the double countout finish. Either the last one was or this one was. It might have had heel ref shenanigans for the finish if not the double countout. I guess burnout is inevitable, because I'm pretty sure that's what happened here.

Match of the Day goes to Rey Mysterio/Heavy Metal/Winners vs. Jerry Estrada/Fuerza Guerrera/El Espectro, of course.

[syxxpakk]

So that said I have Smackdown, RAW, and ROH to catch up on. Unfortunately my DVR didn't record SD or RAW because I unplugged everything before I left the house. Smart move, right? So I've downloaded those and ROH as usual. I've heard that Slammiversary was a "return to form" and an awesome show, so I'm thinking about buying the replay this weekend. Can anyone vouch for that?

[Stephen Day]

Syxx, this is the problem I have with most of the "Best of..." sets that are available online that deal with guys who's best stuff is owned by the Fed.

[Stephen Day]

Yesterday was the third anniversary of Mitsuharu Misawa's death. In honour of that, I give you one of his best matches ever:

From January 22, 1999 -- Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada for the Triple Crown championship.

[syxxpakk]

I agree with you about that, Stephen. For best of comps of Japanese guys, it's obviously the best place to go. But the best ofs of guys like Mysterio, the Steiner, etc. seem to be easy cash grabs. Some of them are gems, though, like the Boss Man set.

[syxxpakk]

Day 166.

I watched Smackdown! today in effort to get caught up on everything I've missed.

The opening segment was OK. It's been awhile since we've had that type of a segment. The brawl with Sheamus/Del Rio was serviceable. Teddy Long fluidly slid back into his old role. Nothing outright bad, but nothing outright amazing.

Khali vs. Del Rio was a bit of a nothing match. I get the idea, but it just fell flat for me - possibly because it's hard to take Khali as a threat. Brodus Clay's backstage segment and in-ring were both OK.

Sin Cara vs. Drew McIntyre was a fine bit of business. Cara worked perfect as the little guy who gets beat up and Drew was excellent in working with him. It's a shame how Drew's career turned out. He's a bit bland from the charisma-standpoint, but he's such a solid, underrated worker. This match was just further evidence of that.

Ryback squashing the jobbers continues to be fun, although I would have liked more of his innovative offense here.

Christian and Cody Rhodes dueling promos was excellent. They both hit their marks as well as they needed to. The overall segment left me wanting to see these two battling it out, which is exactly what it was designed to do. I'm not sure I'm 100% behind the logic in Christian's face-turn, but it'll do I guess. Pretty lame explanation, really.

Christian vs. Dolph Ziggler was an excellent contest. It's weird to think of just how old Christian is now, though. I wouldn't mind seeing Christian and Ziggler in an extended program. I don't know how I feel about Christian adopting the Frog Splash as his finish. I was OK with it in TNA, but in WWE that's a Guerrero/RVD-specialty and should remain as such. Besides, the Killswitch is an awesome finish.

The segment with Hornswoggle/Michael Cole/Damien Sandow/Tyson Kidd was what it was, I guess. Watching Claudio dominate the Uso kid was fun.

The main event, Sheamus vs. Kane, was good bit of power wrestling. The non-finish was a necessity and in this situation I actually didn't mind it. Also, Kane is officially JUST ANOTHER GUY.

Match of the Day goes to Christian vs. Dolph Ziggler.

[fieldy snuts]

TNA impressed me. They gave Aries an out of the X-Division to the main event while not making him look weak (Hogan came out and cut a self-fellating promo about how he is a legend then flipped it into how Hogan believe Aries is one of the biggest stars of TNA and continues to blow him away). So he gave him an ultimatum: give up the X Division title for a Destination X World title shot. It'd make more sense for the Sacrifice PPV but it's a decent way to let him keep riding high without the title.

The over the top rope match was decent mindless fun with some faces I haven't seen in a minute.

Storm cut a GREAT promo about his return

Rayne and Tessmacher are hot. Quick and relatively painless eye candy segment.

Roode/Anderson: good tv main event where Roode got a clean win for a change.

Sting came out to talk about his HOF induction and was attacked by 3 masked men, obviously the ones that kidnapped Samoa Joe all that time ago. Or Vince Russo in a mask again. Or Jeff Jarrett angry he wasn't inducted into thhe TNA HoF (most likely).

Basically, it was one of the best ep's on Impact in a while. Almost everything seemed to serve a purpose.

Brooke Hogan is hilarious. She walks all awkward and towers above most of the KO's. So out of place. This is not a plus btw, it's just stupid nepotism like Garrett Bischoff that I hated watching.

[fieldy snuts]

In his latest interview with CYInterview.com, Jesse Ventura discussed numerous political, entertainment and wrestling topics among other things. Speaking with Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein, the former Governor of Minnesota says Vince McMahon got mad at him because he wouldn’t support Linda McMahon’s failed United States Senate run in 2010. He hasn’t spoken to Vince since.

“I haven’t spoken to Vince since he got mad at me ‘cause I wouldn’t endorse Linda for the senate…He got mad at me because I was on Good Morning America or something and they asked me would you support Linda McMahon? And I said no. But let me explain, I don’t support any Democrats or Republicans. She’s running as a Republican and I don’t support anyone from those two parties no matter who they are and so it was nothing personal against Linda, but Vince got real mad at me that I said that on national TV, but he should’ve known better.”

[kingbeavis]

Chris Sabin tore his ACL last night.

[rdrsfn82]

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I always enjoy reading the Masked Man columns. This particular one is about the fact that fans don't really give a shit about the fact wrestling is fake, despite the fact that others seem to think this is a big deal that would rock the fans' world.

Also, a little bit of a preview for the PPV, but that's not really the focus, as is usually the case.

[misac]

Syxx, this is the problem I have with most of the "Best of..." sets that are available online that deal with guys who's best stuff is owned by the Fed.

He probably got them at IVP and they're usually two to three bucks so at least it's not a rip off.

[misac]

Yesterday was the third anniversary of Mitsuharu Misawa's death. In honour of that, I give you one of his best matches ever:

From January 22, 1999 -- Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada for the Triple Crown championship.

I downloaded a three pack of his matches a few weeks ago. They were very good.