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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 24, 2013 9:46:14 GMT -4
The WWE has been a good match factory since Cena has been on top. The matches are usually always good. It's the booking around those good matches that are terrible.
You watched Ohno/Regal yet?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2013 19:03:02 GMT -4
That's on my 'get to it this week' list, right at the top.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 3:04:31 GMT -4
Three WWE matches added to the list. Well, one WWE and two NXT. Might do some more mining through NXT and see what I can find.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 10:00:24 GMT -4
Current Number 2 Pick - Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hirooki Goto; NJPW 6/22
This match is damned near everything right about pro wrestling. There's heat, intensity, they lay every strike in and they all *MEAN SOMETHING* and they escalate everything in a believable manner. Goto is great but there's a reason that Shibata's been my favorite wrestler in the world for the past year. The guy gets that he's a cocky prick, the guy gets that he could crush most of his opponents if he really wanted to and he USES THAT. My God I love Laughter7.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 10:04:12 GMT -4
Current Number One Pick - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada; NJPW 4/7
"He [Tanahashi] is better than Steamboat ever was, he's better than Shawn Michaels ever was." - Dave Meltzer
He's right, by the way.
Friggin' lovely match for a number of reasons. First, they don't meander like they did at the Tokyo Dome. This has the big fight feel from the second Okada's "RAIN MAKER" theme hits. The crowd is molten hot and when the bell rings both dudes pick a body part to work and stick with it. Tanahashi is so phenomenal in everything he does that he manages to make Okada look like he's on his level. The finishing run is really intense and this was, by far, the best match WrestleMania weekend. Nothing on WrestleMania comes close to this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2013 15:22:45 GMT -4
And there's another TNA knockouts match in the top 15. Figure that out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 6:25:08 GMT -4
Got a sneaky feeling this list will have a ton of G1 stuff on it before all is said and done.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 7:42:58 GMT -4
Updated the list with the double main from SummerSlam.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 23, 2013 9:27:25 GMT -4
It feels weird saying this but thank God for the WWE this year. They're the only people keeping the torch moving in the U.S. in 2013.
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Post by chewey on Aug 23, 2013 16:08:34 GMT -4
It feels weird saying this but thank God for the WWE this year. They're the only people keeping the torch moving in the U.S. in 2013. Actually this feels weirder to say but I think the IWC owes John Cena a big thank you for pushing WWE to allow him to work programs with Punk and Bryan. But for Cena, these two never would have gotten pushed to the top of the card... Punk probably wouldn't have even stayed in WWE - and of course you know that Cena must have volunteered to take the clean loss from Bryan because he is John Cena, and if he didn't want that to happen, it wouldn't have. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 16:29:37 GMT -4
I don't think he volunteered so much as they gave him that finish and he didn't object.
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Post by chewey on Aug 23, 2013 17:55:58 GMT -4
I still believe that he probably offered it, since it was supposedly Cena who hand picked Bryan as his summer feud, but in either case, if we assumed arguendo that Cena did object to that finish, it's not like they wouldn't have changed it to something else.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 24, 2013 8:05:47 GMT -4
The other thing I've noticed this year is that NXT has really stolen the thunder of the indy scene. TNA and RoH could really learn several hundred things about how to run a television show from NXT. And honestly, they have probably the best stable of indy talent going right now.
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Post by chewey on Aug 24, 2013 8:44:09 GMT -4
The other thing I've noticed this year is that NXT has really stolen the thunder of the indy scene. TNA and RoH could really learn several hundred things about how to run a television show from NXT. And honestly, they have probably the best stable of indy talent going right now. WWE did a very smart thing with partnering with Full Sail University. They are probably getting Full Sail to absorb some costs for production and equipment, get a live studio for tapings that costs them much less to rent out, and have a bunch of free labor from students who want a chance to get some experience. And it's great for Full Sail because they've gone from a rinky dink online university whose ads most people usually ignore into a school that at least gets legitimate advertising towards diehard wrestling fans, and kids aspiring to get into film that do not have the means or grades to go to the Bug Four for film school (USC, UCLA, NYU, and Columbia), can consider Florida where they can at least put NXT on their résumé. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 11:19:03 GMT -4
The other thing I've noticed this year is that NXT has really stolen the thunder of the indy scene. Yep, totally. Nobody's talking about PWG or anything. |
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