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This is the best match Ive seen between these six so far this year. They have all been excellent in my opinion. Echoing what was said above, the focus on the in-ring is great here. Little to no brawling in this one which makes the high flying things like Harpers topé look like something fancy, at least until Seth hits the ring for his set. I like the booking of this match, too. Everyone loves clean finishes and this one made sense because (I think) Harper and Rowan should be booked to look slightly incapable when Bray is taken out. Shield were on *fucking* fire at the end of this with all of the highspots leading to Ambrose finishing it on the mat. Love the selling by Ambrose at the end of the match. I think that works in a little bit of Wyatt protection. Either way, Shield look like stars. "Do I look like I'm faceless, baby?"

Havent glanced the thread yet but wanted to point out the first thing that popped into my head was 1994 crazy Backlund. I chuckled. Maybe it would work if he "had one too many concussions" and "joined the Authority"? They shouldnt run that angle.

This is some horrible news that Ive been thinking about all day. I knew what the Ultimate Warrior was before I knew what the WWF was (as odd as that sounds) and used to run around with my friends shaking our fists and closelining eachother. Ive ruined many a swimming pool rope in my time shaking them violently. Like most, I never really liked any of his matches aside from Hogan at VI. So it goes. Aside, glad to see that the no nonsense moderation of prowrestlingonly is continuing. I love heated political debate as much as the the next wrestling fan but I come here to read about and talk about prowrestlingonly. Wrestling makes me happy in every way and politics make me angry, especially when discussed in the manor in which Jiz was discussing. I do not want them to mix. I can only imagine there was some private comment or deleted post that made this decision final. Most of the time when I make a longer post like he did I dont even revisit the thread for fear someone may have called me an idiot or something like that. I dont want to discuss wrestling I guess, just read about it at length and sometimes write about it. RIP Warrior.

Best prediction not likely to happen. Bryan beats HHH, others, wins title. Faces embrace in the ring and celebrate, including Mick Foley, Bret Hart, whoever else might be there to make it cooler. Fans chant yes. Without fanfare or music, CM Punk shows up on the entrance stage almost unnoticed and sadly shakes his head as Bryan celebrates. Punk turns heel slowly and fueds with Bryan after fueds with and succeeds but is really beaten up by Brock Lesnar. Why the fuck not right? Bray Wyatt defeats John Cena cleanly in the middle of the ring. All of the "Cena sheep" from Wrestlemania XV carry Cena out Wyatt-style as Bray watches from his rocking chair. Yea. Undertaker defeats Brock Lesnar in a submission heavy brawl that is not announced as no holds barred but is. It is the match of the night and rivals the classicisity of Bret/Austin at XIII. Brock Lesnar gets Championship match anyway. I invented a new word there? Shield defeat New Age Outlaws and Kane soundly. Semi squash mostly resembling a tornato tag. It will not be as good as a handicapped match between Shield and Harper/Rowan would've been. Seth Rollins hits a kneedrop off the top after a Reigns superman punch and the crowd goes fucking wild. The Real Americans win the tag team titles but break up right after and drop them back to the Usos the next night on RAW. They have a fued and Cesaro goes over with no 50/50 booking to go onto be heel fodder for Bryan. The match of the year ensues. Divas Invitational: Honestly, I want Eva Marie to win. Everyone hates her, shes fucking sexy and can't wrestle worth a lick. She would be the perfect face of the Diva ranks. While I appreciate a return to "amazonian women dominating the divas division" and loved the sequence between Niaomi and Tamina on Main Event last night, who cares about that? If WWE Raw is the only place I can see Eva Marie on my TV aside from Total Divas I want to see her as much as possible because I am a heterosexual man who doesn't really care about womens wrestling and would rather laugh at it being bad wrestling and watch sexy women roll around than see good womens wrestling. I'm probably a minority in that opinion around here, but whatever... Battle Royal: Big Show will win and have a teary eyed moment with Hogan or one of the people who haven't been announced yet will win. I like the out-the-box thinking of Rusev but he hasn't had a match on WWE TV yet so I don't know. I would like to see stuff happen in this match to advance some storyline stuff but I don't think many stuffs will happen. I'd like to see another singles match like BIg E going over Christian who finally gets his one more match since he missed out on Main Event because of a "slight concussion" according to Tom Phillips. I'd like to see it be a good match. I'd like to see it go on in the 2 hour preshow and be a reason why Big E doesn't win the battle royal... because, you know, he should. Aside, I have really enjoyed the music choices for this years show. A lot better than Flo Rida and Machine Gun Kelly although I did enjoy the nostalgic Diddy performance and his slight nod to the Notorious BIG so close to NYC. This will be the first Wrestlemania in a long time that will be looked at as serious and rightfully so. The Rock's presence, while it brought in lots of money and some mainstream attention, created an almost intolerable level of silliness that will be all but vanquished this year. The longterm storyline is intense and involves three hated heels that will be familiar and interesting to lapsed fans and the probably the best wrestler to make his Wrestlemania main event debut since Bret Hart. I also think that if the show goes off without a hitch it could draw in casual and lapsed fans who only turn into Wrestlemania. And I mean actually draw them in for the long haul until things go sour again which I'm sure will happen sometime again this year. I am really excited for this show and I am earnestly hoping it goes great. I am also aware that we live in the reality era, har har.

Seconded, the fatal four way match was really good too. Everyone is seemingly stepping their game up in Punks absence. Maybe its just better recently. Happens sometimes. Watch the show tonight guys! Have a good weekend.

I think Punk will win the Rumble tonight but this morning I've been thinking way past that.... It will never happen but should. I like the possibility of Brock winning the title at Chamber with Punk and Bryan somehow both being number one contenders but Heyman refusing to let his client defend in a triple threat because it is unbecoming of a WM Main (someone has to finally say it), so H or whatever contract makes a match between Bryan and Punk for the number one contendership at the top of the card at Mania with the winner. Bryan can go over Punk and then win the damn title and you have two HUGE matches and thing that people actually wanna see close the show. Of course, since were talking about the Rumble i say Punk wins and then Bryan wins the Chamber? Of course, this leads to my next angle. The Authority FUCKS UP in storyline by clamining that the chamber match will be for a title shot at Mania when the condender (Punk) is already set so Vince comes back and yells or whatever. The Wyatts kidnap Vince or something similar to what happens to Bryan and attempts to take the machine down. Vince is hypnotized and joins the Wyatts in his own weird way (bring back that Hawaiian shirt he wore one time). H has to save Vince. What does he do? Reform evolution. Its hard. Randys pissed cuz he lost the title at the Rumble to Cena who then dropped it to Brock at Chamber, Batista is mad cuz he was a moot point in the Rumble. They go ahead anyway. Flair comes back to control Dave like he used to. Wyatts w/ Vince vs. Evolution w/ Flair. The shit would be a shit show, the crowd would be hot for everyone in the match. Its for the fucking control of the company. Things can go well until Orton and Batista turn on eachother or whatever and battle to the back. The Wyatts are domitating H until Flair nails Bray with knucks or a chair or something and then disposes of Harper and Rowan with low blows. Flair at one point can do the flop. It would be great. Vince makes one last ditch effort to keep his company and gets in the ring, doesnt matter. Flair stomps him out, H hits the 'gree, Vince gets pissed at Bray, yells, Bray hits the move he does with the kiss, the crowd goes nuts and like six things happen. A fued between Orton and Batista is set up which Im pretty sure never happened before, H is definitively the boss, Flair is positioned in a regular role as the new Patterson, Arn can be Brisco, Vince puts over Wyatt and Wyatt turns face or something. Fucking fantastic man. Wrestle fucking Mania. Of course this leaves room for Cena vs. Undertaker, which doesnt need explaining. Thats four HUGE things that everyone wants to see happen. Throw some Sheamus in there, have the Rhodes drop the tags back to Shield quick let them have a three on two match for the titles where both teams implode even though the match has a definitive ending, have AJ finally drop the divas to someone, unify the IC and US titles with Langston vs Henry, have Michaels pose, Warrior run out, Hogan give the big boot to the real Americans and there it is. How hard is that?

A few others off the top of my head, more recently... Ryback/Bryan/Kane vs. Shield (TLC '12) Punk vs. Rock (Rumble '13) Rhodes vs. Rollins/Reigns (Hell in a Cell '13) Punk/Bryan/Orton/Sheamus/Christian/RVD (Money in the Bank '13) Ziggler vs. Del Rio (Over The Limit '13) Cena vs. Punk (Raw 2/25/13) To my credit, I guess, I haven't missed a WWE TV show since Wrestlemania XVIII so I might be a bit of an authority on this subject. I'll see if I can dig up a difinitve list over the holidays. Cheers.

Awesome Smackdown tonight. Teddy Long wasn't there but his presence and authority was felt all thru the 2nd hour of the show... Aside from a slight screw job, the tag title match when 22 minutes and then got restarted twice. Ambrose on commentary was fantastic. It goes without saying the work was great. When the marathon of three matches finally ended I was exhausted and super satisfied that I tuned in. Seek it out if you missed it. Also, the Titus/turkey/Cesaroswing/pukeinthehat spot was freaking hilarious. Happy thanksgiving everyone, cheers.

In the new issue of PWI fans send letters and question the choice of John Cena as number one on the 500. Stu Saks poses the question "if not Cena then who?" Argh. I'm thinking of starting a thread....

This thread has me watching all the PPV shows leading up the close of the company and its so fucking hard haha. I'm in the middle of Spring Stampede 1999 ... Thanks for writing all of this. It's really entertaining.

Nobody mentioned it yet I don't think so I will throw Ambrose/Taker from the Smackdown in London out there as a match worth revisiting, or visiting if you haven't yet.

Another quality six man set up during the show tonight. I'm sure it won't spoil much to say that it's Cena and Rhodes Bros vs. Real Americans and Sandow. Real good stuff. Dustin did the FIP for most of the match and it seemed decently heated but you never know with Smackdown. On a side note, Darren Young is a great face in peril. His constant "Titus" shouting while he attempts to make a tag are great, so is his bumping. Ambrose teamed with Rollins tonight instead of Reigns. Hmmm. With all the talk about WWEs failure to deliver they sure have had a lot of really great TV mathes lately that seem to be building to ... something. Survivor Series looks more up in the air than it was last year, but in a good way. Cheers guys have a good weekend.

From google. Hulk hogan is the third thing listed after typing "hul". You have to type "stone c" to get Austin to come up but he is the only thing. When you type in "undert" undertaker comes up but that is also a thing. I don't know what that means. It is probably influenced by my regular googling anyway. Hulk hogan is the biggest wrestling star ever. The Rock is number two without a doubt?

The Rhodes/Wyatt match on smackdown tonight is a great match. Seek it out if you don't watch the show. Cheers.