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HHH was always willing to play ball. That best for business line has to be his real life actual catchphrase. And not to make it all morbid but after his health scare, and seeing how all of this, in its entirety could go away just like that, there are probably no such things as grudges in that guys mind. Just opportunities

to be fair, jeff dancing while his brother was getting his ass beat was awesome iconic and on brand. I’ll never forget that lol

Cody losing makes the Sami decision at backlash a much easier pill to swallow. I thought they legitimately blew something there. This is…fine, like whatever. Roman on top is still compelling. Switchblade tomorrow?

That’s the best top to bottom night of wrestlemania ever

“You don’t have your Top champion lose at the Budokan, you do it at the Dome show…3 years later”

Absolutely gutted

No panther or Akiyama and they can just throw this whole thing in the trash

This is my first time seeing this and I'm on this board like 2-3x a week lol yikes. Wonderful idea all the same

I'm fine with attaching the rocket ship to Adam Cole, he's been over everywhere he's ever gone, NXT is no exception, the pops he got were outrageous. Prob the best Takeover ever, there was no low point. Gargano makes me...sad in a way? Like what are the chances he ever has as good a match as he had with Ciampa on the main roster? I'm in the single digits. That's no slight to Gargano, he's proven he's the guy, it's more a commentary on the slough that can be RAW and Smackdown. Has Nakamura come close to the Zayn match? Sasha's come close-ish to TakeOver brooklyn, but then again not really

I read 27 pages to get to Jimmy Redman's post and I'm glad I did. The best post. I felt almost the exact same way watching it, obviously not through the lens of a female wrestling fan, but I just couldn't help but feel how rewarding that all felt to watch as a longtime fan. It really did feel like a time machine brought everyone back for this one fantasy booked match and it was awesome. Was pleasantly surprised at just how great everyone was. There were concerns about that match just from a "how do they effectively get all the ladies over the top rope" perspective and it seems dumb as rocks in hindsight. Those ladies are professionals. That was a celebration. And in truth, the "women's revolution" has been in progress for 20 years. Only wish we could have had a sable bomb and Chyna come back from the grave to set my soul ablaze. Bravo to all of that, and to Jimmy Redman. Right there with you girl.

Did he carry him last time they wrestled or...

I've been all in on the bucks since jump street. When they were blowjob OMEGA era Hardy Boy style rip off faces who did too many moonsaults they tried really hard and could execute and were endearing. And over the years, watching them evolve (or devolve?) in and out of the ring has been great to watch. I've also never been a "srs bizness" guy so, I always liked dudes like Chuck Taylor and his ilk. I think Pro Wrestling is such a vast expansive art form that, to put it simply, there's "room" for the bucks to exist and operate and clearly a part of the audience that digs it. Pro wrestling is ridiculous, point black, full stop. There's wrestlers and types of wrestling that try and do everything to try and buck that notion, and keep it as authentic, ya know whatever that means, as possible, and then there's wrestlers not afraid to go on the opposite end of the spectrum. I always thought apart of the New Day's appeal in WWE is that there's a very tacit, this is bonkers and we're running with it kind of vibe to the group, unicorns, booty o's, anime cosplay. It's entertainment, it's a gag, it's an act, let's not kid ourselves, and there's room on those show's to see Brock Lesnar bust someone open hardway and for trumpets. The bucks have given the indy's the same space. Their business acumen and for lack of a better word, clout, that they've accrued is very much the modern, post modern, post post modern brody-ism. It's like they get booked, to do their thing, and maybe if you're lucky they'll also do your thing Mr. Promoter Booker man, but definitely their thing, and people pay to see their thing. Like others have pointed out, I think they're far beyond a "are they good wrestlers" discussion, they've got the formula, they've got the stuff on tape. You don't get to that 15th superkick without an understanding of how this is all supposed to work. Saying screw how it's supposed to work and let's see what happens I think is commendable. It's the kind of act that begs for these kinds of discussions, not limited to 140-280 characters. This thread was long overdue. ...Osprey and Richocet doing that crouching tiger hidden dragon shit last year garnered the same sort of wide spread net reaction. When do the bucks wrestle vader? This is pro wrestling baby

Shawn Michaels is my favorite wrestler of all time and even I think this is laughable. It's AJ, probably by a really big margin too. AJ is evolution And for a worker who had been having great matches since 2002, for it to take 12-15 years for people to finally realize it I think strips away some of the charm and vanguard of this 'net criticism thing that we do. Like what are people doing, seriously, if some how AJ STYLES was being slept on all this time. At Hero's, Joe's, Danielson's peak they were probably better than AJ was at the same times, but think about the years this covers and think about how AJ was great throughout all of that, and still is.

The WWE will never go under. That was miraculous

And Kenny's the one overthinking things? Ok lol