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That's fair, I was going to argue that winning the world title by winning a battle royal cheapens the title - it is easy at least conceptually to get around this by just booking a mini-Rumble instead of a battle royal - so it would be better if an established name like Becky Lynch won that way, but then that ship sailed a long time ago. I remember Khali winning the world title on Smackdown in a battle royal

Are you trying to say that I am turning 24 this year and not 44? (I was born in 1980)

Alright I fixed it.

Artists are supposed to become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. Ozzy's first solo album came out in 1980, so he shouldn't even be eligible until next year. Than again, a good chunk of the inductees in recent years aren't even rock musicians, so there's no sense in quibbling over criteria.

I would argue that it's better for a heel to backdoor her way into the title by winning a battle royal than to beat someone for it straight-up, especially if she's just keeping the belt warm until Rhea returns.

Ospreay is pretty great but he's layerless. Goes one speed, does his thing regardless of opponent and it either clicks or it doesn't. Compares to the true all time greats, with the exception of maybe Flair, they all are much more varied and layered in what they have to offer. Ospreay is about as good as you can get for someone who doesn't emotionally move me. But there are plenty that I think are better and do move me when I'm watching them. And that's what this is about. If there is any mention of objectivity when it comes to wrestling, you've adopted the wrong mindset already.

Are the Dio version of Sabbath in as well? Because if they aren’t, then fuck the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. EDIT: I just checked, and not only did Dio not get in with Sabbath, he is not in as a solo act. Well, at least Cher just got in. What a bunch of crap.

What i was getting at was the way some folks heavily hype up WWE workers and their style in general and think it's a black mark against someone if they didn't draw on top (regardless of surrounding circumstances). There's a lot of the same kind of arguments here that i saw in defense of Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake back in the 2000s (or, say, the MCU now) which is why that comparison occurs to me. One other more on-topic quick thought: i feel like Sting really worked well with superheavyweights in general but didn't get a chance to show it much outside of the Vader series. His PPV match vs a young Paul Wight really surprised me at how enjoyable it was until the overbooking kicked in!

Black Sabbath are in as a band.

Not many, but the ones she has are extremely vocal. I would think Becky won the title so Morgan can beat her for it and hold it till Rhea comes back - it makes more sense for her to beat Becky to win the title than a Battle Royal. From what I have seen, she is a heel now and doesn't like Becky or Rhea, so then she can take credit for both injuring Rhea and beating Becky

Liv Morgan has fans? With that said, I do think Liv winning the title after taking credit for putting Rhea on the shelf to set up Rhea coming back for revenge is a more compelling story. Not to mention Rhea just beat Becky clean a few weeks ago. But I'm not the Cerebral Assassin, so what do I know?

I'd really like it if he wrestled the way he did against Rey Mysterio all the time. Angle's true disposition is he's a super-intense bully and bringing that aspect of his personality to the forefront created much better flowing matches than when he got obsessed with trading finishers/pretty reversals for the sake of it with Benoit etc... Or that brief 2006 WWECW run was also a much more optimal version of Angle than his default mode. The more frustrating thing about him really is he does show potential to have been a real top tier wrestler, in some ways I think he did actually get it, but there's just this aggravating bit of brainworms going on that stops him ever reaching his potential except in some specific circumstances. He's a very high-level prop wrestler, by which I mean wrestlers who have a certain set of talents/abilities but needed to be used in the correct way to really get high-level stuff out of them. There's certainly room for in wrestling, might even make towards the bottom of my list if I'm feeling generous towards them in 2026. The Summerslam 2001 match vs. Austin I think is a great example of Kurt being in that kind of role. Austin is the main driver of the match narrative and his performance is the best thing about it, but calling it a "carry job" or something like that would be grossly unfair. Angle's talents elevate the whole thing to higher level that the vast majority of wrestlers are capable of. For all the criticisms of his selling, he has a great selling performance in this match, and that's not his only great selling performance, his flaw is more than he doesn't seem to have a good sense of when he should be selling, so left to his own devices we often get total messes like those TNA Jeff Hardy matches.

Roman's an increasingly weird case because the period where I think he's a Top 15 worker in the world was 2015-18 when half the internet insisted he sucked. That's where the bulk of his case is made to me, even if his contribution to The Shield is a bit underrated at this point. 2019-21 he's still pretty good at times, though the Bloodline stuff can get pretty grating with his stopping in the middle of matches to deliver his monologues. But it's really his huge run as the Ace of a booming WWE in 2022-24 that throws everything off, it's by far his most successful run where he's given tremendous opportunities, but that's the run where this guy just sucks. I liked the Brock Summerslam match a lot but other than that it's the most boring Ace run in WWE history to me. He insists on slowing every match to a crawl whenever it looks like it might be getting interesting, and the constant Bloodline interference and shenanigans just becomes a bit of a joke before long.

The AEW run has really added to his case, probably the best run of a 60+ wrestler in US wrestling history. He definitely wasn't making my list without that but I think he might sneak in now. I don't think he had a single match which didn't at least deliver, and the way he reinvented himself in his 60s as some daredevil maniac old man is really astonishing. Yes he was protected by only ever wrestling in tags, but really that just tells you that other companies should be doing that with their older wrestlers who can still go in other ways. And despite that Sting did have quite a lot of ring time in a lot of these tags. When his run first started I suspected he was just gonna be on the apron 90% letting Darby do the heavy lifting before he gets in for a hot tag and hits his signature stuff, you know the drill, but that wouldn't be a fair characterisation of his run at all. The FTR match at Grand Slam 2021 was the first one when I was really realising that Sting is simply a really good tag wrestler.

Dude if you don't like a wrestler don't put them in your Top 100 Ever list. And I'm gonna use that as a jumping off point because I've never experienced the feeling that I'm being peer-pressured by some astroturfing campaign into saying a wrestler is "objectively" great like with Will Ospreay the last year or so. It's really quite weird. I've actually seen him live many many times in 2013-16 when he was a regular on the UK indies and I can't remember ever having strong feelings about him. He was just a guy. If people enjoy his style of wrestling then more power to them but it's not something that interests me at all. To me his kayfabe character is "guy who is phenomenally great at every aspect of wrestling" (I wonder if that makes people think he's actually that in real life), like you've put in a cheat code to give your video game character maxed out stats on everything. It all feels aimed at people who mainly appreciate the most surface elements of pro-wrestling (e.g. athleticism and moves) which most obviously require "real" skill to uninitiated eyes, but there's no pro-wrestling soul to any of it. He's like the culmination of "sports entertainment" over pro-wrestling. I don't believe in any of it. The comparisons with Misawa feel bizarre to me as I simply cannot imagine ever believing in a Will Ospreay comeback the way I get sucked into e.g. Misawa's big comeback against Taue 4/15/95. Misawa has a certain level of vulnerability and determination to struggle against the odds that Ospreay can't convey because nothing ever really affects him. I don't hate it, there are a bunch of Will Ospreay matches I thought were really good, but the overall package is a bit boring and uninspired to me.

He actually had two sons that wrestled. I don't remember seeing the other brother, but I do remember seeing Jason wrestle in Texas. Not the biggest guy but do remember him being pretty good. Opener/lower mid-card guy but was always a decent match. That certainly is a shocker to me because Capt. Lou has ALWAYS been the manager of Tom Renesto Jr.

This looks like a Kazunari Murakami match that happened to take place in 1932. First thing that happens as the bell rings is one guy levels the other with a Vader hammer. Then there's a crazy barrage of slaps and one guy just absolutely mauling the other with stomps as he's trapped under the ropes. The bits of matwork we get look great too. A minute of your life you can't spend much better.

Wild that Ozzy Osbourne got in the WWE Hall of Fame before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Sad but not surprising given that she suffered two major injuries in a little more than a year. Her announcement feels similar to Azumi Hyuga in that either one of them could have kept going but at this moment in their life it just felt like it was time. On the Omega/Rossy stuff, it's probably going to blow over because the people who are most upset are ones that weren't going to follow, much less pay to watch, Marigold anyway. Out of all of the promotions entering a "New Era", TJPW at least feels like it's legitimately entering one:

Bubba @KawadaSmile gonna have to update it to BECKY MUST POSE now.

Becky Hogan making the trending topics on Xwitter is funny tho

Taz vs Benoit has me hyped. Backlund v Fujiwara and Madea v Allen are also huge.

Bossman showing everyone who da man is! Heenan feels a little slighted by Savage so arranges a Rude Awakening for the champ. Spivey wastes no time showing how valuable he is to the Dangerous Alliance. Rockers fight off the big men to hold on to the gold. Andre and co with a big win to close the show.

I would've preferred Liv just for the sake of something somewhat fresher, plus the obvious history with Rhea. But they love to make Liv a choke artist. Rumble 23 goes over an hour and is the last one eliminated. Rumble 24 returns from injury at #30 and is the last one eliminated. Elim Chamber, pins Bianca then is immediately the last one eliminated. Tonight, here we go again.