Michrome

With Nash's contract up with WWE, and Scott Hall floating around, does anyone think for a second that TNA isn't scrambling to get them to show up as the NWO to restart the angle? COULD it work? It might get them some curiosity buys :/

The best ever was the 2/3 falls double dog collar match that was essentially a bloody angle, that ended with the Pitbulls winning the belts and 911 chokeslamming fonz.

Xavier-Daniels from BFSE is fabulous, most underrated match this year. Also, Stryker-Whitmer is solid from 8/16

It matters because there's a distinction between good, great, and perfection.

The match was a joke....the MMA-style moves were SO out of place, unlike the Angle match, where it seemed like UT was trying to beat Angle at his own game. The lack of use of chain killed the whole match, because no nearfall was believable until the chain got involved. It was way too long, plodding as hell, and had a horrible ending.

Brock-UT was horrible IMO. Yeah, I didnt understand his ironman rating either, he complained about the parts that sucked and then gave it a great rating. Huh?

Way off, the crowds are 75% papered most of the time, I don't think theyve sold more than 600 tickets in the last year.

Haha....booking himself to kiss Trish, a brilliant man!

HHH-Edge...AWESOME. Edge was just busting into the Smackdown! ME scene near the end there, and he will be red hot upon return.

TNA barely even tries to play the game of acting like its real. Most of their fans are internet fans, and most of the live crowd craps on Michael Shane every time. The Hardy Boys were voted tag team of the year by WWE fans in 2000 despite having a horrible win/loss record, fans look at the entertainment factor, not wins/losses. Your view of marks is condescending....most of my friends are marks, but all of them that are over 7 years old know it's fake, and don't judge things by the outcome.

Everything I've read says there was barely any reaction at all.

God damn, some of this looks really good. I think Hero can drag something great out of Collyer, and I KNOW he can do something great with the shitty M-Dogg 20, since I saw them have a near **** match. 1/9 looks amazing, 1/10 looks OKAY...

Meltz does just fine. He was doing better when he had the daily radio show, but he still makes pretty good money. Also figure in, on top of those sales, tons of one-time sales of special issues, advertising, wrestling gold dvds, etc. Scherer: I don't know. Keller: I don't know. Mitchell is a teacher during the day.

His comments about Eddy-Dean are laughable. HCS is better than anything Raven has ever done by miles and miles. Remember Benoit-Malenko from HW 96? It was GREAT, and the fact that the inbred biker idiots only wanted to see Hogan should not make their performance any less noteworthy. 6/3/94 is the best men's singles match ever in front of that Japanese crowd or in front of the HW 96 crowd. It just doesn't matter. By the way, isn't the drop toehold to a chair a highspot? What makes that any better than a tope con hilo? Raven's matches have been disgustingly formulaic for years, he has no business talking others down for being spotty. He's far more spotty than CM Punk or Chris Daniels.

I was thinking the same thing Mike, but I also have been thinking the same thing about panda throwing their money away. A video game would be a big deal.

The same argument could be made against Michael Shane.

Best show to start with is "Are you adequately prepared to rock"

Isn't this just Todd Martin's list? Guerrera-Sabin as a MoTY is insane.

It's not a Muslim country, and there's no such thing as an Irakian.

Just to get an idea, how was Hero/Styles compared to, say, Styles/London? The knee was worked in that match too and with Hero being arguably better than London, I can see it maybe being better.

4/12 absolutely blows away 3/1. Where, may I ask, is the psychology not *perfect*? London's selling of the leg put's Steamboat's selling to shame, the story is incredibly deep, they build off of prior matches, and every big move in the match is built to. This match was perfect.

Todd Martin's column has been ridiculed all over the net. Guerrera vs. Sabin is the third best match this year? Maybe the third best match that month, if you're being generous. Once again, AMW CAN'T WORK A HOT TAG, THEY SUCK. My brother and I could work a better hot tag than these clowns. Michael Shane has worked a three star match every week if your star system starts at 4.

I honestly don't think Gage's CZW work is well-known enough for it to make a difference. The guy is relatively unknown among non-CZW fans, whereas B-Boy is a very well known name.

--Once again, the fact that Smackdown sucks doesn't mean TNA is good. There isn't some sort of inverse relationship between the two. TNA sucked, and Smackdown sucked WAY MORE. --I don't want another Ultimate X circus match. The first one was fucking horrible, why must we be forced to endure another? --A solid Punk push? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I'll believe it when I see it. Knowing TNA, Don Callis will become his official spokesman and we'll never get a Punk promo. --Calling AMW the best team in the world just completely destroys any credibility you have. Here is a list of U.S. indy tag teams that are better. THIS IS JUST US INDIES: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Havana Pitbulls Ballards Simon and Swinger Hell...Dlo and AJ, if they count Daniels/Maff Punk/Cabana Punk/Dinero New Church Aerial Express Thomasellis Briscoe Brothers Backseat Boys Shelley/Jacobs ....that was off the top of my head in about a minute. I'm SURE there are some I'm missing. It's truly amazing that the best tag team in the world can't work a hot tag. What a sad day for wrestling. --AJ Styles is a legit top face? Let's look at his build in TNA: Heel champ that can't win without Russo that loses as soon as he doesn't have Russo anymore. Holy shit, WHAT A LEGIT TOP FACE. --Shane has performed better this year than HBK? Shane will never, EVER be able to pull off what Shawn did at Survivor Series. He will never, EVER have a great pure wrestling match like Shawn did at WM. His only good match was a complete London carry job.

It had crowd heat and some good false finishes, but when it comes to wrestling quality, it was mediocre at best. It was a fine main event, but that match is the ultimate example of how low expectations have become.