Hit Man Hollis botched his finisher "The Cinch."

Yeah, someone will legit break their back or neck doing this shit that is just not required. Stings last match is all that's needed to make it memorable.

Watched Stings retirement match again last night and it's just magic. When he popped up after going through the table and then fired up after no selling the super kicks I felt like I could run through a wall for him.

Darby is a mad man and his dive off the ladder fucking ruled, it just did. Absolutely terrifying watching him do it but it did serve a purpose (in the stupidest way possible) to believably take him out the match and isolate Sting until the finish. Darbys Topé is also the best one, Punk was right when he said everyone else should stop doing it. It's just a bullet.

Gonna give Bryan Danielson vs Eddie Kingston a rewatch again tonight as that was the other match I really loved from revolution. Eddie is a great seller and Danielson is incredible as the cocky arrogant bully that'll slowly just destroy you.

Also loved this promo they cut afterwards. Just great emotional stuff from both of them that feels real.

I don't know how to embed videos with timestamps so this link to youtube will do https://youtu.be/mkPKGzxo4Nc

TNT match very enjoyable Christian's just bloody brilliant. Garcia looked fantastic, just a shame about the mistimed interference on the finish.

I don't get Eddie Kingston, but his match against Bryan was a cracker.

The 8 man match was a mess. When there was just wrestling going on it was fine, then everyone kept stopping to do a spot. There was one lad who had a torrid time with the ropes as well, thankfully he escaped unscathed.

OC v Strong was pretty damn good, and brutal without ever needing to go hardcore. Both guys are great, would be well up for a rematch.

FTR v BCC, loved the Road Warriors entrance. I'm assuming that was a blade job from Dax, given the finish. Very old school feeling match, in a good way.
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Toni v Deonna Purazzo was made for me. Timeless Toni is such a brilliant gimmick, and Purazzo was amazing in TNA. Toni's entrance was *chefs kiss*.

Bruv v Japanese Man. No idea who this guy is, he doesn't look like a salaryman, so he can't be that good. (He was that good). Nasty bruise on Ospreay, how he kept going after I don't know.

The World Title 3 way, bah God. I fucking love Joe. JR calling this made it feel a really big deal. Breakout performance from Swerve.

And here it is. In my eyes, the greatest professional wrestler in the history of the sport takes to the ring for the final time. The team with Darby Allen has been a beautiful coda to his career. His sons as surfer and wolfpac Sting was awesome.

That fucking glass spot from Darby. Sting no selling the table spot then getting thrown through the glass! The Bucks being absolutely obnoxious!

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Drew is killing it.

is wrestling better or worse than 5 years ago?

If you pirate it, it's about 2 hours 10 minutes, and you can guarantee that there are recaps that you can skip to bring it under 2 hours. It's still too long, when it's bad it's a slog, but even when it's good you'll get to a point where you feel it should be ending and then remember this isn't the main event.

5 years ago is a weird point of comparison, because it arguably got worse, then better in the timeframe. The pandemic obviously not helping.

how wuold you all change the weekly episodes? 

You want them shorter so would you make the maches shorter or reduce the talent on the roster? You obvioulsy have to keep people happy

mk64 wrote:

how wuold you all change the weekly episodes?  You want them shorter so would you make the maches shorter or reduce the talent on the roster? You obvioulsy have to keep people happy

I'd stop recapping the entirety of The Rock's last appearance for a start.

monkey wrote:

But if they had the 20 minute promo at the start, with adverts, it would be about half an hour in before you saw any wrestling.

Frosty wrote:

mk64 wrote:

is wrestling better or worse than 5 years ago?

Is this a serious question? Roman Reigns was getting covered in dog food five years ago

We also had KofiMania, Becky 2 belts, the debut of The Fiend, NXT on fucking fire and WALTER v Pete Dunne before we even consider other companies.

the pre-shows for ppv are mental. I think the rumble preshow is one match and about 6 hours or something? I only ever watch the proper day of wrestling/ppv's.

Nothing will ever be as bad as when we got three hours of 1999/2000 Monday Nitro, followed by two hours of Thunder on a Friday night.

A five hour slog fest of mostly shite.

Still loved WCW though right from when ITV used to show whatever their syndicated show was called on a Saturday afternoon.

There has been one already.

I'm not sure if there will be another one, It seemed like it was a reaction to women not being allowed in Saudi, but they seem to be allowed now providing they wear fetish gear.

Match recommendation. If you like luchador’s going nuts against established American stars you know. The main event from Fridays arena Mexico show was fucking tremendous. Team CMLL v Blackpool Combat Club. I’ve seen a handful of better matches this year but none more fun. Available on the usual websites. PM me if you want to watch but dont know where.