Last Wrestling Match Watched 2.0

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WWE Superstars 07/19/2012 - The Usos vs. Johnny Curtis & Derrick Bateman

I know not many people has been watching NXT for the past year but this is ridiculous, Curtis & Bateman a team? did they patch this up on some hidden video? Oh well, this match had it's moments and with the Bateman/Curtis team had some funny double team backfires that you don’t normally see. And thankfully this wasn't a squash match. Uso's looked good and showed promise of a team that would give you solid tag matches every night if pushed right the only thing they lack are double team moves and i feel that is the most important thing that tag teams should do. **1/4

 

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WCW Saturday Night 2/24/1996: Marcus Alexander Bagwell v.s Loch Ness.

Nothing match. Bagwell attacks Ness in the corner before getting thrown off followed by an elbow drop. Just useless stuff. This was the main event, too. You had three prior title matches and this is your go home match. Ugh.

DUD

 

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WWE Superstars 07/19/2012 - Sin Cara vs. Drew McIntyre

The heat Drew got on his entrance is AWESOME, and the fact that he got his full entrance was even better. I didn't mind this but it was sloppy at times which was disappointing. I did like McIntyre’s on offense but with the amount of heat he got from the crowd i thought he should of played to them more and get heat for his moves but he didn't. Matter of fact the crowd wasn't dead but they were pretty close to it, I bet it had something to do with the lighting. Anyways as i said this was fun and i even enjoyed the ending with McIntyre realizing the grounding Cara wasn't working so he tried to become a high-flyer but that costed him in the end. **1/2

 

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: The Gambler v.s Eddie Guerrero.

This match was already in progression and one of the first things you see is a pretty big botch. It just looked like they weren't very familiar with each other. They don't try anything too much outside their game after this and starting working much better with one another. Gambler's beatdown on Guerrero was a great way to build Eddie's resilient comeback later but... it just felt like he was supposed to comeback the way he did. At least Eddie's offense looked effective as hell. Good stuff besides the botch and I really enjoyed how they were able to recover from it.

*3/4

 

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: Big Train Bart v.s Disco Inferno.

First thing you really notice here is Big Train Bart is twice the size of Inferno so when you see a weak punch from Disco send the guy flying to the mat... You just can't help but groan at how unrealistic it was. Also Disco won with a swinging neckbreaker that was also set up in unrealistic fashion. I know you are pushing Disco but his gimmick could sure have used him losing here. It would just make him more sense with obnoxiousness if he said things like it was a fluke but they were building towards his upcoming match with Kevin Sullivan. This just SUCKED, though.

DUD

 

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WCW Satuday Night 1/6/1996: Mike Davis v.s Meng.

This was pretty lame but could have easily been worse. Meng had trouble following up and controlling this squash. Davis did his job well, though. At least this was better than the last match I watched.

1/4*

 

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: TV Title Match- Dave Taylor v.s Johnny B. Badd(c).

This pretty solid for the most part. Taylor pretty much grounded Badd and if Badd wasn't on the ground he'd just fuckin' nail him as hard as he could or lay him out with authority. Badd tried exchanging mat holds with Taylor at first but can't keep up at all. It was late in the match Badd is able to get some separation, deliver some offensive moves(the DDT was off but they were able to kind of save it) and knock Taylor out of the ring. Taylor wasn't happy about this and as Badd is celebrating. He gets back up to the apron and does this impressive flip back in. Seriously, Badd didn't really leave his feet in this match as Taylor made him work his style and then he does this right in front of him... Only to get clocked with a huge right hand from Badd for the victory. Jesus, Taylor made it look awesome. Still Badd had no reason to win this from my point of view.

**1/2

 

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ROH Final Battle 2005 - KENTA vs. Low Ki

I remeber this was the first KENTA match i saw and i fell in love with him. This match is FUCKING AWESOME. It was well-paced, violent, exciting, perfectly executed, innovative etc. Credit goes to both men for putting their bodies through that cause they beat the shit out of eachother. This match flew by in no time and was just insane action from start to finish. It was missing that something Joe/ Kobashi and this was a better match but it was just missing that something that made it special. This is totally my favorite Ki match of all time but the crazy thing is Kenta would have 2 maybe 3 matches better then this and i'm sure we'll get to those. At the end the fans chant "five star match" and as much as i wanna give it 5 i can't look past some of the No-Sell. ****1/2

 

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: Chris Kanyon v.s Alex Wright.

This was pretty good, Kanyon is good at putting people over. Maybe it's... You know what I'll stop right now. Kanyon dominated most of this until Wright came back late with that resilient face return. Kanyon went to the top rope and missed trying to capitalize on the beatdown that couldn't quite put Wright away. He also hit a sick Tombstone Piledriver. It just had a real ugly landing. Not too much here but it didn't feel like a squash with Kanyon coming into his own.

*1/2

 

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ROH Best in the World 2006 - KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Bryan Danielson & Samoa Joe

Another match i totally forgot about. The story has awesome with Danielson knowing how to beat Marufuji and Joe having a serious problem with Kenta because Kenta is the student Of Kobashi so these guys beat the fuck out of each other. Before i continue i just wanna say i'm so pissed we didn't get a Joe/Kenta match because every time they were face to face SHIT would get violent and you would see some of the most stiffest hits ever. Now i don't want you to think this was perfect because their were a few slower moments and a couple of communication errors, but that's almost 30 minutes in you can look past this. I think the reason I enjoyed this is because it was so different to your usual "two guys who don't team vs. two guys who use to team" tag match. It was actually reminded me of the 90’s AJPW tags in many ways, in that it was an epic struggle throughout. Two teams, four of the very BEST IN THE WORLD going at it to see which pair were the best. ****1/4

Danielson countering the Shiranui into CATTLE MUTILATION had me :wank:

 

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: Mark Starr v.s Hugh Morrus.

Why Mark Starr was able to get a German Suplex on Morrus is beyond me here. It was in the middle of this squash and he lifts Morrus up like nothing. He was also half size and Morrus didn't sell the move anyway. Whatever they were trying to accomplish with that, I don't know. Hugh should have just started laughing but he waited until later to do that, so yeah. Morrus just pounds on him and hits his Moonsault for the win then.

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WCW Saturday Night 1/6/1996: Brian Pillman & Arn Anderson v.s American Males.

Well Pillman and Anderson were awesome here, Bagwell was decent but Riggs was awful. Hell Arn exposed him as soon as Riggs thought he was going to do something to him early. Pillman's unpredictable offense and Arn's rough pounding and stretching was fun to watch but they just didn't look on the same page which was the point but that doesn't help the match. Riggs botches something late he should have never went for. He didn't do much in this match so it was a pretty big flaw. It was a crucifix pin that he turned into a sunset flip or at least I think that was his intention. Anderson was like what the fuck is this mother fucker doing on my back and pretty much just falls over when Riggs shifts his weight which was just bad timing. Well Arn and Brian deserved better than this. The action was pretty great most of the time, though.

**1/4

 

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ROH In Your Face 2006 - Non-Title: KENTA vs. Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson

That was an awesome three-way match with some of the hardest hits I’ve ever seen. There were a few spots of awkwardness where you could see the guys talking to each other to get it back on track, you could also see this was Kenta's first ever 3 way because most of the mess up's came from him. I wouldn't say it was the best match ever but i was expecting more. but nonetheless this was a very exciting match in front of the always hot Manhattan crowd. I feel i should mention some of the strikes these men were dishing out was borderline real backstage heat stiff but it made for a hell of a match. If i remember correctly i read that during the match Kenta got legit knocked out in the first couple of minutes. Joe busted his ear drum in there as well (I think from that early slap by KENTA) whilst Danielson ended the match knocked out after the assisted G2S. **** violence is golden, if you don't believe me.

 

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ROH Chi-Town Struggle - KENTA vs. Austin Aries

This match started off slow but picked up tremendously in the middle with a red hot ending 5 minutes. The only thing that puts a downer on it was they couldn’t really incorporate a story here, so they just went to the exhibition of "you do your shit and i'll do mine, lets see what happens" e.g Ki/Kenta match. ***3/4

 

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ROH Fight Of The Century - Davey Richards vs. KENTA

Before i get to the match the backstory of this is pitting protégé Davey against mentor KENTA. Simple. Okay this was fun and entertaining Hard hitting match everyone was expecting but once you look past all the stiff sounds you see they get fairly repetitive and exposed both guys as being one-dimensional, in my opinion. And neither of them sells at all and what selling they do seems to come from exhaustion rather than punishment. ***1/4