James, why do you hate Kurt so much? Saying he's a bad wrestler is one thing, but you're acting like he's Orlando Jordan. >_>
He's overrated as fuck and calling him the best wrestler in the world like people do is ridiculous. I may just have him in my top five from TNA, but I doubt it. He's certainly not top three (AJ, Wolfe, Doug).
Seriously. I tried having this argument with him, seems like blind hate, imo. I believe I also gave examples where he didn't follow this 'set formula' (pretty much all his TNA matches in the year 2009...) And if by "spot monkey" you mean he wrestles the TNA-style now, then yeah. He has changed his style, but to completely disregard his WWE work is disgusting. His feuds with Triple H, Jericho, Rocky, all didn't really follow a set formula. Neither did his first ones with Taker.
Don't remember having this discussion w/you.
I didn't see a whole lot of TNA in 2009, tho I did see his matches w/Wolfe which follow his idiotic way of wrestling. Guy has been trying to knock Angle out for months, been trying to end his career, so how does Kurt start the match? Headlocks. Side fucking headlocks. Because nothing says I hate you like side headlocks.
He's always been a bit of a spot monkey, or at least since I started watching wrestling. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED his RR match w/Benoit, his series w/'Taker, although the matches from him which I enjoy are few and far between. For the most part his matches that I see are full of unnecessary shit which adds nothing to the story, and just done because Kurt sees it as cool. Even his matches w/HBK in '05 had that feel, and people jizzed over them. Haven't seen the Tripper/Rocky/Jericho matches, so I'll take your word for it.