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I love Jesse Sorensen! He's one of my favourite NXT jobbers!

Well, people will vote for who they vote for, but running a big building and filling it is only one - very impressive, admittedly - way of judging whether a promotion is successful. I'd hope most of the people voting have been to a few shows to really judge, but it's an open vote.

Surely ICW wins promotion of the year. They filled an arena out. Hard to beat that.

Isn't it what you do in that building rather than how many fans you get into it? Otherwise, WWE wins promotion of the year every year, right?

The World Entertainment Title. 

Big step up for this little title... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEW_Heavyweight_Championship

I'm not in contact with any of mine. Either I ended it and they still wanted me, or they ended it and I still wanted them. Neither is a good basis for a friendship, IMO. I am a manchild, though.

Even with 5 hours of TV to fill a week it's not hard to keep the top guys apart so that, for instance, Reigns only meets Rollins once a year. But they don't see it as necessary or desirable for some reason.

It was a show. Better than last week but, you know...

 

I know Vince is the uber-heel and all but I don't like my babyfaces beating up old men. Just me, though, because people LOVE IT. *shrug*

 

The New Day were funny. R-Truth was funny.

 

Owens losing in 10 seconds to Neville, in order to further his feud with Not Neville, was baffling. Although Owens is the king of feuding with everyone - he's got, like, five on the go at the moment.

 

The League of Nations are AWFUL.

 

The women put on a great match and no-one cared because everything outside these matches is booked like shit.

 

Lovely to see Cena.

I echo the posters who have said you may never get over her/it. However, the best advice I can anyone in your position - or any position, really - is that time is a stupid thing that really doesn't exist. Now that sounds all wanky and something you'd say after too many mushrooms, but what I mean by it is that there's really no point trying to attach timescales to anything - your prime directive is to wake up and get through to bedtime every day. What happens during those hours is just another episode in your story. So don't think about how you'll feel in six months or a year, make sure you have a good day. And if you don't, then you have another chance tomorrow. Oh, and block her on Facebook, obv.

Now Mark Priest ... there was a play-by-play man. What happened to him anyway? Running WrestleTalk TV's website, like Joey Styles does for WWE perhaps?

He died in a horrible accident that also claimed the lives of Adam South, Victoria DeMontfort & Kappo Khan. RIP.

No context but Joey Styles just tweeted this and I think it's an ace looking poster. No Nigga Taker or Shane Douglas though.

 

It's the cover of the second issue of the Rudo Can't Fail fanzine, put out by Masked Republic

There'll be English commentary for both WK10 and the following day's "Raw"

We're only nominating, anyway, so no problem at all. I thought it was one of the better matches on that show, myself

Annoyingly - because less people will have watched it - Smackdown was everything Raw should have been this week. Good matches, interesting promos, and no Sheamus match.

They have Liger, TMIV, KUSHIDA & Ryusuke Taguchi. BUSHI just came back from injury, and Desperado, Taichi & TAKA Michinoku are on loan to NOAH. Kota Ibushi moved up to heavyweight this year and Kamaitachi is in CMLL. Then you have Komatsu & Tanaka.

Raw was barely just a show this week. Amazing how hotshotting through a month's booking in 2 nights can leave you flat afterwards...

 

Oh, and smiling Roman can fuck off.

That Christopher Daniels list is missing at least one - the UCW show at Coventry he headlined.

Plus, if she appears on TNA she can kiss goodbye to it.

So they've quit the wrestling business? Because it's the same thing, right?

 

I just watched Will Ospreay and Tom Dawkins - or their RetroFutureVerse equivalents, at least - have a really fucking great match and no-one who wasn't there will ever see it or hear about it. What an odd world we live in sometimes.

 

It's the same as the great matches before everything was televised. Even the most average Flair - Steamboat matches, and nearly every Lawler, Funk, or Harley match will have been infinitely superior to Ospreay - Dawkins, and few people will have heard about those.

 

I guess you could compare Ospreay/Dawkins to an upcoming band or singer putting on a great gig in a small venue. If they're that good, their work will be seen eventually.

 

 

Oh, totally. It was more a comment on the fact that there's very little that does go unreported and unseen these days, and when it's a match of such high quality it's so stark.

I just watched Will Ospreay and Tom Dawkins - or their RetroFutureVerse equivalents, at least - have a really fucking great match and no-one who wasn't there will ever see it or hear about it. What an odd world we live in sometimes.

British Match of the Year

1 Will Ospreay vs Jimmy Havoc (PROGRESS ch20), 2 Will Ospreay vs Mark Andrews (PROGRESS ch23), 3 Will Ospreay vs Matt Sydal (Rev-Pro Summer Sizzler)

 

British Wrestler of the Year

1 Will Ospreay, 2 Grado, 3 Jimmy Havoc

 

British Wrestling Promotion of the Year

1 PROGRESS, 2 ICW, 3 Attack-Pro

Worst Wrestler of the Year

1 Bad Luck Fale, 2 Eva Marie, 3 Alicia Fox

 

Worst Match of the Year

1 Eva Marie vs Carmella (NXT Takeover: Brooklyn), 2 Bad Luck Fale vs Luke Gallows (G1 Climax), 3 Eva Marie vs Marley (NXT TV)

 

Worst Event of the Year

1 WWE Elimination Chamber, 2 TNA Bound For Glory, 3 WWE Money In The Bank

 

Letdown of the Year

1 King Of The Ring, 2 AAA Triplemania, 3 Divas Revolution

 

Stupidest / Worst Moment

1 Roman Reigns wins the Royal Rumble, 2 Paige speaks ill of Reid Flair, 3 Sheamus wins Money In The Bank

Match of the Year

1 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Shinsuke Nakamura (g1 Climax Final), 2 Sasha Banks vs Bayley (NXT Takeover: Brooklyn), 3 Tomoaki Honma vs Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW Power Struggle)

 

Event of the Year

1 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9, 2 Lucha Underground Ultima Lucha, 3 PWG BOLA 2015

 

TV Show of the Year

1 Lucha Underground, 2 NXT, 3 Breaking Ground

 

Feud/Angle of the Year

1 Dragon Lee II vs Kamaitachi, 2 Kevin Owens vs John Cena, 3 Will Ospreay vs Jimmy Havoc

 

Best Moment

1 Will Ospreay finally wins the PROGRESS title, 2 Tomoaki Honma finally gets a G1 Climax win, 3 That RKO by Randy Orton at Wrestlemania

 

Funniest Moment

1 The debut of the trombone, 2 Joey Ryan's penis throw, 3 Matt Classic definitely not being Grado at Rev-Pro's Summer Sizzler

 

Best Podcast

1 The Bryan & Vinny Show, 2 Filthy Four Daily, 3 Wrestling Observer Radio

Wrestler of the Year

1 Shunsuke Nakamura, 2 Kazuchika Okada, 3 John Cena

 

Babyface of the Year

1 Bayley, 2 Will Ospreay, 3 Prince Puma

 

Heel of the Year

1 Pentagon Jr, 2 Kevin Owens, 3 Jimmy Havoc

 

Tag Team of the Year

1 The New Day, 2 reDRagon, 3 Jason Jordan & Chad Gable

 

Female Wrestler of the Year

1 Sasha Banks, 2 Bayley, 3 Pollyanna

 

Breakthrough Star

1 Will Ospreay, 2 Jordan & Gable, 3 Pentagon Jr

He needs a big fella to ride to the ring on...