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Cero's Mid-Week Wrestling Review (July 15, 2015)

Posted: Jul 16th, '15, 16:10
by cero2k
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Good: The Jordan and Gable experiment is a success! Gable was impressive in the ring, Jordan usually is, and their finish move looks hard to pull on a lot of people, but it's great.

Bad: That new finisher for BAMF, it looks really awesome, but I just see a botch coming miles away.

Change: Wasn't a far of the pointless Samoa Joe squash, I would have removed it and give half of that time to the main event and the other half to the Jordan/Gable match.
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Good: Props to the face off at the end, it's weird to just call in a 'face off', but the whole segment was awesome, I kinda wished that the Trios champs would have come out, but they can do that some other week, this night belonged to Mil Muertes and his congregation.

Bad: I wouldn't have given the medallion to Bengala, not that he's bad, but it's his second match and the LU fans don't know much about him, Mascarita Sagrada deserves it more.

Change: Can we not have Vampiro knock out Pentagon Jr with just ONE MOVE! Just have Vampiro chokeslam him, but let Pentagon walk it off. Or a little bit more fight between them, anything but make Pentagon look weak.
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Good: Progression, all matches progressed their own feuds.

Bad: So this time ROH does decide to run the card for their PPV, but unfortunately, there are a bunch of matches that make no sense to the story lines and have no build up to. Almost feels like a non-canon TNA ppv.

Change: This show needed two small recap segments, one telling us why Castle vs Young have problems, and an interview on what Jay Briscoe thinks about losing the title.
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Good: I'm gonna say it, i for once welcome our new Impact Overlord Bully Ray. Look, from all the choices TNA had, I can think of many better options, but realistically, from the usual TNA surprises, they took a guy that can legit talk, has beef with some of the heels, and is not Mike Tenay. I'll take it as a good.

Bad: Bad move from TNA to not check on Hernandez contracts before taping several weeks of story line for a big faction and their opponents. I may have to check spoilers to see what i'm missing, but I have a feeling we're going to be missing on some good stuff because of this problem. Having said that, TNA did a good quick job replacing that segment with a big recap of the Magnus vs Storm feud and hyping us for next week's match.

Change: There was no need for Brooke to win the title if the real feud is Taryn vs the World, and more importantly, Taryn vs Kim. I would have just made this a non-title match where Brooke gets a clear pin over the champ.

Promotion of the Week: Lucha takes the week with a great show. This week I felt that neither show was particularly amazing, they're all mostly building up their upcoming shows and in the case of TNA, just continuing their fall out. Rankings show that ROH > TNA > NXT, but in reality, they were all in the same level.
Rankings: LU (1st), ROH (2nd), TNA (3rd), NXT (4th)

MVP of the Week: At the end of the day, I think the man I remember the most is Gable, so i'll give it to him. Just like the promotion of the week, there wasn't a particular wrestler that went beyond their usual work.

Re: Cero's Mid-Week Wrestling Review (July 15, 2015)

Posted: Jul 16th, '15, 17:10
by Big Red Machine
cero2k wrote:
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Change: Wasn't a far of the pointless Samoa Joe squash, I would have removed it and give half of that time to the main event and the other half to the Jordan/Gable match.
Jordan & Gable should have been a squash. ALL of the time should have gone to the main event.





Bad: So this time ROH does decide to run the card for their PPV, but unfortunately, there are a bunch of matches that make no sense to the story lines and have no build up to. Almost feels like a non-canon TNA ppv.
Think of it as just "matches happening for the sake of matches happening." It's a wrestling promotion and they booked these matches. Kind of like at a regular DVD show (and yes, you can argue that that shouldn't be happening at DBD)

Change: This show needed two small recap segments, one telling us why Castle vs Young have problems, and an interview on what Jay Briscoe thinks about losing the title.
Good point about Jay.
As for a Silas vs. Castle recap, I think the announcers covered it, and if they didn't, it's their fault.