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[6.0] "TNA has some ups and downs, but mostly downs because a lot of questionable booking has done in the wrestling promotion over the past decade. TNA in 2002-2009 was a blast, TNA brought the likes of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Bobby Roode, Eric Young, etc. The way they used the legends in that era is great and very helpful to put over the next breed of talents then. One of the most exciting things TNA has done is the X-Division, in which broke barriers on bringing the exciting element of indy wrestling to television. Every X-Division match is amazing and somewhat refreshing to the eyes of pro-wrestling fans. Upon the era of Dixie Carter and Hulk Hogan in 2010, it somehow turned into WCW 2000. The bookings are very dirty, legends putting themselves over, totally a disaster. North American wrestling has suffered its dark days in early 2010's and neither TNA nor WWE was bearable to watch. This is the reason why fans stopped watching pro-wrestling until AEW came to rise in 2019, bringing lapsed fans back. TNA had some worst moments, and these moments are the only things that TNA is memorable of. Like the drugged Jeff Hardy incident in Victory Road 2011, Sharmell vs Jenna Morasca, and the worst part is when TNA trying to compete the WWE on Monday nights, in which is embarrassing. Good to see TNA has somehow improved in terms of wrestling quality in late 2010's. Nowadays, TNA is lowkey decent, unfortunately getting overshadowed by two wrestling giants in North America."

[4.0] "I couldn't possibly explain why they decided to kick off an entirely new product. It's strange, weird, but having Sunny and Vince commentating definitely takes away from it all."

[5.0] "A fine tag match. Hank and Tank continue to improve as a team. Javier is an enjoyable foil to any face act that he can make look good. Drake has not really stood out for me but they have been using him a lot lately."

[4.0] "Riley continues to show a lot of good potential. Kale is ok but overall does not really stand out in ring but he has some good mannerisms and personality on display."

[6.0] "For the main event of the first day of the Champion Carnival we expect better but this was a good match with Yuma Anzai being the underdog against the taller and stronger Jun Saito, he had good comeback and managed to hit some powerful moves until he surprised Saito with a new move who looked like a modified version of the Darkness Fall to get the win - ***1/4"

[6.0] "A show with more in the way of story going forward to compensate for a lack of experience of in ring being the strongest. Some effective build toward Backlash while other bits could have been better. The Owens segment was overall my highlight of the show."

[10.0] "If you look at John Cena purely from a sports entertainment perspective, then there is no doubt he is on the mount rushmore of greatest wrestlers in WWE history. He has it all, from having a fantastic look, incredible mic skills and being good enough in-ring to carry matches with competitors who are not his equal to excelling with wrestlers on his level and even above in terms of in-ring ability. His work towards the end of his full time tenure became drastically better, showing that he was able to move with the times and not be this stuck in the mud has-been wrestler past his prime. In-terms of WWE, he is truly one of their greatest wrestlers and has done A LOT to help the company move forward and be in a better place post Rock/Austin era."

[10.0] "MOTY (for now). Hit all of the beats it needed too. Created a new superstar, done in the right place at the right time. I am let down by it though, funny considering the 10 I give it, but I think I overhyped it. I enjoyed their match last year slightly more in terms of workrate and pacing. Ideally, I was hoping for a similarlly paced match from last year, THEN the gaga, THEN EVEN MORE WRESTLING AND NEAR FALLS from Cody and Roman, and THEN the finish. Maybe my idea isn't right, but I honestly think this was way too short. Totally flew by for me (honestly as did last years). Cody and Roman have some of the most elite chemistry of all time, if this is their last match I'd be super dissapointed. Still a powerful and emotional epic, a perfect conclusion to the first 40 years of WrestleMania. ****3/4"

[6.0] "Davey Boy Smith Jr is a really bland worker who never interested me and seeing him having the upperhand the whole match was pretty boring but the bout wasn't bad, it was well booked with DBS looked like a monster while Yuma Aoyagi sold his offense really well and the finish was smart with Yuma baiting DBS into a roll up - ***"

[9.0] "Upon seeing few of Rey Fenix matches, both as singles and as a tag team, safe to say that he is one of the most spectacular highflyers amongst most luchadores. Although, luchadores are well known for excessive use of flashy spots, Fenix can make most of his moves very important to the matches he performed. His team-up with Penta El Zero Miedo, also known as the Lucha Brothers, are the most exciting and one of the best luchadores tag team in all of pro-wrestling. Seeing them fought the Young Bucks showed how much of an amazing chemistry these two teams got. Fenix is obviously the stand-out of the two and brought amazing highlights on most of their matches. Fenix reminded me of a young Rey Mysterio due to his abilities and I believe that Fenix fits to be the next Rey Mysterio, which means he could be the next top successful worldwide luchador if booked right. The only guys that I can think of that somehow can match Fenix's highflying abilities is El Hijo del Vikingo, which is another talented young luchador. Also, I love his edgy style and calling his opponents, "ZERO MIEDO" which means "No Fear" in Spanish. His personality showed that he is not just some generic luchador that we most commonly saw on lucha libre wrestling. Truly an excellent performer and always a blast when I see him on his matches."

[6.0] "Solid match. Not as good as their first at WrestleMania, but still a nice TV match with something important at stake. Just a good back and forth here, everything made sense and flowed well. Nothing fancy about this and that's fine. Styles gets the relatively clean victory, evening the score with LA Knight while earning himself a title shot against Cody. 6/10"

[8.0] "So much fun. Pom laughing at Misao's suffering as she took 3 straight shots was a highlight. And classic sneaky Misao uses the wacky stip to her advantage!"

[6.0] "This was a fun quick little match that started with Hokuto Omori and someone else pretending to be Omori disguised as horses, Ashino attacked the wrong man and Omori took advantage of it. There was some pretty good exchanges of impactful strikes and the match never got boring, it was fine for what it was - ***"

[6.0] "This was a good match to open the tournament and while the match in itself was pretty basic, it was well done and interesting all along. Seeing Suwama someone who is a big man and was the ace of the promotion for years being manhandled against someone even bigger was very interesting, Suwama even pulled out a really rare Reverse STO to put Saito down after realizing that his Jumping Shoulder Block didn't have any effect on Saito was great. ***1/4"

[7.0] "I'm surprised, at the end of 2016, Corbin and Ziggler were able to make good matches, despite of the terrible ones in the kick-offs of the PPVs. (7/10)"

[7.0] "LA Knight needs to rise to AJs level. AJ should not be dropping down to Knights level. Knight needs to up his game."

[4.0] "I am utterly bored of LWO vs LDF. And so is the crowd. Santos Escobar comes out to deafening silence from the crowd. Carlito moves slowly for a man his age. Escobar is capable of better. The whole point of this match was to sow the seeds of how attacked Dragon Lee. Of course it was Carlito. Lets not pretend otherwise."

[5.0] "For some reason, Naomi seems to be moving in the ring at half the speed as others that she wrestles. She comes across as either moving in slow motion or unwilling to commit to moves. Naomi is capable of better and Id like to see her pick up the pace."

[8.0] "This team was very fun to watch. Mizuki and Ito are both great in ring workers. Very entertaining as well."

[] "This is easily a top 3 AEW womens match, and without question the best AEW womens tag match. Hikaru Shida is very much the female ace of the company and rightfully so, but VENY and Mei Suruga are the standout performers here. This style of wrestling mightnt translate flawlessly with a Western audience, but I feel like they did a damn good job at crafting a character showcase for fans who mightnt have been aware of them up until this point. Rating: ****"

[] "[4*] To me the stand-out was Atlantis Jr. even if he did not win. His piledriver to suplex sequence kicked too much ass. The whole finishing sequence between Místico and Máscara Dorada was great as well, Máscara Dorada's counter into La Mística made me jump off my seat. Amazing match all in all, no surprise given the talent involved."

[8.0] "The red lighting was terrible, but if you can look past that the match was great! Mick Foley takes some horrific bumps to make Kane look like a monster, but I thought they did a good job with Kane here as well where he gets a drop toe hold to the steps and recovers from it quickly and Foley hits him with the chair to the head and he just rolls back into the ring and fights normal. I don't know what was worse, the one where Kane sends Mankind flying through the announce table or the slam in to the concrete. Both looked painful as hell. Great storytelling with this match overall. Very strong debut for Kane."

[5.0] "[2.75*] Decent match. I liked the route the match was going to, but unfortunately the DQ finish ended things abruptly in a bad way. I know this was important to the story, but as Bayleys first title defense, I would have made a clean win, 100%."

[8.0] "Finally the Attitude Era PPV that I absolutely loved. The opener was fantastic with Dudleys proving me wrong about their inability to have a proper Tag Team Match, Jericho vs Benoit was my favourite Ladder Match up to date with both guys making all of the incredible spots and bumps look realistic, Ivory vs Chyna was a really convincing injury angle and Kurt vs HHH had a little too much of the McMahon drama, but it was still great with Angle having his best singles bout yet. And then the Royal Rumble Match didn't have the star power of the 1992 one, but the main event scene was strong and the bodies in the ring were just there to feed the proper stars. The fans were loud, all of the top guys looked strong and Stone Cold won the whole thing after a fantastic showdown with Kane. A really good show where everything just clicked."

[9.0] "[4.5*] Absurd match, Top 3 from CMLL this year in my opinion. This was just fantastic from start to finish, with literally no dead time. Every move looked perfect, every sault, and it had all the things I like the most about CMLL. The atmosphere was astonishing, people on Arena Mexico were just crazy to see them. Mistico eliminated Atlantis with La Mistica for a giant pop, and at the end Mascara Dorada made Mistico tap-out with the same La Mistica for an even bigger pop, in a moment that will live forever amongst lucha libre fans. He is clearly the future Ace of the company and he is already been built to take this place in such a young age, it is incredible. I would have made the Mistico vs Mascarite one-on-one a little bit longer tho, this is the only flaw I saw on the match. It was just electric."

[9.0] "This match was so fun! Classic Pom shenanigans mixed with Mizuki's own devious hijinks. I had a huge dumb grin on my face the whole match! Oh and a basket of ... something (soda? ) for winning! What a prize haha"

[7.0] "It's not the best Rumble in terms of the overall star power, but the stars that were included were over as hell. Over half of the participants are just bodies to fill the ring before the proper main eventer can eliminate them and I didn't mind it, because the main event scene was really strong back then. Taker, Kane, Rock, Austin, Rikishi - everybody just feeds them. There was a great involvement from Carey, Kane's booking in this bout was probably the best of his career and the final showdown between him and Austin was just phenomenal. This proves that you don't need the best roster to have a very good Royal Rumble if you can focus your attention on the proper main eventers."

[6.0] "I prefered more this match than the one that Reigns had with Owens on December 2016, by far. This one in quiet acceptable. Very funny Jericho's tribute to Eddie Guerrero. (6.5/10)"

[7.0] "It was a good match. All the wrestlers did great, I think Lesnar did very well and Team Angle made him look like a dominant beast, especially towards the end where Benoit makes the tag for him to come in and he completely destroys his opponents. I really liked the combination of Brock Lesnar and Chris Benoit as a tag team."

[1.0] "There's not much of note here. A guy hired presumably only because of his look, 4x4 made the Ultimate Warrior look like the most versatile wrestler ever, having like four moves in total that I have seen; punching, a bear hug, a body slam and I think he did a big splash onto a guy's back once. I guess he has an okay look, but it's kinda undercut by the fact that he's not especially tall by wrestling standards. I suppose he could provide as a bodyguard (which was his main role in WCW anyways), but not much else."

[7.0] "A good return to form for Black Label in 2024. Not sure why they're less frequent now. There were a couple stinkers on this show but the rest of the matches did some heavy lifting in terms of making up for it"

[7.0] "Goto and Shibata, two long-time friends and recent tag partners, showing no restraint to each other. The ultimate respect. Shibata targets the arm, but faces karma when his own arm gives him some trouble later on. Goto's defiance to the targeting of his arm was very thrilling. [3.5]"

[8.0] "This was very interesting. It might appear as a normal, short and fast paced sprint but had some cool details and the action was creative. Arez is a high flyer and well versed in the Llave ( Mexican technical or submission wrestling ) but his approach is very unique as he tries to outsmart his opponents with baits and unpredictability when it comes to timing his moves. A good example of the later is when he sent Matt outside the ring and went for the suicide dive but instead of doing it conventionally like running into the ropes to gain momentum, he takes a pause and immediately goes for the dive. He doesn't want his opponent to scout his next move. Also the way he tried to confuse Matt by first picking him up and then rolling him over only to hit a sudden springboard moonsault. He also made sure he goes down quickly and doesn't give himself airtime like most wrestlers would want to go as high in the air for but Arez fell pretty quickly on Matt after flip for the moonsault. He wanted to minimize the chance of his opponent moving away. Another thing I loved was when he did his signature flip later in the match and slowly lifted himself up and for a second it felt like Matt would grab him again but Arez surprises him with a Pele kick. I also liked when he did his striking combo into a powerbomb for the second time and Matt tries to escape form the powerbomb again but Arez positions him and hits a cool northern light suplex. This is just some praise for Arez. I liked Matt showing some unpredictability in his offense to counter and keep Arez in control. His short arm work was good and a cool finishing submission victory. At first it felt like he was going for Chaos Theory ( Rolling german suplex) but soon as he lifted Arez for the suplex, he transition into an arm bar. 7.50"

[8.0] "Great fun! Overbooked as all hell but it saved what I thought was a pretty middling match up to that point. Chevs coming out and helping Jess kick Will Kiedis' ass was great to see"

[4.0] "Hard watch. Uncomfortable at times. The match itself wasn't anything special but with the referee's numerous failures near the end it made for a very confusing and anticlimactic finish"

[9.0] "WOW. To me this marked the start of what I think will be a defining feud in PWA's future, a passing of the torch to the current generation of sorts. Robbie really arrived in his new heel role here and looked like a killer doing so, a brutal finish."

[4.0] "Wasn't a huge fan of this. It felt like for the most part they were just biding their time until the Backman/Ricky South interference."

[8.0] "This was pretty great, physical as all hell while still keeping that Moretti/Townsend wit about it. The finish with the fake tag was well done"

[10.0] "Yuki Aino has grown so much as a wrestler ever since Nodoka Tenma retired. She recently had an incredible Princess Tag Title run with Ryo Mizunami. Every time she is in a match, she brings the most out of her opponents while elevating herself and her teammates. She never disappoints in ring and is very versatile. She works as a powerhouse, which is much needed in the current TJPW roster full of comedy gimmicks and rookies at this current time. Her move set is very diverse and she is extremely impressive. She is one of the best on the roster. She continue to strives as she only gets better and better. AMAZING!"

[7.0] "Great opener! Hard hitting, well-paced, the exact welcome back to Black Label shows that you'd want."

[5.0] "The matches and storylines around this title ever since I've started watching Revolver have been largely uninteresting, evne with an all-time great as Alex Shelley holding the belt"

[10.0] "L-O-V-E LOVE PURORESU! It's fitting that one of TJPW's brightest stars has one of the best entrance themes. Miu Watanabe is still young but has already established herself as being the promotion's future ace, especially with her recent and thoroughly-deserved first Princess of Princess Championship victory. TJPW has sometimes been criticised for the stagnancy of its title scene, with the top belt usually being traded back-and-forth between company pillars Miyu Yamashita, Yuka Sakazaki and Shoko Nakajima - All of whom are excellent wrestlers but have certainly made it difficult for the company to create real contenders to challenge them. Fortunately, Miu Watanabe's talent is undeniable and she's managed to break through. Miu is the complete package in terms of a TJPW wrestler: She has such a bubbly and charming personality (seriously, try to find pictures of her where she isn't smiling) with the wrestling ability to boot. Miu's incredibly strong for her size and her moveset fittingly makes good use of this, with her giant swing being one of the best in the business. Miu's also the de facto leader of TJPW's Up-Up Girls idol unit. I don't usually care for idol culture but Miu's energy in UUG's performances before every show is infectious. Very excited to see how she progresses."

[7.0] "When they continued to fight each other in the backstage, I started laughing genuinely thanks to the fact that this match was very good expecially for Braun Strowman, who improved himself so much despite of 2015 and 2016. Also Sami, as it usually happened, was great. (7/10)"

[5.0] "I heard this touted as a Show of the Year contender, so I gave it a go, and concluded it's in fact not that, at least if you're not someone who loves the lucha style and is willing to accept the mixing in of the AEW style alongside it. For me, it was instead just a very mediocre show with a handful of decent matches and only the main-event being something somewhat worth going out of your way for. That's mostly because neither current CMLL or AEW does a great amount for me, and I felt neither company gave the best representation of themselves relative to what I personally prefer from the both of them. Magnus & Rugido vs Brillante & Neon was a fine opener. It was clearly cooperative when it came to their more flashy stuff, and pretty dull when it came to their more basic interactions, but at least they had some pretty impressive athletic displays and a handful of really cool spots. **1/2. Esfinge vs Zandokan was building up to be pretty fun but got fumbled at the very end and felt rushed. They had good action almost in whole way, with Zandokan in control for the 1st half and impressing with his power moves on top of his actually rather sparse aerial attacks. Unfortunately, Zandokan looked quite cooperative as Esfinge staged a comeback, but at least Esfinge's own offence looked good in isolation. They picked back up the drama with some convincing near fall trades, but then Esfinge got the win off of an underwhelming big counter and his match-winning pin feeling quite anticlimactic. ***. Cavernario vs Averno was a nice change of pace, since it was nowhere near as generically 'flashy' as the previous matches or what you imagine when you think of a modern lucha match. Instead we had two somewhat charismatic guys -- Cavernario the endearingly goofy babyface, Averno the grimy heel -- going through straightforward, well-executed power moves and strikes, with it then feeling significant whenever they indeed brought out their flashier and more agile traditional lucha spots. It also helped that they never went a million miles an hour, so their spots had time to sink in and thus another reason to feel significant. They still never did anything super impressive, but it was a very solid performance. ***. The 4-way mask-vs-mask match was weak. The booking made 0 sense, since there's literally no justification for the high risk of eliminating the first 2 guys so that only with the final 2 does the match finally become mask-vs-mask. Literally high risk and relatively low reward, given none of these guys are stars for the 'scalp' of de-masking them to mean anything. Even by modern lucha standards it was pretty over-choreographed with their high spots, and clear sloppiness came out the longer the match went on. A handful of spots looked okay, but most of the fundamentals here looked pretty weak. **1/4. The 6-woman tag was pretty mediocre. Vaquer, Tessa, and Zeuxis were the ones that impressed me, since they all looked quite energetic, intense, and slick with their work, whereas Catalina and Lluvia weren't that good, and Willow was typically underwhelming with her weak strikes and unconvincing 'monster' offence. A lot of the big attacks here didn't look that good, even those that came from the better-skilled wrestlers, and the same applied with the multi-woman spots. The 3 aforementioned good talents were enough to keep this together, but this was otherwise kinda sloppy and just plain underwhelming. **1/2. Atlantis & Soberano vs Dorada & Rocky was decent. I enjoyed the "can they coexist" story coming out with the mixing of teams made up of 1 heel and 1 face each, which made for some entertaining moments of alliances, tension, and betrayals. Aside from that, however, this was a pretty typically 50/50 match with bomb trades and lucha spots, which were athletically very impressive but didn't have much 'meat' to them because of how mindlessly they came and went. If they had that interesting story of the odd couple pairing and fit that to a more compelling structure, then this could've been pretty good. Either that or if all 4 guys really went further with making their mindless trades and high spots more memorable. ***. The CMLL-vs-BCC 8-man tag was quite good and clearly MOTN. It was nothing crazy like the people desperate for a CMLL/AEW cross-over touted, but it was mindless fun all the same. Everyone got to cycle in and show off their stuff, and while most impressed to varying degrees like Danielson, Mistico, Volador, Claudio, and Sydal, others like Panther and Guerrero didn't feel convincing given the caliber of their opponents and their own advances ages, and Moxley was just doing weird Moxley-style things that likewise didn't fit. The booking with Sydal of all people as BCC's captain made no sense, as did the inclusion of elimination rules only to barely use them and only to a very tiny extent at the very end, but then this match was never about the story, it was just about seeing a mixture of styles for the sake of action, and it mostly succeeded in that regard. It still sucks that matches like this, with so much pure athletic talent, can't be utilised for more compelling stories. ***1/4"

[] "The hero every kid wanted to be versus the rebel every teenager wanted to be. Such a good feud and elevated Punk to the draw he is now."

[3.0] "Boring. Bland and very uneven overhearing heel work from Fale and a spirited but ultimately flat comeback from Naito. Saw the finish coming a mile away, but that's how it goes. [2.5]"

[9.0] "Arisu has become one of the best talent on the TJPW roster so quickly. She has an amazing look as well. She's a hardworker who displays her talent in ring. Her selling is phenomenal and her new finish looks incredible. Her in work story telling really shined in her recent match at Grand Princess '24. The way her teamwork shines with her partner Suzume is second to none on the TJPW roster. Arisu is truly a great talent and she only has more room to improve considering her only being in the company for 3 years. In the next few years, she will 100% be on par with her seniors such as Shoko Nakajima & Miyu Yamashita just to name a couple."

[9.0] "Pom Harajuku is cowardly and petty and that's why she's so much fun to watch! TJPW tends to stay away from face/heel dynamics but Pom's villainous streak manifests itself in such silly ways that you can't help but love her. In a fashion typical of many TJPW wrestlers, Pom has solid in-ring fundamentals but probably isn't going to be setting the world on fire with sheer technical ability any time soon. She more than makes up for it with personality though: No one can convey pain and distress like Pom can. Her feud and subsequent partnership with Max the Impaler was one of the most entertaining storylines in recent TJPW history, with Pom usually being forcefully dragged to the ring by her fellow roster members for her matches with the non-binary nightmare. Definitely sits in the same mold as Hyper Misao in terms of wrestlers who aren't likely to trouble TJPW's title scene but you still love to have them around."

[6.0] "Neither CMLL's matches or BCC's matches do much for me these days, so this was never going to be anything that appealed to me very strongly, but it was still quite good. What it had going for it was action, since this was obviously one of those 'exhibition' work-rate matches where all the guys involved got plenty of time to show off their stuff one after the other. One of the few things I outright rolled my eyes at here was Panther (and to a lesser extent also Guerrero) getting those moments of not just clearly keeping up with or even momentarily getting the better of his opponents -- given he's in his 60s AND clearly looks it too -- but also the moments of him withstanding, surviving, or even taking out the BCC on his own. I get this is a lucha legend and that the crowd popped for it, but I do prefer some logic in my wrestling and not just cheap pops and unbelievable fairytale moments for the sake of it, and those moments were hard to swallow. Aside from that, this was a typically fun, mindless lucha match that did well mixing with the equally mindless AEW tag style. Danielson did well his his aggressive and intense striking, though at times he was annoyingly lost in the fray as BCC as a whole did their gang-ups and run-ins. Claudio looked really motivated here, going back to some of his lucha-style roots as he played an exciting freight-train powerhouse just running through dude while also acting as a really strong base for his high-flying opponents. Sydal, the replacement for the unavailable Yuta, was good as the token high-flyer for the BCC team. He obviously didn't at all have the character to fit in with them, but seeing him direct his high-flying spots in a more heelish light and then mix up with his equivalents on the CMLL team was pretty fun. A good portion of Moxley's performance was the other 'thing' after Panther's (and to a lesser extent Guerroro's) strong booking that I couldn't take seriously, since he was in that mode where he was selling/emoting in a really unhinged way, walking around quite unnaturally, and delivering a lot of pretty messy or soft-looking attacks, which undercut the other 50% of his performance where he was typically trying to act like a badass bruiser. I'd prefer if he'd cut the theatrics while 'playing tough guy' and instead just tried to play a cold, hardened street brawler who straight up clobbered guys, rather than only lightly going after them whenever he's meant to be punishing them. Mistico is basically just a signature-moves guy, hitting all the same spots in basically the exact same ways from match to match, failing to impress in any other way... but damn is he still impressive with those spots all the same, since he always gets great speed and looks incredibly crisp whenever he flys or twirls in the air, so I couldn't complain too much with him. Volador was someone who was sadly restrained for ages until his brief run-in where he took BCC out with all his explosive and flashy spots, reminding me of exactly why he's probably my favourite CMLL wrestler from the last few years. It would've been great to see more of him, since even with this being a "everyone gets time" match, it didn't feel like he got as much as the others here, despite arguably being the most impressive pure "work-rate" guy in the ring. It definitely felt like a waste having these apparent elimination rules only for there to be a single elimination before the match-deciding elimination as captain Sydal was eliminated, and it didn't help that those eliminations happened so quickly after each other. Sydal being the BCC team's captain was a bad enough telegraphing job, but it also just didn't make sense that BCC dominated many portions of this match for so long but only got a single elimination right before the end. I mean, why do these 'elimination' and 'captain' rules if you're not going to use them to make the match feel more significant by having more eliminations and thus adding more drama as the numbers whittle down? There's also the obviously questionable logic in why the BCC team would handicap themselves by elected Sydal, the kayfabe weakest member, as their captain. Anyways, my issues with the booking, Panther/Guerroro, and Moxley aside, this was dumb fun. ***1/4"

[6.0] "A pretty average match that feels even more anti-climactic after having followed the fantastic title match between Sting and DDP earlier in the same episode..."

[5.0] "RANDOM MATCH ALERT! (I watched this choosing a match at random on Cagematch by using random number generators.) Nothing much to this one. Nothing particularly bad about it, just doesn't generate very much heat or interest. I do dig the flames on Bam Bam's outfit, though..."

[6.0] "Decent if not particularly memorable little match, mostly thanks to Norman Smiley, who has a few good moves and shows off his strength with a great double underhook piledriver. Smiley's little dances fall somewhere on the spectrum between mildly entertaining and really annoying, but the crowd seems to enjoy it. The commentators spent the whole match discussing how to pronounce Smiley's last name..."

[8.0] "People talk about her like shes a 20 year vet and shes only 25? ! holy crap, very promising career as she continues to grow. do not be surprised if shes the top star on tv in any promotion in a couple years"

[6.0] "Unlike Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson is a very good performer and this match with Cesaro was able to gave him a little credibility after the disaster of the Club in 2016. (6/10)"

[5.0] "This match was made with the only goal to make impossible to Owens to interfere against Roman Reigns in the main event. And it's also a mediocre one. (5/10)"

[7.0] "Good opening match. Malenko looked really good, very nice and crisp technical wrestling. Loved the jackhammer, and Gedo sold the headscissors takedown well, looking very spooked after getting hit with it. It's a shame Gedo won this match instead of Malenko"

[7.0] "I had low expectations heading into this one (I tend to have low expectations for Hulk Hogan matches in general) so I was surprised to find it a pretty solid workrate match that most lived up to the hype. Was surprised to see both men bleed in this one. Felt like it should've been a bit longer in the final stretch, but still, good match."

[7.0] "A very good match. The rivalry between the two was clear from the start with some intense and physical action throughout the match with neither able to overcome each other by the 15 minute mark."

[7.0] "Great scramble, super enjoyable. Everyone had at least one cool moment which is really the point of these scrambles"

[7.0] "This was the most I've been impressed with Perry in quite a long time. He never worked for me as the athletic but incredibly bland babyface, and even his newer heel work didn't do much more for me, but him leaning into the airing of the All In incident here in Chicago with all his props and taunts was really fun. The crowd was surprisingly very split, with some mocking Perry for the All In footage but others rallying around him as an "FU" to who the viewed as the real villain in the matter. Perry's wrestling itself is still nothing too noteworthy, just at the level of 'good indie worker', but the way he supplemented in with his despicable "punch me in the face" character work and dastardly cheap shots made all his offence feel a lot more meaningful. Shota, meanwhile, felt like he was from another world. His constant fan-appeals felt pretty forced, since it's clear that he's too squeaky clean of a babyface for the western fans to truly align with, even if they like him just because of his association with Moxley, and often his constant "cheer for me! " appeals felt overkill. Like, at least half the crowd was already *strongly* on your side by default of Perry being your opponent, Shota, but your generically desperate pleas for support became off-putting. I think the issue was that it often just felt like Shota was more interested in entertaining the fans and getting their support rather than just going after Perry, who screwed him over in the NJ Cup. Regardless, Shota is still a good young talent, and he made up for those issues with his always energetic and athletic offence, and he still has a number of distinctly creative moves that allow him to stand out, which I really appreciate. They had good trades the whole way, though as they moved into their rapid big-move trades and occasional no-selling they started to become a bit overkill and generic. I enjoyed how they ultimately told a clear story of Perry's obsession with all his Punk-references and gloating towards the Chicago crowd causing him to waste many opportune moments and thus leave himself open for Shota to take him out. Perry also did a really good job with some impressive bumps to put Shota over strong during the finishing stretch. This was a match in a special situation, given the recent airing of the All In footage, this show taking place in Chicago, and this being Perry's first match since the footage airing, so I doubt Perry can ever recreate anywhere near this sort of atmosphere again, but that just meant we were lucky in getting this when we did. ***1/4"

[7.0] "[3.25/5.00]: This week's SmackDown, despite having just four matches in its two-hour runtime, kept a brisk pace and introduced some significant storyline developments. While it was a decent enough show with some solid action, it's clear that they were aware of the impending changes coming next week. With everything set to shift, the WWE landscape could be in for a major shake-up in just a couple of weeks."

[6.0] "[3.00/5.00]: This match was consistently solid throughout, but the predictability of the finish definitely took away some of its excitement, especially since it's not a PPV. It seems likely that this is building towards a triple threat for the title at Backlash, which isn't a bad direction to take."

[5.0] "Something was off about this match. I like their rivalry and I loved their wrestlemania match but this wasn't that good. The last minutes were kind of entertaining but overall I was not impressed."

[6.0] "Pretty basic tag match with an unsatisfying time limit finish. Nothing fundamentally wrong, but not very exciting."

[5.0] "[2.25/5.00]: There wasn't a whole lot to this match, which seems to be the trend for Carlito lately. They wasted no time getting into the brawl, with Carlito dominating early on with his strength. As expected, Escobar mounted a comeback and secured the win. It was okay, but nothing really stood out."

[8.0] "[3.75/5.00]: What a thrilling whirlwind of chaos, with a few heart-stopping near-falls thrown in. Each team had their shining moments, but it was Dawkins and Ford who clinched the victory and a shot at the title. This match was top-notch and definitely worth checking out if you missed it. It got more airtime than I anticipated, and it all came together quite nicely. The main takeaway here is setting up the first challengers for the new champs, and the Profits are absolutely deserving choices."

[7.0] "[3.25/5.00]: Knight's a solid wrestler, but Styles has a knack for elevating everyone's game. Even in a match like this, which might not stick in memory for long, they delivered flawlessly. Every move was spot-on, and they followed up on their 'Mania match nicely. Cody versus Styles promises to be a solid match between two skilled performers, and Cody should come out looking strong. I'm not thrilled about Knight losing so soon after WrestleMania, but hey, at least he got that big win there, which counts for something."

[7.0] "A long title match right here between two very good wrestlers, a lot of things were good in this match. I'm a big Michael Oku fan and it's hard for me not to like his matches as they're always qualitative. This was surely his best title defense yet behind the Ospreay one, with a well-worked bout and some entertaining moments. Buzzard was simply hilarious with his facial expressions and did the job perfectly as the cheeky heel. It was a very solid match."

[6.0] "A decent if not special DDT multiman to say goodbye to Okatani as he takes time off for a knee injury."

[8.0] "Apparently, these two had a trilogy of matches together that are well-regarded. This is the first. Liger was already so good here and Sano was no slouch, either. Great back and forth action here between the two high flyers."

[9.0] "It was a great match and it felt like classic and old matches in the Smackdown brand. The audience reaction was good and helped make the match more interesting. The performance of all 8 wrestlers present in the match was good and they all did their best. I give this match 9 points ."

[8.0] "Great bloody war right here and it's great to see a women's match of this level in the York Hall, they really gave them time and a great stipulation to settle the score and it was a blast from start to finish. Lots of great spots, remarkable intensity and impressive physicality. No mistakes, everything was perfectly executed because they had really prepared their match and it was so good. Luna & Windsor are the real deal."

[5.0] "Agree with the previous comment: this should have been Koruku's spot. Toy is a good pick for the King of DDT tournament, but Rukiya still hasn't shown me anything special in him."

[7.0] "This was a really fun match, but it did not need to go 30 minutes and I feel like that hurt it a bit. There are quite a few great moments in this and I love the finish with Cena getting cocky and trying to hit the people's elbow and it costing him, but it's all too spaced out. ***3/4"

[6.0] "It's a better match than the first two Survivor Series matches by a long way because the fans was still into the Canada vs USA feud and the disjointed American team left Vader carrying the load and his performance is really good here. There was a big storyline going on with Goldust after he had just turned into a deadbeat heel and he winds up refusing to wrestle. This was the first match for Steve Blackman, but to be honest it wasn't very good and he looked a bit over his head here. Bulldog obviously got a great reaction whenever he was in."

[5.0] "The Big show Vs Titus O'Neil was nothing special I have never been a fan of either of them. Titus looked strong in this match i enjoyed his arrogance. Awful Awful Awful finisher though its just a punch, its stupid so stupid. Tag team match was really good probably the best match i have seen on main event"

[8.0] "This was a great and surprisingly brutal Hell in a Cell match. Orton was legitimately fantastic here and Jeff was great as well. The screwdriver spot was disgusting and the finish was pretty crazy. ****"

[8.0] "This was an awesome tag match. It was non-stop action and everyone gave incredible performances. The crowd booing Lorcan and Burch at first to giving them a standing ovation after the match was really cool. ****1/4"

[7.0] "Very fun tag match right here, not as good as I'd hoped but still very entertaining with lots of action and some very good sequences with guys who know each other perfectly. They always worked well together back in the days of NXT UK five years ago and the chemistry was always there. It lacked a certain energy, but I still had a great time. GYV and Subculture rules."

[6.0] "I guess Lucha Libre just isn't for me. I don't get the psychology. The strikes seem soft, a few botches, lots of standing around waiting for spots, and overly choreographed. After 4 minutes of wrestling, the babyface taps out after being in a hold for 3 seconds. Are you kidding me? How does that make sense? The babyface than totally no sells his legs for the rest of the match. There were also some blatant interference from the heel's mascot, in front of the referee, and the referee does nothing. Am I missing something here? The 6 points I'm giving are for the athleticism and for the fact that they at least kept the spots to a minimum."

[] "Finally, Solo Sikoa becomes interesting. It has taken over a year for me to pay proper attention to him on the main roster now, but I'm glad we're now at a point where he speaks and acts of his own accord instead of being a grunty enforcer for Roman Reigns. Paul Heyman's always great but I'm particularly interested in seeing him out of his depth and rapidly losing control over what's left of the Bloodline in Roman's absence. Kevin Owens bleeding like a stuck pig, and Tama Tonga's car crashed into his? This was very 90s RAW, in a very good way. Hearing "we want Roman" so soon after his defeat tells me that Roman's return as a babyface will finally get him the good guy run he was supposed to have. The Women's Title match was good. Bayley's always got my attention and Naomi impresses with her athletics, but having a no contest finish with Tiffany Stratton was a little... "eh". I like all three of them, don't get me wrong - I just dislike interference finishes for title matches. I suppose you can't have Naomi look bad or Bayley lose two weeks in, so this is the best outcome. Santos Escobar v Carlito was a bit dull. Carlito hasn't impressed me in-ring since his return at Backlash, but Escobar continues to entertain with his combination of high-flying and sneaky offence. AJ Styles and LA Knight The Tag Fatal Four-Way went on for a very long time, which really surprised me given it was a television match. The Street Profits put in a great show, as did Legado del Fantasma. The Authors of Pain looked dominant and very strong even despite spending a big chunk of the match being wailed on by three other teams. I still can't really get behind them yet but we'll see. Pete Dunne is great, I've always liked him; but Tyler Bate... something about him (and it's probably entirely me) just puts me off. I don't know if it's the look, the "big strong boy" thing; no, I know what it is. In a sport that relies on choreography under the guise of looking spontaneous, Bate's spots in this match looked REALLY noticeable in terms of needing to be set up and helped into positions. It didn't look particularly fluid to me. Every wrestler has their "spot". Rey Mysterio always manages to get a 619 in somehow, Undertaker's Tombstone, Rollins' Stomp etc - but these all look pretty natural during the course of it. Maybe it's because it was an eight man match and I'm being too harsh. We'll see. Looking forward to the Draft."

[7.0] "This was a pretty strange card on paper that ended up feeling a bit all over the place by the end. There was some great stuff here, but there was just as much that didn't really work. The main event definitely underwhelmed, and some of the undercard bouts were bizarre (that entrance for Oz has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen from a major promotion. What on Earth were they thinking with that one? ), although personally I thought they were at least strange enough as to be endearing (it helped that they were all pretty short). Sting/Luger-Steiners, Anderson-Eaton, and Windham-Pillman (and to a lesser extent the Doom cage match) were all really entertaining, though, and definitely made the show worthwhile. At the very least I think the show succeeded at being interesting, which is often the most important thing to me, and there was certainly enough that was good here to earn a pretty positive rating."

[8.0] "Excellent match in which TNA was perfectly showcased by its best wrestler and its new hot signing, everything was successful in this match whether it was the action and especially the story with Alexander underestimating Slater too much and getting screwed at his own game in the end. I was invested from start to finish and really enjoyed the last few minutes."

[2.0] "The biggest match in the short history of iGW, between former nWo members for the main title. With all respect to Curt's abilities, Dennis was not a wrestler, and the match was not very good, besides it ended in disqualification, although the rules of the match did not imply this. A very strange ending for a very strange show."

[6.0] "I'm not sure if I'm being overly harsh here, but this didn't really work for me. It felt like an awkward clash of styles, and it looked like the two weren't always on the same page. Some of the spots didn't seem to work out well at all - having seen Flair pull it off seamlessly so many times, that double bridge-up spot just looked a bit sad (the announcers tried to cover it by saying Fujinami was hurt, but that didn't seem to be the case to me). On top of this, the crowd did not sound very invested at all, and there was a pretty awkward dynamic with the home promotion champion being the heel. I really enjoyed the physicality of the bout, and there were individual moments that worked very well, but they were quite able to bring it all together, and unfortunately the match just ended up feeling a bit strange and 'off' to me."

[2.0] "A match between the only holders of the Australasian title. One Gang Man was a decent heel and he was literally pelted with garbage, which became the most memorable moment. Otherwise, the rather boring match, which was probably not the best solution to give 16 minutes."

[7.0] "Good physical match to start the show between two very good wrestlers who are two of the most reliable that RevPro have in their roster, Jacobs reminds me so much of the Gunther/WALTER's early days and that's the best compliment I can make to him. He's strong, hard in his moves and it matched perfectly with Mills who bumped super well for him, and is an interesting heel."

[1.0] "It was very unexpected to see Fred Ottman on Wine's side. A random and filled with awkward moments match that probably made less sense than any other on this event."

[8.0] "This is such a badass match. It was such a rarity to see protected babyfaces go up against each other in this era. It gives the match a special aura, like you're seeing the Avengers take on the Justice League. Everybody is on top of their game, and the offence all liked explosive and high impact. Sting in particular has a great showing. The finish is well executed (the camerawork here is great) and definitely works for the story, but it is still admittedly a bit of a disappointing conclusion. This, in addition to some sloppy work here and there (what was going on with that Side Russian Leg Sweep attempt...? ) that did hold the match back from earning a higher rating for me. I was still very close to going with a 9.0 because I really enjoyed the action, but I just wish this ended on a more satisfying note, or at least had a few extra minutes before they went home. As it stands, this just left me wanting more."

[8.0] "Starting from the junior tag title match this was a good show with Nagata-Sasaki bloodfest as the highlight. My main issue was having a lot of matches with very slow and methodical start, even though most of them picked up the speed at the end. Also, while there were several matches I ranked as good, outside the before-mentioned Nagata-Sasaki, nothing was close to rising to that must-see level."

[3.0] "Perhaps giving these wrestlers a gimmick match was the best decision, given that both were already in the twilight of their active careers. It was still not a very good match, they didn't even have any history of rivalry, like the Road Warriors and Public Enemy, but perhaps it was the best that could be expected from the Brutus Beefcake match in 2000."

[1.0] "The strangest part, apart from the weird rules, was the bullying of Johnny Grunge by commentators for his weight. It was a lazy slow brawling, between the only teams in the roster. The best years of the Road Warriors were long behind, and the Public Enemy, I think, have never been particularly outstanding wrestlers. 1 point."

[8.0] "Shinsuke being tortured underdog and overcoming the odds. Wasn't too exciting at the start, but got exciting towards the end."

[5.0] "A lot of matches underdelivered and definitely didn't suit the fact they were working on front of a tired out crowd, but it's still good to have these types of shows where representation can be showcased"

[1.0] "They really wasted Don Callis on this team? Wow! Kurrigan a.k.a. The Interrogator had a big imposing look, but unfortunately he was 1997's version of The Great Khali!"

[6.0] "This was ok, a bit long for what it was which definitely didn't help in front of an already tired crowd."

[7.0] "Usually, matches of the No Contest type cause me doubts. But it's quite appropriate here, I'm glad that WWE is giving Tiffany the opportunity to shine like that. Also, the match between Bayley and Naomi surprised me. I thought it would be boring, but they kept up the pace. 3.5/5 is quite good."

[6.0] "A good, balanced and competitive match between two young wrestlers at the time. With the exception of a little botch from RVD and some chair shots that weren't very impactful from Lance Storm, I don't have much to criticize about the match. Elements that didn't bother me much but I understand that they could take a little out of the match. The other problem is that having no context at the time I thought RVD was the face and Storm the heel, when it turns out it was the opposite... But if we take the match from the unique point of wrestling I found it really good and still modern if we compare it to today's standards. Not perfect but very pleasant and engaging."

[0.0] "My god was that boring. I think every elimination in the match was just off a regular wrestling move. It's basically a match between two bad factions thats there to but one guy over because he's big and he's not very good. Watch out for the devastating Sidewalk Slam!"

[9.0] "I am surprised by his work over the past few months. Initially, I thought that WWE would just forget about him and put him on the shelf before Erik returned. But his matches against Kofi Kingston, Chad Gable and Ricochet made it clear that I was wrong. And it was also in the match against him that Sheamus made his return. This shows that you don't have to worry about Ivar anymore. Great job, Viking Raider!"