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Both the maya World match and The chain match fell short for me.

The Dogs are about the least charismatic tag team I have seen in a minute. They may have been great overseas, but man, they’ve not shown a bit of personality over heee IMHO.

Ciampa and Jericho was insane. Of course I liked it, but again, I can see some people not caring for it. Those two guys are crazy men.
Shida has been washed ever since she came back from her long absence. I didn't like putting the TBS title on her but at least they made it a transitional reign. Maya World is good but she's not yet carry-a-washed-veteran good. Of course, she's also just turned 24 on Sunday and only been wrestling for 3.5 years, to expect her to be able to do that would be entirely unfair. Those types of people are rare breeds.

Dogs never showed much charisma in New Japan. And I'd hardly say they were great overseas. Clark was a midcarder in the junior heavyweight scene that New Japan has largely given up on caring about. David Finlay has long been considered by far the worst leader of the Bullet Club. Alas, I don't think they have been put in the best position to succeed as they've had little to no chance to generate any sustained heat.

I find it funny that Dave said the drill thing went too far because someone could use that as a weapon in real life. Throwing people off balconies and cages, glass, fire, chains, steel chairs, baseball bats, bricks, etc. aren't too far but a drill is where he draws the line.
 
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Dave watching an action or horror movie "lol he got shot with a gun, fun times. Oh look he got stabbed, what a riot, look at all the blood gushing out! He got set on fire, that reminds me of fried chicken, now I'm hungry! Shiver me timbers, is that a drill? I can not stand for this barbarism, I am suing Paramount Pictures, they have gone too far!"
 

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- Raw was awful, one of the worst of the year. Not much excitement heading into Summerslam.

- I give Tony credit for asking them not to applaud but the fact it not only continued but grew louder as if he saved a handicapped child from drowning is pathetic lol. My god the collective assortment of dorks in that tiny room.
 
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RAW was so bad maybe Vince is booking again
Human Monies on a Pole Match screams WCW 2000. They are speedrunning milking this guy for every cent he's worth. Fans are going to be sick to death of him in a year or less with how much they are putting him on TV.
 
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Power went out last evening but I made it through Thekla and Willow which I thought was surprisingly good. I think both of them put on a nice match.
 

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Weigh in segments in wrestling companies where there are no strict weight classes seems kind of pointless. I think the only real weight classes that exist anymore are in Japan like in New Japan with the junior heavyweight and heavyweight divisions - though junior heavyweights aren't strictly forbidden from competing against heavyweights or winning heavyweight titles but heavyweights can't win junior heavyweight titles. I know CMLL has weight specific titles but CMLL cares so little about their 30+ titles that I don't know if they even enforce the weight guidelines to begin with.

I know AEW did it once when Cody and Anthony Ogogo and I didn't like it then either. One of the major points of weigh-ins is to see if the competitors actually met the weight requirements to qualify for the bout. If there's no strict weight restrictions then why have it instead of a regular talking segment? And if the excuse is "because it's different" then that's a lazy reason.