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I almost bought it a couple of times, Greg. Didn't know the matches at the time though. Now I wished I had it. :eek:

Yeah, and don't know how it could be considered sacreligious either since a lot appreciate what Punk can do inside the ring.

Mysterio was consistent as hell. Not until this year has he really slowed down. He doesn't get mentioned much, but I love Rey's chemistry with JBL. I think they feed off of each other really well. Lots of fun whenever they duke it out. No Mercy 2005 being the one I guess some could easily check out due to it on PPV. That was my favorite match on that show, tbhayley.
 
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Anyways, this might be a completely sacreligious thing to say on a Wrestling Forum, but in terms of pure consistent greatness on a main event level , Punk 2011-2012 is one of those runs where you look at it in a few years and say "Yeah, that was a fucking AWESOME main event run" , up there with runs such as HBK in 96-97 and HHH in 00-EARLY 01. To be honest , Lesnar from 02-4 was an AMAZING run as well in terms of his main event matches.
No, I'll say "I'm willing to take a bullet to the brain than witness this ever again". :p

Backlash 2005:

Shelton Benjamin vs Chris Jericho - ****
- Absolutely awesome work by both men. The end sequence with the roll-up counters was a great ending, the athletic spot with Shelton leaping to the rope and doing a superplex was awesome and the whole match in general was highly enjoyable. Would have worked better a bit if there was a clear heel here. For the build-up, I thought Jericho was the heel since he was constantly a dick but fans cheered him over Shelton here. Well, we got a great match and that's all that matters!

William Regal/Tajiri vs The Heart Throbs vs La Resistance vs Hurricane/Rosey vs Simon Dean/Maven - **3/4
- A nice tag team turmoil match while it lasts. Nothing memorable and nothing bad, just decent and it's... just there. Oh and Hurricane and Rosey win this to a nice pop at the end.

Edge vs Chris Benoit - ***3/4
- They never had an official, big feud involving titles or anything but Benoit might be Edge's best opponent. First their awesome post-WM21 match and now this very good Last Man Standing blow-off. Edge obviously gets the win as he's the MITB holder and the next breakout star after Batista & Cena here. Both men do a great job, there are some memorable spots like the suicide dive, superplex into a trashcan, German Suplex from top of the ladder and a brick being used to put Benoit down after responding to two Spears, which protects him well in defeat. As usual, Benoit gets a standing ovation post-match despite losing. That's how much respect fans had for this man!

Kane vs Viscera - *1/2
- Viscera & Trish's little affair was more interesting than this. They are such an odd pair here yet their restaurant skits worked pretty well. As for the match, it sucks. Then post-match Viscera & Trish officially have their "break up" and Viscera squashes Trish with a splash to a bunch of "Mabel" chants.

Hulk Hogan/Shawn Michaels vs Muhammad Hassan/Daivari - ***1/4
- A very nice tag match with an electric crowd that goes crazy for the returning Hogan. Nothing much otherwise but it's entertaining to watch while it lasts and despite being there to just look stupid for Hogan and the fans, Muhammad Hassan and Daivari didn't look overly weak which was good.

Batista vs Triple H - ***1/4
- Slightly better than their Wrestlemania match but not by much. A bit shorter which helps it, crowd is more into it and there's a bit of story to this with HHH making the Pedigree out to be the "be all end all" for him to regain the title. Then he manages to do it on Batista only for Mike Chioda to oversell a clothesline which results in no counts being made and the defeat being unclean this time. Batista wins again although there's a bunch of unneeded shenanigans while it happens.

Overall: ***1/4 out of ***** (Not a bad PPV at all. A couple of great matches and other decent stuff with only one dud. And the non-wrestling stuff aren't bad either. Chris Masters' Masterlock challenge was unintentionally hilarious and mostly because I go and read the forum stuff all over the net said back in 2005 and the hate Masters gets far surpasses anything else I've witnessed including Cena hate. And Christian also cuts a nice little rap before the main event. It's a shame they dropped the ball with him like that. Should have been a main eventer by this point, really.)
 
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Jericho vs Shelton was face vs face only with both of them getting personal in the weeks leading up. Jericho showed the edge in the program. Although the crowd for Backlash was much more pro-Jericho, haha. Stellar match. I'm with you on that. (Y)

I loved that Last Man Standing. It gets **** from me. Worked out incredibly well, imo.

Rest is whatever. Oh, but I mark like a little kid for Hurricane & Rosey winning since I'm such a big Gregory Helms fan. I HATE the Hogan tag.
 
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Have both Edge/Benoit and Jericho/Benjamin at ****. Is this the best 1-2 punch to open up a PPV ever ? I'm not sure I can think of another PPV where we start off with 2 consecutive **** matches TBH. I LOVED the Hogan tag when I first saw it ... But YEAH ... It's shit (although it was a huge deal at the time). DAT TISTA-TRIPS match is severely underrated IMO, I fucking love that match and would give it *** 3/4.

AHHHH, No Mercy 2005... What an underappreciated show. The 3 biggest matches on the card are all great, with REY-JBL being fun as they always are with a hilarious storyline behind it (watch the SD promo where JBL comes out with a poncho and a sombrero) , Taker-Ortons being a classic and the second best casket match ever (MOTN) , with the main event being a complete carry job with Eddie getting a **** match out of big Dave with how FUCKING awesome he was. I don't like to speculate much, but I'm willing to bet we would have gotten a Taker-like older Eddie, basically meaning that his matches would SOMEHOW have gotten better even after all of these years, especially since his character rocked at this point and his new theme music was SEX and all that jazz.
 
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That handicap casket match is a boring garbage bout. No way it can be slapped with the term "classic" on it. Only match that Taker and Orton had that wasn't worth seeing.

The fatal four way for the United States Championship from that PPV is the real under-appreciated match. It's AWESOME.

Btw, I would call the Backlash '05 4 star matches the best 1-2 punch to open up a PPV only if the Tag Team Turmoil wasn't inbetween them, haha. Not saying this is the best opening & second match combo, but it's the first off the top of my head: Judgment Day 2006. London & Kendrick vs MNM and Benoit vs Finlay. That at least takes the cake momentarily.
 
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Yeah I'm just not on my game today... Like ... AT ALL. Got back from the gym earlier after a two-a-day and I'm just falling apart, gotta channel my inner :hhh

Don't like the handicap casket match ? Here's my Orton-Taker Series Rankings for 2005

WM XXI : **** 1/4
NM 05 Casket : **** 1/4
ARM 05 HIAC : **** 1/4
SS 05 : ****
SD 05 : ****

Such a BOSS fucking feud. Feud of the year, obviously.
 
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WrestleMania ~ ****1/4
Armageddon ~ ****
Smackdown ~ ****
Summerslam ~ ***1/2
No Mercy ~ **

Casket drags hard for me. I probably would have enjoyed it more if Cowboy wasn't involved. Then again he was taken out for a part of the match. Idk. Just doesn't do it for me. It was my personal favorite feud of that year. But, I was biased since the WWE put my two favorites in a feud vs each other.
 
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please don't ruin this thread. it's the only WWE one that doesn't make me want to kill puppies. as far as I know, no-one in here is a Cena mark; they just understand that's he's capable of good-great matches.

the GOAT thread is more for you.
I am. #riseabovehate #CeNation :cena2

Dickhead HBK is the GOAT. So much win. You just want to smack the guy for being a little bastard lol.
 
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Jericho vs Shelton was face vs face only with both of them getting personal in the weeks leading up. Jericho showed the edge in the program. Although the crowd for Backlash was much more pro-Jericho, haha. Stellar match. I'm with you on that. (Y)

I loved that Last Man Standing. It gets **** from me. Worked out incredibly well, imo.

Rest is whatever. Oh, but I mark like a little kid for Hurricane & Rosey winning since I'm such a big Gregory Helms fan. I HATE the Hogan tag.
I would have given LMS a bigger rating if it involved more weapon violence. Felt too much like a mat-wrestling match and barely used any weapons which is what LMS matches are supposed to be about. Just didn't live up to its stipulation I thought. But still a very good match just like 99% of whatever Benoit has done.

And on the Hogan tag, I forgot to mention this. HBK makes me laugh with his constant jumping around whenever Hogan's song is playing.

Count me in as a "Cena mark" too. I'm not immune to getting annoyed by him to the point of wanting to see him get his ass kicked but at the end of the day, I'm a big fan and often defend him, character notwithstanding.
 
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People have always said Michaels wasn't very good on the mic. But his work on the stick in 1997/1998 is brilliant.

He was cut loose and just allowed to be himself. There is one promo were he completely owns Steve Austin and all Austin could say was he was going to kick his ass.
HBK's "The Heart Break Kid lays down for nobody" promo was absolutely awesome. His 97 stuff prove that he's underrated on the mic, same with Bret Hart.

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Just watched the first round of the Gold Rush Tournament for Raw 05.

- Kane vs Christian - **1/2 (Nothing special and ends way too fast. Also fans are more concerned about Matt Hardy even though the only related person around the ring area is Lita.)

- Shawn Michaels vs Shelton Benjamin - ****1/4 (When Shelton springboarded, I was like "DAMN, I don't want this to end!" so that tells you all you need to know)

- Edge vs Chris Jericho - *** (A decent match itself but I have to bring up the Matt Hardy chants aimed at Lita and Edge every time they are on the screen. Funny how announcers have to completely no sell them.)

- Chris Benoit vs Triple H - ***1/2 (Another solid match between these two with HHH tapping out again! Also what's the story with Benoit's eyes here? They look scary crazy and glazed like he's concussed or something but considering how damn good his performance is, I find it hard to believe he actually wrestled with a concussion.)
 
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I know I'm a little late, but I gotta...



By telling him he leaves every year after Wrestlemania and doesn't care about the fans anymore. :cena2
I'm here every week Mark :cena2

Goodness, could you imagine a Cena/Taker feud being centered around that crap? That ruined most of the Rock/Cena angle to me. So bad, and I fully expect Punk to do the same come January with Rock.
 
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