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Just finished the Clash of the Champions BD, quite a fun set. A few quick ratings:

Ric Flair vs Sting, COTC 1988 - ****1/4
Ric Flair vs Terry Funk, COTC 1989 - ****1/4
Ric Flair vs Lex Luger, COTC 1990 - ***3/4
Sting vs 'Ravishing' Rick Rude, COTC 1991 - ***3/4
Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs Hollywood Blonds, COTC 1993 - ***1/2
Ric Flair vs Sting, COTC 1994 - ****
Steve Austin vs Ricky Steamboat, COTC 1994 - ****1/4

On a side not, I don't think I've heard many moments quite as electric as when The Rock inducted his family into the Hall of Fame in 2008. If that was during a live WWE show it would be impressive, but for a Hall of Fame ceremony its just crazy. Goosebumps for the whole thing. Even then, I never thought Rocky would be back. Oh how times have changed :rock4
 
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Wrestlemania 27
Randy Orton vs. CM Punk


The storyline to this made me chuckle. Punk goes after Orton’s wife. Mania 25, Orton goes after Triple H’s wife. Nice symmetry. Orton’s knee is injured heading in and he sells it really well throughout. Similarly, Punk works it just as well. Great spot where Orton’s hung up on the turnbuckle and Punk just jumps right onto him. Orton goes for the RKO and meets a big kick to the face in response. Close near fall. Punk goes back to working the leg and locks in a figure four around the ring post. Figure four, I think, locked in back in the ring with Punk kicking and punching the leg. Both of them come face to face in a pretty cool stare down until Orton works his way out. RKO gets a brief spell of momentum but it’s stopped by the Anaconda Vice. Punk starting to get frustrated that Orton won’t go down. Momentum sways back to Orton who has now decided to stop selling the knee which sucks. He lays in wait for the RKO. Nope, he changes his mind and goes for the punt instead but his knee can’t take it and he falls. Punk gets cocky and saunters over to him but Orton goes for the RKO OUTTA NOWHERE and in an awesome moment, Punk manages to push him away and recoil back to the ropes in shock. His reaction is fucking great though and definitely worth checking out. Thinking he’s safe, Punk goes to the top again and this time leaps right into an RKO. Orton wins. I liked this. The leg work from Punk was great and the selling from Orton was great for the most part too. Crowd were super dead which hurt it a little though.

***1/2
 
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Just wathed Breaking Point 2009 again:

Big Show/Chris Jericho vs. Mark Henry/MVP- **
Kofi Kingston vs Miz- US Championship- ***3/4
DX vs Legacy- ***
Khali vs Kane- Singapore cane Match- *
Christian vs Regal- ECW Championship- **
John Cena vs Randy Orton- WWE Championship- *** 1/2
Undertaker vs CM Punk- World Heavyweight Champiosnhip- ** 1/2

Final thoughts: Many matches could be easily pulled every week on a regularly SD show. The US Championship Match was the best of the ngiht, and even that wasn't that great. I was really dissapointed in Christian vs Regal
 
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No Mercy 03 is an awesome show. Vince/Stephanie was surprisingly entertaining, Tajiri/Rey is great, Angle/Cena rules, Taker/BORK is decent, Eddie/Big Show was okay and Benoit/A-Train is good too. There's probably something I forgot but with all of this, that should make a damn great PPV!
 
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Can somebody tell me why the fuck they had Cena come out at the HOF ceremony in 2008 before Ric Flair's induction just to give the inductees a little pep talk? It was such a blatant example of "we need to get our top guy on camera doing an inspirational speech", probably in the hopes of getting him more cheers the next night at Wrestlemania.

One of the most pointless things I've ever seen.
 
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DAT CENA HATE.

Top 5 KOTR PPV matches?
 
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Just randomly stumbled across a PPV that I haven't seen, but just by looking at the match card, looks pretty damn good. Thoughts on Unforgiven 04 plz?
Orton vs HHH is pretty good, Benoit/Regal vs Flair/Batista is decent and I think the ladder match with Jericho & Christian was good too. You can skip the rest of the show, though. Probably the weakest Raw exclusive PPV this side of Taboo Tuesday from 04.
 
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Orton vs HHH is pretty good, Benoit/Regal vs Flair/Batista is decent I think the ladder match with Jericho & Christian was good too. You can skip the rest of the show, though. Probably the weakest Raw exclusive PPV this side of Taboo Tuesday from 04.
It's pretty good. As a big fan of both guys and their feud at the time, I probably rate the match higher than others. That ladder match was also the ending point of their long feud which started with love triangle storyline with Trish, then Christian got injured in the cage match that they had on a RAW episode, then a few months later Christian returned and the feud resumed over the IC Title.
 
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Undertaker(C) vs. Batista - Backlash 2007 (LMS) ****1/4,Great match.
 
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Jericho vs Benoit Ladder match RR 2001 : Awesome 20 min match. Amazing spots and non stop action. Brilliant. One of my favorite ladder match.****1/2

HBK vs Ramon Ladder match summerslam 1995: Very interesting debut with a good leg work from Razor and an excellent selling from hbk. A good Hbk'comeback with a nice moonsault and a top of the ladder splash ( missed). But at some point the match becomes absolutely unwatchable: a very very slow pace and one of the worst finish ever ( Hbk fails to get the title 2 times in a row, clearly 2 botches). *** because the first half is fantastic.
 
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So with Bruno Sammartino going into the HOF, I'm wondering if there's anybody here familiar with his work or if he pre-dates the majority of us? I personally don't know much. I know who he is, I know all about the bad blood between he and Vince, I've been reading for years that this was never going to happen etc and know general bits and pieces. As far as matches go, I think it's fair to say I don't really know anything. So, does anybody have some scoop on Sammartino?
 
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Jericho vs Benoit Ladder match RR 2001 : Awesome 20 min match. Amazing spots and non stop action. Brilliant. One of my favorite ladder match.****1/2

HBK vs Ramon Ladder match summerslam 1995: Very interesting debut with a good leg work from Razor and an excellent selling from hbk. A good Hbk'comeback with a nice moonsault and a top of the ladder splash ( missed). But at some point the match becomes absolutely unwatchable: a very very slow pace and one of the worst finish ever ( Hbk fails to get the title 2 times in a row, clearly 2 botches). *** because the first half is fantastic.
Benoit/Jericho is my favourite singles ladder. *****. You've reminded me it's been too long since I watched the Wrestlemania X match, but I remember liking it.

Starbuck, I'm with you on Bruno's matches. All I know is they were in MSG, in black and white, and very very long.
 
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