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Kings of Wrestling Chris (Kassius Ohno) Hero and Claudio (Antonio Cesaro) Castagnoli vs CM Punk and Tyler (Seth Rollins) Black
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No it was the dark match main event of the last episode. There were two dark matches for the last episode.
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#There'sTrent
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Marty Jones vs Mark "Black Tiger" Rocco you say?
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
That's right. Instead of improving the gameplay, or updating the roster so at least a few people could shine, or even improving the graphics so they don't look worse than the Gamecube Day of Reckoning games, they added in a special bar for special referee matches, and if you don't call things down the middle the match will be interrupted by Johnny Laurinaitis ejecting and replacing you. But buy WWE 13 guys please! You wouldn't want poor old THQ to go out of business!
Don't get me wrong, the premise sounds cool and all, at least the first time you play it, but there were a lot more things that needed to be improved before the Special Ref match.
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It was a shitty feud but hey, we did get that segment with the flipping hoody AJ doll out of it. It still makes me laugh.
I still don't understand what the hell the point is of the gut check. I mean, it provides a decent feel good moment when someone gets a job and gave Joey Ryan an interesting and unique way to enter the company but if they fail anyone (which I don't believe they've done, aside from the Joey Ryan angle?), I just think they're going to come across like dicks because they just spent the last few weeks building those guys up. I mean the current guy is in poor shape and was poor in the ring but the vignettes where he talks about his brother dying and his family still make you want him to get the job. Plus it's not like they're really getting a job on the show, they're just getting developmental contracts at OVW.
To be fair, he's an announcer now, so if he isn't overstating shit, he probably shouldn't have a job.
I ordered the Kanyon shoot last week by the way. It probably won't arrive for another week or two though. Would've been nice if they'd just let me download the bloody thing.
If anything I don't think they went far enough with the special referee matches. They should have made a season mode out of it and let you play the role of Charles "Little Naitch" Robinson, Mike Chioda, or Little Guido. Hell, add it Earl Hebner as an unlockable legend, add a Montreal Screwjob scenario too.
Why would it be wrong? It's just a fucking tv show, no-one deserves that kind of abuse.
Anyway, oh wow, Cesaro's now officially using Dean Malenko's old entrance music. Much better than his old one.
Now if they'd only stop writing most of their faces to act like dicks.
Seriously, is THQ built on an ancient Indian orphan burial ground? How have they even held the WWE license for this long?
Also I'm tired of people talking about being hungry and wanting more. Just fucking stop it. Say you want to prove you're the best.
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Alicia Fox's match this week seemed to contain no botches and, dare I say it, some psychology with her working Layla's legs and the braced knee. This just goes to show what a combination of shaming somebody, giving them training from Sara Del Rey and spending two days editing a show can do.
Congratulations Divas division: you put on a four minute match without making botchamania or ending it with a rollup.
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Just needs a
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Edit: And Sweeney, Cesaro kinda sorta threw the first kick in that confronation so it's not like Santino blindsided him like the spoilers seemed to suggest.
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Oh man, I completely forgot they signed King Mo. That would be so perfect.
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Won't be long until the Internet finds out their real identities and harass them into quitting, then.
Speaking of the worst Impact since the move to 8PM:
welp
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All wrestling shows seem to get their best ratings on the worst shows. It's weird. TNA has always done that.
The name TAC sounds like somebody remembered they signed a guy named PAC and liked the sound of that.
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Well you could also assume that the improved ratings could just be momentum from the recent shows...which have actually been quite good by TNA standards. This one was a missfire, but on a whole the product has been going in a much better direction.