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DT's Good & Bad of All The Wrestling Promotions He Has Followed

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My take on all the wrestling federations I watched over the years the good and the bad


*WWF/WWE*

*Wrestlemaina 3 Macho Man Randy Savage Vs Ricky The Dragon Steamboat got me into wrestling and is also my favorite WWE match ever. 



*The Aditutte Era is my favorite time in WWE 

*Top 5 WWE Wrestlers are (I know they didn’t all get there start in WWE) 

1.)Shawn Micheals 2.)Stone Cold 3.)John Cena 4.)Eddie Guerrero 5,)Seth Rollins 

*Growing up this was the first wrestling federation I got into and started watching because of WM3 I was hooked on wrestling since then right now WWE is probably at its worst I have seen it in a long time terrible storylines wrestlers like Roman Reigns who I do like being force on us as fans just isn’t working at the moment while I do think Triple H will fix it sooner rather then later at least I’m hoping but they need to stop forcing the audience to like someone and let them Like who they like  


*WCW*

First Started watching WCW was Starrcade 89 Ric Flair Vs Sting 

*My Favorite Thing about WCW was the cruiserweight division,Sting and Goldberg but the best and worst time period of WCW was the NWO and the Monday night  Wars in the beginning the NWO was amazing then they got out of control and had like 100 lol in the NWO and also lost the Monday nights wars to the WWE but I’ll never forget Shane McMahon showing up on Nitro also they totally botched Goldberg’s winning streak

*Top 5 WCW Guys Sting,Rey Mysterio,Diamond Dallas Page,Ric Flair and Dean Malenko 

*A few of my Favorite Matches 

Rey Mysterio Vs Juventud Guerrera (Mask Vs Mask Matches)  

Dean Malenko vs. Ultimo Dragon (Starrcade '96)

Rey Misterio vs. Dean Malenko (Halloween Havoc '96)

Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Misterio (Halloween Havoc '97)


War Games: Sting's Squadron vs. The Dangerous Alliance (Wrestle War '92)


*ECW*

What can I say about ECW I’m from New York City about 15 mins from the Hammerstein Ballroom also at that time if you have illegal Cable Box at about 1am in the morning I would wake up to catch it on Public Access Tv channel 31 I believe cause they wouldn’t put it on cable #ECFuckingW I loved everything about it 

*I started watching ECW around 93-94 a when Shane Douglas was man I remember it being huge that he disrespected the NWA championship at the time and that’s how ECW got me hooked at the time cause it was like nothing i ever seen before There was so Blood,Violence,cursing and all crazy types of matches from barb wire robes setting fire to tables everything you can think of and at 13-14 years old I was in heaven lol also the women in ECW was just as crazy as the them. 

*My Favorites Wrestlers Were   


Sabu,The Dudgley Boys,RVD,Tommy Dreamer and Raven.. 

*Some of my favorite Matches (No Order)

1.)Hardcore TV 10/18/94 Sabu Vs Cactus Jack

2.)Hostile City Showdown 1995 Dean Malenko vs. Eddie Guerrero

3.). Hardcore Heaven 1999 Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn

4.) Heat Wave 1996 Too Cold Scorpio Vs Shane Douglas Vs Chris Jericho Vs PitBull 

5.)November To Remember 1995 Cactus Jack & Raven Vs Tommy Dreamer & Terry Funk   

(Honorable Mentions) Beulah McGillicutty Vs Bill Alfonso  ~ As Good as it Gets 1997

Cactus Jack Vs Mikey Whipwreck ~ Big Ass Extreme Bash 1996 

*Now WWE brought back ECW Years later and it was horrible in my eyes they tried to regain the match of the early years but it never worked the only good thing to come out of it was that CM Punk got a chance to grow there and finally come to Raw and become a star  


*TNA*(NWA Total NonStop Action)

I found this Origination from a Friend who you should check it out and I think at the time TNA where charging 9.99$ a PPV I don’t think they had a TV Deal yet I could be wrong.. What got me hooked was The World Cup X Tournament and Then the X-Division was amazing so I was hooked.. 

*Some of my favorite Wrestlers I found in TNA 


AJ Styles,Samoa Joe,Abyss,The Motor City Machine Guns, Jay Lethal, EC3 And Christopher Daniels..also The Knockouts division was a head of there time 

*Some of my favorite Matches from TNA 

1.)Kurt Angle Vs. Jay Lethal (No Surrender 2007)

2.)Abyss Vs. AJ Styles (LockDown 2005)

3.)AJ Styles Vs. Chris Sabin Vs. Petey Williams (Final Resolution 2005)

4.)Kurt Angle Vs. Samoa Joe (Genesis 2006)

5.)America's Most Wanted Vs. Triple X (Turning Point 2004)

6.)AJ Styles Vs. Christopher Daniels (Against All Odds 2005)

7.)AJ Styles Vs. Christopher Daniels Vs. Samoa Joe (Unbreakable 2005) probably my favorite match of all time in TNA 

*To me the down fall of TNA was Dixie Carter and bring in all the old WWE Guys they should have kept building with the Indie guys that they started with in my opinion but I’ve been starting to get back into it lately And I gotta tell you it’s really starting to get good again 


*NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) 

First go into it buy seen a tweet from Dave Melzter about Kenny Omega Vs Kazuchika Okada at Wrestle Kingdom 11 getting a six star match i watch the match on YouTube And was hooked I don’t want it on NJPW. Com I watch it late on AXSTV but still dope to me 

*Some off my favorite Wrestlers 

Hangman Page, Kenny Omega, Will Ospreay, Minoru Suzuk, Davey Boy Smith Jr, Switch Blade and Kazuchika Okada 

*Some Of my favorite Matches 


Kenny Omega Vs Kazuchika Okada (Wrestle Kingdom 11)

Kenny Omega Vs Kazuchika Okada 2 (Dominion 2017)  

Kenny Omega Vs Chris Jericho 

(Wrestle Kingdom 12)

The Young Bucks Vs The Golden Lovers 

(Strong Style Evolved 2018) 

Switch Blade Jay White Vs Hangman Page 

(Strong Style Evolved 2018) 

*Thing I love and hate about NJPW ( not much to hate lol) 

What I love about NJPW is the Story telling the Wrestling it self the way even there mid-card wrestlers feel like superstars that’s if your not the heavyweight champion there don’t mean you not the top guy they don’t force wrestler to be the guy on you. the quality of wrestling is second to none.

What I don’t like is that’s the It’s on a website not a steaming app and that on AXSTV they let you know what happens but they do skip over matches that’s really all I can say i don’t like about it 


*NXT*

How I got into NXT was Summerslam weekend 2015 heard about is before but I was always skeptical with anything WWE LOL but I gave it a shot that Saturday and was blown away but the card the Bailey Vs Sasha 1 and Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor were the NXT championship matches had me hook and been watching ever since... 

*Some of my Favorite Wrestlers in NXT at the moment*

Tommaso Ciampa,Velveteen Dream,Johnny Gargano, The Undisputed Era And Alister Black

*Some of my Favorite NXT Matches of all time*

Sasha Banks Vs Bailey 1 (TakeOver Brooklyn 2015)

Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor (TakerOver Brooklyn 2015) 

The Revival vs DIY(TakeOver Brooklyn II 2016)

Sasha Banks Vs Bailey2 (TakeOver Brooklyn II 2016)

Alister Black Vs Velveteen Dream (TakeOver War Games 2017)

Tommaso Ciampa Vs Johnny Gargano (Chicago Street Fight NXT Chicago II 2018)

Sanity Vs The Undistpued Era Vs AOP (War Games) (TakerOver War Games 2017)

Tyler Bates Vs Pete Dunn (TakeOver Chicago 2017)


So many match I can keep going... 

*These days NXT is so much better then WWE actually the storylines and in ring wrestling is on NJPW level I can’t rave enough out NXT sadly people get called up to WWE and get lose in the shuffle only thing bad about it....

 

*Lucha Underground*

I basically found out about Lucha Underground watching Bellator MMA and seen a promo for season one and it was so different from what I been watching I was hooked 

*some of my favorite wrestler were and are*

Prince Puma Aka Richott, Pentagon Jr 

Johnny Mundo Aka Johnny Nitro/Morrison in WWE, Son of Havoc Joey Ryan 

*Some of my Favorite Matches*

Angelico, Ivelisse, & Son of Havoc vs. The Crew (Season1)

Prince Puma vs. Johnny Mundo (Season1)

Drago vs. Fenix vs. Pentagon Jr. (Season1)

Johnny Mundo vs. Prince Puma, Title vs. Career (Season 3)

Pentagon Jr. vs. Vampiro (Season 2)

The only bad thing i can say about Lucha Underground is that can be very corny sometimes but the wrestling is great and it don’t by seasons like a TV show in stead of a weekly Wrestling show. 


*Some Random Wrestling Notes*

Shawn Micheals is the greatest Wrestler of all time in my eyes everyone has different opinions.

My favorite match of all time is Steamboat Vs Savage at WM3 

My favorite Wrestler At The Moment is Hangman Page 

2 Wrestlers

I think The Monday Night Wars And Right now with the Indie scenes being on fire are the 2 best times in history of wrestling 

I’ve never seen Ring Of Honor cause I don’t get it on my Cable Provider but I have seen a few matches on YouTube but would watch it if I could 

To me the right now NJPW is the best wrestling in the world.


Thank you for all those who read this I know it was a long read i put a lot of work into it would love to hear any feed back or stories what got you into certain organization and what you like and don’t like.


DT

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