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NXT Minus 6: Yukon Eric, The Original Mick Foley

Leave it to Mauro Ranallo to reference a match almost 70 years old. That’s why he is the Black & Gold Standard. (All that and more lies ahead in the NXT Minus 6!)

Published

3 years ago

December 14, 2019

Brad Abel

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Leave it to Mauro Ranallo to reference a match almost 70 years old. That’s why he is the Black & Gold Standard. (All that and more lies ahead in the NXT Minus 6!)

Image result for garza versus rush december 11" 6. What other wrestling show opens with a MOTY candidate? Angel Garza versus Lio Rush was fantastic. I feel bad that Rush’s title reign was so short because I thought he was the guy to reestablish 205 Live. I’m still happy for Garza, the real winner of the Breakout Tournament. He’s worked his ass off to get over on his own. The crowd loves him for all the right reasons. 4.8 stars

Image result for breezango nxt doctors" 5. I hate to see good talent wasted. Tyler Breeze and Fandango are both excellent in ring. I could see Fandango one day challenge for the North American Title. Sadly, NXT is not the place for the Breezango gimmick. They should be repackaged or broken up.

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4. In a match in 1952, Wladek Kowalski accidentally severed part of Yukon Eric’s ear with a botched knee drop. When Kowalski visited Eric in the hospital, he took one look at his bandaged head and started laughing. This cemented Kowalski’s position as one of the era’s top heels and prompted him to change his name to Killer. Fandango was trained by Killer Kowalski, which is why Mauro Ranallo slipped in the reference during his match.

3. Quick hits:

Hood Rat in Charge. That is solid gold dipped in gold. Dakota Kai needs that on a t-shirt.
Why didn’t Tommaso Ciampa just invoke his rematch clause?
BTW, his new t-shirt is freaking amazing.
Bad ass Finn Balor is so much cooler than Demon King. That’s right…I said it.
WrestleMania main event: Nia Jax versus Mia Yim, loser gets crippled for life.
The Singh Brothers aren’t as bad as you think. Their intro is annoying in a good way. Their boots are great. And they were trained in the Hart Dungeon. You gotta respect that.

Image result for jaxson ryker" 2. Not sure why Jaxson Ryker isn’t getting a bigger singles push. I don’t normally go for the snarling, grunting muscle heads, but there’s something about him that I like. Unless they’re trying to make us forget him, there was no reason for him to lose to Travis Banks. That’s what Kona Reeves and Shane Thorne are for.

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1. Some day I’ll do a list of the 6 things NXT does better than any other wrestling promotion. At the top of the list will be triple threat matches. There have been some good ones this year and the latest might be the best of the bunch. I got what I expected from Ciampa, Balor and Keith Lee: a match worthy of Takeover. Their ability to intertwine bodies into fresh and inventive combinations is so fun to watch. It’s like they’re playing human Tangoes. 4.7 stars

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

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2 months ago

April 2, 2023

Chris King

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Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.

Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.

The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.

I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.

Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.

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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

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2 months ago

April 1, 2023

Chris King

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.