This was really good, but maybe I let expectations get the better of me because I think I preferred Sasha/Becky. I always watch Bayley and think she's a pretty strong babyface, at least in that she can garner sympathy, but I never really get into her and then I say it's probably because I've never followed any of her JOURNEY and whatnot. I wonder if maybe I need to see more to properly get it. But like, I've seen more than enough of her now and I don't love her. Her selling in this was better than I've seen it any other time and she's generally fine at selling anyway, so it was a strong underdog performance. Her offence is not very good, though. Good strikes matter to me and hers are pretty often Candice Michelle level. She's not great at making those rehearsed sequences not look rehearsed, but then she's certainly not the only one in WWE who has that problem. Still, she's likeable and not totally hokey and probably better than El Generico? She was good in this. Sasha was better and mostly pretty great. Once again she's so much more interesting as a heel, or at least as the one who gets to work from above. I liked those parts where Bayley's stubbornness clearly annoyed her and so she'd go for something she'd usually do, except she'd add a wee bit of brutality to it out of malice. Bayley managed to avoid the double knees off the middle turnbuckle twice and it annoyed Sasha enough that she wanted to hit it from the top rope instead. You got the shit-talking, the mean looking submissions, then she got frustrated at not being able to win, maybe even doubted herself a little (but didn't communicate that in overly hammy fashion), and so she upped the violence another notch and tried to re-break Bayley's hand. Stuff around the hand was really cool and my favourite part of the match might've been Sasha just stomping on it mid-Banks Statement as Beyley tried to grab the ropes. Sasha is also bonkers as fuck and that reverse rana off the top rope was nuts. Crowd were fairly split until about the final third and then they mostly got way behind Bayley, so it's a testament to both of them for getting the crowd to really buy into the face/heel dynamic rather than the "this is very good wrestling and we shall cheer appreciatively for all of it!" dynamic. I can't be bothered with a 30 minute match right now but I'll try and watch the Ironman before I turn 40. 50 tops.
Thursday 11 April 2019
Sasha v Bayley (part 1)
Sasha Banks v Bayley (NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, 8/22/15)
This was really good, but maybe I let expectations get the better of me because I think I preferred Sasha/Becky. I always watch Bayley and think she's a pretty strong babyface, at least in that she can garner sympathy, but I never really get into her and then I say it's probably because I've never followed any of her JOURNEY and whatnot. I wonder if maybe I need to see more to properly get it. But like, I've seen more than enough of her now and I don't love her. Her selling in this was better than I've seen it any other time and she's generally fine at selling anyway, so it was a strong underdog performance. Her offence is not very good, though. Good strikes matter to me and hers are pretty often Candice Michelle level. She's not great at making those rehearsed sequences not look rehearsed, but then she's certainly not the only one in WWE who has that problem. Still, she's likeable and not totally hokey and probably better than El Generico? She was good in this. Sasha was better and mostly pretty great. Once again she's so much more interesting as a heel, or at least as the one who gets to work from above. I liked those parts where Bayley's stubbornness clearly annoyed her and so she'd go for something she'd usually do, except she'd add a wee bit of brutality to it out of malice. Bayley managed to avoid the double knees off the middle turnbuckle twice and it annoyed Sasha enough that she wanted to hit it from the top rope instead. You got the shit-talking, the mean looking submissions, then she got frustrated at not being able to win, maybe even doubted herself a little (but didn't communicate that in overly hammy fashion), and so she upped the violence another notch and tried to re-break Bayley's hand. Stuff around the hand was really cool and my favourite part of the match might've been Sasha just stomping on it mid-Banks Statement as Beyley tried to grab the ropes. Sasha is also bonkers as fuck and that reverse rana off the top rope was nuts. Crowd were fairly split until about the final third and then they mostly got way behind Bayley, so it's a testament to both of them for getting the crowd to really buy into the face/heel dynamic rather than the "this is very good wrestling and we shall cheer appreciatively for all of it!" dynamic. I can't be bothered with a 30 minute match right now but I'll try and watch the Ironman before I turn 40. 50 tops.
This was really good, but maybe I let expectations get the better of me because I think I preferred Sasha/Becky. I always watch Bayley and think she's a pretty strong babyface, at least in that she can garner sympathy, but I never really get into her and then I say it's probably because I've never followed any of her JOURNEY and whatnot. I wonder if maybe I need to see more to properly get it. But like, I've seen more than enough of her now and I don't love her. Her selling in this was better than I've seen it any other time and she's generally fine at selling anyway, so it was a strong underdog performance. Her offence is not very good, though. Good strikes matter to me and hers are pretty often Candice Michelle level. She's not great at making those rehearsed sequences not look rehearsed, but then she's certainly not the only one in WWE who has that problem. Still, she's likeable and not totally hokey and probably better than El Generico? She was good in this. Sasha was better and mostly pretty great. Once again she's so much more interesting as a heel, or at least as the one who gets to work from above. I liked those parts where Bayley's stubbornness clearly annoyed her and so she'd go for something she'd usually do, except she'd add a wee bit of brutality to it out of malice. Bayley managed to avoid the double knees off the middle turnbuckle twice and it annoyed Sasha enough that she wanted to hit it from the top rope instead. You got the shit-talking, the mean looking submissions, then she got frustrated at not being able to win, maybe even doubted herself a little (but didn't communicate that in overly hammy fashion), and so she upped the violence another notch and tried to re-break Bayley's hand. Stuff around the hand was really cool and my favourite part of the match might've been Sasha just stomping on it mid-Banks Statement as Beyley tried to grab the ropes. Sasha is also bonkers as fuck and that reverse rana off the top rope was nuts. Crowd were fairly split until about the final third and then they mostly got way behind Bayley, so it's a testament to both of them for getting the crowd to really buy into the face/heel dynamic rather than the "this is very good wrestling and we shall cheer appreciatively for all of it!" dynamic. I can't be bothered with a 30 minute match right now but I'll try and watch the Ironman before I turn 40. 50 tops.
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