US TV Match of the Week, 8/31 - 9/6

Nominate

Nominate:

John Morrison vs Rey Mysterio Jr

"This is awesome" match done right. Excellent performance by Mysterio, I think he's now the best worker on the planet. Morrison was fine here, although I could have done without the flippy shit. This type of match encourages mindless transitions and shitty selling, but everything Mysterio did made sense. Great moves, great selling, stiff strikes... just an awesome Mysterio performance.

You're back to Mysterio better than Christian?

My top 5 are here

http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2009/09/f...eek-831-96.html

I thought Goldust v. Sheamus was the match of the week, and Hardy v. Punk was right up there too. Rey v. Morrison was a great Morrison match but it still was what it was.

I watched Morrison v. Rey, Hardy v. Punk and Sheamus v. Dust all within an hour of each other just now. To me it's a pick em with Dust v. Sheamus and Rey v. Morrison. Thought Punk v. Hardy was smartly worked good match, but I wouldn't rate it with the other two. Finlay's performance in that tag match was the best single performance of the week.

Pretty terrible week for TV wrestling. Rey/Morrison was easily the worst Rey match of the year I thought, really couldn't care less about Morrison's flips and nearfalls and thought it was pretty damn boring for a mindless spotfest.

Dug Hardy/Punk quite a bit, though Matt needs to get in better shape ASAP. Would probably give the nod to Dust/Seamus, even though I thought it was probably the weakest of their matches together. I think people may be overlooking Seamus's input in the matches for the sake of praising Dust's greatness.

I prefered Punk vs. Hardy to Mysterio vs. Morrison. Matt's unfitness added to this for me - the guy pushing himself back into the ring first to help his brother, then to avenge him, despite the medical reasons not to. Punk was great nastily exploiting the injury. Will probably get my vote this week.

I am still catching up. Last night, I watched ECW and Superstars (Hulu FTW - even with the commercials, it's better VQ than anything I could download without eating up all my fragile HD space).

Sheamus/Dustin was probably my favorite from those two shows. Rhodes hasn't looked as good athletically in 10 years, and these guys mesh well together. The pacing was a bit uneven, and I'd like to watch it again. But there was great drama, and the crowd really got into it.

I thought Bourne/Masters from SS was unexpectedly good, too. It's so hard to do a giant vs cruiser style match. If the big guy loses, he looks weak. And if he wins -- well, he was supposed to against a little flea. But somehow, like most of Rey's matches, they make this one work without either guy looking bad. Masters has some agility for a man of his size, selling beautifully for Ev's rana and headscissors. And I didn't find the ending unexpected at all -- everything made sense. Not groundbreaking, and Sheamus/Goldie told a better story, but it was a lot of fun.

I shall try to hit up Smackdown tonight. . .

I thought they did a lot of cool stuff in Hardy/Punk, you never really see someone working over the abs, the front-layout suplex on the top rope, sternum-first bump in the corners, all the knees, etc. I really dug it.

Putting the poll up in like a day, sing last-min noms loud and proud.

Is anything on iMPACT or ROH TV worth watching? I might blow those two off for last week, since I am behind anyway -- and I almost never watch ROH TV anyway -- unless you guys know of something good. So far, I am seeing ECW, SD, SS, and RAW matches mentioned.

Styles/Sabin, Williams/Suicide, and Styles/Williams were all decent, but none of them were on par with Rey/Morrison or Punk/Matt.