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Originally Posted by Fox Who are your top wrestlers in TNA (Styles and Daniels?)? Compare their matches to a HBK or Angle match. They don't overly use any sort of spot - it is good wrestling. Good wrestling is a subjective term; it means different things to different people. You compare the styles of Styles(no pun intended)/Daniels to HBK/Angle, and that's pretty easy to do since both pairs of men wrestled 30 minute iron matches against each other in the same month, with Styles/Daniels at Bound for Glory and HBK/Angle at the RAW Homecoming. In my opinion, the Styles/Daniels match was by far the better encounter. It was quick, the wrestling was sound, and the moves performed perfectly. The psychology was good too: the history of these two was hyped by Tenay, about how Daniels and Styles have always shadowed each other, which spilled into the 30 minute frantic battle to score a single pinfall. Both men were tired and bruised (Styles especially) after the encounter and with less than 10 seconds to go, Styles hit the Styles Clash to win. HBK/Angle was good, there's not doubt about that: but it was only good by WWE wrestling standards. The big-time indies like TNA and ROH feature fast paced, unscripted and highly entertaining matches, and Daniels/Styles was the peak of that style. The WWE wrestles slow paced, methodical and planned out matches: watch them from 1999-2001 and now and you will see a difference. The fact that cruiserweights have been told to tone it down is a perfect example of this.

So is the slower pace of Japanese strong style wrestling bad?