[Simple Fan]

Originally Posted by Noid Doing moves no one could get up from and "selling too much" are not actually in contradiction to each other, and you can gather that from the context of what Cornette is saying, surely. One was a point about the excessive nature of the spots and the other was about the pacing of the match. Also, if the moves are moves you shouldn't get up from, and you get up at all, then it goes to follow that you aren't selling properly. This was fairly clearly Cornette's point. Lots of ill-timed lying around punctuated by big moves that should have involved more lying around. The point about the perfect match isn't a contradiction either. Even if you accept the first three, as you put it (and New Japan World is actually under-performing, sadly, even though this did spike it), you're still left with the cooperation aspect. So it's not a perfect match. Cornette is responding to assertions that this was a 6-star match. That is better than perfect. Corny's just saying that the match wasn't perfect and here is why. Then he lists the perfectly valid reasons why. He didn't say it was fucking Tomko/Richards. I actually didn't catch the bit about the technical stuff, lol. I was making a coffee or something. I'm going to go back and listen to that.

Those moves were part of the story though. Both guys were going to give it everything they had and were not going to take the easy way out of the match. You do low risk moves get the crowd up like they did for that match. I actually thought they sold fine and they beat the hell out of one another I'm sure some of that really hurt and didn't need a lot of selling. I do agree with Jim on the elbows as opposed to the punches though. As for the obvious cooperation the only spot I really seen that had obvious cooperation was the half Nelson suplex off the top rope. I just don't think he watched the match for what it was and didn't get invested in seeing the story that the match told simply because he hates Omega.