The Briscoes vs The All Night Express
Watching this I came to the conclusion the Briscoes are the best tag team in wrestling right now and it's not even close. This was really good Southern tag, with all the intensity and hate we want in a blood feud. The ANX have also improved a lot and are infinitely better as babyfaces (King especially is a good hot tag). Jay is usually the better of the two Briscoes, but Mark was pretty great here in his own right, biting and gouging Titus's bloody face and unloading on him with punch combos. Everything the Briscoes do connects with force. The finish was also really well done, King took a totally nuts bump over the top to outside and it did a clever job setting up the 4/2 match. Post-match brawl also ruled, the Briscoes are such dicks.
El Generico vs TJ Perkins
This was fun but I wish it could have gone longer. Kind of lacked the neat, creative stuff of most Perkins matches, but everything was hit pretty well. Perkins's quick flurry of kicks to the gut during the knuckle-lock was cool, and it was kind of refreshing to see a brainbuster on the apron actually finish a match instead of just be a huge spot.
The Kings Of Wrestling vs L.A.X.
This was also pretty good, though maybe a little overshadowed by the Briscoes tag. Kind of similar in that both teams were being really agressive and really bringing it to each other. The Hernandez/Claudio match-up was exactly what you want from it with two big dudes clobbering and tossing each other around. Heck, Hernandez was probably the best guy in this match and really impressed. The spot with him Border Tossing 'Cide out of the ring onto the Kings was crazy shit. The finish was pretty flat, as it felt like it should have taken more to put 'Cide down, but whatever, I'll take it.
Roderick Strong vs Eddie Edwards
This was definitely a Roderick Strong match. Which means it wasn't good. I like Eddie, but he is certainly vanilla, and matched with a guy who is even MORE vanilla.. yeesh. They do a whole bunch of utterly role "we are equal" routines, and the whole match had no direction or substance to it at all. Just blindly walking from one spot to another, with the inbetween either being chinlocks or tedious, tired flurries of visible legslap kicks and enziguri's. Seriously, Roderick might have some of the god damned shittiest offence going, more or less everything he does looks like utter crap and his big offencive moves are retarded. His chops usually atleast are stiff, but in the ring with Edwards even they looked Chikara-league. Eddie chopping Roddy's chest to a bloody pulp was a cool visual, and the finish was admiteddly pretty great, but that's it for shit that didn't make me want to never see a Strong match ever again.
Best Of 2011
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