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Garrbanzzo's CSS Greatest Matches Tournament Grading Rubric

Hollywood Wallace called me out on my percentage breakdown of the CSSGMT match between Punk/Bryan@OtL and the 92 Rumble so I'll be posting "Garrbanzzo's Grade" based on the following rubric (subject to change).

  • First
    • Percentage points are relative to the matches facing each other and my own personal biases.
    • A hardcore spot-fest may have different scores against a cage match and an Iron man match.
    • And scores will probably change as I learn more about them through the tournament.
  • Wrestling 66%
    • Quality of the match.
    • Includes work rate, difficulty of maneuvers, execution, and acting.
    • Most percentage points because I enjoy the in ring aspect the most.
  • Story 19%
    • Was the story good and did it matter?
    • How the story affected it's environment.
    • Second most because a match is much less interesting if the circumstances and consequences involved in the match are meaningless.
  • Character Progression 9%
    • Affect on wrestlers.
    • Did the match change some aspect of their persona?
    • I don't know much about wrestling in therms of the history behind a wrestler's growth and evolution.
  • Other 6%
    • Other things about the match.
    • Could be anything as long as it was during the match.
    • Just because I noticed Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse rooting for John Cena during Cena/Punk@MitB.

EXAMPLE: RUBLE 92 VS PUNK/BRYAN OtL

  • RUMBLE 92
    • Wrestling 41%
      • It's was a Royal Rumble so not really the place for Flying Super Frankensteiners or Reverse Indian Deathlocks
    • Story 8%
      • Don't know much about the story behind this but from what I the broadcast crew said Flair and Hogan don't like each other.
    • Character Progression 7%
      • Ric Flair set a rumble record and that title win contributed to his 16 Heavyweight Championships.
    • Other 1%
      • I personally dislike a lot of wrestling commentary and Monsoon/Heenan got on my nerves at times.
    • TOTAL 57%
  • PUNK/BRYAN OtL
    • Wrestling 50%
      • I am a huge mark for intricate Pro-wrestling holds like the leg lace to curb stomp that Booker nor King new what to call, the surfboard (a staple in older lucha libre) and the crucifix/full-nelson/abdominal stretch D-Bry had on Punk.
    • Story 5%
      • I can't quite remember how Bryan got the title shot, something about a time limit match, but the AJ love triangle was decent.
    • Character Progression 2%
      • Not much here, now Punk and Bryan are more confused with AJ.
    • Other 4%
      • Did anyone else notice what looks to be vitiligo on Bryan’s left elbow? AJ added a nice twist by enabling further use of foreign objects. Again poor commentary. Thanks Booker.
    • TOTAL 61%

If you read this whole thing, thank you and I'll do my bet to do this for all remaining match-ups. I'll conclude with this, I don't know that much about wresting so if you disagree that cool, this is just for fun anyway.

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