I'm looking to expand my horizons in terms of WWE developmental and international stuff. I doubt I'll be watching full shows, so I'll need match suggestions. Remix, I need you to assemble the foremost minds on this matter for my education.
Internationally, I can't be much help. My puro knowledge is limited to "super jrs are fun to watch". Outside of Japan I've watched enough PJ Black (Justin Gabriel) stuff to recommend his WWP work. Misson is probably a better guy to ask.
FCW wise, I can help. To repeat myself, Justin Angel/Gabriel was stupidly consistent in FCW. Outside of his first couple of matches (which were squashes) he didn't really have any bad ones. The ones that are certainly worth watching are Vs Kaval (for my money the best FCW match full stop), vs Leo Kruger (both) and Vs Heath Slater (half hour 2/3 falls) but outside of the first two and maybe vs Tarver they're all worth seeing. TJ Wilson vs Kawal is great, and he put on a clinic with DH Smith. Speaking of Smith, he had a good match with Drew McIntyre that's worth seeing.
More recently, both Leo Kruger and Damien Sandow were consistently very good. Any of Sandow's matches that aren't tag matches are usually pretty good (you also get to see him develop from "colonel" to "angry guy" to what he is now). His best match was probably vs Rotundo. Kruger had a great run once he came back from injury. He had some short matches that were far better than they had any right to be. His first match vs Bo Rotundo (well, his second, but his first was three minutes long and not really counted for that reason. Kruger did take a bump that's scary in hindsight though. Essentially, an Implant Buster with a broken neck. Yeah) is worth seeing (though his other matches against Bo weren't as good, so you may want to skil them). He had a lot of subpar matches as champion (and a fairly shit reign because Bo's injury fucked up their plans leaving Kruger with no direction for months), but vs Sandow was good, vs Leakee was very good when you consider how fucking green the man is, and his matches vs Mike Dalton are pretty much the only reason people think Dalton's anything above average. Other than the ones I've specifically mentioned, if you don't know who the guy he's wrestling is (and if you do know who they are, but you don't know if he's any good), and the match is longer than about 5 minutes, don't bother watching.
Bray Wyatt's squashes are amazing if you're into him.
There's also the FCW 15 title, which due to its nature produced a lot of good matches.
If you're wondering what brought this on, it's two things. One is my growing appreciation of the International Airstrike (one NXT match and SmackDown last night and I'm already hooked) and Damien Sandow. The second is my realization that Spanish commentary, which I don't understand a word of, makes the WWE product much more palatable. If I can stomach Spanish commentary, I can stomach puro.
Well, International Airstrike consists of two consistently outstanding wrestlers and Sandow's been awesome for quite some time before his callup. So what do you expect?
I'd have gotten to this sooner but I was baking/eating a treacle tart.
