The Thread Killer

That was seriously awful. Sometimes - a lot of the time, actually, maybe most of the time lately - I don't know what the fuck WWE creative is thinking. The match was awful and the finish was stupid. I recently read that Vince is upset about TV ratings dropping lately. Take a look at crap like this, maybe just maybe he could figure out why. I could have lived with Nakamura losing if the match had even been halfway decent, but it wasn't. It looked like Mahal barely broke a sweat beating him. Nakamura barely looked like a legit threat in that match. That was a TV match.

Give me a fucking break with that whole match and especially the finish.

I am not opposed to WWE taking a guy who was basically a Jobber to the Stars, and elevating him to the WWE title. I am not opposed to WWE pushing a guy based on his nationality, if they think that will help them break through in a foreign market. However, I am vehemently opposed to both, when the guy they pick to push clearly SUCKS. To steal a quote from Mel Gibson and paraphrase a bit...Jinder Mahal is as boring as a dog's ass.

Jinder Mahal in High Definition...it's almost as if you could reach out and touch the copious acne on his back.

Who the hell did the voice-over for this Nakamura/Mahal pre-match video? It sounds like they got a high school co-op student to do it.

You're not wrong. I really feel Styles is the best active wrestler in the world right now, and I wish he was involved in a Main Event/World Title scene program right now. I really hope he gets the Wrestlemania program against Nakamura that he has been campaigning for. (He told Edge and Christian about it on their podcast, and said that he talked Vince into letting them have their brief face-off at MITB to prove that the crowd would get behind it.)

When Styles hit the Styles Clash right on top of Owens's belly, I was kinda surprised Owens didn't barf all over the ring. Or that they both didn't bounce way high up into the air on the rebounce.

This has been the best Owens/Styles match that we've seen so far, but that is damning it with faint praise.

I guess that is what annoys the shit out of me about this guy. He admittedly works his whole career to get into WWE, he gets there, against all odds he becomes a big success, and his response is: "Okay, now this is where I take it easy." Yeah, it bugs me too. I thought he was great the first year or so on the main roster. But he's turned all those great little aspects of his character into lazy crutches. I wasn't always this way. I was in the crowd at Ring of Honor's Northern Navigation in Toronto in July 2008. I had only seen a couple of Steen & Generico matches prior to that, but after seeing his match with Nigel McGuinness for the ROH title that night, I walked out of that arena as a Kevin Steen fan. I loved his tag matches with Generico against The Briscoes, and I wanted to like him in WWE, I really did. But he has been slowly draining my will to live since Wrestlemania. I'm glad to know it's not just me and that fellow PWO members whose opinions I respect are seeing the same things I am.

I guess that is what annoys the shit out of me about this guy. He admittedly works his whole career to get into WWE, he gets there, against all odds he becomes a big success, and his response is: "Okay, now this is where I take it easy."

I'm a soft touch - Shane and his kids are always adorable. I'm guessing Owens is going to do something evil to Shane in front of his kids, setting up their rumored feud and HIAC match. Otherwise why would they show his kids? But I agree, it actually doesn't come off all that contrived to me.

Fixed that for you. His stuff with Jericho was pretty good. I liked his stuff with Ambrose from a few years ago too. It's possible he's getting worse, but if so I don't understand why. I don't remember his old matches being nothing but restholds and stooging.

Looks like it's official (and Meltzer was right). Kevin Owens is no longer "the new face of America." Guess they decided against the anti-American gimmick.

Fixed that for you.

I was just thinking the exact same thing. I don't care for either guy in singles matches, but I quite enjoy them as a team and I liked that match quite a bit.

OH SHIT. I forgot about this Kevin Owens match. Kill me now. I don't think I can take an Owens lie-down-rear-chinlock-fest. At least we've rarely seen these guys fight each other before, so there's the whole newness factor of this match.

Uh oh, Corey Graves just called the Championships "the straps." He's in more trouble than that Beach Ball. Good match, that.

Some folks calls it a sling blade, I calls it a kaiser blade. Mmmm Hmmm.

Book the Beach Ball against Cesaro in a return match tomorrow on Raw.

I reserve the right to complain about whatever I want when it comes to this shitty show. Besides, Cole is supposed to be the play-by-play guy. Constantly spouting stats and historical dates is practically all the guy does now. I expect that from a color commentator in baseball. In wrestling, I like the play-by-play guy to actually call the match. Tom Phillips can do it, and he has a hell of a lot less experience than Cole does. I don't see why Cole can't just call the damn match and leave the color to Graves (who is damn good at it) and Booker.

That's crazy talk.

They've been obsessed with those statistics for a couple of years now. Knowing how many times the Tag Titles have changed hands at Summerslam really enhances my enjoyment of this match.

Michael Cole's incessant statistic and date quoting is annoying as hell.

This Ambrose/Rollins video package is pretty good and compelling. And I don't even really like either guy all that much. Please, wrestling gods, save this show. By the way, when I said wrestling gods I didn't mean JBL.

Well that's it...Balor and Wyatt are 1-1 against each other. We absolutely have to have a third match to decide this rivalry. It will be like this generation's Flair/Steamboat trilogy.