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How do you know this? Were you there? No. With that said, I agree people were quick to jump to conclusions about JBL - but what you posted in the quote above is also jumping to a massive conclusion. NO...you couldn't be more wrong. I clearly said I "hate hate hate hate hate" Mauro Ranallo, not just "hate hate hate." You totally missed two whole "hates." Looking at your quote makes it seem like I hate him 2/5 less than I actually do. Actually, I was just being facetious. I still think JBL is a massive douche-nozzle. I couldn't care less if they fired him for being a bullying jackass. But it doesn't change the fact that I can't stand Mauro Ranallo. After all this time, I should know better than to try and express sarcasm in written form, it rarely works. Sorry.

That will be $14.95 and not in that toilet paper you call Canadian money either. I want it in American... Great. Now I have to get another job just to pay for this. I shouldn't have wasted my free 30 day trial.

That Main Event was definitely amazing. Kudos to the live crowd for managing to survive the horrific shit leading up to that, and still be that vocal for the Main Event. Overall, this would have gone down as one of the worst shows I've ever seen, were it not for that Main Event and a couple of other very sporadic bright spots. I had more fun shooting the shit with everybody in this thread than I did watching the show...and nobody here charged me money to do that. At least not yet. And if you do charge me I probably won't pay. Probably.

If I ever suffer a serious neck or back injury, I really hope I don't get the same EMT's they use on most wrestling shows.

Braun beating the shit out of Lesnar repeatedly is amazing.

LMFAO @ Corey Graves. "God I hope Strowman uses Saxton as a weapn."

Hey did you guys know that Brock Lesnar could lose this match and his title without factoring into the decision? I don't think it has been mentioned at all during the buildup to this match.

Reigns winning the title wouldn't be? The fans will shit on it - some of them at least - but from a quality standpoint, it still wouldn't suck like that last match. Or any of the matches before it, for that matter.

You know, based on the four participants there is pretty much no way they can fuck this match or the result up...but based on this entire show I am morbidly curious to see if WWE could actually pull it off. And I have confidence they can, somehow. Maybe they'll insert James Ellesworth as a last minute addition and put the belt on him.

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.