Timbo Slice

Dolph's shades >>>>>>>>>>

Cesaro is a god. So happy for him. Now put him in a goddamn title match (which if Bryan wins tomorrow, which he most likely will).

Rollins out here with stolen valor, I take back everything I said.

Of course, I say this, and now it's ACTING time.

Cesaro has been great, Rollins has stepped up more than he normally does, best stuff so far tonight.

Rollins still calling for his sunset flip power bomb counter on a slippery ring after that was how he blew out his knee, lot of stupid already tonight.

Practicing for the 2024 Republican race, natch.

Half the fire sticks didn't work on Rollins' entrance, sometimes metaphors aren't hard.

Tamina and Nia in the same match on the biggest stage, what could possibly go wrong?

This match is gonna last longer than the damn title match, amazing agent work already.

My guess is that Vince wants to re-do Drew's win over Brock in front of a full crowd, so they're gonna save it for next year.

Now it REALLY doesn't make sense what they did to him the last month.

I did NOT expect that, holy shit.

Dunn can't stop hitting buttons.

Think he got over a bit too much as a face when he beat Miz, wanted a definitive heel for Drew to face, but yeah, they absolutely didn't do him a service.

Got #1 yesterday. Arm is killing me but other than that, feel fine, thankfully. This has been fine, but there really hasn't been a lot here to make this feel "WrestleMania Special."

All I can think of is Drew not getting this moment last year when it would have made him even more.

The AR skeleton isn't gonna stop the rain.

What...in the absolute fuck, was that?

To be fair, WWE isn’t the only brand playing the philanthropy card, but they’re definitely the most egregious about representing causes where their company values and many of their employees values are in direct contrast.

That’s my conclusion. If that was the case, the explosion would have been a single puff of smoke and shown Omega laughing his ass off or something.

I'll take that as a reason behind it, but (and this is gonna sound weird) the match they had last night had a lot of ways to make it come off as something more dangerous than it actually is! And they didn't choose that route for some reason!

It came off looking like a botch either way, and I think my point is that, for something of that magnitude to work the way it needs to, there needed to a be lot more work put in to make sure it came off well.

Everything about the main event came off half-assed, like they didn't want to go full-force into what a match of that style truly requires. They had some neat moments throughout, but the drama that usually builds up in a match like that seemed like it just wasn't there, and when that becomes the basis for the big kaboom, well, you better do a big fucking kaboom. The problem is that because it's half-assed, they can't full-ass their way out of it either way. It's gonna come off as half-assed. For a company built upon the premise of taking a big risk, they seem to be awfully fine with not taking as many risks in recent months given their standing during the pandemic. From both a presentation and a booking standpoint.

Personally, I recently got off Twitter just because I was tired of what it was doing to my anxiety, and am okay slowing down on my favorite old wrestling message board at my older age. Wrestling, like basically all entertainment, has become more compartmentalized and niche over the past couple decades, and their struggles to stay relevant are definitely part of their own doing, but also because they have become another entertainment type that's in a long list of easily accessible entertainment types. An odd dichotomy given WWE was one of the first entities to embrace streaming as a major business decision (and were widely praised for it, even!), but the market share and ability for wrestling to catch on writ large just isn't there anymore. The more it gets exposure, the less impact it has on pop culture, simply because people get to easily pick their pop culture aspects nowadays.