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The Orton famine has consumed us.

People were talking about this stealing the show, but I just don't think Orton is capable of being that interesting.

The disappointing thing is that Brock's last two PPV matches were terrific. But here we were back to the same workaround booking.

I liked that better than a full Seth Rollins match, but it was still garbage.

Is there a chance they never start the match? Guess not.

I totally believe Brock would refuse to wait out a five-hour show if he isn't the main.

Definitely seems they made less effort on the set this year.

We've already gotten "Wrestlemania moment" in each of the pre-show matches. If it were a drinking game, we'd all be dead by 9 pm.

Nese has always sucked, and that certainly wasn't one of Murphy's better matches. But it was OK. Excited to be here for the long haul, folks. Time to get punchy.

Dreading this ROH title match.

Tana-ZSJ was very good. Not the best in their series, and you get the sense they had to trim a little time. But they have reliably great chemistry.

PCO certainly stole the show in the tag four-way.

The cruisers got things back on track with a nifty sprint.

This has turned into a shitty imitation of Wrestlemania rather than the alternative it's supposed to represent. So unnecessary with such a stacked card.

For somebody who no longer watches ROH, the 40 minutes since the opener ended have felt like a whole lot of nothing.

The Ospreay-Cobb opener was exactly what you'd want to see from those guys. I hope Cobb becomes a bigger presence in New Japan this year. He'd be a welcome addition to the G1.

Dream-Riddle and WALTER-Dunne were great. Women's match and tag match were fun. Main event was too much.

They were on their way to having a classic, but it came apart a bit in the last 10 minutes. I like Suzuki's schtick, but I really like it when he's pushed to do something more, and Barnett pushed him early. The chair stuff and the forearm exchange were less interesting, and I was not a fan of them doing the extra time only to finish in a draw anyway. Still a cool spectacle on top of an engaging top-to-bottom show, but they left a little on the table.

I enjoyed the NJ Cup quite a bit but thought the final was a dreadful bore. It was built on the worst cliches of the company's main-event style, from the uninteresting opening matwork to the 10 minutes of counter-fu at the end. Okada and Sanada are too similar -- athletic, theoretically charismatic guys with lots of shitty offense. Just didn't work for me at all.

I was not a KENTA fan before WWE, but he was a physically impressive worker at his peak in Japan. I saw him live a few times in ROH, and his talent stood out. He never seemed to have his old athletic snap in WWE. I'm not sure if he was out of sorts with the style or just broken down physically. But he was not the same guy.

I listened to the Observer recap, and Meltzer was lukewarm about this match, suggesting it needed more time to be great. And I thought that was fucking insane. There was no way this match was getting any better. They hit all the perfect beats without a wasted moment, not to mention the timing on the show. I have never looked forward to a Balor match but Ieft this kind of wanting to see them do it again.

You mean the whole card, right? Didn't think the men's Rumble was anything special overall.

You woo me for five hours and then shit in my mouth. Never change WWE.

JBL gleefully cheering Randy Orton attacking a woman is just ...

Leave it to the old Memphis guy to throw a good worked punch.