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I've seen a lot of Abdullah matches especially in Puerto Rico. This might be the bloodiest Abby match i've seen. Manny hits a gusher and Abby's face turns completely red. The bit where Manny chops him down like a redwood is an awesome visual. My favorite part of this is Abby's entrance where the fan grabs his head gear and Abby goes after him.

Decent opener for the Mid Atlantic title. I didn't realize how big Kruschev was around this time. He make Houston look like a mini.

Paul Heyman on Talking smack this week totally burying Natalya and Tamina and basically telling them to stop whining sure felt like a message to the women that are subtweeting about their lack of TV time on Twitter. I mean it was in character but still. I'm fine with Bayley not being on Mania since she's not in a feud right now and it would be sad to see her in the Nia division match featuring Reginald.

So the Andre match and the SD tag title match have been moved from Mania to the SD before mania which I guess was taped sometime this week. I guess it's understandable if they don't want to do a pre show and keep the shows under 3 hours. Still I was hoping the Mysterios would win the tag titles in front of a crowd. Could happen at Summerslam I guess.

Bianca slapped Sasha so hard that her earing fell off when she took the bump to the floor was great. Glad they realized Sasha had to go heel for the match to work. So Bryan has to win the triple threat at Mania right? Because losing three times to Roman would be something else.

I'm glad WALTER is back in the states even though it's vs Ciampa and not Finn. Takeover is looking better than Mania right now with Io/Raquel, Kyle/Cole and now Ciampa/WALTER looking good.

Creating new NXT women's tag champs and having them lose in their first defense is a choice. I guess it makes sense if they are doing Raquel/IO at Takeover or Dakota is finally going up to Raw or Smackdown.

I can see why people hate Apollo's new gimmick but i'm just glad he's a heel. He's way better at it than being a happy go lucky babyface. The Bryan stuff on Smackdown was interesting. His opening promo seemed almost heelish. Loved the cage match and Roman's utter disappointment when Jey tapped. Speaking of Jey, it's going to be weird seeing him go back to teaming with his brother and feuding with the Alpha Academy or the Mysterios after this main event run. He's really established himself as a good singles star I think. I wonder if they do a triple threat at Mania with Roman/Edge/Bryan so Roman doesn't have to do the job.

I don't watch MLW anymore but based on IWA Puerto Rico tv, they are working together. Also IWA is in a partnership with WWC.

Nia/Shayna vs Bianca/Sasha for the tag titles has been added to the ppv on Sunday. I'm guessing Sasha/Bianca win so they can face Dakota/Raquel as the counter to AEW on 3/3. I guess that makes sense but I wanted to see Dakota finally get revenge on Shayna.

Cora jade. She faced xia li last week on nxt.

So according to fightful, wwe signed blake Christian and taya valkayrie. Taya isn't too shocking since she's 38 and her husband is in wwe. Blake is interesting since I thought he was in New japan and had been working impact recently. I guess he got a big money offer. Plus he moved to orlando with his GF who is already in NXT.

Wasn't he on the Covid list? I thought that's why he was gone for so long Saw this on twitter but it would so be a WWE thing if Orton wins the chamber and Edge challenges him for the title at Mania.

Karrion Kross feuding with Santos Escobar and challengeing Edge at the same time is something else. Hopefully this leads to Escobar getting out of the 205 division. He's really good. Takeover is a week from Sunday and looks like a decent card.

Edge is going to be on NXT tomorrow. I guess that's the competition vs the Wedding. Edge/Balor would be an interesting match. But edge wrestling 3 matches in a week after the rumble seems like elder abuse.

I'm still guessing Brock is winning the rumble somehow. WWE announced officially Meiko Satomura signed and will debut on the NXT UK brand. Her vs Kay Lee Ray could be good but the big money match is Meko vs Sasha. Probably will wait till next year for that to happen.

Not as good as the Riddle match but still pretty good. Love main event Thatcher. NXT on a whole wasn't too bad. Can't wait to see Curt stallion's debut on NXT next week vs Santos Escobar.They also signed three new women to NXT. Elayna Black, Lacey Ryan and Priscilla Kelly. All three are in the Women's dusty classic.

Good debut from the Rascalz or as they are called now MSK vs Atlas and Swerve. Xavier in particular stood out. Wentz is in TNA shape. Ciampa/Thatcher fight pit match is next week. Hopefully, it actually happens.

What was the MOTY? What were Some MOTY contenders? MOTY is WALTER vs Dragunov. Contenders are the frist Gulak/Bryan match and the first Uso vs Roman Reigns match. What was the promotion of the year? Any promotion that didn't run during a global pandemic. What were the best promos, angles, and skits of the year? It's a toss up to me between Eddie Kingston and Roman Reigns. I gotta go with Roman. What was the best weekly TV Show? NXT Who was the wrestler of the year? Roman Reigns What was the show of the year? NXT Takeover In your house

Raquel/Rhea and Kyle/Finn ruled. Both were brutal for different reasons. Kyle might be Finn's best opponent. And not only are they doing a regular Dusty classic, but they are also doing a women's Dusty Classic too. Hope they do Shotzi and Ember vs Riott Squad.

I'm glad Sonya Deville is back after the hell she went through this year. Not sure if it's full time or not. The Owens/Roman feud continues to rule. As did Bryan/Gable/Otis doing the three amigos dance. As for NXT, It was basically a show to build to next week. Was kinda surprised Dunne beat Roddy clean. Io won all the NXT awards she was up for and Shotzi won breakout star of the year.

I enjoyed smackdown this week. Reigns/Owens continues to rule and the finish was good heel stuff from the Big Dog. The main event was a feel-good moment with Big E and Corey graves shaking hands after the win. Not sure I get Bianca losing to both Bayley and Charlotte in back to back weeks but it's whatever.

I'm surprised it took them only a year plus to start a "management sucks" worked shoot. At least it's with Spears who sucks and I can FFWd on the dvr. I'm begging AEW to go a week without dropping the S bomb. I still don't care for the Acclaimed gimmick and Cator in particular but they did a decent job vs the Bucks. They should probably go back to Dark to work out the kinks but they have potential if they drop the rapping gimmick. It's amazing how much better Top Flight is than them and Private Party.

That Kevin Owens promo with Heyman on Talking Smack this week was outstanding. The Owens/Reigns feud is really the only feud I care about now on the main roster. As good a heel Owens was he's an even better babyface.