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Sami can easily be this generation's Mick Foley, lovable babyface who can have short runs with the title without being damaged because the crowd loves him so much. Speaking of, since WWE loves Creating Moments, Sami winning the title could be the new "Mrs Foley's Baby Boy has done it" moment for this era. Also if pushing Sami is such a booking dead-end, then why the hell did they devote so much time building it up?

This isn't the condemnation you seem to think it is....everyone thought that Jackass stuff was way better than expected and Sami was a big part of that. He turned something that by all rights should have been the worst kind of Wrestlecrap and made it Sports Entertaining.

Absolutely no one is winning at life more than the Great O-Khan.

The crowd did when they popped like Austin just showed up when Sami hit him with the chair, and again when Roman got nuclear heat for killing him in return. When you have a program getting that kind of reaction you normally want the blowoff to be on the largest stage possible. I feel like this is another example of WWE Brain where after 100+ years of professional wrestling now suddenly you have people like "Well Actually you don't want to have your hottest program main eventing your biggest show".

They did that so well they created their hottest angle in decades, yet somehow it's not good enough to main event Wrestlemania because....reasons. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here that no one else seems to see how silly that it. Uncle Paul got a lot of goodwill just by not doing the dumb things Vince would do, but putting Cody over the hot hand would go a long way to ending a lot of that.

Also I just was thinking about it, and doing Roman/Sami in Montreal is dumb since it pretty much telegraphs Sami isn't winning and I can't imagine that is going to go over well with the crowd. Cody getting crowned as the company choice while the guy the crowd wants getting jobbed out is such a rehash of the Daniel Bryan stuff it's hilarious.

Also Rey got hurt in his match on SD with Kross, which is why he wasn't in the Rumble. He's gotta be laying in bed at night wondering why the hell he went back to WWE just to get stuck working with lugs.

Argue about Cody all you want, but Roman/Sami is the hottest thing this company has by a mile. Him hitting Roman with a chair got an Attitude Era level pop, and his otherworldly ability to gain babyface sympathy makes this a "how are you not fucking making this the WM main event?" level situation. Yeah, you can knock Sami all you want too but even Austin was just some schlub feuding with Savio on the pre show of PPVs until Austin 3:16 caught fire. The company was smart enough then to ride the hot hand that fell into their lap to the biggest money earning period in company history. I'm not saying Sami would ever reach that level, but goddamn you got a molten crowd who couldn't possibly make it clearer this is what they want to see and it's like this company hates making money.

Speaking of Lucha news, Negro Casas and his wife Dalys jumped to AAA. I wonder if this is going to spark Negro to have a "Terry Funk in ECW" phase now.

They spent so much time building up Sami standing up for himself against Roman that's it's going to be hard to not feel like a rug-pull to give us Cody instead. They've also been referring to the Raw and SD tag titles separately again instead of "unified tag champs" which makes me think two they are going to be splitting them up again. That wouldn't seem to go with a KO/Sami vs Uso program. Maybe they'll do something that costs the Usos the titles, but even with that the best angle WWE has done since the Megapowers exploded paying off with Sami in a tag match seems lame.

it's amazing how *everyone* involved has been amazing in their roles. Also I think this also settles the debate if Heyman books the angles he's involved in since KO got Raven'd

That would be weaksauce considering the fans REALLY want to see Roman/Sami. If they do literally anything else the crowd is going to hijack the shit out of it.

That's some nuclear fucking heat Roman is getting

That pop, goddamn

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oh lordy

Funny enough the Street Fighter Youtube page dropped the announcement but is referring to her as Thea Trinidad. Odd that something promoted on WWE wouldn't use her WWE name.

Respectfully enjoying Zelina's Juri cosplay

Here's hoping Chelsea Green makes it through the match without breaking something.

KANA!

ah yes, my annual reminder that Dana Brooke still exists

Seems like the announcers should have pointed out Bray was wearing the Fiend mask during that last part.

Honestly that wasn't as bad as I was expecting, and the black light at least made a cool visual.

That was probably one of the best booked Rumbles in a while. The only time it dragged was when they were collecting bodies for Brock to toss around. Also this really shows they think a lot of Gunther to set the Ironman record and, ironically, be the ring general of the match.

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