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Man, at this point fuck all other plans for Mania and give Jacob all the belts

The lucha guys are great and all, but this opener got me wanting a 100% all beef match with Hobbes and Cage.

On the flip side I love how they are using clips of prior historical cage matches that have happened in MSG to hype the Punk/Rollins match.

I hate how great Logan Paul is at wrestling. Dude is the answer to the question of what a wrestling heel would be in real life.

Mox wants to be American Onita, right down to using Wild Thing as his music pre-Death Riders. The guy's practically his role model.

What makes a great heel turn is having people get invested in characters so when they turn it causes an instant emotional reaction. That's where the Vince Russo types fall short, when they rapid fire turns no one gives a shit because you never gave them a reason to. I think that's why the Cena turn specifically hit so many people, say what you will about all the Super Cena stuff everyone had feelings about him one way or another. Add in the fact that no one on the planet thought he would ever turn heel on his farewell tour, and you have all the ingredients of a all time angle.

I think once the shock of "holy shit, a top level WWE guy jumped ship" wore off, people started remembering how the end of that WWE stint went.

Toni-May was indeed incredible. Perfect blowoff to the feud, but I wonder where each go from here.

Jacob seems more over every time he shows up and I love to see it.

Holy shit that Cody promo, he was channeling classic pissed off Dusty and that's always fucking awesome.

Missed opportunity for Michin to come out like New Jack against Cactus Chelsea.

Also glad to see Lex finally getting in the HOF. Dude's been through a lot and has taken accountability for his past.

There's stories coming out saying Jade was rubbing the whole women's locker room the wrong way to the point Shanya Bazler was ready to handle business. If that's accurate, I wonder how much real feelings Naomi was channeling in her promo tonight.

Cora Jade seemed to get concussed in her match with Jordynne Grace but it wasn't obvious where it happened. They did a spot where she got backed into the corner and it was clear the lights were on but no one was home.

I also did not see that coming, but I like them throwing a curve ball like that in a match that seems like a foregone conclusion. It seems the obvious path is a Bianca/Iyo/Rhea triple threat but at this point you can't rule out any possibility

Except Verne and Bock weren't the biggest stars in Hollywood in 1985. This is the most star power they could hope to have on a Mania card since Stone Cold seems content being a full time cat dad on Instagram.

To be fair Travis Scott was probably pretty amped to be doing an angle with the Rock and Cena and got too carried away. I agree that Cody probably told him to "make it look good" if ya weeeell. Honestly for as much as you could quibble about it, this was the biggest heel turn since Hogan just for the "you never thought this guy would be a heel" factor. Yes I know Hogan was a heel in his first pre Hulkamania WWF run but that hasn't been canon since 1984. Plus with the Austin turn it made zero sense that after years of him and Vince trying to murder each other they would just suddenly start working together. Cena and Rock had their program but it wasn't a years long blood feud. Another thing to consider that as shocking as Hogan's turn was, the payoff was a Starrcade main event with Sting that was "botched" by fast counts not working for him brother. Followed by years of him putting anyone under age 40 in their own box away from any hope of getting over. The Cena turn is going to lead to 2 generational icons facing the guy who's the face of the current generation in a match that, unless disaster strikes, will probably blow away business records.

I thought for sure Cody was going to accept Rock's offer and go full Homelander against Cena to set up him winning #17 at Mania....never in a million years did I think after all these years we'd finally get the Cena heel turn. Well played Trips, you got me!

Oh man, COPE/Jay/FTR/Willow vs the Death Riders in an Anarchy in the Arena match is gonna bang so gd hard.

I know they don't have any obligation to do it, but if I was TK I'd just let Fenix go at this point. Unless something happened that was kept super quiet, he clearly has no interest to ever return to AEW willingly and we all know WWE is just counting down the days until his deal is up. I know you don't normally want to just serve up a guy like that on a silver platter to your competitor, but paying a guy who clearly wants to be elsewhere to sit home and do nothing is some "jilted ex who can't accept its over" type shit.

40. Khan was furious with Nemeth. Khan believes that Brooks left AEW because of Nemeth. I hope the lawyer that wrote this didn't tear anything with that reach, holy shit.

Rock and Cody as the new Two Man Power Trip would be some good shit

I loved the post match interview backstage where Will was saying he was on another level and Kenny was in the background making a "this fucking guy" face. Planting seeds and I'm here for it.

Also with all due respect to Melo, Oba Femi is HIM

Je'von Evans putting in another good showing at Vengeance, odd choice for Page to go over but that's how things go in the slower paced HHH/HBK era I suppose. He still looks like he's going to be money in the not too distant future.