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Sonya keeping the ship alive telling Mandy she knew she didn't really like Jimmy Uso.

Honest answer: since it's wrestling, no one who enforces the rules cares enough to do anything about it.

Toni and Pete were shown at Takeover, so I'm sure they didn't fly them in just for a crowd shot.

I wouldn't consider it a surprise but Dolph saying he's taking a break from WWE would normally be a huge sign that he's going to be in the Rumble. I kinda hope the Cena thing is a work, because otherwise two blatant false advertisements is something they should get shit for. Also maybe Roman is feeling well enough to make an appearance?

With the announcers it's kind of a WCW thing where it's not that they aren't any good, but more of them having to make sense of the bullshit that goes on in AAA.

Remember when finishers used to actually end matches? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Yeah it's been looking like the Hulkster has been teaching tanning classes at NXT, brother.

Dream run in perhaps? Seems like that would be the point of showing him sitting front row.

It's kind of amazing that there really hasn't been a *bad* Takeover yet, just ones not as awesome as others. You'd think that the law of averages would get them at some point.

I get not everyone likes flippy style, but holy shit these flips.

I mean, it's a Ricochet match. Getting mad about flips in one of his matches is like getting upset about blood in a Dusty match.

NA title best looking belt in wrestling.

DREAM

I was just thinking Riddle is like if Kevin Von Erich got way into weed in 1985 instead of....everything else.

I guess that confirms Toni and Pete in the Rumbles.

Hanson is so awesome.

They live the gimmick, at least Rowe does. He just got married to Sarah Logan in a Viking style ceremony.

I think most of them are cool and all, but you can really tell NXT is the HHH promotion based on how much effort is put into the Special Event Entrances.

All the matches by themselves will probably be good to great depending how much time the women are given, but as ongoing storylines nothing is really grabbing me.

There was something floating around Twitter that claimed to be from WWE promoting some event featuring "the Hall of Famer Undertaker". I could see them really stacking the HOF this year to counter ROH running MSG.

The thing about WCW in that time period is there was so much Hogan/Nash fuckery going on, that anyone who was a decent wrestler stuck in the lower midcard got lumped in the "this guy deserves better" category.

He did a season of Tough Enough, and somehow that was sufficent for WWE to think "well that guy should be a full time trainer". Personally I think it a little of the old school mentality where you have a hard ass weed out the folks not cut out for this rasslin' stuff.

What's notable is most of the time CMLL guys get little to no reaction (except for Ultimo Guerrero who can get over literally everywhere in the world), but Rush got the "this is a big star doing big star things" treatment. To use a Dave-ism, if ROH drops the ball with him they should be sued for promotional malpractice.

Yes on TV they said he was "questionable" after hurting his ankle training, but in the Observer the plan was laid out where the idea was Cena was only brought back to do TV building the Rumble and Lars was going to kill him to take him out of the match. Also glad to see Roman doing well, but not looking forward to the truthers out there latching on to him doing a movie as some kind of proof that his illness was a work.

Lars was supposed to injure Cena on Raw prior to the Rumble, which would take him off the show and set up their program for Mania. Cena was only back this time to do TVs and not the PPV.