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This. It's like the modern fan version of the "It's still real to me" guy. I've enjoyed seeing Bryan back, and most of his matches have been good to great (basically all of them that didn't involve Cass), but it's clear that WWE is not going to put him at the level the fans want him to be at.

I would be fine with everyone being banned from doing those, it's been watered down to being a meaningless spot and it's one of those things that if it goes bad it can be REAL bad.

The whole show is a handwave designed to distract from the fact the next Saudi show is a few days later, so it's not a surprise there doesn't seem to be any though being put in to the matches.

She was a Bayley superfan who was front row at the NXT tapings and became known to the point she was used in angles (notably when Sasha mocked her when she beat Bayley). Yes, it was one of my co workers who got the call and I was able to figure out from context clues that it was one of our regulars who is permanently about 12 years old mentally due to a traumatic brain injury (not being snarky either, he tells the story of how it happened all the time). Of course he's a wrestling fan, and will talk your ear off forever if you let him.

Yes, he was sleeping in his car and when the cops showed up they found he has a warrant outstanding from Florida. He was supposed to run the pre show and be in the gorilla position so I would assume part of his responsiblities to time out the show.

I think the Barely Legal comparisons are the most accurate one, historic in the sense that it's a show no one thought would happen, but not an all time great in ring show. It was nice to see a show where the company wasn't actively fighting their fans at every turn, and people who followed the storylines got rewarded instead of being made to feel stupid.

If the MJF/Matt Cross match didn't happen, the main event would have ended on time. Maybe it's a coincidence but I couldn't help but notice that match was exactly the amount of time that had to be cut from the main event. We'll probably never know for sure, but it sure seems like guys who never had to time out a show of this level before wanted to squeeze in another match to get some guys a payday and now Marty is taking one for the team.

Training Day, I was drawing a blank on the name last night.

Drake Maverick rallying the unused portion of the roster to rise up and take out the Big Dog?

Nexus 2018!

I popped for him ending that trainwreck of a segment.

Vince must have watched that one Denzel movie, so now Big Bob has to go around saying MUH MAN to everyone.

I hate to be "the wrestlers from back then were better" guy, but holy shit are they so much better doing this than nearly anyone on the current roster.

Reason #179789 The Undertaker is the greatest gimmick ever: the older and grizzled he gets, the more he looks the part.

After living through the Attitude Era, Corporate Shill Shawn will never not be funny to me.

Drake's great, and if anyone can make it work he can, but it was just so random of a thing to just suddenly happen.

Also, Drake Maverick with the AOP? Lolwhut?

I can't think of a team where I have such opposing opinions of each guy than Drew and Dolph.

Surprising to see that Dave wasn't a fan of the Andersons back then, I don't recall very many (if any) bad matches of theirs. Also lol'ing at Iron Mike, Hall of Fame WWF Jobber, declaring the Tonga Kid a bridge too far.

Oh man, after mentioning "I hate women that hit men" I got really nervous when Elias brought up Ohio State.

Imagine looking at American Alpha and thinking Jason Jordan would be the breakout star.

Kinda killing Braun's gimmick having Drew stand next to him just as tall as THA MONSTER.

Bill Mercer was a sports announcer before/during his wrestling announcing career, so if anything she should have been better at it than Marc Lowrance. I always had the impression he was kind of bemused by all the wackiness of rasslin' and didn't spend a lot of time doing prep work.

I never noticed until now how much Excalibur sounds like Don Callis.

I wonder how they'll end up handling the Bellas. Brie is fine on Smackdown with Bryan, but they get booed every time they appear on Raw.