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Pretty sure that just made Ciampa the top heel in NXT.

Johnny Gargano might be the best babyface in all of WWE. It was only a matter of time until #DIY split. Had to have known something was up when the tag match was going on last, yeah?

So the tag titles are going on last? Did Ciampa get cleared to wrestle?

Not sold on Ruby Riot at all but Nikki Cross would be a good person to finally dethrone Asuka. If feels like they're building to Ember Moon/Asuka again but I think Nikki is better.

Match was awesome. I already nominated it in GOTNW's 2017 thread. So good. Those two guys impress me more & more with each showing they have. I wish that match would have been on the main roster just so more eyeballs would have seen it. Good shit.

Nominating - UK Championship: Tyler Bate© Vs. Pete Dunne - NXT Takeover Chicago (5-20-2017) Incredible match. Got a standing ovation twice during the match & after the match. I saw moves I've never seen before & said "holy shit" more than once during the match. Just fun pro-wrestling.

More boring: Roderick Strong or Bobby Roode? I could not care less about this Roderick Strong Vs. Eric Young match. Dude just has zero charisma.

The Andrews/Bate UK Title match on the WWE UK show on the Network today was pretty good. I'm a big fan of both Bate and Pete Dunne. Looking forward to Saturday.

Ugh. That stinks.

He has the best entrance/theme, I guess.

Better worker: Triple H or Edge? Alberto Del Rio or Edge? Randy Orton or Edge? (holy shit Rated-RKO was boring) Cody Rhodes or Edge? Edge always sort of reminded me of seeing guys like Dino Bravo when watching old wrestling shows. Like he's always there and I never really care. Never struck me as a main eventer, despite how much they used him. Good for him that he's in the Hall of Fame but the credibility of that will always be questioned anyway. Speaking of Hall of Fame: Koko B. Ware or Edge? I liken Edge a lot to how I see Kane, actually. Not a great worker, continually around the top of the card but you never really care about him all that much. He's just kinda there. Kane or Edge?

The card for Dominion is shaping up very nicely & I'm already pretty excited. IWGP Title: Okada© Vs. Omega rematch IWGP IC: Naito© Vs. Tanahashi rematch NEVER: Minoru© Vs. Goto - Lumberjack Deathmatch IWGP Tag: War Machine© Vs. GoD Jr. Tag: Roppongi Vice© Vs. Young Bucks Cody Vs. Elgin - which is about the worst match I can think of as it's two of my least liked wrestlers in the world right now but whatever. Naito/Tanahashi was my fav match from Wrestle Kingdom & I'm looking forward to it again. I think Naito is my favorite wrestler in the world right now. Good chance Omega could take the title from Okada this time so that Okada. Minoru Suzuki is really good but Goto is hit or miss (and sometimes lazy) so maybe the stipulation can help some? Dunno what to expect from that one. I do really like Goto's new finish. I'm sure Hiromu Takahashi will defend the Jr. Belt on the card too. All the stables in New Japan are full of people that suck. Hard to take the stables seriously when they're full of dudes like Yujiro Takahashi, Toru Yano,Taichi Ishikari or fucking EVIL with his K-Mart Halloween clearance rank outfit. It's like the nWo b-team when we were supposed to take Vincent & Horace Hogan seriously. Damn shame about Shibata. He was one of my favorites. Curious to watch Katsuya Kitamura develop & see if he turns out any good. I need to seek out Tiger Mask/Okada and the NEVER title switch between Suzuki/Goto.

- Dave Meltzer

https://twitter.com/Hustler2754/status/863340857281445888 https://twitter.com/RandyOrton/status/863901935107223552 https://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/864134285615407104

Surprised there's not a thread on this already. So, Rip Rogers on Twitter posted this: Now a bunch of "controversy" has spread on Twitter (and other wrestling related websites). Randy Orton has gotten involved & started trolling people, The Young Bucks, Ricochet, several wrestlers have said shit. We've sort of talked about similar things around PWO for awhile but I thought this deserved it's own thread. From what I gather it's turning into a conversation about how less is more & the bar is being pushed too high.

Sorry, I meant me with the angry part. My writing isn't the best.

We've all been there. Not responding to stro, but just posting when we should probably already be in bed.

I thought this was the blowoff. It was quite awhile ago though so I probably forgot a lot of it. Did this happen before the Rumble? I do remember Bryan losing that match.

He won last night and won the feud I guess I didn't see it that way. He won the match due to Jinder, after Orton had him beat... and Bray is still not the champ. So all his feud with Orton did was lose him the world title.

I don't know if I can think of another wrestler that has lost more big matches than Bray Wyatt. He did win the Elimination Chamber and title there but then he immediately lost it to Orton and then just lost the Orton rematch. Has he ever won a feud?

Still better than Kevin Owens.

Really liked the show. Well, the Bray Wyatt/Randy Orton shit was straight Wrestlecrap (but even that, I popped for the Mahal run-in) but the rest of the card was at least fun. Was surprised Bliss won the Women's title but I'm not against it. I feel Bayley has been a lot worse on the main roster than she was in NXT & she can't talk for shit. Bliss, since being called-up, has excelled. Especially as far as character work & talking goes. Preshow tag was nothing, really, but I think the goal was to get the crowd going with the Enzo sing-a-long entrance more than anything. Balor on MizTV was good. Aries/Neville was pretty good. Tag match was pretty good. Jericho/Owens I didn't really like. Felt like they were moving in slow motion, especially the first half of the match. Also felt like it went a little too long. Seth/Joe underachieved IMO. It was forgettable. Braun Strowman/Roman Reigns was awesome. Both of those dudes are money. Also Corey Graves has turned into quite the good color commentator. Good show.

Seth Rollins Vs. Samoa Joe Roman Reigns Vs. Braun Strowman Neville Vs. Austin Aries Those three matches should be hype!

PPV is Sunday so we're going to have all the cliffhanger stuff, so I expect Roman to stand tall tonight.

To be fair, when you do listen to him first hand, he's terribly hard to understand. He's all over the place with trying to get his thoughts into words. Horrible speaker.