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It doesn't even look good as a finish either - just not worth it, imo.

People saying things like this is why Vince McMahon wants to do "entertainment" & not "pro-wrestling."

Johnny Mundo is one of my least favorite performers in the entire industry right now. That dude just doesn't do anything for me. It all comes off as so fake. He can't even ever hit his own finish without it looking like a botched spot. He's also not a good promo. Not a fan at all. Putting him out there with Killshot wasn't even a good idea on paper to me, so whatever. It was what it was. They had a pretty good Spear spot on the outside. I did think the first episode this season was better than the second but they're doing a good job of reintroducing us to the previous characters & bringing in some other people. Keeps things fresh. Looking forward to seeing Mysterio in Lucha Underground.

Another added bonus of having jobber matches is two-fold: one you can re-establish finishers. Like how everyone always has to kick out of an Attitude Adjustment nowadays so you never buy the first one winning the match anymore. Well a jobber doesn't have to kick out of one. Second, you can win matches with other things. Like the top rope Snowplow that Kevin Owens has been doing, or when Cena was doing things like the Springboard Stunner or Code Red. If you beat a dude with that, when you do those moves in bigger matches, the false finishers mean something & people will actually buy-into them instead of just knowing that they're 2-counts which takes away any heat/intrigue from them.

I think back to Lucha Underground. Sure, they only have an hour, not like... five that they have to fill. But even the people that weren't doing anything, they found them something to do. All the people that had their arms broken by Pentagon, Jr.? They came back & had a match against each other, with something on the line. Then the one guy lost his mask and turned heel on Sexy Starr. Even the jobbers were given something to do. If WWE would just give everyone something to do, they wouldn't have any trouble filling up the TV time. People like Fandango, The Ascension or Jack Swagger rarely even make TV. They have people down in NXT that are ready to be called up. The whole star Vs. star for every match thing was due to the Monday Night Wars, from like, what, 19 years ago? You're not really battling to win quarter hours anymore. They need to be making stars. Some jobber squashes wouldn't be the end of the world. Maybe not bringing in local guys to lose every week like they did with Ryback for awhile but having designated jobbers wouldn't be so bad. Like the Social Outcast. They gotta at least TRY. They can't just keep hoping stars from yesteryear will always be there to bail them out. They have an entire creative team that gets paid to come up with this shit. If they can't come up with something, fire their asses & get someone that can.

These problems will never go away because WWE absolutely refuses to make new guys & keep trying to bring back old people... like the above mentioning of Batista. Or The Rock or The Undertaker. Meanwhile, when they do choose someone to put in a bigger position, they choose people like Braun Strowman. This has Giant Gonzales written all over it again. They were doing good things with Seth Rollins but he got hurt. Roman they seem to keep getting cold feet on & won't book him strong. They book him strong enough to anger some fans but not get the other fans on-board all the way. It's really weird. They need to spend all of 2016 post-Mania doing absolutely nothing but making guys like Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, A.J. Styles, Rusev & Big E. Don't have any of them touch one another. Don't have any of them lose. Just have them constantly winning matches over people like Dolph, Jericho, Big Show, etc. Never losing on PPV. Rarely wrestling on TV. Make them feel special. Then by this time next year maybe they'll be able to create some intrigue by putting a couple of them against each other.

On paper, that Wrestlemania card could be one of the worst I can think of. I don't see how that card sells more than 93,000 tickets.

WM7 tag opener. WM6 vs Tito is two in that time frame. They're talking about Snuka, not Barbarian.

Really failing to see how Dolph Ziggler beating Kevin Owens on free tv helps anyone going forward. I just don't get it. I don't get this company. I don't know what on earth they're trying to do. It's like they purposely don't want anyone to look too credible at any given time, so they have to constantly cut the legs off of people to remind them who is in charge or something.

Yup. If I highlight the dots on the bar when looking through a show, it'll tell you who wins & how on every other dot. With the previous marker being the start of the match. I've noted this inconvenience before. I watch on my computer though, not any mobile device.

I doubt too many people were still on the Cornette bandwagon anyway after his racist tirade.

I always liked Scott Norton. He wasn't always chiseled but he looked like a beast and that he could lift the hell outta some heavy things. Like no one is picking on that guy in the street. Dude's chest was huge. I remember thinking the same about Kenta Kobashi at one time too. But I've always been a huge dude myself, so I could never relate to someone like Rick Rude or Lex Luger.

Awesome show. Loved the first season and after seeing all of the first season, this first episode of the second season was great continuation. I legit marked out at the main event & post-match angle. So good. This show made me feel euphoric, which is a vibe I've not had from a wrestling show in quite some time. Good shit.

Wrestling can be. WWE doesn't do wrestling though, they do sports entertainment! Those are not professional wrestlers, those are Superstars and Divas! We aren't even fans, we're a part of the WWE Universe!!

Hmm. Damien Sandow, maybe? ...the Miz would be a good answer...

I like Heath, but he may be a little low on the card to pull it off. I guess good comparisons to past guys used this way are Jericho, Ted DiBiase, Mr. Perfect and Arn Anderson in WCW. I think he's higher on the totem pole at this point than Tyler Breeze, whose name you threw out there.

Honestly, first guy that came to mind was Heath Slater. They entrusted him enough to be the guy that worked with all the legends they were bringing up, building to the big RAW anniversary show. He's a helluva bumper & always makes his opponents look good.

This Flo-Rida shit is fucking excruciating.

AJ Styles is like one Springboard 450 away from the people in WWE audience not familiar with him to collectively lose their shit.

By the way, did anyone watch the pre-show? They did a backstage segment where the Social Outcast answered Social Media questions & it was genuinely entertaining.They all came off as real dudes having fun... not people trying to remember & recite words written for them. They were even cracking each other up! Bo Dallas definitely got Curtis Axel to break character & laugh. I wish more people on the roster could be like that full-time on the main shows! It was endearing.

Raise your hands if you think there's a chance in hell of that happening this time. I'd love to be wrong, but come on now. Well, part of my belief is operating on when it was said that WWE want Fastlane to mean something this year & not just be a throwaway PPV in-between Mania & Rumble.

You gotta tune-in to the longest running weekly episodic program in cable television history to find out! Can Roman fight back against all odds? Find out after this, as RAW continues to roll on!

I noticed he looked super small too... but I didn't think it mattered. Rey Mysterio, Jr. is a former world champion. Daniel Bryan was really the last big, over star that they had. I just think it's an antiquated mentality anymore... because all the best nowadays are super small. But yeah, Roman dwarfed him. And Roman wasn't even near the biggest guy in the Rumble.

Maggle mentioned his elimination - it happened during Roman's attack by the League of Nations - but we never saw it. They showed it on a replay. He got eliminated from a Chris Jericho Dropkick from the ropes when he was on the apron and his feet hit the floor. We missed it because the camera for about ten minutes refused to show the match that the PPV was named after. Heh.

Honestly, I don't really know why Brock was in the Rumble at all if that was their plan for him. Seems he was... wasted. Then again, I don't know why Roman lost the title to a Sheamus cash-in, nor why the Rumble was for the title. It was all stupid. But that's what WWE does nowadays. They panic, hotshot some shit, then are in damage control while the crowd boos the faces and cheers the heels.