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Why do people hate the Lana spot? That was the only part of the entire match that I actually enjoyed.

So next PPV is when Lana turns babyface on Rusev, I suppose?

Best Big Show match in awhile. Ain't that the same finish for when ADR beat him in a LMS match on Smackdown? That was MotN imo. Who woulda thought?

Maybe they're for the ring crew that has to take down & load the truck after the show is over? Since it'd be later in the night after people already left, so they might not be able to get catering drinks anymore.

Favorite style of wrestling? I love pro wrestling when it's presented like a sport, where the best man can win on any given night. Despite knowing about the concussions & whatnot that came from it, I'm inclined to say my favorite style is early 90's AJPW. Favorite way wrestling is presented? See above. Favorite type of match? Old school cage match. Keep the two guys in. Keep everyone else out. The man that walks out of the cage is unquestionable the winner, in the blowoff of a feud. Favorite gimmick match? Is that not the same question? Favorite wrestler? Ever, Stan Hansen. Currently, probably Rusev. Favorite match? I love the Misawa/Kobashi Vs. Kawada/Taue (6/6/95) tag. Favorite feud? Sting Vs. nWo Favorite angle? The "love triangle" with Triple H, Kurt Angle & Stephanie McMahon is up there. Favorite promotion/period of wrestling? Late 80's WWF, Early 90's AJPW, Late 90's ECW, 2005 ROH. Little things that happen in wrestling that you always love? I'm a mark for a good valet. I think they can just add so much to a gimmick & really help get a guy over. Lana is great right now. I also love when someone blows the roof off of a live crowd.

Naomi's shoes will be all anyone is talking about tomorrow.

...what the hell? Did you hear that pop for the Bellas? What did I miss? Good for them!

EDIT : If that Lana spot was planned due to them assuming the crowd would chant "We Want Lana" that was freakin' GREAT.

Not for 2016, but just in general, is there ever a chance someone like Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi or Jumbo go into the WWE HoF?

Wasn't expecting a New Day title win there. Not sure what exactly that accomplishes for WWE... I guess Lucha Dragons Vs. New Day so LD can win the titles from a heel team? Since Cesaro/Kidd were kinda defacto babyfaces.

...what in da hell?

Was that the first win for Neville on the main roster?

Totally forgot that Roman Reigns Vs. The Big Show was on this card. That's hilarious to me. EDIT : The crowd sounds hype!

Barrett Vs. Neville could be fun. I'm OK with that change. Shame about Bryan though. So, are they going to strip him of the IC title?

It feels like it is when you watch all the TV, though. Three PPVs in a row when there's only four PPVs a year & no RAW every week is a lot different than three PPVs in a row that happens every month, with RAW & Smackdown every week. Also because Wrestlemania, the biggest show of the year, where all the blowoffs are supposed to happen, was just casually thrown into the middle of the series, instead of being the end of it is weird to me. The post-Wrestlemania PPV being nothing but Wrestlemania re-matches is silly to me too & always has been. Wrap it up & move onto the next story, or space it out so it doesn't feel so rehashed. Maybe I'm different in that aspect than most. Just feels like now WWE can't really book themselves outta this. Cena can't lose the belt already & Rusev shouldn't be losing. WWE feels like if you walk away for four months & come back you didn't miss anything. I find that problematic. Take potshots all you like. I'm allowed to have an opinion, even if it differs from others.

I'd push Ryback over Wyatt 100 times out of 100. Everything good about Bray Wyatt stops when he gets to the ring... and that was all WWE produced & could have been given to anyone. His theme song & entrance are great. As a promo, he's boring & long-winded. As a worker, he's kinda sloppy & boring. He's also been booked to look directionless & as not a real threat to any "real" stars. Ryback is as generic as they come. Maybe a little underrated at talking but he doesn't get a lot of opportunities. His gear stinks. His entrance stinks. His music stinks. He's like a big, jacked-up, Create-A-Wrestler from the 80's. Like The Warlord. He doesn't even really have a gimmick. None of his moves are really impressive. He has some physical charisma, admittedly, but compare him to someone like Goldberg or Brock Lesnar. He's always going to come off as second rate. He gets blown up super quick & is not very strong for his impressive physical. He fucked up picking up Paul Heyman, in example, where Goldberg was Jackhammering The Giant. Maybe an unfair comparison. Ryback reminds me more of like a Bobby Lashley, which is not really a compliment. Both Ryback & Wyatt need convincing wins and some tweaks to their presentation. Ryback doesn't even really have a gimmick. He's "The Big Guy" that chants "Feed Me More." Um, OK..? He's not an unstoppable asskicker or anything. We've seen him win, we've seen him lose. He's just a middle of the road guy with an impressive physique. We need to see more. Even during his jobber squashes that were trying to build him up, he needed to bring a lot more intensity. He needs to do things that make the crowd go "ohh!" or "damn!" like Goldberg & Brock did. He's never going to be a 20-minute plodding main event style worker & he shouldn't be. WWE needs to get out of that mentality of trying to make everyone work the same. 100/100 times? I don't think either one is doing a whole lot of much, honestly. Now if we could have given the Bray Wyatt presentation to Ryback... they might have had something. I still don't understand why they ever broke up the Wyatt Family. Now Rowan barely makes TV, Harper is trading wins in meaningless midcard matches & Wyatt just rambles backstage in vignettes. At the end of the day, those things do matter. Moves, themes, gear, entrance, etc. It's all a big part of the show. Especially in WWE. Swamp Cult Leader could have worked. I think it could still be salvaged but they need to go a different direction. Wyatt Vs. Ryback doesn't do anything for either wrestler. They would just trade wins for three months & be forgotten about.

This is the third straight Pay-Per-View running John Cena Vs. Rusev. Gimmick match or not, I'm not sure what more they can give us at this point. Cena goes over helps no one. Him losing the U.S. Title this soon would make much sense either. Just feels like they booked themselves into a corner. I would have rather they waited for Rusev Vs. Cena to happen the first time, at Wrestlemania, with Rusev going over. Now it already feels played out to me. I guess best case scenario is Cena retains via the ref throwing the match out due to Rusev not stopping a beating or something? That way Rusev can move on past the U.S. Title (like it doesn't mean anything to him anymore & it's beneath him) while Cena can keep doing the Open Challenges to try to add some prestige to the mid-card title again. I also wouldn't be surprised to see Lana turn babyface sometime this year. Rusev Vs. babyface Brock could be fun.

I could really get on board with some of those multiman tags if they feature different characters too, instead of just the same old stuff with Kane/Orton/Show/Rollins/Cena I'm thinking like Neville/Goldust/Mark Henry Vs. Sheamus/Kidd/Harper or something. So we just get fresh interactions. Maybe expecting something like that on RAW is reaching too far though. At this point, I would love to see a final Goldust run as Dustin in WWE.

Sandow got like a 15-minute match with John Cena on a RAW and managed to be boring, so I have completely written the guy off.

Yeah, it was weird seeing Dave Meltzer put the show over on Twitter saying "that's how you make a star, hope they follow it up!" or whatever... Like, we already know who wins the tournament & that they didn't give him much shine. We saw Wrestlemania last week. Just seemed weird to me. I actually wasn't sure if I was watching the show he was talking about.

Hulk Hogan being a super hero when I was a child. Hulk Hogan being a rebellious heel when I was a cocky teenager. Hulk Hogan nostalgia tour when I was an young man. Hulk Hogan still being alive when I'm a full grown man. ECW hitting it big when I was an older teenager. The Monday Night Wars & being able to "flashback" between RAW & Nitro. Sting Vs. the nWo Run-in finishers. (Nothing beats a Kevin Nash walk-in Lazybomb on a Luchadore for promo time) Parody promos (nWo as the Horsemen, D-X as the Nation) The Rock singing "leaving Sacramento." "Stone Cold" Steve Austin & Kurt Angle with the cowboy hats backstage. The first time I ever saw the Dudley Death Drop & my mouth was dropped open in awe. Holy shit! Early 90's All Japan Pro Wrestling (Misawa/Kawada/Kobashi/Hansen/Vader/Etc.) Tony Schiavone shilling everything. "Millennium Man Sid is 64-0! He has a good weekend!" (after being like 8-0 on Thunder). Wrestlemania X-Seven. Scott Hall's closing line during his Hall of Fame speech. Old school wrestling themes, like Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan or Slick. Total nostalgia trip for me. Jesse Ventura trying to cover for Greg Valentine by saying "he's just not warmed up yet!" The genuine heat heels in the 70s & 80s got. Especially in the south. Mark Henry's "retirement." Adrian Adonis still being deceptively quick after putting on all the weight. The Clash of the Champions Wedding Skits with Sherri & Col. Parker. Sheamus' new entrance. Bray Wyatt's entrance. All pro-wrestlers doing Dusty Rhodes impressions. "Pay winda, baybee!" The Nintendo 64 wrestling video games. The Samoan Bulldozer Umaga with Armando Alejandro Estrada. The Abraham Washington Show with Tony Atlas laughing. Pro-Wrestling Love Triangles "1-900-909-9900. Kids, get your parents permission before calling." 2005 Ring of Honor. Demolition Ax & Smash being #1 & #2 in the Royal Rumble. The Wrestlemania X Shawn Michaels Vs. Razor Ramon IC title match. There's too many matches for me to start listing them, I guess. The Raven character. I was a huge mark for him in high school. Goldberg's streak. War Games. I could go on forever...

I too, like The Chief above me, can not get into Lucha Libre. At all. I have tried. More than once. I think more than anything, it's all the blown spots, the horns in the crowd & the super slow referees. When I think of everything that I dislike about professional wrestling, The Young Bucks are the total embodiment of that. I have no idea why they're popular, especially online with the most cynical of wrestling fans. I wish WCW would have "won" the Monday Night Wars. Most NXT is kinda boring. Trish Stratus & Lita were both terrible. I don't think Jim Ross is the "best commentator of all-time." I don't even think he was better than Gorilla, let alone some of the color commentators over the years (Ventura, Heenan, Heyman even). I'm sure I could add a lot more but I don't think anyone wants to read all that.

I have so many pet peeves & irks, there's too many to list. One of my big ones right now is the use of people telling other wrestling fans that they should "stop watching" if the product sucks. That they're tired of the complaining, don't wanna read about it, etc. That one really pisses me off. "All you do is complain. If it's that bad, why don't you just stop watching? If I was watching Seinfeld & it sucked, I wouldn't watch it anymore." Buzzwords in WWE are at an all-time high & I dislike most of them. It makes everything sound so unnatural when people are talking. It's not wrestling, it's sports entertainment. They're not fans, they're a part of the WWE Universe. Those aren't women, they are Divas! Those aren't wrestlers, they're superstars! That's not a belt, or a title, it's a championship! I loathe how WWE is all about social media, WWE Network, the WWE App & WWE.com on one hand then turn around and call all internet fans basement dwellers living in their moms basement whining on Twitter. All those "fireflies" holding up their cell phones during Bray Wyatt's entrance? Yeah, all those phones have internet. Spoilers. I hate Dave Meltzer. He's a terrible public speaker, ya know & a bad writer, ya know.. that has a podcast, ya know and a newsletter, ya know. That's like someone that can't cook, ya know, being a chef, ya know. Jim Cornette using his soapbox to talk about non-pro-wrestling things such as politics or religion.

I'm a big Sheamus fan. Time away & a heel turn have helped. The new look is still pretty bad to me but I guess it's some easy cheap heat. New entrance is great though.

This is the first I'm hearing of this. What happened to those dudes?