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I don't know if Bray is as tough as Bossman to shoot not sell for the marks but maybe he is.

lmfao

Bray just still gives me fat Rob Zombie vibes. I can't take him seriously at all. Like what happens if he gets shoot hurt? Is he gonna try to no sell it because of the gimmick?

"We're pirates brother, you can't boo pirates, right dude!?"

Goddamn you made me feel old, Sek. Fuckin' Dragonlair trolling Andrew with Tugboat to talking about kids.

I'm all for new people around here. Welcome.

Maybe it's prerecorded?

It's actually genuinely a holy shit match. The whole time I was like "wait, what? ain't no fucking way... how!?" It was awesome. Also: Samoa Joe Poncho

I didn't like the opener or the Divas Turmoil match. Everything else was either good, fun or both. Bad Bunny blew me away. Cesaro/Rollins was super good. Sasha/Bianca was super good. Shane/Braun wasn't great but you got to see Shane die which is what we all expected. It was a good show. Plus we got fucking Samoa Joe in a rain poncho. Ain't nothing topping that. That's an all-time Wrestlemania moment.

Do we seriously as a wrestling message forum not have an official Wrestlemania thread? The biggest wrestling show on earth, a 2-day event, with the first live fans in over a year? No? I don't know if that says more about the state of wrestling or the state of forums.

I like that they don't continue feuds on just for the sake of it because I'm not a big fan of having rematches too often, which is something WWE does way too much. I totally get that they'll blow through matches too quickly this way as well though.

I would keep Leva Bates as a valet & Angelico. I don't think Uno/Grayson are bad, their gimmick is just the shits.

I found out that Velvet Sky has me blocked on Twitter. I don't know if that happened a long time ago or just recently but I stand by my comments that she's terrible on commentary. I would be on board with this. Especially if he was doing The Natural gimmick again. I'm not as down on Nick Aldis as others on PWO but it does feel like between him being the champion, Tim Storm doing commentary & Strictly Business being the main stable & storyline, that right now NWA is all-in on Aldis. More focus on tag team wrestling this week as they're trying to build up a team to face Aron Stevens & whomever that jobber is that is his partner. Kratos? Kronos? Fuck if I remember. I have no idea who that dude is. The opening tag match, between Strictly Business against Parrow/Odinson was fine. Odinson was impressive. Parrow was not. The War Boys from Fury Road gimmick came off as kind of lame to me but I liked Odinson's energy & athleticism although his apron bump was unneeded & stupid. Otherwise forgettable show with not a lot going on.

It worked for ECW in 1999 when there was both WWF & WCW running 12 a year. Would make sense to me. But I don't know if I agree with the $50 price tag. Felt really burned after that last PPV. ECW PPVs were $20. Although of course that was over twenty years ago.

Yeah, it's perplexing. I know @El-P been a fan since Impact days too & has mentioned it before about how they're doing nothing in NXT. Even if you factor in the injury. I just see nothing in Kross.

They should honestly give Scarlett back her red hair & get her away from him now. Same way I feel about Penelope Ford in AEW.

The question I have moving forward is will both shows go up when on different nights, or will they stay the same?

The mentality that WWE seemingly still has as it pertains to the women is an issue. They might use the women more but they still treat them like they're minis, or the cruiserweight division. Like they're afraid to have "too many" on a card or something. What's wrong with having another segment or match with the women if those women are over & doing good stuff? For that matter, what's wrong with cutting a shitty segment with the men for an additional segment with the women? You have Sasha, Bianca, Asuka, Bayley, Rhea, Charlotte... It's OK if that's not all confined into just one RAW segment & one Smackdown segment. Especially if they're getting back both Becky & Ronda too. Just point the fucking camera at people that shine, goddamn.

Agreed. In professional wrestling, he was tremendous. I loved his ROH world title run era in particular. I don't know when it all started going downhill for him, truthfully. I feel like the initial catalyst might have been the Christy Hemme thing in TNA? That's the first thing I can recall but honestly, I think it might just be more that once he had a platform in Twitter, to spread nonsense, he showed his true colors. It's not "getting heat" when you're saying & doing the shit that he has said & done. It just makes you look exceptionally unprofessional & honestly, a liability to hire. Which is now where he's at.

I don't think they'll talk about AEW hardly if at all. I certainly don't think Jericho is going to get in a plug. If anything, I expect to hear more about Fozzy than AEW. Jericho will probably talk about WCW, ECW, Japan, coming to WWE, his world title reigns, his band & maybe his cruise. I don't think they'll be chatting about The Inner Circle, Le Champion & poppin' the bubbly Wednesday nights on Dynamite on TNT. "Tell my about debuting in WWE with The Rock, what was that like?" "Tell me about WCW not wanting to use you when you were trying to do the Goldberg thing." Same stories we've heard. But would love to be wrong.

Didn't they bring back Johnny Ace? I feel like it's going to continue to get worse for the women in WWE again. Ace doesn't exactly have a great track record with the women from his first go around.

I also think Miro, since ditching the best man streamer video game player gimmick & doing the "it's my destiny to be champion" gimmick is pretty much the most legit thing they have going. More so than whatever Omega is doing. Although I don't dislike Omega, I just think the teaming with the Good Brothers & working with Impact makes him look worse by association. I think if it were just him & Don he would be better off.

Just more WWE bullshit. Reward people that weren't around for the year over the people that carried it for the year.

I seem to recall this. It was like, Banks came from Azealia Banks but I don't remember what Sasha was from. Sasha Fierce, from Beyonce? Like Dolph Ziggler was Dolph Lundgren & Dirk Diggler, right?

Need more nicknames from yesteryear. Can always use a Moose, Ox or Bear - Russian or otherwise. I was just watching some Moose Cholak on YouTube about a week ago.