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5 hours per week with the same core roster is just far too much. They don't have the depth up top that they had in the early 2000's when they only had 4 hours to fill. Even if they assembled the best booking staff possible I don't know that they could keep the same 10-15 featured guys interesting with 25 hours of tv and ppvs per month.

Incredible segment with Owens and Cena. That was a fucking money promo.

Well the angle got over pretty well.

I'm ready for Owens to get the belt.

It's been a one match show so far with a few great individual performances in the first chamber match.

This match is dogshit.

Does anybody care about these midcarders that trade wins every week? At least the diva match was an entertaining train wreck.

I went from loving to hating back to loving Cena/Owens. Obviously there were too many kick outs, but it being a inter promotional champ vs champ match allows me to look past that a little. I thought Owens' performance was star making.

I've been seeing a lot of Bayley and Sasha Banks shirts in the NXT audience lately. I wonder how well their merch is doing compared to the men in NXT. I would guess they're in the second tier right behind Balor, Owens, and maybe Zayn.

I think Charlotte/Sasha is the feud that could turn the perception of women on the main roster around. Sasha/Becky had the better match, but Sasha/Charlotte seem to work a more casual fan(aka less mat work) friendly style. There's no reason HHH couldn't put Charlotte in the Authority as the female face of WWE. Given his ties to Ric it makes sense. Once you've established her above the current women that's when you start bringing up the NXT girls to feud with her. I think Bayley is a goldmine of merchandise waiting to happen, and is one of the best short tv match workers in the company. I'm interested to see a Sasha face run in NXT. I'm imaging a main roster feud between her and Charlotte based on Charlotte coming from a life of privilege and having everything handed to her while Sasha had to fight and claw her way to the WWE.

The last two Manias ended with Brian Danielson and Tyler Black holding the world title over their heads. Jon Moxley is the current challenger for the world title, and Kevin Steen is wrestling John Cena in his first match on the main roster. The times have changed. Sure there will be guys like Reigns(who's a good wrestler tbh) Cena, and Kane around, but the turn around they've done on giving indy talent a shot over the past several years has been amazing.

Really fun podcast the TNA/Ryder stuff was gold.

It's so obvious who that stuff comes from especially when you see how HHH books the women in NXT.

Cass and Enzo usually have a few great new jokes when they get to the ring after they get their usual stuff in. For me they really excel in the backstage promos and skits where they just seem to interact with each other off the cuff, and Carmella adds way more to those skits than she does in front of an audience. I've seen noticeable improvements in Cass in both the ability and look departments lately. Also that was easily the best Enzo has ever looked. Just show that guy nothing but Ricky Morton tapes. I would say them along with Bayley have huge potential in being marketed to kids/teenagers when they get to main roster.

The Akira TNA booking meeting is all time great. The intro and ending are the best part.

Sasha Banks > everyone else

That truly was a bizzaro Raw most everything was well booked and made sense. The post match to Cena/Zayn is why I think Zayn will get over big on the main roster. He's so good at conveying his emotions to the audience in a natural way.

Tag title match was an easy motn for me.

So they let Bryan work matches knowing he had a concussion? They make Punk look better all the time.

Steph would probably be the first person I'd like to see gone from WWE tv if I had a choice.

I thought it was weird as hell that Cena had such a hard time beating Stardust. I'm not sure it took Cena that much effort to beat Rusev. Also Cena needs to stop yelling out spots from across the ring. They tried to repeat Mania with Show playing Brock, and it came off about how you would expect. I was pretty surprised at that NXT chant Neville got from such a casual crowd. It was a good showing for Neville I think he'll be a solid edition to the mid card as I'd rather see him in random no build matches than Ziggler. The women's match was putrid. The NXT women coming up have their work cut out turning this division around.

I have friends and a few cousins who fall into the demo you're talking about Cross Face, and my pitches are usually Brock is awesome, and their developmental show smokes Raw. I really couldn't recommend 3 hour Raws to anyone.

I think it depends on how Bryan drops it and to who. I have no doubt his run will elevate the title, but you have to put it on someone who can keep the momentum going. If he were to drop it to Sheamus I think the crowd would have no fucks to give. If he were to drop it to someone like Balor at Summer Slam in a star making match it'll carry on.

I think the Punk stuff just about killed Chicago based on the last show they did there.

Kevin Owens would be a great opponent for Reigns. It would be pretty cool if they could do some angle where HHH gets his most dangerous NXT guy to try and keep Reigns from getting to Rollins.