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Really good show this week with a fun tag match where Alpha made the AOP look way better than they probably are, and Bayley and Nia bringing the goods in one of the best women's matches of the year in WWE.

Man they are going to need at least 3 or 4 NXT women if they are going to have them on both shows. I'm guessing Bayley and Nia will be two of the six NXT names. I feel like Alexa would do better on the main roster where her looks would help her get over more, and she wouldn't have the expectations of all the great Horsewomen matches to live up to. I could also see Carmella benefitting from being on the MR in the same way. Asuka is at the point where it doesn't feel like anyone can believably beat her in NXT, and I really want to see her wrestle Sasha and Becky.

Nak used his injured leg for a kick and knee flurry as soon as he got back on offense without selling anything. I don't think it's being nit picky it took me out of the match for a good while, and there was more spotty selling after that. I thought it was good, but not great.

Nak dropped his selling way too much. I thought Balor was the best guy in the match.

If Bayley were only over with young girls then yeah her big sister character would have a relatively short shelf life. However, she's over with everyone from all demographics in front of the NXT crowds, and she happens to be a really damn good pro wrestler. She's a naturally great underdog, and she doesn't need to have a youthful wide eyed character to pull it off.

They sort of pulled a main roster by getting rid of Blue Pants for being too over. Tye is clearly too over for his current role, and has become the Sandow of NXT. It was a bad move putting a debuting babyface against a guy as over as Dillinger. I'm personally not that big a fan of his. I think he's decent in ring, with a bush league look and gimmick. However the fans dig it so you may as well print up some merch, and give the guy a little push to see what happens.

Man that's a really dangerous fight for Brock. I'd be pretty surprised(and impressed) if he won. I wonder if WWE will just ignore the fight all together if he gets KOed in the first few minutes. It'll be interesting to see how or if they promote this fight on WWE tv. I can't imagine Brock getting starched in two minutes in the UFC, and turning around and headlining SummerSlam a month latter.

If he fights Josh Barnett I'm 95% certain it's a work, and Barnett will do the job. If he fights Mark Hunt he's taking a nap. I really have no interest in seeing Brock fight or wrestle at this point, and the amount of bending over Vince has done for a guy they didn't even need to sell Mania this year is hilarious.

I'm looking forward to a Joe/Nakamura match so much I feel like they're just killing time until that happens. Takeover should be a good show, but there's nothing on it I want to see half as much as Joe vs Nakamura.

I get that I do see the potential with Ospreay. After having seen so much of Ricochet's work as Prince Puma this match was a big letdown for me. I guess it's a great Michael Bay match if you're in the mood for that.

I don't get the big deal with this match. There's better matches in this style every other week on Lucha Underground. Is the athletic stuff in this match anymore impressive than Rey's mid 90's stuff or the Low Ki/ Amazing Red matrix stuff? I'm not seeing what the big deal is. Neville does just as must impressive stuff without exposing the business every other spot.

Is it possible to really like Prince Puma but hate Ricochet? I really dig Puma in LU, and this was my first time seeing him work as Ricochet and it kind of made me hate him. I thought everything about this match sucked a dick. Awful strikes, awful facial expressions, the selling went back and forth between nothing and ultra goofy, cutesy flips for the sake of cutesy flips, loud spot calling, etc. I really didn't like anything about this. Ricochet's facials are awful he'll have to wear a mask if he every goes to WWE. Also could Ospreay stop overselling with his goofy "you motherfucker" everytime he gets hit?

I want a Samoa Joe/Cena feud headling Smackdown. This is a good opportunity to really push some guys to the next level. Hell they've never even gave guys like Ambrose or Bray a proper big star push. Rusev could be a star, Big E, Zayn, Owens AJ, Cass and Enzo along with Charlotte, Sasha, and Bayley. There's so much talent ready to break out just waiting on a legitimate push.

Roman was awesome in the main event, and AJ has been the best main roster worker in WWE this year. That was about as well worked as that kind of match can be. People keep blaming the 2015 Rumble and Daniel Bryan for Roman's push as a face not working. How about giving a guy in his first ppv singles match a win over a 10 time world champ coming off a long title reign? How about giving a guy the record number of eliminations at Survivor Series and the Rumble? How about giving him lame promo material while his ex partner out pops him as a singles star. How about jumping the gun his world title push by a year when it should've been Roman/Rusev and Cena/Lesnar(in their first match since SummerSlam) at Mania 31? How about skipping winning a secondary title on his way to the main event? How about presenting him too much like the guy they just saw on top for a decade when Roman's skill set isn't suited for that? Blaming the mean old fans for rejecting bad booking just doesn't cut it with me. They made this push so obvious and so forced it was bound to end up like this. It's too bad because Roman should be a massively over babyface wrecking fools and getting cheered doing it. The bottom line is his push was mishandled, and that's no fault of the audience that loved him as an ass kicking wrecking machine in the Shield not a smiley joke telling selling for 90% of the match for the Miz singles guy.

I really hope we get a 10+ minute match between these two at some point. Emma was great in her second NXT run, and Becky has improved a ton as an all around performer since getting called up.

How should they be using Zayn? I think being in a feud with Owens, wrestling AJ Styles on Raw in a match they had Shane put over, and main eventing Smackdown is a pretty good spot.

I doubt Sasha is a fan of Moolah it's just a company line fed to her to say. This is a company that gives out a Warrior award, and pretends he wasn't a homophobic piece of crap. Just another example of WWE rewriting history to suit their agenda.

I never thought anything more about Nak's mannerisms than a dude with a lot of charisma doing fun stuff. Just a bizarre thread for one of the best shows of the year.

Ryder got the biggest face pop for a win at WrestleMania. That's all you need to know about the booking in this company.

Another main event Mania bomb for Hunter.

That purple confetti stuck in HHH's forehead wrinkle is cracking me up.

This is the fucking GOAT.

Fuck the young talent lol.

Wow a decent booking decision giving Corbin the win.

So are we going to have a WrestleMania were Zack Ryder got the biggest pop for winning?