WingedEagle

Nice to see American Alpha batting cleanup in Smackdown's intros.

That 10 count nonsense is a crowd into itself. Get over yourself. 20k people really having fun must shit on it. Some things play well on TV. Others play well live. Yet others work in both settings. Is this really such a horribly confusing concept? But hey, you're having fun and want to come ask folks here to validate it. So sure, let's do that.

Certainly felt like a finish designed to continue things.

That 10 count nonsense is a crowd into itself. Get over yourself.

Terrible and pointless. Its great when a crowd adds to a show, and they paid for their tickets so have at it. But no one is watching to see what kind of show the crowd will put on.

Well that was very disappointing. At first I thought they might give it time when it was down to 2 on 2. Then again when Lynch was down 2 to 1. But no.

Did she not get the memo she can remove it, or is there a reason she has to keep it on?

Women have vastly superior entrance music. Just blows the men away.

These brand unis are terrible.

I'm quite confident saying absolutely nothing at Survivor Series can even approach what Gargano/Ciampa and The Revival did last night. That being said, I'm irrationally excited for the show and interested in just about every match. Depending on how they lay things out, both men's & women's singles survivor matches have a lot of potential, and while Goldberg/Lesnar could go in any direction I'm optimistic it'll be fun as long as they don't run longer than 12 or so minutes. Also incredibly curious just how much time they dedicates to entrances tonight. Anyone want to time them for each match and see how long they run? If everyone gets their own music and walk, tonight could be epic.

Fuck. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. Just terrible.

Because other than the same sing-a-long entrance, they bring nothing to the table on the main roster. They're both pretty bad in-ring. Cass is as generic as they come: both in looks, wrestling & on the microphone. Enzo would be a better manager/mouthpiece and, like you said, they never won the NXT tag titles. They had more they could have done with them in NXT. And NXT could use them. Pretty much. They're over because of the entrance routine and Enzo on the mic. Once that wraps up they really can't do much at this point to get themselves or any opponents over, although they did a nice job with Cass in the title match after Balor went down, but you can't exactly use those gimmicks every night with him. Could develop them a lot more in NXT right now.

I think that "honor" goes to Takeover London. For depth I think London blows this show out of the water. Loved both women's matches on that show and bonus points for being so different, whereas tonight's was average at best. Take your pick on main events but neither was anything particularly memorable.

LOL. Oh. Canada. Potential MOTY, but other than that easily the worst Takeover ever.

You know what? Forget the ** women's match and this main event that is perfectly solid but absolutely adhering to the speed limit in the middle lane. That tag team match!

Yeah, I hated it. Kinda sloppy, kinda slow, being in the death spot didn't help it. Glad Asuka retained. The German spot was gross though. Mickie's slap was pretty good too. Glad it wasn't just me. Actually probably should rate that a bit lower. Finish was really terrible.

From Twitter it would seem I'm in the minority on Asuka/James as I thought it was pretty underwhelming, outside of the German on the floor. Mickie was rushing a ton, including beating the count after that spot and tapping right away. Asuka has a great presence and is very fundamentally sound, but something about her doesn't connect at all and her matches only go as far as her opponent can take them rather than carrying an opponent to something great. Maybe **3/4 for that.

Think it has more to do with following the tag match than anything else.

I didn't think there was any possible way they could approach Brooklyn, which I had **** 3/4 and a top 3-4 MOTYC at worst, but my god they did. Also so different from Brooklyn, while taking advantage of the three falls, relying on callbacks to that match and milking every fucking possible hot tag and false finish without ever overdoing it. Tag team wrestling!! Will need a rewatch to confirm but once again that feels like ****3/4. Part of me wants to see Scott Dawson in a singles setting. I want to know how he works quick TV matches and longer PPV mid-card title matches. But I also really don't want him to do anything other than be the best tag team wrestler in the world, which is what he is right now. Just an absolute treasure. I love it when a wrestling match makes me mark out. It is so refreshing and so much damn fun.

Look at my man Tye pulling a Hogan and going over after the loss. Match was okay and made by a strong finishing stretch and Dillinger's fire throughout. Would've been better a few minutes shorter. Roode didn't feel like anything special much of the way.

Not 60 seconds in and I am comfortable saying this show will be awesome. This entrance is why my babysitter's church was one of my favorite place to go growing up. Love it!

Super surprised at #1. Will have to go back and check that out. Along with probably dozens of others. Life would be so much better if I didn't have to work.

Now its definitely time to close this thing up. Fast.

Any thoughts on Taker after last night? Certainly didn't feel like someone who's seen his last big show. Perhaps something coming out of the Raw vs. Smackdown tag?

I still don't see the issue here unless Styles had an ironclad contract with Evolve. Not my place to agree or disagree with Gabe & the company. Unless I'm missing something it was within their rights to fire him before, during or after this or any other show, a right he happened to exercise this past weekend.