Jmare007

Great show. I don't think I'll ever get used at how you guys pronounce "Cashas" instead of "Casas" though

Don't know about "great" booking, I think for the most part Gedo has done a good job in the last 5 years or so but he's done some weird ass booking in their Dome shows for a while now. I thought the show was better than I expected. I normally feel very underwhelmed with Dome shows and this one delivered a ton of good matches (and a great one in Nakamura/Ibushi) without having to sit through 4-5 hours of wrestling. The hyperbole it's whatever to me at this point, people love them some New Japan.

Sounds good to me. But I'd make Seth cash in on Roman because that dude shouldn't have a real run with the belt yet. Another scenario I'd like for Bryan would be getting eliminated by Rusev and then those two having a classic at Mania.

But at the same time, The Authority trying to keep Bryan from entering the Rumble (for his own good) would get nuclear heat. And they have been playing off D-Bry loving The Authority being gone, it's kinda hard picturing them not going back to that feud.

I didn't think it was that bad. Could have used a little more intensity when he talked about Rusev though.

I actually wouldn't have liked Dave as an announcer because I don't think he would've been that good. Too much "know what I mean?"s and stuttering for my liking. wow, I don't see that happening at all. I mean, there's no doubt some people would question his credibility on the issue but I think a big majority would side with Dave.

Exactly. Heyman is like the IC/US belt (Rusev's reign aside) in the sense that creative automatically goes into a weird "he doesn't need to be protected/put in a compelling feud, he already has a title/great mouthpiece" mode. So they find ways to justify that wrestler jobbing every show or being lost in the shuffle. Same thing happened with the MITB briefcase before Rollins.

Intrigued to see what Ziggler/Luke, Bray/Dean and Cena/Rollins do in the ring after all the buzz generated by the NXT show. Specially Bray and Dean.

re: Sting/HHH Also, it wouldn't shock me if Rollins wins on Sunday so Cena is "forced" to bring the Authority back to get his title shot or something.

So close.

Austin whiffed on this one giving Vince the easy way out. He ALWAYS puts Cesaro over on his podcast but Austin didn't really put over how over Cesaro was doing the Swing and after winning the Battle Royal and how it was creative's fault for not pushing him as a babyface. I think he let Vince off the hook on this one with bad phrasing and not making a strong argument out of the gate. The Swing thing I agree. A direct question about why they took it out and how it obviously damaged him would've been better than what we got. BUT, Austin did lay out the booking of Cesaro and how he went from hot to cold in a couple of months. The fact that Vince didn't interrumpt him or defend the booking by blaming Cesaro or explaining why they did what they did to him tells me Vince was conceding him the point about booking. Specially because immediately after Steve talked about the booking, Vince admitted he didn't know what to do with Cesaro. In my view that's Vince saying they fucked up and don't know how to get him over. That's depressing considering getting Cesaro over again doesn't look like an impossible task, but it's still a very honest answer about what the hell happened to his push.

Steve didn't pull any punches and Vince was way more candid than I thought he would've. When he asked about Savage you could see Austin thinking about pressing the issue but then he just switched to Sting. The most shocking thing to me was Vince pretty much admitting he doesn't know what to do with Cesaro. "The territories put themselves out of business" was gold

-The medical stuff was eye opening. I'm sure most of us knew WWE was fucked up when it came to injuries and that kind of stuff but holy shit. It's even worse than I thought. I hope this interview makes some noise and forces the company's hand on this matter, the shit Punk talked about is unacceptable. -Hate to be THAT guy but Survivor Series with Rock did the best buyrate in almost a decade. I think they did lose money or didn't make much money because Rock was too expensive though. Him main eventing TLC without Cena didn't do better than the previous year, I think he was talking about HIAC vs Ryback. That one drew better than other years and way better than expected IIRC. And Wrestlemania is the main draw but Miz vs Cena isn't selling more than 1 million PPVs without Rock's involvement. -I get Punk's anger and complaints, I really do. But I can't help but think he was dumb for falling for "working the boys 101" tactics a bunch of times. Specially during the time he re-signed.

I just hope the interview isn't focused on the Attitude Era and how Vince "won the war".

Wouldn't it be something if that Austin/McMahon interview was "unleashed"

Kinda surprised there's no Slaughter vs Shiek

Don't know if this has been mentioned already but Cary Elwes told a bunch of Andre stories from when they were filming The Princess Bride when he was in the Kevin Polak Chat Show. It's a great listen.

Vince making a return reeks of desperation but that's a good thing at this point. The stipulation for Team Authority vs Team Cena is a nice addition but that first segment was anticlimactic as hell.

So WWE is advertising Sheamus vs Rusev for the US Title after RAW as a Network exclusive. Could this the start of the Russian Title angle? re: Bryan Kinda surprised WWE hasn't talked about his association with the Giants in the last month or so. But I guess it's better late than never. And more non-news news about his injury.

Coked up Randy back Hall of Pain back The BIG GUY back Can't complain about tonight at all.

This should be fun.

What the hell happened in this thread?

That's been the case for the last 7-8 years, sadly.

I'm on the same boat.