MoS

Oh I know, I am just glad that of all the WWE wrestlers they could have done a puff piece about, they chose Sasha. She's deserved it for the longest time

Very well-deserved. Sasha is a genuine star and I am so happy she is finally getting recognised.

I think it's obvious that the big rating (relatively speaking of course) was due to Hogan and Flair being advertised. We have seen this a hundred times by now. WWE pops a big number, people try to attribute it to the product or booking decisions (like the big Christmas rating for SD, which was clearly due to the massive lead-in) even though there are obvious external reasons for this. Then the ratings and viewership drop right down to the obscenely low average the next week (like SD this week), and they are followed by the product setting new low viewership records. Hell, it happened with Raw and Ric Flair this very summer. Maybe we should stop going so easy and generous on WWE booking. One year ago, the idea that Hogan and Flair would draw barely above 2 million viewers would have been laughed out of the building. Now, it's considered good news!! Sorry, but at some point, WWE will have to get their head out of the sand and understand that the problem is them, their booking, their approach, their philosophy. If they don't, this pattern will keep repeating and a year from now, we will be celebrating a Raw which does 1.5 million viewers as a major ratings success.

Meh first hour, but the 2nd hour picked up. I am hoping this means the Bucks are full-blown heels finally, instead of whatever crap they had been doing the last couple of months. I am intrigued by how they book this invasion

Rey Fenix is incredible

The build to this match was terrible, but I am liking Abadon-Shida so far. I am sure I am in the minority, but I think it's been great

That was the absolute worst frogsplash I have ever seen in my life

Pleasantly surprised they put over Wardlow clean. Not sure about Brodie Lee Jr. actually participating in angles on TV

Both the WWE and the US empires are falling in front of our eyes

These rappers are terrible and I am stunned no one has told them to cut it out

Love the recaps, good brother. Also, Bischoff's memory lapses are so convenient. He will remember some encounters in perfect lucid detail while others he would have no recollection. How interesting.

Eddie Kingston is the absolute greatest

If I am being honest, yeah, this question came to me cuz I was reading an Observer, not from 1990, but from sometime in the 00s, when Dave was discussing Aja's HOF credentials, and he mentioned this. Regardless, what do you think of Dump, and how would you compare her to Aja? I agree Aja is a better worker, but Dump had a presence that was out of this world. I have seen matches with the Crush Gals where she is like, drinking their blood almost, and everyone in the crowd is weeping

So, in hindsight, what was the use of EVIL getting the world title? Did it accomplish anything? When it happened, people pointed to Jay White as Gedo elevating a heel by giving him the world title. But while White was absolutely elevated and became a main eventer, can the same really be said about EVIL? That reign seems so completely pointless. I would have kept the title on Naito but given Ospereay the big win yesterday to elevate him to the main event.

Incidentally, someone asked Cardi what she thinks of Sasha, and Cardi said Sasha is great and that she's a Sasha fan

I thought Hiromu-Ishimorinwas an unfocused confusing match with a bunch of high spots laid together in a haphazard way. There was some attempt at working Hiromu's arm that would promptly get forgotten as soon as it was time for the next high spot. I liked the main event, but there was no reason for it to go 48 minutes. They could have easily gone 10 less minutes. Regardless, Ibushi was the MVP of the 2-day event and I look forward to his title reign.

Haha not at all. That's the thing: I don't know anyone who wants this, and I think anyone who does so is genuinely nuts

Would genuinely like to study and examine the minds of the people who want Goldberg in their world title scene in 2021

You all are going to get poor Steph injured again with all this hype

Oh don't get me wrong, I love Aja. It's just that there definitely was a narrative that she was an inferior version of Dump, and I wanted to hear your thoughts cuz reading your reviews gave me the idea that you don't like Dump too much and like Aja a whole lot more

A Sachin Tendulkar reference on a wrestling forum delights the Indian in me. 2021 shaping up to be a better year already

lol true and he did win here, but doesn't this mean Ibushi can never lose hereinafter. Like, how do you claim you are God and then lose at any point?!?!?!

The strike exchanges in Ibushi-Naito have been much better than they were in Okada-Ospereay. Maybe that means I have been overrating Okada all along. I honestly have been feeling the latter for the past few months, since Okada started doing that stupid gimmick in front of no fans. No way would Misawa-San have been so underwhelming and disappointing in a similar situation

This event is reinforcing my belief that Okada and Ibushi are the only NJPW wrestlers who are all-timers, since they are the only ones who can overcome the terrible aspects of modern NJPW house style to actually stand out and feel impressive and excellent