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Combate Americas just signed with AXS to begin airing their shows next year. Indy star Thunder Rosa just made her MMA debut for them this past weekend. It was said to be a "multi-fight contract" when he signed in April.

Co-signed on all that. Maybe my favorite match of the show since the predictable nature of the Cody/Jericho finish deflated me a bit. I don't think they'll go back to Riho/Britt since they just did it on week 3 last month, but that was of course Britt's best match and I loved the finish. I'm loving Riho more and more with each match so they've got me hoping for a long reign as champion. I'm guessing Kong will be her eventual endgame but the other challengers I'd love to see her face in the meantime. Shanna as you mentioned has been excellent and another match with Hikaru Shida with more build would have me excited. I also hope Emi Sakura sticks around as a semi-regular as she was great, her and Riho's finishing sequences were fantastic.

No, I was looking for the "multiple" occasions, envirornments, and situations where he garnered a star reaction. I got one environment in NXT and one situation in a Rumble surprise. Contrast those reactions to Raw, Smackdown, and AEW. You said Spears could at least garner a star reaction, implying that Pac could not, so I simply provided a time in which he did.

No, but he was announced ahead of time as an entrant thus not a 'surprise entrant'.

Well of course a surprise Rumble entry is going to generate a star reaction for anyone not on the main roster.

Outside of the NXT Full Sail crowd that treats everybody that way? Neville/Rollins - 8/3/15, the pop for Neville almost winning was massive. Really the escalation of the crowd from each big spot to that gigantic moment was impressive. Way bigger and more memorable than anything I've ever seen from Spears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUVE0X63Ck

I only hated how telegraphed the finish was. More than that, I hate the stip because I can't imagine anyone vs Jericho being as hot of a babyface as Cody. Fuck the post match though. Too soon, we all knew it was coming eventually but I felt they could've dragged it out much longer.

Love the little Jericho/Malenko face off

Guessing MJF throws in the towel (scarf) as the finish. But I would kinda love to see them go 60

Riho is awesome

I believe the plan is 4 a year like with Double or Nothing in May, All Out in Sept, Full Gear in Nov, and one other.

Spears/Janela has been added. Britt Baker vs. Bea Priestley is the buy in match

Fantastic job selling the PPV on this episode. Cody promo was the best, really looking forward to him and Jericho.

Not at all. Turned me off NXT and made me turn off SD too. Cannot stand that corny ass dork and will never get the appeal.

So true and so awful. A real fuck your real sports presentation. Sorry Fox, Ronda's gone, you can have Brock for two weeks, but instead you get the real goofy shit. Amazing how quick Kofi went back to just another guy too. Literally nothing about Smackdown has changed since coming to Fox aside from the intro video and whatever they do with the cameras now.

Thats hilarious. I didn't watch, but it is true that all this hype bullshit is just because they have a new mask, everything else is the same ol shit.

Agreed 100% with this. A lot of this does remind me of Memphis studio wrestling and not just old school NWA. Especially with Austin Idol and Tony Falk. I do wish sometimes they used at least some entrance music, but music videos for sure were always an excellent way of getting guys over. As you mention with Corgan which is something he utilized while with Impact where they were using Hole, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. for theme music.

Agreed with all. really great stuff. "Hey wait... you're the penis guy!" Shamrock was fantastic.

embarassing clown shit main event.

Hot crowd loving the most Progressive match in WWE history!

Fury TKOs Braun via countout. Great entrance for Fury, thought he looked alright in there

basically MMA style. they did some clinching against the ropes, Cain landed a head kick and went in for ground and pound but Brock kicked his knee out and caught him in the Kimura. then Brock beat him with a chair, F5 on the chair, until rey got another chair to fight him off.

Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson are now the Best Tag Team in the World.

Wow, Brock submits Velasquez with the Kimura in 2 minutes in the opener