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Just happened to venture over here, thanks for these recaps.. some interesting tidbits in there. Chris Harris was a guy I always wanted to succeed and hated how his career ended up, huge fan of his TNA work. Shame to hear the Justin Credible one is how it is. Always liked Cherry. Also never knew about Matt Morgan potentially returning to WWE in 2014. Apparently Credible is starting his own podcast next week.

Agreed. Worst of all, that 7-0 streak included submitting Charlotte clean back in June. Charlotte just beats Carmella, which Becky just did last week too.

Only the Revival/Deleters match got a little crapped on by that crowd with random chants starting up. Seems random to all of a sudden destroy the Brock/Heyman relationship.

I'd go with any number of matches from Lashley's 2016 Impact run, but I feel like his last 3 or so matches here have been him getting back to form after a slow start back in WWE.

Co-signed, that was a lot of fun! 5150 and Pentagon/Sami lived up to the violence for sure. Aries/Moose felt like a big time main event match.

I always loved using Muta's mist on VPW2 for n64 as every time would be a different color at random.

Watching it live I was thinking it was one of the all time worst PPVs I could remember, until the later half of the show kicked in and delivered the goods. But the first half was mostly awful. Everything felt super rushed, nothing was getting time. There were 10 matches on the main card and only 3 made it to 10 minutes. B Team winning the titles was flat, Balor/Corbin was a throwaway TV match, Asuka got pinned in a 5 minute nothing match. Nakamura/Hardy was over in 6 seconds, which I think would've been better had it happened later in the show rather than following a series of disappointments. Owens' big bump happened and then we were quickly onto the next segment like no big deal. Advertising the Team Hell No reunion just to take Kane out for the majority sucked along with the Bludgeon Brothers being incredibly boring as champions plus Bryan taking the fall was all just deflating. The last 4 matches saved the show for me, enough to not say it outright sucked and was more in the middle. Lashley/Reigns was a lot of fun, Styles/Rusev fantastic, Alexa/Nia advanced that story well and the main event was enjoyable. So I could definitely see the reception of 4 matches were rated highly/the rest sucked, as mine is the same.

That's my hope as well I want a super long Su reign, but with Rosemary likely out until next year, I could see Su dropping it a multi-woman match to Tessa. Though the eventual Su/Rosemary showdown could/should be huge if it does happen, with the brief history already there and the recent style vignettes they would produce.

Co-signed on this being the show I'm looking forward to most of this year so far. Doubly so after the amount of times WWE's bigger shows (Extreme Rules, Greatest Rumble) were horrible disappointments. As for predictions, I'm thinking Aries retains as he hasn't defended since winning it this time around, and his last reign was abruptly short with the Pentagon switch but it could go either way. The feud has been very well done, keeping Aries and Moose apart all this time. Su retains but they've done a great job building up Madison. Cage wins no doubt but Sydal has had a great title run. If they bring back Option C as a thing with the X title, I think Cage is the guy to dethrone Aries later in the year. Pentagon of course beats Callihan. Edwards over Dreamer since Tommy is always there for the put over. Tessa beats Allie since she hasn't had a big win yet and is on back to back losses to Madison, but I love this as a rivalry. OGz beat LAX (since as far as I know it's non title). And the 4 way I'm guessing Johnny Impact gets a win in his big return, though I'm looking forward to Ishimori coming back as well. Absolutely awesome looking card, but there's still quite a bit of Impact regulars not on the card (Kongo Kong, Eli Drake, Trevor Lee, Killer Kross, oVe & the rest of the tag division, etc.)

Agreed. I thought he and Prince Puma were both stale by the end of last season.

Nicole was announced for the Mae Young Classic. Last year she was in the dark match of the MYC tapings. It is. I know it seemed like one of Kurt Angle's favorites in his career where he seemed to throw himself as hard as possible at the post. It also seems to be the only way they think people can take over control against Braun as well. Very strange and overdone.

I'm gonna be disappointed if it doesn't go that route after that segment. It would just be a hilarious twist conclusion to this angle thats been going on forever.

Paige announced it's opening the show. But I could see it going more angle than match with a beatdown or something to prolong the actual match happening.

The other girls are Deonna Purazzo, who has wrestled everywhere the past 2 years (ROH, NXT, Impact, Japan, etc), Lacey Lane who has been wrestling in The Crash and MJ Jenkins who had a very brief Impact run last year.

Just to clarify, Fire Pro Club was the old/original site back then. After it went down the last time, Arena was the spinoff version that this guy made to replace it around 2013-14 ish. Looks like the rest of the community will be making a new site based off the original at CriticalClub.com

All true. Everything of how they went about this was bizarre. The B Team completely dominated them at every turn. The last 3 weeks of RAW: Axel beat Matt (in under a minute), Axel beat Matt, Bo beat Matt. Then tonight.... they win again, 100% clean. Apparently Matt and Bray, or at least Matt, are the underdogs. Hated most of this show but the later half had a few bright spots.

Also loved the various different colors Razor used. Had a little bit of everything at times and always looked cool. Fun to recreate in WWE 2K

Same here, highly enjoyed that match with Hangman and found both impressive that night.

Brodus Clay reportedly originally pitched the idea of the "Hall of Pain" that ended up being used for Mark Henry but he said in an interview that he accepted once you submit an idea it's no longer necessarily 'yours'. Pete Gas mentioned something in his book about a gambler gimmick he was doing in development and doing something on the roster with the APA then he got cut and they tried using it with the FBI or something. I feel like there was something else that came up in an interview fairly recently but can't recall what it was.

Yeah, I think that was in the Observer as well, "creative has nothing for them" and that's awful. In addition to working New Day at all the house shows last month, they worked a couple dark matches before SDLs losing to Gallows and Anderson as well. Haven't been on TV since the end of May. I hope Kane and Bryan win the tag titles.

it's more just whichever top guy was there at that moment was gonna face Brock. They originally tried to set up Jon Jones vs. Brock last year when Jones beat Cormier and then called out Brock before Jones went down with another drug test fail suspension. Basically it was Stipe vs. Cormier with a Winner Fights Brock stipulation.

Watching now, this is absolute greatness. Love the Slam Jam release party, made me wish Lex had a song on it. He comes off like the coolest dude having fun throughout. Lex using his ICOPRO. Wish they did stuff like this and the whole Intrepid show more. Lots of greatness in the challenge... Early superstar entrance for smiling babyface Scott Steiner rules, Kona Crush being super over. Todd is hilarious as host with the ring introductions. My favorite hidden gem thus far. Lex should've been champ. Also, this opens with the traditional video to "I'll Be Your Hero" while on SummerSlam 93, the Network has always had it replaced with a different song.

the Bruce show is the one I wish wasn't going to be a "seasonal" one on the Network. It's been a very fun weekly watch to look forward to each week.

Agreed, feels like Mickie is shining in this role ever since being put back with Alexa. They split them way too soon the first time around.

Cedric Alexander killed my interest in that show, but Roderick Strong was on fire the brief time he was on there.