C.S.

Watching the last few minutes of SVU before Smackdown starts, and man, I forgot what a depressing, fucked up show this is. WWE would kill to have this level of writing and character quality though. I haven't watched SVU in years, only caught the tail-end, and I already care more about everyone and everything on this show than years of bad WWE programming.

Yes, it was amazing for completely the wrong reasons. But as a viewer, I knew something was up because it felt so much more memorable and hard-hitting than most APA matches (or matches in general). As it turns out, that's because APA was really potatoing the hell out of Public Enemy. Want to hear something even more fucked up? When The Dudleys came in, their first matches were with APA. Of course, APA had to "test" the new ECW guys to make sure they weren't Public Enemy 2.0. They beat the hell out of The Dudleys every night. Bubba Ray and D-Von's response: "Thank you very much." "Respect" in the wrestling business is such a weird and fucked up thing. What was Uncle Brucie's explanation for the Public Enemy match? And yeah, we already know Bradshaw isn't as tough as he thinks. The Brawl for All was proof of that. So was the alleged Joey Styles incident (if it actually happened).

Has there ever been a more unselfish top guy than Bryan? He takes a clean loss in a RAW rematch and isn't even on the PPV (as of yet).

Wouldn't surprise me if Bryan switches to RAW by the end of the night... ...naaaah! I'm giving WWE too much credit. Edit: Elias was also on the show tonight, and he's a Smackdown guy, so the "rule" is already out the window.

Give The Revival credit though for doing this red icy hot garbage with gusto. You can't say they aren't team players. They're embracing this shit 110%.

*Groan* Icy Hot doesn't work the way they think it does.

Perverted creeps...

Did I miss another humiliation segment? I only saw The Usos creeping around.

Here come those creepers, the Usos. Worst "babyfaces" ever.

Dominic looked huge next to Rey but tiny next to Joe.

Forget about Dietrich, Crawford, and Davis - they have nothing on the acting chops of Nattie, Naomi, and Dana Brooke.

Amazing how a well-placed "enhancement" match made Lucha House Party look better than a year of bad overbooking.

God, that was dumb.

Sami Zayn has come out to save this show.

This match is still going on? For all the bad RAW matches in the Attitude Era, at least none of them lasted long and the show moved at a quick pace. Plus, everyone was over. A far cry from today. Even massive flops like Beaver Cleavage had more heat than most of the current roster.

You can say that about so many people in this company, unfortunately.

When Greg Hamilton is the best part of Corbin's act, and even that is a retread of Shane McMahon's shtick, it ain't good. Adding Lashley to the equation doesn't help. He's an instant bathroom break.

Let's hope it's the Universal Title.

BRYAN!!! Wasn't expecting that!

Well, there was a pretty amazing APA-Public Enemy match on, I think, Sunday Night Heat. It wasn't amazing for the traditional reasons though.

Right, but Jules very specifically noted that Chris was having bad dreams about Indians chasing him.

What an insidious diseased company. Saw this posted in the comments section of CagesideSeats.com, and it's on point.

Can't believe I'm indulging in this nonsense, but how did Jules even know about Chris's bad dreams? It's possible the Native superstition is rooted in actual lore, assuming Jules was a "method" wrestler and studied Native customs. (Yeah right!)

This show seems to alternate between great episodes and terrible ones. 1. Savage: Good 2. Montreal Screwjob: Awful 3. Brody: Great 4. Von Erichs: Not great I felt for Kevin. He seems like he's both completely broken and strangely at peace - a jarring dichotomy, but completely understandable. I didn't mind David Manning as much as most of you. I thought he added a couple of good details at least. Dave Meltzer was given the Bruce Prichard role in this episode and didn't have much to contribute as a result because he wasn't allotted much airtime. I thought it was funny when Kevin said Mike (I think it was Mike) was a tremendous athlete and then they cut to Meltzer saying he was a terrible athlete. Jim Cornette once again came off as the dirt worst. He was practically smiling while recounting these tragic happenings. In this case, it really didn't pay to bring in a "wrestling historian" who was so fucking detached from the people involved that he couldn't even pretend to feel an emotional connection. On the one hand, it's good that he didn't fake it, but they really should've gone with someone closer to the situation. If that wasn't possible, maybe Meltzer and his super-messy office should have been given more screen-time instead of Cornette. BTW, whoever said Jim's fans are the pits was right on point. I posted something on Twitter about the Montreal episode turning into a pointless pissing contest between Cornette and Russo (basically the same thing I posted in this thread), and not only did the mama's boy man-child Cornette see it, tell me to "fuck awf," and blocked me (), I had to deal with days of notifications from his redneck sycophant followers. If Russo saw my tweet, he didn't block me over it - and none of his fans behaved like idiots either. Maybe I just got lucky in the latter instance? Edit: Oops! It was the Jim Cornette Experience thread that talked about his Twitter fans, not this one. I conflated the two threads. Oh well.

They’re probably either secretly supportive but won’t admit it or so stuck in the bubble like Henry that they genuinely believe the bullshit that’s been fed to them about “respecting the business, brother!”