C.S.

Disappointing result. Let's push the bland geek who puts people to sleep instead of the dynamic, exciting, buzzed about young star that WWE sure as hell wouldn't have gotten even a year later in the age of AEW.

I like the name change, but not everyone can rock a 'stache like that - and Roode sure can't.

That Uso promo was gibberish with their catchphrases forced in.

Not that I wanted Cesaro to lose, but what's the point of debuting Alexander on Raw with a loss? So, exactly like Kassius Ohno... I agree.

Sami Zayn should win MiTB.

Breaking news: Joseph Ryan signed by WWE to become Robert Roode's partner. They will be known as #TeamStache. (Okay, I made that up!)

I actually prefer the name Robert Roode and wonder why he didn't stick with it. Not sure what the Rickstache is about though.

Another name change. Agreed. The writing is utterly dreadful and has been for years now. Wow, did AJ just mention the match out of the blue before anyone could actually set it up, or did I just zone out at how fucking boring this dogshit has been?

A bunch of boring, lazy #1 contender matches... Great! The likely outcome is Seth vs. Drew, which is fine, I guess. But I'd love Rey vs. Seth or even Miz vs. Seth. Miz belongs in the main event mix and has been overlooked at that level for far too long.

Speaking of the devil...

Mike Sanders' mic work seemed great at the time, but it has aged like moldy cheese.

From Eater of Worlds to Eater of Small Towns Dramatic weight loss. I'm no Bray fan, but I'll call a spade a spade and call that impressive.

Agreed. Wish WWE would go all in on Lio and send Lashley back to the indies. Lio is easily the far more interesting and compelling of the two. Unfortunately, he's 5'2 or something like that, so he'll never rise above midcard goof in the WWE. Yes, there's Rey, but I'm sure I don't need to explain why he's the exception.

New signings: I still don't understand why WWE never signed Leva Bates (Blue Pants), even if it's just to have her, like they seemingly do with many others.

Anyway, the main event was a fun house show match, but not necessarily a PPV-quality match. Ditto for the other two matches. That's fine. What makes this show worth watching is the emotion, the post-match Shield promo, and everyone generally being allowed to cut loose a bit more.

Haha. That's usually true, but the last Shield match against the same opponents at one of the b-PPVs a couple of months ago was actually pretty great.

Anyone gonna watch the final, final - really, we mean it this time - final Shield appearance tonight?

Which makes me wonder what the hell WWE was thinking in letting Arn go. They obviously couldn't really keep Dustin, and they never had Daniels, but Arn was right there!

This is incredible. Pure class:

Wasn't sure if I should just put this in the "Comments That Don't Warrant a Thread" thread, but I ultimately decided that this was newsworthy enough to warrant its own thread (if it's true, that is). Footage: Quote from 2016: “But you never know, I could pop up here and there. Let me explain that to you even better. It’s not going to even be televised, it’s going to be me in a ninja f–king outfit wrestling one of my buddies and nobody’s ever going to know. It’s going to be very ‘Monty Python’ so to speak.” Confirmation? https://wrestlingnews.co/other/it-looks-like-cm-punk-returned-to-wrestling-under-a-mask-last-night/ There's supposedly an Instagram picture of Punk in the same outfit, sans the mask, but someone else will have to sleuth that out.

Now that you mention it, I kinda remember that now. I guess I just took him at face value. Was he at WrestleMania in the Andre Battle Royal? I thought he was, but I could be wrong. If he wasn't, I'm surprised that didn't lead to any speculation.

Is this it?

If there was talk of Dustin leaving WWE for AEW, I completely missed it. I mean, I expected it eventually, but I thought he was still in WWE. I am genuinely blindsided by this news, in a good way. Should be a great match! Someone else just posted - probably about this, lol - as I was composing my own message, but here's the official announcement and graphic:

Speaking of which, what happened to Pete Rosenberg? He was the only one of these amateur "fan" types I actually liked.