C.S.

That was...not good.

Wasn't it Final Fight, or did both games have that? Either way, this is quite a fall down the ladder for Braun - even if whatever he's doing with these irrelevant SNL no-names is considered a "prime spot."

Now Braun is a dumb geek. The car was a gift given to him. Why wreck it?

I wish. Would be better than Bobby Lashley.

Benjamin is already a geek. So much for his big return.

Well, this just took a turn...

This has been a gigantic waste of time so far.

The Shield really makes everyone in it better, because last night - for the first time in years - I saw the old Rollins that everyone was excited about.

Most fans care a lot less about Asuka than PWO thinks. Yes, part of that is bad WWE booking. Even I scratch my head at how she went from dominant to a non-entity so quickly. She has a title again now, but the bloom is definitely off the rose. If she left tomorrow, it wouldn't affect WWE's product one iota (although even I can admit she'd be an asset to AEW's women's division). As for the other teams around in the Harlem Heat era, I won't bother commenting on any of the Bagwell pairings because they were all bland, but I remember Orndorff and Roma being okay together, Nasties were fairly decent until at least '94, Blue Bloods were good at sports-entertaining but I can't remember their matches for the life of me, Faces of Fear deserved far more than they got. Buck and Slater were everything that Bischoff despised about the Southern WCW, and he's not wrong. LOD and Steiners were useless by then. Harlem Heat was clearly the best of this bunch - except maybe Faces of Fear, but they never got pushed and were never going to get pushed.

All of those people are wrong. Harlem Heat was a great team. As for not meshing with The Steiners and the Road Warriors, we're talking about two teams who, at that point, were past their primes and not what they used to be. Did those two teams have good matches with anyone in the mid to late '90s? The rest of the division was pretty mediocre. What was good? The Marcus Alexander Buff Bagwell rotating team of the year? Not really. I'll give you Meng and Barbarian though - those guys ruled!

Harlem Heat was fantastic. The snarky hate in this thread is utterly baffling. No, Stevie Ray wasn't a "super worker," but they were a damn good and effective tag team. Yes, WCW's tag team division sucked in the mid to late-'90s, but holding that against them makes no sense to me. They would have dominated any division in any era. I agree that Sherri should be there with them, but she technically wasn't part of the team and I'm sure she'll be mentioned and thanked profusely. She deserves her own induction anyway. If this backlash is because the Hart Foundation "got bumped" for Harlem Heat (assuming they did), the reason why is obvious to me. Expecting Bret Hart to take a backseat to DX was never, ever, ever going to fly - no matter how "buddy-buddy" he and Shawn Michaels supposedly are now.

He could still turn tomorrow (the original Shield turn happened on Raw too) and still leave the company after losing to Roman at WM. Will he turn? At this point, I doubt it. But nothing yet is stopping it from happening.

That ended up being damn good.

We're all going to miss The Shield.

Those were awesome. This will never be that, but it's not bad.

Match is finally picking up steam.

This is a snoozer of a match.

Drew's tights are awesome.

While I don't think this short match or fuck finish does anyone any favors, the result was such a foregone conclusion anyway that I feel it doesn't really matter.

Ali > Ricochet

I can't get into this. I know that sounds like sacrilege because all three are busting their butts, but when the match feels so thrown together and the result is such a foregone conclusion, it's hard to get fully invested.

Tamina's is even worse. Looks like a collection of disparate parts from Fire Pro Wrestling CAW mode.

Joe submitting Rey surprises me (instead of, you know, R-Truth). Rey is an actual star. Lends credence to the Cena rumors.

New gear for Joe that finally doesn't look like it's been faded by hundreds of wash cycles. Guess being the U.S. Champion gave him that paygrade bump to splurge on clean pants.