...TG

What the hell is Rollins thinking? That's a bad look.

That succession of Cesaro spots was quite impressive. Would love to see an extended program between Uso and Cesaro/Sheamus.

It would be hard to top the Brooklyn match, but I think they did it. Crowd really into it by the end, some nice old school feel to the heat. Surprised and pleased they showed JR at ringside.

The big dive off the scaffolding happened way too early in the match, kinda killed the crowd. And the chain was a massive disappointment, but what are you going to do?

They could have emphasized more that he's been there before, shown some Last Battle of Atlanta clips and such. And on cue, there's the chain!

I was pretty much unimpressed by the babyface Battens, but this chickenshit, stalling version of the Battens is rather great. Not much more I can say than Elliott did but even though the finish was cheap, there was more than enough good stuff here for me to enjoy.

Shane looks ridiculous with these sneakers. You're almost 50 man, get some loafers.

FWIW, there was zero promotion that I saw in the area for the Arlington show. First I heard of it was seeing photos of the half-empty crowd on Twitter. Now granted, I wouldn't have gone even if I had known about it, but still.

Eh, the non-Heyman part of that segment was a lot of fun. However, I'm not watching something called a "trick or street fight". Kind of implies that the winners get to pimp out the losers on the streets of Hartford after the show.

Those guys got away with it, though. Dixie seems to be in the process of failing spectacularly at her carnie attempt.

Twitter is not the place for nuance.

Wreddit is usually garbage, but I found this there: From what I glean from twitter, he cut a good promo. But still.

Ethan Page and Timothy Thatcher had a long, boring match that included two ref bumps. Even that couldn't get the crowd or me to care. I've see Thatcher matches that I've liked but this wasn't one of them.

Evolve 70 is tonight. Been decent so far. Highlight was the opener, with Darby Allin going over Anthony Henry. Allin is going to end up in a wheelchair soon so we should enjoy him while he lasts - he did his trust fall/Nestea plunge dive off a springboard this time and Henry barely caught him. The other three matches were okay - even Fred Yehi can't make Chuck Taylor/Dustin interesting for me.

I thought this was an incredible brawl. The work was really good but the atmosphere - at night, a hot crowd packed into Bithorn stadium - put it over the top for me.

Which blogs had the story?

So the mysterious Alberto Del Rio stabbing from a couple weeks ago is a little less mysterious now, I guess?

The announcers glossed over it, but watching the replay Chioda never calls for the bell after the tap, the timekeeper rings the bell too early. It was unnecessarily confusing.

I hope and pray that he writes it, solely so we can see Meltzer's angry Observer feature correcting all the mistakes.

For all the bad (but predictable) stuff about the cruiserweights' presentation, they gave that match ~17 minutes, and a commercial break. That's about double what I figured.

It will be like Mark Twain's autobiography, kept under seal for 100 years after Bret's death.

Motivated Andre in his physical prime (towards the end of it, anyway) is so impressive to me it's hard for me to accurately assess a match - he's so quick and agile and gigantic I can't get past it. I'll probably end up ranking this fairly high even though there's not much here. Though I felt like Abby brought plenty to the table as well.

This was tons of fun. Sheepherders seem to be trying to break the stalling record before starting the match - that had to have gone at least 10 minutes of flag-saluting, running around, etc.

Final was a fun match, not as good as the semis, but had its moments. Really happy for TJP (Jesus, his chest is all fucked up), and Metalik too. Not sure how New Japan didn't push him to the moon when they had him, but I think he can be big. Just a great, great series. Well done, WWE.