El Dragon

As someone with a history of concussion issues, I also can’t imagine having to work a match in this light is great for your head. Light sensitivity issues are a bitch.

They are killing all of the Fiends good will with a fucking light. Such a WWE thing.

After last night any result that isn’t Dunne taking the belt in less then 10 minutes is bullshit. I’m betting on Undisputed Era causing a DQ.

The NXT Main Event style might be my least favorite wrestling style to ever exist at this point.

Man, I wish Dijakovic and Strong were switched in this. Dijakovic as the muscle for UE and Roddy as the badass babyface. mostly that’s just me not wanting Roderick on the UE so I can completely I ignore them.

Assuming we are talking Roddy, he was arguably the best guy in a War Games match all the way back in 05, and he’s grown a lot as a worker since then.

I mean O’Reilly is very good too. But yeah, Roddy is the best guy in the stable.

Seriously. Lee looks like he could eat Cole.

Finn Balor is Seth Rollins without the annoying twitter persona. Still sucks.

This is Pete Dunne in a description to me at this point. Nobody has gone from “seek him out” to “fine with not watching one of his matches any time soon” as quickly.

Some people wonder why WWE is doubling down on Seth, when it feels obvious to me. He used to feel like a Hunter guy, but his recent “blaming the dirt sheets and the fans for not liking the product” bullshit feels like it’s specifically designed to get on Vince’s good side. He’s being as obnoxious as Vince would be if he wasn’t restricted by stock holders.

They really can’t afford to not have Tony for big shows.

Pretty sure it’s over the twitter feud with Austin Aries currently going on. Says something when Corny might not even be the biggest asshole in a 2 person beef.

If they are seriously doing Raw v Smackdown v NXT I want to see Brock Lesnar absolutely dismantle Adam Cole.

Also World Series game 2.

I’m surprised things like sponsorship for the YouTube videos (becoming increasingly common now a days) as well as, if they are willing to think really outside the box, Patreon aren’t coming up as options. Online based options can be viable now.

This is like “I am legitimately starting to wonder if someone super high in the company is intentionally trying to undermine Vince” level of shit lately. Right when they needed to look fresh they’ve done this shit.

How stupid is this company? Like legit question.

This seems like the general take even among younger fans. I think more then anything it might say something about how wrestling promotions have been trying to reinvent the wheel for a while when something simple and to the point can still work just fine. Get guys who can cut some solid promos, put high priority on the titles, build from there. I think nostalgia at least partially got people to look into this, but using the structure of show I don’t think ever stopped being effective. If it did, not having been done in so long has turned it into a new way to present wrestling that gives people reason to care about the characters.

That Drew Gulak take is all time bad one, Jesus.

It’s literally doubled since then. Sitting at 251k now. Once more, gigantic number overall.

I think even looking past the “cosplay” elements (which I find groan worthy as a description, but whatever), it’s hard not to call there first episode a gigantic success. It’s going to break 150 thousand views on YouTube in less then a day. If it had gotten a third of that I’d have called it a solid opening. Not only that it’s getting tons more press then anyone expected, with even the Rock talking about it on twitter, were it was the No.1 trend in the US for a while yesterday. From what was any reasonable expectation for this, it surpassed them.

How in gods name did they decide on Seth over Roman?

It’s really gotten to the point with the E if the question we should be asking is if they are too big to actually die. Because good god, it feels like they are dying.

I legitimately feel awful for Bray. I know a lot of people here aren’t high on him, but he fucking created this Fiend stuff himself. And it got over huge. And then he gets this shit to pay it off?