El Dragon

Ah Bobby Roode, why aren't you a heel yet?

How has this company still not turned Rusev face officially and pushed him? It's been almost 6 months of him getting huge reactions.

Hardy looked awkward, and Orton was just basic Orton.

Jeff Hardy has looked... odd this match. Like he's frustrated about getting so little reaction.

Joe is such a good fiery heel promo that it actually becomes a fiery babyface promo a lot of the time.

The Twisted Bliss catch was cool.

"Jax hits a big offensive move" "Coach talks about how much damage Alexa has done to Nia as Alexa is on the mat not moving and Nia is standing tall" Coach fucking sucks.

If they cut off most of the last 3 minutes I'd have loved that match. I still liked it, but yeah the last few minutes needed to tone it down a bit.

I will say I'm one "Seth dropping the roll through Superplex" away from actually liking him. Okay, kicking out of the Skull Crushing Finale twice is too much.

They 100% had me at the SKF finish.

This has been a hot as fuck opener.

The thought of that scares me, because I remember what he was like when he was the WWE Champion, but maybe that is because of the stupid "authority" angle, which seemed to never end. As someone who was heavily anti Rollins and am still not the biggest fan in the world of him by any means, I think he's performed very well in basically all of his big matches this year. More or less, if you ask me if I'd like to see Rollins or Balor get pushed up the card, I'd go Rollins strongly. Though that's partially me not liking Balor at all.

Miz might be the perfect big show opening heel in modern times. He's so good in this role.

Part of me things the right decision here is have Miz go over and move Rollins back up to the main event cause he's a legitimately hot act (and he's been the best he's been since the Shield days this year), but I can't see them doing that with the brand split.

God I hope Joe beats Reigns to setup Joe getting into the Smackdown Title Hunt.

God, I fucking loathe Coach on commentary. Like, he is just god awful.

While my stay in this game was short, I will say I was generously offered Snuka for a 1st last year, which was more then a fair deal. It just felt like to me Snuka is kind of an in between type of guy that is hard to place. For a promotion like I was running it felt like he'd be the biggest star by a great deal, and that was almost a bad thing to a degree, because he just doesn't jump as a guy you'd actually want at the forefront of a promotion at this stage of his career. He's not a promo guy, and he doesn't really fit as a guy you want main eventing your shows (which, admitted, was true for most of my roster at that point). Like, I felt more comfortable pushing Skip Young as the Main babyface of a promotion then Jimmy Snuka just because I felt there was more to do with him. It's weird. Back to your actual shows, Lutte has risen to one of my favorite reads going right now. Watching Kokina rise up the card, and the Kernodle title reign have been a great shakeup in recent time.

This is a comment more from a couple shows ago, but the Snakepit/Piper's Pit feud seemingly establishing Cactus Jack as being a real danger to the likes of Piper and Orton is arguably my favorite thing going on right now. Jake Roberts as a mentor and Roddy Piper as a rival is such an amazing place for Cactus Jack in 86, and I'm sad this didn't actually happen. Overall though, everything you are doing right now works for me. Sullivan feels smart now, but he keeps making more and more enemies and I don't think that's gonna well for him.

The Miz calling out Bryan for not loving his child like he loves his is fucking amazing heel work, holy shit.

You do realize that you now you have to attempt to get Gabe on for yearly wrap up shows to get his thoughts on the year, correct?

So I just wanted to send this apology out, even if its about 8 months late. Life went from really smooth to incredibly rough for me when I kinda fell off the internet for a while, and I forgot to tell you guys I was going to drop. Thanks foe those who helped me, wish I could have contributed more. Am still reading through shows though. Will probably give thoughts from here on out.

So, that's on the shortlist for worst Mania Main Event ever, right?

...Does Braun beat him tomorrow?

Uhhhh. Okay.

This is one of the worst matches I've ever seen from competent workers.