El Dragon

Well this has kicked ass.

I'm sure Goldberg/Brock is getting half an hour and the Smackdown/RAW match will get an hour. The other hour is everything else, I guess. everything else is literally just the Cruisers.

Main Event SS match goes over an hour.

Very nice finishing stretch, at least.

Zero "One side is outmatched by the numbers" in 2 Survivor Series matches. Not good booking.

Eliminatin AA makes me give much less of a shit about this match.

they might think the casuals don't know who is on which brand?

and there goes one of my favorite teams.

Rhyno looks so young clean shaven and it's freaking me out.

Yeah, this might get 30-40 minutes.

They have 6 matches to fill 4 hours, the question isn't will everyone get full entrances, it's if all 3 of the SS matches get 40 minutes.

That's what they did with Baron Corbin, Tyler Breeze, and Aiden English. That's basically NXT.

As more time goes by, Mojo bugs me a lot less. He's not amazing, but he's a perfectly fine tag team wrestler.

Reigns vs. Rusev: Ref throws out Lana for getting involved, as an established manager, instead of calling for a DQ, so Roman can look super impressive and beat Rusev clean twice, cause Roman has to look fucking amazing. Rollins vs. Owens: Ref doesn't throw out Jericho who just randomly runs out, even after he clearly was distracting the opponent, then gets taken out and stays dead forever because we really need Rollins to be sympathetic even though he's still an annoying whiny dick. The booking is just so ham fisted that it kills any and all interest i have in this show.

Everytime Owens goes for the god damned Package Whatever, only for it to be the lame drop, I roll my eyes. If you aren't gonna do the move, don't fucking hint at the setup, christ. Also, Lana gets thrown out in the match before, yet Jericho is still allowed in this match? Are the bookers retarded?

This is certainly Kevin Owens best trash talking performance on the main show.

I've kinda hit that point of knowing Roman is really good, but still never really being particularly excited for his matches because the booking is just so ham fisted that it just makes me roll my eyes when he "overcomes the odds". I think that was a good match, but it still more or less left me cold on seeing Roman in higher profile stuff. Meanwhile, Smackdown has made me give a huge shit about the Miz and Dolph Ziggler. Maybe it's just presentation for me. I don't know.

Triple Threat was good, save for the stretches were Charlotte looked kinda awkward, and them setting up the problem of "Why isn't Dana getting directly involved at every single moment"

Smackdown just continues to completely outclass Raw every single week. The Bliss/Lynch segment made me want to see that match. The Usos/Alpha match felt like a really good match while leaving tons on the plate in the build. Miz's "Hey, I'm awesome and you should pay to watch me wrestle" tour continues strongly, and that was a very well done finish. The main left lots on the table for future Ambrose/Cena matches, while also trying to continue to show that just because Ambrose lost the belt doesn't mean he's just going back to the midcard. Smackdown is like the easiest show in the world to point out how simple booking works. Talent for talent it probably doesn't match up with Raw, but every segment feels like it has a purpose and direction without shoving in your face how super awesome it is which makes you roll your eyes.

I like Rollins as a babyface worker, but hate him on the mic and in ring as a heel.

I'm sorry, I don't buy for a second TJP was MVP of this tournament, nor do I have any problem with the fans who booed him after he beat the 3 biggest local favorites in the tournament (Gargano, Swann, and Ibushi) in a row. Also, his story felt minor in comparison to Kendricks, and him beating Ibushi when neither Alexander nor Kendrick could with what felt like better efforts actually hurt the entire story to me.

For what it's worth, I watched the main, and thought it was the 4th best Metalik match of the tournament.

That's a pretty fucking belt.

That was about perfect. That was the best Ambrose singles match, arguably ever, but certainly since Regal, it sets up a rematch, and it's a good time for Ambrose to lose it cause they had no other real challengers lined up for Ambrose, and this match was good enough that I'd actually really enjoy a rematch.

Gotta be honest, this more then any match AJ has worked since he got signed has really made me think he can be a franchise player here. I was curious how good this would be, and it's been a fucking blast to me so far.