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Tbf, presumably even the regular NXT watchers were checking out the Brodie tribute show this week. Certainly all the WWE wrestlers were.

So The Fiend’s actual gimmick is that he has brainwashed Alexa Bliss to dress and act like a small child who is also in love with him. But despite that being...deeply troubling...he’s a babyface because he got murdered by Randy Orton.

Only Mick, Austin and Rock. You know, the real stars. He used NXT to launder his reputation so much but any reminder of the time before that has me hating him with just as much vitriol as I did when I was a teenage smark.

HHH talking all this shit about how she can learn from this year and it’s like his mythical de-push after the curtain call shows how clueless he is.

This time a year ago, people thought Shayna and Rhea were on the verge of being able to be main roster stars. Io Sharai is an excellent wrestler. Those are three people who are good enough to be in the top echelon of the women’s division; one is in a tag team with Nia Jax, another was basically buried for Charlotte and the third might not ever get called up. There are people they could push to feud with her if they cared to but we know they can’t and won’t make stars anymore.

It’s also astounding to me that Sasha Banks hasn’t been pushed as the main star of the company given that she’s in a big mainstream television show. In the past, they would definitely be bigging that up all over TV and pushing her hard. But instead she’s stuck in a feud with the horrendous Carmella. Either Vince has fallen so hard into his bad habits of being a control freak that he can’t see the woods for the trees or this is a sign that the much hyped WWE women’s division doesn’t actually have much depth outside of the top three or four women. At least on the main roster.

I miss the rap, what did he say? It would be weird for them do a homophobic rap when one of them is gay.

https://t.co/JPu0Z126eV" / Twitter Worse than Russo

Well supposedly Reigns and Heyman lobbied to have The Fiend drafted to Raw so that they could avoid a programme with him. Paul still knows how to play this game.

Never has a pregnancy been better planned than Becky's, at least in terms of wrestling.

Not necessarily that he was looking to leave, could've just been coming up to the end of his contract so you'd obviously talk to both sides. All time worst viewership for Raw and defeated by Dynamite in the demo in all three hours.

Worst show on all of television?

Orange Cassidy is older than you think but he’s not overexposed on US television whereas Miz has been on every show doing the same gimmick for over ten years and has never been overly good at it. Age is relative and ideally you’d want a good mixture. AEW has some old guys, some guys in their mid-30s and lots of guys under 30. WWE has everyone between 35-45 and most have been constantly on TV doing the same act forever.

Sounds like an all time bad show. Pretty sure Bray Wyatt and Drew are the only pushed acts on Raw under 40 and both are like 35.

I've seen this compared to a travelling NWA champion defending against the local babyface and I can see the parallels. They started off with some grappling before Omega used his size and strength advantage to take the lead. Outside brawling led to a wacky dive by Laredo from a stack of tyres and involvement from Vikingo, which sets up Omega's next defence. Kenny almost died on a dive when Laredo pulled Nakasawa in front of him but he totally failed to catch him. Omega basically jumped from the ring to the floor and landed on his ass. When they got back in, it seemed like they settled into a groove to trading big spots, including some V-Triggers and a Tiger Driver from Kenny and a Spanish Fly and poison 'rana from Laredo. Kenny gave him some nice nearfalls here. Things got more interesting when Laredo cut off the spot trading to work on Kenny's leg, exploiting a missed V-Trigger into the corner to put on an Indian Death Lock and then doing a super cool roll through on a One Winged Angel attempt to get on a reverse cloverleaf type of thing. Kenny really teased tapping on this. Finish came when Laredo was distracted by Nakasawa when he was on the turnbuckle, allowing Kenny to pop up with a OWA from the second rope. This was good stuff but would have gained a lot from a crowd with so many teased finishes. ****