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I don't really give a shit what it looks like. They called him Tommy End on the fucking pre show for fucks sake. Chris Hero was Chris Hero up until a few weeks ago. Sorry that Andrade "Cien" Almas isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I see him. When they grow into their new names and do things that make me think of them under their new names, I'll start thinking of them under the new names first. If I want to call Sami Zayn "Generico" a few times while doing a write up, I'm going to do it. If that makes me a hipster then who gives a shit. You don't get any points for calling them by their current name. God forbid someone calls Meng by Haku when talking about him in WCW.

I'll call them whatever I want to call them. That's who they still are to me so that's what I'm going to call them until I change my mind. I'm still going to say Chris Hero, too. Kindly go Grind yourself.

She's been basically a dickhead heel who fans like since she beat Bayley a year ago. This was the first match she's actually cheated, but that's only because it's the first time she's been pushed to the point of needing to. It's certainly not the first time she's been an abject disrespectful asshole who takes cheap shots and plays around when she feels like it. Triple threat tag was great. Not a surprise that DIY and Revival stole the show again. You'd basically need 1985 LOD mixed with 1992 Steiners to beat AOP at this point. Asuka/Ember was good, but definitely didn't hit a level I thought it was going to. I don't want to say it was disappointing, but it was the only match with hype coming into the show and it didn't live up to it. Weird pacing and I will always hate the shitty RVD/Lynn respect standoff spots to show equality in opponents, and this felt like the first 5 minutes were nothing but those. Roode/Nak 2 was just as dull and unimpressive as 1, as they have absolutely zero chemistry and it's a terrible clash of styles that doesn't work at all. Modern NJPW main event style against late 80s American style just doesn't work together. La Sombra continues to just not have it at all. Tommy End's entrance was pretty cool (if a bit long), but Sombra seems hopeless at this point. A few flashes of Naito once in awhile can't cover up that he just doesn't work in the WWE system at all. Surprised that the crowd wasn't very into End, since NXT crowds are always popping for whatever indie guy comes in. They sounded pretty quiet for him. Fuck Sanity. Overall, a better show than expected, but the show has ZERO hype heading into it, so one great match was really enough to push it to the better than expected side of the fence.

Nak and Roode continue to have zero chemistry. I really hope there aren't another 3 months of rematches.

Sanity has to be the god damn worst stable WWE has ever had.

El P in here hindering Jinder. Disgusting. Wouldn't expect anything less from a grinder.

Go Grind yourself then, shit head.

Even The Grind?

4 hours of dudes telling the same stories they've been telling for years and reading off old promos isn't the greatest thing in the world. So sue me.

Rusev happened to get hurt a month out from WM, so it's hard to blame WWE for being terrible for not having something for Rusev/Lana to do at WM.

That Kawada/Fuchi match where Kawada beat the ever loving shit out of Fuchi in front of a blacked out, silent crowd certainly didn't help matters for AJ. There was some really hot stuff with Hansen/Kae/Chono right after, though. But certainly they never recovered. How could you recover from something like that?

Total Divas and especially Total Bellas are hilarious shows. That's why you'd watch them. Bryan and Brie having to live in Cena's house, showing up to formal dinners without shoes, Johnny Ace popping in dispensing wisdom and using his talent relations skillz to diffuse situations, Cena coming off like Patrick Bateman. Total Bellas is wonderful.

The fuck? Cornette was boring as hell, just reciting career facts and telling jokes that bombed even when he took pauses for responses or laughed himself. Everyone on the pre-show was like OH SHIT CORNETTE HAS A LIVE MIC THIS SHOULD BE AWESOME. And then Cornette himself brings that point up when he gets up there. And then does absolutely nothing of note, just listing a play by play of Ricky and Robert's careers. It could have been just about anyone in there in Cornette's place. Ricky Morton by himself was way, way better than anything Cornette had to say. Cornette got out promo'd by the RNRs, Beth, Natalya, Bischoff, and DDP.

Man, that was the least enjoyable HOF in a while despite the great class. That report of "fewer inductees because the speeches are too long" couldn't have been more apt after tonight. The show went almost a full hour over schedule, and for what? Kurt Angle to recite promos from 15 years ago? Jim Cornette to read out a wikipedia of the RNR's careers? The best parts of the show were RNR's promo, JBL's diversity plea, Roman's smirk while fans booed him, and Rick Rude Jr. being fucking huge and doing an impression of his dad. Get that dude in NXT pronto.

This shit has sucked. Why are we in an age where the RNR Express, JBL, and Teddy Long are cutting better promos than Jim Cornette, DDP, and Eric Bischoff? I miss the days when they had TV time limits and couldn't ramble for 40 minutes.

They definitely aren't and you have HHH and Roman doing interviews in the media about this over and over saying as much. By this logic, John Cena was never over as a babyface or main eventer. I don't know why smart fans refuse to understand that he's booked just like Cena but with more of an edge and intentionally trolling that specific part of the audience. This is why they constantly put him in situations where they know he's going to get booed and then talk about how great the crowds are for speaking their mind about him. Yet people think they're standing up to the man by booing him not realizing WWE encourages it just like they do with Cena.

They aren't trying to convince people that Roman is a top guy either. Because he's BEEN a top guy for 3 years. You can't argue that he's not a top guy while also arguing that he's over pushed as a top guy.

Yeah obviously there was something going on when they had Tom at the table doing the run down spots while Mauro looked like he wanted to die whenever Tom spoke. There was certainly some kind of message being sent to Mauro just by having Tom out there. Whether that means they weren't happy with him or didn't trust him or were worried that he was going to go off the rails is anyone's guess. To me, as someone with two manic depressives in the family, it seems like he's been in a manic phase for the past 2 years straight, working an insane schedule that there's no way he could keep up forever. A guy with his penchant for heavy, heavy crashes was bound to crash again when he's doing WWE, Showtime, NBC, podcast, social media even if he was working with super nice people around him all the time. I have to imagine that was taken into consideration as a possibility when he got hired considering he's missed shows for other organizations for the same reason.

Okay well that's not a coronation. He's already had that. Main eventing WM again just means he's a main eventer. You know, because he already had his coronation as a top guy. That's like saying Hogan was still having coronations up to WM 9. Top guys tend to headline a lot. At the top of the cards. Also sometimes known as the main event.

Coronation at 31 by...getting pinned in the main event and not getting the title until November. Duh. I don't think people understand what the word means. If he already had his coronation, he can't get another one. And then another one. And then another one. He's already there. It's just being a main eventer once it happens.

Lol at the idea of Hayes doing anything but being a dick to Bischoff and talking about himself

Oh joy, another potentially interesting conversation being ruined by allowing Michael Hayes in the room.

Taker/Roman SHOULD be the main event. For various reasons. 1 being this is probably (hopefully) Taker's last match. 2 being it has the most heat of anything in arenas and online. When you look at the hits from all the main feuds on just Youtube, the Roman/Taker segment from Raw has 1-3 million more hits than all the other main feuds. By pretty much all metrics, Roman vs Taker is the match that has the most interest, so it should end the show, imo.

If Mania was a super well booked show with potential great matches in it, I'm pretty sure a whole lot of people would be excited about it. I know I would at least. I'm never going to be excited to watch 7 hours of anything in one sitting.

A lot of people the wrestling industry should be more remembered for being shitty people more than anything else, but that's rarely the case. Even killing someone doesn't always 100% ruin your reputation if you had some good fake fights. JBL is definitely not going to be remembered for being a bully or getting hit by Joey Styles.