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It's Riddle vs Suzuki in KUMITE. The dream match appeal is, if anything, higher. The biggest appeal Ki/Riddle had was the possibility of the former trying his unprofessional spiel and getting decked.

Make Heyman manage Lars.

Low Ki is off Bloodsport. Given his track record, zero surprises.

Or maybe social, economical and political terminologies are just a tad bit more complicated than what we previously thought.

That also creates some weird dynamic that, while the tokenistic diversity is in fact at full force in neoliberalism, and Vince is himself a neoliberalist, WWE as a product shies away from said token diversity, and is presented much more in a legitimately diverse setting than most other companies. Sure, behind the cameras the issue is not so simple and might feature that token diversity or no diversity at all, but as far as we can see on our screens, it is indeed diverse.

Bryan putting out his best promos ever and the tag team division being absolutely amazing. Usos, New Day and Bludgeon Brothers are going to give us some amazing stuff. Gable/Benjamin and Rusev/English also were good tags. Other than that... not much. AJ/Nak had a nice and different build, but neither of them did a lot of interesting things. The same applies to the majority of the roster, which is criminal when you think about the fact that they have Becky Lynch and Naomi doing NOTHING.

Yeah, that's one thing that I always found interesting. From all accounts, Vince would be strongly considered a "liberal" o'er here in Brazil, specially due to the fact that his leanings draw parallels to the same politics featured in the rise of neoliberal politics that plagued our country and the south american region during the late 80s and early 90s. Said movement is going through a revival lately (alongside the ressurrection of the corpse of a military dictatorship), so it more than makes sense to brand hiim a neolib. However, it sure is funny, as an outsider, to see people from the US or the Western world call left-leaning fellows as liberals.

So. RAW gives us strong segments revolving around Sasha and Bayley, Brock and Roman, BRAINZ Strowman, and a blistering match in Balor vs Rollins. SD gives us Charlotte vs Nattie.

The best loooking title belt around, and all of NXT's redesigned ones and the UK belt were good looking stuff.

I dunno, Ronda came across yesterday just the way you would want her to be, when she had the mic: a cocky badass. People were reacting strongly to her exchanges with Steph. As for Nia... she's a sympathetic figure. It doesn't matter that Alexa is undersized - she was an emotionally abusive person to her best friend, willing to exploit every single psychological weakness Nia had to her advantage. No matter how big you are, everyone is subject to that kind of blow, and no matter how small you are, you can actually play mind games and ruin someone much bigger. Nia's "tantrums" are actually justified when you think about the sheer humiliation she went through the past few months. In fact you could even integrate that storyline she had with Enzo into the whole thing.

LET'S GO ROMAN CHANTS AT THE GO HOME RAW HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YESSSS OH BUT HE AIN'T OVER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Please don't let that happen. Like, a cold Charlotte is one of the worst possible options available to beat Asuka for her streak.

What if it is the Big Show?

Well, it's not like the Battle Royals aren't going to be seen by tens of thousands of people at the Arena by that point, or that people aren't going to see it even via Youtube. It's smart, actually.

Miz hyping this match because both his opponents are kicking the shit out of each other is amazing.

If the matches deliver in the ring as much as they are delivering outside of it, this is probably going to be the best WM of all, or at the very least a top 5.

Steph is so good at being a heel. #2 performer in her family.

KO/Sami lose, then go back to NXT where they can hog the spotlight some more and people can pretend they are amazing. Besides, nothing is stopping Shane to turn on DB at the following SmackDown. No need to do that on WM itself.

Guess who's eating the pin

What do you all think about the Women's Battle Royal trophy design? There's some discussion going on that it looks like and uterus, but I really can't see anything other than a "slim" version of the Champions League trophy. Like, that design is pretty generic. Sure, WWE has a massive story doing horrible shit to their talent, specially women, and maybe they were going for symbolism during their creative meetings, but that really isn't a design that particularly stands out.

I hope we can get a Otis/Tucker vs Usos match in the near future. So much charisma.

I really hope it isn't Joe. I mean, think about them Joe/KO exchanges with the pace they go in 2018. Again, Bryan is hardcore. He'll take 'em both.

Gotta love how the commentary team is almost giving out that Elias is Braun's partner.

As long as Roman murders Brock next week, it should be okay. I think turning Roman heel wouldn't change things much. He is still over as a face with a large portion of the crowd, just like large portions like to boo him. I'd say Ambrose would make a better heel, specially because the story is pretty much there.

Well, they did manage to get Roman over as a face and Lesnar over as a heel. Crazy how some weeks of very good writing and letting Roman cut promos that play to his strengths do. Like, you don't even need to do much this week, as long as you have a crazy-ass brawl in the go-home RAW.