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In regards to Cody, he absolutely should be a heel. Even as a face, he's often a real dickhead and unlikeable shit who outright buries his opponents on promos even though they're his own talents, always dressed to the nines, has his own entrance set and pyro, the most self indulgent entrances and promos, etc. If you see that promo he cut for the house show they were weirdly promoting very hard, he talks about being self aware and he knows people talk about all that stuff because he's Dusty's kid so he's always had to be aware of himself and his actions and blah blah. And I'm thinking, this dude really should have turned this into a heel gimmick a year ago. Where he's the complete antithesis of Dusty. He's never had hard times. He is Dusty's Kid. He's royalty. Everyone knows he's the boss, that's why he gets all this extra shit. I find Cody in general to be somewhat unlikable even at times he was being a good face. I think he excels at being a heel anyway, and he's in a position where this heel gimmick is an absolute lay up, is very small tweaks to what he's already doing as a face, and would work especially well for his particular audience.

One draws the line where they draw the line. Some dudes you can easily overlook maybe fairly major negatives, while others can have lesser offensives that you just can't ignore. I don't know how you can turn that into an objective thing.

I wonder if Edge can stay uninjured long enough to do the Rollins feud

Roman should keep the belt through next year's WM and drop it to someone who has never been champ, never been in a WM main event. A Cesaro or Big E. Or someone else completely fresh who will be cemented as a top guy forever in victory. But my guess is he'll have run through every possible contender by Summerslam or HIAC and they'll be banking on getting Rock to have time between projects for WM.

Bryan doing seizure selling is pretty dark, considering

Bryan entering Ibushi's Murder Realm because someone dared headbutt him lol

Paul Heyman, also brought to you by snickers

Expecting Edge to win and then they announce on SD that he's injured and has to relinquish the belt

Paul Heyman has bored me for a long fucking time, but it's pretty amazing how he's managed to scheme his way into nearly every WM main event in a decade. This dude was working at shows as a photographer in the Vince Sr. era and he's still around.

It's criminal that Edge is getting this treatment while Christian is getting taken to the limit by Frankie Kazarian's hair plugs

Lol fuck that Bellas segment. Glad the crowd shit on it. That's really the best they could do for Bayley after the past almost 2 years that they've pretty much relied on her to carry Smackdown? Punked out by the Bella Moms.

I thought well it's gotta be her or Nakamura, because Nak won the Rumble and had a title match at WM....but Asuka won the Rumble, too, and has now had multiple singles titles matches at WM, plus a tag title match at WM, probably more screen time than Nak over the past 2-3 years, too.

Yes. That's been her impact finisher since she came back with the new look in the 2nd MYC.

Again an abrupt finish as it seemed like they were heading into a finishing sequence. But it was real good.

I think it's kind of neat how Rhea and Bianca both do this big power spots but in completely different ways from each other yet equally displaying their strength.

This doesn't have the emotional engagement with the crowd Sasha/Bianca had, but this is also really good.

They're out here pulling out UWFI spots

I don't think there was anything wrong with them being emotional at the beginning. It was a big moment in and out of story. Think of how many matches Ric Flair got all weepy eyed before, during, or after after 1997 or so. It's not like it was a crazy blood feud.

I'm just gonna say that was about the snuggest looking back slide I've seen since the 70s

Taker got played out to Limp Bizkit at WM 19.

Hell yeah finally Motorhead and Limp Bizkit have competition for worst WM performance

I think if Tito Santana is in the top 100, Kofi Kingston definitely is, because imo he's this generation's Tito and likely has a better overall track record once you really dig in.

Wait why the fuck did New Day get REKT by two giant dudes this weekend

Let's hope they can keep things going long enough to get the Dabba Kato/Omos staredown at Survivor Series or something

Seems like every finish has been real abrupt and right when things should have been heating up