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During this match I had my mind wandering. Some thoughts I had: - It would have been awesome if they Styles the Balor LGBT-inclusion entry. - They should split Wrestlemania into two 4 hour shows instead of one 7 hour show, one on Saturday, one on Sunday. The way everything is set up now it should be no problem and be profitable enough. Either that or stop trying to put everyone on the roster on the show.

I was doing fine until about 45 minutes ago, now I am spent. Strange booking having both Royal Rumble winners lose.

Cole had a great line last Raw. Graves was trying to make a point that Miz returning to in-ring action after a couple of weeks off might actually be good for him and Cole answered: "Coach was off 10 years and still is awful." (I think it was Cole and Graves in that order, might misremembering it a bit)

That spot close to the end where Bliss' head was bumping to the turnbuckle looked terrifying. Hopefully she did not get a concussion or anything.

5 matches, Lesnar vs. Reigns, AJ vs. Nakamura, Bliss vs. Jax, DB & Shane vs. KO & Sami and Cesaro & Sheamus vs. Braun & X. Jesus. They will get close to 12 AM ET, they have blocked as much time in the Network schedule.

The bar is already pretty high considering the pop the gong got.

5 matches, Lesnar vs. Reigns, AJ vs. Nakamura, Bliss vs. Jax, DB & Shane vs. KO & Sami and Cesaro & Sheamus vs. Braun & X.

We are almost 5 hours in and all three announcers' tables are still intact.

Going 3 minutes instead of 23 minutes helps. Everything about this was awesome, until the bell rang, that is. I loved Elias teasing The House of the Rising Sun and not delivering.

Tell Rousey to stay away from the WWE make-up department. If bad booking won't kill her (and it did NOT do tonight) then that will. Though Angle's left eye in the end looked disgusting too.

It is That Indian Guy. Respect my brand, damnit. Exactly what one French announcer said. Clearly early. Makes me wish I had paid more attention in French class. (I will never switch to German audio either as long as Carsten Schaefer is announcing. At least I can mentally turn off the horrible English commentary.) By the way: please call up Percy Watson and replace Coach with him. Coach has to be the worst WWE commentator ever, and that covers A LOT OF ground.

5-10 years ago everyone was going for the Chinese market, now it's the Indian market because lot's of management people get boners just thinking about 1 billion+ potential customers (or, looking at it from a stock market point-of-view, product), not having any idea about the cultural or economical situations in that countries.

On the positive side neither Orton nor Roode won, on the negative side "the Indian guy"™ won.

Haha, they still opened the show with a PPV disclaimer stating that you can only legally watch the show if you payed a fee to a "cable company or similar entity" (or something like that) after pushing for two hours how the show is free (for new subscribers, that is).

She sounds like a chain-smoker.

205 Live is continuing to be a dumpster fire. Getting called up to 205 Live has to be like getting stuck in purgatory. You will wrestle in front of dead crowds after Smackdown or get throwaway matches at PPV pre-shows. The best you can hope for is getting a match at a piss-break Raw spot.

Why was Tye Dillinger looking like Darby Allin (wearing the whiteface)?

Yeah, this are going to be long 2 hours until the main show if we have to continue to hear that every 90 seconds.

I wasn't even aware that she is still under contract. Regarding Travis Browne: he is a UFC heavyweight fighter who at one point was pretty close to the title. Biggest wins are against Overeem, Gonzaga, Struve and Barnett. Though he has lost the last four fights straight and might be retired now. He was under investigation for domestic violence a couple of years back.

This was a great show with the main event being a MOTDC. The only not-perfect thing on the show was the tag team match, especially the finish. I hate the Horseman beatdown if it follows a 15 minute match where the turning guy works perfectly with the guy he is turning on and dishing out offense at the guys he will be teaming with.

Let's see: - the opener had Teddy Hart refusing catching guys on dives - Ellsworth vs. Matt Riddle was fun for what it was - PCO took way more punishment than a 50-year-old (who is not called Terry Funk) should take, I doubt that the human chest ever should have that colour - the Clusterfuck was exactly that, a HUGE clusterfuck - the Sasuke vs. Janella main event was insane, either plus 10* or -10*; one of the commentators at one point said "Sasuke might be the Late Sasuke now" and he was only halfway joking, at another point Sasuke was going for a spot that he in the end failed setting up, if he went with that spot he might as well be dead now - the show ended with Sasule and Janella doing karaoke singing "It's my Life"

If Cornette ever watches that Clusterfuck thing he will either kill himself or die from heartattack.

So I plan to watch WM live this year. (I live in Austria, so the thin takes place in the middle of the night for me.) To have a chance at staying awake I bought a big bottle of Coke (the soft drink, not the ) and two bags of potato chips. Considering that I am 37 and eat about one bag of chips a year (and even then only in 2-3 sittings) there is a decent chance that this will kill me. But well, let's see how my body reacts if I eat and drink as if I was 10 years younger.

The Bloodsport show was hit-and-miss. Walter vs. Lawlor was the MOTN, followed by the Riddle vs. Suzuki. There were a couple of really bad finishes with the action being called like an MMA fight, i.e. calling a KO directly after the knockdown or a submission immediately after the hold is being applied, which just does not work well in a pro wrestling setting. The Severn vs. Dickinson match had a particullary bad finish, know idea what the plan behind that was. Maybe a spoof on bad MMA refereeing? The show itself was very short, like 1:50 h including a 15 min intermission.

To get into the mood I have been watching the last two Raws (not back-to-back, one last Tuesday and the other tonight). The low-points of the show were the Rousey-Angle vs. Steph-HHH build-up and the Nia Jax stuff. Rousey has an uphill battle in front of her, if she wants to succeed in her pro wrestling career. She is not over, pretty bad at the mic and if she can work in the ring still has to be seen. It was almost sad seeing HHH and Steph pretend that Rousey is hugely over, just because the script said so. Regarding Nia Jax I have no idea how they think that she can work as a babyface. Point 1 she is a monster wrestling an undersized heel, which is quite hard to get it working. Point 2 her screeching and her temper tantrums make her look like a heel anyway. I mean nobody considered Christian 2002 a babyface, did they?