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Cool little episode, definitely angle driven, nothing special in term of matches. A little bit too much intergender violence for ma taste, although the Angelico vs Yvelisse match was as good as you can get from this kind of situation where the guy just doesn't want to hit the woman. Interested in a Mil Muertes vs Fenix feud. I loved the fact we got a whole interview segment in Spanish with English subtitles. That's relevant. WWE should take notes again. The six-man was nothing special though, and I'm not sure I feel good watching three guys beating a woman. I can't wait for the gang getting beat up by Big Ryck though, should be a fun little brawl.

On average, I take Schiavone 96/97 over JR Attitude Era years any day.

Oh fuck.

Agreed. The vignettes with Dario, Mil Muertes & Catrina and Big Ryck were terrific. As was Alberto's promo. How better and bigger of a star does he look in that context than Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan do in theirs ? There's a lot WWE could learn here in term of production.

Last week's show was pretty fun again with more Dario backstage, and El Patron's first appearance. That being said, Mundo vs Cage was just a bad video-game like main event. I wouldn't mind if these two would just go away, I don't care for their work nor their characters.

That, in the middle of a total meta/babyface promo, was amazing. Fear the epic trolling on Raw. It's sad that at this point, trolling audiences has became the new way of getting "heel heat".

So, this year's Mania is not Wrestlemania 31. It's just Wrestlemania. No numbers anymore. Blah.

I echo the love for the 3/4 of this week's episode. I enjoyed Muertes vs Fenix a lot, witha classic upset finish. Cage's vignette was terrific, despite the guy having zero charisma. That's how well produced this is. The six-man reminded me of those old M-Pro matches, tons of fun indeed. The interview segment was great and again blows away anything from WWE in term of production, delivery, pace and efficiency. The Puma vs Cage match was decent, but not really that much of a change of pace from the Fenix match if you think about it. Fenix does acrobatic highspots, Cage does power-move highspots, but it was still a spot match. And Cage really does nothing for me, he's got no personnality at all, and the High Voltage look gets no point from me. Yep, the ending was excellent, but I don't look forward to more Cage big match. He does have an indie-riffic style. Give me Big Ryck and Mil Muertes instead. The ending was a nice cliffhanger too. Glad to see more Dario Cueto again !

After ten years of Cena on top, things have changed. The WWE now is a totally different beast than what it was in the 90's and before. It's a corporate monster. And they have an idea of what The Man should be that goes way beyond the in-ring product. With Cena, they have established their idea of what The Man should be, and it's not a good one (cheesy, corny, imposible to turn heel, devaluating every loss). And to replace Cena, they want another Cena. It's very clear that's what they want to do with Reigns thus far, with those awful promos he's been given. It's not a matter of who gets over anymore, at all, and it will only get worse with the Network. There's nothing organic at all in the way this company works at this point. (Back in the days of Austin, it's important to remember they totally lucked out with him. It was no Vince brillant masterplan and creation. At some point they realized what was happening and pulled the trigger at the right time and the right way. But they had WCW killing them in the ratings, it was a matter of reacting immediately or they would have been kicked in the dust. But it took quite a bit of time and the right circumstances to produce Austin, namely the Shawn Michaels debacle at WM13 which put Austin with Bret with the legendary mach and double-turn)

Well, he *was* supposed to work with Kane after winning the title at Mania last year. Ponder that for a minute...

He's booked in a casket match against Kane. Nuff said.

If you want a communist heel in 2015, you need a Korean pretending he's from North Korea. Certainly not a fake Russian.

"What are they gonna do now ? Improvise ?" http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/19237-wcws-highway-to-hell/?p=5561658

And then turn into a comedy midcard act. The WWE career arc. Rusev should not lose until he gets the World title, then have a hot fresh babyface defeat him. He should be this decade's Yoko (up until 96).

Ah ah ah.

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Especially with HHH of all people. What's hilarious is that apparently, they expected the backlash, only not that huge. Fuck, if you book something expecting a backlash, DON'T FUCKING BOOK IT !!

After last night's disaster, it's actually probably for the better. It will gave them one week to think about how dumb they are. Well, scratch that, they had one year and still didn't get the idea.

I don't know about records broken, but Kane really is a broken record at this point.

Tells the whole story. The best match (the only good match) of the undercard actually happened during the pre-show. The undercard was a waste. Glad to see a NAO match in 2015 is exactly like one in 1999. People popping for the catchphrase then dying during the wrestling. The Ascension is terrible. Downright awful. The whole Mizdow has run its course yesterday. Makes the tag title matches a big joke. I'd argue that Nicky Bella was the best worker of this undercard actually. Then this triple threat match. Well, that was quite the epic spectacle. Brock is unique. I wasn't a fan of kicking out of a hundred AA (yeah, that finisher is kinda useless) but really, this was one of the best triple threat match I've ever seen (not a fan of the concept, especially without elimination). If they called an audible, then they did a terrific job. Maybe not MOTYC on rewatch, but as it is, yeah pretty terrific spectacle. Then. Well. I have no words. Yeah, Buh-buh was a nice surprise entrance, like DDP was. But then. Well, what can I add that hasn't been said. I dind't think they could be that dumb. But they are. The crowd non-stop booing is one of the most amazing thing I've seen on a wrestling show. The pop the "feel-good" entrance weren't half as strong as expected, and died immediately. Then when it couldn't get worse, the Big Show and freaking KANE in the final four. I dreaded Orton showing up, but this was even worse. And Rusev hiding out to be eliminated like nothing afterward ? Well. Poor Roman Reigns. When THE ROCK can't save the mess, you're in deep shit. These people are dumb as fuck. Vince blaming Philly is hilarious. Because if you know anything about your audience, you don't do this kind of shit in Philly to begin with ! What a pathetic whiny douchebag. So yeah. Amazing, amazing to witness. They learned jackshit from last year, and obviously don't want Daniel Bryan to be a top guy. Ok. Good luck then. Hope people are gonna get pumped up by that Roman Reigns push to the sky and by a 55 year old Sting. Reach for the future.

That would have made Rusev and the US title look meaningful. Can't have that on your PPV.

What an undercard…

The same.

I feel the RR JTS a long time ago. The back-to-back wins, the double eliminations, Vince winning the whole damn thing, number 1 having as many wins as number 30, etc. RR is fun- but every year I grow less excited as I can pretty much predict the final 4 and winner. I want the RR to be completely random and have someone like Xavier Woods or Kofi or Fandango win. The RR needs a reset. It's been a while. Overproduced, predictable, with the same cutesy spots every year. And the whole "Winner of the Rumble gets a shot at Mania" actually worked as a detriment after a while, since obviously there are very few guys that could get the spot anyway. The Rumble used to be my favourite PPV. In 98 it became predictable. In 99 it became stupid and cutesy. In 00 it became overproduced and way cutesy (with the dance routine in the middle of the match).

Hum, not really. Mero got the first ever garanteed contract from WWF. He was seen as main event material. He recieved a big push right away. But he just wasn't clicking. Mero said it himself, he had no idea what the "Wildman" was supposed to be. He got the IC title, then got into a feud with HHH, then fucked up his kneee really bad. That's when Sable got all those modeling gigs and with Vince Russo gaining power, boobs were more important than wrestling. When Mero came back he just wasn't the same (not that he ever was that good, and I'm a Mero defender) but did quite the good job job reinventing himself, although at this point it's obvious Sable was way more over than him. As long as it was Mero vs his wife, I thought Sable was pretty bearable, as Mero did a terrific job as a heel working with her. He said he didn't care about his own career at this point because the money was flowing into the same household anyway. But yeah, with the knee injury Mero couldn't work like he used to. It's quite surprising he never really showed up back in WCW apart from that one cameo in the crowd in 2000.