Matt D

To be fair, Angle never actually mat wrestled. Whoever said this felt like a house show was close. It feels like a Saudi show.

Remember when he outwrestled AJ? Now he's out brass knucks title-ing Braun. Even now that the chair is gone.

So the upside here, my old friends, is that this show has only been going for 2 hours and not 4 like when we normally get to see Shane.

Granted, in 18 months, he'll be in backstage skits dressed like a giant chicken, but it'll be ok for a while!

Omos reacting to everything that he was doing was pretty great, actually. All the stuff between moves was leaps and bounds better than the usual stuff you get out of a giant rookie and better than Khali/Gonzales ever got.

I'm finding it fairly creative heel-in-peril stuff to keep Styles from tagging. I don't think it's the sort of match that you can do more than once or twice though. @Jmare007 I'm on the same wavelength with you here at least.

It's going to be Undertaker at Survivor Series 90 level given the build of the match so far.

I'm ready to see what Omos can do already, but I love that Woods was distracting Styles by playing his TNA theme a couple of weeks ago.

Cesaro with best Rollins going for GWE cred? He already has the best Miz match.

I tuned back to a second to see Rollins' face after a kick out on the replay. Yeesh.

I’m going to get the kids to bed instead of watching Rollins.

Nattie did a good job of letting that last moment settle in? That’s the only nice thing I have to say.

Ok, the Dunn cut when Lana whiffed was a mercy. I’ll give them that one.

Hall's posture makes him look 90. That's probably what I'm going to look like when I'm 45 mind you.

So... what a waste, right?

If you're going to go longer, have some sort of narrative. This has just been pretty back and forth. It's been hard hitting with big impacts and somewhat of a build of bigger moves and violence but it needed more than that. If they're going to cool Lashley off by making him more heelish and doing the bounty angle, actually play that up in the match itself and make some sort of narrative out of it! Have Lashley show that vulnerability and paranoia (while still being powerful and dangerous) instead of it just being detached from the last month of TV. Use the build as a tool.

Would this have been better if they didn't spend the last month cooling off Lashley?

At least the guys on the hard camera side are really into this.

This has been fine but if these guys, I'm doing more to interact with the crowd.

I'm confused. Isn't there a 2 minute time limit on WWE Main Event Title matches?

Urgh, I'm not ready for the Dunn cuts. I have to relax my gaze like I'm doing magic eye so I don't get sick. I'm in the same club as you guys. I've got my first Pfizer shot in me from 3:30 today and it's giving my stomach some issue weirdly enough.

It's nice to be able to hear at least some earnest and honest crowd noise, but there's definitely not a boom.

They should have given Drew the Triple H entrance this year.

Ok, I'm here now, at least for a bit. I was watching this Lacey vs Sara Del Rey match during the rain delay. I feel for Drew and Lashley.

It was weird and a little offputting but some of the specific story beats were both good and striking with the kid being an interesting component. I remember at the time feeling like it came too close to another seemingly "imaginary" story but I recall what that was off the top of my head.