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I really liked the Punk match. I did not like the Bryan match a lot. More than two but fewer than a dozen. My general theory is that everyone loves the Brock matches because they break all the rules and therefore feel more visceral than everything else, but if you break the rules too much nothing matters. It's better to use the rules to make something than to just tear them down because nothing feels like it matters anymore. It's just the damn company can't make anything matter anymore so there's no benefit in investing and it's easier to just let the noise in and thrash about.

Yeah, I'm going to just go and count a German Suplex as a finisher for the sake of this experiment.

And he's done it maybe twice since he came back in the 2010s? If that. I switched windows to write that and came back to see Drew holding the belt.

I looked away to post here and maybe do one other small thing so I missed the beginning of the match and I came back to the words "Another F5". You know what guys? I don't care what any of you think. I hate Brock Lesnar matches.

I'd rather watch, eh, let's go with Legends of Tomorrow, since I don't watch Supernatural, than Sports, so I was perfectly ok with that.

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This is slowly eliminating my memory of that Orton/Edge thing. Maybe they ARE successfully changing the timeline.

This feels like Hogan in the Dungeon of Doom.

Apparently on only one of these counts.

This is what they think is art, old friends.

Congrats to everyone who did NOT vote for either of these two for the WON HOF.

Blame HBK for the NXT main event bullshit. Blame Edge and Orton for this.

I bet you all sure miss Otis now.

The thing about "they could fix this!" is that we have a match like this every year! We hit this point every single year. We start screaming at each other just wishing for the cold release of death during one match ever year. This is what they want. This is what they think is good. It's like childbirth (but less severe, right? I mean it has to be). We have a survival instinct that makes us forget the pain, every year. But this is what they want!

Orton keeps walking under that ladder and giving US bad luck.

They should have had Mauro call this one, but he'd only be allowed to make 2009 pop culture references.

I'd like to see Edge vs Reigns. Let's see if Reigns can carry him like Cena could.

This of how much better this would be if it was Christian vs Orton.

Why do they have to punish us like this every year?

This match would have been so much better if it was at that WWE warehouse with the In Your House set and everything.

I liked Orton throwing Edge head first into all of the PPVs he missed.

I wonder if they can blade with those boxes of paper.

I saw none of the build, but I saw a lot of people really into it. But this was always leading to Edge vs Randy Orton actually wrestling. Didn't people realize that?

I'm really worried this match is going to kill the crowd.

My biggest takeaway so far is that this match doesn't just need, but also deserves, Shane McMahon.