Stiva

I can see the thought process but then you’re going with the story that Tony Khan brings him back to the company after his unprofessional rant and puts him straight in a number one contender match. It’d blow the roof off the place, I know that for sure.

Yeah, man. This feels like a huge deal with it playing

Kross at ringside has to be a red herring, right? Everyone thinks he’s going to fuck it up for Drew but Drew sees him off and beats Roman? They heavily featured the Bulldog win at SS 92 earlier on the show, wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted that for a new era

Must say, pretty much everyone on this show feels like a big deal with these crowd reactions. It’s light years away from a couple of years ago, everything feels really hot

Oh good, we’re still doing shitty mid-match dialogue

Yeah, straight faced Seth just straight up telling Riddle that his entire family life collapsed was a great heel bit and then he comes out in a Masked Singer outfit laughing at fuck all. Kind of ruins things a bit

This entire Rollins act seems very forced and unauthentic.

Man, that’s getting some HEAT! That saved a middling match. I want to hear heel Dominick Mysterio promos, I’m totally intrigued by that kid

Did Rey’s kid take his shoes off to kick Edge in the dick?

Rhea Ripley IS Quan-Chi!

No idea how Rey’s son is in-ring but he doesn’t seem to know where to put himself in terms of his body language and general demeanour, bless him

That was fucking great. Is there anyone else in WWE that they can throw in front of Gunther to have stiff bomb throwing epics? If not, just run that back in a few months

Big heavyweights sucking wind as they beat the piss out of each other in front of a rabid crowd. There’s not a lot better, boys

Ha, that stare down as the other guys brawl was a clever way to get some spotlight on the tag teams for a bit

Wait, they actually called the German guy LUDWIG KAISER?! That’s an incredible bit of 1970s regional wrestling heeldom brought into 2022

Nah, I’m here, my brother. No way I’m missing Sheamus/WALTER.

As someone who hasn’t watched WWE in a long while, the difference in commentary is night and day. They’re still shoehorning clumsy nicknames in but all three feel far more relaxed. It’s night and day if you haven’t been watching for a bit

Man, that crowd looks fantastic.

If Clash at the Castle didn’t….clash with the Newcastle game, I’d be watching my first live WWE PPV for who knows who long? The rumble where Edge returned maybe? Either way, the buzz coming back to WWE is good stuff and I’m intrigued to see them put on a strong stadium show with a really hot crowd.

They can still do the Cole attempts to take over The Elite from Omega angle without KOR and Fish. If anything, it’ll save us from seeing O’Reilly and Matt Jackson having a competition to see who can deliver the most business-exposing acting performance in backstage segments.

Also, the joker has to be Joe so we can get Joe vs Punk at Arthur Ashe, right?

Tony needs to give Ace Steel a raise because that man just got me to order All Out. What a fucking total home run of a segment, it’s almost completely justified and retroactively improved the last few months of really middling shows. Everything else was good too but man, that’s more like it.

The All Out card does look amazingly slap-dash when you consider it’s their de-facto biggest show and last years show clearly had a defined plan going in, along with two huge debuts at the finale. Kind of speaks to a lot of plate juggling and ego massaging

The Ernest Miller and Glacier tag team was fantastic fun in a way you’d never expect. And it wasn’t all Mortis dragging them to something good

That three weeks where they fully committed to a Palumbo/Jamie Noble feud over Michelle McCool was good shit. Like every other midcard idea with a spark of potential at that time, they never went any further with it