Stiva

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

I do wonder what the eventual endgame for the MJF stuff will be. Wonder if he shows up at All Out in some capacity

Christian/Hardy wasn’t great but it had a valid reason for happening at the very least. Jobbing Cassidy to Lethal, even though it’s setting Lethal up for Wardlow, a match nobody believes he’ll actually win, is definitely the stranger match. They could have went with Lethal vs Trent for a similar outcome. I really hope Orange isn’t heading down the Darby route where TK thinks he’s bulletproof no matter what so he maybe jobs a bit too much.

Was talking to a friend tonight and he’s insistent that the Hangman/Silver team coupled with the renewed Elite drama is going to end up with Hangman as a heel and Silver as a singles babyface. Can’t think I’d ever thought of that before but when it’s spelled out like that, why not?

You could also have Dalton Castle and The Boys in the 6-Man tournament

They could do a lot worse than integrating the NXT UK roster to the US to really freshen the matches and programs up.

HHH, Michaels, Road Dogg and Jarrett around HHHs motorbike will be the Vince, Patterson, JR and Cornette around Vince’s pool for the new era

With Brock leaving, the only option they have is to bring Wyatt back, right? Everyone else is currently in AEW and Cody is injured anyway.