Stiva

Strong is channeling Elimination Chamber Rey but even that’s not enough to transcend this. WWE plunder is the worse

Keith Lee should be in there throwing people from one ring to the next, smashing people into the cage and generally being a monster but the entire match is built around dives so he has to do that instead. Ridiculous.

“Holy bleep!” Wait a minute, this is a War Games decided by pinfall?! You wouldn’t get this from Cody’s War Games.

Yeah, man, we’re on the same page. If there were 3 more Roderick Strongs, Undisputed Era might be cool

Adam Cole going straight for the plunder, confirming himself as the new Edge. If he had anything about him, he’d have casually strolled to the ring. He’s a heel. His heels were winning!

He’s been fantastic here. You can tell he’s a student of War Games because whenever the face comes in, he’s the first one there to bump his ass off

Roderick as the Arn is pretty perfect tbf. He’s the best worker in that stable by a mile.

Say what you will about Cody, he knows enough to put a roof on the fucking cage. Undisputed ERA are like 4 e-fed wrestlers come to life.

Beth Phoenix reciting the awkward, wordy introductions has to be a rib at this point?

Well, I’m definitely going to pretend it was intentional now Theres a rapper in the audience so Mauro can make 15 tortured referenced because he’s so cool.

Seriously! Riddle is smoking him in every possible category

Riddle/Goldberg is money. And also a match that no human ever predicted 2 years ago.

Seriously! I thought the same thing. Riddle had to find a way out of the weakest chin lock in the world while still making Balor look good. The man is one of the best on Earth.

Why is Heel Finn Balor doing his babyface entrance?

Pete Dunne gets the illustrious position of challenging for the NXT title on the Survivor Series pre-show.

Pete Dunne is “literally fighting for his right to party” according to the Human reference machine, Mauro. He needs to take his face for a shit.

On my stream, Priest has just Razor Edge’d Pete Dunne on top of the table. What have I missed?

If anything, lifting references from a 70s sitcom actually enhances his desperate to be cool, midlife crisis gimmick

I popped huge when he was clearly disgusted at Chuck Taylor’s shitty bumping.

Man, that main event was so great. Moxley is astonishingly good at laying out matches and everything about this act screams “star”. The entrance, the gear, the swagger, even the music is perfect. Darby Allin matches are always going to be must-sees because when they tease something crazy, like that superplex onto the floor, there’s every chance that he’ll actually take the bump. Every potential, ludicrous big spot tease takes on far more meaning.

I’ve only just started this show but we’re getting DUSTIN on commentary. EDIT: He’s channelling Dusty something fierce, including asking Excalibur if he’s pronouncing things right.

Darby Allin is going to coffin drop from the top of the ship onto a crowd. It'll be like New Jack's balcony dives but crossed with the guy hitting the propeller in Titanic.

I really want to see Biff Busick roll through Marko Stunt and Jungle Boy before eventually coming up against Luchasaurus. Book it, Cody

That’s the guy, thanks. For some reason, I wanted to call him “TJ Johnson” but I knew that wasn’t right.

I would kind of like it if AEW had a set of 5-6 job guys, ala Horowitz where, everyone knows what’s going down but are strong enough workers to make their opponent look good, feed them correctly and get them over. Peter Avalon is actually solid at it, so is the dude with the apple who’s name escapes me but Nakazawa is really poor, even if it was neat that there was a character justification for him working Moxley. They were in Nashville, there has to be some ex- NWA Wildside guys around someplace. David Young could be All Elite.