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Orton and Punk had a really good match at Mania too, in what will probably amount to the same place on the card. It'll be a good, tight, 10 minute match that will be far from the worst offender on the night.

If they're going to go this route, I wish they'd utilise the Ronda/Mortal Kombat connection and make Scorpion and Sub-Zero tag team champions.

Though, I would love the ending to their arc taking place on a spaceship that is hurtling into the sun

Dana Warrior is in there to "provide a female perspective" apparently. Think of all the talented women in the wrestling business who you'd assume are brimming with ideas and they turn to her.

They're really in danger of over-stirring the pot. This is already the match people want to see, let the excitement and tension build on TV.

Awesome, thanks. New Japan and ROH have a strange ability to make me look at a card and, despite seeing match ups that look intriguing, not have a single clue if they'll actually be good or not.

Anything worth watching from the Honor Rising shows? Or is ROHs complete and utter blandness impossible to overcome?

I hope Santino inducts him, in character, as the Honky Donky Man.

I actually think I’d rather have Reigns in Seth’s corner at Mania instead of having him wrestle one of Raws boring as fuck heel guys.

He had fucking awesome entrance music and that will be missed.

FWIW, the four guys that a recent ex of mine loved were Finn and The Shield. Though, she also had a thing for Baron Corbin but I think that was an outlier. EDIT: I think it was Finn's ridiculous abs that she liked rather than his whopper but I'm sure her eyes were going there.

TJP has felt less and less useful as more and more guys on 205 Live came to the fore.

Yikes, Seth doesn’t seem like he’s going to fare any better as a top draw this time around. Looks like Becky will be Raw-bound after Mania.

I’m glad that the years of pushing part time talent as the only thing that matters is coming back to bite them. They need a Mania like this to shake them into life and change the focus a bit. As for Raw sucking, who would have guessed that putting all the good workers and tag teams who are capable of filling time with long matches on Smackdown would also come back and hurt them eventually?

I hope that the person playing Vince adopts his sleep cycle and rampant steroid abuse as a form of method acting.

Edge was always going to get pushed, regardless since they had him groomed for the top spot from 98 onwards. Whether that's because they considered him good-looking or not, I don't know but later, Rated R Edge was the very archetype of what WWE think cool people look like. Long hair, sunglasses indoors, suit jacket with t-shirt underneath and awful jeans.

It's awesome to see PAC back on the scene and clearly motivated to have good matches. The first few minutes of this is fairly pedestrian stuff until Kzy hits a dive that sends he and PAC backwards about 5 feet into the crowd and then follows it with a flipping neckbreaker from the apron. From there, we get PAC hitting an obscenely high superplex where it, honest to god, looks like KZYs feet touch the ceiling and he transitions into heel control. PAC bulking up and adding some whip and drive into his stuff during the WWE heel run really was a welcome addition, especially with KZY throwing himself and bumping huge and hard on everything. Say what you will about NXT, PAC is really a much more expressive wrestler having gone through the ringer. As said, when this goes, it stays gone; huge bombs thrown, the dives are hit with such smoothness and heft, all the big moves are hit such snap and torque that KZY really does look like he could have snapped his back at about 3 points and even the strike exchanges are done right. The shooting star to a standing KZY was one of the craziest killshots I can ever remember seeing. It looked like the kind of thing that would completely break both of your shoulders. Wild match with a lethal heel performance from PAC and a fantastic performance from underneath by KZY. 2019 PAC owns.

There's one great moment in this and it's when Sullivan first gets locked in and Savage, obviously finding a mic from somewhere, lets out a huge "OHHH YEAHHHHHH!". It sounds like the voice of God really enjoying what he's about to see and it cracks me up.

Wyatt with Harper in his corner vs Bryan with Rowan in his.

This is exactly the kind of discussion I want. The WWE house style has moved on so much since the start of the decade that I think matches like Christian vs Big Zeke may hold up stronger because of the distance than Charlotte vs Sasha in the cell. Either way, I'd love us all to dive in and make a phenomenal comp-worthy list.

Total Divas has the best WWE booking in 20 years

There's probably a more elegant way to phrase it than the thread title but I feel that this could be a pretty great ballot list if we had enough people committed to it. The 10s have to be the most consistent decade for WWE in-ring work ever, right? Granted, thanks to the sheer amount of TV/PPV/Network time they've accrued in the past decade, that's easier than it's ever been but still, it's a decade of work that is insanely stacked and I'd love to see a ton of people ordering lists and discussing things as the dust settles. Obviously, there's the whole of 2019 to go but this year seems like it's not going to let up so why not start now? My early, obvious contender for #1 is the Wyatts/Shield 6-man from Elimination Chamber 2014 but I think this could be a hell of a rewarding deep dive.

Velveteen seems TOO charismatic to fail but I have a feeling that he'll be a dude who will get hot at the wrong time and they won't pull the trigger on him because they're married to some other PPV main event

I hope Taker gets a photo with Cody or Jericho, if only to purposefully troll.