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God damn it, they ran Bryan/Miz in my patch and I missed it

This annoys me too. It's even worse when it's "Earlier today, Sasha Banks took to Twitter and said "It's my time tonight. #TheBossisHere #BankHoliday" with Cole taking a dramatic pause before saying each hashtag out loud

Mike Adamle's stint on ECW was certainly something. Didn't it all but drive Tazz out of the company? I mean, that was no great loss but still.

Hash bleeding as he walks to the ring is a fantastic visual and he is ready to lay a beating in on any fool that comes into contact with him which includes his partner, Ogawa. BB Jones is The Yeti dressed as some CHIKARA offshoot and he manages to drag this down pretty badly whenever he's involved which is actually a shame as I enjoyed any pairing of the other three guys (as you'd expect). Tenryu is pretty subdued but it's all a backdrop to the heated Hash/Ogawa feud which boils over here in a nice, violent exchange. More of a heated angle than anything else but I still dug it.

Why send the fans home happy?! So they leave satisfied? So they come back the next time you're in town? That can't be a serious question?

The Memphis running theme of poor commentators getting interrupted by heels is something that will never not warm my heart. A selection of promos from the heel guys with Wolfie D giving an AWESOME heel promo. Once more, you're reminded of how, in an alternate universe, PG-13 have the same legendary status as The Hardys. Mo and Kevin Thorn are certainly a pair of guys to both be in a stable. God bless Memphis as we get Dave Brown on the phone who recounts a story of his truck getting tampered with and it becomes a super hot angle. It all bleeds into the match which is a fantastic sprint. Cuts a great pace, Baxter's interference spots are really neatly incorporated and both guys look really crisp and look head and shoulders above most of the southern indie guys we've seen so far. Like said, it's really a shame that King didn't get a good babyface run anywhere as he had great charisma, could bump and sell well and when it came to offence here, everything he did looked really smooth. Chalk him up as another unlucky dude, I suppose.

Run-of-the-mill tag match that is worth it to see that The Rock N Rolls could still pull off a pure Southern tag match with, what looks like, 2 guys they've just pulled from the crowd.

New line of merch on WWEShop coupled with some special ref type angle down the line?

Another real slog of a show from WWE. The work was all fine but man, halfway through the Rumble match, all I could think of was HHH/Cena and how it felt like it took place on a totally different show. My main takeaways from the Rumble match are that Braun/Bryan will be awesome if/when it happens, Elias is definitely on the right path to stardom and Randy Orton being strangely super over in Saudi Arabia is something I still can't wrap my head around.

Reigns honestly needs to be off TV for a good while. Beating Joe is going to do him no favours, on top of the terrible booking he's been subjected to. Keep him off TV until after Summerslam (where Lashley may win the belt), have him return in a way that makes people pop for him and hope that he's kept away from the sabotage that's, seemingly, always assaulting him.

Did Cole just say "Ariya Daivari and his brother...Daivari"?

Man, these poor guys haven't even got called up to the main roster and they've already lost their surnames.

Ha, that was a pretty funny finish. Only saw the finishing stretch but it felt like a house show ladder match

"What is Finn smiling at?" seems like it should be a meme

Bludgeon Brothers should rebel and start smashing everything to bits with those hammers

Yikes. OK, them running a full Saudi propaganda vid is a bit much.

They seem less interested in the in-ring stuff and more about the poses, catchphrases and signature spots. They seem to be getting the reactions.

Broken Matt cracks me up, man. I love how he always changes up his early spot where he stops and shouts something. Him telling Viktor that his cartwheel was "TREMENDOUS!" was fantastic on Raw

Really dug the Cruiser match. 205 Live is shockingly consistent these days.

Hunter must have botched his spray tan

"No matter what is happening in my universe" is absolutely how regular people talk about their problems

The spot-calling is ridiculous and the whole thing is kinda bland and formulaic but it's exactly the match they should be working for this crowd.

And there's the first ham-fisted reference to Bruno

Ha, I love how the crowd is popping for WWE tropes like HHH spitting water and Cena running down the aisle. This is like a crowd that Vince has created in a lab.