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Yeah, I will say that I dug the Rumble a lot and the majority of it made logical sense and set up future Mania plans, made Styles look hot etc but man, they just don't seem to plug these plans into any kind of context whatsoever.

You've got Lesnar tangled up with Bray Wyatt, you're cutting the nuts off Reigns every single week but at least HHH gets to headline a stadium

ahahahahaha

HHH ensuring he gets the babyface response tonight. The savvy bastard

God damn, I love Brock Lesnar. Him coming in and just wrecking motherfuckers will never bore me.

Ha, Owens getting all of his comeuppances is awesome.

So, if Reigns can walk, why isn't he going back in the ring? Owens is limping down to fight so he automatically looks tougher than the champion. Shit, I'll take Owens/AJ at Mania.

Why didn't they pull Roman out over the top and kick his ass for good measure? Awesome Umaga tribute spot though

R-Truth's gimmick as concussed and eternally confused veteran is yet another meta turn for WWE.

Styles is selling a bunch. Hyped for when he gets on offense against all 4 of the Wyatts and the place comes unglued.

Styles looks like he's headed for the final four. Reigns, Lesnar, Styles and Wyatt?

I hope The New Day never ever split up, what a great unit. I'd have marked huge if Xavier came out with a saxophone instead.

The more I think about this, the more I think Lesnar winning the Rumble would be the best idea. Reigns comes in first, fights off everybody and HHH, with The Authority conspires to eliminate him and after that, you're left with Lesnar facing the odds. Maybe against the 4 Wyatt members; Lesnar fights them off, wins the Rumble, wins the belt. At Fast Lane, it's Reigns/HHH; if Reigns wins, he gets the shot at Lesnar. Maybe you do Heyman promos where he brings up last year's Mania, he talks about how Roman deserves the shot. Reigns beats HHH, Reigns beats Lesnar at Mania and we all have a great time. Probably. That took me 30 seconds and I think that is way more interesting than HHH winning and more shows where the heel champ comes through

Gangrel is from Florida and I'd pop for him coming in, spitting "THAT RED LIQUID" into someone's eyes before they tumble over the top rope. What's Santino doing? At this point, I'm pretty much only watching this match for the surprise entrants.

Speaking of Balor Club, I'm guessing that this is how they're debuting him on the main roster? Gallows and Anderson as the team of the stable, Styles and Balor as the singles guys. Push Balor, build up the Styles face turn and build to a match between them? That could be wild.

Awesome! I've always meant to dig into TEW since EWR is so good but could never get around the interface issues and how long it takes to actually book 2 hour shows. I hope he streamlines everything in a way that eases that burden since everything else about 13 is excellent.

Weren't those DX runs huge successes when it came to selling merch? I know that point is tangential to the discussion but that seems like Vince seeing an opportunity to get more people crammed into the merch booths, rather than a network directive.

That'd be great. I don't get a ton of days off at Christmas but I'll gladly spend one of them watching this stuff.

Finally get through the 90 and 91 yearbooks Will sent me out in about June. Send Will more money so he can send me more yearbooks so I can make the same resolution next year.

I want that idea but with The New Day instead. 20 seconds of them beating a guy up and a minute and a half of Xavier playing the trombone and Kofi and Big E dancing.

Bayley/Jax completely ruled with a result that I wasn't expecting. Jax is a total star; the way she carries herself and her aura is enough but she clearly knows enough about being a monster at such an early stage, knowing when to be knocked down, what offense to use etc. Bayley was great too, just bumping like a lunatic and making that choke look like all of her energy was being ploughed into it.

It's wild seeing Americans on Twitter loving these chants when everyone in the UK who has had to put up with them at football matches for a decade is sick of them

I'm a huge fan of Dawson. He's a good bumper, good seller, his offense is always crisp with a real weight behind it and he's great at all of the little touches that play to the cheap seats. He and Dash are a great team and this is a hell of a title match.

2015 has really sucked

Deciding to watch Raw and Nitro back to back now that I have the Network and it's so odd. I've seen all of these shows before but never as they were aired, as it were. It stands out how much every single part of Nitro seems fresh and new, aside from the segments with Hogan. Even the Flair/Arn cage match, which should be a huge match, is over within 8 minutes and the announcers spend most of the time talking about the "NEW" Hulk Hogan. Turning heel was a masterstroke but it's telling how tired wrestling audiences were of him for most of the 90s to this point. At my current watch, Raw is right in the period where Watts was booking and one episode has that amazing Diesel/Shawn/Taker vs Bulldog/Yoko/Owen six man with the great heel beatdown and it's followed with a ten minute segment that's just Vince and Lawler commentating over Bret/Issac Yankem from Summerslam. You take the rough with the smooth, I suppose. Also, PG-13's WWF run really did rule.