Post-Mania 32 Raw

[andrew79]

Rollins?

[Jimmy Redman]

Please be Cena hahaha!

[C.S.]

Unless the mystery guy is someone nuts, the crowd is going to kill this match chanting for Sami. Really bad to tease him in the match and take him away in front of this kind of crowd.

 

Bet you it's Seth Rollins. I think that would qualify as "someone nuts."

[WingedEagle]

They gave him a suit!

[Jimmy Redman]

CESARO~!!!

[WingedEagle]

You know he's getting a push when they spend money on wardrobe, right?

[Matt D]

That'll do the trick.

[Manatee]

Oh man I was so sure it was gonna be goddamn Dean Ambrose and I was gonna turn my TV off. Cesaro better win

[WingedEagle]

Those 90 seconds or so of AJ with Cesaro were better than anything he did with Jericho.

[Jimmy Redman]

In 15 seconds of AJ vs Cesaro AJ looked more like AJ Styles than he has in this entire Jericho feud. Fuck Jericho is slow. And bad.

Perfectly happy to let Jericho face Roman if it means we get AJ vs Cesaro on PPV.

[Childs]

After all this Jericho crap, it's sort of shocking to see AJ in there with someone who can go.

[Strummer]

Oh man this crowd if Cesaro doesn't win this

[WingedEagle]

I love that 3 consecutive posts timestamped within a minute of each other flushed Jericho and his botox down the toilet. Please disappear forever. So happy I left him off my GWE list, even if he does appreciate a vodka.

[C.S.]

I love that 3 consecutive posts timestamped within a minute of each other flushed Jericho and his botox down the toilet. Please disappear forever. So happy I left him off my GWE list, even if he does appreciate a vodka.

 

His "appreciation of vodka" made him come across as an immature drunken asshole in his third book, which was almost unbearable to read as a result. Sucks, because I adore his first book and didn't mind his second either.

[WingedEagle]

 

I love that 3 consecutive posts timestamped within a minute of each other flushed Jericho and his botox down the toilet. Please disappear forever. So happy I left him off my GWE list, even if he does appreciate a vodka.

 

His "appreciation of vodka" made him come across as an immature drunken asshole in his third book, which was almost unbearable to read as a result. Sucks, because I adore his first book and didn't mind his second either.

 

 

Ha I just enjoy a vodka when I'm out to dinner and appreciate that he seems to take it straight. Not suggesting its a good way to spend the day.

[C.S.]

Ha I just enjoy a vodka when I'm out to dinner and appreciate that he seems to take it straight. Not suggesting its a good way to spend the day.

Nothing wrong with vodka, but did he have to write a chapter after every shot?

[Woof]

Alright, I thought that Codebreaker was it. I'll admit it.

[WingedEagle]

Tremendous near falls there. Is AJ actually going to headline a PPV against Roman?

[Gus_McCrae]

HA HA - we are all marks.

[WingedEagle]

HA HA - we are all marks.

 

Thank god for that. Sometimes.

[Woof]

So does this make Roman officially a heel?

[Strummer]

I so want to be wrong but no way is AJ v Roman headlining a PPV. Hunter will come back and put himself into it or screw over AJ and take his spot. Or they just do the match on TV setting up Reigns v Hunter at PPV

[hammerva]

I can't believe Styles actually won.

[Gus_McCrae]

I so want to be wrong but no way is AJ v Roman headlining a PPV. Hunter will come back and put himself into it or screw over AJ and take his spot. Or they just do the match on TV setting up Reigns v Hunter at PPV

 

Who cares - it's not always about the "big picture". Enjoy, the moment.

[Matt D]

Here's a thing.

 

If AJ was presented strong throughout, if he was debuted even more strongly, if he was protected in his first couple of matches (a showcase to debut, for instance, his offense not kicked out of so much so early), if he won at Wrestlemania, then this would matter even more right now.

 

That's what they do in NXT. That's what they do in lucha Underground. If AJ was going to be challenging upcoming in either of those places, they wouldn't have had his offense kicked out of so much and wouldn't have had him lose.

 

Is it good that he's the challenger and not Jericho or whatever? Sure. Is it a push? Sure. But there's a way to build a guy most effectively, and this wasn't it. No "Oh we got fooled!" moments change that.

 

He was just another guy last night. Tonight, he was the just another guy that they're giving a title shot. He was the midcarder, out of four midcarders, that was getting that nod.

 

Almost every wrestling territory in the 80s would have built him different. Vince, in the 80s or 90s, would have built him differently.

 

None of this changes that. That's history.

 

It was a good moment. It should have been better. I'm sick of settling because the either can't or don't want to actually get anyone over. It's not rocket science. It's wrestling.