Exposer

Wyatt-Ambrose TLC - Fun match. Bray got his ass kicked. It's kind of hard to believe he won this after the beating he took although I get how he could capitalize after what happened to Ambrose. That TV spot was fucking silly though.

Rusev-Swagger US Title - Why did this match even happen? It was okay for a battle of submissions five minute match.

Oh, it wasn't THAT bad. He stumbled a bit and that was it. In the history of bad promos that doesn't even register. Seriously. Sure, there are worse promos than that. I still thought it sucked.

Ryback-Kane Chairs Match - This stunk minus a few good spots. Ryback was winded two minutes in.

Reigns promo was unbelievably bad.

AJ-Nikki Divas Title - Decent match. I liked Nikki's back work on AJ.

Cena-Rollins Tables Match - Man that was overbooked to hell. It was insanely heated though which was impressive. There were some fun teases and Reigns return was fun. This wasn't really a match though. Just a thirty minute segment.

Bray-Dean the main event now? Weird.

Big Show-Rowan Stairs Match - I liked this. They did the best they could with the gimmick and had some nice spots. Rowan can bump. I didn't like Big Show winning, but this was fun.

Usos-Miz/Mizdow (Tag Title) - Disappointing match. Miz basically wrestles a handicap match every night. I've enjoyed this angle so it will go a little longer obviously. This match just furthered the angle.

Harper-Ziggler Ladder (IC Title) - This was pretty violent. The blood and dangerous spots were enough to make this an exciting watch. The Harper tope was insane. Pretty damn good ladder match.

New Day-Rhodes Brothers - This was actually pretty decent aside from Kofi screwing up a side headlock exchange in comical fashion. There were a couple of fun spots and Big E looked pretty good. Okay to open things up.

I'm sticking with Ziggler, but it wouldn't be a huge surprise of Harper retained. Ziggler losing this match after being the last man standing at Survivor Series would be a little ridiculous, but this is WWE.

Will, I think you read my post wrong. I predict Ziggler regains the title, not retains. Harper is still IC champ as of now.

Tonight we have..... New Day vs. Rhodes Brothers on the pre-show - New Day needs a win, so there's my pick. AJ vs. Nikki for the Diva's Title - I imagine Nikki keeps the gold here. Miz/Mizdow vs. Usos for the tag belts - Miz/Mizdow win when Naomi cost the Usos the match. Rusev vs. Swagger for the US belt - I pick Rusev. Ryback vs. Kane in a Chairs Match - Who cares, but I'm assuming Ryback. Big Show vs. Erick Rowan in a Stairs Match - Rowan should win this. I pick him. Dolph Ziggler vs. Luke Harper in a Ladder match for the IC title - Ziggler regains the IC belt. Bray Wyatt vs. Dean Ambrose in a TLC match - Bray wins this. Cena vs. Rollins in a Tables match - Cena wins with help from Orton.

That was a great show. It's amazing that NXT has any relation to WWE. The Owens debut was tremendous with the blood making it even better. The tag matches were both fun, but Balor's getup was completely ridiculous. Charlotte-Sasha was pretty good. The main event, celebration, and closing angle were all really great. Awesome show.

The divas are working a lucha gimmick.

More patterns include stopping in 2002 and coming back in 2011 (which tells me how huge the Punk angle was in hindsight).

Okay, I was way too brief in my original post. 2000-2001 (7-8) - I got into wrestling just as it was ending it's peak during the Monday Night Wars/late 90s boom. It took me a couple of months of sporadic viewing before I really got invested. The build to WM 16 had me really excited. My Dad ordered the PPV, and it just sort of clicked from there. I'll never forget the night after that Mania my Mom demanded my brother Dustin and I go to bed at 9:30. That was a one night failed attempt. I pretended I couldn't fall asleep and tried to get a few glimpses of Raw in my parents room. I whined and complained. Simply put, my brother and I got to watch all of Raw every week after that. Anyways, in my earliest days of viewing I liked HHH. I thought his entrance was cool. It didn't take me long to get into the swing of hating the heels and cheering the faces though. I despised HHH so much as a kid. Dustin and I fucking cried when he beat Rikishi that one time on Raw or whatever. As far as WCW goes, it was digging its grave pretty deep by that point. When Dylan would come over, he'd flip back and forth between Raw and Nitro. I thought that was blasphemous and bitched about it. The only WCW PPV I ever saw live was Bash at the Beach 2000 that my Uncle ordered for me. I dug Booker T. I thought the Russo-Hogan stuff didn't make any sense at all as a seven year old. It still doesn't today. The PPV, as much as it sucked, still inspired me to watch Thunder every week for a while. I never watched Nitro, but Thunder was something different. ECW was on Tuesday night's I believe. We watched it sometimes. It was on pretty late though where we were. When it came to internet fandom or inside rumors I didn't get much of that at all. That's of course due to my age, but Dylan did call some number and let me listen to some dude rant about rumors for ten minutes. I didn't get it at the time though. I pretty much knew it was fake, but I didn't care to think about that. As 2000 went on, I got totally into the Rock-HHH feud, Austin's return, and so on. The build to Mania 17 was awesome as a kid. Holy shit that show was even better then too. We watched it in my brother Drew's room. Then the Alliance angle happened and I was fully engrossed in it. Kurt Angle was my hero pretty much. Sometime in 2001, my uncle and cousin started inviting Dustin and I to go to some local indie feds in the Chattanooga area. We went to this place named UEW for years every Saturday night. It gave me a taste of old school wrestling and a little bit of the indie excitement that was starting to build. By this point, I was a kid who loved the hell out of some wrestling. 2002-2005 (9-12) - This period was crazy for me as a wrestling fan. I had random Japanese footage, ROH footage, and old tapes bought at indie shows to watch at home, UEW on Saturdays through the summer of 04 and random local weekend shows for a year after that. My uncle and cousin were as invested in WWE as we were. We would have big parties, invite friends over, eat huge meals, and have a blast watching the big shows and PPVs. TNA started up and we got really into that as well. My uncle ordered one of their weekly PPVs every few months. Samoa Joe was a huge deal and we all marked out for him in TNA. I had only heard things about him in ROH and hadn't seen the matches at the time. Unfortunately, from 02-03 we only got Raw which was garbage in hindsight. At the time, it was awesome. Smackdown starting airing on Saturday nights on the local Fox affiliate at 11:35 pm in 04. My cousin would tape it and we'd watch it the next week or weekend. We also went to every house show WWE had in Chattanooga during this period as well. I met Shelton Benjamin, John Cena, and Matt Hardy and thought it was the greatest thing ever. It was a blast being a wrestling fan as a kid. 2006-2007 (13-14) - Here's where sports comes in. I was completely into everything college and pro football by this point. I would skip Raw several weeks in a row to see big Monday Night Football games. I would turn down chances to go see local indie shows because my South Carolina Gamecocks had a game on Saturday night. I got REALLY into movies at this point too. I was going to Blockbuster every weekend to rent four or five movies and binge watch them. It was insane. Wrestling was almost taking a backseat. But not quite. I was still really into WWE. My friends were watching at the time in school so it was something to talk about. I dug the ECW One Night Stand 2 stuff, the Cena-Edge feud, pretty much the entire year of TNA in 2006, and Smackdown was fucking awesome to watch on Saturday nights late. Meanwhile, there was a local indie red running in Cleveland, TN called ARW that I would go to with my uncle and cousin whenever the Gamecocks didn't have a night game. That was a GREAT indie fed. I saw some of the best matches I've ever seen live there. There was an INCREDIBLE Naturals vs. Shaun Tempers/Ace Rockwell tag that I saw there. It ruled. Also during this time Dustin's best friend starting eating at Hooter's for the PPV's so we thought "what the hell? Why not?" and joined him every month. That was a blast too. As a 14 year old, wings, hot women, and wrestling was tremendous and maybe the greatest thing in the world. Of course, the Benoit stuff was horrifying for me. I couldn't believe it. It made me sick for a few weeks. This sounds bad, but I was able to shrug it off eventually and get back into the product. Another great live match I saw from 2007 in Chattanooga was Cena-Orton at a house show. The match was better than there Summerslam match that year and probably the best Cena-Orton match I've ever seen. My uncle and cousin had pretty much completely stopped watching WWE and TNA programming by the end of 2007. We still had some fun family wrestling parties for the big four PPVs in future years but they were few and far between. 2008-2011 (15-18) - Man did I get into everything professional wrestling during my high school years. I turned into a mega fan pretty quickly into high school. The WWF and WCW Smarkschoice polls introduced me to older wrestling. Youtube and Dailymotion exploded with copious amounts of footage. I got the motherfucking Buddy Rose set as a graduation present. Whenever I visited Dylan he was always working on 80s projects or something of the like so I got to see a good bit of that stuff as well. I was fully into WWE again. I was still watching some shows at Hooter's, I started to not care about MNF games that didn't have the Cowboys playing because Raw was on, SD came on during it's regular time for the first time in year's in my town, my uncle, cousin, and I were still going to local indie feds. Completely random ones at this point which was a blast. By the end of this period we were attending shows in Rossville, GA at a place called Empire where a ton of UEW veterans work. The Nexus angle was awesome (at first), the summer of Punk was the greatest thing ever, and so on. And who can forget about WWECW kicking ass every week. It was great. Wrestling was becoming fun again and I loved the hell out of it. 2012-2014 (19-21) - Then college happened. "Hey want to go hang out? Do this? That? Time to study!" I've missed a lot of wrestling since being in school, but a good bit of it I don't care about. I was going to Empire and DSCW (another localish indie fed) into 2013, but more sporadically. I watch WWE programming regularly, but it's out of habit. I still get really into at times like with the Daniel Bryan stuff, the Shield's debut, the Rhodes stuff last fall, Cesaro in 2013, etc. WWE doesn't do it for me as much anymore. However, I've really gotten into watching everything all over the world over many years. I've watched some stuff for the 80s sets, participated in a few of the 80s sets rankings, watched most of everything from 2012 and 2013 of pimping importance and dished out top 100s for the WKO site, and generally watch random stuff whenever I get the chance. I don't care about wrestling that much anymore which is sad. I have some great memories as a kid. I still love wrestling, but I watch because I like good matches. Good characters, angles, and promos can still happen and I love them, but the lack of those things makes me not care as much anymore. I still love me some wrestling though. Hell, I'm going to an Empire show tomorrow night!

I'm much younger than a lot of people here. I still watch WWE programming regularly. It's more out of habit than enjoyment currently. I've been pretty negative towards the product in the last year. As a little kid during the latter half of the Attitude Era and early 2000s, nothing was more important to me than pro wrestling as entertainment goes. Then I became a huge football fan, both college and pro, played sports, and went to college. I've missed many Monday Night Raw's for an NFL game or spent most of the time during WWE TV viewing studying. I have way more interests now outside of wrestling that I like to prioritize over it sometimes. I'm not sure it has anything to do with the product being stale though. It's just more things to enjoy and talk about. One thing that has changed remarkably with me over time is being able to miss a Raw, SD, or even a PPV and not give a shit. I don't care all that much if I miss a show. The internet exist. EDIT: Turned 22 this week.

Jimmy Johns is awful indeed.

Oh my God. The "crushed leaves" interview..... Let's hope he's not as honest tonight.

You might be right there as Orton probably would have taken all the heat.

Why? Because Randy Orton has gotten himself over again and a return to his hometown to end The Authority would have been much better than an old geriatric who hasn't been relevant in fifteen years. An Orton run-in, which would lead to nothing that hasn't already been done to death, would have been better than Sting making his first ever appearance in a WWE ring? Yes, precisely. Sting can make his first ever appearance at another time. He's not going anywhere.

Why? Because Randy Orton has gotten himself over again and a return to his hometown to end The Authority would have been much better than an old geriatric who hasn't been relevant in fifteen years.