...TG

Whatever his faults as a worker, Seth is an amazing athlete. How many people could get down the ramp that quickly in pants that tight?

IIRC, FS1 runs a Big East college basketball doubleheader on Wednesday nights. If they're unwilling or unable to break that contract for NXT, that may explain offering it to USA.

And here I thought from Bryan's promo that he was taking a very principled anti-torture position.

Pretty cool match between Roman & Murphy. Buddy looked like a star.

Look, I love Stone Cold as much as anyone, and any time he's on the show he makes it better. But this Skype shit is pretty low-rent.

I find the Skittles commercials that we see during Raw are pretty gross, but the one with the New Day was delightful.

So I did see a GIF of Goldberg's spear on Ziggler and man oh man. We give him a ton of well deserved shit - his segments are 100% channel changers for me - but he made Bill look like a king. Props.

So that means there was nothing to complain or rave about? (I missed the show.) With Takeover we had the endless main event to bitch over.

Wait, didn't they do the same finish to one of the Gargano-Ciampa matches?

Even the crowd, who to their credit (and my bafflement) have been largely into this match, didn't pop after Cole kicked out of that destroyer off the ropes.

This match is going to be 50% reversals, 25% mirroring sequences, and 25% inconsistent selling.

Shayna's talking head promo during the recap montage was amazing.

I'd criticize Matt Riddle wearing yoga pants, but if I had a body like that you better believe all my clothes would be skin tight. EDIT: on further review he's wearing black jeans but my point stands.

While I am surprised Slipknot are still around, I am not surprised to find one of their songs as the theme for a WWE event.

God, I cringe when anyone hits a reverse rana. Props to Candace and Io for bridging it into a nearfall though, that I haven't seen much.

Seth is a great example of the Peter Principle in wrestling - he's been promoted to the level of his incompetence. He was really good at his role in The Shield, and he's been great as a babyface in the upper midcard. That success can convince you that he's top guy material but alas, he just isn't.

So for the second week in a row, Ziggler is promised in the last segment so I make the quite reasonable decision to bail. And for the second week in a row, they end up shooting an angle I enjoy instead. Damn bait-and-switch WWE!

That was a very well-done tribute video for Harley.

So they debuted a brand new Raw open, only to have Joe interrupt it? Strange but effective.

Let's wait until the second month of running basketball arenas before we come to that conclusion. I hope they can become a long-term success and they're obviously off to a great start, but there's a long, long way to go.

When I muted her on Twitter I thought that was the last I'd have to suffer through this, but here we are, twice.

Bryan being the mystery assailant makes reasonable enough sense; unless someone is going to debut or be re-introduced it may as well be him. And of course I'm very excited to see how a full-heel Bryan works with Roman.

I don't know who picked these giant chairs for these two tiny women to sit in. They look like 2nd graders in the principal's office or something.

Getting into some weird psychosexual territory with this Mike/Maria angle. OTOH, Maria wanting the belt because she knows no one will try to hurt a pregnant lady is pretty genius.

Interesting - the TMZ post did not mention this, and neither does Wikipedia. (Say what you will about Wikipedia, but the folks who update the WWE pages are generally thorough to an absurd degree.) The cut/paste newz sites all us that phrase, though none of them really appear to be linked. TMZ did report on the 2011 arrest, making it a little strange they didn't link to it. As far as I can tell was not arrested for DUI in 2013 - that was apparently a probation violation for driving on a suspended license. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, that was a pretty cursory search.)