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Does Lesnar have enough dates that they can really do things with him? I wouldn't mind a mini feud with the New Day, for instance. Him vs Big E would be fun. Supposedly they're going to do more with him this year so maybe I guess. If they're stringing this title run the full year then they could give it a shot.

I really hope they're not about to set Lesnar up with Balor

Poverty pop for Lesnar

I wonder why Vince didn't call it a draft. Maybe he's banned the word draft for some reason.

It's worn super thin for me but at least you could argue that there was a legitimate grievance with Bryan not getting the payoff to his story.

Surprised The Revival didn't end up on Smackdown

They're loving the short promos tonight

Hope he heels in the crowd

Has Vince got a trademark out on those odd ties?

Thinking Vince is announcing Angle as GM or maybe even a draft for next month or something, which is kinda needed

Fuck this crowd. It's Vince!

Lord knows what the crowd are watching but it isn't this match

Surprised that this sort of crowd isn't popping big for Neville. He's great at what he's doing but that's probably a sign of how not over this division is.

That weird monologue of an intro killed the pop for the Hardys

What percentage of this audience would immediately start cheering Reigns the moment he made a heel turn?

Hate the commentators pandering to the crowd like that but I loved Roman having such a...minimalist promo lol. Hope he continues to piss off the dorks.

Thread for all the inevitable surprises and returns as Raw and Smackdown move past the big show

Haha, I read it and enjoyed the perspective.

Reigns is the best ex Shield by by many miles that's for sure. I would still say Ambrose. He just isn't protected like the other two. Ambrose is so patchy though. When he's really trying and being booked as the right type of character he's good and he gets over well but way too often he's in goof mode and works matches like he doesn't give a shit. Some of his performances can be almost embarrassing tbh. Case in point: last night's IC title match. It wasn't only a bad performance by him, but it seemed like he intended to put on a bad showing. After bitching on SCSA's podcast about pitching ideas to Lesnar and he not giving a fuck, surely he looks even worse by putting on a very lazy performance. Reigns, even when he is in a dire situation like his match against Taker, or being punished like his losing streak after his suspension, will always put on a very good effort and usually is the better performer in his match. Could you imagine the state of that match if he was booked with Undertaker?

Reigns is the best ex Shield by by many miles that's for sure. I would still say Ambrose. He just isn't protected like the other two. Ambrose is so patchy though. When he's really trying and being booked as the right type of character he's good and he gets over well but way too often he's in goof mode and works matches like he doesn't give a shit. Some of his performances can be almost embarrassing tbh.

The idea of Balor getting offence on Lesnar fills me with dread. I hope they just mix him in with HHH, Rollins etc and keep that shit self-contained. If that Taker ve Reigns match had been taking place at the end of a three hour show the crowd would have been a lot hotter. As it was, people in the stadium had been there for over six hours and sat through a massive amount of stuff so it was a bit heatless but I can't imagine anything that wouldn't have suffered from crowd burn-out given that scenario.

Could Brock have had the same level of match with anyone else? I think so. He hasn't though. Except for the Cena Extreme Rules match, that was his best WWE match imo. Maybe just maybe Reigns and Cena are actually good.

Good idea on skipping those matches. With Pitbull in between there was an hour long period where the only thing of any entertainment value was HHH's entrance and Stephanie taking a table bump. Goldberg and Lesnar was really needed to revive the crowd after all that. I'd have liked one more flurry from Goldberg at the end too but they've got to make Brock dominant again after taking those losses. Loving the Twitter reactions of the dorks crying over Reigns winning. Smarks are the new biggest marks.

Bizarre that people are shitting on the idea of Lesnar vs Reigns when they had the last great Wrestlemania match to date, one of the best the company has ever done AND didn't have a proper finish so there's clearly storyline reasons to renew the rivalry.

They did a backstage bit with AJ saying he's after the title now so that's going to be the next programme. With Cena supposedly taking some time out now, they could do with a draft to freshen up Smackdown. I'd love to see the likes of Rusev get a new lease of life over there.