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Punk/MJF felt weirdly low energy, both from talent and crowd to me. I get they were pacing for a long match but the energy wasn't where it should be for a feud that's been so personal. Compare it to the intensity of Kingston vs Punk. This should not have been a 40 minute match of limb work, it should have been a heated fight. I also felt like Punk was telegraphing all of his spots and selling ahead of time that nothing was a surprise at all from start to finish.

I think it goes back to Batista/Cena era. They've basically knee capped everyone who has gotten over on their own since then, unless they get so over it disrupts shows and they can't ignore it anymore (Bryan, Becky).

Shane vs Hangman for the title at Revolution

I remember Spanky once floating that the Twin Towers were holograms and the planes hitting them were just CGI and they weren't real to begin with. Unsure if he was serious or not, I think there was an entire shoot video with London and Kendrick high as balls talking about conspiracy theories.

Think of all the no selling and false finishes Davey could bring to the porn industry. He could revolutionize the biz.

I think Lashley smashed Riddle a few times in a row last year

Legit can not remember a Rumble show that was so meaningless and pointless. No angles started for WM season besides Ronda and Brock getting title shots. In fact angles and stories regressed and the past month and a half of shows were completely pointless.

We all know WWE has been creatively bankrupt for ages but man this show was such lazy bullshit Roman/Seth was actually very, very good until the finish, which as part of the story I think was fine but it is ALWAYS lame to do a DQ in a title match on PPV, especially one of the big four. Far and away the best anything I've seen Seth involved in in a long time. Women's Rumble was bad. You can really see how little WWE gave a shit about their women's division for so many years when the only women they can bring back for these kind of these are the same 5 or 6 from 2010 or women they've fired in the past year. It was amazing that Torrie Wilson wasn't in it this year. I can't think of a single thing the match set up going forward besides Ronda vs Charlotte (or Becky, I guess) other than the continuation of Naomi vs Sonya which seems like it's been going on for over a year now despite also appearing to have multiple blow offs and not making sense anyway. They're still giving all that shine to the retired Bellas, retired Michelle McCool, and so on. No memorable spots, no memorable eliminations. Even the face off with Ronda/Charlotte was bizarrely short and without fanfare. Becky/Doudrop also was bad and went on way, way too long for what was very clearly a filler feud and a filler match. I don't think Becky has been good at all since returning, either in the ring or in her character/mic work. Lesnar/Lashley was cool in the opening with Lashley suplexing Brock back, but then turned into yet another match of Brock ragdolling his opponent with ease, then another fuck finish and swerve in a title match at the second biggest PPV of the year, in a match people have been wanting for nearly 20 years. All it accomplished was resetting the Brock/Roman storyline to a month ago. It made Lashley, an absolute freak of nature who has been pushed and booked very, very strong for the past year, look like a punk who got his ass handed to him and only won because he was lucky enough to be a plot point in the Roman/Brock storyline. Mixed tag was very enjoyable. Certainly no complaints about it. It was exactly what it needed to be, was fun, had some surprising spots like the Maryse rana, and a satisfying ending. I think it's the first time I've seen the male in a wrestling relationship hit the woman's finish in a match, where it's always the women doing her boyfriend/husband's spots in matches. "The Grit Couple" is pretty bad, though. Men's Rumble was just as bad as the women's. The "surprises" being Shane and Bad Bunny, both of whom were in the final four and eliminated people. Brock coming out, dumping everyone left, and now we're back to exactly where we were prior to Day 1. Not only did they make no attempt to give anyone shine (except for Bad Bunny), it almost felt like they intentionally were making everyone look like completely nothing afterthoughts. No memorable eliminations, no memorable spots, guys getting just limply tossed out with no fanfare or reaction. It didn't feel like ANYTHING was set up to go into WM season besides Brock getting revenge on Roman. Again. One thing that also stood out, having not watched any weekly TV in ages, is that it feels like 80% of the roster has had their entrance music changed and all of them were the most nondescript, bland nothingness.

It's been a while since I've seen a show and why have they changed everyone's themes and why are they all so bad

Finally, it's Dolph Ziggler's time!

My hope is the winner of the Rumble is a surprise who hasn't wrestled in years and everyone is like wtf

These suplexes look like video game brutal animations

I don't think he has any charm at all. Dude is a blatant bullshitter and company stooge.

Is David Arquette finally going to get a run or what

Danhousen seems like the kind of thing 5 year olds would really get a kick out of as a host for toy unboxing or shredder machine videos on Youtube

I think Jeff Hardy has some value to offer AEW, but that almost assuredly means more Matt Hardy TV time and that is a net negative

Having now seen a couple of his promos, I have no idea who or what group that character is aimed at.

Friends, I think maybe Bruce Pritchard sucks

If that's what this dude is, hard fucking pass

Hand the bat to Darby. Vanish into the rafters. After a shot back to Darby, there is a vulture.

The difference in Brock's confidence and presence from his debut to immediately after Summerslam 2002 is truly remarkable. It's like the guy became a 12 year vet overnight. To this day I've never seen anyone level up and get it so fast. Maybe Ronda Rousey.

I don't think there's really a big upside to someone beating or retiring beloved legend 62 year old Sting. It's not like he's at the end of his run as a top guy, top star, or even the end of his TNA run. He's an old legend having a fun post-retirement run where everyone just gets to have fun celebrating this legend everyone loves.

I think it's more of a stretch to believe WWE DIDN'T pitch a wildly offensive terrorist, or at least just evil foreigner, gimmick to Ali. They already were edging towards that with Retribution.

Okada has already broken pretty much every NJ record there is to break, maybe he can start a legend killer run. Tenryu, Mutoh, Fujinami, Fujiwara, Kabuki, all those old fucks still shambling around for a couple of matches every year

I disagree with all of this. I think what Ryder is doing is hack and not even well execution, and I don't find Janela to have charisma at all. He's a black hole of "why the fuck is this guy in the ring" and his execution of all the wrestling stuff is straight up bad. Anyway, ladder match had some heinous bumps, lucha trios had some crazy spots, and the rest of the show was pretty bleh. The actual "GCW stars" are pretty universally bad and somehow I ended a show in 2022 being more interested in a Jeff Jarrett resurgence than anything else.