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Man, this sucks. Not just one of the best big men ever, one of the best ever full stop. Loss put together a great list of matches on Twitter that I'm going to spend an hour or so bouncing around. RIP

Stick to the wrestling, brother. That was a wholly professional performance against a side whose intention was to disrupt and kill momentum at any chance. Kind of like what Switzerland did but you didn't have a Harry Kane Though there hasn't been any World Cup result as thoroughly disappointing as Dolph Ziggler becoming IC champion. Though Rollins is so over, they should probably push him toward the title when they can, depending on if Lesnar feels like working or not.

What in the HELL are they putting Sami Zayn and Bobby Lashley through? Those poor men

If they're booking Reigns vs Lesnar and Bryan vs Miz on the same card, they can't possibly expect the former to be the main event. If the former goes on last then they, once more, deserve everything they get.

And Nitro continues its slide into complete irrelevance. As Loss says, the tag match is actually really solid; everyone works hard, Luger and Elizabeth is a really solid act and Hennig looks like he has a ton left in the tank, even if the opposite was true. As much as they try to build heat around their top guys, WCW is dead. This is a really solid TV main event but Rock/Big Show is much more fresh, exciting and booked in a way that is actually interesting and that was just a repeat of a PPV match. God bless the old guard of WCW for trying but success had escaped from them and Vampiro was certainly not the guy to bring it back

It's been years since I've seen this and my fondness for it has diminished. Largely down to my weariness with brawling through the crowd but, to be fair, it was kept fairly short here but the match still does have it's pluses; Corino makes everything look great and getting that cowbell and tape out of his hair must have fucking sucked later on. Dusty is elder Dusty but he manages to make everything that should matter, matter but there's just something missing. And yeesh, that opening angle. Terrible insider remarks topped off by really uncomfortably harsh man on woman violence. What a shitty time.

Kid Kash is an absolute bumping machine here, just incredible height and snap on everything he does. I enjoy Awesome in settings where there's a size discrepancy and they can bump and fly for him, making his power stuff look really good but I thought this was some degree worse than the Spike matches. At this point in ECW, Awesome is like a bad Brock Lesnar with table spots replacing German suplexes.

God damn it, they ran Bryan/Miz in my patch and I missed it

This annoys me too. It's even worse when it's "Earlier today, Sasha Banks took to Twitter and said "It's my time tonight. #TheBossisHere #BankHoliday" with Cole taking a dramatic pause before saying each hashtag out loud

Mike Adamle's stint on ECW was certainly something. Didn't it all but drive Tazz out of the company? I mean, that was no great loss but still.

Hash bleeding as he walks to the ring is a fantastic visual and he is ready to lay a beating in on any fool that comes into contact with him which includes his partner, Ogawa. BB Jones is The Yeti dressed as some CHIKARA offshoot and he manages to drag this down pretty badly whenever he's involved which is actually a shame as I enjoyed any pairing of the other three guys (as you'd expect). Tenryu is pretty subdued but it's all a backdrop to the heated Hash/Ogawa feud which boils over here in a nice, violent exchange. More of a heated angle than anything else but I still dug it.

Why send the fans home happy?! So they leave satisfied? So they come back the next time you're in town? That can't be a serious question?

The Memphis running theme of poor commentators getting interrupted by heels is something that will never not warm my heart. A selection of promos from the heel guys with Wolfie D giving an AWESOME heel promo. Once more, you're reminded of how, in an alternate universe, PG-13 have the same legendary status as The Hardys. Mo and Kevin Thorn are certainly a pair of guys to both be in a stable. God bless Memphis as we get Dave Brown on the phone who recounts a story of his truck getting tampered with and it becomes a super hot angle. It all bleeds into the match which is a fantastic sprint. Cuts a great pace, Baxter's interference spots are really neatly incorporated and both guys look really crisp and look head and shoulders above most of the southern indie guys we've seen so far. Like said, it's really a shame that King didn't get a good babyface run anywhere as he had great charisma, could bump and sell well and when it came to offence here, everything he did looked really smooth. Chalk him up as another unlucky dude, I suppose.

Run-of-the-mill tag match that is worth it to see that The Rock N Rolls could still pull off a pure Southern tag match with, what looks like, 2 guys they've just pulled from the crowd.

New line of merch on WWEShop coupled with some special ref type angle down the line?

Another real slog of a show from WWE. The work was all fine but man, halfway through the Rumble match, all I could think of was HHH/Cena and how it felt like it took place on a totally different show. My main takeaways from the Rumble match are that Braun/Bryan will be awesome if/when it happens, Elias is definitely on the right path to stardom and Randy Orton being strangely super over in Saudi Arabia is something I still can't wrap my head around.

Reigns honestly needs to be off TV for a good while. Beating Joe is going to do him no favours, on top of the terrible booking he's been subjected to. Keep him off TV until after Summerslam (where Lashley may win the belt), have him return in a way that makes people pop for him and hope that he's kept away from the sabotage that's, seemingly, always assaulting him.

Did Cole just say "Ariya Daivari and his brother...Daivari"?

Man, these poor guys haven't even got called up to the main roster and they've already lost their surnames.

Ha, that was a pretty funny finish. Only saw the finishing stretch but it felt like a house show ladder match

"What is Finn smiling at?" seems like it should be a meme

Bludgeon Brothers should rebel and start smashing everything to bits with those hammers

Yikes. OK, them running a full Saudi propaganda vid is a bit much.

They seem less interested in the in-ring stuff and more about the poses, catchphrases and signature spots. They seem to be getting the reactions.