Such a weird name, but I guess it kind of makes sense? I dunno.

I looked up the card. There were six matches. Three of which I thought sounded pretty good on paper. Both women's matches & the Roman Vs. Cesaro matches. That's well above average for me interest wise for a modern WWE card. 

Since WWE switched from WWE Network to NBC Peacock, I have not bothered with it yet though. Despite how I used to frequently put on old school wrestling shows for background noise on the second monitor when working from home or messing around online. Lately though, it's like, I already pay for Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Hulu & Netflix. HBO Max & Shudder are both in the queue as well. Do I need NBC Peacock too? It's getting to be just as bad as cable at this point. 

It's not even that I'm not willing to pay for streaming services but when I want to watch a movie & check on six different sites & none of them have it, and I keep paying for services I'm not using very often with more constantly popping up, it's honestly just easier to pirate shit. I pay for Spotify Premium just to remove the commercials, so it's not a cost thing. It's a convenience thing for me. WWE made the Network less convenient for me. 

Maybe I'll wait to hear some word of mouth or check some out on Wreddit but I hate that they switched. I hate it.

Sheamo vs Ricochet on paper is actually really dope!

It's a shame Ricochet is a huge, huge dork.

I totally forgot about the pre-show and missed most of Sheamus vs. Ricochet.

Glad to see Ricochet on PPV, especially in a title situation, but matches with such a foregone conclusion do little for me.

Hopefully this is building toward a rematch though. 

Charlotte's gear looks like she's wearing some kind of sexy 101 Dalmations cosplay. 

This card is as ice cold as it gets. I almost forgot the show was tonight.

The problem is while every match looks good on paper (and probably will be good from a technical standard), most of them have an obvious winner so there's no intrigue or drama. 

If it were me, I'd have Asuka eat a fluky pin and then bludgeon both Charlotte and Rhea into bloody messes.

That opening match was surprisingly mediocre. I'm a fan of all three women, but nothing seemed to click. A lot of the sequences looked fake, sloppy and you could tell they were all having an off-night. Also, there was no way that Charlotte was taking the fall if she wasn't winning. 

Two people I routinely forget are still in the company somehow hold major titles...amazing.

I'm loving Rey's Adam West Batman  attire.

I wish they'd do something interesting like have Buddy Murphy declare himself the new partner (against Rey's will), they win, and the telenovela with Aalyah Mysterio resumes in full force.

It feels weird seeing someone as young as Dominik on a WWE show. Everyone else his age wastes away in the Performance Center until they're 35 and balding.

Actually a really fun match, and a nice tribute to Dom's true papi at the end.

God why are there zombies in this lumberjack match?

This is Robocop in WCW levels of bad.
 

Shame this zombie thing couldn't have happened in three days, since WWE has a good track record with shitty horror things on May 19th!

That was awful.

Did WWE purposely sabotage Batista's movie with that rotten dogshit?

If Miz is a zombie now I'd be kinda into it

Is this thunderdome or crowd? 

Dome

So, I was excited to show my nephew and his five pals a lumberjack match and then that happened. So instead, a better thing happened. They got to learn what wrestlecrap is and sat there making fun of it with me and my friend. Shit, one kid said " This would be ok if it was the Fiend but this is stupid."

Botched finish?

Bayley looked like she kicked out.

I forgot that you couldn't rewind on the new and improved Network, so I missed Sheamus/Ricochet and Asuka/Ripley/Charlotte. I'll go back and pick those up later. I came in time for the Mysterios/Dawgs tag and loved it. Awesome tag and a great classic Rey performance. Ziggler/Roode are really good in this tag team. 

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