<kevindunn>Paige has a vagina, so it’s not like she matters.</kevindunn>
I don’t like vulnerable insecure Paige. I like aggressive, hair tossing, banshee wailing Paige. Maybe it’s some kind of bipolar angle, but the old Paige didn’t act like she on the verge of crying every time she got hit. She’s got Bayleyitis.
I knew S’more Joe couldn’t stay indie for long. Looking forward to seeing him push planets with KO, but they have such similar backgrounds—years in the Indies, didn’t have to use gimmicks to get over, doesn’t have a pretty face or atlas-like body—seemingly oil and water with the glitzy main roster. They’ll probably have him take on the Wyatts, but he would have killer matches with Cesaro, Ziggler, and maybe Kofi.
Oh, there’s a lot of WWE guys who can’t wait to get in the ring with Joe.
They have ONE (1) shirt for him and the merch sales were so impressive they had to sign him.
I wonder if he toils in the midcard a while so that he can actually elevate someone who is already there. Like opposite day of normal callups
Doesn’t look she’ll get the title back real soon so she needs to job the others for a while. Luckily she’s mentally unstable and go back to her old personality when needed. I’m missing AJ, she and Paige could have put on some great crazy-girl fights.
Unfortunately, that’s all there are in the Women’s Division. No faces, no heels, just catty, screeching women who give us few reasons to cheer or boo them.
Other than Naomi who had a fully recognized heel turn, a great reason for it, and a taylor-made story that is worth telling…but they refuse to put the belt on her because…um…she’s not white?
It’s not her turn yet. They’ve done her a favor giving her a high profile position while her husband is out and if AJ didn’t leave she wouldn’t be contending. So wait a while and let it work out and then when she’s not champion it will be because of racism.
A JBLism: Sheamus’s hair looks like a cross between a Sleestak and Ragnar Lodbrok.
THAT’S WHAT I SAID MAGGLE!
I saw that tonight’s RoH on DA is actually a rerun of their Sinclair broadcasting show this past weekend. I don’t know if this is how it’s always going to be, but hopefully they’ll configure their own DA version.
My understanding is that DA is, effectively, just another outlet for RoH, getting them on TV in markets that don’t have a Sinclair station. There were never any plans to record special DA shows.
Of course, I could be wrong, and plans could change. But I don’t think they’ll want to run two separate continuities, or have people with access to only Sinclair or only DA miss half the shows.
According to the departed Justin Gabriel, they actually had some really cool ideas for the Bunny, but all his and Adam Rose’s ideas got shot down.
Stupid PG rating.
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Dario Cueto is secretly Sauron from Lord of the Rings. He’s awarding Aztec medallions here and there, and he’ll have 7 medallions to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
He promised one such medallion to the winner of Jack Evans vs Argenis. Evans came out walking on his hands. Actually he strutted on his hands. During the match, the Stryker and Vampiro commented that he used to partner with Angelico. ORLY? The two of them together would cause craniums everywhere to explode. Evans kept screaming that he was the father of modern lucha, which I guess was meant to draw heat with the truly devoted luchites. Luchadidos? Luchadantes? Anyhoo, Evans wins with a truly impressive looking rollup trap. Anybody can escape a rollup, but this one looked like the Gordian Knot kind from which there is no unentangling. Evans is my new god.
The backstage promos almost steal the show this week. First, we see Chavo in Dario’s office. True to the Guerrero rep, he betrays Black Lotus to Cueto and arranges to capture her for the evil high priest. Next, he and the two remaining Crewbies ambush her backstage, but she expertly fights them off with kung fu until Chavo takes a crowbar to her head. Later, they hold her bound and gagged in Cueto’s office. “Where do you want her,” asks Chavo. “Put her in the cell across from my brother,” purrs Cueto. “He gets lonely at nights.”
In another backstage moment, Les Bloomfield approaches Ryck Fury about finding a third partner for a Trios match against the champions. Ryck brought in The Mack, but Cage interrupted and said he wanted to be their third. To enforce his opinion, he threw Mack’s face into the locker doors a few times. Then, the camera view switched to a position behind a wall of lockers, which then proceeded to topple over. The view switched to show Mack’s prone body laying on top of the toppled lockers. Looks like Cage is their third partner.
The Trios match ensues, and Ivelisse is still wearing a cast around her ankle. During the match, her teammates won’t tag her in, so she sits in a ringside seat out of spite and bitches at them during the match. Meanwhile, Angelico is assuming his usual fall guy role and takes the most abuse from Bloomfield’s team, but always manages to pull a miracle maneuver out of nowhere. He hot tags SoH, who mixes it up with Bloomfield. Suddenly, Texano Jr. appears and knocks Ryck off ringside. Angelico does his cross-corner flipadip springboard and knocks Cage down as well. Texano distracts Bloomfield enough for SoH to get the pin.
Finally, Sexy Star faces Pentagon Jr. in a submission match. I tell ya, Sexy Star is one tough chica. I don’t like to see men beating up on women, but Sexy can take some sick bumps. After a while, you forget it’s man vs woman—it’s two expert performers putting on a killer match. When Sexy finally locks a submission hold on Pent, the now unmasked Super Fly runs in and jumps Sexy. He’s now got some Uso brothers type of face paint, and is paying Sexy back for unmasking him. Pent then puts her in a Daniel Bryan-type surfboard, but instead of pulling on her arms, grabs her chin and bends her backwards, leading her to submit.
Then, an interesting development. Pent is about to do the ritual arm breaking of the fallen opponent, but Vampiro tears off the headset and rushes into the ring. He and Pent stare at each other to end the show, but during the closing credits, the scene shifts to backstage where Vamp is glaring at himself in the mirror. He then smashes it repeatedly with his forehead, cracking the glass and leaving spatters of blood. Things just got mental. Is Vamp going to work a match with Pent? I’m guessing he’s in his late fifties, and he’s lacking the muscle he used to have, but he’s still quite energetic and obviously doesn’t mind putting on some new scars.
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The Gore that Rhyno gave to Finn at the end of NXT was a work of art. I had to watch it 5 more times. It was like the scene near the end of the first Avengers movie, where Hulk knocks Thor out of the picture just out of spite. All it needed was Paul Heyman screaming GORE! GORE! GOOOOOORRRRRE!
Marcus Luis looks effin’ creepy nowadays. He kept doing that gaping mutant albino vampire thing. I like it.
Gonna have to disagree with you there, all of his ideas are really stupid and shock value for shock value’s sake.
A bunny with dried blood everywhere? A hardcore champion? Adam Rose as a “sadistic Marlyn Manson-type character?” how does that gel with ANYTHING WWE is doing? I guess I understand where you say it’s because of the PG era, but things like that aren’t improving wrestling by crafting a good story or making healthy characters…that’s just being an emo teen
Ok, I have a task set before me. I didn’t get it done last night, I will tonight (I’ve written myself a note!)
When Alexa Bliss is bent over the ropes before the match, Enzo is very obviously staring at her backside/crotch with a stunned look on his face.
I need to take a screen shot and crop it. Caption, of course, needs to be “How you doin?”
This is just one of those stupid things they do. You could tell that the Adam Rose character had potential, and you could tell that they wouldn’t be able to take it in a direction that would be entertaining. This wasn’t a storyline that got stopped short, it was a storyline that could never get rolling.
Adam Rose seems to be on his way back to Leo Kruger, which the crowd was chanting last night as he got really vicious with Prince Pretty.
It doesn’t gel with anything WWE, which is why I like it. 
They defanged the Wyatts, dumbed down Ambrose, made Paige less of the nightmarish harridan she can be, turned Kane into a corporate drone model… I just want them to step out of “safe” mode every once in a while.
I never really commented on NXT cuz honestly I have (gasp) nothing to say. Rhyno is huge, Finn is cool (I like the bandana), the women did a great job wrestling, end of show.
Didn’t know Jason Jordan went to IU. A good 3 hours away from my Ball State, but still a fun Indiana connection. I’ll do the “IU” chant next time I see him