Honestly should have posted this yesterday but…
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Angelico returned to Aztec Warfare and did his famous death-defying dive again. I couldn’t find a Youtube of it, but pretend there’s three guys in the ring instead of two. My biggest markout moment of the year, gents! I was practically orgasming!
WTG Sexeh Starr! She won the LU belt when the smoke cleared.
Stood in line for an hour and half or so and paid almost double what I wanted to, but Ms. Cups and I are officially going to Wrestlemania!
OK. Survivor Series predictions.
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Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg. Brock gets his win back from 12 years ago so that Vince can dig up the corpse of WCW just long enough to bury it again.
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Survivor Series match; Team Raw (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho & BROWN STRONGMAN) vs. Team Smackdown (AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt & Shane McMahon). I’m gonna say Team Smackdown wins, since the Raw team has more of a reason to hate each other than the Smackdown team does. I expect Shane to take some sort of goddamn insane bump, some tension between Bray and Braun, and the finish of the match to come down to AJ vs. Owens because Vince loves him some hot champion-on-champion action.
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Survivor Series match; Team Raw (Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Nia Jax & Alicia Fox) vs. Team Smackdown (Becky Lynch, Tits Bella, Carmella, Alexa Bliss & Naomi). Could go either way. Again, the Smackdown team seems less internally divided than the Raw team does, while the Raw team seems to be more solid. However, in these “let’s throw the entire womens’ roster into one match and see what happens” type showdowns, the face team tends to win… but both teams have a 2/3 ratio of faces to heels so… surprise Veda Scott run-in? I don’t know. Let’s say Raw wins.
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Survivor Series match; Team Raw (New Day, Sheamus & Cesaro, Bullet Club, Primo & Epico, and Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady) vs. Team Smackdown (Heath Slater & Rhyno, American Alpha, the Usos, the Hype Bros, and Breezango). First thought: did Teddy Long get rehired without anyone hearing about it? Because that’s the only way I can figure that a 20-man tag match is happening. Second thought: how long has it even been since Tyler Breeze and Fandango were on a PPV? Final thought: This match is going to be a gigantic clusterfuck, but Team Raw wins because New Day aren’t allowed to lose a match clean ever.
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The Brian Kendrick vs. Kallisto for the cruiserweight title, the cruiserweight division moves to Smackdown if Kallisto wins. We already know the cruiserweight division is moving to Smackdown since 205 Live debuts the week after this show, so this is a foregone conclusion. Kallisto wins. Now can we please get Jack Gallagher on TV?
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The Miz vs. Sami Zayn for the IC title. Sami wins, thus completing the title swap. I was really looking forward to seeing him and Ziggler, but Dolph isn’t allowed to have nice things. He’ll probably be involved in the finish, though.
Those are the only matches that’ve been announced, which is odd, seeing as they’ve got a four-hour timeslot plus a pre-show. Maybe we get a bonus cruiserweight match, or something with the NXT guys, or maybe an hour or so of filler.
WOOT! Grats!
Think there will be any roster swaps as a result of SS? Bryan’s already made known that Zayn and Cesaro want to swap. Assuming it’s not a work, I could see the tag clusterfuck coming down to Shamus and Cesaro blaming each other for RAM’s loss, and Foley deciding it’s best to separate the two permanently, so Cesaro gets exiled to SD. Plus, there could be some kind of hidden deal that Bryan makes with Sami, that if he wins the IC tltle, he gets a SD contract.
I still don’t understand why Goldberg would come back just to lose a match. I mean, Ultimate Warrior did that, but Warrior was irrational and maybe he needed the money. Goldberg’s a smart guy and didn’t. Coming back just to lose a match does nothing for his legacy. Unless they’ve got the mother of all five star matches rehearsed or something and it somehow makes both of them look like the greatest competitors ever.
You obviously didn’t watch the catastrophe that was Sting vs. Triple H. 
That’s the thing. After watching how WWE completely fucked over and injured Sting, why would Goldberg sign up for more of the same? Sting’s Wrestlemania match may as well have been a line of WWE wrestlers taking turns pissing in his face ending with Vince sodomizing him in the ring.
Although, I dunno, maybe they offered him $10 million or something. 
Sting was not there for the one match though. If Goldberg is coming back as a permanent part-timer, special attraction type performer, perhaps setting up something else at Wrestlemania, then a loss to Lesnar makes sense. If he’s there for the one match, I’d think he has to win. Won’t hurt Lesnar any.
I’m thinking Rusev will come out to avenge his humiliation at Oldberg’s hands and they’ll set up a feud between the two afterwards while Brock goes back home and wipes his ass with all those dollars he’ll make.
So in other words, exactly like the overbooked Sting Wrestlemania clusterfuck where they couldn’t leave well enough and had to involve a ton of other people?
No, I think he’s saying that Rusev/Goldberg will be a feud.
Having the other people come out during Sting/HHH was actually a really cool thing IMO because it ended up being “WCW vs. WWE” in a pseudo-kayfabe kind of way. Frankly all that was missing was Goldberg. Too bad that match isn’t happening, I think that would be a cool moment.
My prediction is a Brock win, but I think Goldberg’s return has been successful enough to merit another match or two. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him in the Rumble and I wouldn’t be surprised if he made an appearance at 'Mania.
Woot! Mah boys win the tag titles!!! 
Damn, Takeover kicked thorough and copious amounts of ass.
The DIY vs NuHorsemen match made me feel like I was 5. I was really pulling for the good guys. When Gargano cracked his shin on the belt, I turned away because I couldn’t bear to watch him lose! Grats to DIY!
I’m really digging TM61 too. Shane Thorne did a lucha leap off the side of the girder that looked fucking amazing.
NXT has a huge budget for entrances, what with the Roode gospel choir, Nakamura’s violinists, all the Asuka masks… I feel all so sophisticated.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the bolded part. First off, as good as The Game is in the ring, WWF vs. WCW died long before this match. This match should have been two legends wrestling each other for THE FIRST TIME EVER!!! For the WWF to book Sting as the loser is the WWE version of beating the dead horse. We get it! The WWE is the winner, that doesn’t mean that ALL WWE superstars are Superior to ALL WCW Wrestlers. Sting booked to win would have been more interesting, IMHO. Sting standing tall, defeating the odds, could have been a storyline. Sting jobbing to H3 is another case of WWE burying non-Home-Grown tzlent
If they were going to do that, having Goldberg squash Rusev without even the need for a power move or even a spear wasn’t the way to set that up.
Just got finished watching the replay of Takeover, with some difficulty. The Roku app wasn’t accommodating for the overrun, so it kept kicking me out right at the 2-hour mark, just as the main event was starting. I had to switch to my tablet to finish watching.
10/10 throughout. Surprised that Joe won the title back, but a hell of a match. Fun side fact; Joe has now main-evented six consecutive Takeovers - the only people close to that number are Adrian Neville and Sami Zayn with four each. Highlight of the night for me was Tommaso doing the Suplex City spot and then transitioning into the Bullet Club superkick (complete with the finger-gun gesture.)
I sincerely hope that high school choir got some decent money, but I expect it was more like “We’ll pay your school $500 to do it”.
From top to bottom was just an excellent show. Everyone busted their ass, went through a lot of hell and showed what it takes to make it big in this industry. Huge heart and physical endurance. My respect to everyone on the show.
While I fully expected Rude to win, I as well as the audience were disappointed that Tye Dillinger didn’t win. He put on a ‘10’ performance. I hope they give him a really good bonus for it.
Who hit Ninkie’s noggin? Oh, the drama!
I bet it was Bree.