Make Goldberg come out at the Rumble as #1 and see if he can even breathe by the time #10 comes out.
Cody Rhodes wins GFW title, proving Global Force Wrestling still exists
He probably won some Tupperware and Karatbars to go along with it.
Does the Women’s title even mean anything anymore?
Yeah, they’re hotshotting those changes too much.
And of course, despite this being billed as a blow-off end to the feud, I’m sure there will be a demand for a rematch, on PPV, which means Charlotte wins again. 
And despite having THREE HOURS on RAW, they can never quite manage to have more than just the one Women’s match. :smack:
They’re getting in a cruiserweight match too, the women’s matches aren’t just 30 seconds anymore, and the overall ratio of wrestling to promo/nonsense is getting better, so it’s still an improvement. I would like to see women’s tag teams though, real teams, not just adhoc pairings. Considering that you can see two or three decent women’s matches in a week on TV this is a huge leap for women in wrestling.
Rich Swann wins the cruiserweight championship!
Can you handle that?
Interesting how the CW faces get background stories, illustrating their ambitions, dreams and struggles, while the heels don’t, unless it’s a tie-in to the face’s story. Ex: Brian Kendrick used to give a mid-teen TJ Perkins rides to the matches and now he betrays him! For shame!
I’m hoping they float Neville over to the CWs, since all he’s good for nowadays is eating Shamus’s Brogue Kicks.
So are the cruiserweights on Raw going to still be a thing? Or are they just shifting to 205? Or both?
This is a confusing dynamic to me.
Dunno, if still on RAM, that would mean they’re making twice the stops as either main roster. The 205 show is taped before the SD audience. I still want to know how they change the ring ropes to purple so quickly.
Corey Graves is taking the Byron Saxton role on 205, being all chirpy and excited about the action while Austin Aries does heel commentary. At least he’s not using the JBL model and getting all upset and shouty. He’s more of a snarky Bobby Heenan type, for instance remarking that the Bollywood Boys are happy to be there because they finally have indoor plumbing and running water.
I dunno, listening to all this “we grew up poor and broke and I slept in cattle cars riding trains cross country to wrestle” stuff is getting annoying. I kinda want to be sitting there on commentary and make a crack about how WWE is paying these guys in gas money and catering, because apparently none of them is making good money NOW.
This is why they should have taken the opportunity to have Kallisto win the Cruiserweight Championship and move the division to SmackDown.
*BAHWAAANNNNHHHH
BAAANNNNHHHH*
Just when I think Lucha Underground has peaked, it surprises me even more.
The whole show was a gauntlet match between Pentagon Dark and the Black Lotus Triad. Picture Samoa Joe vs 4 Asukas, and you’d get pretty close. Usually, in man vs woman matches, there’s a certain amount of punch pulling on behalf of the men, but there was absolutely none in this case. I thought Sexy Star and Taya were tough, but these chicks were scary tough. IRL they’re all Japanese wrestlers from World Wonder Ring Stardom.
Pent would dropkick them and they would fly across the ring like they were using cables from the Matrix movies. He’d hang them on the ropes, brush their hair back, then do a running chop to their chests. He’d throw them into the folding chair section and they’d be airborne. The BLT gave as good as they got, too. They were body slamming Pent and throwing him around just as easily.
Vampiro was practically in orgasms over the violence. He was getting all mystical in his commentary and Matt Stryker seemed to be getting a little worried. Pent actually lost to the third Lotus petal, Hitokin, and Blackie herself came in for the coup de grace and broke his arm. El Dragon Azteca Jr then emerged and broke Pent’s other arm.
In one of the vignettes, Dario Cueto is talking to his brother Matanza (back in his cell) and assuring him he’ll get another title shot, when the monster bellows NOOOOO! Dario staggers back in shock, and asks “Then what do you want?” Matanza shouts MYSTERIOOOOOO! So, it will finally happen after last season’s buildup.
In another backstage story, the former Solomon Crowe is working out when Catrina slithers up to him. Apparently the two used to be an item, and he still wears a stone necklace she gave to him. She tells him she loves another now, licks his face, and vanishes in the shadows. Does she mean Mil Muertes or… Death itself?
After the end credits, Prince Puma is shown in his coffin. Apparently he was dead but he got better, to quote Monty Python. Vampiro is there, presumably the “dark half” he keeps hidden when he’s on commentary, and tells Puma to come with him. Will a trip through the land of the dead, a la Dante’s Inferno ensue?
*BAHWAAANNNNHHHH
BAAANNNNHHHH*
Well, shoot, it’s already time for TLC!
Here are some predictions;
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AJ Styles vs. Dean Ambrose, TLC match for the world championship. Styles should win here - he needs to hold the belt at least until WrestleMania, so he can have an epic rematch with Cena, or possibly a triple-threat against Brock and Goldberg. Ambrose oughta be entertaining here if WWE doesn’t force him to be too kid-friendly with the hardcore antics.
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The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler, ladder match for the IC title. Ziggler usually wins in ladder matches, and I’m really hoping we can just end this Miz reign that feels like it’s been going on for about ten years now, so I’m rooting for him, but I won’t be surprised by some sort of heel finish where Maryse climbs the ladder and hands Miz the belt and that counts as him winning.
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Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss, tables match for the women’s title. Suddenly hardcore women’s wrestling is a thing in WWE! This’ll be no Sexy Star vs. Mariposa, but it should be a good one. I’m kind of hoping Alexa wins this one - she does more effective heel work with her facial expressions than most of the roster can do on the mike, and she’d be a great heel champ. Not really sure who she’d feud with after Becky unless we get a call-up sometime soon, since the only other faces in the division right now are Naomi and Tits Bella, and neither of them should be getting a title run.
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Heath Slater & Rhyno vs. Bray Wyatt & Randy Orton for the tag titles. Please let the Wyatts win this one. It’ll be perfect coming off their Survivor Series win, and really, it’s about damn time Bray conclusively won a feud for once instead of getting beaten and then fucking off to mess with some other face for no reason.
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Tits Bella vs. Carmella, no DQ. Carmella, I guess? She could use the rub.
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Kalisto vs. Baron Corbin, chairs match. The “chairs match” stipulation never made any sense to me, since it’s basically a no DQ match with a weird name - I’ve never seen anyone get DQed in a chairs match for using a weapon other than a chair. I’m gonna say Kalisto wins somehow.
In other news, John Cena is going to be hosting SNL next week, which oughta be interesting. Even more shocking is that, apparently, the Hardys are working for ROH now - Broken Matt showed up in a video promo at their PPV tonight, and announced that he and Brother Nero were coming to challenge the Young Bucks for the tag titles. Dunno if they’re cutting ties with Nashville or if Anthem is letting them double-dip, but it’s definitely a harbinger of interesting things to come.
Brother Nero! We must embrace squares again! The Seven Deities have decreed we must face adolescent deer! DELETE DELETE DELETE!
AJ-Ambrose. I agree, AJ needs to retain here. Zero reason for a title change.
Miz-Ziggler. This feud has worn out its welcome. I’m going to go with Ziggler winning for reasons explained below. Even though I’d rather Miz hold onto it.
Becky-Alexa. Damn, both of my future ex-wives in the same match. Problem is that I have zero interest in a Becky-Nikki or Becky-Natty feud. Other problem is that they virtually always screw up people’s first championship reign. Even so, they’re hotshotting the Women’s title over on RAW and I have zero interest in seeing the same here. But here is the time for Alexa to step up and the two of them to put on a 4 star match to get herself on the map and so as not to be overshadowed by the RAW women.
Wyatt-Orton take the titles and hold them by hook or by crook until Wrestlemania, dropping them to American Alpha on the big stage.
Nikki-Carmella. Oh, I dunno, I’m going to guess Tits Bella, who gets to go for the title next.
Corbin-Kallisto. I hope Corbin uses a chair like a bat when Kallisto comes off the ropes and ends this feud. It isn’t doing any of them either favors.
Then what I’m going to hope happens, because they don’t have the depth to do much otherwise, is have Corbin go after Ziggler and the IC title while Crews gets a 3-5 match feud with Miz to get some exposure and hopefully a couple of good wins to elevate him to a solid mid-carder.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Shinsuke Nakamura has won the NXT title back from Samoa Joe at a house show in Osaka.
They’ll probably be airing it on this week’s episode.
Certainly sets up a Joe callup
I think Dean Ambrose has headlined and lost the most PPV main events in the past 5 years.
Woo hoo Wyatss are SD tagger champs! Follow the RKO!
After thinking it over let me change the last sentence to RKO the buzzards!