No Mercy had the makings of a great PPV… And then the third hour happened.
Great tag team match, with a stupid ending. Seems likes a lot of things were going wrong in that match. Women’s four way was decent, until the stupid ending. Main event was about what I expected. I’ll give Miz some credit for his wrestling, his character is still stupid, but he keeps improving in the ring.
When Bliss was on the stage after her win, I kept wanting Asuka to step out from behind the curtain and just smile. 
I have to agree where. Rollins and Ambrose got to kick out of everything, but not the heel challengers. It makes them look weak, only countered by Cesaro’s toughness earlier - and that, I’m sure, was not scripted.
Just finish Enzo’s heel turn, but don’t make it a double turn with Neville. Stupid ending.
Lesnar/Strohman went exactly as expected. Would have loved seeing Lesnar having to tie up Strohman with more wrestling concluding with the Kimora Lock and into the finishing segment. Strohman could power out. But I don’t think either one has the stamina for anything more than 10-15 minutes.
Cena/Rollins, IMO, was a step backward in the quality matches Cena has been having.
5 ways are clusterfucks, no matter how they are booked. The only purpose is to get everyone a payday. This one was no different.
How does Balor not kill people with the coup-de-grace? I get hurt just watching it.
I went to bed after the Cena/Reigns waste of time, it seems as if I didn’t miss much.
What a great PPV that was wasted on stupid, run-of-the-mill endings.
Is Enzo full heel yet? And was that a face turn as an antihero for Neville? If EA* wants to go full heel, he will need to change up his entrance so that people aren’t chanting with him.
And it turns out Cesaro didn’t crack his teeth, he pushed them up into his gums. Tomato, Tohmahto. Either way, I would have been whimpering on the ground, not getting up and getting brogue kicked in the face.
*Or maybe start being called EA, one of, if not the worst company in the country.
So what exactly was the main event last night? I conked out a bit after Goldy beat up Finn, and the Reigns match already happened…so what was supposed to be the reason I stayed up so damn late?
I missed the ending as well, but reports seem to say that it ended with a “205-on-1” handicap match after Enzo badmouthed pretty much the entire 205 roster and Neville then pretty much flattened him, only for the 205ers to block Enzo as he tried to escape. Apparently, Enzo said that anyone who touched him would lose any chance at a cruiserweight title shot, which could be WWE’s way of moving Neville to the main roster.
Yeah, Enzo essentially went heel via a semi-shoot promo telling the entire roster of 205 live that nobody cared about the cruiserweights until he showed up and the only way any of them are even sniffing at the main event is because he’s champion now.
Then Neville went somewhat face by beating him from pillar to post and possibly sacrificing his rematch to do so.
After watching SD last night, I realized something: I pop whenever somebody is thrown into somebody else.
Baron Corbin threw Tye Dillinger into AJ Styles and I laughed my ass off.
Kevin Owens threw Sami Zayn into the security guy squad and I laughed my ass off.
Throwing somebody over the top rope into a crowd of people isn’t quite the same. It has to be some kind of forced near-homosexual activity, like face to face, face to crotch, ass to face, etc.
I’ve been regressing.
Too much McMahon and Dunn will do that to a person.
Too busy at work to give a proper LU writeup, but the match between Killshot and Dante Fox was the most beautifully violent match I’ve ever seen. They crashed through glass, which was the breakaway kind used in movies, but they still landed on and rolled on the shattered bits, which clung to their backs. They used the barbed wire board like what Abyss uses, but instead of falling into it, they set it up in the corner, and then Killshot monkey-flipped Fox right smack down into it, breaking and raking. It was pppppaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnffffffuuuuulllllll to watch. ouch ouch ouch ouch!
I thought Vampiro vs Pentagon Dark last season was bloody, but this match shed a few pints as well. I hope these guys get paid as much money as possible for the agony.
Hey Knowed Out, are you going to try and get to Starrcade? Even though I don’t live there anymore, I keep getting Ticketmaster emails for Charlotte and see that Tix are going on sale soon for the event in Greensboro.
I haven’t the faintest as to where Greensboro is in relation to you, but NC isn’t THAT big and didn’t know if you’d want to head out for the special event
G’Boro is about 85 miles east of Raleigh, but I’m not really interested in going. Although I appreciate WWE reviving Starrcade for nostalgia, it just wouldn’t be the same. Mid-Atlantic was all about the cheap tickets, cheap beer, cigarette smoke, and redneck crowds. The last WWE event I went to just didn’t have that kind of intimacy. Too G-rated and too polished. That’s why I prefer Chikara and Indie shows. Smaller crowds, and the rasslers can hear me smarking at them.
If it was NXT, I’d go in a heartbeat.
Make that WEST of Raleigh. I was facing south when I typed that. 
Isn’t that great, when you finally say something witty* and they look directly at you!
*I use the shotgun approach. Eventually, something has to hit. 
That definitely makes sense, and I agree.
Surprising Jason Jordan with an IU chant, and going back and forth with Alexa Bliss about the SuperHappys (remember them?) not being as manly as the Vaudevilllians (remember them?!?!) is definitely a highlight.
Still kicking myself for not getting a picture with Becky Lynch when we talked with her one-on-one! We talked for, like, 20 min! If only we knew then what we know now…
You could always wear her wig and sit in the front row. She hugged a girl at the show I went to who did that.
Perfect! I mean, I wear her wig every day anyway so it all works out
Deadspin points out the obvious. That Bork is out of shape and phoning it in.