I’m just going to assume this is someone in Chikara
So… where does this leave Roman Reigns? He’s had three title shots against Brock and blown them all. It’d be pretty silly for the fourth time to be the charm. Has Vince finally resigned himself to the fact that, even in front of a crowd of marks who’re happy just to be able to go to a show in their home country, Roman’s never going to get the entire crowd on his side? I’m guessing that either Braun is going to be the one to beat Brock at Summerslam, or they’ll hold up the title over the “controversial” finish and have some kind of tournament.
Another question that’s going to have to be answered; what’s the deal with the “Greatest Royal Rumble Championship” belt Braun won? Is it just a commemorative belt? Is he going to have to defend it? Is it good for half-off at Wendy’s?
I enjoyed the show overall, even if I had to wake up at 8 AM after working until midnight the night before in order to watch it. I was a little baffled by the behavior of the Saudi royals in the primo seats, who seemed to be milling about, coming and going, and paying little attention to the match, as if they were there to be seen rather than to actually see the show. (I did, however, crack up laughing when the hard cam caught a brief glimpse of the royal butler carrying a champagne goblet full of milk on a silver tray.)
Nah, the belt came from the Saudis.
It’s good for 3 cents off per gallon at all Aramco gas stations. 
Honestly I would not be surprised if that became the NXT Middle East Championship. NXT looks to be expanding to regional promotions, each having their own championship, ala the North American belt just introduced. Of course, that will take a good 5+ years to get off the ground over there, assuming it ever actually happens.
They’re going to spin it as a screwjob finish to give Reigns another shot. You could tell by the way Cole repeated several times “both feet have to hit the ground.” Going by that, Reigns clearly won, as Lesnar was still on the cage.
I saw him in Chikara. He wasn’t that good, but he was up against a lucha guy who grabbed the I-beam running over the ring and dropped on TBBoM and his manager. He at last took a good bump.
I think there were more royals than ringside seats, so they allocated a certain amount of time for each prince cousin.
“My turn to sit up front, bitch.”
I think of the 4 new Arabic wrestlers, I’m going to pull for the guy in the white shirt. Massour, was that his name? He seemed like he could be the Arabic Miz. Al-Mizanin.
Best meme of the week: Titus O’Neil with a Shockmaster helmet. Good thing his charity and other outside work brings in so much goodwill, or he’d be on Impact real soon.
The Saudi government has apologized for the PPV promo that showed women wrestlers in their ring gear, which WWE actually showed on the big screens in the arena.
For tripping? I’d doubt that.
Here’s something kinda cool and fun. Mrs. Cups and I have an Instagram about Orlando (you’ll recognize it as the one in my sig) and we’ve recently had one of the lesser-known referees from WWE start liking our wrestling pics. He started by liking a pic of ours from Impact forever ago and just now liked the one we did from the house show this past week. He was even at the show.
Our next goal is to do enough posts for him to actually follow us and then we’ll message him the next time a show is about and see if we can get something cool out of it.
Looks like Sami Zayn was kept out of GRR for political reasons. He’s a Syrian activist, and the Saudi Royals don’t play that.
So he got replaced with Hornswoggle. If I was in the front row of RAM tonight, I’d have a sign pointing that out, purely for smark cred.
Ooooooh, Alexa Bliss has heat with the Tea Cups ride at WDW. “It’s a cup. You sit in it.”
Will our boy STC get in a feud with her?
KO: “Hey, I get a five count on my cheap shots!”
Not at all. I hate the teacups…that’s where my nickname actually came from.
That promo was hilarious though, if factually incorrect. She said her trip to “the happiest place on earth” became a nightmare, but technically Disneyland in California is The Happiest Place on Earth. Disneyworld is “The Most Magical Place on Earth”.
C’mon Alexa! You’re telling me you’ve never done the Marcelline to Magic Kingdom Tour? Tsk. Tsk.
Personally, I’m not into it, but some of the women have taken their clothes off for Playboy (and selfies, more recently), so I guess I could give it a try.
That’s what they all say…
Really? I’m surprised about this. Women’s revolution and all…
I don’t see that happening.
That was bad. Like 0 / 10 bad.
I feel like running it down my garbage disposal, then running down some bleach after it. Then taking a shower and brushing my teeth.