I would have enjoyed it more had it not been shoved down out throats for the past month or so. Having everybody backstage watching the match on a screen didn’t help matters.
Okay, to be fair, my reaction has some “been there, done that” in it; it reminded me too much of when Vince told Steve Austin that he would never get a title shot (so, of course, he got the Royal Rumble title shot when Vince won the Rumble but tried to give it to Mankind, only for Commissioner Shawn Michaels to point out in the Mysterious WWF Rulebook that if the Rumble winner is “unwilling” to take the title shot, the Rumble runner-up - Austin - gets it).
As if this didn’t give it away…and this is another problem I have with this angle; it should be Kofi’s title, but it comes across as New Day’s title. (No, it was never “the Four Horsemen’s title” when Flair had it.)
At least Angle remembered that you’re supposed to lose your last match.
One thing that surprised me a little; he didn’t do what is traditional in amateur wrestling, and leave his wrestling boots at ringside when he left.
Meanwhile, the big winners last night were…Uber and Lyft drivers who were charging as much as $200 to drive people back to New York after they discovered that the trains stopped running by the time WM ended and they got to the station.
Because nothing screams “sales” (or “piss off the fan base that paid for the shirts”) like releasing a WWE Champion Kofi T-Shirt and then making it obsolete 24 hours later.
Hard to say, but they were definitely competing for it. I understand not wanting to start anything new until the re-alignment, but it was definitely nothing more than filler. I did like finally letting Lacey Evans do something, and she’s a good choice to feed to Becky for her first championship feud. Bad for Lacey, but good for Becky. As for Lars Sullivan, he will be lost in the shuffle in less than 3 weeks. Won’t be his fault.
No one. Put Heyman backstage for a month or six and only pair him with the perfect person when it’s right. Heyman can’t make anyone look good you know…remember Cesaro?
No, they just start a match with the opponent first, then announce the “surprise” transferee. The ones who didn’t work were given vignettes.
They had Andrade and Zelina vs Finn, as well as Aleister Black in the 8-man, so husband and wife are together on RAW. They brought the Usos and Naomi over as well, so their union is still intact. Ivar and Erik of The Viking Experience (gag) means Sarah Logan and husband Ray Rowe are on the same show as well. I guess this means Charlotte will be joining fiance Andrade. They did a vignette for Cedrick Alexander, but not for Eric Young. They had him in a group picture of the transferees. Lacey Evans is set to go against Becky for the RAW women’s title. Rey Mysterio showed up to beguile Elias, then he got beat down by Lars Sullivan. AJ Styles joined Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns in the main event.
I guess Heavy Machinery is going over to SD, and Paige is presumably bringing in Io Shirai and Kari Sane to take on the IIconics.
Interesting… I just looked at Io’s wiki, and saw in 2012 she and Nosawa Rongai were busted trying to smuggle 75 grams of MJ inside paintings of themselves. Takuya Sugi later announced he had planted the weed to get back at Nosawa. 75 grams is a little over 5 freezer bags. How do you pack that much weed inside a painting?