I'll be watching later but it'll have to go some to beat Matt Riddles song about fish.
I'll be watching later but it'll have to go some to beat Matt Riddles song about fish.
Naito v Hiromu!
This year has a 2017 vibe about it.
Not sure if the whole story recently was a work, if it's now being turned into a work or if he just doesn't give a shit.
Saying this sort of stuff is priming yourself for Brock to beat you within 30 seconds in a match everyone hates.
I think "working for WWE" also falls into that category.
The thing here is more that he's supposedly been told not to do it and had a tantrum off Bork for it.
I saw a headline saying WWE cleared him to do it but I didn’t click it.
Shayna Baszler is now a vampire apparently.
"That's such good shit" - Vince McMahon, probably.
Also sounds like now that the big "YOU'RE THE ONE PERSON I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO BEAT!!!" story is over Lynch can now beat Asuka whenever she fancies.
The ambulance bit made me properly laugh. What a load of shite.
Also if Bobby Roode is really in the Elimination Chamber match as has been 'leaked' then lol at that.
Shayna can get her shit mates called up and form The Brood 3.0.
Truth better win the jobber trophy match in Saudi Arabia.
He's got a documentary coming out on the network directly after it so I think that'll happen.
Is AJ actually fit enough for it?
It's been what? 2 and a half weeks since he suffered a separated shoulder. He's got another 2 weeks but it still seems quite fast especially as there were doubts that he'd even make it to Mania.
That possibly looks higher than it is, but no thanks mate.
I've realised I can't see Bronson Reed and not be put in mind of Firefist from Deadpool 2.
Takeover:
Lee v Dijakovic - Just give me more. That springboard cannonball from Dijakovic was mental.
Nox v Kai - I was disappointed with their match on NXT TV the other week as it needed something more and this was it. They both came in with great intensity and emotion for the feud, the ending let it down though.
Balor v Gargano - A little slow to start, especially after the first two but really grew well and ended up being my favourite Balor match that I've seen (wasn't around for his original NXT run and his main roster stuff was meh) and they worked well together. The John Woo off the table into the barricade was also a nice touch.
Ripley v Belair - Good match but the weakest thus far. Belair did well but it never really came across that she could win which let the match down a bit. The after match well and I can see it leading up to a triple threat.
UE v Broserweights - Possibly my favourite match thus far. I liked that they teased the implosion between the Broserweights but didn't go overboard with it. Tremendous work from both teams. As incredible as Dunne is for putting on classics, I think UE are also up there with tag matches, they just seem to always produce.
Ciampa v Cole - Started great but I feel it went on a bit too long and like a lot of Adam Cole matches had a bit too many unbelievable kick outs. Was shaping up to be out of the best Takeovers ever but I think the main event just lost it.
Who has come out of the performance center and had a match at a Takeover?
I also watched Takeover last night.
Lee / Dijakovic was fun as you'd expect but because of how theirs has developed into a rivalry based on mutual respect it did feel a little lacking in stakes even though the NA title was on the line. Still, Dijakovic got a couple of daft spots and I love me a bit of Keith.
Nox vs. Kai - Was going okay and they worked some stiff shots but the end was buuuuuuullshit. I was fairly confident Kai was winning this one but the way she did was balls.
Balor and Gargano's match was a very pleasant surprise. A couple of brief exchanges aside was largely wrestled as a contest not an exhibition of indy concepts, I loved Balor's intensity and heel work and like Mahow, this is one of my favourite matches of his.
Ripley and Belair is another match that suffered from a very obvious winner but I think it's probably Belair's best big match yet.
Tag title match was really good fun and had the benefit of actually having a surprise result. I'd have made more of an arc out of the end of UE's "prophecy" than they are and I'd have also built more into this feud if they were changing the belts but still, Dunne and Riddle are good value and should have some fun matches.
Main event was fine but I wasn't expecting Cole to lose the belt at this point and I'm kind of bored of Ciampa / Gargano at this point, both because it's been going on for ages and because while they've had a fairly simple heel-turn / redemption arc for Ciampa what they've been doing with Gargano for the last year-ish has been all over the place.
It was a very good show on the whole but suffered from most of the card feeling like it had fairly obvious winners because nothing felt like it had been built up to see a potential switch on this particular show to me.
I can't find a list of who was PC but Belair and Dream, off the top of my head.
Just reading the Raw results and Shayna Baszler, Asuka, Ruby Riott, Natalya, Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan is going to make for a deeply uninspiring Chamber match.
Just those two, at least from that card.
Trying to think of others who've not done any indy stuff first.
Lars Sullivan has had a Takeover match or two I think.
Charlotte Flair...
Street Profits? I think Montez Ford joined them straight from the army or something like that at least.
Assume Baron Corbin and Mojo Rawley too, anyone who was previously doing some other sport.
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Dawkins is a PC guy too.
Also, Babatunde hasn't been on TV or a Takeover but he was used at a Blood Money Rumble.
Tucker from Heavy Machinery joined straight after College.
The current 24/7 Champion and former O-Lineman for Mojo was PC. As is his former partner Tino Sabbatelli but he's done nothing yet largely due to injuries.
Speaking of... Tito Ortiz, one of the most hilariously dumb UFC fighters of all time, has been training at the Performance Center.
In a massive enditement of modern rap music, R-Truth has released a song and I'm not sure it's any worse than 98% of the people in the charts at the moment.
Like I say it's not good but it's definitely not worse than anything that gets big these days.
This song has sent me down a rabbit hole where I realise that you can summarise every era of rap music using a song that featured a wrestler.
As Dancehall was growing and Elephant Man were real big.
Macho Man doing a bad DMX impression in 2003
John Cena doing bad Kanye West
And searching this stuff out fucked my YouTube algorithm so badly that I just found out that Enzo Amore has released an absolute rip off of Lil Dicky
WWE profiting off black culture since 88.
"Enditement"???????????????? bro?
The American can not have a go at my spelling something phonetically.
Do...do we... generally spell phonetically or something?
We do say aluminum properly you folk throwing in a whole extra syllable is pretentious as shit!
Please can we refrain from posting Enzo songs, it makes me think of his 'consensual penis' and I'd just rather not.
I expect several apologies!In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy, the British chemist who discovered the metal, named it “alumium.” With just one “i” and an “ium” ending, it straddled the two competing versions we have today. Four years later, however, Davy changed his mind and gave the metal the name “aluminum” (yup, the one-“i” American version).
You brought up the fact the British asshole who named it in the first place preferred the better American version so nothing about your crusade for an extra "i" makes any logical sense?
I don't think you did, fauxnics.
'Bad, Bad Man' by John Cena was a right choon, and it would have been the perfect theme for his heel turn.
I lolled at Matt Riddle saying the Dusty Cup partied too hard at the weekend and failed the Wellness Policy so is suspended for 30 days.
Plumpy’s first booking video didn’t disappoint.
He's still comfortably the best at this sort of video.
The age of consent is around 14 in Brazil so it stands to reason.
That DDT at the start