Tana is the man to do it. Takagi, Ospreay, Cobb, Suzuki, ZSJ, Goto, Ishii is a pretty solid division.
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The Tana thing is partly storyline. Shingo said he didn't deserve the belt (lol) so Tanahashi said he would wear it over his shoulder until he had earned the right to wear it properly.
Speaking of promos, Okada after Castle Attack was great. Perfect simple face promo.
I wasnt aware of that story.
He is still the best in the world for mine.
At least the Miz was true to his promise of not being a transitional champion...
Raw sounds like it was an absolute mess last night but at least Bobbo is the champ.
And I might watch Sheamus / Drew. Sheamus has been on a bit of a roll recently.
Happy for Big Bob.
He's never done well in WWE (and I never saw his TNA run) but from the bits I've seen The Hurt Business & MVP have really elevated him and made him look proper menacing.
He looked great when he came out and took out Drew after Elimination Chamber.
He was ECW champion and dropped it to Vince McMahon. He peaked there.
I had forgotten about that...
It's weird they don't lean into that stuff the same way they did with Drew's comeback really. The beautiful story of a man who failed because they wanted him to spearhead a brand that was doomed from the beginning and left because he was sick of Michael Hayes' racism.
Lashley was a Triple Crown champion of sorts with TNA and from was booked like a dangerous MMA bloke.
Lol
Wednesday night wars are done, NXT is moving to Tuesday next month.
Not that it was much of a war in the first place and the whole thing left NXT in an odd position so hopefully they can recapture their form of a few years ago
I wonder if Vince was actually hesitant to move it because he's worried than NXT running unopposed could draw in bigger numbers than RAW.
It should do if you're judging purely on quality ofc.
It's bound to be the network moving it, the whole point of putting it on Wednesday was to take viewers from AEW and it's not like Vince suddenly doesn't care about that anymore.
That was the best Dynamite that’s ever happened.
Who could Paul Big Show be talking about I wonder?
Which ex-WWE over-45s are available?
If it's not Val Venis I'm not interested.
Kurt Angle is my guess.
'Hall of Fame-worthy' would seem to rule out people actually in the Hall of Fame.
So it's not Coco B Ware or Hillbilly Jim. Fuck.
Maybe even Vince himself.
Induct Shane O'Mac.
Fiver on Donald Trump
If it's Nick Aldis Ill be cranky.
Another cracker backstage promo from Jay White.
My math has me thinking it's RVD or Scott Steiner.
I would only take Steiner in a managerial role. Seeing his last run with TNA/Impact was .... sad.
ZSJ v Gabriel Kidd was bloody stiff.
Meh is all Elite.
This was a great PPV up until the ladder match.
A ladder match where you had to grab the brass ring to win.
Your hall of fame signing being a c tier wwe guy who was in the rumble last month.
Awful cinematic match.
I guess they forced themselves into a cinematic match so they could put the ring together?
The brass ring match felt like the Yano King of Pro Wrestling gimik that belongs at the start of the show.
IMO they desperately need a G1 style tournment to let some other the blokes get big meaningful wins against each other.
hahahahhahahah that explosion hahahahahahaha
Maybe the explosion was meant to be symbolic of Christian being the HALL OF FAME LEVEL signing.
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"I'm sorry. Health and Safety's had a word and they've said ..."
That’s literally what Tony Khan said. If he spent less time wanking dogs...
I'm going to guess they pride themselves on being live which means you can't splice in some stock footage of an explosion. Or a tiny model of a ring being blown up. Given the choice, which one would you pick?
Get Aardman in to animate it, or the people who did Celebrity Deathmatch.
I truly hope that something didn't work as expected, as opposed to that being what was planned.