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I have it as December 12th, the week before. There's an NXT Australian tour going on then, but I wonder if this run is them going over the whole division by fair means or foul, declaring themselves the greatest of all after Roadblock, then on Raw being suddenly chopblocked by some Top Guys.

Emma has the same issue Nia did, in that Sasha and Bayley have feuds going on for the next while so as a heel the only person she can really go over is Alicia Fox. Are most people engaged in the idea of Emma's big comeback? If nothing else it's the complete opposite to last time, when she literally returned on Main

You're friends with Bryan Alvarez?

Bearing in mind she's won the title since then and is the only woman on the Wrestlemania graphic…

Quick question: now that we're apparently getting AV Club reviews for everything, are we also getting the interviews with AJ and Sasha that Kyle tweeted about doing for the site not long ago?

I really wouldn't have had it end with Bayley-Becky, though. Why have the beloved babyface take a cheap win over the beloved babyface, especially as Becky was fighting against the odds 2-1 and had been beaten down by Nia? Nothing Bayley has done in the last week - since her enormous reception in Glasgow, notably - has

So WWE spent the best part of two years building Brock up as an unstoppable force, and the guy that eventually takes him down is a heavily sweating Monday Night Wars veteran working his first match in twelve years. Yeah, it gets you attention from lapsed fans who would watch the current product if only they still had

Taker only threatened Team Smackdown if they lost.

It'll likely be Kevin Nash again.

I think we underestimated how much of a draw Balor, Owens and the Horsewomen were for NXT - it was their popularity that made WWE think NXT tours would be achievable, and yet over the last six months that interest has dropped off. Those people had a story to be engaged with and a fresh personality, whereas with

Plus there's talk of a women's tournament along the lines of the CWC early in 2017 which should bring in a new crop of names.

There really aren't a lot of active ex-WWE women's wrestlers to come back, for fairly obvious reasons given the company's long held attitude to them. Gail Kim is in TNA and has often said she has no interest in going back, Melina's just come back and won a title in the UK but is rumored to have been offered a

Ooh, didn't expect this. I'm sure Kyle/Latoya said long ago that Takeover reviews would continue but I'm not sure we've had one for a year.

The thing that stops me investing in Survivor Series, and something they didn't really address tonight on the show, is I don't understand why I should feel like there's stakes or a loyalty investment to one brand in these matches. It didn't feel like an invasion angle or two parties trying to prove superiority in

With 205 Live starting on Tuesdays I'd be surprised if they make the cruiserweights alone work double duty.

The dates would be coincidental, they always go over around this time.

NXT is deliberately a different audience, though. Raw won't put Johnny Saint at ringside when they're next in London and expect their audience to know who he is.

Charlotte took an actual top rope Frankensteiner from her many times.

It's the same situation as with Nia - if they're so confident in their monster build and abilities, why aren't they going after the top face rather than putting down jobbers and lower carders?

That's not going to happen, it's being promoted as SD vs Raw and Bryan hasn't said anything about Sami moving over or the title having to stay on the show. I'd put imaginary money on Sami being taken out before he gets to the ring.