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There was something pretty great about Corbin's choice of ambush being to kidnap someone and using them as a distraction on Ambrose. Also Ambrose's 'Good talk' was so great as was the way the show sold Ambrose's injuries. The only thing making me ponder after that, though, is that it doesn't really feel like Ambrose

Few notes from Talking Smack:
-I'm almost starting to think they are having Bliss there too much. She's still good, but there isn't enough of variation to my taste, which starts to feel when you see her there so much.
-Crews remains so forgettable.
-In the Gorilla Position footage, I laughed at Hayes's outfit as I can

The wording for the Smackdown Women's title match was kind of weird and they kept repeating it on Talking Smack. So it is a match involving all the women available for Smackdown Live. It's actually a pretty clever way and they are obviously going to introduce a surprise entrant, probably either Eva Marie or Naomi

It spoke a lot about the last episode of Raw Talk that Daniel Bryan was literally calling it bad and Renee did nothing to defend it. And it was completely deserved.

Nia's first clean singles lost. Before this, her only singles lost was to Bayley where Sasha's interference was a plot point. They even brought it up in commentary.

I really liked the Rollins/Triple H segment and I do appreciate that Triple H is clearly committed to being the villain here and putting Rollins over. According to reports, there is still a lot of uncertainty about Rollins's status for Mania, but I do feel that they have a good blueprint on how to give him that big

The work Neville is doing for the Cruiserweight division is just insane. While all the wrestlers there and their efforts are important, it almost feels to me that Neville is almost forcing by sheer will to people pay attention to the division. Neville is for me similar to Charlotte in a way that I liked both at NXT,

As a slight sidenote, as much as I groan about having Dana out there again with Charlotte, at least it does provide with moments of brilliance like this:

I don't actually even mind the streak on a B-Show, as we can't complain that nothing important on those shows only to then complain when it does. My issues are more that not only was the streak almost completely ignored in the build, it didn't feel like a big moment due to the way it was done.

Foley's insane logic during the women's segment was truly something to behold. Not only does our face GM essentially shrug at Sasha interfering in the match, but then feels the proper response to the situation is to give Sasha a title match at Wrestlemania. Not only that, but Foley feels it is wrong to not have Sasha

You know, all that hype for Emmalina and the new return of Emma video packages were all completely worth it for just the reactions from Graves and Byron to the new video package. It took me a minute to just stop laughing and I can't choose which was better: Graves's deep sigh or Byron's cheerful resignation.

You know, in retrospect about Fastlane, the weird thing about isn't the booking decisions, but all that they decided to do at once. In one PPV they ended three streaks with almost no fanfare. It was really odd.

In an effort ot be positive about this PPV, I'm actually becoming more and more impressed with Gallows/Anderson as they seem like a team that really tries to make their opponents look good. Also, Cesaro and Sheamus showed great fire on the Kickoff panel and, to my great surprise, I'm actually looking forward to the

Fitting to this PPV, the Raw Talk was also pretty abysmal and I cannot fathom why they chose to go with King there instead of Booker T. The only reason I could come up with it is that they didn't want someone who would press the talent seeing who they chose to be guests on it. Although that random moment of misogynism

Yeah, that match was… something. I was actually really surprised as their Royal Rumble match was good and the Raw title match was great, but this never felt that it really rose to the occasion. Which then really hurt that finish which was bizarre to begin with.

This was probably the worst PPV I've seen in a few years. With almost all the other PPVs, I can at least think of a couple of matches that elevated them, but here outside the Cruiserweight match that totally deserved those 'This is awesome' chants, I got nothing.

Oh, I agree on Charlotte's TV loss thing, especially with the latest Bayley loss. Which was partially why I found the situation so frustrating as they seemingly had a pretty strong story heading in to Wrestlemania as they seemed to be building for that Roadblock victory to be that defining moment and setting up

Fair points. On that Sasha/Dana thing, I guess to me it felt like they did a too good of a job with it as when Dana interfered, Charlotte was in the Figure Four and I can't even recall the last time someone won a match with that move. So it didn't feel like a match altering moment, but Sasha hitting Charlotte with the

I just can't comprehend the currnet women's title storyline. It's like I understand all the pieces and I get the end goal, but struggle to comprehend how they are trying to fit everything together in a coherent manner.

I really liked the Rollins/Triple H segment, even if a part of the crowd decided to be spectacular dicks during it with that CM Punk chant. Still, I do like that they are at least allowing Seth have that self-doubt to come in and that 'If this is the last thing I do, I will make certain it is the last thing you do'