Nick is played by Frank Dillane not Stephen. It's be a much better show if it was Stephen

You thought there were racial undertones to that? What if you just genuinely think someone is shifty and they happen to be black? What are you allowed to call them? And beast is a fairly common nonracial colloquial term. Your comment seems to suggest you took it as overt racism not even subtle. I didn't take it like…

Agreed he has a very strange energy on that show. He has none of the chemistry with Renee that DB has. I always feel like he's about to scold her for not being serious enough. They'd be better off having Road Dogg or someone from the back do it

Why is Seth Rollins called the Kingslayer now? What King did he slay? I know wrestling "borrows" heavily from popular culture but this time they just took a cool term from Game of Thrones and made t shirts. They didn't even bother to crowbar it into the narrative and pretend it was their own thing. It is only a matter…

It bums me out that they never went down the Triple H vs Shane road. It has so much built in real life history and they wouldn't have to waste their top performers on matches with 48 year old men. The Shane/Vince/Undertaker angle was the best pure story they told leading up to Wrestlemania last year

I couldn't agree more about the fan reactions. They are certainly not obligated to react the way WWE wants them to if the product is not up to snuff but this crowd seemed intent on taking over the show right from the start. They popped big a few times but they seemed like they were trying to sink every other segment.…

I am also agreeing with and liking Gregory way more than the show seems to want me to. Acting like he was in the wrong for letting them take the doctor was ridiculous. What was he supposed to do? Also, he has a very legitimate point when he said Alexandria didn't live up to their end of the bargain in the take out…

I mean a nut shot is certainly no picnic don't get me wrong but it doesn't incapacitate you for as long as Mick had to sell it. Not just in real life either, I don't recall a kayfabe lowblow keep anyone down for that long

Mick reacted to the low blow from Stephanie like he just took a stunner from Stone Cold. How does a shot in the balls from a non wrestler woman keep you down longer than the Mandible Claw, the finisher of a former champion?

I was hoping Undertaker would announce this will be his last match cause the guy really looks finished and I get nervous everytime he does anything physical. I remember that retirement ceremony they did for Ric Flair was way over the top but still really cool to see. I can only imagine the Undertaker retirement show…

True although I'd argue no team/wrestler would have been better suited for Smackdown than Enzo & Cass. They'd be big fish in a small pond over there, bring some energy and cohesion to a tag team division that is pieced together with forgotten tag teams wrestlers that had nothing else going on. On Raw they are going up…

Were they trying to get Sheamus heat with that shot on Enzo? Or was that Enzo making the switch? Cuz it seems like one of the two of them has to be a heel for that spot to make sense. Initially I thought Cesaro was going heel because of the way he was taunting both Enzo and the fans but ultimately I concluded that…

I think Otunga has too much personal pride and is unwilling to let a heel steamroll him on the mic but yet not verbally skilled enough to get the best of anybody so he kind of just derails the commentary. At least Byron Saxton is willing to take a beating from Graves or Kevin Owen's or whoever without giving anything…

Eh I thought both of the "sex jokes" were fairly innocuous. Neither really shamed the woman for being a sexual being or put them down in a way that would actually apply to the real person. Rollins joke to Stephanie was the kind of joke that could have been used on a male or a female and Enzo's joke was just childish…

They may as well just make Enzo a manager at this point. He did his best to sell himself as a fearless but undersized fighter taking on the giants but they keep squashing him. They are booking him as a joke. I wonder if they are purposely undermining the tag team in order to expedite the Big Cass solo push

Al Roker really bugged me in that today show clip Cena played. When the female anchor asked Cena if he thought he was going to win and Al made a point of smugly laughing. We get it Al, you're the only one who has figured out wrestling is fake and you showed us how smart you are. I just feel if you're going to…

Nice review but what did you think of the crowd reaction?

I'd actually posit that they are booking Roman perfectly. He gets legit, genuine heel heat like nobody else can get. All the ostensible top heels like KO, Jericho, and AJ are so well liked they struggle to get any boos. If Roman was to actually be booked as a heel he would not get nearly the amount of fan reaction he…

I think the Wyatt storyline is going to be Bray blaming Luke Harper for losing the title and then excommunicating him, followed by Randy destroying Bray and revealing that it was all part of his master plan to isolate Bray from the family and then get payback for all the mind games the Wyatts played on him during…

Agreed you could see them calling spots clear as day.