The booking of that cage match was so weird to me.

What is your current knowledge or wrestling/history as a wrestling fan?

I forget where I saw this, but it's a great description: Shane and Bryan play their characters as "Put upon talent managers who are just trying to put on a wrestling show", and everything ties into that.

Oof. That's pretty impressive.

What bothers me so much about the Steph thing is that it's so uncomplicated: heel authority figures should get pushback from faces. Face authority figures should get pushback from heels. This is booking 101.

Yeah, when the GOAT stable was always at least 4 members, I'm not sure how 3 can be too many for a stable.

My problem with the booking of the LMS is that LMS matches tend to be pretty boring, with long bouts of pro-tracted 10 counts. I felt like this match ran out of steam near the end.

I feel like the big change with Jericho is that he spent the last couple years trying to wrestler "Chris Jericho, circa 2004" matches, and could no longer maintain that pace, so the matches felt like they were running at 3/4 speed.

MVP: AJ Styles. And I get to spend the rest of time telling people I was there when he debuted at the Roman Reigns Rumble.

"On a more general retrospective, this has been the craziest WWE year I can remember."

As someone who started watching wrestling again at the beginning of the year and doesn't watch Total Divas, I just had to look up who the hell Rosa Mendes even is.

Yeah, when he was in NXT, Rawley was a guy who, as far as I can tell, would meet with fans after every taping, knew some of the kids by name, and there are videos of him asking some of those kids to bring their report cards to tapings to show him, and then getting legitimately excited when they'd get good grades.

Don't know if anyone caught Talking Smack, but Rhyno broke up with Slater, and it was absolutely heartbreaking.

Yeah, I always assumed the pun thing was something the writers were forcing on her until I listened to her on the Jericho podcast.

I could be wrong, but I think the point being made in the review wasn't that the lack of a What? chant in the opening segment was bad. I think it was more to point out that the Texas crowds only do the What? chant at women, at least the last few nights.m

The "You Deserve It!" chant at the participation trophy is in my top 5 all-time crowd chants.

"The Ass that runs the Class"
- My Wife

To be perfectly clear, I think Nikki Bella is around the 10th best female wrestler between the two rosters, which is pretty freaking lousy. But that wasn't the point I was making in the original post.

Corbin got booed early in his NXT run because he was getting a monster push that wasn't warranted by his talent at the time.

So lets summarize what happened: