It's better in that they no longer do "bra and panties" matches and the like, but for a long time now the women have not been given enough match time or storyline development and have been very much an afterthought for the company. That's supposed to be changing with this "Divas Revolution", which was sparked by the…

I'm pretty sure the commentary team neglected to mention the Natural Selection when it happened as well.

The NXT before Takeover Brooklyn was almost entirely squash matches with interference or appearances from whoever was fighting at the special event. It worked really well, you know, not seeing the exact match-ups that you're supposed to be hyped about seeing in a few days' time.

Oh there's plenty of promising talent around but no one's really established themselves yet. And Emma needs something to do that doesn't involve being Dana Brooke's sidekick. I don't know how Charlotte winning the four-way would've helped much at NXT (it seemed like that was how it was meant to go), so hopefully the…

It's a new day yes it is!

I can't really believe we're still seeing Ryback vs Big Show and Ziggler vs Rusev. We've seen the exact same matches every week for what seems like months. I really don't understand why guys can't fight other challengers while still keeping feuds going via interference or backstage antics or just plain old promos. The…

Seriously though, New Day was the best thing about Raw yet again. That hair.

Now that there are no NXT reviews, can we talk about last week's NXT here? I'm interested to see what happens after the botched finish of the women's fatal four-way. Emma was definitely not supposed to win that match, but actually I think the result could be good for the division down there. Bayley doesn't have any…

Ice cold!

The commentary also completely missed Becky Lynch going for the disarmer on Alicia Fox. You know, one of the three submission moves that PCB is supposedly going to dominate the division with?

I read volume four of East of West. I loved all the history and timeline material about the fracturing of the United States into these weird little republics. The story didn't move along that much in this volume, but seeing the Beast being led around by the smiley-faced balloon was really good. Hickman is knocking…

I look forward to reading it after I read more than just volume one of the hardbacks.

Oh definitely. Emma looked completely shocked, and on replay you can see she even pulled up from her pin at the two count. Speculation seems to be that Dana Brooke was meant to break up the pin but missed the spot, but that could just be smarks protecting their darlings by blaming the chick they don't like. Charlotte…

Exactly. That sounds interesting. Will PCB's "friendship forever" ideals hold up to someone getting a title shot over their teammate? Will Sasha get tired of trying to carry her teammates as they eat pin after pin? Stories!

I'm still optimistic that we're still in "here's the new blood, let's have lots of exhibition matches to get people familiar with them" phase, and that there are great singles matches and feuds to come down the line. Am I naive to believe that Triple H genuinely wants to see improvement in the women's division (even…

I marked out way more for the Dudleys, especially because they look like they're in great shape and can still bring it in the ring. Sting looks… old. And that's because he is. It's hard to be excited about him entering the title picture after his (admittedly enjoyably) farcical match at Wrestlemania.

The trombone made me SO HAPPY.

Too many damn overstuffed tag team matches. Even with the longer matches they're getting there's still only time for each woman to pull off the same three moves they did last match and the match before. It doesn't help that most of the best wrestlers are all on the same team so instead of working together to show off…

Yeah Fox's Northern Lights really is great. Becky's got a few good suplexes too. Let's get those two feuding asap.

Can I also recommend the women's fatal four-way from the previous Takeover? Lots of great action and story beats in that one too.