What I don't get is why even bother having Lana be a competitor. She was pitch perfect as Rusev's second. Great on the mic, the crowd ate her up, the two actually have legit chemistry with each other. So why rock the boat and not only separate the two, but throw her into the ring when she's clearly not ready for it?

While Shane is clearly the good McMahon by default, he really should stop playing "wrestler" at this point. If he wants to jump off high places, he can do that on his own time.

Don't get too excited. Cena/Naka will probably involve some chicanery from Jinder, Rusev, Great Khali, the Colons, the Conquistadors, the Bolsheviks and any other foreign folks they can unearth to gum up the works, just so Cena can end the night with a rousing USA chant while Naka looks on in bewilderment.

"Oh will you stop!"

:: Oates, Garfunkel and Messina raise a sad toast ::

I think the opposite will happen. Jordan winning a bunch and feeling all entitled, Angle trying to reign him in, and then Jordan going cocky heel. His face screams asshole jock, and it's better than him trying to go the humble route. I mean, he has a wrestling pedigree, both from his collegiate career and now his…

Gendry lost one of his oars, so he's been going in a circle this whole time.

Oh please, he got hit by girls. Of course he shrugged it off.

Hopefully Jinder will drop the anti-america stuff and just go back to JTTS status on Main Event.

Are they actively trying to make SmackDown bad so it doesn't outdo Raw? Because it's working.

Yes. I should have been more specific. If memory serves. Trish's record is 39 PPV matches, which means Natalya is at 38.

Someone mentioned that Natalya is closing in on Trish Stratus's record for most PPV matches. Summerslam ties it, I believe.

Mike Bennett Kanellis is Curt Hawkins with a valet. Seriously, have the two of them ever been seen in the same room together? I think not!

i don't think Vince and Co. know who they should be either. Although that bit about season finales being a bit of a letdown was a nice little meta moment.

I'm so fed up with SDL!'s announce team, mostly JBL and Black Guy #2. Spouting cliche after cliche, adding nothing to the broadcast but noise and nonsense. Byron is so unbearably obnoxious as the babyface cheerleader. I mean, I know he's supposed to be face-friendly, but he was so god-awful during the Punjabi Fake…

This is great, because women of a certain age are Wolf-fully under-represented in these blockbuster films.

I hear it's a power-absorbing mutant Inhuman hailing from Ireland.

Me too. The cocky "real athlete" gimmick is so easy to get over. And just remembering Rick running around in the headgear makes me long for the old days when tag team wrestling was king.

Yeah, that ratings talk sounds like bullshit. The show got over on the merits of Bryan and Renee getting the best out of the guests without the heavy hand of the McMahon machine, and that never sits well with the control freaks at Titan Tower.

And that was their charm. Gable doing everything in his power to warm up to Jordan, Jordan finally cracking and accepting him, and then the joy of them finally succeeding as a tag team. Such a shame it all happened on the small stage.