1) Ambrose needed to look strong going into the PPV. The double pin didn't do that and Rollins has been booked amazingly well since his return with a clean win over Reigns to win the championship. He could afford to take a pin to even out the 3 man field. Helps throw who will win up in the air.

Wishful thinking on your part I reckon mate. The general consensus is that Miz has been doing his best work in years.

HEEL TURN

The problem with that in a currently axe-happy A.V. Club is that you're diluting a niche readership between two articles. Depends if the RAW ones already get a decent amount of comments or are close to the [d-d-d-danger zone]

I never said they did the draft well :p

At first glance the draft seems uneven as f. Smackdown has a slew of Tag Teams but no belt. RAW has New Day, Anderson & Gallows (more on that later) and… Golden Truth? The Shining Stars? Please. On the flipside, RAW gets the lionshare of established Women's wrestlers, the belt, and finally Nia Jax, while Smackdown has…

Not from an in-story POV, where Shane made a point of saying Smackdown was the brand for the underdogs/shattering glass ceilings. If there was anything to describe what the cruiserweights were to WWE, it'd be that.

k bye

Or maybe one review of both Raw and Smackdown after Smackdown every week? YOU'RE WELCOME AV CLRBE

This show is a lot of fun BUT I GUESS I'LL JUST WATCH IT WITHOUT YOUR WITTY ASIDES, AV KLUBE

Exactly.

Yeah like I said to someone else, I stopped paying attention to him after he had his substance abuse problems and social media meltdowns (that was the sad part). I didn't even know he went back to ROH.

It can certainly heighten it, yes.

Well that was one weird hour of TV.

It was many things, but by-the-numbers????

I honestly stopped paying attention to what he was up to after his DWI and substance abuse problems circa 2011ish

Even though tomorrow is the first episode of Smackdown! LIIIIIIIIVE, I get the feeling we won't get a proper idea of how different the booking will supposedly be until the week after.

"The Bucks Of Youth", I love it.
Has there been any wrestler in recent times that's pulled a 180 from sad irrelevance to getting "it" to the degree of Matt Hardy? Kudos to him for bouncing back so well.

You don't find the Zayn and Owens rivalry with the history between them being played up any more interesting than if they were just slapped together as competitors for a belt over and over?

He probably thought Xavier was talking in ebonics