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Did anyone else love Rusev not giving up that monitor? Like he was looting the announce table to send equipment back to Bulgarian National TV service.

Re watching some highlights, the camera staying on Reigns breathing hard after eliminating one dude while the crowd loses their shit at AJ coming out is classic stupid WWE camera work.

And without Stroman, we wouldn't get this:

It really seems like Sasha vs. Ric is a can't miss angle. I wonder how long before they fuck it up by having, like the Bellas join in? Now imagine it with this guy in Sasha's corner at Mania to counter Flair.

Owens was also king sized in the opener. Taking absurd bumps, leaning into Ambrose's shitty offense to make it look decent, "I hate you!" and "You caused this" *SLAP* He's MVP of the night for me.

"We really don't like Roman Reigns and don't want him to be the WWE Champion because he doesn't respect us and doesn't play by our rules, so let's go out of our way to make sure we take the title off him, but the very next night we're going to give him a free, unsolicited shot at competing for the WWE championship next month at our PPV." - The Authority

R-Truth's ladder spot was incredible.

Well, there are cats here who will tell you all about how HHH winning is the logical progression in the storyline. Then they'll tell you all about how great HHH is in the ring and how we're sure to get a Mania classic. And to me that's all a moot point because fuck HHH. I don't care if everyone from Dave Meltzer to Krone Meltzer gives HHH-Reigns 5 stars, because fuck HHH. Since people keep talking football in here, I'll make a football analogy. HHH is the Patriots. I don't wanna see the Patriots go to Super Bowl and get their comeuppance; I want the Patriots to go 2-14 for the next decade. I want them to go the fuck away. I don't wanna marvel at HHH's technical brilliance as worker any more than I wanna marvel at the proficiency of a Tom Brady-led offense. He could be the greatest worker ever but he's a shit character.

I saw that and wondered why WWE still uses CRT monitors. 1) They hurt more when Orton lands on the corner of one 2) You saw what happened to Dean when they tried to upgrade to the newer more explosive LCDs.

I am perfectly fine with them not letting him do the Styles Clash

So about that bad AJ Styles entrance and how the WWE couldn't fix it... https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KuBVcsPVPyQ&a=

For whoever asked for the finish to Ambrose/Owens Also, the moment of the night: "COME HERE, BOSS!!!"

I vote the next person to argue NFL in this thread not be able to read any posts but stro's until Mania.

Goddamn, guys, it's bad enough you're cluttering up this thread with NFL shit, but do you have to quote box it into oblivion, too?

I'll be the lonely former Pey-Pey girl, standing against the wind. . . ...a wind that would send any pass he throws directly into the ground.

Enjoy the fuck out of this. I genuinely believe the DVDVR Panthers contingent are some of the best fans on this board and I couldn't be happier for you guys.

Can't believe you guys are sleeping on "Brock Lobster."

Owens' inner hatred of people is like the second most over person on the roster. Him tossing AJ was really smart. They knew the crowd loved Styles. They knew him getting tossed would get booed heavily. They had a guy that the crowd also loves but is an absolute heat magnet do it, who could absorb the boos and not let it subsume the Rumble itself. Christ Owens is great.

Say what you will about the booking of the Rumble match, which I guess was fine, but the camera work and production were all time bad.

The roof would have blown off the fucking arena had Ambrose won and it would have been unpredictable. Instead, same old shit. So fucking boring and predictable.

I think they were the best team of all-time. #1 offense (30 pts/game), #2 defense (14 pts/game). They had 3 shutouts and won 5 games by 25+ points. They had an outstanding receiving corps, a terrific running game, and a quarterback playing out of his mind for an entire year. They went 14-2 and then killed all three of their playoff opponents. They beat the Detroit Lions - the second-best team in the entire NFL that year (12-4, including a road win over Buffalo and a blowout playoff win over Dallas) TWICE. By a combined score of 86-10.Speaking of that quarterback, Mark Rypien is from the Spokane area and lives here, doing all kinds of work supporting his Rypien Foundation. Met him at a Spokane Indians game last year and I told him I was a Lions fan and he'd broken my heart that year. Told him "man, you guys just killed us" and he got this really nice smile on his face and said "yeah, we did" as if I'd brought back a really pleasant memory for him. Very cool moment.

Strowman is still alive, so I'll go with "no"

That would be a Clothesline From "Fuck You, I'm Brock Lesnar".

The way Ambrose is punching that chair, you'd think he was a lunatic or something. Kinda like the Wyatts picking the bones of a downed Brock Lesnar last week. What are they? Buzzards?

And the belt is actually a TV.

Show was fine, with a bunch of very good moments and performances. And yes, HHH winning is the most logical way to continue the story they're telling with Roman and the Authority. The problem is, they shouldn't be telling that story in the first place. The company's three biggest issues for the past few years have been: running the same "heel authority figures screw over top babyface" story over and over again; having a face on top that gets booed by at least half of the crowd all the time and doing nothing to change up his character; and building top matches at Wrestlemania around part-time over-40 talent instead of putting young guys in their spot to give them the final push they need to be seen as legit top guys. Have Ambrose win and tell a compelling story about two best friends trying not to turn on one another while building toward the most important match of their lives, and you fix the first problem. Turn Reigns heel and let him work on his act in a way that justifies the crowd reaction, then turn him back when he starts getting the little things right, and you fix the second problem. Pick someone who hasn't already had a main event run but is clearly in the upper midcard, like Rusev or Owens (or, what the hell, Styles) and have HHH help that guy win and take on the Corporate champ mantle, and you fix the third problem. So of course they chose to tell the one story that makes every one of those mistakes again instead.

Me & my pals were hypothesizing that was was going to use it to hook up some scramblevision Cinemax Bulgarian porno. "Did someone summon tractor repair man?"

Don't hope. Hope leads to pain, pain leads to suffering, and suffering leads to not being able to choke a bitch when Gregg tells you how great whatever this is leading up to is going to be.

Honestly, I'm not nearly as bothered as most of you guys seem to be, but the one thing that bothered me was how calmly Brock left. He should've at least F-5'ed Wyatt, or thrown stairs at him or something. He just sadly walked away.

So much bullshit...

What??? New Day were having a blast and you could tell that this was the highlight of all of their careers especially Xavier, talking shit and then taking bumps. Poor New Day nothing! They felt like a big deal and delivered.

Rob Manfred is here to ruin all of your pro-DH (and therefore, wrong) dreams for the National League: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14643947/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-says-no-foreseeable-change-designated-hitter-rule-coming

The thing that bugs the fuck out of me more than H winning the belt and "authority always wins in the end lol" is how it must have sounded backstage when they were planning it out. Vince; So Roman you're going to get eliminated by Hunter(which will be his revenge), then leaving it down to him and Dean. Roman; Oh um ok. At least Deans gonna win, the fans will love that, it'll be insane. Vince; Ha, nope. We're gonna make the Universe think we're giving them something different for a few seconds but instead Hunters going over. Boils my fucking blood.

That's the other entertainment to be gleaned from Bubba Stapworthy....watching Brock lose patience with his lack of selling and go into "hunter/killer mode" on him.

Kevin Owens was the show's MVP followed by AJ Styles.

Needs more Jack Flag.

I really like the world I live in. And part of that world includes Peyton having less rings than his brother. Forever.

Shit. Francesca II is more over than X-Pac circa 1999. Yeah, I went there.

Well some other jerk already stole my "compare myself to Gregg" joke, but honestly I don't see what the problem is with this show. Sure the outcome was predictable, but unlike last year's shitshow, there was interesting stuff throughout, and almost always someone to root for. I guess it helps having been so thoroughly disappointed the last two years, expectations couldn't have been much lower.

My hope is that by Mania, Ric will have left Charlotte for Sasha, Sasha will have had him committed, and Sasha will be doing promos where she's giving away all Charlotte's money.

I wasn't the only one who thought Brock was going to eliminate himself right? God damn crazy ass knees

At this moment, taking a bath with the toaster seems like a less painful option than watching Raw's opening tomorrow. I'll probably just get baked out of my skull instead.

You people are fucking miserable. The Rumble was fun.

And again the faces hate each other Maybe if Reigns had stopped sulking for 5 seconds - he pulls Hunter off the ring apron and his "best bud" is now World Champ

The crowd was nuclear for Styles though...

The New Yorker's cartoons have taken a turn lately. I mean I get the political allegory about the Eurozone but still...

Not weird. It was a "Funny spot" - Dave Meltzer (per Dave's Rumble live coverage) Dave really has a terrible sense of humor