Just Dave

I’m not buying Natalya making it to Summerslam.

No. No he isn’t a good champion. Because he can’t promo and isn’t at all engaging. He’s been protected as well as anyone in the company. If it isn’t working now it isn’t ever going to. Some guys aren’t meant to be top guys. He’s one of them.

Alexa’s also been pretty sick. I doubt she could breathe as well as she’s would’ve liked. I thought she did some really great stuff at extreme rules, which makes the women’s match from last night baffling. I could see her being fatigued if she’s still under the weather. I’d guess either she and Nikki split and wrestle at Summerslam, or one or both get added to the raw title match, since Natalya is as bland as wonder bread. someone said Cedric Alexander was charismaless? lol. Ok. liked the Bray return. Hope this jump starts him. Rollins? Again? What a burlap sack full of dogshit that is. He isn’t a star, no matter how much they try to make him one.

Fuck Seth Rollins.

I actually kinda thought Janela got too much offense. Moxley has the best look in the company. At 6'3, 235, he's probably the scariest looking guy on the roster. Other than Luchasaurus. If Mox is gonna be one of their tippy-top guys, he should've steamrolled Janela. And then put up more of a fight against Omega. But they'll figure it out.

My freakish retention of throwaway movie lines is the main reason my mom thought I was on the autism spectrum until I was about 14. And I'm not making a joke. She still talks about it all the time. So I don't blame you for not picking up on that reference.

No, but there's a line where Kevin's mom is like "If Uncle Frank says no, then it must be REALLY bad..."

So you're like Uncle Frank from HOME ALONE?

Fuck Seth Rollins. on the other hand, I’d probably be acting like an entitled, pretentious piece of shit too, if ratings and attendance were this bad while I was the supposed top guy. And all the money in the world won’t buy him a crowd reaction like the one Mox got at “Double or Nothing.” Rollins wants so badly to be cool, like Mox and those guys he claims to have never seen, and he’s just...not. He’s the corporate babyface desperately masquerading as the rebel. His catch phrase is “burn it down,” yet he wouldn’t dare light a match without Daddy H’s permission. He’s the personification of everything wrong with WWE, and seeing him get dragged on the internets for it is amusing...

I suppose you could put the belt on Joe at extreme rules and have Kofi win it back at Summerslam.

I'll say it again; Seth Rollins isn't a main eventer. He isn't capable of carrying the load for his company. I thought the Lacey thing was a good idea in theory, but she's just so thoroughly mediocre. Everything about her seems so forced, both in the ring and when she was the referee. Bayley and Alexa have good chemistry. Was it a scientific masterpiece? No. Was it a fun story with some good spots from both women and a finish that advanced the Nikki Cross/Alexa deal? Yeah. That Ali video was weird as fuck. I liked using Kofi's athleticism in the finish. I really hope that's the last meeting for the two, but I have a feeling it won't be. Heavy Machinery/ Eco-Warriors was awesome. Not a workrate spectacle, but a good way to use one super-over performer to get three other guys over, albeit to varying degrees. I liked Ricochet/Joe, too.

Sasha doesn’t get to make the decision about who deserves what. Alexa’s a better sports entertainer than her, and Sasha being offended because Alexa supposedly didn’t know which Hardy was which does nothing but make Sasha come off as pretentious and spoiled.

The person who thought it was a good idea to send a five foot, 100 lb undertrained gymnast out to perform with a 300 lb. undertrained Samoan, then send her to perform with an undertrained MMA fighter should be fired.

I'm glad she feels like she has a handle on it now. She's good at her job and seems like a decent human being.

Alexa and Becky are scheduled for Raw house shows this summer, iirc. The “Alexa in Nikki’s corner” thing could be a way to bring Sasha back, too. There’s also a part of me that thinks Vince could be like “put the Smackdown title on a Raw woman, pal! They’ll never expect it! It’s such good shit!”

I remember when the Alexa/Trish match was announced and Sasha made a stink on Twitter. I thought to myself “Sasha’s mad because Alexa’s having the career Sasha thinks she should be having.” That was a very interesting line in that promo last night. And I do wonder if there’s bad feelings between Bayley and Alexa going back to nXt or Bayleys burial a couple years back. Or just because Sasha and Bayley are so close. I think the play is Nikki costing Alexa the match and then Lex turning on her, but a Bayley/Alexa double turn wouldn’t shock me either. Kofi is great. That is all. Dug the Mandy & Sonya vs. Ember thing. Nice to see them get the women on the show. Hey, what’s worse than being bored to tears by Seth Rollins every week? Being bored to tear by Seth Rollins twice in a week.

That tickled me. Well done.

On what planet is Seth Rollins “edgy?” He’s a 50 yr old ad exec’s idea of edgy. That’s part of my gripe with him. He is the least credible tough guy they’ve ever tried to push as a tough guy. He’s the Pat Boone version of “Johnny B. Goode.” It’s the same sheet music, but it ain’t the same song. Part of it is also that that he embodies everything that’s wrong w wwe’s presentation right now. Every boon period in the business’s history has been ushered in by dynamic characters who could talk people into the building by being themselves turned up to eleven. Seth Rollins isn’t a dynamic personality, he can’t talk people into the building, and yet I’m supposed to believe that he’s a guy who could’ve beaten an explanation out of Dean Ambrose? C’mon. Sure, he has good matches with the right opponent. But there’s 80 guys in the company who can do that, and they don’t come off like smug hipsters with a gym membership.

That’s probably fair. Rollins’ act is awful, but it’s probably not all his fault. I’m sure part of my criticism of him is based on my personal taste, rather than reality. He’s a great athlete. Prodigious, even. There’s just nothing about his moveset or promo delivery that separates him at all, and nothing about him that I can identify that would cause a lapsed fan or casual viewer to seek him out.

Would he be getting credit if ratings were good? And the quarter hours he’s on are consistently low. People actively tune him out.

Who else is there? And why can’t he hold a television audience to save his life?

The problem is that Rollins just isn’t a star. He can’t convincingly sound or present himself as a guy any grown man would be afraid to step outside with. All the shitty superplex spots in the world don’t mean a thing if they’re done by a guy who can’t cut a promo without sounding like an entitled douche.

If the Rock were her cousin, she'd get a push, but he isn't so yeah, she might be screwed...

I’ll never understand that, as long as I live, and them trying to make Rollins into that guy feels like a forced response to the tour de fucking force Mox has been on...

They want Seth Rollins to come off like some sort of badass in the worst way, but he just isn’t that guy. Even a little bit. He wasn’t meant to “walk tall.” i love the Alexa/Nikki stuff, because it’s good for them, and because I think Nikki accidentally costs Lex the match, so the title can stay on Bayley. Everyone comes out without their characters shit on. That firefly funhouse was fucking awesome.