Iron Moose

A thought: the 20-minute time limit feels like a Chekov's Gun at this point. Is there a chance it's used, given that it eliminates both competitors?

While I'm sympathetic to the knot spot being a little much, I'll also remind everyone that the match as a whole had to immediately follow Ibushi/Alexander, so I'm giving it a lot of slack in trying to change the mood of the room. #signthemboth

I'd actually go with Nak. They can do a rematch in Full Sail in October and take the time to make him seem to care about beating Joe. Bayley... going up to Smackdown on a loss could situate her character in a place to let her move up the ranks more organically.

Two matches seems really light for an hour show, especially given the 20 minute time limit. Recaps? Maybe something from an NXT taping or a thought-to-be-dark match?

Yes.

Why would Sasha request a handicap title match. How would that even work.

Is it fair to say that Liv Morgan was a better ragdoll for Nia than Aliyah was for Asuka, or are the demands of the matches sufficiently different that it's an unfair comparison?

Based on tonight's show, we can add

Wait when did she do the Nakamura entrance?

Bringing back Shelton brings us 3/4 of the way to American Alpha/WGTT.

The Revival/American Alpha 2/3 falls match is not getting nearly enough love. I'd say it's on par with The End and clearly better than Dallas.

RAW is BAD NEW HAIRCUTS EVERYWHERE

Oh. Easy way out. Sasha just locks Dana in a closet and goes after Charlotte 1-on-1?

Spoilers for the octofinals are on Wikipedia and other sites. Be wary.

I agree with everything Offspring515 says above. Also, Joe's promo was fantastic.

Becky and Natalya are occupied, Paige ... doesn't make much sense, nor Summer or Eva. Maybe Naomi or Tamina? Incredibly long shots: Nikki, Trish, Lita, Nia. Massively underwhelming: Fox. I have faith in Dana performing a compelling and justified "oh no"-face if it's Asuka. I do not have faith in Charlotte doing the same if it's Bayley.

oh dear.

From the youtube highlights of Bayley-Bliss: - Bayley's Buckle Bomb looked vicious, I suspect thanks to Alexa selling it by hitting the top buckle, then falling to hit the middle one. - the crowd seemed to sour a bit on Bayley when she started to pander by taking Alexa on a tour of the turnbuckles and repeating her running strikes. I liked the corner knee though. - Alexa's punch and knees were fantastic.Her choke continues to look ridiculous.

I'm going to guess Gran Metalik going over Tozawa. ZSJ covers the UK, which I think hurts Gallagher's chances, and the same logic applies to Tozawa by way of Ibushi. Semis then being ZSJ v. Metalik and Ibushi v. Swann, with an outside shot of Gargano...

I can't tell if I liked this or the End tag title match more. Superb. Alexa and Bayley were really good too.

According to this: http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=13511&page=4&year=2016&promotion=1 untelevised, mostly.

Perhaps a more vicious chant would be "ROMAN ROIDS". Perhaps I am too optimistic in my hope that aggressive crowd trolling would short-circuit the push.

Liv and Murphy each made Nia and Nakamura look tremendous. Fantastic ragdollery.

The other spoiler thread says that Dana took the Banks Statement.

I know it's trolly, but I'd really like to see what the reaction to a crowd chanting "STEROIDS" would be.