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So Charlotte comes over from Raw and beats your champ clean night one, a mid carder from Raw who I can't recall winning a match this year comes over and wins a #1 contenders match for the world title, and the US title which has been a Raw title until two weeks ago is treated as the main event program over your own world title? Let me know when AJ and Nak start their feud because everything else is looking pretty crap.

The biggest problem with the Raw women's division was their inability to book more than 4 women on tv. Charlotte always having to be in the ppv title matches was stale as can be. I'm not putting any blame on her because I might even get sick of seeing AJ Styles in 25 straight ppv matches for the world title in which he wins at the ppv and drops it two weeks later on tv.

I would say Brooklyn in August for the Drew title win. If they keep Black undefeated until he faces Drew for the title that should be a money match.

The new theme song sounds like an early 2000's P.O.D song. Black's song really doesn't need the RATM vocals. Miley looked pretty comfortable out there. Ember pouting and doing the sad Charlie Brown walk isn't going to make her a more likeable baby face. Asuka has a ton of charisma, and her heeling it up only shows more of her natural charisma. They're going to fool around and make Asuka the big baby face in this feud. It's kinda sad they couldn't think of a better way to set up a match for Billie and Peyton other than that silly backstage bit. That gutwrench catch by Drew was nuts. Great first match back for him. The thing I like most is that he carries himself like a star at all times. Aleister Black also has that superstar swag about him so it should be pretty hard for NXT to fuck up their next batch of top faces.

The whole "if you've seen one of their matches you've seen them all" argument could apply to every wrestler in WWE.

It's far better suited to a 5 minute ass kicking. Anything more doesn't help Nak imo. Ziggler is a geek that Nak needs to run through. Also Buddy Murphy is better at selling and bumping(also has better offense) than overrated Ziggler, and a Nak match with Ziggler should go exactly like his NXT match against Murphy.

Miz is smart enough to know that would give him more heel heat than having a 30 minute 2,9 fest.

which are?

Miz drug Ziggler kicking and screaming to the only decent stuff he's done in years. Nobody should want to see Nak in a 50/50 work rate "classic" against scrub Ziggler.

He picked Balor up and went right to the next spot. The smart thing to do would've been step back and have the ref take a look at him before continuing the match with a guy you just knocked loopy.

At least the ref checked on Charlotte when she got dumped on her head. The dummy in Balor's match didn't even notice he was fucked, and neither did shithead Mahal.

This was a really fun show. Too bad Harper is the only guy worth a damn in the main event match.

GM Angle was the best part of the show for me. The women had a fun tag. I really wanted Balor to turn on that doofus Teddy Hart wannabe.

I'm watching all the stuff in the first 15 hours I missed, and goddamn is that Hardy Boys pop one of the biggest in Mania history or what. TNA lol.

I started watching live right before Bray/Orton, and thought the last two hours was a boring pile of shit. Watching Taker like this was sad, but at least he didn't get hurt. Seeing him retire in the ring was quite a moment. Bray/Orton was one of the worst Mania matches I can recall. Brock/Goldberg was fun and didn't overstay it's welcome.

It's almost as if Rey Jr is one of the best workers of all time, and isn't that easy to replace or something. The real Rey Jr is still pretty awesome, and with all the 50 year olds in top matches this year I don't see why he couldn't get another run.

One liver shot is all it would take.

This whole "Black reminds me of Punk because tattoos" thing is so lame. They're nothing alike, and Black's strikes actually look good and he's fairly athletic. I didn't start this show until after the final four games so it was a little too late in the night for me to appreciate a long main event. I'll have to give it another watch latter. The Revival have to have the best match resume in NXT history. I can't believe they had had Tye eat the fall in the opener. The booking for Asuka/Ember was well done. Hopefully Ember gets over enough as a face to make the story work. All in all it was a fun show. I hope Nak ends up on SDL.

I can't wait for the backlash when the SDL women's title match lasts under 5 minutes because it got moved to the main show. If I could only watch one match from this show it would be Neville/Aries.

Asuka's squash match was incredible. She has to get a run as heel ace on SDL.

My only interest in Mania is to see if the fans completely turn on the product.

Not doing Asuka vs Cross feels like a misstep to me. They built up the feud, and we didn't get anything close to a payoff at San Antonio. Ember doesn't have a character or much of an issue with Asuka. Should've gone with Asuka/Cross and Ember/Peyton after she injured Billie. Don't even get me started on the Roode/Nak rematch. I'll watch, but I'm not very excited for it.

I like Peyton, but she's not as good as Emma. Peyton barely has any offense that looks credible. She's fine as a chicken shit heel who uses the numbers game to take an advantage. Emma was a vicious killer in her squash matches. Asuka should've turned heel in the Bayley feud. The only time it felt believable to have her as an underdog was against Nia. It's not really her fault NXT hasn't built up credible heels for her. I do believe she could do some great stuff with Nikki Cross.

The Sea Creature vs Big Bartholomew > any 2017 Mania match

Man this is 10 times more entertaining than Raw and SDL. That was Breeze playing the guy who bought the farm.