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This is the 3rd or 4th time I've seen someone say that either on twitter or another comment somewhere and I actually can't tell if the people complaining are joking or being serious as it was obvious they were saying that about the two new guys. I'd never seen Almas before tonight and he looked good, but nothing that was really over the top impressive. Either way I look forward to seeing what he can do. The tag match was amazing and the best outing I've seen from the two teams yet. Really surprised that Revival won here as I was expecting some type of shenanigans or fuck finish that lead to a third match with some sort of gimmick that would headline the next NXT special. I guess they need AA to feud with and make those guys who aren't Da Hit Squad look good. Does anyone know who they are? At first I wondered if they were two of the middle eastern guys featured on some of the Breaking Ground episodes. Aries/Nakamura was insanely good. I'm not sure if it was up there with the match with Sami, but Nakamura and Aries worked great together and this really made Aries look like he belongs here. Nia/Asuka was good but not terrific. It wasn't so much match quality but that there have been so many good women's matches, especially involving Asuka, that this one didn't measure up. Main event was entertaining but not as good as the Joe/Balor match from the last special. Balor's demon paint is getting into diminishing returns for me. It seemed cool looking and special when he first did it but now it's just kind of expected and meh. I really couldn't care less about Bobby Roode. When I had cable I'd sometimes put TNA on as background noise and he, Storm, James Harris, and Eric Young might as well all be the same guy.

The Saint of Killers intro was awesome and Cassidy continues to be great, but the rest of the show continued to bite the big one. It's not as if I can say I actively hate it either, it's just so bland. Is Tulip tasering, kidnapping, and chaining up her ex to try and coerce him into pulling off some illegal plot supposed to be endearing? Because it came off as mostly sociopathic and unstable to me.

Have they actually announced if this is going to be single/double elimination or what? I wonder if it's going to be like the WCW Crusierweight tournament where they just had a bunch of random sporadic matches and said there was some type of bracket set up.

The only Tommy End matches I've seen were his outings at the 2015 BOLA and liked his work best of all the Euro guys on the card. Can anyone recommend some other matches of his I should check out?

The other guy in there is Joey Janela who's usually a technical/flier guy and has really impressed me in the matches of his I've seen in the past year, so it's kind of surprising to see him involved in such a match. But it seems to be a rite of passage for people who work for Zandig or Ian Rotten to have to work such a match at some point. His twitter comments about it are amusing - Bad Boy Joey Janela ‏@JANELABABY 14h14 hours ago The Internet has told me today, that I was paid in hoagies,hot dogs, and pizza yesterday....,.. Oh and $15..... 17 retweets 63 likes

I don't have a strong opinion on Boyega or this new director, but am chuffed that the Pacific Rim sequel is official.

I watched the whole thing this weekend and I agree. This season was actually a bit stronger than the first as far as the plot goes, imo. Despite all the added backstory I still didn't find Danny that sympathetic, though the way everything played out made the rest of the clan considerably less sympathetic as well.

His finisher was usually a sitout powerslam so I'm assuming that's what he was going for, but much like the infamous spot with Nick Mondo way back when he pretty much dropped feet first through it.

After Lesnar's last two outings I honestly don't care if he shows up in the WWE again.

I was wondering if it'll end in a time limit draw or some such setting up a gimmick match that headlines the next special.

Team Omega - Surge, Willow The Wisp and Kid Dynamo.

The last time something hatched on live WWE tv, we got the Goobledy Gooker.

They've said in shoot interviews that they were in their 40s at the time and were glad to have a more relaxed schedule and style of wrestling, plus that the roles they were playing in the WWE were pretty much who they actually were as people, so it was an easy gig for them to have.

All of this. I wasn't expecting to like it and knew they'd take some liberties with the story, but if you'd changed the character names and Jesse's look a little bit I would have had no clue this was actually based on the comic. If you're going to make something that divergent from the source material, why even bother? Just make up a completely new idea and run with it. Unlike a lot of other comic adaptations, this is a story with an actual beginning and end and not something that's still ongoing with a ton of different writers and continuities over the years which the showrunners can pick and choose from.

Usos/Club was pretty forgettable. Neither team really does anything for me but the match wasn't actively bad. Kalisto/Russev was really good. Kalisto is good at being the underdog and Russev is good as a base for smaller fliers, so they really clicked here. Hopefully Russev doesn't just drop the belt back to Cena next week. Tag titles match was decent enough and they've done well making the Vaudevillians look like a credible team and not just a couple of jobbers so far. The 4 way was on fire for a while and would have been even better if anyone other than Miz would have won. They've got a really good opportunity to elevate the belt and make it the center of a really hot feud, and Miz holding it does no favors at all for anyone or anything. Cage match pretty much killed the crowd and was an absolute snoozefest. It just wouldn't end. Nattie/Charlotte was another match that was decent up until the bullshit finish. Distraction finishes are being overkilled on Raw and there's no excuse for them at a PPV, especially when it's in a match with a lot of buildup and being presented as important. Main event dragged in places, but Styles' insane bumping was fun to watch and I feel sorry for the state of his tailbone right now. Yet again, what could have been a decent match was let down with a piss poor ending. Anderson and Gallows get taken out easily and Roman kicks out of countless chair-assisted finishers only to win with a single spear? This was some HHH at mania level finisher killing.

From what the older tweet suggests, he was offered the opportunity to go back to being Cody after Dusty's death but declined, only to come back to the writers later and say that he wanted to be Cody again? Or maybe the original idea was them to use Dusty's death as some sort of angle and that's why he declined? His grievances about not wanting to do a gimmick he was tired of are more than reasonable, but he never had world title level ability.

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Pretty much this. Don't get me wrong, I like Cody and think he's a talented guy but he's always struck me as having a mid-card ceiling. He's great at playing a character and given who his father and brother are likely "gets" wrestling more than most people do, but as far as wrestling talent goes I think he's gotten as far as someone with his skills can get. Considering he's asking for his release makes me wonder if he just doesn't want to be there? He's been in the WWE (or developmental) for pretty much all of his adult life and it's quite possible he just wants a break from it all, especially after his father's death.

The Raleigh show was at the PNC Arena, which is the same place the Hurricanes play. I'd say it could hold 18k-ish for a wrestling show, depending on the setup. They probably curtained off the upper level, but still that's pretty damn empty. Edit: I just checked and Over the Limit 2012 was held there and only drew 8000, which seems awful low.

I just checked and it's been renewed for a 4th season. Even though Red is supposed to be the main character, there's no way the show works without Liz back in there. I'm still convinced she got her ex husband doctor to help fake her death and didn't let Tom or Red in on it.

What makes them even cheaper still is that half the time they happen, any emotional impact they might have is lessened when you realize there's a 50/50 chance of the person coming back to life.

I think Dallas was better from a wrestling standpoint, but Brooklyn just had a much more special feel to it.

This was definitely one of my favorite comic movies so far. Probably the best thing about it was no major fight scene featuring the face team taking out scores of jobber drones robots or generic soldiers (save for the stairwell scene) and focusing on more individualized, evenly matched opponents. There was plenty of development for most of the characters and just the right combination of humor and seriousness. Not being a comic reader I didn't know anything about Zemo going in so I don't have an opinion of his character translation, however there wasn't much about him I found terribly compelling. His motivation of someone having lost his family as collateral damage is understandable, but there have to be hundreds, if not thousands, of people out there who are in the same boat. The few minutes they went over his dossier he just came off as a random special ops soldier (the likes of which they've no doubt dispatched scores of throughout the series) with nothing especially competent or skilled about him, especially considering he was in the military of some destitute post-soviet country. I guess because a lot of other villains in these sorts of movies are built up a bit more I was expecting someone who seemed more intimidating and capable, but he reminded me of that time Maven eliminated The Undertaker from the Royal Rumble - some average person who did the exact right thing at the exact right time to take down someone way out of his league. Wouldn't Captain America and the rest of his crew have been released at the end? From what I recall, their crime was aiding and abetting Bucky (Iron Man and his crew were just as responsible for the fiasco at the airport and obviously they're not on the hook for it), and they had concrete evidence that he'd been framed, plus the guilty party in custody.

When you asked her why, did she say "you can't teach that"?

Danny Trejo as Machete