James F'n X

Is TARU still wrestling? Still alive?

Christopher Daniels is such a fucking nerd. I love him.

All this press conference needs is David McLane.

Sammy Guevara is incredibly awkward on the mic, wew.

I seem to remember them having done this finish once before. Can't remember where, though.

..oh....oh god, I just had a thought. What if WM is Charlotte/Ronda and Becky/Steph?

ESPN's reporting it now. Are they willing to work one of their major media and coverage partners?

Something needs to be done about show length at the big 5 events. Show time from first bell to the end of the men's Rumble was over 6 hours. It's really hard to judge people's reactions to things live at the end of a show that people had spent over half their day at already. I dropped in and out of the show - what I caught was mostly inoffensive outside of the first third to half of the women's Rumble (I'm sick to death of the parkour spots to avoid elimination, so I did enjoy Mandy Rose blasting Naomi into orbit after trying it) and enjoyed the closing stretch of the Rumble. Both women's title matches were great. It's incredible how much more believable and sincere this face Miz run is vs. the Flair-backed run... I still expect him to turn, but if he doesn't? I'd still buy it. Both men's title matches were pretty good. Styles and Bryan work a style together that is so Southern and different than the typical WWE presentation which is rough for crowd reactions and got no favors from being in a death spot after the Rumble. Brock and Balor had a very different Brock match than usual that played up to Balor's strengths as a face and brought intrigue to a match with a foregone conclusion. I was done after it, though, and don't really have interest in catching the men's Rumble. Good show, just about 41 hours too long.

So the Gargano/Ricochet match was pretty much everything I hate about modern wrestling. Tons of choreographed spots with no time to breathe. I will give them this - everything looked really good, which is hard for matches like this. If there's a slipup, it's usually really easy for folks to fall off script and make things look terrible. That style of match isn't for me though. Which is fine, because the rest of the card was right up my alley. It's kinda ridiculous what Hanson and Rowe can do in the ring and O'Reilly and Strong are perfect foils for it. Riddle/Ohno was really good. Baszler/Belair was incredible for the limited experience both women have. And Ciampa's just so ridiculously good right now.

They literally have nothing to do with one another. Holy shit. No one is going to call their buddy and tell them to tune into an Elias/KO talking segment, no matter how good it is. Wrestling hasn't been that kind of viewing in 20 years.

Seattle fans haven't seen someone dunk on something that hard since.. well, you know. I remember when I hated Elias. I was dumb, everyone else was smart.

Hiromu plz.

Yeah, nothing wrong with a little reminder.

If the Cena/Taker rumors are dead, it's gotta be a near lock that Elias pins Cena in this with a handful of jorts, right?