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Rollins's control segments aren't good. He's just not good at that sort of thing with his current offense. Video game-like spotfests, on the other hand, he is perfect for. Heck, I'd be really interested just to see Rollins/Brock straight up to see them and their ridiculous offenses go up against one another for twenty minutes. I only got a small taste last night.

Only as long as she also mentions that Vladimir Putin has developed a Weather Machine anyway, so soon Russia will control the world.

Nikki throwing that nasty forearm to get the pin on Nattie was pretty fantastic, to be honest. She might be a top-three striker in the company at this point, no kidding.

Yukon Golds make the creamiest mashed potatoes. The skin is like velvet. I'm sorry, but the Idaho Russet, while a solid potato, wishes that it had the flavor profile. In fact, I'm going to fry some bacon right now and then fry up a sliced Yukon Gold in the fat with rosemary and shallots. The Idaho Russet is like Roman Reigns: Pushed beyond its abilities because it has "the look." (By the way, I wanted to like your post, but I am at my quota for the first time ever. While we disagree on potatoes, I really enjoyed your response.)

Eh. I mean, the finest potato of all, the Yukon Gold, was developed in Canada. I'm not a snob who turns his nose up at a nicely fried or mashed Russet, but Idaho is outshined on the potato front.

I think Rollins has to leave with the gold to salvage things. The fans in attendance will accept that. Triple H/Kane vs. Sting/Bryan is also a good idea to finish two long-term feuds and let Bryan do the heavy lifting in the ring for Sting. I'd do something like: Reigns/Lesnar Rollins/Orton (and put Orton over so Rollins has a built-in feud to begin his title reign) HHH/Kane vs. Sting/Bryan Wyatt/Taker (I'd prefer no Taker on the show, but since they want to use him...) Cena/Rusev based on what pieces they have and how to salvage the show in a way Vince could accept. My real preference would be Bryan/Lesnar and Rusev destroying Cena so Rusev could then destroy Bryan after a three month reign and become the champion into WM, where Reigns can theoretically meet him next year in order to be crowned. Plus, maybe we could get Rusev © vs. Lesnar at Summerslam.

This would be really funny, but it would also ruin the rest of the show, so I doubt they'll do something like this.

I don't mind paying ten bucks for NXT and easy access to archived shows from NWA, WCW, World Class, etc. The Network is such a good deal even if the current main shows are utter rubbish not worth any money. I'm glad that people are putting their money where they feel that it is worth it, though. I doubt much of the subscriber base is going to cancel, but I would chuckle if during the next quarterly report, WWE had to admit that they lost subscribers in total.

Yeah, but unfortunately, you live in Scottsdale, so...yeah. Honestly, I'm more jealous that you have access to Pita Jungle and Wildflower Bread Company than the weather. On the topic of angry fans: I think the hardcores that show up on the Road to WM are pretty much dug in. They seem to have taken last night as a sign that Vince is actively against them, so they'll be vocal. Oddly, the only interest I have in WM is to see if the fans just shit on almost everything out of spite. That would be entertaining in a perverse sort of way.

There is no right answer. The right answer was Bryan, but they aren't doing that. Everything else is just varying levels of awful. Bryan was the worst choice. He won last year, now the injury cannot be helped but his goofing off and going to all the different non-medical doctors held up the company through Summerslam. Looking back, after watching his 'do not want surgery' whining and the Bella's comment about Bryan never picking up the tab he comes off as a bit of a Diva. I doubt that comment being left on Divas was an accident. He deserves to sit in the midcard for a bit until he proves that he can stay healthy. Weird statement. Not directly comparing Bryan to Austin in every way, but that same logic would have kept the WWE Championship off Austin in 1998. No, you strike while the iron is hot with a guy. If he gets hurt again, you theoretically are good enough creatively to have viable backups like McMahon did in 1998 (specifically The Rock, but 'Taker was also really hot because he had started the Satanist gimmick shift). What good would sitting Austin in the midcard for a bit until he proved that he could stay healthy have done? What good does it do to sit Bryan in the midcard now for that very same reason? I don't buy that logic at all.

I am so excited for the next NXT major event, though making Zayn/Owens non-title really telegraphs what the ending to that match will be.

It was Christian being over that REALLY got people turning on Cena, and let's be real, Christian was REALLY over during that mid-2005 period. As I recall, Cena was over for through the end of the JBL feud in 2005, and then people slowly started turning on him after that.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The triple threat was a great video game match, but March Madness #1 should be made of sterner stuff. I can't imagine putting him ahead of New Japan's big three. I would say that the majority of posters don't really watch New Japan. And, quite a few that do strongly dislike Tanahashi and/or Okada. Zayn and Rollins are probably my favourites to win. I think Zayn has had a better year than Rollins. Zayn or Nakamura should win. I also think Banks should win, but she might not even make the field. Nakamura is the best guy in New Japan. I hope he comes over to NXT eventually.

He straight jacked Lesnar all night. Struck him hard with that knee in the face in the beginning and then nailed that elbow smash so perfectly and with such impact that he bounced up in the air after hitting it. Not a big Rollins guy, but his video game offense was absolutely perfect for this setting. EDIT: But neither was the strike of the night that made me cringe the most. Actually, Paige punched Nikki south of the border, and it made me cross my knees.

I think people saying this are saying it because at least it would make sense since the crowds clearly love Ziggler. Honestly, I don't get it, but when a guy stays over for that long despite his booking, I am personally in support of him getting a shot at running with the top title.

Yeah, Brock came out looking awesome. Beat up four guys to begin and fought off what was essentially a handicap situation to retain his title. I was totally into rooting for him after the first three minutes when he destroyed everyone.

Hey, there's agreeing to disagree, and then there's Gregg deliberately trolling other DVDVR users by indicating that they are being unreasonable and trying to convince them that what's on screen is really what they want to se-- Holy shit, Gregg is Vince McMahon. I know, I know, he doesn't type in ALL CAPS or tell us how much he enjoys a good can of tuna fish, but I think it's him anyway.

This is deliberately disingenuous or you are just at the point where you're never going to get it. Bryan losing isn't simply "Bryan losing." At this point, the company has showed a pattern of contempt for its fanbase's desires. If you can't see the difference between a disappointed Memphis crowd being deflated in a productive way because Jerry Lawler lost to Bill Dundee and a disappointed WWE crowd being hostile because Bryan has been fairly clearly shunted to the back of the line because he doesn't fit Vince McMahon's idea of a top guy, you should just stop posting these painfully confused messages where you come off about as out-of-touch as Vince McMahon does. We're talking about the same Daniel Bryan who ended WM holding the title? Yeah, we are, but only because Vince 1) changed direction and 2) HHH and Stephanie were behind Bryan as a top guy. It's clear that Vince decided to go on ahead with the Reigns plan and not to be deterred this year considering that he went out of his way to make Bryan a non-factor and got the Rock in to try and help Reigns get a pop. It didn't work because Vince doesn't have it creatively anymore. Or you can keep pretending that Vince planned last year all along even though we now have confirmation that it didn't go down that way if you want to keep up the disingenuous arguments here.

This is deliberately disingenuous or you are just at the point where you're never going to get it. Bryan losing isn't simply "Bryan losing." At this point, the company has showed a pattern of contempt for its fanbase's desires. If you can't see the difference between a disappointed Memphis crowd being deflated in a productive way because Jerry Lawler lost to Bill Dundee and a disappointed WWE crowd being hostile because Bryan has been fairly clearly shunted to the back of the line because he doesn't fit Vince McMahon's idea of a top guy, you should just stop posting these painfully confused messages where you come off about as out-of-touch as Vince McMahon does.

I will laugh if this show damages their Network numbers, but I assume the folks cancelling will come back before the fiscal quarter is over. As a single viewer, I'm definitely into the company being built around Bryan in the short-term, but I also have to admit that there's a meta-issue here where I am also into the company being financially harmed just for deliberately going out of their way to troll/ignore their own fanbase to a fairly significant degree. As someone noted, they scorched the earth on the PPV model and need the Network to be successful to some degree. However, I'm also guessing that most people who cancel are fickle and will be back.

Why the Ascension has the little guy throwing a shitty back elbow and the big guy doing the leg sweep when the big guy should obviously be doing a lariat and the little guy should be doing the leg sweep is beyond me.

And even if the narrative progression is good, no one cares if they don't enjoy the players. Roman Reigns being in the middle of this storyline instead of Daniel Bryan is kinda like replacing Daniel Day-Lewis with Pauly Shore in There Will Be Blood.

Triple threat was top three of that type of match for me. Best WWE triple threat even with Lesnar being out for the worst part with the finisher trading. The first five minutes were utterly bananas, like watching three ten-year-olds play WWE 2K15. I hate to sound like a lame neckbeard loser, but I'm out on the current product completely barring NXT. I haven't seen RAW or Smackdown in months, and I think I'm done with PPVs, too. Vince'll get my money for the Network because of the NXT Specials and old WCW and WWF PPVs/shows, but current stuff isn't worth it because the booking is so bad that it ruins the pretty good wrestling.

GTA in first-person view is one of the things that will benefit from Oculus Rift-style headsets. Moving the camera to look around is cumbersome, but moving your head to look around would make the whole thing come together. I was immersed enough in the game that I actually started to turn my head quickly just to check my blind spot when getting over a lane as I was driving. With a headset, that would actually work and cut down on the disorientation and blind spots that are inherent to playing in first person with just a traditional controller.

I just picked up Re-Elected. Loved SR2 and SRTT very much. This game somehow is on the level of those games, though in a different way. It's like the developers took the best parts of inFamous, Crackdown, and SRTT and jammed them all into one game. So good.