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Given Miz wasnt actually injured, I'm certain this is leading to Miz/Shane at Mania

I liked the "you've still got it" chants being drowned out by the first "let's go Kane" chant in at least 15 years.

Yeah some bizarre choices. Rey/Orton made sense. Wish it got more time. Hyping up Angle's return just to have him job to Ziggler clean. Lashley losing to Rollins clean in 5 minutes. Rollins jobbing to Ziggler. All to build to Ziggler getting squashed by Shane. I feel like we're getting Miz/Shane at Mania now in the "be grateful for such a big spot on the card!" spot

But if you don't meet any of those 3 criteria, how am I capable of that? You've chosen to make it about you, when I haven't mentioned you or anyone else. The lady doth protest too much, me thinks.

I think there's plenty who are either: a) pretending to care, b) pretending to have not watched the show, c) taking a safe moral position knowing the show isn't worth watching.

I watched it. In the context of what it was, it was perfectly entertaining without being anything must-see. Most of you can keep the faux-outrage boycott up. Shawn can still go. the WWE title match was good. the cup matches were good with some questionable booking. Rey/Orton a really good opener. Braun's dead in the water, and I think Lashley is close too.

Supermarket brawl between Booker and Austin the clear winner here.

It gets a six for the soundtrack. -2 for everything else.

I'd love it if their way of saving face turned out to be Brock having a 50/50 match with Becky Lynch. Or even if it was just Becky under a mask pretending to be a guy. That would also work.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Not easy to stuff this up, but they did. Telemovie standard script, portrayal of Queen as Spinal Tap is as exaggerated as Freddie Mercury's teeth. Rami Malek is good as Freddie but if they're just dubbing old Freddie Mercury vocal tracks over it, it's just karaoke at best, at worst a Disneyworld Jack Sparrow. Oh and Littlefinger from GoT basically playing Littlefinger is super distracting also. Script glosses over his sexuality in a big way to try and get a lower rating to a point where you think he tripped over a pile of AIDS, and a constant reminder of "Yeahnah but he used to be straight". 4/10 for the soundtrack.

Thawne seems the realistic answer?

I'd watch that apartment wrestling match if he did it with a tennis racket.

"Longest reigning WWE champion of the modern era"

Double fuck finishes, and so you have Brock and Braun vs AJ and Joe, so no-one drops a fall they don't need to?

Yeah good call. Can see the World Cup brackets being the Survivor Series teams (add Corbin and Shane respectively?) Would they have AJ drop the title to Joe so they can run Joe/Braun instead, or are they that hellbent on erasing Punk?

I like the finish to It's Time being re-used here. Charlotte on commentary, Becky pushes Ronda into her, Charlotte hits Ronda, costs her the match. We move forward. However, that could be difficult in transitioning to the women's Rumble if its obvious that Charlotte is winning (unless you did the whole deal of Charlotte replicating her dad's win)

Crown Jewel, commentated by Michael Cole, Corey Graves and the Spider Lady

Corbin/Lashley/AOP/Jinder vs. Angle/Finn/Roode/Gable/Elias seems my guess.

Dean costs Seth, Angle beats Dolph. Angle beats Lashley by DQ and gets beatdown afterwards. Miz beats Jeff, Rey and Orton go to a draw. Miz beats a beaten up Angle only after Corbin interferes.

Sorry To Bother You probably the best film I've seen all year. Great soundtrack also.

Of course, but they'll be paired together, and won't impact the week in week out programs that are clearly starting to be built long term

Because on the RAW side, I can't see where else you build towards for Mania other than what's already running now (Ambrose/Rollins, Strowman/McIntyre). Unless Lesnar's UFC fight gets cancelled, or Reigns makes a miraculous recovery, I can't see what else they're running with.

Surely they're looking towards the probability that they're not going to have Lesnar available at Mania. I'd like to try something different and have McIntyre screw Braun in the opening round, Lesnar/Rollins final, and then have Ambrose help Rollins beat Lesnar, because he genuinely believes he can torture him more if he has to defend his title also. You never get that look where guys win the title, but are genuinely concerned of the ramifications of having done so, if Ambrose passes up the opportunity to let Lesnar beat down Rollins, because he genuinely believes he can do it better. Ambrose/Rollins and Braun/Drew seem like your big money Mania matches. Rollins seems like the guy who can best benefit from going over Lesnar right now.

20th anniversary of the Deadly Game tournament. Could work. Braun and Brock get a bye in the first round against each other. Rollins, Ambrose, Balor, Lashley, Elias, Corbin, Ziggler, McIntyre, Angle, Roode, Jinder, Bray?

I'm in on the Panthers D scoring 2 touchdowns. Maybe even 3. Just worried Fitzpatrick throws 5.