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I really hope they don’t hotshot the title to Brock just so he can drop it to Oba, there’s surely another way that keeps the title on Sami until SS.

Give Mark Briscoe a Darby-like title run.

Tribal Chief Roman is my favourite character of all time but this Bloodline V Bloodline rehash is completely unnecessary. They’ve built up Gunther and to a lesser extent Jacob for absolutely nothing. But “Cinema” I guess or whatever bullshit they call it.

I read a comment here or somewhere else around the time of the start of the latest round of cuts where it said along the lines of “the Usos are lucky they’re Romans cousin” and it’s so true because they’ve been in a holding pattern since summerslam, and are surely on a decent contract. Anyway my long winded point is- I wonder will they turn the Usos tonight against Roman and have them align with Fatu to give them something meaningful to do other than follow Roman around.

Lazy booking (AI involvement?), celebrities thrown into storylines for no particular reason at all, worked shoots or shooter works (who can tell),men’s tag wrestling not mattering at all anymore it seems, these cuts- the last 6 or so months have shown what WWE under the TKO umbrella is really like. Typing all that out made me question- are we sure Vince still isn’t involved in some capacity ?

Now Kofi and Woods are gone I hope we get the rundown of how the heel turn came about and what the plan for them was. At the time it was great but as it went on it was just obvious it was done for the “moment” and they didn’t know what to do past that.

I don’t like his current iteration but Punk has been my guy for a few years so seeing him get the big entrance and big start treatment in a main event at Mania was really cool. Great main event too, made up for the spotty build up. Roman is the man, I hope we get a long (full time) title run where he just laughs at folks flashing those Blade like teeth. Edit;spelling

The problem with the two men’s main events was over complicating it, Orton V Cody literally writes itself based on their past, Roman and Punk are two top top level guys who hate each other just leave it at that.

The smattering of “Thank You Vince” chants at the HOF is the cherry on the top of this dogshit Road to WrestleMania cake fans have been served up.

What a mess they’ve made of Orton/Cody, that segment between McAfee and Cody was awful. “Belly Roll” was hilarious though

CM Punk, the voice of the billionaires (checks notes) oh it’s voiceless this time. CM Punk, the voice of the voiceless. EDIT; Either Liv or Roxanne or both have to concussed after that backstage bit. Yikes!

If I had to buy this years Mania as a PPV not a hope would I be reaching into my pocket. But I guess that UFC/WWEs mantra these days isn’t it? They’ve already got your money through Paramount/Netflix/Peacock deals so why bother putting massive effort into the card. Seth V Gunther is gonna be a banger though.

I think the promo itself is actually fine if you cut out the Attitude era part and have it cut by someone who isn’t McAfee. I think JBL would’ve been perfect for the role (based on the promo content) as he always said on commentary that if you “build a star from the ground up he looks like Orton” or something to that effect.

I don’t know what’s worse the McAfee reveal or the fact Cody comes out later and his “what are you gonna do? Fire me?” shtick.

Cinema. What a joke.