For Great Justice

Loved the Zelina-themed episode stuff. I can’t believe they’ve turned Ricochet of all people into a JTTS. Drew is great in this role and is such a likable guy but Rollins is an obvious hard pass. I get that options are limited. Two weeks of Drew being booked like Big Dude Bret Hart in terms of how they present him as a champ. I can dig that. My favorite thing tonight was Garza calling the camera man up to the apron to talk shit. That’s adapting to the environment. Oh and Lorcan and Black beat the piss out of each other. No other match in the empty PC has sounded like that. Damn son.

Cesaro Appreciation Day was great. Super entertaining, witty guy and your favorite wrestler's favorite wrestler.

Disgusting promotional tactic of 2020 looks locked up early. That's just awful to see/read. Contribution:

I had to think about this one for a moment because my go-to worst regular spot for 15 years was Cena avoiding two haymakers that wrestlers never throw otherwise for his side slam spot. But nowadays...it’s gotta be the Panama Sunrise

Sitting that close and seeing the Hulkster skipping leg day, the dream died brother

Holy shit what a piece of business that was! Everyone needs to watch that match.

I read the the tone of Dave’s update to be that Vince is concerned that Fox would use this as a means to get out from under their lemon of a contract. That said, unless Vince’s lawyers are totally incompetent I can’t imagine a contract having language around a required # of live events and not having a corresponding clause covering the event wherein running live events isn’t possible. So this kinda reads like Vince can’t imagine staying home for a month bullshit.

He’s an Oriole away from his next gimmick

Jarrett/Lethal was legit a very good "heel champ defends on TV against an upstart babyface" match.

Yeah there's no Flair unless you turn Cody heel. MJF and Revival are obviously Tully and the Andersons.

I'd have Tully drop Spears like a bad habit. Something like this: "You know why I can't find you a partner, Shawn? Because you suck! You know what I realized? I don't need a guy. I need TWO guys. Top guys." then boom. First Revival match/squash can be Spears+X.

I’d think you can’t let anyone in who has had a professional MMA fight, so Lashley joins Brock and Riddle on the sidelines. Gotta have Otis in there.

A couple of months of taped and talent-produced content while they reset creative isn’t the worst thing for WWE. What’s the last truly out of the box thing Vince has done - the Shield debut? And before that Nexus? Also, is New Blood Nitro the only overt hard continuity reset in a major promotion? I can’t think of another.

All this Brawl For All fantasy booking has me imagining an alternate timeline where if Russo really wants to get his rocks off WWE signs Meng and puts him in the damn thing against Bradshaw in round 1. Hidden camera on Bradshaw when he reads the booking sheet and shits a brick.

Nakazawa is auto-suck for me, too. The world needs jobbers and I get he's Kenny's boy. But for a show that consciously has of lot of WCW spiritual succession in its approach, surely we can find some Gamblers and Roadblocks out there. Nak is just terrible.

Jericho/Tony was just fantastic. I loved a lot of this show. Big hoss daddy squashes, fun tag, great women's match, solid main.

Always loved this and feels appropriate given the boneyard match The spray paint is a nice touch

I was thinking about Boss Man a few days ago when I was watching the triangle match from Fall Brawl 94. I always remembered him losing a ton of weight when he came back for his second WWE run, but dude actually dropped a lot of it even before he went back to WCW too. Twin Towers Boss Man was massive and, like, lost 60+ pounds at some point. Now I'm not sure when that was exactly. As for WMV, it was the tag matches that always stood out to me. In particular given WWE's track record with tag team wrestling, there were 5 tag matches on this show and 4 of them were pretty good.

Show brought the 1976 offense tonight. Not complaining. Cool idea to run an “after the show last night” bit and I thought we had a nice double false narrative going with “will they put the belt on Show due to the Netflix deal” and “oh this is the first challenger monster of the month thing like Bryan/Kane”. So brownie pints for doing something unique. Whole show felt like a Superstars taping, where we just got to also see the dark match main.

Yeah see this is the DVDVR LOST thread (RIP - GOAT weekly thread) kind of stuff I was talking about. Glad someone put the time into writing that. The end of it starting with "Cena turns heel" was my read on the whole thing as well. Not that everything was incredibly subtle here, but it was MORE subtle than I can think of anything in this company being. One of the bits I thought was on the more subtle side was that, when initially confronted during the rap battle with the reality that his character is a terrible person, not only does he not sell it at all and make a deez nuts joke. He makes a TERRIBLE deez nuts joke where he rhymes "face" with "face". Which is something Cena the dude would never do but reinforces that Cena the character still didn't get it.

God bless John Cena and Bray Wyatt

Need multiple rewatches, some detective work and DVDVR LOST thread-like discussion after that FFH match.

The opener was a fantastic, southern fried hurt body part title match. That was Rhea's best match by a country mile. After that, nothing else mattered except Firefly Fun House. Holy shit. That thing existed outside of space and time. I felt like I was in a Tesseract. I think the NWO bit was the future - future Cena heel turn?

My only issue is that, after being traumatized for 30 years due to the Warrior angle, 6 year old me discovered the truth about Santa Claus last night when AJ no sold being in the casket during his entrance. That wasn't cool.

Well bad asses do always kick an asshole’s ass