For Great Justice

Jim Neidhart's real name was Mike Jones.

Rusev mentioning the Mike Jones number is just incredible. Holy shit.

Also I have this booking idea to turn The Fiend into a Zelda boss. After months of dominance and the realization no amount of regular offense will do it, it’s discovered that the only thing he is weak to is singing, and Link / Keith Lee pounces his ass back to Carcosa to win the title.

If the goal of the weekend was to make Rhea Ripley and Keith Lee, then mission accomplished. I also need Riddle/G and I need it right now. That sequence was amazing.

Also it feels like the NXT women’s direction went from a bit of a stagnant mess a month or so ago to now having very clear direction until WM. Ripley over Shayna, Shayna to main roster (RR winner?), then Ripley on to Io. Meanwhile Kai/Knox, leading to Ripley/Kai. And all these people are super over at the moment. Business is picking up for the ladies.

Ripley has visual charisma / the “cool factor” in spades. She reminds me a lot of Scott Hall in that regard.

Thread title reminded me of “Fight to Survive” in Bloodsport for whatever reason, which would make a way better PPV theme than whatever hot garbage HHH listened to on Octane on the way to the office. Show/company has no soul.

Agree about Texas. They should have hit up San Marcos. Some dude can throw a guy in the pool at Schlitterbahn.

We need a Breakfast Club remake with Riho as the sweetheart, MJF as the dickhead jock with a secret heart of gold, Mox as the maniac from the wrong side of the tracks and Orange Cassidy as the aloof, weird-yet-cool-in-way outsider

Just a classic video. Best parody since Disco Inferno’s “Psyco”

Ending was pure Heyman. Awesome. Everything on this show is clicking except for the women’s division. Need some work there, but what a run to Full Gear. Super well built PPV.

Shame they aren’t sticking with Catalina as the finish is right there. The Catalina Wine Mixer

I honestly think Seth might be the worst tippy toppy guy they’ve had. I know Nash was bad (and thank God social media wasn’t around in 95), but honestly is anyone else besides those two in the discussion for worst extended period babyface top dude?

I mean we knew this but Cole looked so tiny compared to Seth. Pretty good show this week.

This will be interesting. Between Raw and NXT they should be able to fly in enough guys to make it work, but no way in hell anyone agrees to go back to the KSA.

They should absolutely run with Jake “The Cruncher” Hager permanently

New Ducktales is great. Kid loves it. New(ish) Turtles is okay after a rough start. Trans-Dimensional Turtles (episode where they interact with their early 90’s counterparts) is one of the best pieces of fan service in years, though. They nailed it.

No. The Sting/Luger dynamic is too good. They should honestly remain friends for a year+ before they pull the trigger on it.

This show rules man. It just flies by.

Need that Murdoch/Bubba barb wire match uploaded asap. Holy shit that had to rule. I’m also picturing Arn stalling and powdering repeatedly to rile the fans up in the Valiant match and it’s glorious.

Penta’s a star. Agree with what was said earlier about no shoe horning the bros into tags only.

Barry Windham ain’t do no moonsault to the floor. Not trying to harp on this but I’d suggest Page simplify things. He’s got the babyface fire and big lariat down. Throw some big suplexes and backbreakers and shit. There are so many juniors on the show already for the other stuff and he’s a bigger guy on this roster.

See I thought where they were going with that finish was that Darby couldn’t tap out so the ref used her discretion to stop it. The announcers didn’t put that over though.

I thought the announcers did a good job of that tonight. Ross has his usual, understandable errors but the way the narration was grounded in logic was on point by all three.

I thought this week’s show was incredible and the best one yet. The crowd, the tag wrestling, the amazing Cody vignette. I also think the commentary team is rounding into form - they were great tonight. Awesome two hours! PPV looks stacked. My only negatives are the lack of Luchasaurus and the continued issue about so many people using the same moves. Like Hangman, my dude, if you’re wearing cowboys boots don’t do standing SSP’s. Lots of dudes looked like stars tonight. Pentagon and Darby stood out to me.