Iron Moose

Uncharacteristic sensitivity to racial undercurrents? Or they're keeping Sasha on ice until after the rumble.

these halfwits missed rusev coming out of the cake

I held my nose and tolerated the cuck stuff on Raw but this is the last straw for me. No more WWE in any way that they can monetize me.

This would probably make him look ... not smart.

My guess is sexism.

Dream, or maybe WALTER?

Rollins can probably do morning talk shows and make-a-wish stuff a lot more easily than Wyatt.

IMO, that's exactly what happened. Bayley rather effectively polished a lot of things that would never turn into diamonds while Sasha's wheels spun.

100% agreed on Taynara's loopy selling. I'm not a fan of how little provocation there was before Kai's repeating kicks to Conti (seen at around 1:55 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JmVk8jcW0s). I have the same issue with Bayley's headlock-into-punches -- the first time we saw it, there had been a build, and now it's just a signature spot. I'm also chalking up a lot to rust in this match -- the camera angle jumped during the scorpion kick (which was sideways rather than overhead), the axe kick landed with the sole, and it seemed like the running corner kick had an early jump to it.

Are there any (or have there been any) tag teams where the big guy does the flips and the small guy is the angry brawling one?

The June-September gap is surprising. Are they touring or something?

WGTT / Kidman & Mysterio is so, so, so good.

A double chicken wing into a float-over. https://youtu.be/10ivQ3ogO1M?t=741

Becky getting in to the triple threat as a consequence of Ronda punching her in the stomach (after Charlotte dummied her for most of the match) feels underwhelming.

It's not completely unthinkable... I could see a Gargano suspension or expulsion, and then a Takeover with and then a summer angle leading to a tournament final at the Summerslam Takeover for Goldie?

... whose head is that?

The Jamokes!

The Library of Congress will be live-streaming John Cena reading from his new children's book, which sounds like The Little Monster Truck That Could. Friday at 10:30 EST via the LOC's Facebook

agreed. This Takeover felt, to me, like a lot of the strings were showing. It seemed clear going in that Bate and Seven had no chance of winning, that EC3 would be his usual vacuum and Dream would struggle. Props to Shayna and Kairi for the MOTN.

This was my first time seeing EC3 and I was so, so underwhelmed. Cole at least made me care for a bit with the superkick party.

... I feel like Murphy and Kalisto just set the bar pretty high for this weekend.

didn't she get her knees up?

... that made Sami and Becky look pretty bad, I thought.