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This graphic reminds me of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' where Mac plans to sail around the world, then begins charting his course by doing a big X crossing out Africa.

I watched Punk-Moxley and first thought "Clearly trying to getthe belt off Punk quick in case he refuses to no-show in the future or maybe is just leaving altogether" then sawall the stuff about his foot and thought "Well maybe..." then saw their medical crew reach in and pull him by the ankle out of the ring in order to "help" him and, back to number one.

Dunno, but they sure put her over big-time on commentary last night. Maybe she sticks around NXT until NXT Europe starts?!

I wonder if they can even get the Usos across the border with all the DUIs.

Misread this as "FULL booty if they are going to sign Stevie Ray" and went "Wait, was Stevie Ray known for his Kardashian-esque butt...how did I not know this?!" before realizing my terrible, terrible mistake.

Anything but 'Sweet Cheeks Music' which is the absolute worst. Personally, I'm quite okay with 'Flying/Running/Charging Hip Attack' or not even naming the move at all.

Who is it who hated the term "suplex"?! Because I noticed on Smackdown tonight, Michael Cole yelling "German Throw!" so maybe it wasn't a Vince-ism.

I trust in DEAN!

On my Chromebook, I have trouble with the PREV/NEXT buttons and sometimes the only way to move backward or forward in a thread is to highlight the browser bar and manually replace the page number. On my Fire Tablet, there is no way to move forward or backward through threads, nothing works.

Found Stark largely underwhelming to downright awkward before her injury, but have liked her a lot more since her return. Wasn't sold on Cora turning heel since like 90% of her NXT stuff has been her being dominated and battling out from underneath and wasn't sure how well it would translate to her wrestling heel. That's why I found the match such a pleasant surprise!

Going Stark-Jade, too because I expected Mox-Jericho, Nakamura/Gunther, Coffin Match all to be good, and they all were to varying degrees, I wasn't expecting anything from Stark-Jade and ended up with a great, nasty, hard-hitting match.

That kneeto Gunther's chin was GNARLY. Intentional or accident? My favourite part of Madcap Moss being Drew's inexplicable partner was when even the announcer (I think it was Cole) said something to the effect of "Still not sure why Moss is out here, I guess because he decided to..."

What was going on with Sonjay Dutt? Wardlow comes down with FTR and Lethal et al. exit the ring, then they show Dutt looking frantically under the ring for something and the announcers even reference it, then he looks elsewhere, then Lethal gets beat up and they leave.

I guess by subtle, I mean there's really no consequence if Tony D loses. It's not a "Loser Leaves NXT" match, just a "We abandon this group" if Tony D loses the match.

I thought she was okay pre-injury but since her return she has been great. Better promos, better wrestling, better character (The stare and point at Mandy during the pinfall was aces!). I'd be totally fine with her taking the title now, even for a short while. Also she CLOBBERED Mandy with her weird finisher last night. I wonder if Zoey/Nikkitta (SP!?!?)in the tourney is a harbinger of a move to the main roster, or just WWE being short on teams? If it's the former, it might cement Zoey as not winning the title. I think you could cool off Toxic Attraction a bit and not hurt them. Maybe have them tease a new member (Like Thea from Chase U, she's kinda got something like pre-superhero Nikki Cross) and then have them turn on her and humilate her and run a short feud of her teaming up with Katana/Carter to gain their respect while Starks takes on some of the other women like Lyons, Sarray and Ivy Nile. I'd really be all in for Starks and Nile wailing on each other. Is Legado going to the main roster? Or are they just trying to subtly back out of this nowhere feud with Tony D?

I was just thinking how Chad Gable might be the modern Owen Hart, he literally gets every half-assed gimmick or tag way more over than it ever deserves to be. He comes in with Jordan as American Alpha, WWE decides Jordan is the star (he's taller!) and splits up the team leaving Gable rudderless. They put him with Benjamin, it seems to be getting over they send him to Raw. He does nothing, ends up taggiing with Roode and riding that all the way to tag titles (I did NOT remember this btw had to look it up!). They split that team up by drafting him back to SD, he feuds with Corbin, gets the incredibly stupid Short G gimmick over, they drop that storyline. He ends up with Otis in a team that's not really going anywhere and he starts bragging about his degree and yelling "SHOOOOSH!" and he's over like crazy again. I wonder if we'll ever see a Gable main event run. ---- I figured tonight when Ezekiel got the no-entrance treatment that this might be the end of this gimmick. Owens destroying him him for the stretcher job would seem to suppor that idea. I enjoyed this show. I still wish they'd just be 'Judgement Day' though, the "The" that precedes it is stupid. If it's a copyright thing, just change the group name, its not THAT good of a stable name anyways.

It's really dumb because it's bascially the same show with a couple mild surprises, but this last week was the most optimistic and fun I've had watching WWE TV since...I think when they hired Heyman and Bischoff to take over Raw and Smackdow. I remember those Heyman Raws as....interesting. Guys with new pushes and gimmicks that left things at least hard to guess (Rowan with the box with the giant animatronic spider!) if not necessarily...good. I'm not saying the shows are fixed or even better, but at least things feel a little less obvious. I wondered how Smackdown was going to end this week: Would Sami Zayn stand by MacIntyre's side? Maybe Zayn would jump Drew? Maybe the Creeds would come back up Drew? Maybe Brock comes back to stand with Drew? Maybe Drew gets the upper hand? Maybe Drew just gets stomped? Nowhere on that list of possibilites was a return of Karrion Kross to destroy Drew, complete with Scarlett in tow. So, at the least, things are unpredictable right now which is always better than stale.

What did Liv say to the fans when they were heckling her? It looked like something got bleeped out here on the Canadian feed as she spoke with no sound and then Cole and McAfee kinda chuckled and moved quickly along. Ricochet-Corbin was pretty fun, especially the big backdrop. Commentary put him over pretty big tonight. Womens' gauntlet was pretty fun especially with the Sonya promo to begin making you think she's going all the way, then she pretty quickly wasn't. Nattie looked terrified on that last move by Raquel, who really needs to stop smiling so much. Interesting that we had a Mulkey tagged with a Gibson tonight. With the blonde mullet, I'm pretty sure someone wanted to call them Morton and Gibson then realized that wa a little too on the nose. I actually like Kross being back in that he never really moved the needle in NXT but I think WWE style might suit him better because he won't be in there with indy workrate-type guys and can have some fun plunder brawls and cover up his limitations with more smoke and mirrors. I wonder what other NXT main roster fumbles we see brought back? Johnny Gargano would seem like an obvious one. Bronson Reed (I know he's in Impact but...)?Timothy Thatcher?, The rest of Hit Row (sans Swerve?), Velveteen Dream? (No probably not!)

That is pretty spot-on. Would be a great gimmick change.

Guys I would pick (ranked in order from possibilities to pipe dreams) -Big E. - Obviously, he'd have to be healthy enough to wrestle, but I think the storyline and reaction would be through the roof for him. -Cody - Don't see any reason why his momentum will have dimished too much by WM, especially with the extra few past months off to build the anticipation to his return. -Sami Zayn - A few months of build-up of Sami being the Bloodline's "bitch" to Sami standing up to Roman would probably be off-the-charts for when he finally stands up to them. The problem being that Sami has been such a better heel in the main roster than he was a face. -Omos - Is he ready? God, no. But it would be a great spectacle for him to steamroll the entire Bloodline. -AJ Styles - He's a good enough wrestler, and popular enough with the casual and hardcore fans that they wouldn't immediately shit on it. -Montez- I think he's about a good year out from whenever they break up the Profits to him being in the main event -Bron Breakker (Sp.?) - Would be a great pop and rocket strapped to his back to put him in this spot. Promo-wise, I don't think he could carry it. But Bron with the Steiner Brothers backing him up to take down Roman and the Usos would be amazing. -Solo Sikoa: He's really good and an intense wrestler and promo, am loving his NXT run and a storyline of Roman showing up in NXT to recruit and bring in Sikoa to be a heater for his group, only for Sikoa to immediately stand up to the Bloodline would be great TV. Bonus points if they bring in Jacob Fatu to watch his back, super extra bonus points for them to bring in The Rock to coach him. That said, WWE has yet to put any NXT title on Sikoa yet much less have confidence in a main roster run, so this really does fit under pipedream.

God WCW wasn't afraid to hit on a catchphrase of limited popularity and run it into the GROUND I'm haunted by Rick Steiner grabbing the mic nearly every week and going "If you want some, come get some! If you don't like me, bite me!"

"The New World ODOR"

I p I picture Vince turning on the TV and seeing a Nakamura-Zayn main event and pitching his TV through the window a la Billy Beane in the Moneyball movie.

I don't have the clip but saw an Angel of Death match the other day and he pulls out a bugle, pre-match, and proceeds to play 'Taps' for his opponent before the match. That crowd was NOT happy.