Time for yet another PPV. Don't worry, if you miss this one there will be another one in two ****ing weeks.

Sunday night's main event:



Okay, the wrestling main event



No, but really, here's the card:

WWE Title - Seth Rollins (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose

Rollins goes over here in some fashion. A Dean Ambrose heel turn would be total nonsense, but I suppose it could be in play since I don't really know why he's here; it's not like they can't have Orton take a pin.

The storyline for this match is painfully uninteresting (Kane is heavily involved) and the writing team behind the build for this match should be ashamed to collect a paycheck for it.

US Title I Quit Match - John Cena (c) vs. Rusev

John Cena in an "I Quit" match. Tough to figure how this one will go...

Decent ringwork potential since Rusev is great, but the likely Lana face turn will probably be painful, and the match (and accompanying storyline) looks incredibly predictable.

Tag Title Match, Best 2 of 3 Falls - New Day (c) vs. Tyson Kidd and Cesaro

The overwhelming favorite to be match of the night, and really the only thing about the show I'm truly interested in watching. New Day very likely retains, but even more likely is that this match will be a joy to watch no matter how it comes out.

King Barrett vs. Neville

These guys have been wrestling a ton already, but THIS TIME IT COUNTS BECAUSE IT'S ON A SUNDAY NIGHT. Should be a well-worked match, but one we've already seen before and that they haven't built any sort of worthwhile heat for.

Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler

Unlike Barrett-Neville they've at least made a half-assed attempt to build something for this one, but half-assed is all it is. Ziggler won last month, so Sheamus probably wins this month. Should be a decently-worked but generic match.

Bray Wyatt vs. Ryback

Ryback is the latest one to be sucked into Bray Wyatt's vortex of boredom. The nice thing is that a good worker isn't being wasted on Wyatt. The bad thing is that this is somehow a PPV match that we're being asked to watch if we tune in.

Bella Twins vs. Naomi and Tamina

The Bella Twins seem to have turned face recently via randomly coming out one show and smiling and waving instead of being mean or whatever, so I guess they're the good side here? Tamina just recently came back as a Naomi ally, and Nikki is the champion, so I guess the smart money is on the heels to win to set up a title shot for Naomi at the two-****ing-weeks-away PPV.

Overall

This show is overwhelmingly likely to be just okay. Overall ratings will most likely come out to the somewhat negative side since they probably won't do anything interesting in the main event, and that's most of what people rate the whole show on. You'll get more extreme reactions if the event ends on an Ambrose turn and/or a Reigns win, but neither of those are very likely.

Nice write-up.

Only really interested in the tag title match, unless you count The Mark Remark episode that will be made from the PPV.

Will only be watching if I happen to be bored tonight.

Same. With any luck I'm off playing CoD.

Ugh. I'm not sure which is worse.

What do you mean? Somebody's gotta fight off dem zombies (although I very rarely play zombies).

Not watching this crap

The only thing that isn't a rehash is groundhog bray v ryback (which holy **** this is really a thing?) and even then groundhog bray is himself a neverending rehash

Also they're really wasting the shield triple threat by adding in orton and putting it on a who gives a **** ppv?

Didn't people really enjoy Neville vs Barrett from the pre-show last month? Should be solid enough but like LKJ said, it'll be paint by numbers stuff.

I actually don't mind COD at times, it's just an easy target because it's basically the WWE of video games.

idk about that. I've gotten a solid 22-24 days of entertainment out of it based on my stats. I can't say the same about watching WWE since last November.

I mean in terms of it's repetitive nature and lack of depth and innovation throughout like 8 releases. It can still be fun but they're just phoning it in now and losing their audience to other shooters. All of that can be said about the WWE.

Great write-up.

Won't watch as I just cancelled the Network. Will come back for Summerslam if it looks compelling. I'll still read the thread in case blastoff posts, though.

Wow, is that really the whole card? This looks plain terrible.

I think I'll go to bed rather than watch.

my network expired earlier this week so i'm not bothering

Might watch before the Mad Men finale starts. Hopefully I can watch the tag match live.

+1

The enthusiasm for the upcoming PPV runs wild yet again. Sometimes I wonder how this company has as many viewers as it does.

I'll probably have it on in the background on my computer while I watch other things. Have never paid for the network...illegal streams til I die.

Tag match should be good. That's about all I care about. I expect Lana to pull a Rock/Mankind and play a tape recorded I quit during that match...only question is if it's Cena or if she turns tonight and it's Rusev.

The "never fight again" stipulation actually makes me think Rusev could go over. The way he could would be he has Cena somehow incapacitated and threatens to hurt Lana unless Cena quits. Then you have the Lana faceturn, big heat on Rusev, and the prop belt off Cena without him losing really or having to have his 'automatic rematch'

Didn't Miz already do that with Cena? Has to be some kind of swerve, Cena isn't going to lose an I quit match clean and theres not much point in this type of match if they don't have something planned.

Maybe Rusev gets angry at Lana and attacks her, Cena says I quit to get Rusev to let Lana go, completing Lanas face turn. Something dumb anyway.

Looooool Brie promo

Things that only exist so Vince can laugh his ass off in the back at how bad they are.

R Truth wut

rock/foley ended with the i quit recording. miz tried the same thing vs cena but was caught with the tape recorder and the odds never recovered.

the much less known flair/foley i quit match ended with foley quitting because flair was about to hit melina with a barbed wire bat. now that is being pitched as a likely outcome of the rusev match.

the cena/jbl i quit match was 10 years ago this month, and this is going to be cena's 5th i quit match.

In because I never got into Mad Men.