Very important to protect Natalya.

So if the ref would have rung the bell before Natalya got the pin, the match would have been a title match, even if Natalya won?

Kabong, he said there was no guarantee he was wrestling at Mania, but he obviously is. Bryan/Shane vs. Sami/KO seems likeliest.

Oh, KO and Sami have arrived? 15 minutes before the show ends?

I think if I ever get fired, I'm going to sucker punch my boss and see if it gets me my job back.

LOL nice of the 3 refs to come down to ringside only to stand outside of it and do nothing. Haha 2 funny.

I don't get it. Why didn't the fans chant "u suck" at Brock last night when #1 baby face was attacked?

I'm not sure if "you still got it" is the optimal chant when they guy is being stretchered out.

Welp.

To be fair, it's a bit difficult to manufacture a feud out of thin air with zero physicality.

To today's fans, the optimal chant is whatever they can get started. It making sense is almost totally irrelevant.

Owens and Zayn suck, so disappointed that DB isnt immidiately feuding with the Miz

I've never been a big fan of Zayn but Owens is a pretty good heel imo. Smackdown would have no quality heels without him.

I'm still a fan of both. Admittedly my missing 90+% of weekly TV broadcasts for the last long while may be helping with that if they've been sucking on the weekly shows.

Thanks. Sounds ok to me.

They are great when paired together as they are now cause they know each other so well and feed off of it.

They were chanting "you're still fired" at KO and Sami.

I know this was from Monday, but the John Cena storyline is really starting to annoy me. After Kane comes out to chokeslam Cena, Cole speculates something to the effect of John Cena may have found his clear path to WrestleMania in facing Kane. I don't get it, does John get to make his own WrestleMania match, but only against someone who has been in the WWE for x amount of years? I just feel like the stupid "clear path" storyline is so contrived.

Wasn't expecting them to do so much with DB right away, but I loved it. Funny that Owens/Zayn went from being in sort of wishy-washy "are they supposed to be the heels here?" territory to nuclear heel heat. That's the power of a babyface that fans actually love (which iso hinted at).

I also think "giving away" the physicality was the right call in this instance. Now we know going into Mania that Bryan isn't going to be super-protected and is going to wrestle an actual match. Plus it's not like his move-set is a big secret.

Ok I just marked the **** out when DB started working KO and Sami.

I guess there are occasional drawbacks to watching with the volume very low, but the benefits tend to normally outweigh. Still, that chant too will be incorrect very soon also.

WWE needs to put out a release, attempting to make it look like a shoot, that Bryan was legit injured and his career is in doubt.

On a realistic note, I hope he understands that he's so over now that he doesn't have to kill himself all the time and work as dangerously from this point forward.

I alluded to this last night but I'm so stoked that this is actually going to happen at some point.



which of course ties into the first :40 of this epic video



and they had an incredible payoff match where DB won the US championship. Having DB take the IC belt off of Miz at SummerSlam would be all kinds of great. I do have some mixed emotions on that though. The feud doesn't need the title and that title seems below DB.

I'm amazed how much they ripped off the previous deletions and that vince actually let it go to close RAW of all things. It's still good by it's standards though.

It's super ridic but that's the entire point. What a difference a year makes for Bray--WWE champion to deleted.

That’s what irritates me so much about Roman. It’s not so much failures on the part of Bray (or others in similar situations), but WWE’s refusal to commit to any superstar’s growth (except for occasionally Braun, but even he has been relegated to mediocrity at the biggest show of the year). Take Roman’s victory over the Undertaker. Imagine what Bray could have done with actually overcoming Undertaker and Kane in that feud, where he actually could have accomplished something he ranted on for once? Instead, guys with potential continuously lose in these spots and lose respect from the fan base, while Roman wins, eliminating appeal from predictability and at no gain because everyone hates him no matter what.

I don't watch the shows anymore because I dropped cable, but I just found out that Raw and Smackdown will be in town (Montreal) April 30th and May 1st. Now I'm tempted to go.

I probably won't be able to go to both shows, so which one should I choose? From what I read here, Raw seems significantly better lately, so that would be it? Unless it coincides with a show just before or after a PPV...

I would wait to decide until after Mania. I’m assuming there will be a shake up, so wait until you see the rosters before deciding