The nostalgia of it was fine the first time, but at this point I have zero desire to see a decrepit, soon-to-be 49 year old, Kurt Angle wrestle another match.
Ya he looked a little rough. Moved like Vinnie Mac in the mid 2000s. Hopefully he gets his last WM moment and its over.
HHH vs Angle at Mania, Kurt will get the moment Sting never got.The nostalgia of it was fine the first time, but at this point I have zero desire to see a decrepit, soon-to-be 49 year old, Kurt Angle wrestle another match.
They really should have had Lesnar/Styles on last. Having it second to last made it abundantly clear who was winning (we all assumed Lesnar anyway, but the placement guaranteed it), which sucked a lot of drama out of an otherwise great match.
Plus, the main event was fucking bad. It started out strong and had a lot of promise, but they killed the crowd by having Nakamura and Roode get eliminated so early. That really sucked the life out of the latter two-thirds of the match. And the ending was just fucking dumb. A match like this is really going to come down to Triple H, Angle, and Shane? Two part-timers and a non-wrestler? Come the fuck on.
I know Strowman was there too, but he was completely uninvolved in the ending. It was nice seeing him destroy Triple H after.
I do wish WWE would just turn Triple H face and have him play an on-screen mentor role to NXT guys. I think that would be a much better use of his character at this point. He's just gotten so boring as a heel because he's been a heel for like a decade now.
I'm watching Wrestle Kingdom 12. Who knew Jericho had a match like thios left in him? Dude was just on fire, and had his cocky heel character dialed up to eleven. Within the first five minutes of the match he slaps the ref and puts the ref's son in the Lion Tamer. So fucking good.
It's a testament to how WWE holds guys like Jericho and Rey Mysterio back that we all think they're basically done, then they go to other promotions and tear the house down.
I've been catching up on NXT this week. That Dunne/Bate match...insane how good both of those guys are at such a young age. They've had three high profile WWE/NXT matches and they've delivered MOTY contenders in all of them. The fatal four way for the number one contender spot was awesome too. I also really like what they're doing with Lars Sullivan. Dude seems like another Lesnar. He's learning the business quick and he's delivered in the ring when given opportunities, like with his Takeover match against Ohno.
The sad part of watching NXT is getting to see all these guys do these amazing things, but knowing that, as soon as they're called up, their days of putting on amazing matches are basically over and it's back to the treadmill of mediocrity that is the WWE main roster.
You fully expect Gargano to lose, and for it to be because of Ciampa, right?
So the odds for the Royal Rumble shifted significantly overnight. Daniel Bryan is now the betting favorite. Not sure if that means anything, as we're still a ways away from the actual event, but interesting nonetheless.
Going to suck for whoever comes out thirty if the odds don't change and it's not Bryan (assuming he didn't enter earlier). That dude will get annihilated.
I actually think it'll be a Smackdown guy that wins the Rumble.I mean, we all know Roman is going to win again...
I mean, we all know Roman is going to win again...