Rolling Chris and Kevin's Bogus Journey 2017

I can't believe this, but.....this is my brother in this commercial w/ Bayley! it's supposed to air during Wrestlemania. so jealous of dude....

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2017/3/19/14975254/bayley-snickers-commercial-video-hug-yourself

awesome!

lol that is great stuff

The Greg Valentine line from Southpaw Wrestling was very cutely done. The "bounty on the head" was the one story you could guarantee that every territory everywhere would run at least a few times a year. Tbh it'd still make for more compelling storytelling than anything they've done recently

Love the Bayley commercial!

Speaking of shaming bullshit: all this speculation about Mauro Ranallo and his health needs to stop, too.

After missing Smackdown for a second straight week with no clear reason given, it is getting a bit worrying though ...

Call me crazy but the match I'm most looking forward to at Mania might be Cena/Nikki vs Miz/Maryse. They've all done an amazing job in building the match with the Total Bellas spoofs and fired up promos on Smackdown, and the match should be a Mania-worthy spectacle with plenty of smoke and mirrors. The payoff is obvious but in this case the obvious is exactly what this match and feud needs.

I agree.

But man the wm card is like they literally made a game in creative that was 'how to make wm as un-fun as possible'

so who else hasn't watched nxt since midway through the last takeover and is desperately trying to catch up in 20 minutes

god WM crowds are the worst

I haven't watched NXT much since Takeover Toronto. I don't know why I gave up on it exactly, but the slow turnover into a TNA alumni brand is certainly part of it. If the rumours are true and Nakamura gets called up to Smackdown this week then I may be done with NXT for a while.

The 3way tag from nxt was bundles of fun. My 2nd fav match of the year so far after aj-cena.

Yeah, those are my favourite guys left in NXT easily.

I'll definitely watch that match at some point.

Mania predictions?
ARMBAR: Stroman
Cruiserweight title: Neville
IC title: Corbin
SD women's title: who's even in this match?
RAW tag title: Enzo and Cass
US title: Owens (Jericho should win and get revenge based on storyline alone, but he's leaving again, so ...)
AJ vs Shane: AJ
Miz/Maryse vs Cena/Nikki: Cena/Nikki
RAW women's title: Charlotte
Universal title: Lesnar
SD title: Wyatt
HHH vs Rollins: going out on a limb and picking HHH
Reigns vs Undertaker: Reigns but goddamn will I be rooting for Taker like I never have before

Shamefully, except for neville - aries, i really really dont care about any of the matches. I will watch hoping they all turn it on for mania but wins and losses dont really matter to me cos none of the matches matter to me.

Asuka vs Ember Moon was great, people. Looking forward to the rematch already.

dont see myself even attempting to stay up for Mania this year. the Rumble is the only WWE show i've watched start to finish siiiiince, idk, the Cruiserweight Classic finals? and the Rumble felt like a let-down at the time. WM is usually where I try to drop back in but this is a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE card. i don't see where the quality is coming from.

Taker is sad to watch these days. he needs to hang it up, stopped being fun a long time ago. this match with Reigns is obviously just gonna be a finisher-spamming "epic" (depending on how long / hard Taker can go) and at this point idgaf who wins. I don't get annoyed about the Roman Reigns thing anymore. I just don't watch (tho tbf that is not solely due to Roman Reigns). depressingly i'm not even interested in the prospect of a potential Taker retirement here. he's been a ghost ever since they killed off the Streak.

Lesnar / Goldberg is sure to be a spectacle and i can see casual fans being extremely into the moment. otoh it's also a tremendous waste of everyone's time. i guess Goldberg is out after this so Lesnar wins and gets his heat back? can't imagine it'll be much of a match either way. and everyone's another year older and they still have no-one anywhere near being ready to carry things.

Jericho / Owens, ok fair cop this should be good and their segments have been the only thing i've gone out of my way to find on Raw this year. these two guys have somehow managed to turn this into one of the best stories of the decade in spite of every mechanism the company has in place now to stop that from happening. kudos to them for that.

HHH/Rollins ffs WHY is Triple H in a WM main match AGAIN?! dude just needs to let go. Rollins has some awesome attributes and some truly horrible ones. i like his matches ok without ever really loving any of them. would expect this to fall squarely in the "good-not-great" camp. they're running this story way too late in the day. gaf

WWE Champion Bray Wyatt vs Royal Rumble winner Randy Orton for the WWE title at Wrestlemania in 2017 lol are they fucking serious get to fuck

i can dig the mixed tag match, that should be a lot of fun, but it's not gonna tempt me into watching the show when i can catch it later.

same goes for AJ / Shane, which is a massive waste of AJ imo in that he should really be having 5* main-event classics at every WM he has left. but i guess they see Shane as a top draw now and this is probably some kind of compliment to AJ. no doubt both guys will try to kill each other and i'd expect it to be leagues better than either man's match from last year.

Corbin to flatten Ambrose plz.

i don't think the rest of the card really calls for comment? i guess i object to them filling out the women's matches and sacrificing any quality just so that everyone gets a payday, but then otoh good that they all get a payday.

Whole card is just one big fuckin MEH, basically. k negative rant over, i hope everyone enjoys the show :)

course there is always hope that they over-deliver on the card, as they did a couple of years ago (was that 31? i think so). NXT last night was better than the card would've suggested. we can but hope!

am frustrated, made this

https://s29.postimg.org/j76f43ymf/nxt.png

assuming the next one is roode vs ohno (one year older than nak) it's gonna keep going up

"it's a developmental brand" get outta town, it's the throw-a-bone-to-the-smark brand, has been for ages and it's entirely "our" own fault in that this is what the hardcore fanbase (straw man alert) wanted for the longest time and it emerges that actually it kinda sucks and the whole thing works waaaay better when you've got actual real life rookies on screen who over the course of months and years learn how to actually do the job properly.

couldn't be less interested in what they're presenting right now compared to how it was in 2015 (and yes obvs guys like Zayn and Neville weren't unknown quantities at the time but they were exceptions i think) because obviously Bobby Roode knows what he is about but if you're not gonna bother giving a guy a story to tell then what is the fuckin point?

in this NXT has basically become the smark-friendly version of Monday Night Raw in that it is crammed full of quite-good talent but no one in the hierarchy is the least bit interested in putting that to work in the service of entertaining tv. when they succeed, they succeed in spite of themselves.

i mean i agree with everything you said i just picked that title to be snarky

lol surprise demotion to the preshow for IC match

I am actually physically at wm atm ask me anything

This is my first time watching wrestling

Are you having a good time?

Kinda boring

I liked that guy in the beginning with the trombone

i'm a bit behind already but holy shit these raw women's entrances

Didn't know wrestling got so cuddlestein mountain

Weird match order thus far but this has been one of the best Mania undercards ever.

Crowd hates Cena so much

Didnt mean to start watching this atm but ive got toothache thats keeping me awake.

So JBL just said Shane O is the best at strikes, kinda like how they used to put over mmataker. All they do is go on about Shane.

I feel so embarrassed for the best wrestler in the world.

Shane: built like a nfl linebacker and ripped to the bone. Also getting most of the offence.

15 mins in and im so happy that shareholder and boss Shane Macmahon is making that annoying upstart AJ Styles look like a chump. Ive only watched a few Smackdowns this year, im sure AJ is some nobody who cant wrestle and this grey haired old dude is the wrestling bad ass who deserves to fucking dominate. Not sure AJ has had one move that hasnt been a counter to stop him losing the match.

Shane just went through a table and AJ tried to hit just 1 move... and was unsuccessful to Shane's impeccable ability to counter this chump.

Wait, the underdog won! How???

KO-Jericho was really good. Now i need to go back to bed.

will vince succeed in making the audience too tired to boo

nah

SPOILERS

The show peaked with the Hardys comeback and win, from then on it was a steady stream of "who booked this crap?" and in the end they were indeed too tired to boo. Five hours is too damn long. Taker's farewell was memorable though.

Wait a goddamn second...

MOJO RAWLEY WON THE ANDRE BATTLE ROYAL??????

with gronk interference

The new NXT title belts are made by a London-based company, who've also made new tag belts for PROGRESS (thank fuck for that, 'coz that styrofoam shield is cheap af).

My favourite part of wm so far - how The Miz is the biggest babyface in the company.

rusev should be tbh

Maybe he'll come back as Farmer Rusev AKA the modern day Hillbilly Jim.

I watched a few highlights of the smarked out RAW after Mania. Angle as the new GM might get me back into RAW, because his backstage skits and short stints as Smackdown GM all those years ago were tremendous. Any chance they get it right with Reigns this time and turn him into a prick heel who trolls the crowd every week with two line promos?

The "superstar shakeup" could be interesting, the tag scenes and women's divisions on each brand are burned out on fresh matchups.

I always want to hope it will lead to something great but man i kinda presume aj gets buried on raw as reigns bitch or something while smackdown is blandy boreton (c) v. seth or ambrose having the same bland match for 12 months.

Anyone remember american alpha?

im going to smackdown next tuesday, which i guess will be post-shakeup