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In that Champion of Champions segment that the fans hijack to cheer for Bryan, Cena is utterly incredible at keeping things on point to do the job he's out there to do, but satisfying the fans' need to anoint Bryan as their new hero. Talking about 'work' by using D-Bry to do a little Q&A and then offering him the shot if he wins on Sunday.

 

I'll take all his kiddie script-reading ones week after week for the times when he brings the goods. Cena is in my top 5 promo guys, piss easy.

It stabs me right in my smarky heart but I have to agree with this. When Cena puts the kiddy-level BS to one side and pours all his fire and passion into a 'real' promo he really is fantastic.

The one he cut on the Rock during their first feud, the one where he points out the notes written on the Rock's arm and says "Dwayne Johnson is a selfish, egotistical son of a bitch", is one of the best promos I've ever seen. Cena was so good that I went into the segment hoping the Rock would humiliate Cena on the mic and in the ring and came out going, "Yeah, fuck the Rock. Hope he loses at 'Mania."

Last night I dreamed I was working in a Japanese village teaching English. I somehow pissed off the members of a rival village and all of its sword-wielding warriors came after me. I then discover that Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman are also there and also being pursued by the evil villagers. This led to the three of us trying to escape by racing into a train station to catch the last bullet train. Brock and me just managed to leap onto the rear carriage as the train sped off, leaving poor Heyman standing alone on the platform, screaming and begging for Brock to come back and help him as the sword-wielding villagers descended upon him.

Wrestlemania is now shaping up to be a beautiful disaster that I must watch live because I don't want one glorious second of it spoiled.

They really fucked up with HHH as champ because he would've been perfect as Shane-o-Mac's opponent. Instead we've got a clusterfuck which the fans won't know how to react to. Shane's here to save us from the flogged-far-beyond-dead horse that is The Authority... but against 'Taker. At Mania. It's some of the dumbest booking I've ever seen and I really, truly hope they don't swap out 'Taker because the match, as currently booked, will be amazingly awful. I want Shane setting himself on fire and doing a 450 splash from the top of the cell onto an announce table-prone Deadman.

Speaking of dead men, Reign's a dead man walking going into the PPV. Vince needs to 'call an audible'. He almost certainly wont. Another car crash of a match waiting to happen. As others have already said, nothing short of a Shield reunion will save him from being torn apart by the audience. Not even The Rock as guest ref or doing a run-in.

The only thing that's been booked well is Ambrose/Brock. I really like the way they're building up Ambrose as a rabid mutt who can't be put down. I've read some interviews with trained fighters who've said they'd rather take on other trained fighters than some crazy street brawler because they're harder to predict, will try things a normal fighter won't and can sometimes absorb brutal amounts of punishment that would stop almost anybody else because they're too busy going psycho. Keep building this match around that sort of idea and I'm fully on board. Hope Ambrose wins it and, if the worst comes to pass in the main event, goes on to feud with Reigns for the belt.

That's Straight Shootin with Raven & Sandman Volume 1, it's one of my favourites absolutely hilarious all the way through

Thanks for your help.

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to remember which Raven and Sandman shoot it is where there's a running joke that everytime the Sandman tells a story he mentions it was the first time he had taken E?

Does anyone know what's happened to the Paul Heyman autobiography we were supposed to be getting last year?