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JBL has to be right up there. Absolute waste of a good title reign……. <awaits @d-d-d-dAz’ arrival! 😀

If the work of Sean Mooney has been involved in some way, that’s all I need to make it credible.

I’m ok with it as they probably need a popular holding challenger that offers a genuine threat but will ultimately fall short so they can hold off McIntyre getting his shot until the Glasgow event. edit: sorry @air_raid - replied to Snitsky before reading your follow-up post and basically made the same point as you.

Slightly off-track but in an attempt to digest anything WM related, I’ve just put latest episode of The Bump on which was done today. I’ve lasted about 10 mins because good god some things can’t be made to look good in the ‘new era’. The hosts - Megan Morant & Sam Roberts - were clunky, awkward, often cringey. And Liv Morgan who’s just come out as first guest was hardly convincing when talking about the Styles/Knight match. Off switch: pressed

Isn’t he straight off to shoot another film? If so, would perhaps make sense for Roman to send him off with a beat down to tee up their future meeting.

😂 On the subject of Meltzer and his band of merry men, they’ve posted a WMXL review by Bryan Rose. I get it’s all about opinions and they can be quite wide ranging as we’ve seen on this thread alone but this seems to be a finger OFF the pulse view of the night one main event for me… “The main event of night one was tremendously boring as The Rock and Roman Reigns defeated Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins in one of the most plodding main event matches I have seen in quite some time. They just kept wrestling. They just kept DOING THINGS until finally, The Rock pinned Cody Rhodes, a sign that perhaps a singles match between the two is down the line. Rock looked fine, you got to see him wrestle for a VERY LONG TIME, and didn’t seem out of step. This would have been a fine match if it were maybe 20 minutes shorter. Instead, it was a dull 40-minute bore”

There have been people on here, me included, who’ve confessed to getting emotional watching Cody’s moment. Why? Because we’re fans who’ve invested in the human, reality element of the business. She is clearly no different and no matter how much people will say “she needs to stay professional”, it just doesn’t work like that if that’s in your make-up as a human being. And these guys work and live their lives together so have that connection to each other. What some are criticising is what makes the business special for me still. Michael Cole had emotion in his voice too. He told Cody “I love you” when he hugged him at the end. No issue with that either.

I think we should all know by now that @air_raid is a details person (and I don’t say that as a dig or a bad thing)

The most frightening aspect of all of this is I can genuinely remember reading all of those as if it were 1 day ago not 1 year.

I became a proper, full-on invested fan again after that main event (and a big chunk of both nights too in fairness). I, like others, will admit to being emotional for Cody watching it all unfold. I said to my wife if people want to know why we as fans like wrestling it’s that emotional investment I personally don’t feel you even get from films etc. I don’t need to go into huge detail about each match as others have already done it so well. I really liked Drew/Seth and seeing him get his moment wasn’t overshadowed by the surprise cash-in. That seems to be set up perfectly for Drew to get the win and reign in Glasgow in June. Bayley getting her big match and title win was such a reward for her being one of the workhorses of the women’s division and not always being seen as a star due to being in the shadows of Charlotte, Sasha and eventually Becky. Styles/Knight as a match was ok and not the dud that some suggest but the one thing that bothered me but I haven’t seen it mentioned was Knight’s selling (or not as was more often the case) of the knee. From the early work Styles did on it, Knight just seemed to forget when he made his initial comeback then after the Calf Crusher and ring post smashes on it he started to sell it a bit more but still inconsistently. After the bit with the ring mat being pulled up, there was a point he started walking at ringside then developed more of a limp. Stuff like that irks me. Night one highlights were Rhea & Becky (especially in light of knowing Becky was dealing with illness) and Rhea has star written all over her. I saw her work in the house show environment in Sheffield last summer and said the same then. Sami’s match and win was special too. Jimmy & Jey really bombed a big chance to have the match many of us (although not all) thought/hoped they would. And I liked how the tag main event went down. Finally…bye bye to the term “sports entertainment”, don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.

Monday night for me rather than tonight. Said something about this a few weeks ago on here and just said it to a mate (same one I messaged about Samantha Irvin)… The knee ‘injury’ last night leaves Rollins open to Drew taking the title off him. Cody wins Roman's title. On Raw, Rollins comes out seemingly to congratulate Cody and ends up turning on him with the reasoning that by trying to help Cody out it cost him his own title. It's a credible, high profile and competent first challenger for Cody and with him having won their previous PPV meetings it will give fans a thought that maybe Rollins is due one but ultimately fail again.

Just text a very similar message to a mate of mine. I completely agree.

That was my other option!

Clash at the Castle(cary)?