Meh- The Shield promo and attack on Evolution =|
I love the Shield and almost everything they do but I'm just not feeling this feud with Evolution. I'm especially not feeling the limited time that the BEST speaker of the Shield is getting. Every time he picks up the microphone I know I'm going to enjoy whatever he says in his crazy Dean Ambrose way but it seems lately they want to give more and more mic time to Rollins and Reigns and every time Reigns opens his mouth and he's NOT saying "BELIEVE IN THE SHIELD", I'm just noticing more and more his flaws on the microphone.
Meh- Adam Rose and his Rosebuds =|
For the second time, Adam Rose interrupts Zeb Coulter and Jack Swagger by coming out and dancing. 2 things to note here.
1- Adam Rose died after his second episode on NXT. He died when WWE didn't want to license the original theme music that he used in his debut which was 10...no...1,000...nay...1,000,000,000 times better than the music we have now. His current theme just doesn't have the same catchiness or the same impact that "WOO" had in the original. I was also expecting them to ramp up the amount of party goers in his entrance to be in proportion as the Raw arenas are very different to Full Sail University as 10 people partying in a massive arena just looks...off.
2- I'm pretty sure Triple H said to the writers that no-one from NXT is to be called up without an actual story plan for them so what exactly is the story here? Zeb is mad and wants Adam Rose deported because he interrupted him? It's hardly among the same level as Jericho interrupting The Rock with that Millennium Countdown, now THAT was an interruption, this is nothing. Hopefully they redeem themselves with Adam Rose’s next feud but for some reason I don’t think it’ll get that far.
Awesome!- Alicia Fox =D
Alicia Fox is actually really awesome and I enjoyed seeing her vicious side (ASK HER! ASK HER IF SHE'S READY!). Incredibly underrated and I wouldn't mind seeing an Alicia Fox/Paige feud in the near future just so we'll see some GOOD Divas matches for once.
That being said, the promo she gave before the match just seemed so fake and didn't really match up to the intensity of her during the match or her tantrum after but I appreciate that they are trying to make the Divas division better by giving them some microphone and match time, heck even the crowd were into this match which was a delight to see.
Good match, but THE HELL with the finish? Fox dominating and then Paige hitting ONE Paige Turner and then that's it? No fight back or anything like that? Seriously uncool but they made up for it by the strop Alicia Fox threw with her destroying the announcer table and storming off with JBL's hat. Loved it!
I think the take away from this is that effort is actually going into the Divas division which is great and as such I don't want to say it's better based on a couple of weeks but it means that perhaps Paige and Emma won't get wasted after all... No, wait as long as Emma still has that stupid pink sock she'll go nowhere.
Uncool- Maybe you should stop those diving headbutts? =[
Well that reign was underwhelming...Daniel Bryan is out to have some neck surgery with no idea when he'll be back. You can almost feel the smug grins of the people that doubted him and said that he wouldn't make a good champion.
I'm torn because his absence is good for the mid card titles as more spotlight are thrust upon them and it gives WWE an opportunity to make the belts feel important again which helps the wrestlers in those divisions as they try to prove that they are main event material.
But his absence is bad because love him or hate him he’s pulled double duty on some shows, taken a huge amount of beatings, created such a big movement and connected with fans like no one else has and no matter who you are, that requires reward… which was to be this lengthy title run but now... It just feels like all of that was for nothing, it's the whole Summerslam situation except instead of Randy Orton cashing his contract, it's Mr Injury cashing it in on Daniel Bryan..... like he did with Dolph Ziggler.
So what now? Do they strip him of the title? How does that affect the storyline going forward as having him play the plucky underdog yet again quite frankly wouldn't be that entertaining as myself and lot of others were ready to see a fighting champion after months and months of seeing Randy Orton turn into this spineless cowardly ass kisser.
Uncool- The Bray Wyatt/John Cena feud =[
The more they keep talking up this stuff he does for charity the more I think nothing will come out of this feud with Bray Wyatt…not even a slight character change. Unless they are prepping us to believe that John Cena is this incorruptible angel so they can make a swerve in the end (which I don't think is the case) then quite frankly I'm bored of this feud.
The match with the Usos/Cena vs The Wyatt Family was okay, you could hear the screams for Cena throughout as it seemed to be a pro Cena crowd which is cool because at least they will actually cheer and be vocal in the match rather than sit on their hands like they do for some matches.
Awesome!- Individual matches for the Shield at Payback =D
As I said earlier I really am not feeling this feud between Evolution and Shield but yah yah yah for individual matches for each member of the stable at Payback... this is probably where I can see a big swerve happening with one of the members betraying the rest of them or someone new will come into the story. Well I hope something like that happens because I don't think I could sit through yet another Shield vs Evolution build up to the next pay per view, Evolution just aren't that interesting enough for me.
Uncool- From good Divas to this… D=
"WELL IT WAS GOD AWFUL!" JBL's comments regarding Natalya's painting of Nikki Bella and John Cena is exactly how I feel about this match between Nikki and Natalya. People keep saying how Natalya is a good wrestler...... seriously I'm just not seeing it. Every match she goes in she is incredibly boring, awkwardly transitions from move to move and has next to zero charisma.
As for this storyline, someone in creative deserves a raise because this such a brilliant story. John Cena and Nikki Bella move into a house and as a house warming present Natalya decides to utilise a skill that many of your average Janes don't possess and paint a picture of the two of them and then Nikki snickers about it which leads to a wrestling match months later and and and while they are wrestling, the rest of the cast of Total Divas will rate their every moves... because you know Eva Marie is qualified to tell you whether you've done a move correctly or not but okay, let's roll with it.
After the match we'll have Natalya pull what I think is supposed to resemble a sad.... no I think it was an angry face and rip up the scores, then the other Divas reply by looking shocked or disgusted and Natalya then replies by pulling a pipe bomb about how these Divas are a bunch of worthless bitches who shouldn't be judging a graduate of the famed Hart Dungeon and then puts them in a sharpshooter and makes out with them in a massive lesbian orgy.
Okay the last few parts didn't happen but what the fucking fuck? As much as I hate Natalya, why is she the bad person here? Because THEY didn't like her painting? It required more thought than getting a fucking gift voucher would. Ungrateful fucks.
To be honest they just come across as bitches for laughing about it and mocking her.... okay maybe that wasn't the intention but it shows what a shit storyline the whole total Divas thing is because it's just confusing who the bad guys are supposed to be.
Awesome- Rybaxel or rather Ryback isn’t actually that bad =]
At first I didn’t like Rybaxel and to be honest I still don’t as they are two former Paul Heyman guys that didn’t need to team up after Paul Heyman forgot about them and quite frankly don’t really have a motive asides to just “exist”. That being said I was amused at them coming out in matching hats and using a coin toss as their method of deciding who would face Sheamus first. After Curtis Axel used the old “heads I win, tails you lose trick” you can’t help but be amused by Ryback losing the coin toss and then responding by laughing it off and stating “Big guy out!”
Curtis Axel is still as boring as ever in his matches but hey at least we got to see the Cloverleaf from Sheamus and I’m a sucker for moves that aren’t commonly seen in the cookie cutter matches of WWE these days.
Ryback vs Sheamus was better but I question whether Ryback is copying Big E with the straps thing because quite frankly it looks ridiculous especially if you don’t actually perform your finisher afterwards
Awesome- Stephanie is a better villain than the majority of the roster =D
If there’s something that’s guaranteed to wind people up, it’s when you speak to them in a condescending tone and by jove Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley has got it down perfectly. What would have been an incredibly dickish move would to have stripped Daniel Bryan of his title as he lay there injured from Kane’s attack.
Meh- Dolph Ziggler vs Fandango =/
Don't care and why should anyone else when there is nothing of any value on the line in this match. Also Ziggler should not be selling as well as he does for the likes of Fandango because all it does is it makes Fandango look like he’s as good of a wrestler as Daniel Bryan.
Awesome- That pop for Big E when he came to Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s rescue =D
I was worried that after that Intercontinental Title reign fans would turn on Big E but it seems this is not the case. As for Rusev he gets yet ANOTHER black wrestler to face except this one will be a little bit tougher than Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, Xavier Woods and……Sin…Cara? See, totally not racist, Sin Cara is Latino so yeaaah…err…
Uncool- Big E’s heroic rescue lasted all of two seconds before Rusev put him down =|
Does the winner of the Rusev/Big E feud get their name that lost back because without it quite frankly they just sound stupid.
Awesome- The commentators remember the Rhodes Scholars and reference that during the Damien Sandow/Cody Rhodes match =]
However….
Uncool- The crowd just don’t curr =[
Ouch!
Awesome!- Bray challenges Cena to Last Man Standing match at Payback =]
I like the idea of a Last Man Standing match being the final match between the two especially as it SHOULD end with one (preferably Bray Wyatt) standing over the other to symbolise that in the end their message was just stronger and just could not be kept down. Just cut out the shenanigans such as handcuffs or duct tape and we’re good, just ask Batista
Uncool- Roman Reigns vs Batista =/
From the moment you saw that was about 10 minutes left in the show, the main event match just didn’t matter anymore and I hate that because it no longer becomes about seeing two people go at it in an epic match but about waiting for the point where EVERYONE just gets involved and starts brawling in the ring.
You’d think Ryback would just stop bothering the Shield by now because even when they have the numbers advantage over the Shield he always seems to be on the receiving end of the Shield’s Powerbomb
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