WWF/WWE/ECW/WCW

Just the title alone cracked me up.

Matthau and Lemmon showed more energy on Grumpy Old Men than do Corbin and Wiper in this match.

The Steeple segment was pretty good though.

Oh boy.  Fandango vs Cena.

This seems like a good time to mention that today I saw HHH on ESPN's "First Take" show.  He was mostly out of character; in fact apart from Steven A. Smith all the other commentators referred to him as "Paul" and ESPN captioned him as "Paul Levesque". 

The thing he said that I found interesting was that he's in charge of "talent acquisition" for WWE.  Instead of the usual path where guys come to WWE and say they want in, HHH actually scouts out talent and signs them to NXT.  He said he just signed about 10 wrestlers from China.  He actually goes all over the world looking for wrestlers he thinks might make it in WWE.  I've never heard of that being done before and I think it's a great idea.  Levesque has a great eye for wrestling talent and knows how the business works so who knows what diamonds in the rough he might uncover.

Honestly Fandango and Breeze have tons of untapped potential IMO.

Well, poor Breeze. It's sad that HHH scouts and grooms these wrestlers into some pretty good talent just to be relegated to cross-jester.

HHH also said the most important thing he looks for when scouting wrestlers is charisma, the IT factor.

Apparently he needs to look harder.

Breeze was pretty good in NXT but Vince hates his guts.

akeldama wrote:

Well, poor Breeze. It's sad that HHH scouts and grooms these wrestlers into some pretty good talent just to be relegated to cross-jester.

I thought Breeze had something going with that stupid furry selfie-stick.  1) I hate people who always take selfies and 2) the idea of that furry stick was really annoying.  So I wanted to see him get his ass kicked and that stupid stick broken over his head every time.  Then for some reason they teamed him with Fandango and everyone knew that was the kiss of death.  After that I completely stopped caring about him.

I feel the same way about Truth and Goldust. Maybe they need different writers for lower and mid-card talent so they get more effort put into the storylines they're involved in.

This Carmellsworth gag has got to go.

There's Alexa! Be still MY... ...heart...

And Creative has completely messed up the Smackdown women's division now.  Other than Becky Lynch, do you have any idea who you're supposed to cheer for?  It's a complete mess with no clearly defined faces or heels except for Lynch.  What the hell is that?

I guess Carmella is pretty clearly a heel but after that it's a muddled mess.

And the only reason she's even relevant is because everyone hates Ellsworth.

The second episode was even better!  I could what a whole show of that!

Agreed.

Miz as Cena is hilarious.  And Maryse isn't bad either.  That was some funny stuff.

And you can tell they were actually having fun with it, unlike a lot of the unfunny crap WWE tries to pull off.

Lackluster SD the last two weeks. Miz and Maryse were this week's saving grace.

Shane can't make that leap anymore.

Nope.  He missed AJ by a foot at least.  That was bad.

akeldama wrote:

Lackluster SD the last two weeks. Miz and Maryse were this week's saving grace.

I totally agree.  This would have been an even worse episode that last week's without "Total Bella Bullsh*t"

RAW won't fare much better especially if their plans to put the Universal title on Brock, have him hold it until next year's WM and lose it to Roman Reigns are set in stone.

And I still can't understand why WrestleMania doesn't feature cross-brand matches.  That would be the way to make it "special".  I thought they were supposed to do that for WM and SummerSlam.  Having WM feature nothing but intra-brand matches makes it seem like a glorified episode of Raw followed by Smackdown.

I can't even thing of one match that has had an intriguing build up except for Miz/Maryse vs Cena/Bella and that's all due to the formers' ability to be good heels.

I agree.  Not only has there been no buildup but the outcomes of most of the matches are completely predictable as well. 

I can't remember a WM I've been less interested in.