A Squandered Story Raw began with confidence in it’s women as Bayley opened the show and immediately connected with the audience by connecting her upcoming appearance at WrestleMania to her experience as a child compiling money from her friends to buy ‘Mania on PPV. Bayley was comfortable on the mic and came across not as […]
The Phenomenally Sympathetic Heel Smackdown opened this week with a fantastic video package recapping AJ Styles loss to Randy Orton last week and his subsequent confrontation with Shane O’Mac over the result which was covered in last week’s Talking Smack (a show which is almost necessary viewing at this point). The editing and aesthetic of […]
Snoozeplex City Raw began this week with a video packaging recapping Lesnar’s attack on Goldberg last week that allowed him to get his heat back and featured some great time remapping and color adjustments which satisfied the video nerd in me. This transitioned smoothly into Lesnar himself entering the arena with his ever-present advocate, Paul […]
Out with Injury So I said last week that I would conclude my thoughts on attending WWE Fastlane later in the week. Then I got pneumonia and I did nothing but watch Twitch and sleep for 6 days. I am totally comparing apples to oranges when I say this but: holy shit, I can’t imagine being someone like […]
Hold the Phone This week’s posts are going to be a tad different than every other week and there is a good reason for this. As I have mentioned before in my Raw posts, I was going to attend Fastlane live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Not only was this my first WWE PPV attendance but my […]
The Miz: Alternate Universe John Cena? Smackdown’s first in-ring segment (I wasn’t going to cover the cold open as a proper first segment), saw The Miz and Maryse “interview” John Cena on Miz TV. I put interview in quotes as it was more or less a platform for The Miz to shoot on Cena […]
My posts on this blog have been long…and time consuming. As much as I love talking about wrestling, I feel my current method for covering both Raw and Smackdown is just too much given how much else I have to do this semester. From now on I will be solely focusing on the opening, closing, […]
