When Bayley's wacky arm waving tube inflatables come back they should have duct tape on them like she taped the old stabbed ones back together. #WWE#Wrestling#ProWrestling
I wasn't feeling well last night and I'm broke af, so I missed #AEWRevolution. I avoided Mastodon last night because spoilers. Time to try to find a cheap way to watch the VOD. :tpb: 🏴☠️😬
Just catching up with #WWENXT and I'm actually delighted that Shaun Spears has returned.
Spears was a workhorse for #AEW during the pandemic era, but was never really given anything creatively, other than stop-start angles, and quickly fell off TV when Tony started bringing in all the NJPW/Lucha guys.
Spears will be a good veteran presence and I'm interested to see how he's booked.
The matches themselves were great, but they're not made that much better by having long entrances for each wrestler. Should it be longer than regular TV? Sure. But not so long that if you add up all the entrances you could squeeze in another match. And then I know match time was traded for showing ads. If I remember correctly we barely used to see ads on PLEs and now they're common filler. (2/6)
In general there is so much filler and none of it adds to the awesomeness that you could have instead by giving us more matches. Imagine paying WrestleMania ticket prices for four matches? (3/6)
While the matches themselves were great, they all had strong favorites to win. We knew the likeliest winners were Becky, Judgement Day, Drew, and Rhea. I'm not upset with the victors, but you could at least try to make it ambiguous rather than promoting these guys' WrestleMania matches before Elimination Chamber (Becky vs Rhea or Drew vs Seth). (4/6)
If you push other wrestlers to also be feuding with the champs at the same time then it's less predictable. Imagine if LA Knight and Randy Orton also got some words in to Seth? Then it would have been less clear who will win. (5/6)
For now I give this PLE a B. It was good and I don't want to downplay the wrestling, but I don't like the trend WWE is going down. I think this kind of thing is valid criticism that can push people to watch other promotions as well. It doesn't feel like the WrestleMania matches are predictable at least, so that works in the favor of this event. With as many wrestlers as they have, please don't show me eight matches across two nights... (6/6)
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The Usos have always been very strange for me. They're definitely ones that I don't understand the popularity.... I'm most probably a minority with that but sobeit🤷♂️