Pretty fun Smackdown. The Road to WrestleMania continues going in the right direction.
LOL, Brock Lesnar VS Roman Reigns is the "Biggest WrestleMania Match of All-Time". WWE & their superlatives. I hope it can live up to its hype. I don’t mind that it’s a Championship Unification Match. There should be only 1 World Championship, 1 Women’s Championship, & 1 Tag Team Championship. Make the Intercontinental & United States more important by being the only titles on each brand.
Ronda Rousey’s promo was OK. Charlotte Flair should have taken Smackdown off to celebrate Ric Flair’s Birthday. The sneak attack by Sonya Deville & Flair was alright. A match between Rousey & Deville could be a great match.
I love The New Day driving in the back on their ATV. I love their pre-match graphics looking like a Mario Brothers game. The New Day VS Los Lotharios was an incredible match. I can watch them wrestle each other a million times.
Stupid commercial with Rick Boogs & Shinsuke Nakamura.
I guess since Cesaro is gone, Ridge Holland & Sheamus need a new feud, so they’re going after The New Day. That could be fun.
Congrats Sam Roberts for interviewing The Usos. He has come a long way from being an intern on Opie & Anthony. He's finally living his dream as an interviewer on Smackdown. Solid interview by The Usos & I'm glad that The Viking Raiders got their revenge.
OK interview by Xia Li. It’s about time that she’s finally wrestling on Smackdown.
What a group of people that should be wrestling in the ring & not sitting in the back watching TV: Shayna Baszler, Drew Gulak, Aliyah, & Mansoor.
Xia Li VS Natalya was a good debut match for Li. It should have happened sooner.
Great Sami Zayn promo until Johnny Knoxville came out. Celebrities can wrestle all they want, but not for a Championship. That is a slap in the face to every wrestler in the locker room that are giving their blood, sweat, & tears for this business. No wonder why Cesaro left. WrestleMania has been the home of classic Intercontinental Title Matches, including the one that made me a wrestling fan, Randy Savage VS Ricky Steamboat. This year, it's being used to get on TMZ. It is disgusting & horrible. Randy Savage is rolling over in his grave.
Please Ricochet, take the IC Title off of Sami Zayn next week, so Zayn VS Knoxville can be a Non-Title Match & the IC Title can be treated with respect with people that deserve to wrestle at WrestleMania.
Damn, what a waste. Sasha Banks & Shotzi should have wrestled a much longer match. It isn’t fair to treat them like this, especially Shotzi. Interesting twist with Naomi & Banks as the next Women’s Tag Team Champions. At least, it will get them on WrestleMania & give Carmella & Queen Zelina a new feud.
Drew McIntyre VS Madcap Moss was OK, but I'm getting tired of seeing the same matches every week. The stuff before the match with Happy Corbin taking himself out of the match & putting Moss in was stupid. It also made me mad because I had all of my records done for McIntyre VS Moss earlier today just to re-do them for McIntyre VS Corbin, to re-do them again for McIntyre & Moss.
Ronda Rousey’s promo was quick & to the point.
Wow, Vince McMahon will be Pat McAfee’s show next week. I never watch his show, but since Vince very rarely does interviews, I think I have to check it out.
Paul Heyman is ridiculous comparing Brock Lesnar VS Roman Reigns to classic WrestleMania Main Events that defined what WrestleMania is. Their last Mania match sucked. There is no way they can live up to this hype. Bad idea to set it up like this.
Having said that, the Contract Signing was fun. Reigns’ promo was excellent. Lesnar was awesome. And what Lesnar did to those poor Security guys was incredible. What a way for Roman to celebrate his 3rd anniversary of being Cancer free.
I didn’t watch NXT Level Up, so I can’t comment on it.
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