It was two different shows. Preshow up to raw tag team ladder match was borderline excellent. Skip the promos, watch the matches.

After that, it was mostly shaky stuff that I felt like I was struggling to get through. Brock vs Goldy was probably the best match you saw. They sped through it which makes that HHH/Rollins match even worse.

To make it worse for me, Pitbull came out when I really needed to see something good again. It basically turned my wrestling nerd brain off for the rest of the night. I might need to watch the 2nd half again and skip the promos and Pitbull.

Taker is to the point where he can't be carried by most of the guys they're gonna put him with. I love the dude's 2nd half of a career. He had some boss ass matches, but now he's physically depleted and it's best that he rolls out. And rolling out on your back is wrestling done right, so Reigns winning via damn near having to kill him was the right call.

BUT

Reigns needs to soak in the boos and more officially accept his heel standing at Raw. And WWE needs to get in on it too instead of winking about it. Then we could have some fun. He could be the best kind of heel..the one who thinks he's right and the crowd is wrong. But of course, he'd occasionally take it too far. The Bret Hart 97.


>I'll skim the first 2.5 hours tomorrow.
>
>Orton/Bray seemed to have no heat whatsoever.
>
>Brock/Bill was I think as good as it could be. There were no
>broken bones or nasty head wounds, so that's probably a win
>for all parties.
>
>Women's match was getting pretty good, but rushed, and then it
>was over.
>
>Reigns pins Taker, starts walking up the ramp, then turns,
>runs to the ring, grabs a steel pipe from under the ring and
>beats the shit out of Taker with it, screaming and kicking
>him, until finally enough security drags him away while EMTs
>attend to Taker. And now Reigns has enough genuine, old-school
>Sportatorium/Memphis/Freebirds-escorted-into-the-arena-through-the-back-entrance
>blind fan death threats hatred heel heat to last the rest of
>the decade.