I don't want to over defend Rosenberg but his job has zero to do with NXT
I get that it's all under the same banner but they aren't even on NXT yet. they were signed the day he made the mistake.
I highly doubt anyone here cares either way as much as certain twitter folks do, and I only care in as much as I enjoy Rosenbery for the most part
all this being said, there's plenty of room for Owens to do that whether just for fun or as a bit of a character thing. Rosenberg seems to be solidly in a spot where everyone at WWE rips on him as part of the content (Graves called him "possibly the worst" after Rosenberg called Heenan the best on the raw 25 countdown. Lawler got his name wrong on a podcast which wasn't in character but plays into the whole thing, Rosenberg plays the clip on his own podcast regularly and laughs at it)
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April
Everybody properly warmed up? Ok. April.
NXT invaded Orlando for the fourteenth show held under the TakeOver banner and the 15th live special for the brand overall. At this point they've all been amazing so fans have come to expect a relatively short but incredibly memorable show. Sanity defeated Ohno, Strong, Dillinger and Ruby Riot(t). Aleister Black made his debut by defeating Andrade “Cien” Almas with a Black Mass spin kick that made El Idolo entirely tranquillo. The Authors of Pain defended the NXT Tag Team Championships successfully in a triple threat elimination match. First they performed The Last Chapter on Ciampa to eliminate DIY. No worries though as Johnny Gargano was very understanding about his friend getting pinned. The fans less so as they began to turn on what had up to that point been a challenger to Okada and Omega's Match of the Year title. Then AOP hit a Super Collider on Dash and Dawson for the win. Later that night Asuka escaped with her NXT Women's Championship after narrowly avoiding an Eclipse jawbreaker thanks to a clumsy referee and a roundhouse kick.
The main event saw Bobby Roode against Nakamura with Roode defending this time. The Glorious One targeted Nakamura's leg but a Glorious DDT only secured a near fall because Nakamura's head isn't part of his leg. Bobby disagreed that the match wasn't over then as he went to grab the timekeeper's bell only for the referee to remind him that only officials designated to do so could ring the bell. This allowed Nakamura to hit an exploder suplex and attempt to follow it with a Kinshasa but Roode countered into a spinebuster and Glorious DDT to retain. The whole show was great but the sort of great fans have come to take for granted from NXT. It's a lot harder for even the biggest wrestling show of the year to follow an NXT special.
If WrestleMania can't compete in quality then they've made sure to beat NXT in quantity. 75,245 people sat in Camping World Stadium in Orlando Florida for the Ultimate Thrillride which unlike most thrillrides lasted six and a half hours. The two hour pre-show started with Neville defending his Cruiserweight Championship against Austin Aries as people were still getting to their seats assured this match would be on the Blu Ray. It was a match that inspired people, specifically the two competitors...to leave WWE. Mojo Rawley won the 33 man battle Royal for the Andre the Giant Memorial Trophy by eliminating perennial loser Jinder Mahal thanks to the help of Rob Gronkowski despite security thinking he was a drunk fan rushing the ring. The main event of this two hour show was Dean Ambrose defending his Intercontinental Championship against Baron Corbin in a match even Ambrose and Corbin couldn't be bothered to care about. The whole pre-show was a two hour long insult to everybody involved.
The main show kicked off with disgruntled former WWE Champion AJ Styles defeating Shane McMahon in a match that exceeded everybody's expectations. It wasn't just AJ carrying a man who can barely cut a promo without sounding winded too. Shane's high flying made a return including Simba busting out a shooting star press. Speaking of revenge Kevin Owens defeated Chris Jericho for the United States Championship in a match that featured the greatest rope break of all time. Bayley retained her title in a 4-way elimination match that made everybody involved look good. It took a triple team powerbomb to eliminate Nia. Charlotte played dirty by throwing Sasha into an exposed turnbuckle for an elimination and Bayley hit a diving elbow drop to retain. A lot of people complain that women aren't given the opportunity for the big Wrestlemania 1 on 1 but it was nice to have a multi-woman match that showcased everybody's best. Still though one has to imagine the moment would have been slightly more special as Bayley ending Flair's Pay-Per-View undefeated streak for her fist title win in front of the city that had made her a star down in NXT. The Fatal-3-Way tag team ladder match was interrupted by WrestleMania hosts The New Day to announce a surprise fourth team: The Hardy Boyz. 2003 Jeff and Matt returned to loud “DELETE” chants. The two would actually go on to win over current wrestlers Cesaro and Sheamus, Enzo and Cass and RAW Tag Team Champions Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. In completely ill-advised moves Matt hit a Twist of Fate off a ladder and Jeff jumped from a ladder to put Sheamus and Cesaro through ladders bridging the guard rail and ring apron. It's the kind of thing that would have been risky 20 years ago and I'm just glad they didn't explode into clouds of dust. At this point we were only five matches into the main show with hours still to go. Luckily Al Roker was here to serve as special guest ring announcer for Cena and Nikki Bella taking on The Miz and Maryse. Roker's a huge Miz mark. After the happy couple hit their finishing moves Cena and Nikki pinned both of their opponents, typical relationship stuff really but the real story was the post match proposal. Of course we all know the proposal was per-determined months prior.
The match that followed technically didn't happen at WrestleMania 33 because it was unsanctioned as Triple H took on a still partially injured Seth Rollins. Clever way to get around another lawsuit there Vince. Throughout the match Hunter targeted the leg of Rollins who responded stupidly with enzuigiris, superkicks and phoenix splash attempts. Stephanie took her annual table bump officially ridding us of the most overbearing authority figure for the better part of a year. This gave the distraction needed for Rollins to hit a pedigree. Good thing that was the last spot of the match as I'm not sure Seth could do much more than crawl over and make a cover.
Back on the official record Bray Wyatt sought to defend his WWE Championship from Randy Orton. Despite two Sister Abigails, one of which was performed into the ringside barricade and even Bray Wyatt's rarely seen superhuman ability to laser project footage of insects he was still Bray Wyatt and thus lost. I'm not sure what Bray was thinking banking so much on animated gifs of bugs because Randy already walked out on an animated gif of a snake that kind of looked like a sperm. I think it was the same CGI used for the snake on the Jason Goes to Hell poster. That's far scarier because the hell snake represents the soul of a masked killer man and all Bray Wyatt's powers represent is WWE not knowing we like that time Kane summoned lightning and hit a guy with it because it was stupid. Following that match Brock Lesnar defeated Goldberg in four minutes and forty five seconds for reasons completely unrelated to Goldberg's inability to have a full match. Naomi defeated Alexa Bliss, Becky Lynch, Mickie James, Natalya, Carmella and James Ellsworth to become WWE SmackDown Women's Champion. Frankly I think any six-pack challenge she's involved in should be automatically won by Becky Lynch.
Jim Ross returned as a guest commentator before the main event lending an air of importance to the proceedings. The No Holds Barred match between Roman Reigns and The Undertaker was an absolute war. Undertaker chokeslammed Reigns through an announce table. Reigns speared Undertaker through another announce table. Last Rides and Superman Punches and chokeslams onto chairs only resulted in near-falls. Even the Tombstone wasn't enough to put Reigns away. Roman attacked Undertaker with a chair to a chorus of boos but even following that with two spears wasn't going to end the Undertaker who atempted to do his signature sit-up but collapsed. Reigns ran the ropes extra hard and hit one last massive spear becoming the second person to defeat the dead man at WrestleMania. Post-match Undertaker took off his gloves, coat and hat and left them in the center of the ring in a moment so symbolic and emotional everybody initially missed how awkward it was that he had to put them back on first. Undertaker walked to the center of the entrance ramp, raised his arm and was lowered below the stage as the signature gong of his theme music sounded.
The next night on RAW Roman walked out to unanimous boos and cut the single best promo of his life. It seemed like they were finally going to turn Reigns heel with an angle decades in the making. Nah, I'm just playin'. Goldberg fucked off to polishing his motorcycle collection or whatever old guys trying to project an air of gruff masculinity do. Vince McMahon explained that his daughter was in serious medical trauma to a round of cheers and Kurt Angle replaced Stephanie as RAW GM for the remainder of the year. The New Day's open challenge was answered by NXT callups The Revival who spent the rest of the year injured or about to get injured.
Over on Smackdown Bray Wyatt challenged Randy Orton to a “House of Horrors” match which sounded like it was going to suck immediately. Complicating matters Bray Wyatt was moved to RAW as part of the Superstar Shake-Up. That same mini-draft saw Sami Zayn finally leave RAW where he had lost too often to Smackdown where he got right to work losing to the newly reformed AJ Styles. That same post-Mania Smackdown saw Baron Corbin defeat Dean Ambrose in a non-title street fight that served as an apology to Dean, Corbin and the fans for what happened at Wrestle-Goddamn-Mania. Of course such a momentous non-title win put Corbin in contention to watch Dean Ambrose take his Intercontinental Championship to RAW during the Superstar Shake-Up never to encounter each other again. Never mind that though as The Miz and Maryse's post-bludgeoning celebration of inspiring somebody else to propose marriage over their battered carcasses was interrupted by Shinsuke Nakamura. He didn't attack Miz or cut a promo or anything he just sort of stood there.
Oh and that jobber Mahal got moved to Smackdown too where he was put in a six-pack challenge with actual superstars with actual potential like Mojo Rawley, Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper and Sami Zayn. Surely one of those other guys would win it. Well not Rowan. I mean could you imagine WWE Champion Erick Rowan. Pffffttt. Ha.
The next day Simon Gotch was released from his WWE contract after what Gotch claimed was a mutual agreement between he and WWE and internet dirtsheets claim was the result of Gotch causing a scene in catering and probably fighting Sin Cara who was twelve feet tall at the time. Either way it freed up Aiden English to break out on his own as soon as creative remembered he exists weeks later.
Did you know that there's enough time in all of April for companies that aren't WWE to run wrestling shows? It's true. In front of 10,231 people packed into the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena New Japan Pro Wrestling held Sakura Genesis 2017 or Sakura Megadrive as it's known in Europe. The show saw Taichi and Kanemaru defend their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag titles against Jado and Gedo. War Machine won the Heavyweight Tag titles from Tenzan and Kojima. Goto defended the NEVER Openweight Championship he won at Wrestlekingdom despite Zack Sbare Jr.'s best attempts to twist Goto's arms and legs into an elaborate double sheet bend knot.
Perhaps the biggest shock of the night however was Hiromu Takahashi demolishing the ace of the junior division in one just under two minutes. Most people expected KUSHIDA to win his title back Marty McHighflyer hitting a suicide senton and a running dropkick to a seated Takahashi before the match officially began made it look like KUSHIDA was going to beat the ticking Time Bomb at his own batshit insane game. However Hiromu's devestating sunset flip powerbomb to the outside, a running bucklebomb and the Timebomb sitout side powerslam put KUSHIDA away in about as much time as it takes to read this paragraph. Though to be fair Hiromu throwing you onto concrete is probably less painful than reading my writing.
The main event IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between Katsuyori Shibata and Kazuchika Okada was built as the final chapter in Shibata's redemption arc since returning to New Japan in 2012. Little did we know how horribly correct that idea was. Having won back the trust of the friend he abandoned in Goto Shibata regained the trust of the locker room over the past few years collecting gold along the way. Okada's title reign has been defined by The Rainmaker encountering expert wrestlers and besting them at their own game so the bout was a showcase of technical grappling exchanges and devastatingly stiff strikes. At one point Shibata In the closing stretch of the match Shibata hit a headbutt that split his own head open. It created a sound that can only be described as sickening and one of the most iconic images of the year. The match went to an emotionally draining finish that saw Okada pick up yet another win via Rainmaker clothesline but maybe more importantly Shibata had finally earned the full support of New Japan's audience who gave the contest the appreciation and standing ovation it deserved. After the match a defeated and exhausted Shibata could barely stumble to the back where he immediately collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital where it was discovered that he had a subdural hematoma caused by the headbut and dehydration which required emergency surgery. At the time doctors only gave him an 18% chance of survival but miraculously Shibata did what he does best and pulled through the pain. The brain injury sparked debate online about the nature of such an intense style of wrestling and the use of headbutts. Shibata now suffers from paralysis on the left side of his body and is still mending a massive hole doctors had to drill through his skull to perform the life saving operation. It's highly unlikely he'll ever wrestle again but it's safe to say he's given us far more than we deserve already.
In front of 13,694 fans in San Jose California WWE held Payback, a show intended to be so good fans would swear undying loyalty to the RAW brand. Chris Jericho inexplicably won back his United States Championship and was thus traded to Smackdown as part of a package deal with the belt. Austin Aries defeated Neville by disqualification leading to everybody's favorite way to weasel out of a decisive finish. The Hardy Boyz retained over Cesaro and Sheamus who technically showed good sportsmanship after the match by shaking their opponent's hands. Still though the most confusing and upsetting booking decision had to come from Alexa Bliss dethroning Bayley unceremoniously with a Snap DDT. After weeks of Bliss making Bayley out to look like a joke the 11 minute loss looked like a damning confirmation. Speaking of upsetting imagery Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton competed in WWE's first and last House of Horrors match. It was a confusing handheld camera affair which took place in a rented single level suburban house only half converted into a sort of grade school haunted house attraction. Ominous shot of a tractor! It was odd seeing the typical Bray Wyatt set dressing of rustic spooky décor sitting right next to a dish drying rack full of new looking plastic cups and plates. It's hard to take Bray Wyatt seriously when you picture his spending an entire afternoon hanging dolls from strings in a what looks like the cheapest home you can get premade in a game of The Sims occasionally stopping to giddily clap his hands and say "Randy's going to be so weirded out." The match almost ended when Bray tipped a refrigerator over onto Randy and stole his UberLux limo back to the arena making the refrigerator officially the most effective lackey Wyatt's ever employed. That's not supposed to be a fat joke. Anyway as usual Randy Orton appeared out of nowhere and hit an RKO. Maybe he used whatever Bray uses to teleport around to get back to ringside. Bray still won though thanks to interference from the somehow now number one contender Jinder Mahal. Of course with this non-title victory over WWE Champion Randy Orton Bray Wyatt was put in line for a title shot at nothing and moved over to RAW because even when Bray wins he loses.
“It’s a WrestleMania baby. The only thing my wife asked me was that [she wanted me to be there].
I literally have a private jet on call at all times. I will spend whatever amount of money to get there, to be there and support her and witness my first child being born because I am ecstatic. I don’t want to be the dad that’s not there. I don’t want the kid to ever think that I wasn’t there. I want her to be the one that says you were there, you guided me, you supported me in the best way you knew how.”
Good luck to the Miz in his quest to become the best wrestler parent of all time.
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Bono Tough Enough special edition! Kefin, Adam and Billy run down episodes 1-3 of WWF's first foray into reality TV! Featuring angry tight jeans HHH.
oh boy this girl is gonna get raked over the coals cause of her twitter/youtube history
Yuuuuup
I believe her, personally, but yeah she is an adult model and openly talks about doing drugs so I do not see a likely scenario of this gaining traction
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I hope that if this is true there's jail time for Enzo and if it's a false accusation it doesn't ruin Enzo's reputation backstage as a loud unlikable shithead.
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Probably because it leaked. Marvel did the same thing with trailers before.
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WWE should use Seth Green as Daniel Bryan's stunt double.
Just have DBD do all the non-bump stuff and sub in Seth whenever he needs to get slammed or thrown into posts or stairs.
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Colt Cabana, Hero, and Arik Cannon have all called him out on gif tweets
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Someone draw her riding Devil Dinosaur. Or whispering into Godzilla's ear.
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I don't want to over defend Rosenberg but his job has zero to do with NXT
I get that it's all under the same banner but they aren't even on NXT yet. they were signed the day he made the mistake.
I highly doubt anyone here cares either way as much as certain twitter folks do, and I only care in as much as I enjoy Rosenbery for the most part
all this being said, there's plenty of room for Owens to do that whether just for fun or as a bit of a character thing. Rosenberg seems to be solidly in a spot where everyone at WWE rips on him as part of the content (Graves called him "possibly the worst" after Rosenberg called Heenan the best on the raw 25 countdown. Lawler got his name wrong on a podcast which wasn't in character but plays into the whole thing, Rosenberg plays the clip on his own podcast regularly and laughs at it)
I was already primed from the candice video earlier in the thread but damn
and then bryan. fuck.
Well she got the earth badge.
Everybody properly warmed up? Ok. April.
NXT invaded Orlando for the fourteenth show held under the TakeOver banner and the 15th live special for the brand overall. At this point they've all been amazing so fans have come to expect a relatively short but incredibly memorable show. Sanity defeated Ohno, Strong, Dillinger and Ruby Riot(t). Aleister Black made his debut by defeating Andrade “Cien” Almas with a Black Mass spin kick that made El Idolo entirely tranquillo. The Authors of Pain defended the NXT Tag Team Championships successfully in a triple threat elimination match. First they performed The Last Chapter on Ciampa to eliminate DIY. No worries though as Johnny Gargano was very understanding about his friend getting pinned. The fans less so as they began to turn on what had up to that point been a challenger to Okada and Omega's Match of the Year title. Then AOP hit a Super Collider on Dash and Dawson for the win. Later that night Asuka escaped with her NXT Women's Championship after narrowly avoiding an Eclipse jawbreaker thanks to a clumsy referee and a roundhouse kick.
The main event saw Bobby Roode against Nakamura with Roode defending this time. The Glorious One targeted Nakamura's leg but a Glorious DDT only secured a near fall because Nakamura's head isn't part of his leg. Bobby disagreed that the match wasn't over then as he went to grab the timekeeper's bell only for the referee to remind him that only officials designated to do so could ring the bell. This allowed Nakamura to hit an exploder suplex and attempt to follow it with a Kinshasa but Roode countered into a spinebuster and Glorious DDT to retain. The whole show was great but the sort of great fans have come to take for granted from NXT. It's a lot harder for even the biggest wrestling show of the year to follow an NXT special.
If WrestleMania can't compete in quality then they've made sure to beat NXT in quantity. 75,245 people sat in Camping World Stadium in Orlando Florida for the Ultimate Thrillride which unlike most thrillrides lasted six and a half hours. The two hour pre-show started with Neville defending his Cruiserweight Championship against Austin Aries as people were still getting to their seats assured this match would be on the Blu Ray. It was a match that inspired people, specifically the two competitors...to leave WWE. Mojo Rawley won the 33 man battle Royal for the Andre the Giant Memorial Trophy by eliminating perennial loser Jinder Mahal thanks to the help of Rob Gronkowski despite security thinking he was a drunk fan rushing the ring. The main event of this two hour show was Dean Ambrose defending his Intercontinental Championship against Baron Corbin in a match even Ambrose and Corbin couldn't be bothered to care about. The whole pre-show was a two hour long insult to everybody involved.
The main show kicked off with disgruntled former WWE Champion AJ Styles defeating Shane McMahon in a match that exceeded everybody's expectations. It wasn't just AJ carrying a man who can barely cut a promo without sounding winded too. Shane's high flying made a return including Simba busting out a shooting star press. Speaking of revenge Kevin Owens defeated Chris Jericho for the United States Championship in a match that featured the greatest rope break of all time. Bayley retained her title in a 4-way elimination match that made everybody involved look good. It took a triple team powerbomb to eliminate Nia. Charlotte played dirty by throwing Sasha into an exposed turnbuckle for an elimination and Bayley hit a diving elbow drop to retain. A lot of people complain that women aren't given the opportunity for the big Wrestlemania 1 on 1 but it was nice to have a multi-woman match that showcased everybody's best. Still though one has to imagine the moment would have been slightly more special as Bayley ending Flair's Pay-Per-View undefeated streak for her fist title win in front of the city that had made her a star down in NXT. The Fatal-3-Way tag team ladder match was interrupted by WrestleMania hosts The New Day to announce a surprise fourth team: The Hardy Boyz. 2003 Jeff and Matt returned to loud “DELETE” chants. The two would actually go on to win over current wrestlers Cesaro and Sheamus, Enzo and Cass and RAW Tag Team Champions Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. In completely ill-advised moves Matt hit a Twist of Fate off a ladder and Jeff jumped from a ladder to put Sheamus and Cesaro through ladders bridging the guard rail and ring apron. It's the kind of thing that would have been risky 20 years ago and I'm just glad they didn't explode into clouds of dust. At this point we were only five matches into the main show with hours still to go. Luckily Al Roker was here to serve as special guest ring announcer for Cena and Nikki Bella taking on The Miz and Maryse. Roker's a huge Miz mark. After the happy couple hit their finishing moves Cena and Nikki pinned both of their opponents, typical relationship stuff really but the real story was the post match proposal. Of course we all know the proposal was per-determined months prior.
The match that followed technically didn't happen at WrestleMania 33 because it was unsanctioned as Triple H took on a still partially injured Seth Rollins. Clever way to get around another lawsuit there Vince. Throughout the match Hunter targeted the leg of Rollins who responded stupidly with enzuigiris, superkicks and phoenix splash attempts. Stephanie took her annual table bump officially ridding us of the most overbearing authority figure for the better part of a year. This gave the distraction needed for Rollins to hit a pedigree. Good thing that was the last spot of the match as I'm not sure Seth could do much more than crawl over and make a cover.
Back on the official record Bray Wyatt sought to defend his WWE Championship from Randy Orton. Despite two Sister Abigails, one of which was performed into the ringside barricade and even Bray Wyatt's rarely seen superhuman ability to laser project footage of insects he was still Bray Wyatt and thus lost. I'm not sure what Bray was thinking banking so much on animated gifs of bugs because Randy already walked out on an animated gif of a snake that kind of looked like a sperm. I think it was the same CGI used for the snake on the Jason Goes to Hell poster. That's far scarier because the hell snake represents the soul of a masked killer man and all Bray Wyatt's powers represent is WWE not knowing we like that time Kane summoned lightning and hit a guy with it because it was stupid. Following that match Brock Lesnar defeated Goldberg in four minutes and forty five seconds for reasons completely unrelated to Goldberg's inability to have a full match. Naomi defeated Alexa Bliss, Becky Lynch, Mickie James, Natalya, Carmella and James Ellsworth to become WWE SmackDown Women's Champion. Frankly I think any six-pack challenge she's involved in should be automatically won by Becky Lynch.
Jim Ross returned as a guest commentator before the main event lending an air of importance to the proceedings. The No Holds Barred match between Roman Reigns and The Undertaker was an absolute war. Undertaker chokeslammed Reigns through an announce table. Reigns speared Undertaker through another announce table. Last Rides and Superman Punches and chokeslams onto chairs only resulted in near-falls. Even the Tombstone wasn't enough to put Reigns away. Roman attacked Undertaker with a chair to a chorus of boos but even following that with two spears wasn't going to end the Undertaker who atempted to do his signature sit-up but collapsed. Reigns ran the ropes extra hard and hit one last massive spear becoming the second person to defeat the dead man at WrestleMania. Post-match Undertaker took off his gloves, coat and hat and left them in the center of the ring in a moment so symbolic and emotional everybody initially missed how awkward it was that he had to put them back on first. Undertaker walked to the center of the entrance ramp, raised his arm and was lowered below the stage as the signature gong of his theme music sounded.
The next night on RAW Roman walked out to unanimous boos and cut the single best promo of his life. It seemed like they were finally going to turn Reigns heel with an angle decades in the making. Nah, I'm just playin'. Goldberg fucked off to polishing his motorcycle collection or whatever old guys trying to project an air of gruff masculinity do. Vince McMahon explained that his daughter was in serious medical trauma to a round of cheers and Kurt Angle replaced Stephanie as RAW GM for the remainder of the year. The New Day's open challenge was answered by NXT callups The Revival who spent the rest of the year injured or about to get injured.
Over on Smackdown Bray Wyatt challenged Randy Orton to a “House of Horrors” match which sounded like it was going to suck immediately. Complicating matters Bray Wyatt was moved to RAW as part of the Superstar Shake-Up. That same mini-draft saw Sami Zayn finally leave RAW where he had lost too often to Smackdown where he got right to work losing to the newly reformed AJ Styles. That same post-Mania Smackdown saw Baron Corbin defeat Dean Ambrose in a non-title street fight that served as an apology to Dean, Corbin and the fans for what happened at Wrestle-Goddamn-Mania. Of course such a momentous non-title win put Corbin in contention to watch Dean Ambrose take his Intercontinental Championship to RAW during the Superstar Shake-Up never to encounter each other again. Never mind that though as The Miz and Maryse's post-bludgeoning celebration of inspiring somebody else to propose marriage over their battered carcasses was interrupted by Shinsuke Nakamura. He didn't attack Miz or cut a promo or anything he just sort of stood there.
Oh and that jobber Mahal got moved to Smackdown too where he was put in a six-pack challenge with actual superstars with actual potential like Mojo Rawley, Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper and Sami Zayn. Surely one of those other guys would win it. Well not Rowan. I mean could you imagine WWE Champion Erick Rowan. Pffffttt. Ha.
The next day Simon Gotch was released from his WWE contract after what Gotch claimed was a mutual agreement between he and WWE and internet dirtsheets claim was the result of Gotch causing a scene in catering and probably fighting Sin Cara who was twelve feet tall at the time. Either way it freed up Aiden English to break out on his own as soon as creative remembered he exists weeks later.
Did you know that there's enough time in all of April for companies that aren't WWE to run wrestling shows? It's true. In front of 10,231 people packed into the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena New Japan Pro Wrestling held Sakura Genesis 2017 or Sakura Megadrive as it's known in Europe. The show saw Taichi and Kanemaru defend their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag titles against Jado and Gedo. War Machine won the Heavyweight Tag titles from Tenzan and Kojima. Goto defended the NEVER Openweight Championship he won at Wrestlekingdom despite Zack Sbare Jr.'s best attempts to twist Goto's arms and legs into an elaborate double sheet bend knot.
Perhaps the biggest shock of the night however was Hiromu Takahashi demolishing the ace of the junior division in one just under two minutes. Most people expected KUSHIDA to win his title back Marty McHighflyer hitting a suicide senton and a running dropkick to a seated Takahashi before the match officially began made it look like KUSHIDA was going to beat the ticking Time Bomb at his own batshit insane game. However Hiromu's devestating sunset flip powerbomb to the outside, a running bucklebomb and the Timebomb sitout side powerslam put KUSHIDA away in about as much time as it takes to read this paragraph. Though to be fair Hiromu throwing you onto concrete is probably less painful than reading my writing.
The main event IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between Katsuyori Shibata and Kazuchika Okada was built as the final chapter in Shibata's redemption arc since returning to New Japan in 2012. Little did we know how horribly correct that idea was. Having won back the trust of the friend he abandoned in Goto Shibata regained the trust of the locker room over the past few years collecting gold along the way. Okada's title reign has been defined by The Rainmaker encountering expert wrestlers and besting them at their own game so the bout was a showcase of technical grappling exchanges and devastatingly stiff strikes. At one point Shibata In the closing stretch of the match Shibata hit a headbutt that split his own head open. It created a sound that can only be described as sickening and one of the most iconic images of the year. The match went to an emotionally draining finish that saw Okada pick up yet another win via Rainmaker clothesline but maybe more importantly Shibata had finally earned the full support of New Japan's audience who gave the contest the appreciation and standing ovation it deserved. After the match a defeated and exhausted Shibata could barely stumble to the back where he immediately collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital where it was discovered that he had a subdural hematoma caused by the headbut and dehydration which required emergency surgery. At the time doctors only gave him an 18% chance of survival but miraculously Shibata did what he does best and pulled through the pain. The brain injury sparked debate online about the nature of such an intense style of wrestling and the use of headbutts. Shibata now suffers from paralysis on the left side of his body and is still mending a massive hole doctors had to drill through his skull to perform the life saving operation. It's highly unlikely he'll ever wrestle again but it's safe to say he's given us far more than we deserve already.
In front of 13,694 fans in San Jose California WWE held Payback, a show intended to be so good fans would swear undying loyalty to the RAW brand. Chris Jericho inexplicably won back his United States Championship and was thus traded to Smackdown as part of a package deal with the belt. Austin Aries defeated Neville by disqualification leading to everybody's favorite way to weasel out of a decisive finish. The Hardy Boyz retained over Cesaro and Sheamus who technically showed good sportsmanship after the match by shaking their opponent's hands. Still though the most confusing and upsetting booking decision had to come from Alexa Bliss dethroning Bayley unceremoniously with a Snap DDT. After weeks of Bliss making Bayley out to look like a joke the 11 minute loss looked like a damning confirmation. Speaking of upsetting imagery Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton competed in WWE's first and last House of Horrors match. It was a confusing handheld camera affair which took place in a rented single level suburban house only half converted into a sort of grade school haunted house attraction. Ominous shot of a tractor! It was odd seeing the typical Bray Wyatt set dressing of rustic spooky décor sitting right next to a dish drying rack full of new looking plastic cups and plates. It's hard to take Bray Wyatt seriously when you picture his spending an entire afternoon hanging dolls from strings in a what looks like the cheapest home you can get premade in a game of The Sims occasionally stopping to giddily clap his hands and say "Randy's going to be so weirded out." The match almost ended when Bray tipped a refrigerator over onto Randy and stole his UberLux limo back to the arena making the refrigerator officially the most effective lackey Wyatt's ever employed. That's not supposed to be a fat joke. Anyway as usual Randy Orton appeared out of nowhere and hit an RKO. Maybe he used whatever Bray uses to teleport around to get back to ringside. Bray still won though thanks to interference from the somehow now number one contender Jinder Mahal. Of course with this non-title victory over WWE Champion Randy Orton Bray Wyatt was put in line for a title shot at nothing and moved over to RAW because even when Bray wins he loses.
I dipped out after Survivor Series, gonna start keeping up again with the Rumble
Did I miss anything important
I heard stuff about a mixed tag challenge?
That's basically what winter looks like around New England, yeah.
Sounds miserable.
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The snow does suck. My staff are all happy and productive today though, so the Tom Brady part is pretty awesome.
Good luck to the Miz in his quest to become the best wrestler parent of all time.
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Enzo Amore has been accused of rape
Oh heads up her Twitter is NSFW
oh boy this girl is gonna get raked over the coals cause of her twitter/youtube history
I believe her, personally, but yeah she is an adult model and openly talks about doing drugs so I do not see a likely scenario of this gaining traction
quick work by wwe
And yeah, I already saw a bunch of garbage about her.
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Having WWE CHAMPION ACCUSED OF RAPE as a big news item on their 25th Anniversay day is a pretty bad goddamn look
I'm really glad that Hawkins is having fun with his whole thing.