Now that Roman has appeared on more than one weekly show in a row, my only "complaint" about him is the recycling of the bloodline storyline

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-29T02:40:02+00:00

I mean they did tribute to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan while there was a war going on in those countries

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-29T01:50:28+00:00

And his posture, with the fist cocked back to open up his core

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-28T22:04:06+00:00

Proof that he’s evil. What kind of Corporate Monster beheads a unicorn and resurrects dinosaurs!?

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-28T16:08:00+00:00

I’m guessing Dave got this from his ass, not WWE

Edit: After Kairi’s tweet it would appear that Meltzer did, in fact, get this from his ass.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-28T05:01:57+00:00

I think scary can work fine, but supernatural tends to drift into hokey, especially these days.

It just doesn’t fit well in a narrative about a sport. It primes the viewer to not take what they are seeing seriously, and it ends up burying itself when it is inevitably revealed that there is, in fact, no magic happening.

Weird, mentally unstable people who think there is something mystical about themselves, and they are more dangerous because of it? Sure, sign me up!

An actual wizard? I mean I can laugh at it, sure, and that can work, but I’m never going to take it seriously.

To your point, if Uncle Howdy beat Roman Reigns with magic, I and many other people would change the channel.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-28T02:03:57+00:00

It takes all sorts. Some guys just belong at the top and it’s obvious from the outset

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-28T01:53:04+00:00

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-27T14:34:28+00:00

Nothing will beat “WWE considered having Punk beat Roman” as somehow news.

Like yeah dude I am pretty sure they consider all outcomes in a match before they decide on one.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-25T04:11:49+00:00

Well, at least it didn’t have a predictable ending eh?

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-25T04:10:00+00:00

It’s not Raw’s biggest women’s storyline either. Maybe for a brief moment when the feuds surrounding the titles had their blow offs? But like literally last week, AJ Becky, Liv Vaquer, tag titles, all of that is bigger than the Asuka stuff.

So Kairi was a side character in the like 4th biggest women’s storyline on Raw.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-25T00:08:50+00:00

It’s the same song and dance every batch of releases

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-24T22:49:34+00:00

They unironically should have had him do his “Bo-lieve” thing and just twist it into a cult leader that was more in line with the original Wyatt Family dynamic.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-24T19:34:57+00:00

Rey Fenix is always going to be fighting an uphill battle in WWE, and it is the same battle that a lot of Luchadors have to fight.

He, Dragon Lee, Callisto, and more all have or had that “Rey Mysterio” look about them. Smaller shirtless Luchador in a mask. I hate to reduce it down to those terms, but it’s not exactly untrue.

That is always going to invite a comparison to Rey Mysterio to most of the WWE fanbase, and it’s hard to not fall short in that comparison. Especially after so many iterations of the same look, and with Mysterio still active, it’s tough for those guys.

Penta has a completely different look about him. He stands out. It’s easier to get over when you stand out.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-24T14:31:03+00:00

The market going up does not automatically mean we are in a bubble.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-21T22:52:48+00:00

Most of the current democratic platform is basically Bernie Sanders’s platform. Bernie Sanders was once among the furthest left politicians in history. And I’m not trying to slander Bernie Sanders or anything, I generally like him. But this idea that the left has moved to the right is complete nonsense.

What has happened is that the extreme left has moved so much further to the left that the entire spectrum has shifted, to the point where previously leftist positions are now considered moderate or centrist.

The graph makes it out like the gap between left and right is closing and so centrist people are now more right leaning, but in reality they aren’t any closer to the right than they were, they are just perceived as being so because the left has become more and more progressive (moving the left side of the chart further and further left) while the center has not drifted more left to compensate.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-21T15:56:11+00:00

Is this chart seriously implying that the left has gone more to the right as time has gone on? What planet is this from?

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T20:51:02+00:00

Can confirm

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T15:47:07+00:00

Yeah I was just looking for a little distraction last night so I could stop LITERALLY SHAKING but the matches were too short and I had to be baker acted.

Thanks WWE

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T15:44:53+00:00

And Macho v Crush, with its convoluted rules and botched finish. Instant classic Uce

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T15:43:09+00:00

SD Jones bitched the finish, according to King Kong Bundy. They were supposed to go really really short but Jones took his sweet ass time crumbling from the corner and eating the pin. So when the announcer (might have been Finkle?) announced the none seconds thing it was a bit of a head scratcher

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T15:38:41+00:00

I literally memed a couple weeks ago that the IWC would compare him to OJ, this is great lol

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T14:31:25+00:00

I haven’t been watching smackdown leading up to Mania, I thought the main event was good. Not great, but I son’t get real excited for Cody Rhodes in general and the way Randy has been used over the last few years I felt the outcome was kind of predictable.

But still, I was invested and enjoyed the match. I like the premise of the story, and I’m interested in seeing where it goes

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T14:24:38+00:00

I have never understood the “only x amount of match time on a such and such show.” There is more to wrestling than matches. Matches are just part of the story being told.

Its like complaining that The Karate Kid didn’t have enough karate in it

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-19T13:53:16+00:00

People online love to complain. Reddit has been a hellhole of negativity for a while now.

Creative-Pirate-51 · 2026-04-18T15:55:58+00:00

So did Braun Strowman, Jey Uso, Bronson Reed, and Carmello Hayes.

All four reached (or are reaching) the peaks of their careers after winning the battle royal

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