The booking for the Rumble was weird. If you have fired guys, and then they've fought their way into the Rumble why would you have one of them come out at 30? It's wrestling, it doesn't have to make sense. But it can't make no sense. Ziggler can go for an hour, send him out first and let him show it. It fits the storyline you had leading up to it and it works better for the performers involved. Last? That's just weird.

Two years from now Reigns is a main eventer. Right now he's the one guy from the Shield who hasn't done anything since the Shield split. The only thing he has going for him is people like to touch him on his way to the ring. Nothing against the guy and I think he has a lot of promise but he's just not there yet. He spent a good part of the Rumble asleep in the corner. They were going to structure a Mania around him? I doubt that's completely true now cos they won't let Mania be a boo fest, but you have to wonder quite what they were thinking there.

Unless Bork Laser only signed on for a 12 mth contract I can't see Reigns walking away with the belt at Wrestlemania.

I'm sure I read somewhere that the Raw after Mania is when Lesnar's contract expires

So Wrestlemania might well play out with Reigns beating Lesnar (everyone boos!!)then Rollins cashes in his MitB, and does an inevitable kerb-stomp on Reigns to take the title (everyone cheers - hoping that Daniel Bryan will then get a shot at Night of Champions)!!

One last hurrah for Taker?

I wonder if Taker will also interfere in the Lesnar match?

Sting !!!

Great Mania last night.

Can't believe the stuff that came out of JBLs mouth about sting, probably on the orders from Vince. The disrespect shown was incredible

Regards

King James

Anyone else got the Network and what do they think so far?

Personally thinks its great, the amount of content available is very good and supposedly there is still a lot more they can put up. One gripe I do have is that most of the 'PPV's' don't feel that more special than RAW. Fortuatley NXT is doing a good job of making their Takeovers like a big deal/must watch.

Also, with NXT staging a Takeover special in London hoping this may lead to them brinigng a big PPV to the UK, Wrestlemania or Summerslam at Wembley would be brilliant

Had it for a bit when it first launched over here.

I enjoy it, but I let it go because I'm not so fussed about ploughing back through the archives. Watched the Nitros when Hall and Nash debuted, and on a couple of months after Hogan's heel turn but that was my interest in the past episodes done.

I don't care about most PPVs. Rumble, WM and Summer Slam are all I watch, and I'm used to stealing them rather than paying for them. I will pay a tenner though so this is now how I do the PPVs I'm interested in. I pay up a few times through the year, maybe watch a few docs and any extra out of the ring content that shows up while I have it but then cancel and let the month run out.

I like NXT, and it's a shame it receded to network only but it's not worth a tenner every month to me. And neither are most of the PPVs.

I would probably pay £50 a week for true stories from the life of Vince McMahon though. TBH, I would not be surprised if the time I spend listening to wrestling podcasts and old wrestler's stories actually exceeds the amount of time I spend watching wrestling.

I've been watching Raw on FF lately, since I got Foxtel. Painful. They've really backed themselves into a corner with the usage of old part-timers haven't they? The current crop just cannot draw, never mind PPVs but even on weeklies. Who would have thought a year ago that Kofi Kingston would be holding the show together? They desperately need a miraculous recovery from Daniel Bryan.

I think the most obvious way to rejuvenate interest in the product is a Cena heel turn once he returns. I don't know if Reigns can be the victim of another screwjob or not, but they have to shake it up somehow.

I've been watching a show on YouTube called Wrestling With Wregret. The guy that hosts it, Brian Zane, came up with a really good idea for WWE and that would be an off-season.
Or rather grouping up sets of guys together and having them run on a four year cycle so everyone gets some time off through the year meaning that guys have time to get over injuries/burnout and everyone still gets a chance to get a Wrestlemania payday. It's kind of hard to explain the lay out in just text, but the video has graphs and charts showing the breakdown of when people would be off and on.

I thought it was a really good idea as it would help freshen up the product and force WWE to invest in the whole roster rather than just the 2 or 3 guys they were using

The fact that they let Lesnar win the title and then not show up for 3 months was frankly appauling.

I also lay part of the blame at Cena for taking 3 promising heels in Wyatt, Rusev and Owens and reducing them to nothing more than common mid card fodder

Lesnar winning the title and not being on every show, I didn't mind. In fact, I thought it was quite a good idea as it made seeing the champion an event rather than an every day occurance.

And you can't blame Cena completely for Wyatt, Rusev and Owens. After all, it's not Cena who books the show