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November 23, 2020

WWE SURVIVOR SERIES 2020 [Review]: One More ‘Last Ride’.

Here we go again…again.

I’ve always enjoyed the idea of WWF/E’s Survivor Series. The original 4 or 5 man team concept was fun and they got creative in how the matches would play out, but nowadays they rely on a ton of tropes I can do without after 33 years of the damn things.

Following a stretch of Survivor Series events doing mostly away with the elimination matches, the current version finally hit its stride format-wise the last few years with two Raw vs Smackdown elimination tags and then the rest of the card Champion vs Champion on the two brands. That makes the event feel important and have stakes, even with the WWE being terrible about sticking to their own rules of the brand split, and it makes more sense at a major event like SS instead of a secondary throwaway like Battleground.

This years’ Thanksgiving Week Tradition marks yet another tribute to the Undertaker, who has had the longest retirement tour without any actual matches than anyone in any sport ever; but he’s awesome– so I’m not hating on it.

Sidenote: WWE’s Thunderdome is “award-winning” now? If Cuomo can be nominated for an Emmy for his Covid briefings, I guess anything’s possible…

Preshow: Raw vs. SmackDown Battle Royal – Every battle royal you’ve ever seen. If the booking on this thing were any lazier, 2K would turn it into a videogame. Miz gets tossed but doesn’t actually get eliminated. Comes back in at the end and eliminates Dominik Mysterio. Wow. Never seen that before. – 1/5

Men’s Team Raw vs. Men’s Team SmackDown – More paint-by-numbers storytelling — and those godammned colored t-shirts for the idiots at home — where Team Raw can’t get along, because apparantly they’re children and not trained professional athletes in a fight. I actually was enjoying this initially until Rollins tags in for SmackDown and dramatically kneels down and lets Sheamus Brogue Kick him into oblivion for…reasons?

(This is the perfect example of the writing team trying to be too cute for their own good. This is how they write Rollins off of TV so he can go home to his pregnant wife? Didn’t elevate or help anyone.)

Owens hits everyone with Stunners and immediately loses to AJ’s Phenominal Forearm in another trope in these matches. This had some good exchanges, with Otis being a standout. Ends up Jey Uso for SD against the entire Raw team. He loses to Keith Lee and Raw sweeps the match. Blah. – 2.5/5

The New Day vs. The Street Profits – I love the Street Profits when Vince isn’t writing their dialogie for atrocious backstage segments. Interesting thing with New Day is any great match they’ve had that I remember has been Kofi and Big E, while tonight we have Kofi and Xavier. Different dynamic, but all four delivered with classic tag-team storytelling that never fell into “stupid trope” territory. (See above.)

Montez Ford is a star. Great athleticism and story as Ford’s ribs were injured, so he couldn’t do an immediate pin after the frog splash and it cost him. He countered Kofi with his own Trouble in Paradise as well. Awesome. Profits win with a Doomsday Blockbuster. (Street Sweeper?) – 4/5

Bobby Lashley vs Sami Zayn – The heel vs. heel dynamic didn’t work here as Zayn did every cowardly heel trick he could to win by trying to force a Lashley DQ, but Lashley is unsympathetic and legitimately does outnumber Zayne with the Hurt Business at ringside, so who are we supposed to root for? Mostly a squash with Lashley submitting Sami, who is criminally underutilized. Zayn’s antics at least made it the best Lashley match I’ve seen. That’s something, right? – 2/5

Roman is angry at Jey Uso. THIS was the Roman we needed when he first left the Shield. Better late than never, I guess.

Asuka vs Sasha Banks – These two get three Bibles just by stepping in the ring with each other. They’re both so good that I’m immediately more invested than at any time in the show outside of several moments of Profits/New Day. They didn’t disappoint. Maybe not as “blow the doors off” awesome as their SummerSlam encounter, but still enjoyable start-to-finish with great psychology and an actual clean finish. Banks wins with a modified rollup, defeating The Empress one-on-one for the first time. Great stuff. – 4.25/5

Akira Tozowa traps the Gobbeldy Gooker to win the 24/7 title and gets flattened by R-Truth, who regains the belt. 6 Bibles. Greatest match in the history of our great sport.

Women’s Team Raw vs. Women’s Team SmackDown – God, what a mess. So Lana is supposed to be a sympathetic babyface, which she’s never done well, and her entire team hates her and don’t want her there. (Be a Star, WWE!) What little she does in the match is as awkward as a monkey fucking a football, and the much more talented women in the match have to carry her dead-weight to try to do something somewhat passable.

Bayley does a dive where everyone on the outside decides they have somewhere else to be, so she goes splat in a rough moment. She then gets pinned by… Peyton Royce? Bianca Belair and Shayna Bayzler were the big stars here to me, with some great athleticism and clever spots right up until Shayna got disqualified for being a moron.

I despise Nia Jax since she gives no shits about anyone else’s safety and when she and Lana are two of the focuses, the match gets dragged further down than what Bayzler and Belair can pull it out of. Screwy count out at the end means Lana, who has stood on the ringsteps crying for the majority of the match, is the Sole Survivor and she starts celebrating like she just body slammed Andre the Giant. And she’s the babyface? What the hell is happening? – 2/5 (3 Bibles for athleticism, 1 Bible for storytelling.)

Why is there no score tally for Raw vs Smackdown matches this year? This all lacks any sense of stakes.

Drew McIntyre vs. Roman Reigns – I had completely forgotten these two had a match at WrestleMania 35, and that match was just kinda there. What a difference a Covid makes. Drew is one of the only legit stars that WWE has properly elevated/treated seriously in recent times and Roman is finally what he always should have been, and it’s easily the best run of his career. They could realistically main-event Mania 37 minus a hail-mary Rock/Roman match, so I’m surprised they’re doing it here since I thought Orton had briefly won the Raw belt to avoid this confrontation.

As for the match, great, great stuff. They started slow, really built things up and told a story and that’s where Roman has excelled since his return, and McIntyre kept up with him in that regard. The heavy-hitting stuff felt earned, and while WWE does kick-outs of finishers way too often, it felt justified here with these two. Screwy finish made sense in this instance with a ref bump off a Claymore Kick and Uso interfering to help Roman pull it off. They’re primed for a rematch down the road should WWE pull the trigger on it. – 4.5/5

Goodbye, Undertaker. For the Last Time. Again. The Sequel – Taker’s had more retirements than Conor McGregor. A mish-mash of people come out (with full entrances) that are all connected to Undertaker somehow. Some will seem random to casual fans (The Godwins as an example) since they were tight with Taker in real life but never had any significant on-camera interaction with him. Even Kane was there, in the only time he’ll wear a mask these days…

Another video package, but WWE is always so good at these things so I’m here for it. (WWE could release an entire Blu-Ray of all the Undertaker career retrospectives they’ve done at this point.) Ring is now empty except for Vince, who announces Undertaker. Taker has the full entrance, and WWE turned the fan videoscreens into a virtual graveyard in a really cool visual. Paul Bearer appears in hologram form in a welcome surprise. Taker says a few words and walks out. Kind of anti-climactic, but what else could they do? If it meant something to Taker and he wanted to do it, he certainly earned it.

Matches = 2.75-3/5
Entertainment = 3.5/5

Overall: 3/5 Bibles

A couple great matches and some talented performers in otherwise disappointing matches slightly elevate Survivor Series 2020, with the Taker appearance not really affecting anything, but certainly not a waste of time either. I doubt it’s the last time we see Undertaker on WWE TV again, but he’s earned as many Last Rides as they want to give him.

-Dave Beaudrie

November 25, 2019

WWE SURVIVOR SERIES 2019 [Review]: Thanksgiving TakeOver.

Wow what a weekend of wrestling! NXT TakeOver: War Games 2019 was incredible and WWE Survivor Series offered even the most jilted of fans their fill. We were supposed to bring you another episode of The Sean & Shawn Show today but my brother from another mother is welcoming his grand baby into the world. So I’m on solo duty. You know what that means? More rum and egg nog for me! Let’s get this show on the road.

KICKOFF SHOW

–Tri-Brand Tag-Team Battle Royal: Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode win – What was the actual point of this? Just to get a bunch of guys on the show that were otherwise unused? Ugh. Glad it was on the preshow and in the first hour. Nobody cared. – Dud/5

–NXT Cruiserweight Championship: Kalisto v Lio Rush (c) v Akira Tozawa – Oh hey! It’s the obligatory Kickoff Show Cruiserweight match. This one was good. But if you’re paying attention, most of the 205 Live matches are good. They just get overlooked because of the purple ropes and the segregation. Hopefully, the move to NXT revives the cruiserweight division because this is how you get a pay per view going. As a bonus they even took Kalisto from SmackDown & Tozawa from RAW to keep with the brand supremacy theme. Nice little touch. – 3-3.25/5

–Tag-Team Champions: Viking Raiders v Undisputed Era v New Day – The first of the champion v champion v champion matches. I’m slightly confused why this ended up on the Kickoff Show but I’ll let it go. I’m kind of over the New Day and have been for a while. This gimmick has more than run it’s course and probably has outstayed it’s welcome. Regardless, this was a good match. I’ll never not be astounded by Hanson & Rowe‘s agility. These two big men should not fly around the ring like they do. Kickoff Show-wise, this might be the match of the year. Let’s see if the main show can keep up with momentum set by the Kickoff Show. – 3.25-3.5/5

After the Kickoff Show, it’s one a piece (now I get why the moved the tag match here) and the stage is set for the main show.

–Women’s Elimination Match: Team Raw v Team SmackDown v Team NXT – At first glance this was a pretty lopsided match. SmackDown clearly had the disadvantage talent wise. We saw why sometimes, long time rivals don’t make good bed fellows when Asuka and Charlotte turned on each other and Charlotte got a face full of green mist. There were some shenanigans that eliminated Io & Candice for a little bit, probably because of what they went through the night before in War Games, and it kind of deflated the crowd. But they fixed it with a more than satisfying ending that saw NXT come out on top and set the crowd on fire. Overall this match was very sloppy and waaay too long (28 mins?). When the women get a bad wrap, it’s because of stuff like this. – 2.5/5

–Midcard Champions: Roderick Strong v AJ Styles v Shinsuke Nakamura – Did anyone not expect this match to be sick? This was probably the most looked forward to match of the night and it was heel v heel v heel. Three world class performers in a dream match. Well they certainly didn’t disappoint. Not that you thought they would. But don’t take my word for it, (actually, yes, take my word for it. That’s the whole point of this.) go watch this match. Roddy stole a win at the end of the day and NXT goes up 3-1-1. – 3.5/5

–NXT Championship: Adam Cole (c) v Pete Dunne – I thought the last match would be the show stealer– I was wrong. Wow. If WWE had a Classic channel like ESPN does, this match would be being replayed on it right now because it was an instant classic. This is what the main roster needs to be. Since this match wasn’t about the Tri-branded battle, I won’t spoil the outcome on you. Roddy stole the win last match, but this match stole the show. – 4/5

–Universal Championship: “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (c) v Daniel Bryan – Eh. I love the Fiend character but I’m over the “eerie” red light and the super natural, can’t hurt him thing. Looking back, he reminds of the Undertaker when he first arrived. That being said, I’m sure as this evolves it will ease up and he won’t be so indestructible. I mean, it just makes his matches so predictable. If you thought D Bry was going to win, you should send me some of what you’re smoking. Fine match, but the predictability kind of takes away from the aura. – 2.75/5

–Men’s Elimination Match: RAW v SmackDown v NXT – Team NXT was stacked. WALTER, Ciampa, Riddle, Keith Lee & Damian Priest. I whole-heartedly expected this team to win and I half-heartedly expected Triple H to be a part of this team. Tons of great spots in this one and a huge push for Keith Lee. You can tell they have big plans for this guy. Sure, he was eliminated and didn’t win, but he was the last elimination and he lost to Roman Reigns. I mean, come on. I guess with SmackDown moving to Fox on Fridays and not too many people being impressed and what they’re doing over there, Reigns had to go over here. It makes sense. – 3/5

–WWE Championship – No Holds Barred: Brock Lesnar (c) v Rey Mysterio Jr. – Don’t just have a Happy Thanksgiving, have a NO HOLDS BARRED Thanksgiving. God. Someone please make Rey just go away. Don’t they need a GM once they launch NXT Mexico? Oh yeah, and tell him to bring his little lesbian son with him. For a minute I thought we were going to see a damn miracle. Then the plane took off and it was a one-way ticket to Suplex City with no refunds and no layovers. Yeah, I know. You hate Brock. I don’t. And I thought this was awesome. Not a long drawn out technical match, but a brutal beating and one I’ve been waiting to see. My only concern is it wasn’t quite brutal enough for me. Hopefully this is the last chapter in this stupid story. – 2.75/5

–Women’s Champions: Shayna Baszler v Becky Lynch v Bayley – Why was this the main event again? I’m in a bunch of wrestlimg groups and the general consensus here was this match brought everyone down and was kind of boring. No Ronda Rousey. No big climax. Baszler taps Bayley and NXT wins, but they couldn’t go off the air without letting “Da Mon” look good and stand tall. Bleh! – 2.5/5

Matches = 2.75/5
Entertainment = 4/5

Overall = 3.25-3.5/5 Bibles

Survivor Series 2019 was a really good show. Especially when you compare it to recent WWE shows. They did the right thing by putting NXT over which pretty much makes them a third, equal brand now. They messed up with some of the match placement. (The opener and closer should have been different) But at the end of the day the WWE showed us that Vince and company can put on a quality show. Now let’s see if they can build off of this and keep it fresh and exciting or if will more of the same old tonight on RAW and Friday on SmackDown.

-Shawn Puff

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018

WWE SURVIVOR SERIES 2018 [The Sean & Shawn Show]: Red & Blue Turkeys.

“The Pastor” Shawn Puff: Holy shit! We’re doing the main show this time!!! We’re baaaaaaack!!! No more curtain jerkin’ for us ! I think we might be over!

“Father” Sean Farrell: It’s that time of year again where WWE insists on telling us that no matter what, RAW is better than Smackdown. Yippie. No matter who wins, we lose. Champion v Champion only works when you’re going to unify the belts Otherwise you end up with a champ, and a loser with the belt.

Shawn: It’s the Thanksgiving Night Tradit… oh wait… the Thanksgiving week tradition?? Yeah. Let’s run with that. Get yourself some eggnog, and you can skip the turkey because this one might just put you to sleep on it’s own. It’s time for the Survivor Series!!!!

Sean: Man, I used to love Survivor Series ! Teams vs Teams ! It was one of the first PPVs I can remember being allowed to order ! I miss that format.

10-on-10 Tag Team Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match

Shawn: So the pre-show is going to be a complete clusterfuck it seems. 5 teams on 5 teams. If you get eliminated, so does your partner. So the faces and the heels are gonna get along? Hasn’t the Ascension been feuding with Roode and Gable? Wait… the Colons are on SmackDown?? God.. this is going to be hard to watch. I can’t even with this one. I guess there will be a lot of action but despite that, it’ll probably be so hard to follow. I might just take that nap right from the beginning of this one. Does anyone really even care who wins this?? The real winners are going to be the people who are still in line at the concession stands.

Sean: Oh look, a traditional elimination match filled with all those fellas who are midcard or below. I didn’t even know the Colons were still with the company. I’m gonna guess the Godwinns win ? Are they still with the company too ? So much wasted potential in this group.

**Raw Tag Team Champions AOP** vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bar (w/ Big Show)

Shawn: Soooo they’re going heel versus heel twice tonight. Seems legit. I hate this entire idea of champion versus champion because someone has to come out looking week. I expect the Big Show to get involved somehow. By the way, this is his 342nd turn isn’t it? The AOP will be made to look like monsters when they devastate him at some point in this one. Something tells me Drake Maverick is going to take a bump too. It’s inevitable isn’t it? They have to do something to keep us all awake. But I think it’s safe to say if either of these two can take a loss without it hurting them, it’s the Bar. I mean, you have to keep the AOP looking strong right? Bonus: Cesaro will pull off a Cesaro Swing on one of the AOP. They need pops somewhere.

Sean: Well now, I’m not going to beat a dead horse to death twice with how Title v Title ends with a Champ as a Loser…. but whats the outcome here ? The newly minted AOP lose their first match with the belts ? They’re chumps who shouldn’t have won it in the first place. Oh wait. They beat one dude for the belts. Yeah, strong start for a once promising team. Y’all miss Ellering too ? Meanwhile we have The Bar, a team that kicks ass and takes names on the daily – they shouldn’t be losing to two young guys who they won’t have any chance of getting their heat back from. Who wins ? Going to guess it’ll be the AOP because yanno, Raw is best blah blah blah.

*WWE Cruiserweight Championship* **Buddy Murphy (c)** vs. Mustafa Ali

Shawn: I really don’t like Mustafa Ali. He did have a couple of great matches against his former tag partner, DJZ and Darby Allin down in Evolve last weekend. But all that included, I’m just not a fan of Muslim Roman Rollins. I was pretty excited when Murphy took the title from the only man on 205 Live I dislike more, Cedric Alexander. I hope we get to see more of Ali in Evolve and more of Murphy as the champ. It’s too soon to end Murphy’s title reign. It’s just getting started. I don’t even know if he defended it yet. I know, 50/50 booking, but you can’t do that here. Buddy Murphy has to win. Right?

Sean: Well, at least this one makes sense – Buddy will retain. Ali is good, but not good enough. 205 is still a solid hour of wrestling each week. As the good booker intended.

Men’s 5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match **Team Raw** v. Team SmackDown

Shawn: Ok. So I’m a mark for the old school traditional Survivor Series elimination match. And not that weak ass 4-on-4 shit they did for a while. Teams of five, strive to survive. You can’t even come up with a witty tag-line for 4-on-4. Teams of four each need one more?? I guess that works. I heard that Orton was going to replace Shane. Guess that was just a rumor. Damnit. Why is he in this match again? It’s not like they don’t have the talent to put someone else in this spot. Shane, you’re not the best in the world. Go away. Jeff Hardy sucks, so hopefully he isn’t in this for any real amount of time. Finn Failure sucks too, with his smiley good boy Finn Freezing cornball character. so they cancel each other out I guess. But beyond that, it’s night and day. Rey Jr., Samoa Joe and team captain, the Miz just are no match for Braun, Drew, Dolph and Lashley (Lash-ley! Lash-ley!). Plus they already promised Braun he’d get Baron Snorbin in a cage and Brock for the title if they win. This is going to be the closest thing to a squash match you’ll see on this one. Team RAW wins. And hopefully Shane gets put through a table. And maybe the beginning of that Miz face run we’ve been hearing about in the rumor mill.

Sean: Raw wins so Braun will get to beat up Big Lots Kane, ahem, Baron Corbin. Then have his third match against Brock because that’s what everyone else gets to do, get beat twice by Mr Witness Protection Title Holder then lose to them due to something screwy and go away, again. Braun, Drew, Lashley, Finn all should be gunning for the belt, not working as a team to beat up on the Miz.

Women’s 5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match Team Raw v. **Team SmackDown**

Shawn: I hate that Alexa can’t be in this one because of a past concussion. Weak. But Baron Snorbin put her in charge of captaining and managing the team. The one thing that really gets me is the mystery spot. You couldn’t have just told us who’s going there? It hope it’s an NXT call-up. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Nia’s going to hurt someone else. I mean, that’s why we even have a vacant spot in the first place. I hope she doesn’t hurt Asuka or Mella, cause you know, Mella is Money. And can somebody please tell me why we have to have Sonya Deville in this match. Hasn’t her fake MMA angle been played out since there are now four actual former MMA stars in the company now? #ShitShow Who cares who wins? This match is going to be a bathroom break and you aleeady can’t keep your eye lids up. Make it stop!!

Sean: Smackdown’s only clean win will be here. The Raw Women will fall apart and beat each other with Smackdown picking the bones.

Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins vs. United States Champion **Shinsuke Nakamura**

Shawn: Well this is clearly going to be the match of the night. And I’m not a fan of The King Whiner Seth Rollins in the slightest bit. I’ll give him credit though. He can wrestle and I’m glad they gave him the Stomp back. Shinsuke is my girlfriend’s favorite wrestler. That means I should hate him right? Nah, it’s fine. I actually hope he catches Seth with a low blow followed by, knee… to… face. Either way these two can and will put on one hell of a match and it will be the highlight of an otherwise tryptophan filled card. I wish they’d stop treating women like they’re not equal and let The Man get her hands on Seth instead, to be honest. She’s owned him on Twitter as of late. Oh wait, Seth loves to injure people. Never mind. Let the Career Slayer stay in his lane. We don’t need anybody hurting Becky Lynch any more that Nia Flap-Jax already did. Since they’ve strapped a swing to Seth’s unmentionables and treat him like the second coming, I wouldn’t expect him to lose, unless Dean Ambrose decides to get involved. When he does, Shinsuke will capitalize and get the W to help lead us into that Seth/Dean feud.

Sean: I remember when Naka had a rocket strapped to him blasting him into the main roster. His debut was an interruption as the crowd went…. mild. Never really recovered from that. He had a feud with AJ where all he did was ball punch and try to win. The King of Strong Style has become the King of Stall Style. Seth is someone who works hard, just makes bad decisions in his personal life again and again. I’d like Naka to win and win clean here and keep him on the path back towards greatness , but instead we’ll have Ambrose come out and cause this match to be DQ’ed.

**Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey** vs. Charlotte Flair

Shawn: I’m not going to lie to you. I have a special place in my heart for Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch and I was REEEEALLY looking forward to The Man and The Baddest Woman On The Planet getting it on the ring. My two favorite women on the roster right now. But of course Nia Flap-Jax had to not listen to what she was told and hit Becky with a closed fist instead of the forearm she was told to and broke her nose. Nothing will happen to her because she’s Samoan royalty in the WWE. Now we get Charlotte Flair in her place. Hold on … I think I just puked in my mouth a little bit just typing that. So this match went from being the match that everybody wanted to see to the match that nobody cares about at all. I would have rather them just have someone else be “injured” on Team Raw and stick Ronda in that match. This whole champion versus champion shit is stupid anyway. Guess this is last run to the concession stand time. If they even think about putting Flair over in this match… It just doesn’t make sense at all. Actually, who booked this shit?? Ronda wins or we riot. Maybe we riot anyway.

Sean: Don’t. Care. About. Part. Time. Wrestlers. Ronda wins. She was always going to win. They’re throwing this “dream match” away with less than a week’s build. Unless they have a long term plan to build to a Four Horsewomen v NXT Horsewomen match at next year’s Survivor Series ? What am I saying ? WWE doesn’t book long term anymore. Sorry Flair, you’re going to tap out because RR may dress up and cosplay as Piper but she’s booked like Brock.

Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Daniel Bryan

Shawn: Speaking of the Beast Incarnate… Ok. So we all know I’m a heel at heart. So I’m behind this D.B. heel turn. Let’s see if he can be less annoying and more entertaining. Everybody hates Brock at this point and even I wish they didn’t put the title back around his waist. Some people are suggesting that this match is punishment for Bryan refusing to go to Saudi Arabia. That has to be the stupidest thing I’ve heard since … Well since this stupid ass card. You people think his “punishment” is a WWE Championship reign and main eventing Survivor Series? Stupid Idiots. But it’s ok, whoever booked this shit is just as much of a stupid idiot. So we take a guy who was on the shelf for a few years because of a concussion and put him in the ring with the human concussion machine?? Does that even make any sense at all?? I couldn’t care less to see Brock Lesnar v. AJ Styles II, but seriously, who wrote this shit?? I’ve never longed for Roman Reigns in the main event so bad. I’m thinking Braun gets involved and costs Brock the match. That’s how this has to finish, right? It sets up the next Brock/Braun feud and Daniel Bryan looks strong as a heel, taking advantage of the Monster Among Men’s interference. Vince needs to hire us to write this shit already. One thing is for sure, our eggnog will definitely be spiked for this one.

Sean: Still. Don’t. Care. About. Part. Time. Workers. Sorry D-Bry. This was once a dream match. Now it’s a throw away match with even less of a build than the women’s match got. The American Dragon v The Next Big Thing ? The Conqueror vs The Eternal Underdog ? Man this match would of been 15 Stars if we didn’t have Mr Sleepwalks and doesn’t care as I throw sloppy Germans and F5’s be the guy who shows up. But that’s all we’ve got from Brock since the Cena feud. Brock shoulda lost to Joe, to Roman, to AJ, to Braun. AJ had the best match with Brock last year and instead of giving us the only rematch that makes sense, they slip in a now Heelish Daniel Bryan ? Welcome to Suplex City ? More like Greetings from Swerve-burg. Here’s hoping Daniel makes it out alive. Enjoy your first match with the title as you’re looking up at the lights, like the loser on the SD brand that Vince wants us to never ever forget. Brock wins.

Now that’s how you close a show. Thank you once again for this opportunity to hang with my brother from another mother ! I had planned on filling this report with anger and fire, unleashing the full wrath and fury that is HeelSean. But, I just couldn’t even fake it long enough pretend to care about this throwaway show. When Becky’s nose broke and then AJ was removed from
The show ? All it did was make Takeover look even better than it already did. Maybe next year will be better ?