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usually when they do something like this Superstar Shakeup, I feel like I'm less satisfied/have more complaints than I do this time around. I feel like, at a glacial pace, the booking is improving in general on WWE. Certainly the talent is insane. And people hype the women's revolution a lot this past couple years, but - it's literally upped the bar across the board. And it's shown that - you can actually have an entire division of top-tier talent and still make it all work. The matches are better, everything is better. There's no reason the men's divisions couldn't have that. There's no reason the tag division shouldn't have that. The Cruiserweight division. If the Women's division is a blueprint to success, the Cruiserweight division is a roadmap to failure. 205 LIve has some of the best in all of WWE and they're just treated like they have the plague because, isolated not just to their own division, but their own separate show that seems less an incubator for talent (like NXT) and more just an afterthought (well, what do we do with all these dudes now?) situation. wow sidetracked. thought the trade went really well this time around. Almost every single one I thought was a good choice as to which brand then ended up on, or at the very least was sort of indifferent. There were a few holes (things like the Rowan loose end, the Wyatt/Orton match, Jericho/Owens) due to a ripple effect. But most of the time when WWE does an event like this, I come away supremely/universally disappointed, but liking one or two things. This time was the reverse of that. Liked almost everything, with maybe one or two small disappointments.

the JBL thing I still think isn't going to have an effect. BUT - I did notice tonight that it effects my ability to listen to him on the announce table a little bit. He used to make me smile, now when he talks, it's kinda the opposite, it sucks the smile off my face. Owens I expected. I think he'll be awesome on SD. Zayn I kind of expected. Owens and Zayn - never seen a bad match from either one. That opening, with Owens, Zayn, Corbin and AJ Styles all in the same ring is freakin amazing. Just the idea of all four of those guys, not only on the same show, but on the same show with Nakamura. On the flipside of that, with all that talent, plus Luke Harper, plus Rusev - and with all that who does WWE have the title on? zzzzzzzortonzzzzzz. Orton bugs the crap out of me in that - like the crowd cheers him for doing nothing. Just kind of walking around and having super slow matches. His style is slow-slow-slow-QUICKMOVE-slow-slow-slow-RKO. It's fucking boring. Just like - guys like Zayn and Owens and Styles never seem to have a bad match, and they know how to work with somebody - Orton rarely has a good match to me. Like he gives zero to whoever he's in the ring with. Either he doesn't sell, or he's slowing the match down. Good to see Rowan rack up a "sort of" win, especially over Orton. But just - like Orton is not a guy to help somebody else period. If you're looking to advance Rowan, Orton is not your man. I like Rowan, but he's best as a flunky. And with Wyatt on Raw, and Harper kind of being pushed to the singles scene, not a lot of space for Rowan on SD. I think he'd work best in this role, as a sort of SD agent of Wyatt. It might be nice at some point to see he and Harper with a significant run as tag champs. But I'd hate to see Harper's half-hearted singles push get interrupted by a tag run. I kind of like Mojo Rawley. This Gronk thing is kind of irritating though. Makes me just not care if Mojo is on or not. Jinder Mahal - don't really care. Don't hate him or anything. But just - don't care. I guess I sort of liked him with Rusev. But as with Harper, don't like to see Rusev weighed down with a partner. Women's division: There's not one person in that division that doesn't deserve the title. .... oh correction... until Tamina arrived. I don't hate her or anything, she's okay. Just - not smooth in the ring and not great on the mic. Every other performer in the SD Women's division is straight up perfect. That's an embarrassingly talented roster. Nice to see guys like Aiden English and Rowan getting some air time. Dillinger/English isn't a bad idea for a match. Both of these dudes are good, but just not great. It's a whole new ballgame with the insane amount of genuine well-rounded talent. Both of these dudes I think are solid enough mid-carders, but on a show with all of the aforementioned talent, "solid" isn't going to get you noticed. having said that, happy to see both of these guys get some air time. Ziggler/Nakamura is a great idea for a match. Especially with Ziggler being shifted to heel. At one time, I think this would have been a dream match. I think Ziggler's been really badly handled over the last year, leading people to maybe sell a match like this a little short. oh wow New Day only gets a taped promo. That's a missed opportunity there. But a lot to sqeeze into one show. It was a good episode.

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I just thought of a cool angle for Orton/Wyatt headed into Payback. This whole thing was set up to make look as though perhaps Wyatt has the advantage by picking the type of match. to be honest, I really don't like Orton. I think he's boring as shit. The biggest difference between Orton and Reigns is that Orton knows to keep his mouth shut and go minimalist on the mic, and actually looks confident. But so anyhow - it might be (and this won't happen, but just sayin) neat if Orton were to be so focused on utterly destroying Wyatt that he vacated the SD title to chase after him. Basically - in WWE the title is everything to everyone, it would pour some gas on the fire of that storyline if suddenly Orton were revealed to be more obsessed with ending Wyatt than even keeping the belt. That frees up SD to maybe do an elimination series for the belts, allowing them to start new storylines and rivalries on the way, which after the shakeup and WM33, is something they seem to need. Also if they were to embroil their singles division in an elimination series over the course of weeks, they could focus mainly on that singles-wise and actually have some breathing room to work on their tag team division, storylines, etc. It would solve a ton of problems, but I think WWE will be focused instead on keeping Orton on SD, as there aren't that many of what Vince himself considers the top guys on that brand. Honestly, I say - stick everybody Vince likes on Raw. Shift SD to more of a NXT stepping stone and leave it more to Triple H and that crew. If Rollins, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, not sure how long Jericho is in for, but he could go to SD (in fact, I think he'd be perfect for SD), The New Day (were they all to switch) would be plenty I think. And maybe when Rusev returns, he could go to SD. edit - And Harper, fuck can't believe I forgot him. Another thing is - like Nakamura Vs Orton would be like mixing oil and water. Orton is old school slow/WWE style spears and clotheslines. Nakamura is the antithesis of that. Removing Orton from the title hunt in SD would pave the way for some amazing matches. That batch of Rollins, Nakamura, Zayn, Owens, with Rusev and Jericho tossed in and then toss in the New Day performers maybe competing as singles players (without breaking up the faction), I think that's a ton of fuel for SD's fire for the entire year or more. They don't even really need Orton.

the strowman thing was pretty awesome. Elias Sampson is funny. I hope they keep that bit going, maybe even across all 3 brands. I'd read somewhere that he'd tried to sneak back into NXT using a different name. I like the angle, it reminds me of Sandow's stuff in a way. Also Jericho - wasn't he going on tour with his band after WM33? No he's in for another 3 weeks at least? And this after already extending his contract past the first time he was scheduled to leave. Not complaining, I like him. The crowd seems to like him a lot, and the WWE brass seems to like him. Those things so rarely line up these days - I guess as long as he's willing to hang around, everybody wins.

Heath and Rhyno - glad they're keeping them a team. They work really well together. They too I think work better on SD. It bodes kind of ill to me that Crews, Kalisto and Heath and Rhyno just got these little mentions, with no real on air match/event or even promo. It's already tough for people to get anywhere on Raw. so to start with so little momentum seems to defeat the whole purpose of even having a "superstar shakeup".

I don't see Crews or Kalisto getting any further on Raw than they would have on SD. Not sure those are good moves either. But as was mentioned earlier, I don't mind a little SD housecleaning if it means a few NXT jumps.

bray wyatt moving to Raw is okay I guess. clearly Orton is planned to retain the title after Payback then. Not sure what it accomplishes. they're not going to put him in a program against Lesnar. He's still feuding with Orton up through Payback (because they still have a match scheduled) and he just hooked up with Rowan again. So - doesn't seem particularly optimal on a number of levels. Another thing it does is take away that stepping stone for Harper, it seemed fairly natural for him to go through Wyatt to become a contender for the title, now he doesn't have that storyline legup. Orton isn't particularly set up for anybody else right now. so - seems like kind of another bad move to me.

still watching it (keep having to pause it to do stuff). though in my news surfing today I noticed Byron Saxton is going to SD, which I think is fucking stupid, because he and Graves have great chemistry. And David Otunga is moving to Raw, which pisses me off because David Otunga has literally zero business to conduct on he mic. He's just a mindless husk that sits there - kind of reminds me of Reigns in that he seems to have no idea how to emote in any way, nor does he seem particularly comfortable speaking. He shouldn't be on any announce team. so don't like that.

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