CW POD: Is pro wrestling fun again?

That Punk Roman promo tonight was such a let down. To be honest both main events I'm not interested in.

On the positive Oba's promo was so damn good. Another positive is Liv vs Steph. It hasn't gotten nearly the time Rhea and Jade have and it's far and away the better women's match.

Still think it's unreal they are showing Oba vs Brock for free on ESPN tv.
 
my list from most looking forward to least looking forward to

  • Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi (Will air in first hour)
  • Unsanctioned Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu (Will air in first hour)
  • Women's World Championship: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Liv Morgan
  • Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Penta (c) vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Rusev vs. Dragon Lee vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio (Will air in first hour)
  • Undisputed WWE Championship: Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Randy Orton
  • World Heavyweight Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Roman Reigns
  • United States Championship: Sami Zayn (c) vs. Trick Williams
  • Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio
  • WWE Women's Championship: Jade Cargill (c) vs. Rhea Ripley
  • Women's Intercontinental Championship: AJ Lee (c) vs. Becky Lynch
  • Women's Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way: Irresistible Forces (c) vs. Bella Twins vs. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria
  • Seth Rollins vs. Gunther
  • Logan Paul, Austin Theory and iShowSpeed vs. The Usos and LA Knight (Will air in first hour)
 
Yeah TKO has destroyed the product. Got back into it for a bit but the product has been poor for a year or so now. And I’m guessing they’ll blame HHH and the old heads for the fall off, but they’ve completely gone away from the recipe that made WWE WWE.

My HOPE, though I don’t see it happening, is that this Pat thing is leading to a build up of TKO vs WWE HQ for “rights” to run the ship similar to Smackdown vs Raw or WCW/WWE or simply creating a NWO like faction.

I don’t love Pat being involved in the Randy/Cody angle, but it can be used to develop a hell of a new faction or giant feud.
 
my list from most looking forward to least looking forward to

  • Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi (Will air in first hour)
  • Unsanctioned Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu (Will air in first hour)
  • Women's World Championship: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Liv Morgan
  • Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Penta (c) vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Rusev vs. Dragon Lee vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio (Will air in first hour)
  • Undisputed WWE Championship: Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Randy Orton
  • World Heavyweight Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Roman Reigns
  • United States Championship: Sami Zayn (c) vs. Trick Williams
  • Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio
  • WWE Women's Championship: Jade Cargill (c) vs. Rhea Ripley
  • Women's Intercontinental Championship: AJ Lee (c) vs. Becky Lynch
  • Women's Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way: Irresistible Forces (c) vs. Bella Twins vs. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria
  • Seth Rollins vs. Gunther
  • Logan Paul, Austin Theory and iShowSpeed vs. The Usos and LA Knight (Will air in first hour)

If rumors are correct, it's going to be Brie Bella and Paige (Nikki hasn't been cleared to wrestle and is still in a boot). She has apparently resigned with WWE on a multiyear deal.
 
Yeah TKO has destroyed the product. Got back into it for a bit but the product has been poor for a year or so now. And I’m guessing they’ll blame HHH and the old heads for the fall off, but they’ve completely gone away from the recipe that made WWE WWE.

My HOPE, though I don’t see it happening, is that this Pat thing is leading to a build up of TKO vs WWE HQ for “rights” to run the ship similar to Smackdown vs Raw or WCW/WWE or simply creating a NWO like faction.

I don’t love Pat being involved in the Randy/Cody angle, but it can be used to develop a hell of a new faction or giant feud.

Very much agree, or at the very least they've gotten the IWC to put the entirety of the blame on HHH. I stopped thinking any of this was Paul's fault a year ago when they shoehorned the Rock into Cena's retirement tour (which I still think him turning heel and aligning with the Rock when Cody snubbed him was brilliant), only for the Rock to bail at Mania, and then suddenly nothing about Cena's heel turn made sense at all.

NONE of that is Paul's fault, and I'd say for the last year or more he's been booking what TKO has told him to book.
 
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When Paige and Charlotte were only ones in ring all I thought of is both have had alot of cosmetic work done.
 
Super Cody strikes again. He might be worse than Super Cena.

The difference is Super Cena was the kids' superhero and owned the fact that the hardcore fans hated him. Cody, on the other hand, isn't nearly as liked by the kids and seems to be much more oblivious to what the hardcore fans think of him.

Case in point - the crowd is actually making Orton the babyface in his heel run AND cheered the punt.