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Old 12-02-2025, 03:56 AM   #34
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Mediocre at best. The women's wargames was slapped together (Lash Legend hasn't even MET 60% of the babyface team; what's her reason in kayfabe to want to step in a violent match with them?) and ends with the same old "Iyo puts a trash can on her head and leaps down wiping out the idiots who stood below her" spot. Which is all except Becky Lynch, who taps out to AJ Lee's weak submission (the "Black Widow" where you can just walk to the ropes and force a break) but apparently this is "closure" to the Becky/AJ feud, because AJ either isn't in shape or inclined to work regular matches.

John Cena gets beat up by three girls, which has to be political on some level. Yes, Dominik is doing a great job building his character…but he's sitll a skinny comedy heel and it feels wrong for Cena to be losing his penultimate match this way. And everything was so obviously fake. I need some illusion, dammit. (Yes, the 619 has always been a stupid move since it requires the recipient to just hang on the middle rope forever [I do love the 2018 Royal Rumble where Miz is clearly checking over his shoulder to see when Rey is going to show up…], but Dom is clearly just grazing Cena so the selling looks very bad, IMO.). And since Cena can hardly get physical with women, it felt too cartoonish,

The Steph V match was decent enough; not sure it was PPV-worthy, though.

And ending the PPV on a "mystery attacker" angle is just stupid. You've got 10 people in the ring already, why should I care what Montez Ford or whomever adds to the chaos? What, Roman and Brock and everybody else aren't enough? They should have saved this bit for when Punk was defending the title (higher stakes) against Bron (narrower focus). Here it felt like a fan jumping in to take a random shot. Very underwhelming.

And of course, 4 matches streeeeeeeeeeched over 3:13 of show. I'm glad I can skip forward, but this is just ridiculous.

JMO.

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