Kevin Owens and Chad Gable SHOOOSH each other

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https://youtu.be/ YFRrkHIXeGA - Kevin Owens and Chad Gable SHOOOSH each other

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This was a Compelling Storyline in 2014

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https://youtu.be/ exDkCIZHzXg - Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns want Revenge in 2014

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https://youtu.be/ CpiB5UaNEyk - Seth Rollins being a slimy Heel in 2014

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Time for a Seth Rollins Heel Turn, Bron Breakker's WrestleMania Feud, More Raw Takes

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10147557-time-for-a-seth-rollins-heel-turn-bron-breakkers-wrestlemania-feud-more-raw-takes 

Going for 3:40:37

So, as I began to watch the Best Super Tag Teams full match marathon below:

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https://youtu.be/36YGzpQc6QM?si - Best Super Tag Teams full match marathon

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I see that the first wrestler out to the ring is Cody Rhodes and I hear his theme song and think, that's really cool! I embed it.

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https://youtu.be/-wGXH7-ESaE - Cody Rhodes Theme Song

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Then I do some research about that tune and find this article: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1519014/everything-about-wwe-star-cody-rhodes-theme-song-kingdom/ The second wrestler out to the ring is Seth Rollins and I hear his theme song and think, that's really cool! I embed it.

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https://youtu.be/ooOX6zGnHWI - Seth Rollins Theme Song

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The Best Super Tag Teams full match marathon is 3:40:37 in length. I am not even 15 minutes in - meaning I haven't seen a punch thrown or a kick dropped - and I plan to make this video my soundtrack until my training class at 10 AM.

Seth Rollins thanks Sami Zayn with a World Heavyweight Title Match for his help at Crown Jewel

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https://youtu.be/ O0XdKXLhhgQ?si=9AzSGPMM6A20daxx - Seth Rollins thanks Sami Zayn with a World Heavyweight Title Match for his help at Crown Jewel

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Drew McIntyre Wants Seth Rollins' Title; Spoils Cash In

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https://youtu.be/ t8XrNSnx1kk - Drew McIntyre Wants Seth Rollins' Title; Spoils Cash In

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Ironic

Including this post, I have 580 posts with the "Pro Wrestling" tag and 547 posts with the "WWE" tag on this blog. When I saw that WWE is coming to Moline in March, I was initially thinking YES! YES! YES! until I remembered Daniel Bryan left the WWE and is now with AEW. Then I saw that Seth Rollins is on the card and I thought I *have* to go see him live at least once in Moline. In "real life," Seth Rollins names Davenport (which is across the Mississippi River from Moline and, essentially, the same city) as his hometown so I'd imagine it would be a special show for him.

However, Matthew asked me to go to Des Moines on the same day to see Steve Vai in concert. I would like to see Steve Vai in concert. 

It is situations like this when I wish I could split myself into two distinct persons so I could see both WWE and Steve Vai.

SR is a Bad Guy

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HIAC Results

WWE Hell in a Cell 2019 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights

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Hell in a Cell for the Universal Championship: Seth Rollins vs. The Fiend

The culmination of The Fiend Bray Wyatt's terrifying rampage on the WWE roster culminated Sunday night inside Hell in a Cell as he challenged Seth Rollins for the Universal Championship.

The arena stayed bathed in red as the bell rang and The Fiend launched himself at the champion. Rollins landed some rights and lefts but the masked challenger appeared unfazed, amused even as he stood tall inside the squared circle.

Rollins retrieved a kendo stick and smacked The Fiend with it twice, only to have his opponent no-sell it. Wyatt sent The Beastslayer into the cell, achieving great pleasure in his punishment of the titleholder. Wyatt continued to dominate Rollins until the champion grabbed hold of the steel steps and blasted The Fiend with them.

Rollins scored on a tope suicida but Wyatt recovered and delivered Sister Abigail into the cell. Back inside the squared circle, the heel eyed the table Rollins had set up. He teased a uranage but Rollins fought out. The champion delivered a superkick that left his opponent prone on the table. A frog splash through it did The Fiend no damage.

Nor did the stomp, from which the challenger stood right back up. A second Sister Abigail, this time in the ring, earned only a two-count. The Fiend snapped Rollins' neck, leaving him limp in the ring. He tossed the champion to the floor, where he retrieved an oversized mallet. He attacked the champion's midsection with the weapon but Rollins fought back with a desperation superkick.

He seized an opening and delivered a stomp onto the mallet. Back inside, he delivered a springboard knee on two occasions, then a series of superkicks. Rollins unloaded a series of stomps but The Fiend still fought back to his feet. A pedigree and a fourth stomp followed. Rollins went for the cover but the challenger kicked out at one.

Rollins continued to assault Wyatt with stomps as boos rained down from the stands. He produced a chair from under the ring and inched toward his opponent. He blasted The Fiend with a chair, only to have him kick out at another one-count.

With the chair lying on his opponent's face, Rollins drove a ladder into it. Still, a two-count.

Rollins laid the ladder and chair on top of Wyatt's face, grabbed a toolbox and crashed it into the weaponry. The frustrated champion pulled out a sledgehammer, harkening back to his days as a member of The Authority under Triple H.

After the official begged and pleaded with Rollins, he bashed the pile of weapons with the sledgehammer and the referee called for the bell.

As officials hit the ring to check on The Fiend, the masked maniac recovered and applied the mandible claw. He dragged Rollins to the floor and laid him out with Sister Abigail. A second, this time on the concrete, left the champion motionless as chants of "AEW" filled the arena.

Another mandible claw, this time complete with blood, ended the assault as the boos continued.

Result: The Fiend defeated Rollins via disqualification
Grade: F
Analysis:

This was an overbooked atrocity that Vince McMahon and WWE should be embarrassed to present its fans after the week that was in wrestling.

On the heels of a highly successful Fox debut, and a Wednesday night that proved there is an audience for the alternative, the idea that the old man presided over a creative meeting where this was the finish that was pitched and he was all for it is ludicrous.

WWE had on its hands a rare character that completely captivated the audience and left them wanting more. Instead of paying it off with the short, sweet and dominant victory that would serve as its coronation, it overthought the scenario and sought to drag things out for another pay-per-view rather than pay it off.

A year ago, ironically at the same event, WWE pulled the proverbial trigger on Becky Lynch when it realized it had lightning in the bottle. She went on to become the biggest thing in the industry and is, arguably, the biggest star in the industry at this point.

Instead of learning from that moment, the company failed its fans and the man behind the mask, to the point that whatever aura The Fiend had built for himself has been extinguished.

Why?

Because WWE didn't want to take the universal title off Rollins so shortly after he won it. Or, to get another month of matches out of the program.

Either line of reasoning is deeply flawed the outcome was horrendously damaging.

Good luck recapturing that, WWE. Sometimes, giving the audience the obvious and desired outcome is not a bad thing.

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Soft Spot for DZ

Despite what the author of this analysis - Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode Embarrass Tag Division and More WWE Raw Fallout - says, I am happy when Dolph Ziggler is on TV. I don't care if he's a heel or a face or a contender for a tag team belt with a brand-new partner. I think he is a great performer and I feel that he deserves time on TV. I feel the same about Elias, though I truly wish his character would find a true feud in which he could flourish. Selfishly, I would enjoy an episode of Raw with a lot more of the 'random pairing of two wrestlers to be in the tag team championship picture' as it opens the door for new and exciting partnerships. It's why I like the pairing of Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins as champions. In fact, the next PPV is called Clash of Champions and every championship is up for grabs. Traditionally, that doesn't always translate into the challenger winning, but sometimes it happens.

As of Wednesday morning, Seth Rollins is pulling double duty. Not only will he face Braun Strowman for the Universal Championship, he is also going to be Strowman's teammate for the tag titles. I will be very curious how this plays out. What if the Rollins v. Strowman for the Universal Championship match happens prior to the tag team title match and, in that match, Strowman wins? Will Rollins accept that he lost that belt quickly enough to then be a good partner for Strowman? Will he have no energy left for his second match? On the flipside, what if the tag team title match happens first and a miscommunication causes Rollins & Strowman to lose? For example, Rollins is the legal man and Strowman blindly knocks Rollins down by mistake. Then Strowman gets double-teamed and thrown out of the ring, leaving Rollins in a daze without Strowman to save him, which allows Rollins to lose the tag team championship. Would that cause Rollins & Strowman's Universal Championship match be that more intense?

The Clash of Champions PPV is a few weeks away so I'll have to stay tuned!

Rollins Never Should Have Gotten In There in the First Place

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Missed

WWE Blows It by Having Brock Lesnar Cash in on Seth Rollins, Not Kofi Kingston

WWE Last Night

From AJ Styles and Seth Rollins Can Help Revitalize the Universal Championship:

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From Bray Wyatt Has Turned a New Leaf in the Strangest Way Possible:

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The Shield say goodbye to Dean Ambrose after Raw goes off the air: Raw Exclusive, April 8, 2019

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Coming to France!

Rollins is Turning into a Face Very Nicely

As I Was Watching WWE Raw

I really could be a WWE Creative Writer because I could write more interesting story lines than what I saw last night. As I watched WWE Raw last night and saw the opening segment - nicely summarized in this article - https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2786388-wwe-raw-results-winners-grades-reaction-and-highlights-from-july-16 - I knew what was to come. From that article is this summary of the opening segment, but I made each wrestler a list item in an ordered list to make it easier to read:

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1. Bobby Lashley interrupted the proceedings and said he accomplished his first goal of beating Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules and now wants to accomplish part two by beating Lesnar at SummerSlam.
2. Drew McIntyre interrupted and said phase one of his return was ensuring the Intercontinental Championship remained around the waist of Dolph Ziggler and now he wants to accomplish phase two: win the Universal Championship.
3. Seth Rollins interrupted and came face-to-face with McIntyre before announcing his candidacy for a match with Lesnar.
4. Elias was out next, as the stream of Superstars continued. He touted his debut album as the reason he should face Lesnar at SummerSlam.
5. Finn Balor, who used his status as the first universal champion to cement his claim as a legitimate contender.
6. Roman Reigns interrupted, the last man to enter the squared circle, drawing a huge chorus of boos.

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I saw those 6 wrestlers, each claiming to be better than the other 5. I knew, before he said it, that Kurt Angle was going to assign those 6 wrestlers to a bracket of matches with the ultimate winner facing Brock Lesnar @ SummerSlam in August. I didn't predict triple threat matches, but that is what Angle announced: 2 triple threat matches with the winners fighting next week to earn the match with Brock Lesnar @ SummerSlam.

I knew, at that moment, when Angle put Bobby Lashley & Roman Reigns in separate matches, Lashley would win his match & Reigns would win his match and that they would face each other next week.

1. I knew that Drew McIntyre wouldn't win, even though I would have wrote that, as a WWE Creative Writer.
2. I knew that despite being a crowd favorite, Seth Rollins wouldn't win, especially since he wasn't in the same triple threat match as Roman Reigns (WWE likely doesn't want to end The Shield reunion until after Dean Ambrose returns from injury).
3. I knew that despite being a crowd favorite, Elias wouldn't win.
4. I knew that despite being the first Universal Champion, Finn Balor wouldn't win.

I knew it would be Lashley v. Reigns on Monday, July 23, 2018.


I would have wrote the matches differently.

Instead of the Roman Reigns vs. Finn Balor vs. Drew McIntyre match,

I would have put Reigns v. Lashley in a singles match, with Reigns winning.
I would have put Drew McIntyre v. Finn Balor in a singles match, with McIntyre winning.
I would have put Elias v. Rollins in a singles match, with Rollins winning.

Then, for next week, I would have put those three winners in a triple threat match. Reigns v. Rollins v. McIntyre in a triple threat match, with Rollins "accidentally" causing Reigns to be pinned by McIntyre. By doing so, you have an opponent for Reigns at SummerSlam in Rollins and you have fresh meat going up against McIntryre, which has never been done before. Then, for the weeks leading up to SummerSlam, on July 30th, I would put McIntryre in a victorious singles match against Reigns. On August 6th, I would put McIntyre in a victorious singles match against Rollins. On August 13th, the final Raw prior to SummerSlam, I would put McIntyre in a victorious singles match against Finn Balor.

In effect, McIntyre would be in a Braun Strowman role of 'rolling' over the wrestlers he had to wrestle to get to where he is alone with each victory building the crowd's engagement.

If the plan is for Lesnar to lose the Universal Championship at SummerSlam, I can fully envision passing the torch to McIntyre. I wouldn't care if both Lesnar & McIntyre are both heels. I would completely capitalize upon the WWE Universe booing last night when Lesnar was not on Raw. By default, McIntyre would become a temporary fan favorite in the weeks leading up to SummerSlam. Even if you allow Lesnar to defeat McIntyre at SummerSlam, I would have Strowman cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase and pin Lesnar. That would allow Lesnar to walk out of WWE - if he's going to in fact leave WWE for UFC - as a Beast that was slayed by a Monster (Strowman), all the while building up McIntyre as the one to take down Strowman at the next PPV.

I think doing all of that would require a full-scale "all in" bet on McIntyre. I like McIntyre's character, especially when he talked about why he returned to WWE, which was to effect change. It all meshes into the same narrative (storyline) of being new blood and 'shaking things up.' Instead of the heavily booed Reigns being shoved down our throats as much as John Cena was, it actually would be proof that the future is unwritten.

As the current setup goes, with the Reigns v. Lashley winner fighting Lesnar at SummerSlam, my problem is that Reigns has done that dance before with Lesnar. Riegns didn't win over the crowd. He was consistently booed. I am not convinced that Lashley can carry a feud with Lesnar as he is unconvincing on the mic. His promos during his feud with Sami Zayn were terrible. As currently booked, if Lashley is to really defeat Lesnar at SummerSlam, Lashley should then be paired with Paul Heyman, who could be shown as being a businessman and doing what's "best for business." You could even throw a sub-plot of Heyman being told to work with Lashley by Stephanie McMahon or Triple H, depending upon if either are wanting to be on-screen in the future.

Once again, being a WWE Creative Writer would be an awesome job, but because I know it requires a lot of travel, I do not envision myself applying for it in my future.

Royal Rumble Results

The 2016 of the WWE PPV Royal Rumble was Sunday night. As usual, the Monday night after a PPV is typically a good Raw episode. Last night's will be remembered for the following:

1. Spoiler alert, Triple H won the Royal Rumble so he is now the WWE Champion. He goes on to Wrestlemania to face someone. Vince McMahon, his daughter Stephanie, and Triple H came out to start the episode and announced that the they (the stable known as "The Authority") would evaluate all of the wrestlers and then decide who will be in the next PPV (Fastlane) main event and that that winner would go on to Wrestlemania to face Triple H. 
2. AJ Styles, who I enjoyed watching in TNA and Ring of Honor, fought Chris Jericho. It was Styles' first ever Raw match. Styles won, which is good. Jericho is a part-time wrestler and probably only going to be on Raw as long as it takes for Fozzy, his heavy metal band, to be ready to record another album. I will say, though, Styles looked a bit rusty in the ring. I don't think there was good chemistry between the two. The camera showed Jericho calling out the next move during the match, which is bad. That said, there were a couple of moves that impressed me based upon the decades I have watched hundreds of pro wrestling matches. The best was when Styles was in the Walls of Jericho submission move (which must really hurt as Styles' body was bent in a way that I could never be bent) and crawled across the ring to break the hold instead of tapping out. A jaded viewer like me never  sincerely thought Jericho was going to get the victory against Styles, especially since Styles probably required a good sum of money. What would have been interesting would be to have Bubba Ray Dudley, who Styles fought in TNA, come out and either congratulate or beat down Styles after the match. Instead, Styles offered Jericho a handshake - which is what the wrestlers in Ring of Honor do before a match - which Jericho reluctantly accepted. It would be interesting to see Styles / Jericho become tag team partners with an eventual betrayal by Styles to make Jericho the face and Styles the heel.
3. The Rock showed up and wow, he's entertaining. As he was doing his promo, he noticed some fans dressed up as other professional wrestlers - The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, and Macho Man Randy Savage - and said, into the microphone, "This is where we leave the script." It was an impromptu move and the Rock, charismatic as ever, pulled off the segment. When the New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) came out to interrupt him, he asked why they were the tag team champions when they had llama penises on their forehead. The crowd ate it up and started chanting, "llama penis!" It was genuinely funny. The Rock stated that he would be at Wrestlemania and, when he said that, the thought flashed in my mind that Triple H and The Rock had an uneasy promo a while back about who won more matches between them. I thought it was going to be a setup for The Rock v. Triple H at Wrestlemania.
4. For the main event, it was Roman Reigns / Dean Ambrose v. Sheamus / Rusev in a tag team match. Reigns / Ambrose were referred to as "brothers in arms" by the WWE announcers a couple of times during the match. After Reigns got the win, I sincerely thought that The Authority would put Reigns v. Ambrose in the Fastlane main event as a way to screw with Reigns even more. Instead, The Authority announced that the Fastlane main event would be a triple threat match, announcing that it would be Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and -- here's where I thought they would name Sheamus -- Brock Lesnar. After the announcement, the camera focused on the reaction from Reigns & Ambrose because, now, they have to fight each other for the chance to face Triple H at Wrestlemania 32. Even though we've seen the "friends fighting friends" angle before, I'm predicting the WWE announcers will follow the storyline that in order to fight Triple H, Reigns not only has to fight Lesnar, an enemy, but also his friend, Ambrose. I must say, the way WWE pulls this angle off will be very interesting.