Nigel McGuinness is a really good commentator.

Crowd does not give a shit about Kalisto.

"The Man" sign at the Royal Rumble!

Have not watched 205 in awhile..... Daivari now Itami's manager?

What a fucking geek, coming out with a pinata.

Chubby Itami!

I remember his commentary work from ROH. he's underrated.

His song needs more Pride drums.

Again, I really dig this set up

Aiden English actually trying to add insight.

Buddy Murphy looks like he could be a Main roster contender.

HALFTIME HEAT! HOLY SHIT!

Oh man, Itami looks a bit pudgy.

I do to. All of it. The ring placement, the crowd placement. The entrance. Even the graphics looks good. It has a Wrestlemania feel.

Buddy Murphy, Curt Hawkins and Mike Kanellis are all the same guy.

Crowd does not care about anyone. Let's see if this indy style spotfest can get their programmed asses into it.

Home just in time for the Cruiserweight match, cool.

This setup is pretty cool, yeah. I figured the dug out thing would look weird but they may have actually made the best thing possible out of it.

This is how Divas matches start.

Tozawa dumb going for a submission like that early.

Who are the faces and heels?

Tozawa is so underrated

Itami is going to get Alexa Bliss pregnant with those strikes.

That shit was cool

Itami is brilliant, but these other guys are boring.

Tozawa and Kalisto are faces.

They keep talking about Itami never holding gold. Think hes gonna win

I kind of like that Itami doesn't look like a tiny ripped dude trying too hard.

He was my "bold prediction." I also thought he would be KENTA though, so who knows? Feels like "routine WWE" would be for Murphy to retain, but I'm going to double-down Itami.

Kalisto monkey flipping Tozawa onto Murphy was pretty cool.

I don't mind Itami's look, but I think he's probably more than 205 lbs

Could see Itami vs. Kushida at WrestleMania for the CW Title.

Hahaha, Tozawa is such a fucking geek, but I love it.

Same feeling

Endears him in this really dumb way.

jesus, Murph got spiked

Buddy Murphy is good.

itami gets him into a firemans carry position. Commentators like "Whats on itami's mind?"

What the fuck do you think? Jesus.

Buddy Murphy giving Kota Ibushi a run for his money on neck bumps

Beautiful hurricanrana sell

Good crowd wake up match.

Aiden English seems like he is really into what he's doing so I mean I guess that's cool. Not sure why they broke up him and Rusev though

Buddy Murphy is so boring.

This is fantastic!

Jesus fuck, Murphy!!!

Guess Murphy doesn't think he needs a neck anymore. Some brutal looking bumps he's taken soo far.

Does Kalisto have the Warrior insignia on his kneepads?

I feel like Tozawa knows that I'm tuning out of this match, so he yells to get my attention back to the screen.

Holy shit what is going on with the kick off show!?!?!

He probably thinks it makes him good, as opposed to being desperate and setting his worth to the company as a body to break.

Effort for once.

Holy shit. WWE doesn't have Kenny Omega but they got Buddy fucking Murphy.

Cruiser title match was great.

That was fantastic.

Great match.....

Drew sounds extremely fake.

Welp, I continue not to care about 205 Live, and nor will the next crowd they are in front of.

And on the Kickoff show no less.

McIntyre is going to have to mix these promo's up a bit or he'll grow stale quick.

I'm a Buddy Murphy guy.

I can see KUSHIDA bypassing NXT altogether and going straight to 205 for a mania match with Murphy

Drew feels like he could be a really high mid-carder or tag team guy, but I don't buy him as a main event singles dude.

AJ was best when Russo was his manager early 03.

He's got a case of the "I'm trying to cut a really good promo" instead of just being a guy who cuts good promos.

Here we go

Bout to eat a pretzel

Yeah, picture from earlier is from post Takeover tacos con Slik. Seats last night were way better though.

I'm genuinely looking forward to Shane McMahon & Miz vs. The Bar for some reason. I think Cesaro is going to try and grab the brass ring there.

Hahaha, Shawn Michaels is actually becoming a highlight of this thing for me.

Shawn's pick: Drew
Otunga's pick: Lashley
Beth's pick: Natalya

"make sure you don't pick people who will actually win"

This crowd fucking sucks.

:lol:

David Otunga referencing this theme song and a single tear rolling down his cheek.

I'd say that was easily the best kick off show ever.

Coachman going to fuck this up. Please, come on.

The one where Austin Aries vs Neville was good too but those two matches were fantastic. Oh well there was the tag match but I already forgot about it tbh.

That seems to be the rumored plan for him at the moment based on the sheets.

It had one good match and one good promo and two passable ones with a drunk HBK and a million plugs for each match. It wasn't that great, guys. I can imagine how awful they usually are though. :lol:

Every year the Rumble starts it makes me realize how quickly the last year has flown by.

I want to impregnate Becky Lynch

This timing seems to support the possibility of Becky beating the shit out of someone and taking their spot in the women's rumble.

So many people celebrating the life of KWF Hall Of Famer "The Man"!

Might be the open air. The noise rises and leaves through the top.

Finn told ESPN that he is himself tonight, not the Demon

Good. Fuck the Demon.

Those A.R. entrance graphics are pretty hit-or-miss.

Becky's "The Man" one looked pretty good, Asuka's not as much, and then you have Reigns which looked really goofy.

I just meant what they are chanting for. They were doing the countdown on the minute.

Is anyone sitting by the pool in the stadium for this? That would rule.

2019 people want to sit on their phones. Especially without a storyline driven product.

That started last year in Philly during the preshow. They're just bringing it back.

If Becky loses and doesn't enter the Rumble later, there is going to be Royal Rumble 2014 heat.

It was funny at the time.

I can still see Finn winning in almost this "he's not even the Demon, he's got no chance" sort of way.

Womens wrestling is STILL boring. Make them valets or managers.

They can all get fucked and cut out their tongues, please.

Would make for an interesting show.

I look forward to Charlotte winning, Ric coming out to celebrate with her and getting booed to death, and then a blizzard wiping out the <strike>eastern seaboard</strike> southwest.

Stream is fucked and I don't think I care enough to fix it.

I think they're going to try and circumvent Becky outrage by having her win the SmackDown title.

Oh Becky please pee in my mouth.

I can see Becky fucking over Ronda and then Ronda replacing Carmella and confronting Charlotte who has cleared the field for an "epic" Rumble ending.

Becky has been working on that tan.

I'd glady take a stinkface from Asuka and Becky.