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Daniel Bryan is a great human being and possibly my favorite professional wrestler ever. My fucking god, what a masterpiece. And Brock Lesnar is one of the best sellers in professional wrestling. He's beautiful. Bryan's first kick shook him to his core. A chop block and a wrap around the ring post and he is sucked into the agony of the moment. What a fucking genius.
People can be down on the booking around him, and maybe he's not worth as much money as they are paying him; but my god, if you have the talent around him, he's worth a major investment. There are so many smaller guys with far less inherent credibility that could learn a lot from watching how Brock works instead of being resentful of his position.
I fucking hate the shirts. These PPVs could feel quite epic is they were based on just who the guys they are, but they aesthetically dilute things by making them look like geeks. Unless you are Shane McMahon, of course. When they did the Bragging Rights PPV, they taped the ropes up to be half-red/half-blue. Do that and have the guys start out in their corners. Mention it in their introduction. It's really only a story for people at home anyway, so the commentators can do it. The shirt thing needs to stop. When Nakamura is in blue pants, we know who he is representing. Actually, just lose the Raw/SmackDown things, it's fucking stupid.
By the way, commentary is fucking brutal. It's so bad. If you don't watch a WWE show for some time and then come back, you realize how fucking useless it all is. Nigel McGuinness sounds like he's good, but the rest of the people -- and I know people like Renee and Corey -- are just fucking abysmal. It detracts from the story they are telling. They are so broad and obtuse and obvious to the point that they completely gloss over the subtleties of what's actually happening when people are out there and know what they are doing.
I'm happy for Charlotte -- I really am. The Becky "heel turn" hurt her position as a face. Charlotte came off like a star, but people just don't want to cheer her over Becky. They kind of jeopardized the perception of the Ronda/Charlotte match they had planned by doing it. I'm a little fatigued by all the heel turns every week. We've had Gargano, Ambrose, Bryan, Charlotte, Becky -- it's all just very arbitrary. She looked like a beast though. I do worry that this is further planning to subterfuge Becky though. Never bought Becky vs. Ronda being the big plan. I wonder if they are trying to make Charlotte "bad-ass" so they can make Becky "good girl" and fuck around with that?
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