Episode 70 - Gimme What I Want

Episode 70 Show Notes

Tidbits:

• Fastlane reactions

  • Expectations met? Exceeded?

  • KO, Bryan, and Ali rescue a booking mess and flip a crowd that turned on them

  • We say goodbye to this iteration of The Shield

• Kurt Angle to hang up his gear

  • Favorite moments?

  • Who should retire him this April? Jason Jordan? Someone from NXT?

• Tag Team wrestling finally getting the green light!

  • Includes: Harlem Heat in the HOF, Revival push, multiple tag teams getting PPV airtime

• Gauge your interest in this current ‘Mania build

Raw:

• Triple H and Batista have a cringe fest promo

• Nattie + Beth Phoenix seem to be reuniting for ‘Mania tag match opportunity

• Alexa Bliss to host ‘Mania

  • Does this move the needle for you? Just a way to keep our girl on TV?

• Rousey digging into her heel character, squashing Dana Brooke, mispronouncing “marks” as “bitches”, um rude.

• Ambrose “On His Back” tour continues in a violent match vs Uncle Drew

Smackdown Live:

• Samoa Joe and Rey Mysterio being booked BEAUTIFULLY

  • They are getting a chance to stand tall while getting young talent over A+

• New Day looking serious/focus gives me chills! This is the kind of performance that shows me they could do what we pine over for Undisputed Era

NXT:

• Moustache Mountain jobs out to the Forgotten Sons!

  • Usual BSB spots from the boys, but this business is about getting everyone over, it’s time for the Sons to shine, let’s see if we can remember their names, let’s see, Jackson Ryker, Wesley Blake!, and matt, name the last one

• Io Shirai + Bianca Belair duel for the 1 spot, Shayna no sells both of them, then squashes them AND Kairi :(

• DIY loses to Ricochet + Aleister Black, inevitable due to Ciampa’s injury, but Gargano manages to further the storyline by superkicking Ciampa on the ramp

• NXT Championship vacated-immediately give it to Gargano? And if so, in what role?

• Adam Cole + Matt Riddle seem destined for a match to fight the Dream at Mania weekend

NXT(derivative) UK:

• Wolfgang wins and tries to establish himself as a badass

• Kassius being established as a regular

• Tyson T-Bone & Saxton Huxley lose to Kenny Williams and his buddy

• Super Nova, Noam Dar, looks like a Super-Duper star in his promo

  • “He said where we’re not from, boo!!”

• Xia Brookside Promo...YIKES…

• Kaylee Ray vs Candy Floss quick, but established Ray

• Odd choices to burn already established players in NXT UK

• Walter wrestles his first tag match...of his career?