by bigh0rt on Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:25 am
The Rollins/Lesnar match was excellent, and Brock put him over big time there. I need some more from Rollins' character, otherwise I don't think he's "the guy" (though it appears Vince certainly must view him as such having him go over Brock like that last night).
I'm loving this Bray stuff so far, and hope they're able to keep it fresh and solid. So far, so good for certain.
Charlotte, to me, is so so good. I know she takes a lot of flack for going over time and time again, but I think it's warranted. She's just fantastic, both as an in ring performer, and a character. Her match with Trish was excellent, and Trish looked as good as ever, performing. I thought it was booked perfectly, and Charlotte going over was the right call, as others noted.
Styles vs. Ricochet was entertaining. I like the way they're using Gallows and Anderson (compared to the joke they'd been for sometime prior to this OC reunion, especially). I wouldn't hate Finn joining them and having them bully their way through things for awhile, given Finn's general lack of direction with respect to his booking. I think it would at least be a more interesting direction for him. Maybe culminating in a Styles vs Balor WrestleMania match or something.
Bayley I'm bored of in her current state. She seems too vanilla and plain. Very much how I felt about the old Becky Lynch character. Not that Bayley needs to go in that direction, but she needs something to make me care about her, especially if she's going to have one of the Women's titles.
Agree wholeheartedly re: Kofi not dropping the title to Orton. There's just no need to give Orton another title reign at this point. Find something interesting for him to do outside of the title picture or have him put over some younger talent, but otherwise he's just not a guy I'm interested in seeing at this point.
I applaud the way Ziggler went about that whole Goldberg squash nonsense. Get Goldberg off my TV forever please. I'd love to see if having his name on the billing for the event impacted sales, if at all. It really weakens the show overall, IMO.