I'd like to see Braun Strowman crush Triple H at WM.

Stacey Keibler

I really hope they don't have Rousey in the match.

Ronda can debut by being a highlighted ringside guest, who ends up jumping the barricade to get in a heel's face. She can debut by interrupting an "I've beaten everyone" heel promo. She can debut by Asuka beating everybody else, and Stephanie McMahon saying that she's had to go out and find the one person who Asuka might not be able to beat. She can debut by interrupting a promo in which Charlotte, Becky, Sasha or Bayley refer to the "Four Horsewomen" of WWE.

There are countless ways to debut Ronda Rousey - doing it in a Royal Rumble doesn't work at all for me. If she's in the Rumble, she either has to win it - which is at the expense of the rest of the female roster, means she's getting a Women's Title shot, which telegraphs the result of her WrestleMania match as she's very unlikely to be sticking around to defend the title and t throws out the prospect of using the Rumble to set up the story for another women's match for WrestleMania, which a Ronda Rousey match doesn't need.

Or else she loses, which means that in her very first WWE appearance, Ronda Rousey shows up and gets either beaten fairly and squarely, or made to look a fool, neither is a good first impression, particularly when they're going to have to focus on protecting her aura of being unbeatable now that we know she is, in fact, very much beatable.

More than that, debuting her as a surprise in the Royal Rumble means that we see Ronda Rousey wrestling in a WWE ring before WrestleMania - where the draw for her match would be "see Ronda Rousey compete in a WWE ring".

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The 2nd match is really dumb when you consider last year's Mania.

I really hope they do Cena-Taker. I'm gonna be there live and Taker at Mania is something I wanna see. Especially if it's against Cena. No one can elicit a response from the crowd like him.

Their singles match from Vengeance 2003 was a lot of fun.

And if anyone can drag a great match outta Taker it's gonna be Cena. I'm pumped if that's what I'm gonna get to see.

Last year's match seemed like Taker was going to die in the ring :(

Spring Break 2 > A Wrestlemania with Reigns/Lesnar and Cena/Taker. Even if they book Marty Jannetty again.

What if taker dies before the match and they pull a weekend at bernies and make it look like his corpse is wrestling.

Dunno if Cena could pull it off. Might have to put Styles in there instead. He could get a 5 star match out of a dead guy.

If Marty Jannetty dies, I could actually see Spring Break 2 doing that.

I mean, they booked Dink and Glacier.

As much as I wanted Cena vs Taker at WrestleMania for years, if they just have Taker come back and have another match as if the end of last year's WrestleMania didn't happen... lolWWE.

Or they could have Cena wrestle an invisible man and put a CGI Taker into those spots like what was done with Tupac a few years ago for a concert.

WWE has had 30 years worth of time and experience with having a deadman wrestle for them. All the need to do is update Taker's CGI graphics to the 2018 edition for this match. :shifty:

Cena/Taker at this point would be terrible. Would've been money in 2014 when Taker was still having good Mania matches and before the Streak ended.

The only interesting development I can see is that if Cena is tied up with Taker, it has me questioning the WWE Title match. Nakamura winning the Rumble and facing AJ is ideal but I could see WWE finding a way to fuck it up and doing AJ/Jinder again or something.

Just watched the Ruby Riot vs Sonya Deville match from a while back.

Really like Deville's moveset. Wish she would have been given more time in NXT. Feel like she could have had a bunch of "cool matches". Now she's probably just going to get lost in the shuffle until it's "her turn" with the belt.

Feel the shelf life for her was going to be very short in NXT once they signed Shayna Baszler. Both have similar MMA-based gimmicks but WWE cares a lot more about Baszler due to the 4 Horsewomen connection and her rep as a MMA fighter.

Putting Deville on the main roster now at least buys her more potential time until either WWE gets bored or Baszler shows up there as well.

This show was shot beautifully and had a gorgeous set.

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Miss MSG PPV's with the entrance facing the hard cam.

Don't get the Cena/Taker match at all or why people want to see it. Would be a horrible match and just be thrown together last minute. Would rather see Cena/Styles again.

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For some reference, he's currently Lars Sullivan in NXT.

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If I didn't already love Lars Sullivan, I definitely do now.

Dakota Kai is absolutely adorable.

Also, Shayna Baszler is something special.

Whoa, Raul Mendoza has a dope theme song.

Also, Kassius Ohno is growing on me, despite his silly ring gear.

Zelena Vega is very, very good at what she does. She is also very, very nice to look at.

Lars Sullivan now has a very cool entrance. Dude's a star.

That is fucking excellent.

Wait, Lars Sullivan is only 29? Dude looks like a grizzled vet.

Sullivan v. Dane feud upcoming? YES PLEASE.

NXT is excellent again.

Nikki Cross is very entertaining.

I've marked out like six times watching NXT this week.

Roderick Strong is dynamite in the ring. Too bad he can't talk for shit.

I really miss Neville.

Managers...

Give him Paige. She ain't doing anything.