[Damian Rey 2.0]

I loved this episode all the way up to the end. It’s fine they’re introducing new talent. Especially one that is really unique to their roster. But doing it in the main event, with a lights out spot, was a bad idea and it feel really flat. Joe is awesome, I love Lethal as a very good bitter mid card heel, and Dutt is fine as his lackey to feed to the faces, but that wasn’t a main event angle. End the first hour with it, but not the entire show.

Another complaint I’ve had that’s been growing is the lack of focus on Hangman. I thought part why Jericho’s run was so good was that the show was focused on him and everything on the weekly show built up to his matches and segments. It made him seem important, and therefore the title was important.

I don’t need Hangman needs to be wrestling every week, but he needs a live segment every week, and should be the main event whether he’s wrestling, talking, or getting involved in something to further his current angle and build to the match. They use him in the middle of the show and by the end he’s barely mentioned other than maybe a match graphic. Pretty sure he wasn’t on the show last night outside of the broadcast hyping his death match.

Get the mother fucker out there after the Joe match, have him cut a promo and get the crowd hyped for him killing Cole, do a run in, and either leave him in peril or have him clean house. Something.

The fact that they don’t build the show around him is leveling the quality of his run. He’s had 3 great matches and a good one with Cole, but that he’s not the main event on TV is making his run seem less significant. And it shouldn’t be that way.