Solo visibly head butts his own forearm 3 times right into the camera. I mean, dude... what are we doing here? If you can't do it in a way that looks authentic, why do it at all?

the sloppiest cross body ever executed by Hobbs. Appeared to be both men's fault. Communication issue perhaps?

so far, this is a match that most people can have. They are throwing sloppy punches and just running into each other. This is living room wrestling, with better pacing.

most impressive thing so far was a simple basic suplex delivered by Hobbs and followed by a power slam

this crowd is gonna fall asleep before the end of smackdown if they keep this up.

and the only way to make this worse... a classic WWE no contest main event. my eyes are rolling into my fucking skull

i cant include the post match brawl in this rating. The rating represents the match and the match only

It was a match, but honestly the ladies six man was more enjoyable for me. Better pacing of the action.

This was very formulaic and straight forward.

Fairly hot start

Good flow, prettty consistent action.

Chelsea sold that oblivion finish verrrry well

This is my first posted review of a modern day WWE match.
Both these guys can truly go. I hope management gave their blessing for these two to tear it up.

WWE telegraphs people losing the title by discussing "The reign" the champion has had. I really hope that's not what they are doing here, but it certainly feels that way. They keep discussing the reign, rather than the match.

Simple (yet effective) story so far: Gables neck hurts, Ego is exploiting that.

I am engaged, its a decent match. I can't imagine they will have a better match than this tonight, but i hope so.

They are making the IC title feel like its worth fighting for, this is good.

They been going at it for around 15 mins i believe

That felt like a WWE ppv match. Well done passing the belt and giving Ego a solid foundation to begin his reign.

Fletcher laughing after Darby's face hits the second rope was fantastic heel work

Darby's spider man coffin drop was excellent.
Then this man just took a bump onto a overturned skateboard. Eats the trucks. My god dude, how? OH AND TAKES IT AGAIN TO THE FUCKING NECK. DUDE WHAT THE HELL
The the flipping chair spot... I'm speechless

Darby bleeding from the mouth.

Nick Jackson arrives and does what he does, in spectacular fashion. Truly does make it look effortless. Chewing gum and all.

Don Callis accidently calls Doyle "Davis"

Nick Jackson and Fletcher bleeding.

Davis does the most bullshit cartwheel of all time. It's something a child would do and you go "great job honey"

OMG DAVIS AND DOYLE HEAVE HO DARBY IN BETWEEN THE CAGE AND RING AND IT WAS A VIOLENT LANDING

Copeland arrives, crowd gonna sing it out while he levels the playing field with a chair. Great clippable moment for social media.

It's so weird Wardlow is in this match. The man spawned back into this company in such peculiar fashion.

Steven Borden is here...
He took the tacks from a very high elevation

Okada shows up with a leaf blower to get rid of the tacks hahaha

Tacks so deep in Bordens back..
He has a really nice drop kick

Ospreay enters, second phase begins.

Ospreay and Fletcher have a showdown moment and it sets the crowd on fireee

Wardlow gets hit with Darbys booby trapped book bag and it was very well done. Wardlow hasn't been around so he wasn't aware, but the rest of the boys tried warning him and fled. Shit ruled

Countless fun spots, I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy this one.

Wardlow messes up timing and Darby waits to get hit by cage door. Darby tried to make it look good by acting groggy, but it was rough.

Lame finish. Crowd booing, and i dont think its cause the heels won. Damn man. That hurts the rating. Made it all feel empty. Womans finish was better.

Hate to be that guy (i don't) , but they rang the bell when they shouldn't have.

o my lord... early on stat takes a avalanche hurricarana from Bayne and almost breaks her neck. Hard to tell who was at fault here, but it seems to be Stat.

Bayne just stood there and let Stat through a chair at her... that was baddd. She just stared at her for a full two count and waited for it. Timing was awful

Not a strong start.

Bayne blades on camera.

Did Percy just no sell snuggle barbed wire wrapped around the tbs title?

Skye Blue bringing out light tubes ruled. Don't see tubes on tv very often and it's always a treat.

Bayne is bleeding so much. Like, soooo much

Skye Blue been here for two seconds and is bleeding

Stat is now bleeding as well.

Side Note: I am genuinely jealous of Jack Perry. Skye is offensively attractive

There was a cool moment where Willow was about to show what was in her bookbag she brought out, and instead she attacks Skye Blue in a way that displayed such believable urgency. I loved it.

Thekla is a superstar.

We are flowing well now. I am engaged.

Barbed wire sticking to Skye Blue was something they didn't plan and man was it great. Huge pop, deservedly so.

Skye walked into a chair shot, and it was awkward. That pulled me right out.

They somehow botch a netgun spot (you know, that common thing that happens) when they are inches from each other. Thekla had that thing practically pressed to Windsor and still missed.

Windsor came in this match and things fell apart.

If DD are gonna stay a tag team, they should be forever champions. Seriously.

Windsor blades on camera and you see the blade wrapped in tape. Commentators forecasted this by saying "her head hit the pipe, not the cage"


The crowd is enjoying it.

Harley delivers bad strikes to Blue, who is too tired to even sell them.

Julia surrenders in convincing fashion.

Good Girls Win

Just wanted more. These girls scarred them selves for just a "decent" match.

Conglomeration 10-0 on Collision

I enjoyed the Austin Gunn being trapped in a seesaw spot

Austin is one of the best sellers in the biz, consistently.

Priest is dope. We all know who we think of when we see Priest. It's spoooooky (it's Halloween)

Priest is so fricking technically sound, much like some other guy.... I'm just waiting for this dude to hit a flying headbutt

Great in ring storytelling/psych with Priest focusing Takeshitas knee to level the playing field against a more than worthy adversary.

Best Raging Fire i have seen, my boy Priest got up there.

The way they book this guy, i think he is gonna get a chance soon. A real chance. More likely it will be a run in the ROH pure division. If that comes to fruition, i will be watching ROH every week.

Has nothing to do with the match, but Adam Priest reminds me of a more advanced Jamie Noble
Priest is looking really impressive.
Crazy top rope tornado DDT. I guess when you're a leap year baby, you gotta try a little harder.
The Alpha looks great as always.

Squash.
DD always looks strong.
Jobbers did their work properly and effectively

SMASH

Served its purpose, but nothing spectacular. Very talented dudes that can go.

Darius Martin looking impressive early. Good, fun technical open. Both men looked great. Really fun match.

Ilja was built for this place. This is a great choice for his second opponent. Mortos can match Iljas Physicality

Ilja does a dope deadlift and holds him there before hitting a modified german suplex. Very impressive.

Enjoyable bout.

Good solid second match. I'm excited to see what's to come for Dragunov. I think this company will suit him much better than where he just came from.

I love me some Joshi, pumped.

So there is a part where Fuwa-Chan is taking offense from all 3 girls, and she is just going in the wrong direction with each sell. She jumps out the ring like a full two Mississippi after getting hit the opposite direction. This aggravated me.

Koguma is the mvp of this match. All her offense looks great.

Great teamwork from Trinity These three can really work.

This was a very entertaining six-woman tag match.

Really hope to see these three women compete in AEW again.

A long (ish) squash, but a unratable squash nonetheless.

Got the crowd on their feet though, which is rare for a match like this.

SMASH

Sydal looks bigger than i remember him ever being.

Pretty sturdy opener. I enjoyed it and its always nice seeing Sydal.

Solid match to open the show. Nothing really jumped out as spectacular, but a solid match all the way around.

Aminata coming off a 3.3 star rating last week against Maya World

Wanted it to be a little better. Was decent, but i wanted more.

New champion, and all the face ladies come out to jump up and down

ersephone Attacking the tape on the back of Aminata's neck seems really fucking stupid. What an odd spot. Big win for the Queen. Decent stiff match. Certainly didn't feel like main event caliber. Maybe it's just me.

There is no such thing as a double main event... that's a cop out, period.

Enjoyable bout, best of the night thus far.

Tombstone through chair spot was not needed, but i get it i guess.
Ironically, it looked safer than the dragon screw Darby took at the very start of the match.

I know at this point it just seems rhetorical, but god damn, the bumps Darby Allin takes are insane. German suplex on the apron looked nasty.

I personally think getting your opponent stuck in the ring skirt is a stupid spot.

It feels like a comical amount of this match takes place on the apron.

Holy shit, Alexander's poor knees on that tombstone chair spot.

Really unique roll-up pin For the. finish.

No rating, squash match setup for Mercedes confrontation.

SMASH

This whole series thing feels stale. Even if it had actual stakes, it would still feel stale.

Its good, but it just feels empty.
FTR looks bored, especially Dax. It is like he is just through the motions.

FTR DID THE STUPID NONSENSICAL FLIP SPOT THEY DID LAST MATCH. OKAY, WTF MAN? WHAT IN THE FUCCKKKK

MCMG get the win and are up 2-1
I wonder who wins next... eye roll. Massive fucking eye roll.

This best of five is starting to feel flat quickly. I'm not even really sure what the stakes of the whole thing are? just the title of greatest tag team?

The back-to-back do-si-do was ridiculous. What a stupid fucking spot.

Speaking of stupid spots what is up with FTR's little backflip thing? Why is this added to the arsenal all of a sudden?

Really sloppy finish.
Trading wins. I can't imagine who's going to win the next one. Like we didn't know from the beginning this was guaranteed to go to five.

I am a fan of when Callis is on commentary. He remains oddly unbiased for the most part and consistently manages to compliment and put over the opponents. He walks the line in such an interesting way to me.

We don't talk enough about how impressive Fletchers transformation is. It is reminiscient of Drew McIntyre

Perry takes a wicked powerbomb off the side of the apron. It hurt

I do not agree with Jack kicking out of the brainbuster. It does not need to happen, he has proved his resiliency.

If you go back and watch, there is a shot of the commentary table from the ring. To the left of Taz, you can see a visibly upset African American woman shaking her head in disappointment. She is the physical embodiment of how i feel in this moment. She is kin.

Perry bit Kyles dick... it is implied he bit his dick while holding him in powerbomb position. I mean... dude what? I was just enjoying this match a couple mins ago, what happened?

Jack needs a different submission, he is too small to believably pull off the move and commentary had to cover for him by saying he didn't have all of it.

They botch Kyles turnbuckle brain buster finisher. Jack hits on the second rope. I mean, what the heck happened to this match?

What a fun little rib on Taz by Jack.

Jack Perry sliding under the ring to get behind Kyle Fletcher was a fun setup.

That apron power bomb was disgusting. And Fletcher was definitely supposed to catch him, so the one-two makes it seem even worse.

Absolutely beautiful hurricanrana from the apron to the floor, followed up by a quick top rope moonsault to the floor by Jack Perry. This kid is impressive.

Okay, dick biting was crazy.

What the fuck happened with that brainbuster finish? He almost Crippled. Jack Perry.

Mox is a workhorse. It's heartwarming how much this guy goes through for what he loves.

The Last Outfit got rejected evidently lol
They are now "The Cut"
Honestly, a lateral move in my opinion.

This match should rule.

Crowd is hotttt

aw man they botched a near fall and Jay was definitely down for 3 due to the legit tightness of Garcia's hold
Crowd starts booing.
"Don't smack the audience in the face and say 'this is fake'" - paraphrased Cornette

Massive Wheeler Yuta pop and a dirty win for The Cut
Jay pins Garcia

The botched near fall hurt the rating

*Post match*
Claudio needs the big belt at some point. Not a tv belt, not the continental, the world heavyweight championship. I know he doesn't need it, its what i wanna see before he is gone. I want to see him be the guy.

Good clean tag match to open the show. Nothing necessarily jumped out, but this match had a greater purpose.