Well, this a surprise to me, they are going to show the Tokyo show on the WWE Network. If it wasn't going to get shown at all, there's no way I would believe that Owens would drop the NXT title to Balor, but now I can fully see that happening. Cool thing about the network is that despite the fact that it'll be shown like early as heck in America (probably not even 7 am eastern time), is people can go and watch it, so hopefully they push it hard come the Monday after if any big results happen. Still lol at Kofi vs Lesnar as a match, I would have hoped Kofi would at least get a mini push to look like he can work opposite Lesnar, but this is likely going to be a murder happening.
I like that Lesnar is back, but god damn Cole and JBL need to show some damn emotion like in that opening segment. Heyman on the mic, how I missed that. Lesnar being back means at least something interesting might happen on RAW, but overall he's still not a fix for everything bad with the shows. Variety is a good thing, as would be some good writing. I mean Ryback won against Mark Henry with a Frog Splash, that's pretty different, and unexpected. The new stuff they are trying with Bray is fine and all, though I don't recall them announcing that Sheamus won the match via Count Out, which Sheamus could of used to taunt the people, "See that, the FELLA IS SCARED OF ME! Ran off in the middle of a fight."
Seeing as the divas seem to be splitting between two groups...(like AJ tried once before, and no one cared about anyone on the Bellas side or AJs, except for the main 2 names), I still won't care now that I bet Naomi and Tamina join Paige's side. Also, that ref who does the Divas matches...is he told to do so many slip ups on purpose, or what's his deal? Maybe he can be on a "payroll" for the Bellas or something. Can I be hired to make mistakes in the Divas matches? Catfight roll between the Bellas, Paige, and Naomi? Just let me squeeze in here to break this up, woops, now caught in the middle, don't worry, I'll break this up soon...maybe.
If Dolph is gonna leave WWE when his contract is up (would be slightly bad for WWE with even more lacking credible workers in the midcard levels), I actually won't mind stomaching this stuff with Lana...IF it's a ploy to get Rusev sympathy when he can start wrestling again. Having him on screen weekly has to be some kind of ploy for Rusev sympathy or something and repair him with Lana. Let her and Dolph do what they are doing, but at some point Rusev being a broken man, comes back, sees how wrong he was, sees all the stalker and obsessive things he did was wrong, but he did them because he loves Lana, and that Dolph is not the man for her. Let Dolph stand in between them, but Lana chooses Rusev again, saying she missed her Bulgarian teddy bear or something cheesy like that, Dolph can tirade that everyone always leaves him, and that he doesn't need her, or anyone else, not even the fans or something. Boom, Rusev sucker punches Dolph, leaves with Lana, we start part 2 of Rusev and Lana's story. I dunno, something like that.
Disregarding the midcard for so long, and losing many guys over the years really is taking its toll, especially with Kane, Henry, and Show all still around. Won't lie, Show is finally being slightly entertaining as a heel for Ryback, but there literally is no midcard. It's either upper card or lower card, there is barely any middle. And the few in the middle feel like Ryback, Show, Miz (though he should be just lower card), Neville, and the New Day (if they were to win more).
