Official Backlash: France Thread: 5/4/2024 *1PM ET BELL TIME

Show started while I was still at work, so I just got around to watching it

RK-Owens Vs. New Bloodline - Very fun opener, hard to go wrong with a No DQ match to kick off the show. Really liked Owens sell of the Uranage/Samoan Spike at the end. WELCOME BACK CAMACHO!! (I do not like Tanga Loa lol)

Tiffy Vs. Naomi Vs. Bayley - Solid match, love Tiffy's cartwheel Alabama Slam. Surprised it ended with a roll up.

Priest Vs. Uso - Whatever man lol, Jey should not have been in this match. I'm not a fan of how this was basically a Bloodline match with all the interference. The only difference was Priest didn't actually want the help. Hopefully Ricochet challenges Priest next. That's what this match should have been and where this story should have gone in the first place.

Kabuki Warriors Vs. Bianca/Jade - First off, Asuka/Kairi's gear/face paint looked awesome. Kairi nearly crushed Bianca's off a crossbody to the outside. Looked like Kairi was going for a Destino on Jade at one point, but they botched it and it looked like it turned into a Destino backbreaker, which actually looked kinda cool. Jade tossing Skye Blue around until she got her into position for Jaded was sweet last summer in AEW, and it was just as sweet here when she did it to Kairi. Shocked by how good this was, I wasn't really expecting anything, in fact I was pretty much expecting a slightly longer squash match.

Side Note: These King/Queen of the Ring matches sound CRAZY! Lyra Valkyria Vs. Asuka, Kofi Vs. Rey Mysterio, Ricochet Vs. Dragunov, & Sheamus Vs. Gunther 3 all sound incredible. Really hope they go easy on the promo/vignettes on Monday and give these all some time to cook. Kinda surprised they didn't put Xavier in the Raw side of the bracket though, as he won the last tournament. They put Zelina back in the tournament for the women's.

Cody Rhodes Vs. AJ Styles - Very cool for Jessika Carr to main event this match. Every time I see Cody's entrance I always think he filled a massive void that was left when John Cena went part-time. Cody is the white hot babyface this company desperately needed for like 5 years. Very happy AJ went back to his normal gear style. Cody has some of the most beautiful gear in wrestling, really on rivaled by Joshi wrestlers (in my opinion). I aways love when Cody does the cartwheel/Stardust taunt lol. 1-count Burning Hammer is crazy lmao. Cody using the Kimura was very random. Very good match.

Very good show, much better than last year's show, which was mostly held together by the Bad Bunny/Priest & IYO/Bianca matches, and a really hot crowd. Every match tonight was good except Priest/Uso. Now onto the King/Queen of the Ring tournaments on Monday. 8/10

at least Bianca and Jade will inevitably be cursed with those tag titles

I would have thought the Bloodline story would have ended at the same time as Roman’s title reign, and I would have liked to see it come to an end, but I’m really liking Solo’s new version of it and Heyman have no control without Roman.

Getting a kick out of all the butthurt over Triple H's comments about the dirtsheets.

SRS crying on twitter, Per usual.

It’s not a normal day if SRS isn’t on Twitter crying like a bitch.

Crazy!

Very crazy brother

Fantastic show. Amazing hot crowd with a breezy 5 match card with high stakes throughout... almost felt like an NXT Takeover.