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It looks like the border around the logo is thinner than the last one. Other than that it's solid, much like the one we had. That being said,

Big Scratch > Big Network

I've said this on Tumblr before but I'd love Rose to slowly transform into Leo Kruger week after week. Like slowly snapping and beating up Rosebuds, getting less colorful gear each week, not feeling the crowd-dive before a match...eventually Kruger comes out in him.

The NY/NJ crowds usually crap on him hard; my dad always wrote it off as him being a Boston/Red Sox guy in Yankee territory. But nowadays it's hard to find a pro-Cena crowd. New Orleans was singing "John Cena sucks" to the tune of his entrance theme. Chicago gave him one of the most overpowering jeers I've ever heard back in 2011:



I remember Unforgiven '05 vs. Kurt Angle was the first time I noticed anti-Cena crowds. Then of course getting a crappy submission move and tapping out the likes of Chris Benoit and Shawn Michaels didn't do much to gain his popularity. I remember laughing at the WM 22 main event because, Christ the crowd was more into jeering Cena than watching the match.

And the kind of stuff aimed at Cena at ONS '06 ("Cena swallows!" in particular) has to be the most disparaging things I've ever heard directed toward a wrestler in the ring.

I would love for this to be true. Like Vince is in the war room with Patterson, Briscoe, JR and the rest and he's throwing a fit: "Rikishi's out dammit! It's RIKISHI! We can't go on like this without him! That's it, scratch that card, we gotta think of a new one dammit!"

Forgive me for asking but what was the original plan on this match? I never heard a story about it.

Personally, being a five-year-old and a wrestling fan for roughly a year, I remember him destroying all the guys I liked and legitimitely fearing which one of my heroes was gonna be his victim. He was scary, but in an intimidating way. And to this day Lesnar/'Taker HIAC is my favorite match of all-time.

I wish Sid and Scott Steiner would team up and cut promos together. Collectively known as "Huh?"

What frightens me is that Brock had (and possibly still has) the three PPV matches per year thingy in his contract. The Royal Rumble match with Big Show (utterly useless) and Wrestlemania make two, and Summerslam would be the third. I can't see him losing to Cena a second time, especially coming off conquering the Streak. It would be a slap in the face to the 23 years that Undertaker was dominating Wrestlemania, only for his conquerer to lose to a guy who has never taken any opponent seriously.

He has to win. And he has to win the rematch. Why give the proclaimed "Most dominant competitor in WWE history" Undertaker's streak AND the WWE Title only to lose it and look weak a month later? What, to let Cena tie Ric Flair, only for the eventual Rollins cash-in (which, in my mind, shouldn't happen until after 'Mania next year). But like you said, how many shows is he gonna show up to? Rock held the belt for two months and barely made appearances and everyone crapped on it. I can't imagine the backlash over an eight-month period without the champion on camera. Again, his contract possibly has been altered where he's wrestling on more than three PPVs, but who knows.

I still think a Wrestlemania main event of Brock/Reigns would be bad. Real bad. Save Reigns' crowning moment for WM 32, no need to send him to the stratosphere when he's gonna have Cena in the same space for 5-10 more years. Maybe we're getting a slow, slow burn push of Cesaro. Maybe Rock or Batista will resume the part-time main-eventing role. Maybe it's Cena again. Bryan may be back in time, and even though he's hurt he's still getting fantastic reactions for his name being dropped on Raw.

The whole WWE Title picture is really murky for Wrestlemania at this point; rightfully so, however; telegraphing the main event half a year in advance would be ugly.

They dropped the ball MASSIVELY with him. Don't forget, he lost the US Title barely a month into his reign in a throwaway match on Raw against a floundering Jack Swagger. He became the guy that took Cena's beatings in a garbage feud with Kane. Instead of getting a singles win defending his US Title at Wrestlemania like he should have, he got kicked in the groin by Eve and never recovered. I couldn't see him as any more than a high-profile midcarder, but he was f'n over. He could've been, along with Punk, Bryan, Reigns, Rollins, Ambrose, Cesaro, Wyatt, etc. part of the new wave of stars for this generation of wrestling. Instead of being in a Rick Rude-esque role (don't be confused with this statement: he'd be at the position Rude was as an upper-midcarder/lower main-eventer; not comparing him to Rude talent-wise) of this generation, he's absolutely nothing. I don't normally agree with some of the stuff Foley writes, but I have to here: the story of Zack Ryder is truly a sad one.

They've been trying pretty hard lol.

And yeah NXT is gonna be bonkers with Devitt and KENTA and all of them. Hopefully the facepaint stays--even if he doesn't do comic book characters and just does abstract designs--it'll get over like crazy in NXT and will translate well to the main roster.