I've got to beg to differ with this. Take a closer look at that Raw women's roster: unless they were planning to pull the trigger on a Zoey Stark heel/face turn (and she's blander than bland, IMO, and not as good a wrestler as Valkyria), Lyra was the least objectionable alternative to come out of the Raw bracket. I mean, they weren't going to go heel/heel in the final. Who else should have gotten the spot, Maxxine?
Not in my universe, she doesn't.
So the payoff is an intergender match? Rhea versus Dom?
Dom is like the one guy that can probably get away with wrestling a woman without it looking bad as a twenty first century concept thanks to his whole 50% less serious Eddie Guerrero shtick . It would also probably be a squash with Rhea beating the ever loving hell out of him anyways
Not for me, Clive. I've never been here for intergender matches. That's why I can't get into a lot of indie wrestling: intergender matches will cause me to mentally check out, every time. Like, my favorite wrestler of the Attitude Era was Chyna, and I didn't even like it when she was wrestling men.
The general rule of thumb is, if they allow you to see it, it's a work.
Oh when the guy is hashtagging himself acting like an alcoholic with WWE tags it seemed very clearly to be a work but it's still fun (also one of those cases where you're genuinely happy that it is a story, and hopefully only a story).
Perhaps. I be missing out on tons of context; I don't pay attention to much of anything in wrasslin' that's not happening between the bells. I'm more of a workrate mark... Maybe that's why me and @SLAB's tastes differ so much: he be all about look and vibes and s***, and I just be like, "But can they wrestle, though?"
I'm somewhere in the middle. Or just even variety within a 2 hour show.
That ending sucked for a couple of reasons:
