seems to me like this could have easily been alleviated either with a ref stoppage (do they do those in the fed?) or the "die on your sword" finish with the formerly-large austrian man getting a definitive pinfall victory

feel like his entire tenure on here has been asking people "how can i present myself as the good-guy billionaire without having to do anything or sacrifice anything from myself" and getting yelled at, almost like it's a kink at this point

RJ, you're sounding a little congested in this episode, did you come down with a case of huge nose or something

when jet and fletch shifted into that next gear right before the ad break, the tenor of the match seemed to immediately shift to "this could easily be a world title match in a surprisingly few number of years"

i think eddie himself would be furious; at most, i imagine he gets a visual decision with an opps member taking the ref, potentially setting up a rematch at the PPV, a trios title defense on TV, or (fantasy booking) a trios/world title double jeopardy match, where if joe is pinned, he loses his belt

if you want to get into the weeds, considering the mess that was post-monopolization 2001-03, especially the world titles and title lineage, cena would be one of the "first fake champions," which, obviously considering the material, is kinda funny

amazing that a presumably happily-married man radiates so many divorced guy particles

god willing claudio is his last block match and he smears mox into the 34th street pavement out of disgust

tough to be a standard one-on-one match at the end of a card full of stips, but they knocked out of the park

touché

it doesn't count if they don't do sub-dinner-theater-level acting over the house mic