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Interesting way to kick off the show. With all the talk of a new era and that you’d expect one of the top dogs to bring it up rather than the I.C champion but I guess it raises his and the title’s profile a tad. Match was decent though I’m not sure why Christian was referee. A Christian/Kane feud will be different and I’m all for seeing where you take it, decent start.

Glad to see JBL and can already tell what the announcement is, his character was a tad off however but I’m sure you’ll get that sorted in coming shows.

Second contest of the night seemed as though it was a decent one but wow, hell of an ending. The masked man just tore things up, seemed like a savage and at first thought with the S and all that I believed it to be Samoa Joe but the whole 7 foot tall things has thrown me so I await to see who it was.

Wasn’t a fan of this segment to be honest. Lesnar didn’t seem too sure on the stick(though I guess he rarely does lol) and Trips just randomly appearing to no music was a bit odd. Trips was a little better on the mic here, the dropping the ball was probably the wrong phrase though, I think if you’d have said running away or called him a coward/quitter it would’ve been better. Punk was pretty fired up here, I liked that, hot headed Punk is the way forward. JBL as GM, no surprise at all and the announcement was as expected. One thing I will say is you had it down as a WWE title number one contenders match but said the winner faces Del Rio, I thought he was World Champ?

A Ziggles/Benjamin feud would be great, well, the matches anyway.

Really big call in having Jericho win this thing. Jericho/Del Rio while no doubt a great match on paper doesn’t scream a great feud, especially with it heel on heel. I’m sure there’ll be more twists to come however and I will echo the other guys thoughts about where the guys who lost go from here. I’m sure you have something in store for them.

Punk/Edge seemed a very good main event. I’m not a fan of you using Edge to be honest but I will try and get that out of my head or else it’ll always leave me thinking negatively about it. Punk winning was the right call and expected after his earlier confrontation. Ending was certainly different and a nice way to build into next week, the way this is going it all points towards a triple threat in the end.

On the whole, a decent first show. I know you’ve been gone a while so it may just be rust but there were a few issues I had with characterisation. I’m also not sure on why you’re having just one show, yet there’s still two World titles, that to me doesn’t quite seem right. I know there’s a lot of main eventers but I’m sure you could figure out stuff for them to do outside of the title picture. The show was also a tad short, is it meant to be 3 hours as it’s a supershow or 2? Some definite positives however with feuds already simmering and I look forward to seeing where you take this thing. Keep it going.