I personally think Randy Orton is one of the best pure heels in recent history. But it does get really stale that they keep just shoving him into storylines with John Cena. I agree with bringing back the Legend Killer gimmick. it's probably been what, closing in on a decade now, but I thought they ended that way too soon.

Not feeling the tag team hate. Maybe in their current state they're not very good, but tag teams rule.

The only thing better than a tag team is a stable.

Kofi, Big E and Xavier Woods stable!

Also, I guess for me it's just the lack of good tag teams. Outside of Star and Goldust, it's just meh. I'm kind of over the Uso's, and the rest are just fodder.

The Wyatts are supposed to be coming back from whatever soon, should be interesting what angle they go. They are also looking to bring up an NXT tag team soon, but that's just one team.

Also, I'm really disappointed in the way they have treated Mark Henry character wise. They could have made him an absolute beast with his world's strongest man character but he's just been used to put people over who don't even get pushed properly. I will say, at least Rusev they seem to be going the right way with.

I will always love Mark Henry. He's probably just a bit too injury prone for them to really go all-in with, or at least it seemed that way for a long stretch there. They would start investing in him and pushing him to the main event and then he would get sidelined with a shoulder or knee injury.

You're definitely right though, if I was pushed to name five current tag teams that I enjoy I would completely stall out after the Dust Brothers and Mizdow (hate the Usos). Tag teams/stables just feel like great classic pro-wrestling to me, like non-regular guy with a real name gimmicks. So I'd hate to see them get phased out completely. But it's no fun watching them floundering on life support, either.

I'd really like to get into watching NXT since it seems that all of the fun is coming out of there nowadays, but I've just not got around to doing it.

Love Paige.

Add R-Truth and Ziggler to my tag team list... if they're still being booked together.

They almost felt like a Mizdow prototype.

OMG R-truth is back? I love that dude. His heel turn was the FUNNIEST thing ever.

That is honestly one of my favorite WWE moments. Like, I am totally biased because it involves John Morrison but the match between Jomo and R-truth where R-truth turned heel and beat jomo up and then started smoking and shit will always be one of my absolute favorite memories. "think about the children!!"

It was such a random heel turn for R-truth but it was SOOO needed and gave him such a great storyline back then. He went from being a zero to a somebody.

R Truth and Ziggler vs Miz and Mizdow could have been two good tag teams, but the main beef between the two was Ziggler vs Miz, Truth and Mizdow were just add ons sadly, and I think they've quietly just phased Truth out which is a shame.

Haven't really seen Kofi lately either. He's probably never going to be the guy they push for a WWE title shot ever, but he's talented enough that they can at least give him some kind of weekly presence. I really hope that stable with him and Big E/Xavier is something they bring to TV because all those guys are just being wasted.

Mizdow/Sandow is hilarious. His matches the last few weeks when he's just copying MIz at ring side have been great. Hell, I even liked him when he had his intellectual saviour gimmick with, and then against Rhodes. Rhodes Scholar - now that was a solid tag team.

I was also disappointed that Ziggler's World Heavyweight Championship run wasn't all that memorable (I think it was last year?) , I like him a lot so to see him stuck in the middle when he could easily be involved in top level feuds next to guys like Cena/Orton sucks. I guess that's one reason I don't like the fact that they combined the WWE and World Heavyweight Championship, at least with two different belts (regardless of the fact that the WWE was always more sought after) they could have guys like Ziggler and Sheamus in the title picture. Both of them right now are in the middle, whereas they could use the Intercontinental and US title belts to push newer/lesser known talent.

Rusev with the US Championship would be funny, I think that's where they might be heading with it next anyways.

I will update on Hell in a Cell tomorrow(today I guess) for those of you no longer watching so you can gauge how interesting it seems to you and if it's worth checking out Raw the following night.

Thanks Tim! I always think the best time to start watching again is after a PPV so I'll try and check it out on Monday regardless

What's funny is that having been following all year I think this is going to be the worst PPV so far, but it might turn out better than I'm expecting. I think it's just the fact that there's no WWE title match because Lesnar is on a stupid schedule because of how much he costs per appearance. I think Ziggler and Cesaro (you should check out some of his matches/promos, he's awesome) will have a great match, it's a 2 out of 3 falls for the IC title. I think Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins will have a great match too. But the rest of the matches are meh and John Cena is fighting Randy Orton for the 22nd time on PPV apparently. John Cena is going to get so much heat if he wins too because they're fighting for #1 contender and right now Orton is very popular despite being a heel working for HHH and Cena has already fought Lesnar twice and most fans see him as only getting in the way of storylines that would be better without him.

EDIT: If you don't like John Cena much, his match at Summerslam with Brock Lesnar is a must see. Lesnar breaks the record for most german suplexes in a match and it's basically just 15 minutes of John Cena being completely destroyed. I loved it.

I assume you guys all know about the WWE network. All WCW, ECW and WWE PPV's, documentaries, original shows, and a lot of seasons of the shows. Along with all the new PPV's live for $9.99 a month. It's nice because I used to get maybe two or three PPV's a year if that, with Wrestlemania of course being one, and for a while before the network launched I'd watch streams if I could find any, but now I get to watch everything plus all the other content they have for about $120 a year. I think they're not profiting much from it though and they'll probably raise the price in a few years.

^ You would think WWE would have been smart to think for a second "gee, we just had Lesnar completely destroy Cena at Summerslam.... rematch next PPV and let's make it more even!"

Honestly, with the way they've handled Lesnar this year (completely destroying Cena @ Summerslam, beating the Undertaker at Wrestlmania) the only logical way for him to lose the belt anytime soon would be after a brutal match where he wins, only to have Rollins cash in. Otherwise they just built him up to be this beast only to have him lose clean? That wouldn't work. That, or put the title on the line in a triple threat or fatal four way. Considering they have axed Elimination Chamber (which I think is stupid) those would be the only possible ways to get the title from Lesnar's part time hands.

So far, unless Christian returns, or somehow the SCSA rumours become true, I'm only watching the Royal Rumble and maybe WM.

Those are typically the only PPVs I attempt to watch even when I am actively watching Raw week to week.

Maybe Summerslam too.

I used to always love the Survivor Series. The ones with the traditional tag team elimination matches. They were always so much fun. Usually it would involve people teaming up to battle people they were fueding with, but sometimes they'd just throw some people together on a team of wildcards. I liked that you might see certain people fight people they didn't normally get to be in the ring with, and the when you'd get uneven sides when members were eliminated. I have the Survivor Series Anthology vol. 1 and 2 on dvd, which includes the first 10 Survivor Series PPVs in their entirety (and the Undertaker's WWE debut). The first year (1987) had a match with I think 10 actual tag teams on each side, and it went on for about an hour. lol The ladies wrestled a lot better and the matches were actually entertaining back then too, they just didn't look as good as the Divas of today. :P

Remember when Christian won the title and got to celebrate with Edge to kick off his title run?

Ah those were twelve glorious hours.