Hits & Misses

Lashley, Rusev, and Lana – MISS: I understand not wanting to start Raw off with Seth Rollins after Hell in a Cell. I’m not sure starting out with the Rusev, Lana and Bobby Lashley situation […]

The Rock and The Man – HIT: The first ever Friday Night Smackdown (not Live) on FOX got off to a good start with Becky Lynch (after the brief intro). She was interrupted by Baron […]

Before we get into this week’s Hits and Misses, I invite all of you to check out this week’s episode of PWT Talks NXT! Alongside Kelly Wells and Tom Stoup, I made my PWTorch Dailycast […]

Announcing – HIT: The dream team of Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone was a major success. This was one of the smoothest announcing crews we’ve seen in AEW. Everyone on the team has a wealth […]

The Announcers – MISS: With two new green announcers, Vic Joseph and Dio Maddin on the Raw team on this “season premiere,” it was good to hear an old voice in Jerry “the King” Lawler […]

Episode 1 Tony Schiavone – HIT: Tony Schiavone brings a level of professionalism from doing wrestling announcing for decades and an established bond with the audience. Schiavone is another recognizable voice that may help to […]

Rowan vs. Bryan – HIT: The mic work from Rowan which started off Smackdown was ok. He just isn’t very good on the mic yet. But, the impromptu match between him and Daniel Bryan which […]

Opening Segment – HIT:Seeing the undisputed era holding all four NXT title belts while standing high above the crowd was such a cool visual and a refreshing way to start the night. It kicked off […]

Opening Segment – MISS: This is a marginal Miss as the opening segment did at least build towards the main event for this show, while also fitting in with the storyline coming out of Night […]

New Day vs. Orton & The Revival – HIT: It was nice to see Smackdown start off with a very good 6 man tag match that went 20 minutes. There were a few parts that […]

Opening video segment – HIT: Goosebumps. That video package was an incredible way to introduce the USA Network audience to NXT. The music and visuals accompanied by Hunter’s commentary was very well done. If you had just […]

Opening Segment – MISS: Last week, the first two hours of Raw were really good, but the third hour was bad. This week was kind of the opposite, as the first two hours were mostly […]

Damien Priest vs. Boa – HIT: But just barely. Where this was a relatively lackluster match, it was nearly a miss for me. It was match to advance Priest’s winning streak, nothing more and nothing […]

Undertaker – Zayn – MISS: Steve Austin had a purpose for being on Raw, to oversee the contract signing for the Universal Championship match. What purpose did the Undertaker serve on Smackdown? Why was he […]

Stone Cold – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with the contract signing between Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman for their Universal Title match at Clash of Champions. Rollins and Strowman were good, […]

Opening Segment – HIT: This was a marginal Hit. Bayley’s character seems to be a heel who doesn’t think she’s a heel. That can work. Her mic work was pretty good. I like the idea […]

Contract Signing – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with the aborted contract signing for the Universal Championship match between Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman. The mic work from those two to start […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Smackdown got off to a good start with Kofi Kingston cutting a promo about Randy Orton. Actually, before that we got a long video package of the Roman Reigns mystery, followed […]

Sasha Banks Promo – HIT: Sasha Banks did a nice job coming across as unlikable in her show opening promo. It wasn’t great. I was hoping for more from her since she was such a […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Smackdown got off to a good start with more build towards Kofi Kingston defending the WWE Championship against Randy Orton. Orton started things off well with a strong promo talking about […]

Reigns vs. Ziggler – HIT: This Hit is for both the match itself and the lead up to it. Roman Reigns set the tone right away with the intense way that he came out to […]

Kevin Owens Promo – HIT: Smackdown started off well with Kevin Owens talking about beating Shane McMahon at SummerSlam and looking ahead to King of the Ring which starts next week. The fans are definitely […]