Well that's great the main event stuff had your interest PB. Yes, it will be interesting where Solo goes from here. I know you missed a lot of NXT and didn't know Solo. He started there and was pretty good and he was a babyface and only the crowd revealed that he was part of the Samoan Dynasty...this main roster run with him part of being the enforcer heel for the Bloodline is different than his NXT stint. Now I did not expect Tama Tonga to appear...I guess they thought it wasn't necessary for him to start in NXT. Tama isn't related to them however his father Haku has had major history on the native islands and that's why Haku was at the Hall of Fame with the Samoan family and I would imagine that's why Tama is here now...the question is Tanga Loa & Hikuleo far behind

I knew a little about Solo. I'd also heard rumors that Tama Tonga was coming to the WWE, as well as one other Samoan whom I wouldn't be surprised to show up either with the Bloodline, or maybe with the Usos as an opposing faction. I liked the Guerillas of Destiny in NJPW, Tama Tonga is actually pretty old at 42 (I know that's not really old( but he looked much younger on Friday, lol. That's why I looked up his age. He's actually not Haku's biological son as he was adopted. But I wouldn't want to cross anyone that was raised by King Haku, lol.

Okay, that is good. Oh yes, the Guerrillas of Destiny were great in Japan. Yes, like I said, back when Bob Backlund returned he was 43 and that was considered to be old then, Terry Funk said himself is an old man when he won the ECW world title at 45. If your Tony Khan apparently his doesn't think old which is good because he thinks Jeff Jarrett is in his prime at 55 Honestly I forgot that Tama Tonga is adopted by Haku...good thing that you know your history PB

So today is WWE BackLash in Lyon, France but before I get to it here's a couple cool ads.



Here's an updated look at Raw, SmackDown & NXT though Roman is still there and Bayley should be where Bianca is.





WWE BackLash France has been hyped up for many months as it's part of a huge WWE International World Tour. This time last year it was in Puerto Rico which that was an excellent PLE, easily one of the funnest ones of the entire year and quite frankly one the best in a long time. There's a lot that's happen and going to happen during this WWE week





The cool WWE BackLash Poster featuring WWE Undisputed Universal Champion Cody Rhodes



THE CARD While this is going to be exciting & fun. it seems lackluster as there could be more matches I mean where's Sami Zayn's Intercontinental title defense especially since this is a foreign country where it would really be apropos to defend it at not to mention he speaks french Mis-opportunity booking if you ask Me

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes (c) vs. AJ Styles for the WWE Championship & WWE Universal Championship: So in Cody's first title defense against none other than AJ Styles, this s going to be an epic match but I see no way that Cody loses in his first big match as his dream will continue



Damian Priest (c) vs. "Main Event" Jey "Yeet" Uso for the World Heavyweight Championship: This is going to be a great one. Will Jey finally get a singles title Maybe but not tonight



Bayley (c) vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Naomi in a Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women's Championship: This is going to be excellent and a hot match. Bayley has been looking hot especially with her Ancient Egyptian inspirations. If you don't know, there is an Egyptian Park near at the San Diego Natural History Museum where she is from and I like it when even celebs like history. Hopefully people will find interest in it but unfortunately I doubt it Naomi is here and she's going to make the bout really fun however, Stratton is really on a role with her incredible talents and while I don't think she'll win, I think she's going to be extremely impressive way possibly more than she was at the Elimination Chamber Really I want Bayley to win and to be champ for a long time



The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) (c) vs. Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Now this is really going to be good. Jade & Bianca has been really good together and looking hot...I expect them to beat The Kabuki Warriors and win the titles...possibly even nearly in squash fashion



The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa & Tama Tonga) vs. Kevin Owens & Randy Orton: This will be something, Tama's debut will be at a PLE, I think The Bloodline has a major chance at winning however R-KO has really been great working as a team so really each has a 50-50 chance of winning here



Okay, here is a special bonus before I get to WWE SmackDown in France

I posted the full draft in the WWE/NXT Topic but I wanted to make sure this get's seen as the Dudley Boyz made a special appearance



Here's some clips of BackLash SmackDown. It's a cool crowd in France, it reminds Me of the cool crowd when they used to have NXT UK especially with the NXT UK Takeover shows

New Catch Republic vs. Authors of Pain



LA Knight vs. Angel Garza with hype of the upcoming King of the Ring




Is Carlito a heel, tweener or misunderstood



Randy Orton asks Paul Heyman who's the TRUE Tribal Chief is then a brawl ensues with Solo Sikoa



Carmelo Hayes is on the main roster. He had a such a great tenure in NXT being a former NA & NXT Champion. Even though he had a great establishment there with current NXT champ Trick Williams, he's gotta do his stuff all over again. Here he's lucky that "The Almighty" Bobby Lashely didn't give him a lesson that "wasn't for free"



Here's the entrances of Bayley, Naomi, Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill vs. Damage Ctrl & Tiffany Stratton



Here's the WWE BackLash Kickoff Show



Highlights!





This will be fun and I'm grateful that I can watch it

I found WWE BackLash France to be a very fun event. I was surprised that the R-KO match turned into a street fight by Nick Aldis. It was so apropos that Tanga Loa would show up here and caused the new Bloodline to win The match with Priest & Uso was really good. To think last year at BackLash was fighting bad Bunny, now he's the World champ I'm glad that Damian won and wanted to win on his own. Bayley looked hot as did Naomi & Statton. As I predicted, Stratton was even more impressive this time The match with Jade & Bianca was terrific. That was such a unreal move of power that Jade did to Kairi how she caught her I'm so glad that the two hot black muscle babes won The match with Cody & Styles was a great one...I never doubted that Cody would lose here



I loved that French crowd, they were so into he whole event...hardly anybody was looking into their phones and thinking this was boring...us spoiled Americans could really learn something from them They're similar like the NXT UK crowd but not even they were as intense as this French crowd Here's the totally insane Jey Uso entrance with all of that YEETING GOING ON



Here's a compilation of the great French crowd during WWE BackLash Weekend...Cody Rhodes entrance was excellent as the crowd sang his song



Here's the Press Conference...with Bianca & Jade....



with Cody...



and with Triple H.



The whole thing including the end when it was revealed about Drew Gulak



So throughout the day they kept on saying watch the Kentucky Derby for a special announcement for next year's Wrestlemania. I'm like boy, they must be desperate for people to watch that I mean I was never interested in it. Gosh I miss the days when you'd watch old wrestling in the 80s & 90s in the Control Centers I mean everything was there for you know and you didn't have to rely on going on the web and so forth Anyway, here's the announcement



So that was that and I'm so thankful that I experainced this I can't wait for the King & Queen of the Ring is Saudi Arabia in less than 3 weeks time now because I have always loved The King of the Ring