Thanks for the kind words Mick, glad you liked the story
On Charlotte, it's not that I hate her or even think she's bad, she's a good wrestler, I just think certain people overhype her to a ridiculous degree: I'm talking JR, Bryan Alverez, Dave Meltzer, who say stuff like "She is the Hulk Hogan of WWE women" or "Unless something insane happens, she will be the greatest woman in WWE history". To me she isn't the best woman in WWE, she is below a fair few both on the main roster and in NXT, which isn't an insult, with girls like Nattie, Paige, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch, there are not many girls who are better than them. I see her more like McCool; good in the ring, can make magic when she's with someone top notch as long as the top girl is running the match (as was the case in Natalya/Charlotte and Sasha/Charlotte. I wasn't personally a fan of the Bayley match). Charlotte is still inexperienced in this area, so when she runs matches they can be quite dull (her match with Emma, her second match with Bayley, the one after Takeover 2, her match with Summer who Paige showed can be carried to good stuff). Charlotte is also pretty bad on the mic, and her character is essentially "Flairs daughter" which means she isn't particularly over even in NXT. She needs more time in NXT to develop in my eyes, and there are more ready girls available, Sasha being the best of the lot at the moment. But that will come in time, I mean she's only been training for just over 2 years. She is good, just some people overhype her too much and shoot down better girls in comparisons to her, which really annoys me.
On Revolution, it was the best PPV this year for me in terms of overall package; Kevin Owens debut was perfect, the Lucha Dragons v Vaudavillains was a decent 7/10 tag match, the Baron Corbin match was a squash which is shit (I like the guy, he has the IT factor, but I really want to see him wrestle now). Itami/Finn vs The Ascension was awesome; Finn with his make up back was brilliant (only use it for big events though; have it as war paint to unlock the darker, less restrained version of Finn for when that is really needed) and I love the Ascensions gimmick (Egyptian vampires, they are essentially Vanilla Ice, if anyone gets that sort of obscure reference
), even though they are in a strange position of having a gimmick more interesting than the actual individuals with it, the opposite is usually the case in WWE with shit gimmicks on interesting people (take Big E or Fandango; bags of charisma and humour, stuck with nothing). As I have alluded to, the women's match was brilliant, although Sasha should have won (not just because I love her, but because I don;t know where each girls go now; I though for sure it would be Charlotte dropping to move on up, and Sasha feuding with Bayley for the title). And the final match, well, it was Neville vs Zayn, of course it was top level stuff. And then Kevin Owens turn to set up the new title feud; El Generico vs Kevin Steen on WWE TV? GET HYPE!!