Thoughts from last night:
The opening segment was a little awkward I thought just in nobody getting on the microphone and making their case to be a contender (besides Rollins with some nice heel work after Balor left), and not really getting the details of how it was all going to work aside from there being a series of matches and that Rollins vs Zayn would be first.
All four of the qualifier matches were at least solid. Not sure what was going on with Sami's ankle, but they either went with a weird story to tell in the match or they kept that match going on too long after a legit injury. Either way, Sami on one leg is still capable of a very good match. Owens vs Neville was also really good, and they did a good job of making Neville look strong in defeat. Enzo and Cass was entertaining enough, though I'm not really sure what the plan is with Rusev going forward. Jericho vs Reigns was a solid main event, and I have to admit that I bought in a little bit on the near fall from the Owens superkick to codebreaker sequence. I'm glad they didn't split up JeriKO over this though, those two are delightful together.
New Day segment was fun, I wish I had sprang for seats closer to ringside after seeing Big E ladling Booty O's into people's mouths. Also funny: Xavier and Kofi carrying the unicorn pinata around for people ringside to pet during the commercial break.
Titus O'Neil was... not great on the microphone, and the crowd wasn't having any of it. On the plus side, I got to watch Mr. Bob Backlund bust out a cross face chicken wing.
Obviously the Bayley debut was the highlight of the night, my voice is kinda shot today from marking out over that. Solid little introductory match for her against Dana.
Crowd was super hot for the Dudleys farewell, and super pissed when it ended up being Devon going through the table. Not a bad way to get some more heat on the learned doctors Gallows and Anderson.
Dark match saw Ambrose and Cena beat Rollins and Styles, pretty standard affair. Big pop when Cena's music hit, as it was a surprise, and the crowd was really into Styles as well.
Non-show thoughts:
People who try to start CM Punk chants and/or the wave should be castrated and barred from attending future events, unless the segment is truly awful and boring. We had people trying to start the wave during Bayley's debut match... not cool. Less attempts to start CM Punk chants than from the pre-Mania Raw, though that was partially offset by the "We want Slater" chants that popped up a few times. At least he's relevant to the current product though.
Had a little dust up between the guy sitting next to me and the mother of the kid sitting in front of us. Her one kid was a little obnoxious about how often/long he was holding up the sign he brought with him. The guy finally said something during the New Day entrance/promo. The kid started crying and the mom got pissed and complained to arena staff, who came down and gave the guy grief. He went back up to argue with them some more, and ended up getting his seat upgraded to keep everyone happy. Worked out well for me as I got some elbow room and the kid didn't want to put his sign up for the rest of the show.