[3.0] "Bayley losing the title to Nia was a mistake. We all know why she got the title and her reign was not good apart from the 2 Naomi matches. Nia was slow and sloppy and pulled out the worst move of the year."
[3.0] "Bayley should have never lost the title. Nia is one of the worst in the world and I don't know how she's even in the company. Bayley could try her best here but there was simply no way in hell that she could have another watchable match with Nia. The Summerslam match was okay, no reason to run it back."
[7.0] "Good match but their summerslam match was much better. This rating is still too low for my liking but wrestling is subjective at the end of the day. Nia adding in new wrinkles to her arsenal with her rematch with Bayley by pulling out submissions popped me. Bayley plays her role as an underdog babyface extremely well making Nia look like a monster here. I thought they did an admirable job having to follow the hiac and they did a good job getting the crowd on their side the deeper the match, especially with the Tiffany cash in tease. Liked the added desperation from Bayley and Nia by stealing each others moves in order to win the match. The crowd was anticipating something happening, case in point with the "we want Tiffy" chants, which led to swerve in helping Nia retain as champ. Good food imo"
[3.0] "They don't work well together, and no shame upon Bayley, she's an amazing wrestler. I just can't understand, how the biggest professional wrestling company in the world, would make Nia Jax their champion."
[3.0] "Bayley really tried to save this match despite being presented as a filler rematch challenger, but her opponent is unfortunately Nia Jax who did really a mess. Tiffany's MITB cash in attempt isn't doing anything for me, she should be the first and only one wasting the briefcase as she is still too green in the main event scene. [*3/4]"
[6.0] "I thought this match was a bit better than the reviews let it down to be. This was a decent matchup with some nice moments spliced through here and there but we also got some sloppy moments or flat-out botches that made both women look bad. [***1/4]"
[5.0] "At first I thought this was going to be one of Nia's better matches, but then the botches came in hard and fast. Nia's stamina clearly has an issue with the flow of the match as this is when the mistakes come. The Tiffy "cash-in" tease gave this match something which is where I have granted a few extra points."
[3.0] "Really bad match. Nia cannot work. I really dont want to see her anywhere near matches let alone a PPV card where she is the champion. Shocking botches paired with no chemistry between these two. Bayley won the rumble and won at mania all to go straight back to where she was being lost in the shuffle and just another challenger."
[8.0] "I actually really liked this match. Classic but effective formula. One of the best Bailey matches since a WHILE, and one of the best matches of Nia of all time. The interference from Tiffany also added some plus to the match. Hoping to watch her cashing in soon. [****1/4]"
[3.0] "This was an awful match filled with botches that was somehow worse than I expected. If this is the best version of Nia Jax then that shows you how bad she is. On top of all of that this match was super predictable and at the end Tiffany didn't even cash in when she had the perfect opportunity to."
"Listen, I might be the only person that loves Nia Jax and thinks she still has a high ceiling in WWE as a worker. She is slow, overweight and vacillates between indifference and wearing kid gloves with her opponent's wellbeing, but looked good here. These two have worked each other a lot. The errors in this one are on whoever set up the match with these ladies. Asking Nia to do a Frankensteiner out of the corner and then follow it up with getting in position for and selling a sunset flip into the corner is a mistake. I would give this a 5/10, so no number rating."
[3.0] "Botches that happened here were beyond hilarious (and Jax's 'attempt' of 'Huracanrana' will be remembered forever), at the same time they did a good job recovering after them so it wasn't a total disaster. For whatever reason WWE thinks that women can't work finishes that have crowds invested, so there was another interference - this time Stratton tried to cash-in MITB gimmick, but Jax caught her which forced Stratton to flee. After all that, Bayley looked like a replaceable challenger of the month."
[5.0] "Very Similar to their match at Summerslam, Bayley showing once again how great she is by carrying Nia, Tiffany's involvement was also predictable."
[6.0] "I found this to be better than their match at SummerSlam, which I think is a bit of an unpopular opinion, but it still wasn't my favorite. I do think and recognize that Jax has improved in the ring, but she's still a little underwhelming in ring to me. With that in mind, I'm really hoping she drops the title soon, but it's likely that she holds it until WrestleMania at least."
[3.0] "I don't understand why Nia Jax is still around if she's not going to join the Bloodline. She doesn't have good matches, she's known for injuring her opponents, and she's not that charismatic. I also don't care much for Bayley, but she does have the occasional good match. The attempted hunacanrana by Nia Jax was embarrassing. Kudos to Bayley for trying to sell that nonsense. The tease of Tiffany Stratton cashing in was well cone, but otherwise this was pointless."
[6.0] "They had to follow up Punk vs McIntyre so I'll give them some credit however this match was still pretty bad. It was better than their first match however still was under-delivered in my opinion. It's also disappointing that this wasn't even the worst on the card. Overall was a pretty lame match that I did not enjoy one bit."
[6.0] "For having the tough task of following Punk vs McIntyre, Bayley and Nia did a lot to keep the crowd engaged and pop for big spots in the match, which is highly respectable. I actually found the match much better than their encounter at SummerSlam, albeit considering some missed spots. I would like to see them pull the trigger on the Tiffany storyline soon though, because at a certain point, it shouldnt be used as a cop out for Nia to retain every single time. All in all, an alright match considering the circumstances. **3/4."
[6.0] "If I thought Punk vs Drew is not that good for 5 stars, I also think this is not that bad for 1.75. I understand the 5 marks, even the 4's. Match was not exactly what you call good on the workrate aspect, and it was one of the worst Nia Jax's performances ever. I'll give to her that she tries, but she doesn't have any wrestling talent at all and that has been like that forever. She improved a little and now she is not a walking injury machine, but that's it. Most good things in her matches are due to their opponents, who make her look as good as possible. Bayley didn't have much of a chance to look good as she had to adapt to wrestle a heavier opponent, but it's in those little details that you don't see easily where she shines. Able to keep a good pace, setting the tone and the field for whatever Nia had to do next, selling good, wrestling logically according to what the match is. I've been critical of how rushed the Nia-Tiffany story is being done, and I think what happened in this match should've been the first time Nia caught Tiffany trying to cash-in instead of all the other times. Bayley and the Tiffany thing elevated the match, Nia dragged it despite her trying hard to do good, but she just doesn't have it at all (***)"
[6.0] "This match was satisfactory, but I honestly expected more , their summerslam match was better and the match here wasn't that good it was sloppy and felt like there were a lot of mishaps. There were a lot of slow moments , but Nia hitting the hurricane was solid and was impressive, Bayley was pretty solid though and of course she was the better wrestler here. Tiffany coming out to tease her cash in was good and added more to the drama and story of the match. Nia Jax and Tiffany are having issues , and Bayley tried to capitalize. Tiffany threw her briefcase at Bayley, and Nia won the match. Storyline wise this was good, in ring wise wasn't that good , the story and Tiffany's cash in tease carried."
[8.0] "This match had the impossible task of following such a great open. With that said this match accomplished exactly what it set out to do. Advance the Nia and Tiffany drama. Storyline is the most important part of wrestling, X's and O's don't matter as much to me."
[4.0] "Worse than a bad wrestler, is a bad wrestler who doesn't evolve; that's what Nia Jax is. She's been in WWE for a while now, but every match that you watch with her, there's gonna be big botches; she did likely the worst-looking Hurricanrana ever, then botched a Samoan Drop. Minutes later, Bayley, who's probably half of her weight, did a perfect Samoan Drop. By the way, thankfully Bayley was Nia's opponent, as she did what she could to make this match enjoyable. (**)."
[2.0] "So many botches, I was feeling bad for the commentators who were confused about what was actually happening. How is possible that at this level, in the most important wrestling federation, in a Pay-per-View, we can assist at such low level quality wrestling?"
[2.0] "Dreadful. Whatever slight improvements that Nia Jax showed early in her return have firmly gone now and her faults were on full display against no-knees Bayley. The forced involvement of Tiffany Stratton in all of this stuff drags it down, but the work before that was rubbish."
[3.0] "You'd think that these two would be a good matchup because Bayley's such a good bumper. And Bayley bumps well for her, but something about Nia's work just doesn't hit right sometimes. The pace for this is nice and high, you'd expect a Nia Jax match to be much slower than this, but things are boom boom boom. They botch a hurricanrana spot; whoever thought it was a good idea to have someone so big try to hurricanrana someone so much smaller is a moron. They also botch a sunset flip bomb into the corner. The size differential means that they just can't pull off certain shit; I don't know why they even try some of these moves. They botch a third move which I think was supposed to be a samoan drop, Maybe Jax isn't as improved as a lot of us thought she might be. There is a bit of gaga with a ref bump and tiffany stratton at the end of this which is fun. This would have been a pretty good match if it wasn't for the botches."
[2.0] "Honestly, one of the poorest matches on a WWE PPV for a while, and it was like I was having Deja Vu, because we saw this match play out between the two already. Did no-one want to maybe change like, one thing about it and keep it in any way fresh? Jax has not improved as a wrestler and Bayley is suffering to capitulate to her here. Really, really poor."
[2.0] "The story of Naya Jax and Bayley for the Undisputed Women's Title is very weak and so is this match It had weak momentum and it was clear that Tiffany was going to intervene Naya Jax's performance as a champ and Bayley's performance as a challenger were very poor"
[3.0] "Every time I trick myself into thinking that Nia is better now, I get a reality check with a match like this. Just a brutal botchfest and not a very good match at all. By the end I was completely checked out, which is a pretty substantial achievement after a match as hot as the opener."
[3.0] "If you put the belt on Nia Jax in 2024 and expect anything better than painfully mediocre then you deserve what you get. This however didn't reach painfully mediocre and settled and the slightly less assesment of "just bad". It feels mean to say this but some people just weren't born to do this, you can get good matches out of anyone but some people just aren't good. The movement throughout the match was awkward and there was no sense of urgency at all from both women. I'd like to see Bianca Belair in a singles match on PPV again soon please."
[4.0] "I don't want to bash the wrestling of this match too much because there was definitely effort on both sides to make this work. Having to run this back after a similarly bad match at Summerslam, this was never going to deliver very high. Nia Jax seems like she is motivated here to prove herself to the community, it didn't work though and Bayley is not the worker she used to be to carry this. **"
[3.0] "The fact that I have had to sit through another one of these matches while the much hotter Gunther vs. Sami Zayn match is saved for Raw, or while the six guys in the three-way ladder match for the tag team titles were stuck on SmackDown instead of this premium event, annoys me. What also annoys me is that we had the same finish from SummerSlam, but longer and a little sloppier. *1/2"
[3.0] "I'm sorry but the fact that the average rating for this match is above average is very concerning because it was an objectively bad match, an absolute botchfest that was borderline dangerous at times and with a preposterous ref bump. I can't mention every botched spot it would be too long so I'm just gonna say that whoever thought Nia Jax doing a hurricanrana was a good idea is stupid. At least it was so bad that it was entertaining and the Stratton spot was kinda clever. I don't want to be that guy but if the exact same match happened in any other company the average rating would be around 2 or 3..."
[3.0] "I don't really get constructing matches where the only bit of intrigue is whether or not someone is going to cash in or not. It makes the actual match itself uninteresting, especially one of the wrestlers is Nia Jax. Credit to her for improving, but her matches are still just not captivating in the slightest. Bayley does her best and is still an all-world talent but the botches were ugly and the 763rd Tiffy fake-out just sapped any umph in this match. Didn't help that they followed one of the best matches in company history, but they really should just pull the trigger on Tiffany, the SmackDown women's division is dead in the water at the moment."
[4.0] "A match that no one was interested in and that did not deserve the PLE spot at all. Tiffany Straton didn't even cash in, which was the only thing that could've made this match interesting."
[2.0] "Bayley vs Nia Jax was most likely the worst WWE PLE match of 2024. They tried different things, but it was bad ideas that didn't work at all. Their chemistry was just off and nothing looked quite good in this one. I like both women's work, but this just didn't work out well"
[7.0] "Not as good as their summerslam match. There are still some fun things in this match. The ref bump was fun, the Deadman esque sit up from Nia to catch Tiffany was great also. Some spots weren't clean especially the hurricanrana spot."
[5.0] "Much more ambitious than their SummerSlam match, but to mixed results. This is terribly clumsy at times yet with the third act's drama, gets the people onboard regardless. In fairness, the initial work is decent also, things just increasingly loosen over the slightly extended runtime. Ultimately, I think this was a worthy gamble, as Jax's formula had been established in a fashion that some tweaks were needed for this rematch. Unfortunately, the conclusion is probably that Jax had a formula for a reason, as this got a little ahead of itself. **1/4"
[5.0] "I am placing this match in the middle with 5 points because it was just there. It was not terrible but it did not surpass my expectations. I was not overly hyped for this match but I was merely fine with it being on the card. After watching, I do not feel any different. Ifelt no hype but it was okay. The teased cash-in would have had an impact if it had not happened countless times before so it was not any reason for excitement."
[3.0] "As Dax Harwood once said about Bayley's matches: "Bayley always puts story first". I personally find it hard to be invested in Bayley's matches recently, since almost always the story-telling is fine, but the in-ring action is sloppy from start to finish. Perfection is not requirred for having a good match, but a decent in-ring performance always helps keeping up the heat of the story. So, I didn't like the result of mixing Bayley's "story above everything" performance with Nia Jax's stiff but also sloppy style. Also, the reff bump and another Tiffy failed cash-in adds nothing to the match and feels useless after a rewatch. They tried, but this just wasn't good."
[4.0] "Nia just isn't good. I wanted her time away from the company being spent getting better but she was too busy being strange on social media and not actually improving. The hurricanrana by Nia was decent though and her Undertaker rise during TIffy's near-Time also got an ironic chuckle out of me, but Bayley worked harder than she needed to to make this match watchable and we really should've had Tiffany cash in and win. It also doesn't help that the crowd was lava hot from the Punk/Drew match before, and this cooled them down fast."
[3.0] "Nia Jax as usual when I watch her in the ring for me did not deliver a good match, too much action did not come from her side for me to consider it a good match. After Bayley did everything to make this match good she was not able to save it. There were simply too many mistakes for me to consider it a good match."
[6.0] "This match was sloppy in part but also had some great spots - the Nia 'rana and submissions, the Bayley Samoan Drop. Bollocks that Tiffany didn't cash in though. Sometimes, HHH can get too cute with the long-form storytelling, and I thought this was a good time to crown Tiffy."
[1.0] "This match was horrible! I dont know how Nia Jax is in the potion of champion. This match was full of botches and mistimed moves, it is a wonder no one left injured. Even the announcers had a hard time knowing was what happening in the ring often calling a move to the have to cover a botch. Bayley carried this match and deserves all the credit here. This was nothing like their Summerslam match up so dont expect that (even though that wasnt great either). Nia is just not the champion the womens division needs and it is only a matter of time before she injures herself or someone else. Seeing Tiffy was a highlight but I want to see her talents in the ring not as a lackey to Nia."
[8.0] "*** / excellent match for me way better than rhea and liv, spots where amazing both these women are Amazon in ring Bayley probably the best womens wrestler right now in WWE and nia WHO is way way better than ever and shes do much safer than ever and that's great about her"
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