Isenberg Reacts: WWE Smackdown Live “Wasted Time on The Road To WrestleMania”

March 8, 2017

Smackdown Live Women’s Championship Contenders

Alexa Bliss - Tapout Fitness WWE Special Event — (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Alexa Bliss, Natalya, Becky Lynch and Mickie James are all in the ring. All want an opportunity to fight Alexa Bliss at WrestleMania, but Bliss dismisses all of them. She bashes Becky and Natalya, but out comes Daniel Bryan. He announces that she will fight every available Smackdown Live woman at WrestleMania. It seems very open-ended which is not a bad thing. My idea would be these four women in a fatal four way for the Smackdown Live Women’s Championship. There is not a need to add Carmella or other women, but the health of Naomi is still up in the air. Either way, I like the idea of giving multiple women the chance to fight Alexa because they do have depth. They have much more realistic depth than the RAW Women’s roster.

The tag team match that ensued showed Natalya hitting her teammate, Becky Lynch, which allowed Bliss to tag herself in and get the pin. Mickie James put everyone on notice when she kicked the champion. If you are going to have Mickie James at WrestleMania, let her be the other face with Lynch and let a really good heel persona in Natalya be second to the champion. However you book it in the next few weeks, make sure it is more entertaining than tonight. The match was sloppy, the timing was way off and Bliss tried her hardest to get everyone involved. They spoke over each other and the pace just seemed choppy and forced.

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Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley Interact

Mojo announces his involvement in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Dolph cuts him off and talks about WrestleMania moments. Mojo takes a dig at the former world champion and Ziggler walks off. So, Dolph goes from a world championship match at SummerSlam to The Miz to a battle royal with a guy who wears zubaz pants. Man, this is ridiculous and sucks for Ziggler, a guy who never has had an opportunity to shine on the big stage. Very poor booking for him.

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Josh controls most of the creative writing and ideas for the show on a weekly basis, as well as an on-air talent.

Aside from working with WrestleZone, Isenberg began his career in Broadcast Journalism interning at ESPN and worked with CBS Radio for three years. He has also had the opportunity to interview some of the best athletes and performers alive, including Andrew McCutchen, Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Jericho, Billy Gunn, Karl Anderson, Matt Hardy, Steven Strasburg and others.

Currently, Josh Isenberg works for Major League Baseball in their Advanced Media Productions. He grew up in Pittsburgh and went to Point Park University, which is where Chair Shot Reality is filmed each week.

His life outside of his obsession with wrestling include being a savant for Seinfeld, NFL, NBA, MLB and many television shows. He also has an undying love for musicals, which includes many shows he was a part of in high school. Some of his favorite wrestling moments can be linked to such superstars as Edge, The Rock, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and The Great Khali.