Is Gulak Losing His Faith? He's Gonna Lose it Sometime

Drew Gulak vs. Veer WWE Main Event 7/1/21 - GREAT

ER: Gulak wrestled Bronson Reed the week before this, and it made me want to see more Gulak matches against weird undercard heavyweights. Veer is the perfect kind of guy I want to see Gulak work for 5 minutes: a guy who never works singles matches, has a great look, and a big build. Gulak comes off like a dominant heavyweight, working as Veer's equal and not as a light heavyweight underdog. This is also the most we've seen of Veer outside of graphics announcing that He's Coming, but I like his potential and love his look, and there isn't a better showcase partner than Gulak. Veer has a lot of cool offense running through Gulak, throwing impressive punches for his skill level. Veer famously won an Indian gameshow, then signed as a pitching prospect with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pitchers should know how to throw a good punch, it's all just learning mechanics and repeating an arm slot. If you can pitch to a 3:1 strikeout to walk ratio in A ball, you're a guy who can repeat an arm slot. Veer's got big worked punch potential and I'm here for it. He also throws a great big boot and a high sideslam with a big landing. 

Gulak makes his way into the match by throwing straight kicks right at Veer's knee. He was great at bumping for all of Veer's big attacks, but he looked like Fujiwara going after Veer's knee. Gulak goes after it some more when Veer misses a boot in the corner, and I loved how Gulak kept throwing those front kicks. Veer sold them well, and I actually thought Gulak was going to tap him when he worked a cool figure 4 with a bridge after hitting a hard dropkick to the knee. I wish we had another beat before the run to the end, but thought Veer looked great hitting hard corner splashes and a big falling clothesline. This was a hard hitting heavyweight match, one of the few times in WWE that Gulak has really been allowed to exist as a big guy's equal, and it worked great.