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[Wheels]

I mean I enjoy Priest just fine but he's not Luchasaurus is all I'm saying.

 

[Lobo]

I want that Show Up and Win t shirt.

Great opening segment with Heyman and Reigns!

 

[vantheman77]

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but AOP got released from WWE.

 

[Lobo]

Heavy Machinery vs Miz and Morrison was a nice solid match. Heavy Machinery goes over clean, but Morrison steals Otis' MitB briefcase.

Nice little backstage segment with Reigns and Uso#1 I think it was Jey. I think Reigns is goig to enkye being heel, he's probably wanted to turn for awhile.

Sheamus sets up Big E and takes him out of the number one contenders match for the Universal championship. Prediction right now, Big E will win the Rumble and defeat Reigns at Mania.

 

[Lobo]

Long Women's tag team match between Nia and Shayna vs Bayley and Sasha. Good match with the champs retaining after Nia hit a second rope cross body to pin Bayley and Sasha at the same time.

.I'd lovefor the Riott Squad to win the women's tag titles but they're going to get squashed

Bayley turns on an injured Sasha and beats her ass

This moment needs a live crowd. The virtual fans aren't enough

 

[Wheels]

Otis looked really good in the match.

I sometimes think about how happy I'm going to be to watch each Horsewoman go in the HOF. I'm going to bawl my damn eyes out probably. How did we get so lucky with women's wrestling in America? Guess we can thank Japan and Shimmer for this mostly, but also Impact.Wrestling. Triple H would have never went the direction he did without them.

I'm well aware some folks will disagree but damn are we so lucky to have this era of women's wrestling, and specifically Bayley and Sasha right now.

 

[Gee]

This is stupid:

REPORT: WWE Bans Wrestlers From Third Party Platforms Like Twitch, Cameo

Seems like Vince wants a share of that money.

 

[Lobo]

Bayley and Sasha have been killing it.

As for the rest of SD

There was a nice promo and scuffle with Sami Zayn, Jeff Hardy, and AJ Styles, as Sami never lost the IC title. Scuffle ends with Sami walking away and Jeff and AJ down

Fun segment with Otis and Tucker being upset that Morrison stole the briefcase and Otis revealing he keeps the contract in the small toy MitB briefcase

Jey Uso gets added to the #1 contenders match as a replacement for Big E. That made the ending obvious.

Jey Uso defeats Matt Riddle, Baron Corbin, and Sheamus to take on Roman Reigns for the title.

I know he is being put in there to get his ass beat by Roman, but I think he could be a solid mid card singles competitor. I could see him as a future opponent for AJ, Jeff, or Sami for the IC title.

 

[Calvin Ellis]

Is Hunter running Smackdown now for some reason its been alright

 

[Calvin Ellis]

Another thing if AEW changed their announce team it would do them a world of good.

 

[lespaul59]

Is Brandi supposed to be a heel, tweener or what? Both times I've seen her in AEW Dark her interview Tuesday came off as heelish and tonight her commentary came off as heelish. I may have missed something considering I'm not a regular AEW viewer.

 

[chamber-music]

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but AOP got released from WWE.

I forgot they existed

 

[Lobo]

Is Hunter running Smackdown now for some reason its been alright

Bruce Pritchard

 

[Dr. Evil]

Dominik Mysterio is good in the ring. I like his potential.

 

[Holy Slapper]

This is stupid:

REPORT: WWE Bans Wrestlers From Third Party Platforms Like Twitch, Cameo

The point here is this:

"Some of you are engaged with outside third parties using your name and likeness in ways that are detrimental to our company,"

Oh you know exactly who's fault this is... Hint: she got banned for 24 hours from Twitch for showing too much skin/cleavage. And now her Twitch account is gone.

 

[Wheels]

Jey is a decent choice to get over Roman as the bad guy and push off the big guns until later. Plus, the story is good. I mean you could always do the Riddle match later, and he's not going to win anyway, so why not keep that potential barn burner until later after you've perhaps built Riddle up? At the very least he's a nice guy to tease as a Rumble winner or just Wrestlemania opponent, even if it's going to be one of these dudes:

Big E
Keith Lee
Lesnar
John Cena
McIntyre
The Fiend
AJ Styles

The latter two being likely choices that I had not thought of, and Seth Rollins and Strowman should be added to the long shot list so it stands like this.

Seth Rollins
Daniel Bryan
Samoa Joe
Matt Riddle
Strowman

Then you have outliers like KO, Bobby Lashley, Alister Black, Sheamus, Cesaro, Garza etc.

You could run with Roman as Champion for like two years and not run out of matches to do.

 

[Dr. Evil]

The WWE Superstars on Twitch are using their real names to circumvent Vince's demands that they shut down their Twitch channels.

 

[Wheels]

I hope WWE gets investigated for their nonsense. If the whole business gets brought down by something like unionization then so be it.

Maybe it's not worth it if the wrestling business can't make it without exploiting the wrestlers.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I hope WWE gets investigated for their nonsense. If the whole business gets brought down by something like unionization then so be it.

Maybe it's not worth it if the wrestling business can't make it without exploiting the wrestlers.

I think it's because many Indie promoters don't think a union can work and it would ruin their industry. However, they need to look at Hollywood. Hollywood has as many as 4 major unions (SAG, PGA, WGA, DGA) and yet writers, producers, directors and actors (especially actors) do multiple movies for multiple studios. Sure some have production deals with certain studios but that doesn't prevent many of these Hollywood folks from working with other studios too, albeit in other capacities. Look at someone with ties to WWE like The Rock. He's done movies for Universal, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers, Columbia, MGM and Disney within the last five years and with multiple film studios in a year. Also look at John Cena too. Since he went full time in Hollywood in 2015, he's done films for Universal, Paramount, 20th Century Fox (before the Disney purchase), Universal and Warner Brothers. Since going full time Hollywood himself, David Bautista has done films for Disney/Marvel, MGM and Warner Brothers.

One can be an independent contractor and can also be part of a union. It can be done as Hollywood has proven.

 

[TheFuture]

. Prediction right now, Big E will win the Rumble and defeat Reigns there.

I hope you're right sir, but I expect it to be Brock.

 

[Wheels]

I will freely admit that I should have went along with AEW more but I checked out for a little while mostly because of things like the Inner Circle, which I freaking hated because Hager and Proud and Powerful do not fit with Jericho at all, unlike Sammy, and I was super annoyed by Omega and Hangman winning the tag titles that it just made me care a lot less. I just was put off by and it rubbed me the wrong way.

At least Omega and Hangman seem to be heading toward a feud thank goodness. I get what AEW was doing but I was not here for it.

Just no, and I know people really have liked this story but I just tuned out because of where they put Omega, and I'm not some Kenny fanboy but I have zero interest in seeing the guy in the spot he was in. It's just lame as hell what they were doing to me. All the hype he had freaking died. I just did not give a crap about watching us get to this point with Hangman and Kenny.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Dr. Evil]

I will freely admit that I should have went along with AEW more but I checked out for a little while mostly because of things like the Inner Circle, which I freaking hated because Hager and Proud and Powerful do not fit with Jericho at all, unlike Sammy, and I was super annoyed by Omega and Hangman winning the tag titles that it just made me care a lot less. I just was put off by and it rubbed me the wrong way.

At least Omega and Hangman seem to be heading toward a feud thank goodness. I get what AEW was doing but I was not here for it.

Just no, and I know people really have liked this story but I just tuned out because of where they put Omega, and I'm not some Kenny fanboy but I have zero interest in seeing the guy in the spot he was in. It's just lame as hell what they were doing to me. All the hype he had freaking died. I just did not give a crap about watching us get to this point with Hangman and Kenny.

My issue is with the Women's Division. I hope that Thunder Rosa stays because she is really good, one of the best females to not have been signed by WWE, Impact or AEW. If not, it's a mistake by AEW not to sign her. I think Impact has the best Women's Division in all of wrestling, even better than the three divisions in the WWE even though NXT is really close. This last episode of Impact, Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo had a celebration of her title win, which was interrupted by Jordynne Grace, Tenille Dashwood (formerly Emma of WWE) and the group of women who teleported to the Impact Zone from Wrestle House: Rosemary, Taya Valkyrie, Susie (who is the alter ego of Su Yung), Alisha Edwards and Kylie Rae, who is also the #1 contender for the Knockouts Title due to her win at Slammiversary.

NXT's Women's Division is also pretty good, with Io Shirai as the champion (with NXT booking Japanese women to give them the NXT Women's Championships, it bodes well for newcomer Sareee whenever she's able to travel to America). I don't know at this point who Io is going to face (probably Dakota Kai again), but on NXT there are a few Women's feuds with Rhea Ripley vs. Mercedes Martinez and most likely, Candice LaRae vs. Tegan Nox. Shotzi Blackheart is pretty much a regular on NXT these days. Kayden Carter and Kacy Catanzaro have been used a lot as well. Being paired with Robert Stone has given Aliyah the most screen time she's ever had.

With AEW, it's basically Big Swole vs. Britt Baker, in which I hope their feud ends tonight and Thunder Rosa vs. Shida with only two weeks of build. That's it. Raw and Smackdown have had more women on their shows. We are likely to see Sasha vs. Bayley, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler vs. the revived Riott Squad, Asuka vs. Mickie James vs. Natalya and possibly Nikki Cross vs. Alexa Bliss. That's 4 feuds for women on WWE's main roster, which is more than AEW.

 

[Wheels]

I do think we must understand that AEW's division would come off a lot better before this new era of women's wrestling and WWE's standard being so high.