WWE TV, Rumours and Discussion (On Netflix)

[RossFC]

The Miz and Damian Priest traded to Smackdown. Grayson Waller and Austin Theory traded to RAW.

Hope they give Jacob Fatu more mic time. Apollo Crews with the generic roll up win, yawn.

lol at Kevin Owens throwing away a fans pen. Jimmy Uso trying to use yeet to get over aint it, just looks like a cheap Jey Uso ripoff.

 

[RossFC]

Next week on Smackdown:

 

[RossFC]

 

[Cleavy]

Lame. Now they’ll do nothing with him again.

 

[Jack Richards]

They barely do anything with Strauman... what are they going to do with him?

 

[Cleavy]

They barely do anything with Strauman... what are they going to do with him?

Booking 101 says they fight

 

[Cleavy]

the 1st hour of SNME was good, the 2nd hour was not.

if you missed this show, you missed nothing

 

[Jack Richards]

Yea it was pretty poor. So much potential but meh.

 

[Nelso]

We need Fatu v Bronson when he comes back.

 

[Constantgin]

Complete utter waste of time. Would have been better off just watching highlights on twitter.
No storylines advanced, no titles changed hands was basically a glorified house show with way too many ads.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Should we read anything into HBK delivering a kick and growing some hair back?

If he were to retcon his "one last match" after the Saudi debacle, I'm 100% certain that Owens is one of the guys that the company and individuals would have absolute confidence in after Austin.

Incredibly, 15 years ago as ROH Commissioner, Jim Cornette hated Steen, thinking he was fat and unsafe. WWE considers him one of their safest workers.

 

[RossFC]

Crowd chanting this is awesome at Jax vs Ripley but half the match felt like a commercial break.

lol at Kevin Owens' "Cody sucks eggs" shirt.

Sucks that Fatu/Strowman was a DQ finish. Would have liked a clean Fatu win.

That ishowspeed guy is so annoying.

Massive ad breaks in every match just took me out of this show. A bad one IMO.

 

[Cleavy]

Crowd chanting this is awesome at Jax vs Ripley but half the match felt like a commercial break.

and a "this is awesome" chant in the main event, which was definitely NOT awesome.

 

[nobbyiscool]

They've got one more chance at SNME to do something consequential before people start to write it off as a televised house show.

 

[BEEG]

I liked it, nice and quick with some good matches.

SNME is a glorified house show though?

Fatu is a superstar, love to see him get a crew together, blokes unreal.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

This microphone set up might be the dumbest thing I've seen in wrestling in a while haha.

Like, I can understand a hanging microphone from the sign.... but 2?

 

[RossFC]

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This microphone set up might be the dumbest thing I've seen in wrestling in a while haha.

Like, I can understand a hanging microphone from the sign.... but 2?

The other one is Mr Kennedy's.

 

[eDPS]

and a "this is awesome" chant in the main event, which was definitely NOT awesome.

I hate so many of the crowd chants and this is right up there.

 

[Ry009]

Not saying SNME overall wasn't forgettable, but it's not a PLE. It's a vehicle to promote the company for free. Surprised expectations are still high for it.

Personally thought the way they put Jacob was awesome. Made him look ruthless. That being said, he's so over they don't give a shit he's a heel and the shit he's doing. They were chanting for more and then his name as he was leaving.

Just shows how good he is.

 

[Cleavy]

Personally thought the way they put Jacob was awesome. Made him look ruthless. That being said, he's so over they don't give a shit he's a heel and the shit he's doing. They were chanting for more and then his name as he was leaving.

Just shows how good he is.

playing devil's advocate, you could make the argument that he failed as a heel if he's getting cheered. (but that's the old school in me, where good guys are cheered and bad guys are booed and there's no cross-over)

 

[Toump Ass]

There's not enough fat guys in wrestling at the moment.

I love that era where being extremely overweight put you in championship contention.

Yokozuna was fat and they pushed him so hard he beat Bret "Hitman" Hart for the WWE Championship at the main event Wrestlemania, he dropped the belt to Hulk Hogan afterwards but that was a weak victory Yoko had already wrestled a match against one of the best wrestlers of the era.

King Kong Bundy, Viscera, Tugboat, Vader, that Stormtrooper/Shark guy, love seeing a fat dude wobble around in the ring.

Edit: especially with all the female wrestlers at the moment, so much potential for mad story lines wasted because there's no fat dudes wrestling.

 

[Cleavy]

Edit: especially with all the female wrestlers at the moment, so much potential for mad story lines wasted because there's no fat dudes wrestling.

to be fair to Nia, she cops a lot of online grief about her weight (and that's without WWE ring announcers referring to weights in their introductions), so it's an area to tread carefully on. also if you have several on your roster, they stand out less compared to having 1 or 2.

probably best not to go down the path of the "Piggy James" storyline again.

 

[Toump Ass]

probably best not to go down the path of the "Piggy James" storyline again.

Holy shit, I missed this one!!!

Not exactly what I had in mind, wowwee.

 

[Ry009]

playing devil's advocate, you could make the argument that he failed as a heel if he's getting cheered. (but that's the old school in me, where good guys are cheered and bad guys are booed and there's no cross-over)

Yeah I agree, although that's more on the booking than him IMO, which is surprising because WWE are usually the best at clearly defining heels and faces.

Hard in the modern era though. Either someone is legitimately average, boring/repetitive or need to be shoved down the fans throats as a babyface to the point of fans having enough to get a decent heat.

Good thing that they're doing with Drew that they're pairing him guys and Punk and Sami who they're going to lean into favouring.

Braun doesn't have enough fan love to warrant getting upset seeing him get beat, so it's not surprising he's getting babyface reactions.

 

[Ry009]

There's not enough fat guys in wrestling at the moment.

I love that era where being extremely overweight put you in championship contention.

Yokozuna was fat and they pushed him so hard he beat Bret "Hitman" Hart for the WWE Championship at the main event Wrestlemania, he dropped the belt to Hulk Hogan afterwards but that was a weak victory Yoko had already wrestled a match against one of the best wrestlers of the era.

King Kong Bundy, Viscera, Tugboat, Vader, that Stormtrooper/Shark guy, love seeing a fat dude wobble around in the ring.

Edit: especially with all the female wrestlers at the moment, so much potential for mad story lines wasted because there's no fat dudes wrestling.

There's enough plus size talent in the industry even in WWE alone, they're all healthy which is the main thing, otherwise they wouldn't be wrestling.

Think televised pro wrestling has moved beyond the need for guys that are big for the sake of it anyway.


As for Yoko losing, yeah, Hogan gonna Hogan unfortunately. Never thought would see the day Red and Yellow Hogan would be booed, but being a legit campaigner for 40+ years will catch up with you. Best reaction by the fans on the Netflix debut.