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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2016 5:39:52 GMT -5
The ME of SummerSlam will be Roman Reigns vs. John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, as I read a few days ago. well john cena is going to get the positive crowd reaction since 2004.
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Post by kevintaboada87 on Apr 24, 2016 12:30:48 GMT -5
The ME of SummerSlam will be Roman Reigns vs. John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, as I read a few days ago. well john cena is going to get the positive crowd reaction since 2004. It would be crazy if Cena finally turns heel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2016 13:01:25 GMT -5
well john cena is going to get the positive crowd reaction since 2004. It would be crazy if Cena finally turns heel. wont happen, reigns is more likely to go full heel as he gets mostly negative reactions anyway whereas cenas always 50/50 plus cena is still the top guy that sales the most merch, cena will probably turn heel when hes not needed so much to bring in money, Ive heard that wwe planned on having cena turn heel after wrestlemania 28 when he lost to rock etc but wwe decided not to go with it. its been said by the guy himself that turning him heel will essentially turn him face because everyone booing him now will be cheering him, hes probably more of a heel staying like he is. people just want this back essentially.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Apr 25, 2016 14:43:41 GMT -5
It doesn't fit Chyna's case directly but from where I sit there needs to be an off season. Desperately.
Make Survivor Series or the Raw after it your last live show of the year. Send everyone home to rest up and be with their families through December. The Raws before and after the break would get big ratings and if USA and whatever the hell channel is currently airing Smackdown still want programming in between, you can show highlights from the year mixed with old matches and that will be a great way to entice new subscribers to the WWE Network.
Doing this nonstop year round obviously isn't healthy. They've got like 150 hours of programming a week and not enough people to fill it because everyone's getting injured. And in any old match you watch from the 70's, 80's, or 90's there's about a 90% chance that at least one of the people you see in the ring is now dead.
Hell, it really should be longer than that. Take a break between SummerSlam and early January. The ratings and the product are always shit that whole time anyway. I mean, of course they'll never do that, but come on, let these guys go home for one month. On December 30th or so you can have everyone at a small venue for the slammy awards and put it on USA. I wish they'd just do this because it's better for the talent and as a thank you for doing this insane job the other 11 months of the year.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on May 1, 2016 20:12:55 GMT -5
Watching Payback at the moment, Kevin Owens is the best in the company at the moment imo. Great wrestler (especially considering his size), great heel and extremely entertaining as well. He was absolute gold on commentary.
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Post by colddrystone on May 1, 2016 21:15:51 GMT -5
What happened to Enzo was fucking scary, hope he's ok
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Post by kevintaboada87 on May 6, 2016 20:18:14 GMT -5
Damien Sandow and Wade Barrett were fired today. So sad.
Oh, sorry, Zeb Colter, Hornswoggle and El Torito too.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 5:30:48 GMT -5
Damien Sandow and Wade Barrett were fired today. So sad. Oh, sorry, Zeb Colter, Hornswoggle and El Torito too. I knew barrett was on his way out, believe he refused to sign a new contract and wanted out, wwe are probably always going to try and make it look like they let people go rather than them walking away. sandow was wasted potential, couldve had a new HHH in him I think, same with barett really, that bad news gimmick was great, but they stopped it because he was supposed to be heel and the fans were liking it. foolish.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on May 23, 2016 5:05:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 13:29:28 GMT -5
I dont know why jericho agreed to taking that drop on the tacks, hes got nothing to prove at this stage in his career.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on May 23, 2016 15:52:36 GMT -5
Corbin/Ziggler - could've made Corbin look more dominant considering it was no DQ but Corbin looked strong and the low-blow was a nice bit of heel work. He should still never have lost to Ziggler on his PPV debut though.
Anderson & Gallows/Usos - thank god "The Club" (terrible name, assume it's place-holder until Balor appears) got a dominant win after being made to look like Reigns/Usos bitches repeatedly for a few weeks. Decent match.
Rusev/Kalisto - Match was ok, very glad Kalisto's reign is over, the US title has fallen so far after great work last year by Cena to elevate it. Not Kalisto's fault really, booked as an after thought and being on the pre-show constantly is mainly down to creative.
New Day/Vaudevillains - Was a bit worried Vaudevillains were going to win when I saw Xavier was in instead of Kofi as he's usually the one who eats the pin if New Day lose. Vaudevillains were doing nothing for me, can see them going the way of The Ascension soon...
Miz/Cesaro/Owens/Zayn - Brilliant match as to be expected. Great pacing, near falls and constant action. Wanted someone else to win but I guess Miz winning is fine as he's been doing a lot of good work lately making everyone else look good.
Ambrose/Jericho - Went on way too long (26 minutes!) and was really sluggish and boring for a lot of it which was disappointing. Really surprised Jericho ended up on the tacks, thought Dean was going to end up on them.
Charlotte/Natalya - Dana Brooke, why...
Reigns/Styles - Really good match from these two again, although way to make Styles look like a bitch by getting beaten by one spear again. Reigns takes Gallows/Anderson finisher, a Styles Clash, a Styles Clash on a chair and about 10 chair shots within the space of five minutes then pops up 30 seconds later and wins with one spear. Could they not have let AJ kick out of one at least?
Great to see Rollins back, really hope he comes back as a face but have a horrible feeling he'll be heel (lack of main event heels and he's still using heel Triple H finisher). Really think if he was allowed to do his thing as a face and really show off his high flying moveset he could get over on the level of Punk/Bryan.
Overall a decent PPV considering it's a "B PPV" and continues WWE's decent run since Wrestlemania.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on May 25, 2016 17:42:15 GMT -5
Looks like the brand split is coming back and Smackdown will now be shown live on Tuesdays instead of pre-taped on Thursdays. Not sure how I feel about this, they struggle to fill 3 hours of Raw without having crap filler with a full roster let alone half of the current roster size. Can't say I'm a fan of Raw and Smackdown being back to back on Monday/Tuesday (and it'll be Sunday/Monday/Tuesday when there's a PPV) either. We'll have to wait and see I guess.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 17:48:44 GMT -5
Looks like the brand split is coming back and Smackdown will now be shown live on Tuesdays instead of pre-taped Thursdays. Not sure how I feel about this, they struggle to fill 3 hours of Raw without having crap filler with a full roster let alone half of the current roster size. Can't say I'm a fan of Raw and Smackdown back to back Monday/Tuesday (and it'll be Sunday/Monday/Tuesday when there's a PPV) either. We'll have to wait and see I guess. like someone said where does NXT fit into this? the brand split was fine back in 02/03 and the first half of 04 but after that smackdown started becoming the B show rather than it actually being level with raw couple that with the roster thinning out and thats why they went back to one overall show. with the roster like it is does this mean NXT will now become smackdown with HHH and steph running that whilst shane runs raw? its got to be something like that otherwise I dont see where all these extra guys will come from.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on May 25, 2016 18:16:45 GMT -5
Looks like the brand split is coming back and Smackdown will now be shown live on Tuesdays instead of pre-taped Thursdays. Not sure how I feel about this, they struggle to fill 3 hours of Raw without having crap filler with a full roster let alone half of the current roster size. Can't say I'm a fan of Raw and Smackdown back to back Monday/Tuesday (and it'll be Sunday/Monday/Tuesday when there's a PPV) either. We'll have to wait and see I guess. like someone said where does NXT fit into this? the brand split was fine back in 02/03 and the first half of 04 but after that smackdown started becoming the B show rather than it actually being level with raw couple that with the roster thinning out and thats why they went back to one overall show. with the roster like it is does this mean NXT will now become smackdown with HHH and steph running that whilst shane runs raw? its got to be something like that otherwise I dont see where all these extra guys will come from. Totally agree, they need to make sure that both brands are seen as being equals but that'll be immediately difficult if Raw is an hour longer than Smackdown. Wonder if they'll bring back a second world title or just keep one that can be defended on both brands? The old World Heavyweight title was a joke near the end, basically a mid-card belt compared to the WWE title. Really not sure what will happen to NXT, didn't the guy who used to be HHH's head writer for NXT recently move to be a writer on Smackdown? That would suggest that HHH/Steph will be running Smackdown but who knows. Don't know if they'll keep NXT as it is as a third alternative for the die-hard "wrestling" fans, or raid all the top and established guys (Balor, Nakamura, Joe, Aries, Roode etc) to top up Raw/Smackdown and move it back to being much more focussed on developmental. That would surely be a waste of everything they've been building over the last few years though.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on May 26, 2016 21:43:38 GMT -5
What I heard was that SD! is going to be mostly NXT talent.
The original plan for the original brand split was to have one world title with the champion defending on both shows. I'd like to see one primary set of titles - World, Tag Team, and Women's - on both rosters, and then the Intercontinental and US titles can be like your "regional" titles. That setup would give a special prestige to being a champion that hasn't been there since the territories when you had the NWA champion touring the country. Which is why it always baffled me that they didn't stick with that plan the first time. Unfortunately, if SD! is going to be an NXT type show, they're probably going to make a new title, bring back the World title, or use the NXT title. Any of those options sound horrible and would probably go down as one of the main reasons for this failing.
Just keep the Raw commentary team far away from it and I'll watch at least the first few episodes. It might be a good thing, at least for a while, but I'm not expecting much.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 13:38:55 GMT -5
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Post by Gin & Tonic on Jun 19, 2016 13:01:56 GMT -5
Money in the Bank tonight, KO to win is who I'm hoping for. Really looking forward to it, MITB match, Styles-Cena, Tag Titles match and Rollins-Reigns should be good.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 12:08:31 GMT -5
ambrose winning was quite obvious, it fits into the whole shield thing going on, dont think he should've cashed in so quick, takes away an element of intrigue for the next year of when he might do it, bit of waste doing money in the bank just to do it all in one night because now all that was for nothing, they dont have that fun element to use now.
I dont see him being a long term champion, probably just more a curve ball to set up a triple threat match at summerslam and hes already been a challenger on too many occasions and lost so it gives him a stronger position in the feud, he didnt need the money in the bank though, he could be inserted into that feud without wasting that side of things, I just feel like they couldve had ambrose win at summerslam or something and give the briefcase to owens or someone else.
just need to turn reigns full heel now and let him run with it, funny thing is they are trying to get people to like him but people would probably like him more if they stopped trying, rock had to be heel before people liked him.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on Jun 20, 2016 13:53:21 GMT -5
ambrose winning was quite obvious, it fits into the whole shield thing going on, dont think he should've cashed in so quick, takes away an element of intrigue for the next year of when he might do it, bit of waste doing money in the bank just to do it all in one night because now all that was for nothing, they dont have that fun element to use now. I dont see him being a long term champion, probably just more a curve ball to set up a triple threat match at summerslam and hes already been a challenger on too many occasions and lost so it gives him a stronger position in the feud, he didnt need the money in the bank though, he could be inserted into that feud without wasting that side of things, I just feel like they couldve had ambrose win at summerslam or something and give the briefcase to owens or someone else. just need to turn reigns full heel now and let him run with it, funny thing is they are trying to get people to like him but people would probably like him more if they stopped trying, rock had to be heel before people liked him. Totally agree, total waste of the briefcase in my opinion. Ambrose didn't need it, he's been main eventing for 2 years now and it should've been used to elevate somebody else. As you say, Shield triple threat writes itself and there was no need for the briefcase. Not a big fan of Ambrose at all but chuffed for him, it was a great moment and he deserves it after the shit booking he's had half the time post-Shield. Hopefully now he's champ he becomes more serious and less of the goofy character. Get some proper attire too ffs, looks stupid wrestling in a vest and jeans. Think a Reigns and Rollins turn is coming, Reigns was acting pretty heel-ish in the match (merciless beat down and toying with Rollins at the start of the match). Actually kind of looking forward to the brand split though if they do it right, there's so many guys who are going to be toiling in the mid card, eg. what do the guys who were in MITB do now? Intercontinental again? Already seen it so much recently. Getting a bit sick of the Shield though, apparently Reigns/Rollins/Ambrose have been in the main event of 20 of the last 22 PPV's so it's getting a bit tiring. Want to see some other guys getting a chance.
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Post by Gin & Tonic on Jun 20, 2016 14:06:42 GMT -5
The PPV was a very mixed bag, LOTS of total shite and some great moments.
Breezango vs Golden Truth - Who the fuck cares about this?
Dudley's vs Lucha Dragons - Who the fuck cares about this?
Tag Title Match - Really disappointed in this match. I hate fatal fourway tag matches, surely there should be one person from each team in the match at once? Total botchfest, the ref fucked up and counted a 3 count for Enzo and Cass which seemed to throw everyone off and after that it went into total meltdown with timing all over the place and botches galore.
Baron Corbin vs Ziggler - Who the fuck cares about this?
Charlotte/Dana vs Natalya/Becky - Who the fuck cares about this? Rubbish turn from Natalya too.
Apollo Crews vs Sheamus - Was ok, not quite who the fuck cares about this but pretty close.
Styles vs Cena - Really good match but wasn't a massive fan of the finish. Glad AJ won but the inevitable Cena 2/3 wins in a row is incoming.
MITB match - Pretty good, decent action. Was a bit disappointed with the winner but worked out ok in the end.
Rusev vs Titus - Didn't care at all, glad Rusev retained. Was funny with Rusev taking the piss out of Titus' kids after the match.
Rollins vs Reigns - Pretty decent match, nowhere near as good as the Reigns/Styles matches but was still entertaining. Was amazed when Rollins won but that made the Ambrose cash in really obvious.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 14:44:17 GMT -5
Im not a cena hater, respect to the guy but it really does annoy me that they cant have him lose once, its obvious that cena will win the feud, they arnt going to let a TNA guy beat their top WWE guy but would it really be a problem for cena to lose one match cleanly to him? even a roll up or something would be preferable to interference.
takes me back to lesnars return, what a total farce.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 14:35:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2016 13:07:54 GMT -5
just listened to the "talk is jericho" podcast from friday, Sandra Toffoloni sounds like a great woman, sounds so positive, so dark hearing the details of chris benoit though, sounds so planned out, beyond a total nightmare.
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Post by kevintaboada87 on Jul 17, 2016 8:43:59 GMT -5
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Post by Gin & Tonic on Aug 5, 2016 22:18:30 GMT -5
Bobby Roode's new theme is the best in the business.
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