WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[TheMatrix31]

Wrestling has way too much female talent to waste time on Nikki Bella.

I mean she's of course nice to look at but, so are most of the others.

I'm not interested in anything with specifically-defined part time story. That is never nteresting to me. It is never relevant to long-running story or character development or anything.

[UFCMPunk]

WWE loves their Triple Threat & Fatal 4 Way qualifying matches. It seems they are just having qualifying matches on RAW & SD to fill out the brackets. Though, are they going to have enough time between now and June 28th to set up the finals for both? It feels rushed... like everything else now a days because they sandwiched so many PLEs together.

King Of The Ring Qualifying Match: Dirty Dom vs Penta vs Bron Breakker vs Sami Zayn

Queen of The Ring Qualifying Match: Liv Morgan vs Rhea Ripley vs Roxanne vs Kairi Sane

So 3 women who on their own could be in this tournament but only one of Liv, Rhea or Roxanne gets to be involved? Without knowing the Smackdown side of things, going to guess Sami has a good shot of winning the whole tournament given how much the Saudi crowd loves him. Sami vs Jey with a Seth cash in at Summerslam? I could see the story of Sami losing the finals of the King of The Ring tournament in Saudi to a heel, and returning to Saudi for the Rumble and winning the Rumble next year as his redemption.

[UFCMPunk]

I like Nikki, I'd rather see her in a match than a lot of the women on the current roster. Her sister on the other hand can stay as far away from a ring as possible

I mean honestly, and I'm pretty sure this can't happen due to Danielson being under contract to AEW unless he never actually signed a new one. Only reason I'd be fine with Brie being back is if she brings Danielson/Daniel Bryan back with her. Otherwise, I agree.

[Majingir]

WWE loves their Triple Threat & Fatal 4 Way qualifying matches. It seems they are just having qualifying matches on RAW & SD to fill out the brackets. Though, are they going to have enough time between now and June 28th to set up the finals for both? It feels rushed... like everything else now a days because they sandwiched so many PLEs together.

King Of The Ring Qualifying Match: Dirty Dom vs Penta vs Bron Breakker vs Sami Zayn

Queen of The Ring Qualifying Match: Liv Morgan vs Rhea Ripley vs Roxanne vs Kairi Sane

So 3 women who on their own could be in this tournament but only one of Liv, Rhea or Roxanne gets to be involved? Without knowing the Smackdown side of things, going to guess Sami has a good shot of winning the whole tournament given how much the Saudi crowd loves him. Sami vs Jey with a Seth cash in at Summerslam? I could see the story of Sami losing the finals of the King of The Ring tournament in Saudi to a heel, and returning to Saudi for the Rumble and winning the Rumble next year as his redemption.

Punk would've been a good choice, but he won't be at NOC.

Maybe Roman returns and wins? If the options are Cena and Jey, they could do a bit of a tease on which direction he would go.

There's not many names out there I see as worthy of winning KOTR AND making sense to face Cena or Jey/Rollins.

On the women's side, I could see Jade winning it, which causes Naomi to want to cash in on Tiffany so that she becomes champ and faces Jade at Summerslam.

[J_Posse]

Biggest "fumble" in WWE history was not doing Punk vs Cena as the main event of multiple 'Manias.

That opening promo from Punk was magic.

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[Majingir]

Biggest "fumble" in WWE history was not doing Punk vs Cena as the main event of multiple 'Manias.

That opening promo from Punk was magic.

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To be fair, they only had 2 chances to do it, and no offense to Punk, but Cena vs Rock was the right choice.

[UFCMPunk]

To be fair, they only had 2 chances to do it, and no offense to Punk, but Cena vs Rock was the right choice.

If it wasn't for Once In A Lifetime at Mania 28, Cena vs Punk's 2011 feud culminating at WrestleMania 28 in 2012 would have been perfect. Then Mania 29 should have been a Triple Threat match, Cena vs Punk vs Rock.

[UFCMPunk]

When I say I missed Bayley, I mean I missed Bayley. Wow............

[UFCMPunk]

That Promo from Ron Killings was right on the money. Him cutting his hair and thank goodness Netflix didn't censor the Holy **** chants, because that would have ruined the moment. I don't know if he's a heel or face but damn I'm looking forward to a more serious version of him away from doing the comedy stuff.

[Majingir]

I never realized every match is a Fatal 4 way qualifier!

Charlotte, Alexa, Chelsea, Candice all in the same match! If Charlotte wins..........

Based on the bracket, I do see it being Jade vs Charlotte in the finals.


CM Punk competing in SA!? Who'd have thought he'd ever do that.

Ron Killings cut his hair on live tv!?

[J_Posse]

To be fair, they only had 2 chances to do it, and no offense to Punk, but Cena vs Rock was the right choice.

They had way more than 2 chances, but didn't want to either before or after '"The Pipebomb."

That was a massive miss and the biggest mistake in WWE history, IMO.

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[UFCMPunk]

I never realized every match is a Fatal 4 way qualifier!

Charlotte, Alexa, Chelsea, Candice all in the same match! If Charlotte wins..........

Based on the bracket, I do see it being Jade vs Charlotte in the finals.


CM Punk competing in SA!? Who'd have thought he'd ever do that.

Ron Killings cut his hair on live tv!?

Saudi likely won't allow WWE to mention that certain wrestlers don't want to compete over there because it makes them look bad. Though, it would have been something if he said if he wants the match, he has to put his pride aside and fly to Saudi or something like that.

[UFCMPunk]

Will we see an attempted cash in here or no? I still think Seth will cash in much later, right after Cody wins the title back from Cena and he cashes in on Cody to win the WWE Championship.

[SmashMan]

With the way they've spent the last week talking up the "Jey's been taking too much damage!" thing, I knew he was losing. I thought it'd be to a cash-in though, so I was surprised by the ending.

Good show tonight

[TheMatrix31]

**** yes. Thank God.

Great show overall. Really damn good. Feels like they always do a great show in Phoenix.