WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[Majingir]

Giulia interrupting that contract signing gave me an idea. I know it's too late now, but I wouldn't mind just doing a super Championship match (maybe bring back the championship scramble, or make the iron Survivor a main roster match).

Every men's singles champ competes in one match to crown the men's crown Jewel champ, and same with all women's singles champs.

So instead of just world champ vs world champ, we see all champs involved.


And based on that ending to SD, part of me could see them dragging things out since HHH likes that slow build. Orton wins the rumble and now has to choose between facing Rollins or Cody at WM for the title.

Why the **** can't these morons pronounce Vaquer properly?

Both Cole and Tiffany called her Va-kurr. Of course queen dumb**** Nikki Bella with her infamous Va-quay?

Idiots.

I think they're just very white. 😄 Cole trying to say La Primera is kinda lame too. If he can't roll the r, alright not everyone can, but he doesn't get the i sound right either. it's "ee", not "eh".

I can't explain Nikki. I think she was trying to be fancy and just messed it up.

Cole/Tiffany or anyone mispronnouncing a name that literally gets said all the time makes no sense. It's not like you're reading a name you haven't heard before and are just butchering it.

And the irony of Nikki Bella messing up that name.

[UFCMPunk]

That was a fun and exciting match between Becky & Maxine. I get why they did the countout finish but if there ever was a chance to do a Hurricane/Rock moment, that was it.

[TheMatrix31]

Love how that match developed. I think I would have had some accidental Maxine win but that worked well for the characters for sure. Match was really good. Becky is amazing with other talent. She's doing a phenomenal job.

Show was decently good. I was just about to pull the trigger but said **** it for a few reasons. Prices were pretty absurd but got low late, but time was becoming a factor and then I thought eh, **** this company so I didn't buy them.

I liked the Seth/Heyman interaction too.

I hate this Styles Cena ****. I can't wait for Cena to go. This whole year has been a holding pattern. Seth should come out and end Cena's career and then cut a promo telling us what the **** his "vision" is.

[UFCMPunk]

OG Nakamura theme is back!

Edit: Street Profits got their old theme back too! Now do that for everyone else please.

[UFCMPunk]

Who needs Karrion Kross & Scarlett when you got Aliester Black & Zelina Vega. I never thought WWE would pair them up on screen but I guess every couple is getting paired up on screen now.

[Majingir]

OG Nakamura theme is back!

Edit: Street Profits got their old theme back too! Now do that for everyone else please.

I get they're the talent and the producers are the ones who have control over this type of stuff, but just let the talent have say on stuff like this.

As much as people made fun of "generic rock music #44" for a new talent in the ruthless aggression era, it felt like people "earned" their theme. You debut with a generic song, if the fans catch on, you get a theme made for you.

Obviously tougher now since everyone comes from NXT, but still a similar mindset should happen. Once someone had a theme that sticks, they should just get to keep it. So many chances for the sake of change, just for fans to hate it and it eventually got changed back.

Who needs Karrion Kross & Scarlett when you got Aliester Black & Zelina Vega. I never thought WWE would pair them up on screen but I guess every couple is getting paired up on screen now.

Deep down I think they always had Zelina managing Andrade as a last ditch effort for him but obviously they couldn't even find a reason to keep him relevant.

But now with Andrade gone and Zelina just stuck in the Michin "why is she randomly here" mode, at least she gets to do something better now.

And speaking of pairing up on screen, I wonder if we eventually see Bianca with the street profits if they decide to also have a street profits vs vision feud one day if Becky's part of that.

[SmashMan]

And speaking of pairing up on screen, I wonder if we eventually see Bianca with the street profits if they decide to also have a street profits vs vision feud one day if Becky's part of that.

I know what you mean because now she's her own well-established character so it'd be a bigger deal, but you saying this reminded me that Bianca debuted on the main roster by teaming with the Street Profits.

[Majingir]

All the talk from Rollins about "not needing the vision" and the whole tease of the Vision turning on him if he didn't win at Crown Jewel, I think that we're going to see them turn on him a lot sooner than we think.


Dom with another Eddie move. Takes the timekeepers bell and hammer, throws the bell in the ring, the ref sees the bell and takes it out of the ring and Dom uses the hammer and takes out Penta.


Edit-Looks like sooner was today! Bron and Bronson turning on Seth! Brons big babyface push incoming? And they got Heyman with them too? I could see a Bron vs Lesnar feud coming up with Heyman standing with the new next big thing.

[UFCMPunk]

All the talk from Rollins about "not needing the vision" and the whole tease of the Vision turning on him if he didn't win at Crown Jewel, I think that we're going to see them turn on him a lot sooner than we think.


Dom with another Eddie move. Takes the timekeepers bell and hammer, throws the bell in the ring, the ref sees the bell and takes it out of the ring and Dom uses the hammer and takes out Penta.


Edit-Looks like sooner was today! Bron and Bronson turning on Seth! Brons big babyface push incoming? And they got Heyman with them too? I could see a Bron vs Lesnar feud coming up with Heyman standing with the new next big thing.

Doing that on a show that airs 8am or even 5am for West Coast fans is certainly a decision. Reports are saying he has a legit shoulder injury but we know what happened last time lol.

[Majingir]

Aired during ad breaks so many didn't see it, but Kairi got her old NXT black and gold sky pirate theme song back.

I liked her current song, but that other song is great. One of the best from the black and gold era.

More and more talent going back to old themes, something definitely has to be up.

I'm surprised dirt sheets haven't tried digging in to this instead. Rather than making up a nothing story, why not try to find out if def rebel is gone or if something else happened like wwe just getting rights to use old themes again (if they ever weren't allowed, like needing to pay royalties to CFO$).

Doing that on a show that airs 8am or even 5am for West Coast fans is certainly a decision. Reports are saying he has a legit shoulder injury but we know what happened last time lol.

Rollins apparently was in a sling.

They have to be fooling people again right?

I don't think he takes those moves on Raw if he suddenly got that hurt on Saturday.

Punk won the #1 contenders match as well so if Rollins is hurt does he just vacate it? Would be crazy how this could be the 2nd time we were going to get a big Rollins vs Punk match at a major PLE and its called off due to someone injuring their arm.

But I could see the injury being legit because if it wasn't, then why not just have Rollins lose at Crown Jewel and the same thing that happens on Raw just happens because he lost.

[UFCMPunk]

For anyone who didn't understand the ending of RAW, here's some Steiner Math to help you understand.

https://x.com/ScottSteiner/status/1977894239997505575?t=hvPE0ay4dBqCnATKP9TTpw&s=19

[TheMatrix31]

Worthless. Way to diminish everything that happened at Wrestlemania and Summerslam. Way to blow pairing Seth with Heyman. Like, what? They don't even have a reason to break up. They didn't even have a reason for existing yet.

This group didn't do jack ****. Completely pointless.

And way to bury it on a overseas show so that your main fanbase gets spoiled on it before they even have a chance to watch the ****in' show. What a wonderful choice.

Dumb. Dumb as ****.

[UFCMPunk]

Worthless. Way to diminish everything that happened at Wrestlemania and Summerslam. Way to blow pairing Seth with Heyman. Like, what? They don't even have a reason to break up. They didn't even have a reason for existing yet.

This group didn't do jack ****. Completely pointless.

And way to bury it on a overseas show so that your main fanbase gets spoiled on it before they even have a chance to watch the ****in' show. What a wonderful choice.

Dumb. Dumb as ****.

The sudden turn by Bron & Bronson says something is up. As you said, they really haven't done anything and War Games was WWE's best chance to solidify them with a win there.

Going to have to wait and see what happens, they still crowned Punk the new number one contender. Tricking Punk into thinking he's all alone and they turned on him only for them to help him retain over Punk is Heyman/Roman/Brock all over again.

Roman speared Heyman, fired him, Heyman went back to Brock only to reveal it was a plan by Roman & Heyman all along. This could be that here too, but faking another injury with Rollins after doing it already seems a bit much.

[TheMatrix31]

That'd be pretty complicated. I'd rather they not get too cute.

If they have to do this and Rollins is out, I wish Heyman would abandon both Bronson and Bron (they're both worthless IMO) and go get Oba Femi.

[Majingir]

Raw ended with a betrayal

NXT ended with a reunion

Smackdown this week ending with a.....reunion betrayal?