WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[TheMatrix31]

International crowds putting themselves over is irritating and old to me now. Also don't like the start times for shows and spoilers floating around everywhere. That Cody Drew match has been building for months and it's gonna air early in the day in America and we'll have to be careful and adjust our regular day to day interactions with all areas of the internet to avoid those results. Not that I expect him to lose, but maybe they wise up and realize that people are gonna stop caring about Drew if the trigger hasn't been pulled for years.

But ya. Schedule is what it is I guess.

[SmashMan]

Not that I expect him to lose, but maybe they wise up and realize that people are gonna stop caring about Drew if the trigger hasn't been pulled for years.

Honestly, I already have. I'm not even a big "Drew should win it!" guy, but losing all these title matches? And I'm still supposed to be invested now? Nah, don't care anymore.

Same for Je'Von Evans. The finish to his Iron Survivor cash-in a few weeks ago killed it for me. Another guy who doesn't need to be champion right this second or anything, but stop having him around the title picture if he's not going to win it. The chase isn't that interesting.

[UFCMPunk]

International crowds putting themselves over is irritating and old to me now. Also don't like the start times for shows and spoilers floating around everywhere. That Cody Drew match has been building for months and it's gonna air early in the day in America and we'll have to be careful and adjust our regular day to day interactions with all areas of the internet to avoid those results. Not that I expect him to lose, but maybe they wise up and realize that people are gonna stop caring about Drew if the trigger hasn't been pulled for years.

But ya. Schedule is what it is I guess.

I will say, with RAW on Netflix they can air the show live at the exact time they are in whatever country they are in. Smackdown still being on USA Network and not streaming (outside of International Netflix) in the US is crazy. I've said it before but Smackdown needs to be on streaming in the US, whether it's airing Smackdown live on Peacock when they have international shows or just move everything to Netflix in the US. People have already said there is no way Drew is winning because of it being on tape delay in the US but I feel like that is why they would do it, because if people know Drew wins then they may be able to get more viewers and a higher rating.

To be honest, if you have Roman win the Rumble and them finally doing another Roman/Drew match for Mania is more intriguing to me then a third Roman/Cody match. Or do the Tiffany/Charlotte booking with Roman/Bron where Bron wins the World Title next Monday, Roman wins the Rumble then Roman puts Bron over at Mania.

[Majingir]

Sounds like we're going to see some call ups soon, as already teased on TV.

Evans, Oba and Trick going to the main roster while Bron is getting his push, this is the new era we need to see.

All 4 of those guys I see being future world champs.

And seeing how Melo won the US title out of nowhere, it does make me wonder how Trick plays in to all of that.

[UFCMPunk]

Yep, the Judgment Day is officially cursed. WWE has announced that Dirty Dom is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. We just got Liv back from injury, then JD is out with a injury. Now Dirty Dom?!?

I'm just saying, everything went downhill after Carlito and the PS5 was removed from the Clubhouse. Coincidence, I think not.

[Majingir]

Where do we rank the Usos as greatest tag teams in WWE?

I know people love the Hardys and Dudleys a lot, but when you look at things, how long were they really a team in WWE? Dudleys were together for maybe 4 or 5 years in WWE (not including that random break in 02 when Vince split up half the tag division), Hardys have been on again off again whenever they were in WWE together (Jeff obviously left at times too and had his own issues).

Usos doing this for 15 years now, but especially just the last decade alone (can you believe there was a time that they were nothing more than a preshow match?) they've been so good.

Yep, the Judgment Day is officially cursed. WWE has announced that Dirty Dom is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. We just got Liv back from injury, then JD is out with a injury. Now Dirty Dom?!?

I'm just saying, everything went downhill after Carlito and the PS5 was removed from the Clubhouse. Coincidence, I think not.

The PS5 is still there, so it must be Carlito.

The curse of the apple?

But I'm thinking that whatever his injury is, they're obviously going to just take it easy for now since this time of the year is a writeoff anyways, and it's all about the road to the rumble, so if he's not competing again until the Rumble, at least they've given him time off to heal up for a month before the RTWM.

[UFCMPunk]

I like Jey, it was cool they actually took advantage of his popularity and gave him a World Title run. It's funny how before that, everyone wanted Jey to get a World Title run but immediately turned on him after he won it lol. People wanted him to be the one to beat Roman at one point lol.

It just feels right seeing him back in the Tag Team Title scene again. Still hope Jimmy gets a singles run of his own at some point. WWE could really do two TLC Matches at Mania if they wanted to. One for the Men's and one for the Women's. That's how deep both Tag divisions are at the moment.

[Majingir]

I like Jey, it was cool they actually took advantage of his popularity and gave him a World Title run. It's funny how before that, everyone wanted Jey to get a World Title run but immediately turned on him after he won it lol. People wanted him to be the one to beat Roman at one point lol.

It just feels right seeing him back in the Tag Team Title scene again. Still hope Jimmy gets a singles run of his own at some point. WWE could really do two TLC Matches at Mania if they wanted to. One for the Men's and one for the Women's. That's how deep both Tag divisions are at the moment.

Welcome to the internet. People like someone until they make it, then they turn on them.

As for the tag scene, I definitely think we'll get a women's elimination chamber tag match.

You have Charlotte/Bliss, Kabukis, Rhiyo, Lash/Nia, Bayley/Lyra, Roxanne/Liv all as teams who can be in the match.

I wouldn't mind a men's tag chamber match too, but I feel like they're going to have a men's singles title chamber match instead.

And speaking of the tag scene, we have a chance to have a face Usos vs heel New Day feud for the first time ever! Like I said before, people can say what they want about the nostalgia from the Dudleys and Hardys, but Usos vs New Day is arguably the best tag feud in WWE history. While everyone remembers TLC matches and so on between Dudleys/Hardys, people don't realize that those matches had very little build outside of maybe a week or two at most (I think some of those matches we didn't even know the stipulation until the Raw before).

[TheMatrix31]

I like Jey, it was cool they actually took advantage of his popularity and gave him a World Title run. It's funny how before that, everyone wanted Jey to get a World Title run but immediately turned on him after he won it lol. People wanted him to be the one to beat Roman at one point lol.

It just feels right seeing him back in the Tag Team Title scene again. Still hope Jimmy gets a singles run of his own at some point. WWE could really do two TLC Matches at Mania if they wanted to. One for the Men's and one for the Women's. That's how deep both Tag divisions are at the moment.

I think the beat Roman thing was because it (like Sami) made sense within the evolution of the bloodline story. But standalone? No, obviously neither Sami nor Jey are world championship material.

That's really horrible if Dom is hurt. Really dumb.

[UFCMPunk]

First 3 hour Smackdown of the year, advertised for Smackdown:

- Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre face off one week before their Championship match in Berlin.

- Ambulance Match: Damian Priest vs Aliester Black

- 8 Woman Tag Team Match: Rhea, Iyo, Charlotte, Alexa Bliss vs Kabuki Warriors, Nia Jax & Lash Legend

- Jade Cargill vs Michin. If she wins, she gets a title match.

[Majingir]

As much as wwe is getting ridiculous with price gouging people, one good thing are those WWE/local sports team collabs.

That RKO Viper/Sabers mashup tee looks so cool

[Majingir]

Kit Wilson gets his own entrance theme and Tron, does that mean Pretty Deadly are done? Is Elton Prince getting released or just not able to return to the ring?

Pretty Deadly was a good team and I'm surprised they weren't given more.

And the newest member of the Smackdown is Za........MATT CARDONA? He's fully back in WWE and going under his real name.

How much longer before we get a new mixed match challenge? Chelsea/Cardona vs Black/Zelina vs Priest/Ripley vs Rollins/Becky vs Montez/Bianca vs Dom/Liv vs Candice/Gargano?


Sami Zayns son takes after Kevin Owens.

Kid: Why do they call John Cena the never seen seventeen?

Sami: Because he's won the world title 17 times.

Kid: How many times have you won it?

Sami:..........

The road to WrestleZaynia starts now! Give Sami a big match at SNME in Montreal, win the rumble in Saudi, then win the world title at Wrestlemania!

Trick Williams is now on Smackdown!

Gargano got his Way theme back!

Melo: Thank you Miz...thank you for finally leaving me alone and look at me now!

[TheMatrix31]

What an absolutely loaded show. Should be like that every week.

What, did the writers wake up or something?

Probably just to convince people a 3 hour show is good and that they'll be this good going forward.

Too much stuff to even talk about that's how much stuff happened.

Now that's a damn show.