WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[Majingir]

Probably not the way you want to announce it, but there ya go. Good for him.

Probably was news he didn't want to publicly share yet (otherwise Cole would've mentioned it on SD), but fans panicking thinking he's getting fired or demoted or going after Nikki for her podcast getting him in trouble so he had to say something.

Nikki went online and apologized for her comments about Wade and said "I should've come to you first instead of saying it on the podcast". What a great idea.....Love the total diva drama back.

[UFCMPunk]

Well Said Roxanne........ now tell your sister(Cora) to come back for the family reunion lol.

Edit: Can someone tell me how to embed Twitter/X links here?

https://twitter.com/roxanne_wwe/status/1964148191131005276

[Majingir]

Well Said Roxanne........ now tell your sister(Cora) to come back for the family reunion lol.

Edit: Can someone tell me how to embed Twitter/X links here?

https://twitter.com/roxanne_wwe/status/1964148191131005276

I think it's best if Cora stays away for a while.

There was a time she seemed like she had the bigger potential, but Roxanne's heel turn (and Cora's injury) changed everything. But their pathways felt like Roxanne would become the next AJ while Cora becomes the next Paige (good and the bad), so it's probably better she got released and seems to be stepping away from wrestling for a while since physically and mentally it seemed to be doing damage to her, and we all know the toll everything took on Paige at a young age.

[SmashMan]

Well Said Roxanne........ now tell your sister(Cora) to come back for the family reunion lol.
Edit: Can someone tell me how to embed Twitter/X links here?

https://twitter.com/roxanne_wwe/status/1964148191131005276

At the end of the formatting options there’s an X logo. Copy and paste just the numbers from the end of the Twitter URL between the Tweet tags that pop up.

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[Majingir]

If its true this news is huge, but one report said AJ signed a multi year FULL TIME deal!

Not that I expect her wrestling every week, but if her workload is like most main event level stars where you'll see her compete every so often on Raw/SD and the PLEs, that'll be great.

The Becky feud alone I think goes until Survivor Series, then her next feud starts up during the RTWM (maybe she wins the rumble or EC since I definitely see her being one of the people who'd object to competing in SA)

[UFCMPunk]

I've been watching the clips WWE posted of what happened after Smackdown went off the air and damn I've never seen Punk look so happy. Oh and Becky forgot her Championship so AJ was skipping around the ring and holding up the Women's IC Championship.

[Majingir]

I've been watching the clips WWE posted of what happened after Smackdown went off the air and damn I've never seen Punk look so happy. Oh and Becky forgot her Championship so AJ was skipping around the ring and holding up the Women's IC Championship.

I saw some people fantasy booking the entire feuds.

AJ beats Becky for the title and then goes on to feud with someone like Roxanne (or maybe even a heel Bayley) for the title.

[SmashMan]

[TheMatrix31]

Barrett clarifies the rumors.

He WILL be leaving the announce table.......for a few weeks. It's a personal leave that was booked 9 months ago.

Everyone's having babies at this point.

Good. When I saw the Nikki dumb **** I was furious. Figured it couldn't be that dumb but never know now.

[Majingir]

Tomorrow's the final 8pm ET Raw for a while.

Where were these 7pm Raws when I was a kid! Not that I think that in today's day and age it'll impact much in terms of viewers, but I always wondered how would Raw have done the last 15-20 years if it was 8-10 or 7-10 or something like that. Sure, west coast viewers would be an early start for them, but they could at least record it and watch it delayed vs east coast viewers where a portion of their audience (kids as well as adults who have to wake up early the next day for work) might not be watching until 11pm.

It'll feel weird being at 7pm, but now it'll feel like watching a game that goes from 7-9:30.

Beyond September no change has been announced to any other Raws so this could be temporary, or it could be the start of a more permanent change.

[Majingir]

Looks like 7pm could become a fixture, or maybe it just changes week by week based on time zones?

They announced ticket sales for Cenas shows in Boston and NY and both are set for 7pm start times, however, no other show happening before or after those 2 shows are scheduled for 7pm ET starts.

[UFCMPunk]

Graves: The Internet told me Barrett was exiled to some island.

[UFCMPunk]

Did we time travel back to 2014? We got AJ Lee back, The Usos are reunited and we are getting Cena vs Lesnar at a PPV.

[Majingir]

Graves on Raw too. Wonder if he stays on NXT too. Almost 7 hours a week for him...good luck to his vocal chords.

I get Jeys theme is the more popular one, but given how similar it is to the Usos theme anyways, I wonder why they didn't give the Usos that theme back.

I know Jey has done well as a singles star, but nothing beats the Usos together. That's when they're at their best. Feels like we haven't seen the good guy Usos tag team like this since before the pandemic?

Let them beat the Judgment Day (who are the worst tag champs ever in both their runs with basically 3 total defences it feels like) and let's have heel New Day vs face Usos!

Did we time travel back to 2014? We got AJ Lee back, The Usos are reunited and we are getting Cena vs Lesnar at a PPV.

Feels like 2012 with Cena, Usos, AJ, Lesnar, Punk, Nikki. Even Kelly Kelly is signed to a contract right now. There's even a chance we might one day see Paige and Jericho back too.

[UFCMPunk]

AJ Lee still carrying the Women's Intercontinental Championship... I wonder if she put it in their refrigerator on Friday Night.