WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[chronoxiong]

RAW this week was okay. Some good. Some whatever. I still dont see Damian Priest as a Champion that a show can revolve around. He's just there. I think the company is trying give him more chances lately though so I have to see where this keeps going. His promo with Main Event Jey Uso was average to me. Him bringing up a story that none of us fans know about. And then Jey was being Jey in the promo. This is a okay first feud for Priest.

We did see Judgment Day start to fall apart later in the show. Dominik is also on the injured list which has to suck. I thought Gunther had a nice promo out there as he had a very commanding presence. This guy is ready to ascend up the ranks. I dont care much for the tag team match after but the post match beatdown was fascinating. Dont hate the Drew/Sheamus promo. But dont care for the Sheamus/Shinsuke match because Shinsuke is the new heel Miz now. All he does is job. Chad Gable's descent to the darkside is fine with me. Its a story and hopefully the payoff is him winning singles gold. Speaking of winning gold, that Women's Battle Royal. I dont care who won it. I think the fans will complain either way on what the WWE was going to do. It made sense for the winner and still gives Liv the reason to "finish her story."

[Majingir]

Gunther: Gio, Kaiser, take care of them.

Woods: NO! We've fought them so many times already!

Finally someone being honest, even if all that just led to the match anyways.

Finally split up the tag titles and they're breaking up teams!? Maybe we see Dragunov come in and replace Vinci?

McIntyre and Sheamus going at it on the mic!

A Gail Kim reference on Raw?! Coles been holding back a whole encyclopedia of knowledge he's never been able to share on commentary for 25 years.

Becky pulling the Mox. Think you're going on vacation? Nope, you're the champ now.

That staredown backstage between Liv and Dom......Mamis not gonna be happy when she returns and Judgment Day is broken up AND Dom is with Liv.

[reyes the roof]

They’re making it tough to suspend belief with this draft. Liv Morgan before Orton, LA Knight, and The Bloodline minus Reigns?

[J_Posse]

Quote: Originally Posted by reyes the roof

They’re making it tough to suspend belief with this draft. Liv Morgan before Orton, LA Knight, and The Bloodline minus Reigns?

I know she has her haters, but Liv brings eyeballs (or at least mine) to the WWE product.



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[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by reyes the roof

They’re making it tough to suspend belief with this draft. Liv Morgan before Orton, LA Knight, and The Bloodline minus Reigns?

I wouldn't even draft Liv if I were a GM. Not anything against her. By the same logic I wouldn't even draft AJ Styles either.

Think about it. If Liv ended up challenging Becky and winning the title from her, she's a Raw superstar. So why would Smackdown draft her when there's a shot she'll just wind up on Raw anyways? And why would Raw draft her for those reasons too?

Same with AJ Styles. Why would Raw draft him when him beating Cody means he's just going back to Smackdown?

But Liv did go after Orton. But NIA went before her! Nias the 2nd women's pick in the draft?!

[Majingir]

Is this the NFL?

We had a 4 min commercial break, returned from break, literally had 90 seconds of the show, then they went back to commercial break....

No zoom and enhance needed, that's Carlito in the security footage who attacked Dragon Lee! He literally attacked Dragon Lee, walked through the door, turned around, walked back in, then started panicking and calling for help. Then in real time, he attacks Dragon Lee and runs away.

[UFCMPunk]

Hopefully Cody was just selling and isn't actually hurt. The way he was clutching his shoulder... really hope he's just selling. If he gets injured again....

[TheMatrix31]

The draft is stupid.

They need to learn how to do things like segments "blending into another" etc. The camera angle they used for the Bianca interview was dumb. Her back was to the entire crowd. Dumb. The intros to begin the shows. The lights off on the crowd during the matches.

I know they're "testing things" but it needs to be less.

Wrestling is wrestling, first and foremost. If I want to watch a movie or other sports, I'll do that.