WWE SmackDown Discussion II

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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#461 » by Spens1 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:14 am

tugs wrote:Think I saw a promotional vid with Shin saying he doesn't want to defend the title.


If they're going to have him be heel, at least let him be a badass heel. If they're going to make him a coward then they may as well rip up that contract now because they're wasting everyone's time.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#462 » by Spens1 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:46 am

This company has made me not really care about Bryan, its a miracle. Also I know they want that crossover audience but i couldn't care less about the Bella's. Let them do their reality TV show and have them do their odd appearance, but no actual nonsense like this, especially the main event.

I mean at least we're getting Rusev Day vs New Day (i'll take a decent feud between these two). Carmella is a face? well at least she's back down the card (Asuka died for WWE's sins though, their needs to be at least one other company with woman's wrestling or a woman's wrestling promotion with money that is an alternative to WWE cause WWE straight up sucks when it comes to dealing with outside woman's talent).

Nakamura is US champ but they're respecting him even less somehow. He ought to leave, I mean he didn't do himself any favours but he could become a leader for CHAOS again whilst doing less singles and having a more chill schedule (whilst making high 6 figures cause its Nakamura).

With Smackdown this bad, when has WWE, hell when was the WWF or WWWF ever this bad (this is worse than 2007-2009). We have 2 good story's on the entire main roster (both smackdown story's).

Also never give Jeff Hardy a mic again, please.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#463 » by tugs » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:51 am

Man I have to agree. I've lost interest in DBry. It's so weird that creative is really good in creating stories that make you want to turn off your TV. The consistency is unreal.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#464 » by Scott Hall » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:27 am

Spens1 wrote:This company has made me not really care about Bryan, its a miracle. Also I know they want that crossover audience but i couldn't care less about the Bella's. Let them do their reality TV show and have them do their odd appearance, but no actual nonsense like this, especially the main event.

I mean at least we're getting Rusev Day vs New Day (i'll take a decent feud between these two). Carmella is a face? well at least she's back down the card (Asuka died for WWE's sins though, their needs to be at least one other company with woman's wrestling or a woman's wrestling promotion with money that is an alternative to WWE cause WWE straight up sucks when it comes to dealing with outside woman's talent).

Nakamura is US champ but they're respecting him even less somehow. He ought to leave, I mean he didn't do himself any favours but he could become a leader for CHAOS again whilst doing less singles and having a more chill schedule (whilst making high 6 figures cause its Nakamura).

With Smackdown this bad, when has WWE, hell when was the WWF or WWWF ever this bad (this is worse than 2007-2009). We have 2 good story's on the entire main roster (both smackdown story's).

Also never give Jeff Hardy a mic again, please.


I've been wondering why the Bellas are back lately and I think it's more then Nikki just being bored at home now
that Cena is gone. Whatever happened to Nikki's serious neck injury where the doctors advised her to stop wrestling?

Anyways I think the reason their back full time for now is primarily about their Reality Show because they need something
to film for it. The way things were who would watch another season of that show to see Brie be a stay at home mom
and Nikki go shopping and get drunk complaining about Cena? They needed some wrestling content and more people
are interested in watching the behind the scenes aspect of the business then their personal lives.

That Asuka segment with Naomi was an all-time stinker something about Teriyaki and Asuka acting like a bimbo
who doesn't understand a word of English. The highlight for me was when they showed the crowd right after and
everyone is sitting there in complete silence and they showed this black womens face who had this expression like
WTF was that? which was pretty funny.

Maryse vs. Brie Bella main event? Talk about booking the town you're in. Where were they somewhere in Louisiana?
Also Maryse might have the most underrated theme in WWE history.

I was curious to see what Beckys reactions were gonna be like when she wasn't wrestling in hot markets like New York
and Toronto and they've seemed to dwindle in the smaller markets but still getting a pop. I liked that Charlotte vs. Deville
match. I'm one of the few people who don't mind Charlotte constantly being champ to me she's clearly the best womens
wrestler in the world by a large margin and better then most male wrestlers and the best womens wrestler of all-time
and she keeps on improving.

I wonder how much better Charlotte could be if more girls were on her level the good thing about this feud with Becky
is Becky should be able to hang with her in the ring to produce some good matches. It's also to bad Tessa Blanchard
signed a new long term deal with Impact because she would be absolutely perfect to inject into this feud. You could
have Tessa help Charlotte doing the old Austin-Bret WM 13 Double switch and make Becky the monster face the audience
wants and Charlotte can be the heel where she really excels and can say a Flair and a Blanchard will always be real
best friends.

You make a good point about Carmella is she suddenly a face right now? And why is she hanging out and dancing
with a low card jobber all of a sudden?

As for Daniel Bryan we knew if he came back the big "money" feud for him was gonna be the Miz they dragged it out
to the big PPV SummerSlam and tried to make a "star" out of Big Cass on the way there that obviously didn't work.

Since the Bryan and The Miz are supposed to be bitter rivals you knew this feud was/is gonna be dragged out for
months. Right now they're just injecting the wives early which I guess kind of makes sense with the Mixed Match
Challenge back and the Womens PPV coming. But personally speaking I'm not interested in a DB vs. Miz feud but
sign me up for Almas vs. DB
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#465 » by Spens1 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:28 am

It would be fine if the wives could wrestle but they really can't. They can easily stall the feud and just tease it here and there until going all the way during the wrestlemania season.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#466 » by Scott Hall » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:52 am

They're probably filming for Total Bellas and want them in the swing of things before the Evolution PPV. How much
you wanna bet the season finale of the next Total Bellas will be about whoever they face at that PPV. Plus the Miz and
Maryse have their show so they're probably filming for it and possibly tying it in.

Also from a heated bad blood feud standpoint ideally Bryan vs. Miz should be in HIAC over any match but with Bryan
just coming back doesn't make sense for him to take a bunch of crazy bumps and in the process have a dull Cell match.
I guess interjecting the wives now bypasses that.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#467 » by The_Brecht » Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:55 am

Damn Becky :o
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#468 » by Ruzious » Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:54 pm

Scott Hall wrote:Wow an R-Truth vs. Miz main event in 2018 I know it was to further the Daniel Bryan storyline but damn. Speaking
of that I'm enjoying Bryan vs. Alams way more than Bryan vs. Miz but don't let Andrade speak until his english improves
vastly.

Why don't they just make Mix-Matched Tag-Tittles instead of having these pointless tournaments? Nothing came out
of the first one so what's the point of watching another one?

WWE is just going through the motions right now just thinking the fans will gobble anything up they're probably right....

Completely forgot about Asuka till she ran into the ring to save Naomi... Also whatever happened to Shinske?

They really need to write out Brie - she's an albatross for her sister and especially for DB. Give her a fake injury before she gives herself a real injury with her "flying" maneuvers. If they feel they need to continue with mixed matches, have Nikki impersonate Brea. Nikki's actually become a decent performer - some of the time.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#469 » by tugs » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:42 am

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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#470 » by Dominator83 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:41 am

Ruzious wrote:
Scott Hall wrote:Wow an R-Truth vs. Miz main event in 2018 I know it was to further the Daniel Bryan storyline but damn. Speaking
of that I'm enjoying Bryan vs. Alams way more than Bryan vs. Miz but don't let Andrade speak until his english improves
vastly.

Why don't they just make Mix-Matched Tag-Tittles instead of having these pointless tournaments? Nothing came out
of the first one so what's the point of watching another one?

WWE is just going through the motions right now just thinking the fans will gobble anything up they're probably right....

Completely forgot about Asuka till she ran into the ring to save Naomi... Also whatever happened to Shinske?

They really need to write out Brie - she's an albatross for her sister and especially for DB. Give her a fake injury before she gives herself a real injury with her "flying" maneuvers. If they feel they need to continue with mixed matches, have Nikki impersonate Brea. Nikki's actually become a decent performer - some of the time.

There's a pretty obvious difference between the 2 that makes them very easy to tell apart...
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#471 » by tugs » Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:36 am

Then the Miz will try to exploit Nikki pretending as Brie. You don't want that man. It'll lead to an awkward make out between the in laws.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#472 » by bestnamezRtaken » Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:14 pm

I'm surprised no one brought up Aiden's turn on Rusev. While it's a shame, I thought the way they did it was pretty good. He purposely cost Rusev the US title, which makes for good storytelling. Seems we will be getting a feud between the two, which I'm okay with for now. Clearly Rusev will win as I don't think they see Aiden as a major player. Shame though because this was so good for English and he's a talented wrestler. I had felt bad when Gotch got fired but that was a freaking blessing in disguise for English. Would be cool to see English in the US title picture as a true heel. I think he could pull it off.

I had found out about the #1 contender stipulation between DBry and the Miz last week when I was looking at the Wikipedia for the PPV. That's awesome and should make for a great match between Bryan and Miz...hopefully giving this feud the proper storyline it deserves. I was happy to hear Maryse say she's gonna be staying at home with Monroe, which should hopefully mean the end of the wives being involved in this feud. Don't need Brie stinking up this feud anymore. It'll be interesting to see who becomes #1 contender against Styles. They don't usually like to do a face v face match/feud which would imply the Miz winning against Bryan again. Unless they plan on putting the title on Bryan, doing a small feud between AJ/DB with DB coming out on top and then going back to the Miz again? I dunno...perhaps Joe win the title and feuds with DB?
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#473 » by tugs » Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:19 pm

I also liked the English turn, meaning WWE is acknowledging Rusev now as a crowd favorite. Just not sure what type of heel English would be. Could be similar to his Vaudevillains character?
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#474 » by iMoreland » Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:46 pm

The whole Rusev Day schtick has gone sour on me. I don't really care what they do with Aiden or Rusev anymore.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#475 » by improper » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:34 pm

iMoreland wrote:The whole Rusev Day schtick has gone sour on me. I don't really care what they do with Aiden or Rusev anymore.


Main problem with Rusev is the main problem with a lot of guys who are super over. WWE never rewards being over with wins, and so slowly people stop caring. Same thing happened with Wyatt. He used to be one of the most over tweeners in the company. Now he's just a guy because he lost every feud he's ever been in.

It's hard to continue caring about Rusev at this point because we all know that he's not getting a push, so what's the point?
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#476 » by Scott Hall » Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:53 am

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iMoreland wrote:The whole Rusev Day schtick has gone sour on me. I don't really care what they do with Aiden or Rusev anymore.


Main problem with Rusev is the main problem with a lot of guys who are super over. WWE never rewards being over with wins, and so slowly people stop caring. Same thing happened with Wyatt. He used to be one of the most over tweeners in the company. Now he's just a guy because he lost every feud he's ever been in.

It's hard to continue caring about Rusev at this point because we all know that he's not getting a push, so what's the point?


Yup Edge said it best doesn't matter how over you are with the crowd the key is you gotta get over with Vince
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Post#477 » by Stanford » Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:21 am

It's funny because I think the Daniel Bryan phenomenon kind of screwed guys like Rusev. It's almost as if they set the bar for how over you need to be to get a push at 'Daniel Bryan,' which isn't fair. No one is going to be that over, including the guys they want to be.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#478 » by spykelee » Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:25 am

Speaking of Bryan, they aren't going to have miz go over him again are they? I mean, they love doing the opposite just to keep people guessing...

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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#479 » by Spens1 » Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:28 am

spykelee wrote:Speaking of Bryan, they aren't going to have miz go over him again are they? I mean, they love doing the opposite just to keep people guessing...

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I mean its possible, Miz winning dirty against Styles is an option but it would be anti-climatic.
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Re: WWE SmackDown Discussion II 

Post#480 » by Scott Hall » Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:49 am

I wonder if they gave Becky the tittle because she's starting to get super over or if this was then plan
at Summerslam when they had her turn on Charlotte?

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