WWE SmackDown Discussion II

[improper]

Looked a bit stiffski, brother.

Looked like Suzuki being Suzuki to me. He's always stiff with his shots, as are most Japanese wrestlers.

Plus, like I said, Asuka kicked him in the balls and then kicked him in the face a bunch of times just before the clip I posted above, which led to him snapping and destroying her.

[jakecronus8]

Re: Asuka booking the match. There's many times in history where workers get hurt because they booked themselves in stupid spots. Sometimes you have to save workers from themselves.

Perfect example would be Rock and Foley's I Quit match back in the day. That match might be taken years off Foley's life because he wanted to do the chair shots. Problem was Rock either got carried away in the moment or miscommunication led to the amount of unprotected shots. What if Asuka told him to really lay into her and he went 100% and knocked her out?

Just a weird thing to soap box about. That was a stupid spot regardless of who booked it.

[tugs]

There's a big difference from working a stiff realistic style to a grown man fully slapping and punching a woman in the face. My point is you can get heat in a multitude of ways that don't involve that cheap garbage.

Reminded me of that one promotion where a guy threw a fcking brick (A BRICK!) from the ring to a guy on the floor and hit him on the back of his head. And now the promotion is using that heat for the asshat's gimmick.

Not sure who's more disgusting.

[improper]

Re: Asuka booking the match. There's many times in history where workers get hurt because they booked themselves in stupid spots. Sometimes you have to save workers from themselves.

Perfect example would be Rock and Foley's I Quit match back in the day. That match might be taken years off Foley's life because he wanted to do the chair shots. Problem was Rock either got carried away in the moment or miscommunication led to the amount of unprotected shots. What if Asuka told him to really lay into her and he went 100% and knocked her out?

Just a weird thing to soap box about. That was a stupid spot regardless of who booked it.

I mean, it didn't seem like anything he did to her was unsafe. He stiffed her with a couple of slaps, but slaps are basically harmless. The entire reason wrestlers use slaps is because it makes a great sound effect while doing no actual damage. Hurts a bit, but other than that you're fine. And wrestling is a physical sport. These guys and girls slap the hell out of each other all the time, and for the reason I stated above. Sounds great, doesn't do any real damage.

As for those elbows he gave her, they seemed like the pretty standard elbows to the side of the neck and shoulder area that Japanese wrestlers do in virtually every NJPW match I've ever watched, and I've never seen anyone seriously hurt from those.

It's not like Suzuki was punching her with a closed fist for real. He slapped her around a bit and then gave her some worked elbows. The worst was the kicks at the end, but even those are no worse than plenty of other kicks I've seen. Hell, Asuka herself regularly kicks people harder than that. She did it multiple times during the TLC match, and she kicked Suzuki every bit as hard as he kicked her earlier in the match.

[Spens1]

I'm sure she told Suzuki to stiff her though knowing her. She's ridiculously tough.

Well, as I mentioned, she booked that match, as I think it was her promotion, so obviously she knew what she was getting into.

Wait she booked that match? I thought this was on a Wave show. Either way she's mental regardless (but in a way she is the female Suzuki anyhow).

[iMoreland]

AJ vs Vince feud? Who is Vince's muscle?

Also, Vince is a 73 year old billionaire still taking bumps, what a legend.

[jakecronus8]

Rusev vs Shinsuke was great. Dont understand why they had to throw that vince segment in after the match. Took away from the finish imo.

[bestnamezRtaken]

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[bestnamezRtaken]

Becky Lynch disses John Cena

Don't know how legit the caption is but it's still funny.

Sorry, posting this from my phone, it's a pain in the *SS.

[iMoreland]

2019 will be the year Kofi Kingston gets a world title

[tugs]

Becky Lynch OMG

That roast was a lot more burnt for Cena than what he had with Roman

[bestnamezRtaken]

Cool to see Ali getting put into big matches like this. He's doing very well holding his own. I'm digging it.

[Scott Hall]

Call me crazy but I enjoyed WWE programming this week with the exception of the last 30 mins of RAW

[tugs]

Subtle improvements can be seen, I really enjoyed it as well.

One pet peeve though. Not sure if it's just me but are they recycling storylines with their top guys, with Vince-AJ and Trips-Seth?

[whysoserious]

I haven't been watching much wrestling the past little while but I noticed Cena was back with a different look, checked out his segment with Becky and thought meh, same old Cena.

Becky is on fire, comes out, calls out Cena perfectly, they get interrupted and suddenly Cena's offering to do a match against them teaming up with Becky after she punked him. It's the same old thing with this guy. Nothing fresh, even with time off.

Cena really needs that Hogan heel turn if he's going to keep going.

[bestnamezRtaken]

Did you watch the match though buddy? When Cena was doing his big come back like he does, despite not being the legal man, Becky threw him out of the ring and picked up the win. It was a great segment buddy.

[tugs]

And when Cena extended his hand to congratulate Becky, she gave him a U Can't C Me gesture. Awesome.

[whysoserious]

Did you watch the match though buddy? When Cena was doing his big come back like he does, despite not being the legal man, Becky threw him out of the ring and picked up the win. It was a great segment buddy.

That was the part I was missing. Thanks for sharing, I'll have to watch it.

[tugs]

Ok some fans claiming they're not allowed to attend SD or even buy merch because they're wearing AEW shirts or has an item associated to it.

That's petty.

[improper]

That's petty.

Well, Vince is super petty, so not really surprising.