WWE SmackDown Discussion II

improper · Post #941 » by **improper** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:47 am

iMoreland wrote:EC3 watching all the new call ups like

Gotta serve his time for making his name in Impact.

tugs · Post #942 » by **tugs** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:15 am

improper wrote:
iMoreland wrote:EC3 watching all the new call ups like

Gotta serve his time for making his name in Impact.

This is funny and heartbreaking at the same time.

Oh no... Like Roode? He's gonna team up randomly with Tye then since their characters are associated with numbers, smh.

iMoreland · Post #943 » by **iMoreland** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:50 am

They might as well get rid of the US title

tugs · Post #944 » by **tugs** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:58 am

Without looking, I honestly forgot who the US Champ is.

Shin?

bestnamezRtaken · Post #945 » by **bestnamezRtaken** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:34 pm

tugs wrote:Without looking, I honestly forgot who the US Champ is.

Shin?

Wow, you freaking idiot, forgetting who the US champ is?!

Uh...I'm right there with you and I'm usually one of the few people who defend the product...

But I just looked it up, it's R-Truth.

tugs · Post #946 » by **tugs** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:47 pm

bestnamezRtaken wrote:
tugs wrote:Without looking, I honestly forgot who the US Champ is.

Shin?

Wow, you freaking idiot, forgetting who the US champ is?!

Uh...I'm right there with you and I'm usually one of the few people who defend the product...

But I just looked it up, it's R-Truth.

Damn I forgot, haha. Who did he beat again???

This is embarrassing. For WWE that is.

Post #947 » by **Stanford** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:02 pm

bestnamezRtaken wrote:But I just looked it up, it's R-Truth.

LOL, that would have been my last guess.

bestnamezRtaken · Post #948 » by **bestnamezRtaken** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:27 pm

tugs wrote:
bestnamezRtaken wrote:
tugs wrote:Without looking, I honestly forgot who the US Champ is.

Shin?

Wow, you freaking idiot, forgetting who the US champ is?!

Uh...I'm right there with you and I'm usually one of the few people who defend the product...

But I just looked it up, it's R-Truth.
Damn I forgot, haha. Who did he beat again???

This is embarrassing. For WWE that is.

He beat Shinsuke and then Rusev came out after he won the belt and demanded a title match and then he beat Rusev.

iMoreland · Post #949 » by **iMoreland** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:33 pm

Put the US title on Joe

Post #950 » by **Stanford** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:14 pm

They could just get rid of it. I don't think SD! needs a secondary singles title anyway. They should make the tag and IC their midcard titles and make them brand exclusive with some room to move, like the women's tag titles. There's too many **** belts anyway.

Scott Hall · Post #951 » by **Scott Hall** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:28 am

I have no idea what's going on right now I usually love chaos but everything in flux and so disorganized
this close to Mania seems strange.

improper · Post #952 » by **improper** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:37 am

Scott Hall wrote:I have no idea what's going on right now I usually love chaos but everything in flux and so disorganized
this close to Mania seems strange.

Yeah, but even coming out of the Rumble we didn't really have any coherent stories moving forward for anyone other than Becky/Ronda/Charlotte. Asuka has been MIA because her only credible challenger is being shoehorned into another feud. Rollins can't gain any momentum in his feud because Brock is never around and because they so horribly botched his feud with Ambrose that people stopped caring. I have no idea what's going on in either tag division, as the Revival have been made into jobbers and then just randomly given the belts and the Smackdown tag division has been in limbo due to McMahons putting themselves over like usual. The US Title is on a comedy act (to be fair, I like Truth a lot as a character, but no idea why he's holding a title this close to 'Mania) and I have no idea what they're gonna do with Balor (he is the IC champ, right?).

The programming has been a mess for a while now. Ever since Reigns left it's like Vince hasn't had a clue where to go with the story instead because he put all his horses in that stable. He rightfully latched on to Becky, but it's seemingly come at the expense of the entire men's division.

Scott Hall · Post #953 » by **Scott Hall** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:52 am

improper wrote:
Scott Hall wrote:I have no idea what's going on right now I usually love chaos but everything in flux and so disorganized
this close to Mania seems strange.

Yeah, but even coming out of the Rumble we didn't really have any coherent stories moving forward for anyone other than Becky/Ronda/Charlotte. Asuka has been MIA because her only credible challenger is being shoehorned into another feud. Rollins can't gain any momentum in his feud because Brock is never around and because they so horribly botched his feud with Ambrose that people stopped caring. I have no idea what's going on in either tag division, as the Revival have been made into jobbers and then just randomly given the belts and the Smackdown tag division has been in limbo due to McMahons putting themselves over like usual. The US Title is on a comedy act (to be fair, I like Truth a lot as a character, but no idea why he's holding a title this close to 'Mania) and I have no idea what they're gonna do with Balor (he is the IC champ, right?).

The programming has been a mess for a while now. Ever since Reigns left it's like Vince hasn't had a clue where to go with the story instead because he put all his horses in that stable. He rightfully latched on to Becky, but it's seemingly come at the expense of the entire men's division.

Yeah pretty much...

What's funny is they seem to have got lightning in a bottle again with Kofi just like they did with Becky and Vince
is gonna fumble the ball XFL style like usual. Doing the Kofi vs. Bryan match at Fast Lane is a big mistake and it's
not like Bryan had an opponent planned out ahead of time for WM anyways.

It also looks to me like they're turning Kevin Owens into Bastion Booger 2.0 where he's this fat slob eating pizza and popcorn
and dropping things and just like mind numbing stuff. It could turn out to be nothing though like Vince slapping AJ and
egging him on to let the dog out of him.

I'm enjoying 1992 Superstars that they show on the WWE Network here every Saturday Morning like the good old days.
This past weeks episode Papa Shango set a jobber on fire, Repo man tied up a jobber and repossessed him and Undertaker
put Duane Gill aka Gillberg into a body bag. The commentary with Mr. Perfect and Vince is awesome and the vignettes
with a rookie Crush and Razor Ramon are great.

improper · Post #954 » by **improper** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:55 am

Yeah the rumors I've read about the angle they're running with Owens is about the dumbest f*cking thing I've ever heard. It's amazing how they've never gotten Owens right. His best persona is the prize fighter, out to win gold to provide for his family and not caring who he has to hurt to get it.

Scott Hall · Post #955 » by **Scott Hall** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:34 am

improper wrote:Yeah the rumors I've read about the angle they're running with Owens is about the dumbest f*cking thing I've ever heard. It's amazing how they've never gotten Owens right. His best persona is the prize fighter, out to win gold to provide for his family and not caring who he has to hurt to get it.

What's the rumors you've heard about the angle they're gonna do with him?

improper · Post #956 » by **improper** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:47 pm

Pretty much exactly what you said above. That he's going to be portrayed as a clumsy slob normal dude who happens to be a wrestler. Pretty much the worst idea I've ever heard.

tugs · Post #957 » by **tugs** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:59 pm

Yeah the anti Mr. Perfect

iMoreland · Post #958 » by **iMoreland** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:33 pm

One thing I really like about Kofi's booking as of late is he's always fighting in the big matches by himself. Big E/Xavier weren't at ringside for the gauntlet or elimination chamber match (they were there for the six man tag but that's not a big match). They're portraying that Big E/Xavier want Kofi to win the big one on his own, and that Kofi wants to win it on his own.

I can see a storyline where Erick Rowan (and Luke Harper hopefully) attacks Kofi at Fastlane getting Bryan DQ'd. Kofi gets the rematch at WrestleMania, but instead of "evening the odds," Kofi decides to go it alone. Even though Harper/Rowan will be with Bryan, it'll be making Kofi even more of a babyface.

Flames24Rulz · Post #959 » by **Flames24Rulz** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:54 pm

iMoreland wrote:One thing I really like about Kofi's booking as of late is he's always fighting in the big matches by himself. Big E/Xavier weren't at ringside for the gauntlet or elimination chamber match (they were there for the six man tag but that's not a big match). They're portraying that Big E/Xavier want Kofi to win the big one on his own, and that Kofi wants to win it on his own.

I can see a storyline where Erick Rowan (and Luke Harper hopefully) attacks Kofi at Fastlane getting Bryan DQ'd. Kofi gets the rematch at WrestleMania, but instead of "evening the odds," Kofi decides to go it alone. Even though Harper/Rowan will be with Bryan, it'll be making Kofi even more of a babyface.

I'm still hoping that Bryan-Owens is the match at WM for the SD title, but I'd take Bryan-Kofi as the fallback option.

I know there's really no chance of them doing this, but I'm hoping that if Kofi were to lose clean at Fastlane, Big E and Xavier turn on him following the match. From a storyline perspective, it makes perfect sense too. Big E and Xavier keep handing off opportunity after opportunity to Kofi, and he can't win the big match. That leads the other two members to cut ties with him, and then you can have a Big E-Kofi feud for WM, or even a triple threat match with all three members at WM.

I've said it again and again, but the New Day thing has grown stale to me. Both Kofi and Big E should be well above the lameness that comes across every week. Just my two cents.

improper · Post #960 » by **improper** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:01 pm

I really wish they would have had New Day members dabble in singles divisions in the past. They should have had Xavier Woods moonlight in the cruiserweight division back when it first launched (would have provided some needed name recognition early on) and given him a run with the belt. Kofi and Big E should have won singles gold at some point as members of New Day as well.

And that's in addition to their tag team accomplishments.