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Yeah I'm just dreading the TVs leading up to it with her doing promos in the same heel cadence she's been doing with her chronic case of resting b-face.

Starting my watchthru now, gotta say I was impressed to see Sonya and Mandy pull out Total Elimination. Also it's amazing that no matter how they book Joe, he still comes off as the baddest dude in the room.

The issue is this makes Charlotte the defacto babyface in that feud and she's so unnatural in that role.

I'll be watching Smackdown on DVR as usual, but is it wrong I was hoping Bayley would be like a reverse Doink? Go from kid's character to evil version of the same gimmick. I would have popped for her terrorizing little kids at ringside.

Yeah, but apparently the fight was due to some political stuff from Japan. Bea allegedly cost Sadie a job and when they were together backstage shit went down. Kenny probably should have known since he's the one who would be most aware of Joshi goings-on, but I don't know if I can completely blame AEW for something they weren't involved in. The belt is just lol though. In a weird way it's kind of great it happened to Jericho since it fits in with his gimmick/real life persona. I mean, I know when I heard the story I was like "yeah, that sounds about like something Jericho would do". They have a spare belt, and they can always make another one so at least that story is just funny. You can't have people bringing in outside BS to your locker room and fighting about it. I would hope now that they are aware of any potential issues they will make sure it's not tolerated.

At this point it's incompetence. If it was just one person I'd buy character assassination, but anyone on the roster who's pushed as a babyface gets made out to be a geek unless they have the charisma to overcome it.

The NWA using this opportunity to shill their "10 pounds of gold" belt buckles had me rolling too.

That report is weirdly written, but it seems like Jericho just left the belt in the limo while the driver return the wrong luggage? So either the driver returned it with the wrong luggage, stole it himself, or left the limo unattended while returning the luggage and someone yanked it from the car? Seems like it's not really Jericho's fault other than leaving it in the car. I mean, he probably was drunk, but leaving it in the car rather than taking it in the restaurant like he was the NWA champion in the 70s wouldn't have been the worst thing he could have done.

It did, because the company is no longer able to successfully book a babyface act as anything other than a bumbling idiot and/or an annoying jerk. Fans shouldn't have to hope their favorites turn heel to be able to not look like goofs.

FWIW, there's nothing worse than someone who hints and/or outright states they know some kind of HAWT NEWZ but aren't going to say anything about it. I purposely did not attach any names to the above line, so if anyone thinks it was directed at them they're telling on themselves.

She's been booked as either an idiot babyface or a complete asshole most of her main roster run, not surprising she wanted to be a heel. Hence my previous post where fans are popping for heel turns since it means the person finally has a shot at being booked competently.

There's nothing more WWE than the heel turn of a once beloved character getting a massive pop to close the show.

It seems like every year when football season starts they have to do some sort of "doesn't it suck when officials take too long to make a call?" angle.

LAX!

ARN!

I'll pop if Spears pulls out a Slingshot Suplex at some point.

Poor Pharoh wants nothing to do with this.

I was just about to say Riho could be a female Rey Mysterio type for them then she goes and attempts a 619, lol.

Riho will certainly get over with a......certain.....type of fans for sure.

I'll admit I don't "get" Orange Cassidy, but that tope with the hands in the pockets was cool.

Did we ever get any kind of bracket for the tag team tournament?

So weird for a down-home family restaurant to be sponsoring a match like this.

It's also the first weekend of college football, so there's more options tonight too.

Time for Jim Cornette's favorite wrestler, Joey Janela!

There used to be a rule in wrestling that someone put in as a replacement usually went over (unless it was a special circumstance like a title match).