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Of all the various types of smart fans being discussed, one that always confuses me are the types like Parv who clearly hate the current WWE product but seem compelled like a moth to a light to any and all discussion of it. I honestly don't get it. I personally find most of 70s and early 80s (W)WWF boring as fuck so I don't really spend much time watching it, but I've never felt the need to run in to a group of people talking about it and go on and on about how much it's garbage and everyone involved in it is boring and awful. I was close to just assuming Parv was working some kind of gimmick, but reading posts where he's clearly not interested in anything that might challenge his view makes it clear he's just posting to get a rise. Calling it trolling seems to harsh since it seems like he has some very closely held beliefs. I just don't know what his end game here is. Everything about WWE seems to offend him on a cellular level, which is fine, different strokes and all that. I'm not sure what he seeks to accomplish by continuing to bang his drum.

They really haven't been on screen much after the first week or so. The promo last week with Bryan announcing the new titles was the most he'd been in front of the crowd since the draft it seems. Speaking of, I really like how it seems like whoever is writing Smackdown realized they got the short end of the draft and went "you know what, fuck it, we'll make it work". They've really made a more entertaining show and revitalized guys who were dead in the water previously.

It's not so much a justification as much as an acknowledgement that there's far less people who share the same level of concern than there are people who would rather not support a large business that frequently takes a dump on their heads.

I feel that's overstating things a bit. It's not that people were having a temper tantrum over that one Rumble, it's that it represented the company taking what it knew the fans wanted to see and giving them a giant middle finger. So in turn the fans did the same thing to Roman knowing he means as much to the company (well, Vince at least) as Bryan did to them. It's petty, yes, but considering the company's history it couldn't have happened to more deserving folks. Not giving the company any money would have been a much clearer message. You could say the same thing to NFL fans IRT fleecing the public for taxpayer funded stadiums and covering up and/or overlooking players' criminal activities, but every Sunday's going to have 16 packed stadiums. In an ideal world, the proper response to poor booking would be for them to face empty arenas (and for a lot of houseshows, they pretty much are) but the truth of the matter is that WWE is the only game in town for 3/ths of the country so if you are a wrestling fan it's them or nothing.

I feel that's overstating things a bit. It's not that people were having a temper tantrum over that one Rumble, it's that it represented the company taking what it knew the fans wanted to see and giving them a giant middle finger. So in turn the fans did the same thing to Roman knowing he means as much to the company (well, Vince at least) as Bryan did to them. It's petty, yes, but considering the company's history it couldn't have happened to more deserving folks.

It could be why they've been stockpiling guys that serve no further purpose being in developmental though. I'm sure that's giving them way too much credit for long term planning,

The only flaw with an NXT invasion style gimmick is it would pit HHH vs Steph. Given the life-imitates-art nature of pro wrestling, it would be funny if he ended up Kevin Sullivan-ing himself. Other than the other flaw of every WWE invasion angle ever being booked to fail after the first week, that is.

From their website: Makes sense considering their partnership with CMLL, but like cubsfan joked on Twitter they could have just asked to use one of their titles since they don't seem to remember who half their champions are.

I guess my main problem is he's clearly got it in him to be a super heel, but the company has such a hard on about making him the new John Cena it takes me out of his matches to a degree. And let's not kid ourselves here, when they started with the Shield he was not very good. Didn't they start the barf inducing zoom in on strikes in part to cover for him? I give him all the credit in th world for improving, but he went from bad to pretty decent and suddenly folks are giving him Wrestler of the Year.

Why is she demanding that Paul come out and apologize for something she doesn't care about? Why have another segment of her flexing on someone who can't fight back (either in storylines or for real) just to set up another segment eventually where she reveals it was part of her brilliant plan to book Shane-Brock?

So are we really going to keep acting like Roman is some kind of super worker now? I mean, yes he's improved from when he was just the big scary dude in the Shield, but I feel like a lot of this Reigns love is a kneejerk reaction to fans continuing to boo him.

So I noticed there was nary a peep from the "people who dislike Steph are misogynist troglodytes" crowd after that promo with Heyman. Never mind that the whole build to the brand split was that the McMahon kids want to destroy each other, now we're supposed to believe either Steph now suddenly wants to avenge her brother or this is some big long con and she really wants Brock to destroy him (because Steph is the sun and the moon and all good things come from her).

Balor wasn't trying to break his fall, he was going to land short of the dasher boards and was putting his arm out to grab it the same way you would if it was the ropes. If he hadn't have done that it might have been an uglier bump to take and possibly another Sting situation.

Pretty sure she was on more than once, may not have been identified every time though,

I love how after weeks of being on NXT TV and pointing out her family history, Rachel Ellering got a new last name at the latest tapings now that her dad is on the show.

Also the fact that they seem to want to portray her as the female version of the Mr. Mcmahon character, while forgetting that Austin was constantly foiling his plans and one upping him.

Yeah, Johnny's out to lunch here. No one hates Steph because she's a woman boss, but for how nearly every segment she's in turns into her talking to guys like they are misbehaving children. Women too, since she decided to co opt what was an organic movement in NXT to another corporate branding exercise that she can play Den Mother to.

Too bad his career has been less like that promo and more like him in a chicken suit for a KFC ad. I hope this is a turning of the page for him, but let's not act like he was doing much of anything before Maryse came back.

No, and it made anyone talking about them sound awkward having to say "Smackdown tag team/women's championship" each time.

I wonder how much of that was done on the fly, poor Renee looked like she was witnessing a train derailment.

I know it's the same design, but silver makes the tag belts look so much better than the pennies on Raw.

That would be great with Rowan doing the work and Heath taking the credit.

HHH pretty much said that while it would make more sense for it to be on Smackdown, it's going to be used to fill time on Raw. I just hope it doesn't get the full "first hour of Nitro" treatment and we get the announcers using the time during their matches to talk about the real stars of the show.

I think Seth just needs to retire the buckle bomb, it's just a bad move to take. Basically any move involving blindly tossing a guy has a bad risk/reward ratio.

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