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I was thinking the same. I hope Becky keeps being The Man and that her concussion is not that serious

"A 5 star match unfolding here" , Vince feeding that line is amazing. Match was way better than I expected, that was really dope.

Ronda losing a strike battle is the most legit thing a WWE has seen in years Ronda losing a strike battle is the most legit thing a WWE has seen in Ronda losing a strike battle is the most legit thing a WWE has seen in years

Ending was weak but that was a really cool match, fun as fuck to watch.

This is fucking great so far.

The pop for the 619 on Braun was the HUGE.

Miz cheerleading is awesome I really hope he doesn't turn face.

First ever women First Blood match maybe?

Is Smackdown only gonna win the 5v5 match with Shane being one of the survivors (or maybe the sole survivor)?

Takuya Nomura.

I felt the opposite. Felt like a worse blend of indy style and forced WWE drama/epic than usual. It still had some fun parts though.

The last two big spots were hilarious.

I think that's for the better.

SD is kinda weak on the babyface side. A Rey vs heel Bryan mini feud would be fucking amazing.

I can see Brock wanting an easy win on SS, so they feed him a heel. Or maybe WWE does the typical annoying bullshit of pairing up their heel champ with a McMahon and Shane interferes to cause a DQ and send everyone home angry

Heel champion D-Bry is gonna be fucking awesome. Too bad he's gonna get squashed by Brock

Not even sure what I'm disputing, but today's style is much about theatrics and how it looks on the surface than ever before. Each person can find that better or worse than before, I don't think that matters tbh, it is what it is. But I see today's New Japan or almost any other promotion (besides few matches from each one) style not having a lot to do with realism and logic, at least not compared to the other stuff.

Naito challenged Jericho for WK. So Gedo decided to get creative with all his top guys except the one that's the most over. Every justification for Naito losing in January was proven wrong for the most part.

The weirdest part was him trying to talk about psychology in modern wrestling

I was kinda surprised Bryan wasn't aware of Saudi Arabia and how they operate, but it makes sense. Seems he went "nah, fuck this" after the GRR. Also found interesting how he asked to lose to the Miz at Super Showdown, the quick pin was clearly a middle ground to not blow off the feud as he didn't want it to end yet.

I'm not sure WWE will punish Bryan for not going to Saudi Arabia, I kinda don't think they will. But if he ends up in the doghouse after this, it might just be the thing that would reignite the "Bryan and us vs them" feeling.

Appearently everyone was like me and didn't see AJ vs Bryan had their match on SD. Only was able to see the last 5 minutes after a commercial break and what I sa saw was fucking awesome, the last sequence was insane.

I have no issue with people not watching, trying to boycott or whatever. But as a Chilean whose family suffered the consequences of the fucked up shit the U.S pulled in the region - which pales in comparison of what they've done in other parts of the world -, I found the Tribute to the Troops shows to be as bad as the Saudi propaganda at the Greatest Royal Rumble. The amount of atrocities the U.S and their troops have done in various countries is as horrible as the shit MBS and his predecessors have done too and having a yearly show showing the righteousness of their role was as tone deaf as anything. Anyone can have a different breaking point, and the Khashoggi assassination is as good a reason to stop watching/supporting as any. But it's curious to me that it takes fucked up shit to go public for real outrage, from people who already understand how stuff works, to follow. I get it from a US citizen perspective because it would be weird to get into such an uproar with propaganda about your own military - even though you might know how horrible the whole deal is - but from an "outsider's" perspective, this feels like another stupid decision more than an unforgivable one. I wonder if I'll ever have a breaking point tbh, and that's really fucked up This might not be the time or thread to have this conversation, but what Charless posted is a very interesting line of discussion.

If they keep doing shows next year I fully expect Vince to make someone on the roster dress like Yokozuna to appease MBS.

Hogan doing one of the most Hulk Hogan thing possible http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/hulk-hogan-saudi-arabia-wwe/#.W9DREeJRfIV