Summerslam 2017, or How to get through a 6 hour show with a little help from your friends at PWO

[Matt D]

The Shane stuff was predictable but not completely terrible. At least it made sense. I half figure we need to give them credit for that in this day and age. We knew the match was a means to an end coming in. At least I assume you guys did. I'm like Will on a Takeover post-show here. No idea how we got here.

[Mad Dog]

 

 

 

He got some heat for chinlock city. It was funny the first dozen or so times. Then he got lazy around Mania and it's been all downhill from there. It seems like he's getting fat again too.

 

I guess that is what annoys the shit out of me about this guy. He admittedly works his whole career to get into WWE, he gets there, against all odds he becomes a big success, and his response is: "Okay, now this is where I take it easy."

 

 

Yeah, it bugs me too. I thought he was great the first year or so on the main roster. But he's turned all those great little aspects of his character into lazy crutches.

 

 

I wasn't always this way.

 

I was in the crowd at Ring of Honor's Northern Navigation in Toronto in July 2008. I had only seen a couple of Steen & Generico matches prior to that, but after seeing his match with Nigel McGuinness for the ROH title that night, I walked out of that arena as a Kevin Steen fan. I loved his tag matches with Generico against The Briscoes, and I wanted to like him in WWE, I really did. But he has been slowly draining my will to live since Wrestlemania.

 

I'm glad to know it's not just me and that fellow PWO members whose opinions I respect are seeing the same things I am.

 

 

It's been a total bummer. I booked a whole year of my Filsinger card game promotion around that early Kevin Owens character because I liked it so much. He's a constant source of disappoint since he won the belt. It's like he knows his place is safe because he's one of HHH's boys and doesn't need to try anymore.

[...TG]

Also in the "TG is a soft touch" file, Cena surprising and delighting that group of Cricket Wireless kids made me smile too.

[The Thread Killer]

AJ Styles as US Champion really comes off as Styles slumming.

 

You're not wrong. I really feel Styles is the best active wrestler in the world right now, and I wish he was involved in a Main Event/World Title scene program right now. I really hope he gets the Wrestlemania program against Nakamura that he has been campaigning for. (He told Edge and Christian about it on their podcast, and said that he talked Vince into letting them have their brief face-off at MITB to prove that the crowd would get behind it.)

[The Thread Killer]

Who the hell did the voice-over for this Nakamura/Mahal pre-match video? It sounds like they got a high school co-op student to do it.

[cm funk]

That was a fun match. A bit contrived with Shane always being in the way.....but it told the story and was a nice back and forth. Looked like Shane fucked up his knee/leg on one of the bumps, he was limping. And props to AJ and Owens because it's tough working a match like that, with all those highspots, with an "outside ref" and constantly teasing, and bumping into him. I liked it for what it was

 

And yeah, I think Owens belly takes the bump on the Styles Clash, lol. He should be impervious to it

 

I have higher hopes than most for Nak-Mahal. Hope I'm right

[Matt D]

Diminishing returns on this entrance.

[hammerva]

Given the issues with the Styles Clash, anything that makes it safer is fine with me. And frankly hitting the Styles Clash on Kevin's belly probably hurts more

[The Thread Killer]

Jinder Mahal in High Definition...it's almost as if you could reach out and touch the copious acne on his back.

[Matt D]

Merry and Pippin have to be happy that Treebeard is wrestling Nakamura and not Orton again, right?

[Mad Dog]

Merry and Pippin have to be happy that Treebeard is wrestling Nakamura and not Orton again, right?

 

No, Orton had better beer horded in his stronghold.

[Mad Dog]

I wonder if Jinder's dealer gets a cut of the money he's making as champion.

[hammerva]

Now if we can put the Hindu commentary together with the Japanese commentary we can just tell JBL and Saxton to go the fuck home

[Mad Dog]

This match is a lot like the Cena/Corbin match where Cena could have gotten better heat wrestling a broom stick.

[Matt D]

Jinder works his dangling jawhold better than 2017 Owens works anything at least.

 

Am I going to get flack for calling his elbow to the skull the Yoga Noogie?

[peachchaos]

Now if we can put the Hindu commentary together with the Japanese commentary we can just tell JBL and Saxton to go the fuck home

The 30 seconds of Hindu was enough to convince me to do just that. I turned on the Japanese commentary instead.

[The Thread Killer]

I am not opposed to WWE taking a guy who was basically a Jobber to the Stars, and elevating him to the WWE title. I am not opposed to WWE pushing a guy based on his nationality, if they think that will help them break through in a foreign market. However, I am vehemently opposed to both, when the guy they pick to push clearly SUCKS. To steal a quote from Mel Gibson and paraphrase a bit...Jinder Mahal is as boring as a dog's ass.

[Mad Dog]

I am not opposed to WWE taking a guy who was basically a Jobber to the Stars, and elevating him to the WWE title. I am not opposed to WWE pushing a guy based on his nationality, if they think that will help them break through in a foreign market. However, I am vehemently opposed to both, when the guy they pick to push clearly SUCKS. To steal a quote from Mel Gibson and paraphrase a bit...Jinder Mahal is as boring as a dog's ass.

 

Jinder would actually be more interesting if he just sucked.

[The Thread Killer]

Give me a fucking break with that whole match and especially the finish.

[Matt D]

Hey, that finish sucked.

[Mad Dog]

Goodbye crowd.

[cm funk]

terrible finish that made Nak look stupid

 

way to go WWE

[hammerva]

What the fuck

 

He is clearly never losing that title until after India

[Mad Dog]

They worked so hard to get that crowd back into the show and Jinder winning was going to kill the crowd no matter what but why that extra fuck you to everyone on top of it?

[The Thread Killer]

That was seriously awful. Sometimes - a lot of the time, actually, maybe most of the time lately - I don't know what the fuck WWE creative is thinking. The match was awful and the finish was stupid. I recently read that Vince is upset about TV ratings dropping lately. Take a look at crap like this, maybe just maybe he could figure out why.

 

I could have lived with Nakamura losing if the match had even been halfway decent, but it wasn't. It looked like Mahal barely broke a sweat beating him. Nakamura barely looked like a legit threat in that match. That was a TV match.