WWE TV MSG EDITION

[sek69]

Weird that Bray specifically called out Austin in the Funhouse segment, which made me think the Fiend was going to attack him at the end of the show.

[SirEdger]

Might've been a diversion for the 11:19 symbol.

[sek69]

The Fink was backstage at Raw last night, nice to see he's still able to see friends after all his health issues. 

[KawadaSmile]

Guys Heavy Machinery are awesome!

[C.S.]

Rowan is surprisingly okay on the mic. 

He pulls off the calm giant demeanor far better than Aleister "come and knock on my door before you fall asleep during one of my promos" Black.

[KawadaSmile]

Well, considering that Black isn't a calm giant, no wonder Rowan does the part better.

Great brawl though. I shat on Rowan constantly the past few years, but did he improve. 

[C.S.]

This means Kofi is losing to Orton, right?

25 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said:

Well, considering that Black isn't a calm giant, no wonder Rowan does the part better. 

Yeah, you've clearly slept through all of his boring, bizarre "come knock on my door" promos - not that I blame you, because they're sleep-inducing.

[KawadaSmile]

No way Orton didn't fuck his knee with that Boom Drop

[KawadaSmile]

Just now, C.S. said:

Yeah, you've clearly slept through all of his boring, bizarre "come knock on my door" promos - not that I blame you, because they're sleep-inducing.

......He's not a giant, C.S. 

[El Dragon]

5 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said:

......He's not a giant, C.S. 

 

I wish I could upvote on this board just to upvote this comment.

[KawadaSmile]

That POP for Chad Gable my god

[C.S.]

Looks gigantic to me. What am I missing? Is he deceptively short? 

Maybe I've been watching too many Gable matches lately?

[KawadaSmile]

2 minutes ago, C.S. said:

Looks gigantic to me. What am I missing? Is he deceptively short? 

Maybe I've been watching too many Gable matches lately?

He's not even 6ft (5ft11 to be precise). He has long legs, which do help. Like, Rowan is almost a feet taller (6ft8) than Black, for the purposes of a comparison.

[C.S.]

Damn, I'm shocked Black is that "short" and Rowan is that tall. 

[KawadaSmile]

Kicking out of fast counts is a really underrated skill

[tallmike]

I hated, hated, HATED that main event/aftermath.

How to kill Kevin Owens as an act in 15 minutes.

You didn't even give him his comeuppance moment at all! How do you fuck things up that badly?

You can just do a reverse of this. It's not fucking hard.

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[SirEdger]

Some shitty and lazy booking on this episode of Smackdown. I'm absolutely done with this Shane McMahon crap.

And that Mandy Rose promo just made me wanna throw my remote at my TV. 3rd graders are now writing promos for Smackdown or what?

[sek69]

15 minutes ago, SirEdger said:

3rd graders are now writing promos for Smackdown or what?

Considering one of the jobbers Heavy Machinery beat was named Alex Keaton,  apparently 3rd graders who watch reruns of 80s sitcoms.

[NintendoLogic]

Based on these MSG shows, it looks like the three biggest stars in WWE right now are Steve Austin, Undertaker, and Shane McMahon.

[Burgundy LaRue]

I thought Reigns and Rowan came across well in their segment, especially with the Roman chants at the end. Rowan has an interesting way of speaking that works for the cultivated maniac he's playing. I liked his new music, too.

The crowd seemed into Kofi replicating the leg drop on Orton, as well as Gable tapping out Shane.

The second hour of the show was good for the most part, save for the bizarre treatment of KO and the Mandy-Nikki match. Mandy just isn't there as a singles wrestler or a character.

[FMKK]

I like that we're meant to believe that Kevin Owens' whole life would be over without the generous gift of WWE employment granted to him altruistically by the benevolent McMahon's. He's not there because he's a star and a world class wrestler and there's absolutely nowhere else for him to gain lucrative employment as a wrestler.

[sek69]

15 minutes ago, FMKK said:

I like that we're meant to believe that Kevin Owens' whole life would be over without the generous gift of WWE employment granted to him altruistically by the benevolent McMahon's. He's not there because he's a star and a world class wrestler and there's absolutely nowhere else for him to gain lucrative employment as a wrestler.

It's been the point of every wrestler vs management angle they've done for the last 20 years, and it's going to look even more ridiculous when there's another national wrestling promotion on TV every week. 

[FMKK]

Even the most surface level fans are probably dimly aware that Chris Jericho and Dean Ambrose are with a new organisation etc.

[El-P]

52 minutes ago, sek69 said:

It's been the point of every wrestler vs management angle they've done for the last 20 years, and it's going to look even more ridiculous when there's another national wrestling promotion on TV every week. 

Because this is what they want their wrestlers to actually believe IRL too (they had that backstage stuff with Stephy the other week telling them if they leave their career would be over basically... meanwhile, John Moxley, Juice Robinson, Sami Callihan and others...). This is how they think, so they have to put it out there in the minds of their audience too.

[FMKK]

19 minutes ago, El-P said:

Because this is what they want their wrestlers to actually believe IRL too (they had that backstage stuff with Stephy the other week telling them if they leave their career would be over basically... meanwhile, John Moxley, Juice Robinson, Sami Callihan and others...). This is how they think, so they have to put it out there in the minds of their audience too.

There was a really good article to that effect on VOW recently

https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2019/09/09/vince-mcmahon-vs-the-wrestlers-market/