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There was so much good on this show! Orton hitting Gunther with the RKO, then the Drew/Punk brawl which looks to be setting up a strap match. The Dom/Liv/Rhea stuff, leading to the Damian brawl. Carlito was the shits, but whatever. The Bron entrance & the 2/3 falls match with Sami. Another Bronson murder. Those crazy bumps that JD took for Damian. WWE is just a lot of fun right now & they're doing it with a lot of new & a lot of young faces. They're using vets, like Truth and Orton, the help put over & establish those new & younger faces. It's just really entertaining & feels like pro wrestling again.

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I like the Bronson murdering and all, but dude needs some personality. Right now he’s King Kong Bundy 2.0 but he should be trying to get to Vader level. When Adam Pearce kept getting in his face, he should have talked back to him and THEN done splashes. He could have been telling Pearce that the damage done was on him. 
 

He needs to do more in the moment other than stare aimlessly.

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53 minutes ago, Sweet Brown Koko said:

I like the Bronson murdering and all, but dude needs some personality. Right now he’s King Kong Bundy 2.0 but he should be trying to get to Vader level. When Adam Pearce kept getting in his face, he should have talked back to him and THEN done splashes. He could have been telling Pearce that the damage done was on him. 
 

He needs to do more in the moment other than stare aimlessly.

Agreed. I really think if they gave him an old-school, trash talking, motor mouthed manager that would really put him over the top. It’s a real shame they don’t really do managers anymore. This is a guy who is pretty much tailor-made for that kind of dynamic. It’s fine if he just looks menacing and crazy and keeps attacking dudes if he has somebody to do the talking for him, or maybe even interfere on his behalf once in a while.

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20 hours ago, NintendoLogic said:

Kofi's line wasn't half bad either.

I'll admit that when I saw The Final Testicle trending, I thought it had something to do with the Trump/Elon interview.

They lost me at "Austin, show me some respect".

EDIT: Wait, the show was in Austin, TX? I first thought Kross (that's Kross, right?) was using Xavier Woods' shoot name there.

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Just now, strobogo said:

One thing is for sure to me just seeing clips: Nu Bloodline would have absolutely zero juice pretty much anytime between 2010-2020 and benefit so immensely from being in a boom period where everything is over.

Oh, absolutely. Jacob Fatu is the only dude who would have thrived. Shit, Tonga Loa WAS in WWE during that period!

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No comments since Wednesday? No one watched Smackdown!? The Nia Jax entrance was gold. The Bloodline stuff with Roman & Solo continues & Jacob Fatu doing a beatdown in a walking boot was somehow more terrifying. He's so good! 

The Afa video package was nice. 

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Roman’s selling was fantastic. He’s so used to being on top, he was the dude who overcame the odds in those Shield tags, and he felt he could overcome a dude he made and his crony, but then Jacob shows up and obliterates him in a walking boot, not even with his most explosive offense. The looks on his face when Jacob went off was the good shit. 
 

When the Usos come back by his side, it’s gonna somehow be more electric than Roman’s return. 

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2 hours ago, Coffey said:

No comments since Wednesday? No one watched Smackdown!? The Nia Jax entrance was gold. The Bloodline stuff with Roman & Solo continues & Jacob Fatu doing a beatdown in a walking boot was somehow more terrifying. He's so good! 

The Afa video package was nice. 

It's terrifying that Jacob Fatu could get at this speed with a WALKING BOOT on.

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6 hours ago, Coffey said:

No comments since Wednesday? No one watched Smackdown!? The Nia Jax entrance was gold. The Bloodline stuff with Roman & Solo continues & Jacob Fatu doing a beatdown in a walking boot was somehow more terrifying. He's so good! 

The Afa video package was nice. 

Nia Jax with Pretty Deadly and Tiffy by her side is some goooood shit. I cannot stress enough how much she's improved and 100% belongs at the top of the Women's Division now. 

LA Knight got a monster pop and somehow it wasn't the loudest of the night. Just insane how much things are going right in this company at this moment.

 

My GOAT getting to sell for a heel and make him look like a thousand bucks. I've got TEARS IN MY EYES, DAWG. THIS SHIT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME!

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2 hours ago, KawadaSmile said:

Can Rock resist the urge to have a title match with Cody?

He really wants that Roman mania match tho, the only reason it didn't happen already is the fans hijacked his attempt to cuck Cody this year.

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Times running out if he wants those two matches at Mania, but I'm not so sure he couldn't be swayed to do one of those matches at SummerSlam or one of the Saudi shows, especially considering that he is also part of the TKO Board. 

Maybe someone who understands the legality and finances of this can make it make more sense to me, but would he not be able to negotiate his own payday with Saudi Arabia and Nick Khan for it to be 4-5 times more than whatever he makes comparatively for a single appearance?*

Maybe he also figures that if you're going to train for 1 match, might as well do 2 in a span of 4 months? Certainly makes things easier to schedule around if you know you're devoting that time to WWE rather than spreading it out over 2 years.


* Wasn't that how Vince was able to convince HBK et. al. to come out of retirement or make the trip for the first few? By basically making sure they were paid such a big number that it would be insane not to take it?

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Surprised to see Roman & Jacob get so physical so soon. Wargames is a lock but hopefully their first singles meeting is as big a deal as possible. Not sure it gets a Mania slot but hopefully an extended build. I assume Wargames is Roman/Usos/Sami vs. Solo/Jacob/GOD but we'll see how Hikuleo or anyone else fits in there.

Really great Smackdown though -- Andrade/Melo 3 was the second best match of their trilogy and still great. Andrade is the Carmelo whisperer we never knew we needed. DIY/Profits was also a super strong TV match. High marks for both that along with the closing angle made for a great TV show.

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