Smackdown Live - 3.19.19 (Kofi Kingston vs. The Gauntlet)

[GD]

Kofi Kingston runs the gauntlet (United States Champion Samoa Joe, Randy Orton, The Bar, and Rowan)

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The Boss 'N' Hug Connection take on The IIconics

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Miz responds to Shane O'Mac

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[Emperor Smeat]

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[rez]

McMahon starting the show off but as a promo video. yeah...

[GD]

Strange. Was expecting the gauntlet to "kickoff" the show.

[KIRA]

All about the mcmahons baby despite no one caring about Shane versus The Miz at all

[GD]

"I had such a great time eating your ass...get ready for a Best in the World eating" - Shane McMahon

(my stream is glitching)

[ClockShot]

You had all the time in the world to talk your way out of that stupid storyline, Miz.

Nobody's fault but your own.

[KIRA]

Your dad when your whole life without saying he loves you seems the real problems are with your father not Shane

[KIRA]

This is too weird I really cannot take The Miz as a face

[ClockShot]

Has it been 13 years?

:nono:

Another reminder we're getting old.

[Emperor Smeat]

Pretty good promo by Miz. He might actually end up being interesting as a face unlike past times.

[GD]

Has it been 13 years?

:nono:

Another reminder we're getting old.

Feel like it was only yesterday that the chick magnet was wearing a Fedora and tagging with the Shawman of Sexy :'(

[GD]

BOSS TIME!

[GD]

Is this the first time Bayley and Sasha have been on Smackdown since the second brand extension?

[slik]

Yes

[GD]

I want them to

WRAP

IT

UP


so we can get to the gauntlet already

[rez]

Unify the boys' tag belts

Go back to your old hair, Peyton

[GD]

I just want to add how historic and monumental this moment is in the evolution of the women's division. Can't wait for the Boss 'N' Hug and IIconics to cry and share a hug once the match concludes.

[ClockShot]

This Lacey Evans shit gotta stop. Get her in the ring and fight or send her back down.

Automatic show flow killer.

[Emperor Smeat]

That was one of the most useless distractions ever done.

[GD]

Lacey Evans' entrance theme is stuck in my head.

[RP]

They're basically pushing this Lacey Evans thing to the point that when she actually wrestles, whether she's heel or face, she'll get X-Pac heat for her entire career. So basically they're being WWE.

[ClockShot]

Score 1 for the home team.

[Emperor Smeat]

Women's tag match was a mess.

[RP]

Why do champions not defend the belts every match? Come on..

[RP]

THAT IS NOT YOUR SON REY STOP IT!

[slik]

An IICONIC victory indeed

[KIRA]

The newly-crowned women's Tag Team Champions just lost what is wrong with this company

[KIRA]

How are you the champion and you go on a losing streak who does that?

[GD]

Oh snap! Dominic :eek:

[GD]

So Cena isn't facing Samosa Joe at Mania

[slik]

Get Rey a glass of water

[slik]

Rey vs Samoa Joe for the US Title is pretty random but that's WM this year.

[KIRA]

Kevin Owens is me when I'm asked to wear a suit and a tie

[Evil Vito]

Is Rey’s wife tall or something? Can’t beljeve Dominic got so big

[Black Widow]

The newly-crowned women's Tag Team Champions just lost what is wrong with this companyNobody cares about Sasha/Baylee unless one turns on the other.

[KIRA]

Rey vs Samoa Joe for the US Title is pretty random but that's WM this year.

I know right it literally feels like they looked at this thing and realize they didn't have nearly enough matches to fill up 5 hours or however long this is going to be and just started adding stuff so in the last 2 weeks you get build-up out of nowhere

[GD]

I really wanted to see Andrade versus Rey Rey at Mania but this ain't so bad. Joe's going to cut some fire promos.

[KIRA]

TheNobody cares about Sasha/Baylee unless one turns on the other.

Thats the thing I want to care about them but how can I if they just lose while being Champions( and that team name being the stupidest f****** thing ever) the other thing is I completely agree I want them to split up and kill each other I want Bailey to become the snarling Eddie Guerrero-esque Psychopath she was meant to play

[RP]

I like that there a lot of 1v1 matches at WM. I hate when they try to bunch people together in multi tag matches and 3 ways and 4 ways.

[Emperor Smeat]

So Cena isn't facing Samosa Joe at Mania

No. According to the sheets, neither was Truth vs Cena when Truth was the US champ.

[rez]

KO going to NXT?

[ClockShot]

The limp, Becky.

Just. Stop.

[GD]

No. According to the sheets, neither was Truth vs Cena when Truth was the US champ.

Oh well, maybe he'll interrupt Elias.

[slik]

FFS STOP LIMPING

[KIRA]

Talking

Match

Talking

The flow of this show so far

[GD]

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[rez]

Kevin has always been a good interviewer.

[ClockShot]

This is a weird setup for a "show"

More like a contract signing or a sit-down with the boss.

Get a couch or some plants. Dig out the Jeritron 5000 from the WWE storage unit.

[slik]

KO doing his best Mick Foley r/n

[RP]

YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: Owens

[RP]

I'd fuck Charlotte Flair just to say I had some Flair running through my system.

[ClockShot]

This is good stuff.

[slik]

This is a mess

[RP]

I want to cum in Becky Lynch's hair and call her Rogue.

[ClockShot]

What?!

GO BACK TO THE ACTION!

[Emperor Smeat]

That might have been the weakest ever contract brawl in WWE historry

[GD]

Why don't they just hire female "Guardians of the Indies"?

[KIRA]

We're all waiting for you Luke Harper

[ClockShot]

STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD!

[KIRA]

He should I mean it's his storyline they are rehashing

[Jordan]

Dbry is on fire right now.

[Jordan]

LOL @ the very bland "Sports Graphics" add that is in this area. Come on man, do better.

[KIRA]

I do appreciate the callbacks that Brian is making the whole B+ Player thing

[Jordan]

Let's see how this goes!

[Jordan]

I do appreciate the callbacks that Brian is making the whole B+ Player thing

Yeah that was good.

[Jordan]

I'm expecting some Dusty level booking to make this work.

[KIRA]

Stole Beckys hair style

[Jordan]

Do you think Kofi has taken too many chops or did get have a match with Yokozuna I don't know about?

[ClockShot]

Oooooh. Fox already sneaking in the advertising.

[RP]

What happens if Kofi dont win this match?

[Emperor Smeat]

Unless WWE has a surprise match or segment planned for the main event, they pretty much telegraphed that this Gauntlet match is lasting the whole 2nd hour.

[Emperor Smeat]

What happens if Kofi dont win this match?

He doesn't get a WWE title shot at Mania.

[Triple A]

Just put on SmackDown 10 mins ago... insanely long Sheamus match......... this sucks... Gauntlet match going to take forever...

[Triple A]

Would be funny I guess if Sheamus beat Kofi and then the crowd had to watch another 50 mins of the gauntlet match

[RP]

I was hoping random dudes would come out and interfere and help Kofi win.

Also help me eat Alexa's ass.

[Triple A]

Fuck he's wrestling both of The Bar......... no point of watching this hour tbh

[rez]

When did Cesaro stop using whatever the fuck you call that sticker magic he wore?

[KIRA]

When did Cesaro stop using whatever the fuck you call that sticker magic he wore?

I think since everybody started doing it he just quit

[KIRA]

That's the entire locker room that's like 6 err 8 people

[slik]

Twitter working on my phone but not chrome on my laptop...weird

[rez]

Joe gonna lay down or something?

[Emperor Smeat]

Nice of New Day to pull a Cena and not even bother to help Kofi during his mauling by Rowan

[KIRA]

I thought they weren't allowed to come out

[Triple A]

Is every1 getting this Frank Thomas commercial or is it a "local commercial"

[GD]

Crap! I forgot about the gauntlet. Busy gossiping with the roommate over tea. Back to the program.

[Triple A]

WWE should air WrestleMania for free on FOX or something every year and just charge FOX a lot of money and stuff... would seem like a bigger event probably rather than just another WWE Network PPV

[rez]

WWE should air WrestleMania for free on FOX or something every year and just charge FOX a lot of money and stuff... would seem like a bigger event probably rather than just another WWE Network PPV

I still think they're going to regret getting rid of their movie studio...

[Emperor Smeat]

I thought they weren't allowed to come out

Could have at least send some of the peeps hanging with them backstage to save Kofi as a favor. Like free pancakes for a year for whoever stops Rowan's attack.

[KIRA]

Lol Nikki Cross

[rez]

AJ interfere or Orton gonna RKO Kofi and lay him on himself

[rez]

still 23 minutes so probably AJ...

[rez]

Pretty weak way to build up Kofi after they squished him storyline.

[rez]

Lol Nikki Cross

What cable do you have? I guess Spectrum still sucks at being live....I miss Bright House.

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE should air WrestleMania for free on FOX or something every year and just charge FOX a lot of money and stuff... would seem like a bigger event probably rather than just another WWE Network PPV

While not live, WWE did used to air abridged Manias on NBC for a few years. Think it got cancelled due to low ratings or some other reason.

Doubt FOX wants a 7+ hour show on their network considering the only reason WWE gets away with it now is due to the WWE Network not having time restrictions like PPV providers.

[GD]

St00pid

[KIRA]

What cable do you have? I guess Spectrum still sucks at being live....I miss Bright House.

Stream

[slik]

I have really liked this gauntlet match

[GD]

Trouble in Paradise!

[KIRA]

Announcers are unbelievably biased

[GD]

Holy mother of GOD! Kofi wins! Kofi wins!

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[slik]

Kofi vs Dbry is official for WrestleMania!

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: Vince

[Triple A]

Funny

[slik]

WWE should air WrestleMania for free on FOX or something every year and just charge FOX a lot of money and stuff... would seem like a bigger event probably rather than just another WWE Network PPV

There is talk if SD does well that FOX is open to that idea.

[slik]

Shenanigans

[slik]

Only weird thing would be commercials during matches at WM

[Emperor Smeat]

Ouch at Kofi spiking himself on the head from that S.O.S.

[KIRA]

That looked like it hurt

[Evil Vito]

Pretty sure this is gonna lead to the entire face roster threatening to walk out next week.

[rez]

Wow...what a waste of an hour that Black Widow won't get back

[slik]

Lame as fuck

[GD]

Fuck you Vince!

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[Emperor Smeat]

Gauntlet match was pretty good overall.

Only weird thing would be commercials during matches at WM
WWE could probably get away with not having breaks during matches but pretty much means no more 20+ minute matches unless they want to start pissing off advertisers.

[xrodmuc316]

Is Rey’s wife tall or something? Can’t beljeve Dominic got so big

Eddie never told us who Dominics mom is, just that he gave him to Rey and Rey's wife to raise.

Also, why does Dom get no love from his step mom Vickie?

[slik]

I know if I was in the live crowd today I wouldn't be able to wait to buy tix for the next event when it came thru...

[GD]

Was that a storyline or real?

[rez]

SDL was the best dark match episode ever

[slik]

WWE seems to have a large problem when people get over organically -- they over-focus on stacking the deck against them in storylines -- and not enough on why people got into them in the first place (see Lynch, Becky and Braun circa 2017/2018)

[Lock Jaw]

I think more people are definitely being added to the US title match and it will end up a multi-man match (maybe even a ladder match). Joe, Rey, Andrade, Truth, Mustafa Ali

[Emperor Smeat]

Cruiser title match for Mania:
Tony Nese vs. Buddy Murphy

Nese defeated Cedric Alexander in the finals of the #1 Contender's tournament
Spoiler tag used for those that didn't watch this week's 205 Live episode yet.

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE seems to have a large problem when people get over organically -- they over-focus on stacking the deck against them in storylines -- and not enough on why people got into them in the first place (see Lynch, Becky and Braun circa 2017/2018)

Supposedly its all due to the mindset Vince and WWE have of nobody can be bigger than the brand and Vince's pettiness when it comes to stars getting over on their own or by crowds. The moment WWE starts to meddle in something they didn't create, that's when things start to derail and get overcomplicated and hurts more than it helps.

[Tom Guycott]

Has it been 13 years?

:nono:

Another reminder we're getting old.

Also, another reminder of all the years spent by the company spinning wheels while they focus on Cena or putting over Attitude Era or earlier stars in perpetuity.

I remember once upon a time, there were a few "nothing" matches between Dolph Ziggler and Kofi Kingston. I still consider them fucking great, and they're things that got lost in the shuffle to time. And that's a shame.

With proper effort and maintainence over some of the last several years, those two should be main event legends by now in a "who was the better multi-time champion to tear the goddamn house down" match in the spot on Mania where Bats and Hunter are now. Instead, one guy is "on hiatus", and the other is just now getting a main event push.

I say that to say Miz has been there through all that, and it's easy to forget about him, too. Say what you want, but he worked out as a talent way better overall than he ever should have. And it is very simple to overlook the fact that he was brought in pretty much because of his reality TV crossover appeal and has been around through a lot of pushes, depushes, hirings, firings, "firings", and forced retirements of people both more and less talented than he is, and done okay for himself in the long run. And Miz has done so in spite of working for a company continually trying to charge headlong into finding a new Hogan/Austin/Rock, while simultaneously more or less saying without saying (or sometimes actually saying) that nobody will ever be as good as they were.

[Tom Guycott]

Is this the first time Bayley and Sasha have been on Smackdown since the second brand extension?

... Wait, I thought this was the third?

[slik]

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[xrodmuc316]

... Wait, I thought this was the third?

I am fairly certain that was the first time Bayley has ever been on Smackdown.

[Tom Guycott]

The

Thats the thing I want to care about them but how can I if they just lose while being Champions( and that team name being the stupidest f****** thing ever) the other thing is I completely agree I want them to split up and kill each other I want Bailey to become the snarling Eddie Guerrero-esque Psychopath she was meant to play

I welcome the return of Switchblade Bayley, but disagree about the team name. There have been worse. Like Air Boom. Or anytime a couple or stable has to have "team" in the name. Not saying everything will come together like the 4 Horsemen or The Heenan Family, but for fuck's sake, can we be a little more clever?

Side note to that, a tiny detail they repeatedly drop the ball on is the music. Like, can a team or a group get a different song collectively than the individual sum of its parts? I am a big critic of "twinsy" tag teams, whose whole identity is being wrapped up in being one of two that are hard to tell apart, but on the other end of the spectrum is a team that are literally just two individuals, and can even barely be assed to have on the same color schemed attire. There is a very achievable middle ground here.

Instead of S and B using cropped parts of their songs, get a song for the duo that isn't the same thing. They were *kinda* doing that for Sanity (there is the generic group theme, and then there are specialized mixes that are notably different for Killian Dane and Nikki Cross), not that anyone would know because they all just fell off the fucking world. Or when they tried to just keep everything that was over about The Shield on Roman Reigns instead of making solo songs for all three men. People would be going apeshit at the song now on this "final" reunion... but some of the reaction is ruined because it is just basically Roman's theme now. Just another one of those little touches that make a bigger difference than you would think, but WWE can't be assed to do consistently.

[Tom Guycott]

I am fairly certain that was the first time Bayley has ever been on Smackdown.

I thought she's been on Smackdown before, but that wasn't what I was getting at. I meant isn't this the third time the roster has been split?



... that I have to edit right now, because I just realized I was thinking of the Invasion angle and counted that. Nevermind.

[Tom Guycott]

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OH SHIT, AERYN SUN... oh, wait, that's Sonya Deville. I thought WWE brought back Farscape for a minute.

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[Droford]

At this point now people are going to shit all over whatever the WWE title match is at WM unless they dig up Taker to wrestle Bryan.

[Volare]

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[Tom Guycott]

St00pid

Honestly, that was a nice, deliberate touch right in the camera mic, and for anyone unaware of the context, it just worked as a random insult. Wonder which one of them came up with that?

[Jordan]

Xavier will be one of the all time great color commentators one day.

[Lock Jaw]

At this point now people are going to shit all over whatever the WWE title match is at WM unless they dig up Taker to wrestle Bryan.

Pretty sure it is gonna be Kofi, and that the fans will be going banana.

[Gerard]

Be nice if they could mute the ring mics for matches with those 2 ozzie bitches in the ring, shrieking like fucking Banshees wherever possible.

[Innovator]

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[XL]

I think they need to cement Kofi in the match next week or risk loosing the “payoff”.

[Vastardikai]

I think they might put Kofi in there but do it in the shittiest way possible. By which I mean it involves Daniel Bryan or Vince calling Kofi the N word.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Hahaha, Kofi did end up losing.