Friday Night Smackdown 10/25/2019 - FS1 for One Night Only

[GD]

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Mandy Rose (w/ Sonya Deville) versus Neccky

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The New Day's Big E & Kofi Kingston versus Robert Roode & Dolph Ziggler (look at all those smiles)

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"Face-to-Face" segment featuring WWE Champion Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez (also Paul Heyman and maybe RAW's Rey Mysterio)

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Miz TV (featuring HOFers "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair & Hulk Hogan, along with Roman Reigns, Ali, G, King Corbin & Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura)

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Also,

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NXT Cruiserweight Champion Lio Rush versus Oney Lorcan

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Ariya Daivari versus Isaiah Scott

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[GD]

Probably my last Smackdown thread. Have zero interest in the show. Fuck it!

[Jordan]

Gonna have AEW on instead, extended replay. Even if I'm not watching. Just want them to take away Smackdown ratings. I'm evil, WWE fucked me.

[slik]

Bayley looks like Amy Klobuchar


https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/dn19sj/bayley_does_the_weather_report_this_morning_on/

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bumped because of the World Series is still better than being bumped for a dog show. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReasonsToWatchSmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReasonsToWatchSmackDown</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1187731456233222145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[RP]

Cains picture looks like a made character from WW2k 20

[Emperor Smeat]

Guess no Drunk Flair tonight since he's not rambling all over the place.

[xrodmuc316]

Holy shit maybe drunk Ric Flair shooting on The Big Dog is amazing lol

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the crowd booing Hogan for never losing to Flair.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Bayley looks like Amy Klobuchar


https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/dn19sj/bayley_does_the_weather_report_this_morning_on/

If Bayley was the weather girl on my local station's morning news, I'd wake up every morning to tune in.

[DAMN iNATOR]

:lol: at the crowd booing Hogan for never losing to Flair.

I agree with them. #TEAMFLAIR

[Emperor Smeat]

That opening segment was pretty boring overall. The post-promos brawl was the only real interesting thing about it.

[Emperor Smeat]

Every time WWE posts a "Did You Know" type fact gloating about their Youtube numbers, it just exposes how badly they can't carry a good chunk of those 50 million subscribers over to weekly tv. That and their Youtube numbers are heavily inflated by India and China and useless for fixing their tv woes in the US.

[Emperor Smeat]

Lacey vs. some jobber match sucked even by squash standards.

[Triple A]

Watching now . . .

[Emperor Smeat]

Bray's rabbit died again?

RIP Rambling Rabbit.

[Triple A]

So Rollins "burning it down" was completely pointless... other than making people hate Rollins even more...

[Emperor Smeat]

Poor Rambling Rabbit. Managed to come back to life only to get quickly eaten.

[Triple A]

Immediately cuts to Michael Cole saying that the Lucha House Party love to have fun...

Feeling bad

[Triple A]

Glad they are bringing back this Gulak gimmick... Completely stripping him of all personality and just making him a "serious wrestler" was really dumb

[Triple A]

Michael Cole's voice just putting me in a bad mood

[Emperor Smeat]

Guess nobody on SD Creative watches 205 Live since Gulak is back to his prior Power Point gimmick and not the badass one he's had the past several months.

[Triple A]

Jake Hager fight about to come on... http://crackstreams.com/mmastreams/watch-bellator-231/

[Emperor Smeat]

The Bryan-Sami segment was pretty good overall although same can't be said of this week's Smackdown soo far.

[Emperor Smeat]

Jake Hager fight about to come on... http://crackstreams.com/mmastreams/watch-bellator-231/

:lol: at Hager hitting a blatant low blow during his fight

[Triple A]

Fight is over in a couple of minutes, "no contest" after Hager knees opponent in the groin and he falls to the mat writhing in pain and is unable to continue

[Emperor Smeat]

Wonder if AEW will play up Hager now having devastating knee strikes considering the result of his MMA fight.

Worst case scenario for them and his gimmick was if he had suffered an embarrassing loss but that wasn't the case tonight.

[Emperor Smeat]

Not sure how others feel but this week's show has been really boring overall. Not as bad as the RAW episode right before the Draft though for some comparisons.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at that terrible acting from the WWE doctor.

Lesnar has been the only person that has come out looking really good from this episode soo far.

[Triple A]

Endless commercials for the past 20 mins

[Triple A]

another downside of "Shorty G" is Michael Cole saying it over and over and over and over during his matches now... hellish

[Triple A]

Crowd is into the match at least

[Droford]

Captioning keeps using Bizzaro for Cesaro lol

[Emperor Smeat]

6-man tag was very good overall. Bit surprised they gave Ali the pinfall win.

Rest of the show was meh though.

[Droford]

If they did backstage after SD live every Friday it'd be a cool pistgame type show

Instead it's on Tuesdays..

[Emperor Smeat]

Oney vs Lio on 205 Live was pretty good overall. NXT Creative messed up giving the belt to Lio too soon since Oney has been way more over with the 205 Live crowd.

[Emperor Smeat]

Nese vs. Mendoza dragged on way too long. 205 Live has a really bad habit with having long drawn out matches just for the sake of it and then wonder why crowds struggle to remain active during the show.

[Fignuts]

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[Emperor Smeat]

Strickland vs Daivari was decent and same for this week's episode of 205 Live overall.

[GD]

Not even two pages? That's a new low for Smackdown threads. I really enjoyed Lesnar ambushing everyone in the trainer's room.

[slik]

Saw a clip on Twitter

WTF is Gable wearing, shake my head

[slik]

This show will probably do terrible ratings via being on FS1...but plot twist, those ratings will probably be 'amazing' for FS1 on a Friday Night and they will want SD more often or forever...

[slik]

KOFI zooming back to that midcard

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEXT FRIDAY: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheRevival?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheRevival</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottDawsonWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottDawsonWWE</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/DashWilderWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DashWilderWWE</a> will defend their <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SmackDown</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TagTeamTitles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TagTeamTitles</a> against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheNewDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheNewDay</a>'s <a href="https://twitter.com/TrueKofi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TrueKofi</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBigE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWEBigE</a> when the blue brand returns to <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FOXTV</a>! <a href="https://t.co/SOieQ19Ur3">https://t.co/SOieQ19Ur3</a> <a href="https://t.co/uesnJ1mGTj">pic.twitter.com/uesnJ1mGTj</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1187931406120488960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

baseball

[slik]

TY STD

[Droford]

This show will probably do terrible ratings via being on FS1...but plot twist, those ratings will probably be 'amazing' for FS1 on a Friday Night and they will want SD more often or forever...

They probably get better ratings for random Friday night college football games although next week they have women's college volleyball on at 8 on friday

[Triple A]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wait, they set up Revival vs. New Day for the tag titles next week by having Dolph Ziggler pin Kofi this week? What?</p>&mdash; Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) <a href="https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1187965697621520384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Mr. Nerfect]

Saw a clip on Twitter

WTF is Gable wearing, shake my head

I had to go and check this out. Lol, what is anyone in that match wearing? The only person wearing anything resembling attire was Mustafa Ali.