FRIDAY NIGHT WRESTLING THREAD!!!!!! SMACKDOWN! RAMPAGE! WRESTLING! 12 AUG 22!!!!!!

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Wrestling!

[Supreme Olajuwon]

There was a womens tag match. I didn’t see it.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Drew in the ring now.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Drew McIntyre

Not Drew Gulak

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Sorry for confusion

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Still doing faggy camera cuts during beatdown

[xrodmuc316]

LOL wait, how they have Hit Row without Swerve??

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Not much love for Smackdown tonight! Can Rampage do any better?

[Evil Vito]

Danielson/Garcia promo was real good. I’ll never get tired for seeing those dudes fight.

[Evil Vito]

Tay and Skye Blue. Great ass battle.

[Triple A]

They are leaning into Brock Lesnar comparisons for Parker Boudreaux but def needs to work out more if they're gonna do that...... smaller and way more out of shape than Brock Lesnar

[Evil Vito]

lol Sonny Kiss gets on TV for the first time in like 2 years and jobs inside a minute

[Evil Vito]

Beardhausen!

[Triple A]

Gunn Club are great

[Evil Vito]

Gunn Club keep improving every time out

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Who is this visor fag

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Looks like he wants to Steal My Sunshine

[Evil Vito]

Slim J randomly resurfacing in 2022 is fuckin wild to me

[Supreme Olajuwon]

This trios bracket is so unbalanced. The top 4 teams are all on the same side.

[Evil Vito]

Trustbusters theme being a ripoff of the Entourage theme popped me

[Triple A]

ok @ Sonny Kiss turning heel...

[Bad News Gertner]

Wow! Smackdown was ***** tonight

[Mr. Nerfect]

Hang on, why aren’t The Gunn Club in the trios tournament?

[Mr. Nerfect]

And why did they split up Team Taz just before the tournament? So many baffling booking decisions.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Apparently Gunther and Nakamura had a real banger. No surprise there.

[Sting Fan]

Felt like a more rounded ep of Rampage. If Sky Blue can work out her punches she has real potential I reckon.

The DBry Garcia segment was good, I thought Garcia played his part well.

The crowd seemed to want to boo the Trustbusters which is great although I agree Parker needs to hit the gym to be that monster.

Sonny kiss has never interested me, with this turn maybe that changes. I liked it, fresh direction attached to a stable that looks like it will get some airtime.

I liked Keith Lees promo too, he stayed away from the crazy words simple and to the point.

[Mr. Nerfect]

There’s a reason WWE cut Parker Bourdreaux.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Rampage beats Smackdown tonight 13 posts to 6

The wrestling wars are back!

[slik]

Sonny Kiss a damn evil jezebel

[slik]

so what is the deal w slim j
I have learned he was in early tna...did he disappear for like two decades

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Slim J was a 17-year-old doing an Eminem gimmick and he got booked on a TNA PPV. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tna02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tna02</a> <a href="https://t.co/fiqCbUYcct">pic.twitter.com/fiqCbUYcct</a></p>&mdash; Jus��in (@Justin_SofOK) <a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_SofOK/status/1360043878401904640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After a win in his <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWonTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWonTV</a> debut + an eventful night for The Trustbusters, it’s official: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheParkerB_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheParkerB_</a> is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AllElite</a>!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWRampage</a> <a href="https://t.co/IhwhTPfwiH">pic.twitter.com/IhwhTPfwiH</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1558290150999867392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Evil Vito]

Slim J selling being thrown over the top rope by comically stumbling and pratfalling onto the entranceway was hysterical.

[Mr. Nerfect]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After a win in his <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWonTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWonTV</a> debut + an eventful night for The Trustbusters, it’s official: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheParkerB_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheParkerB_</a> is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AllElite</a>!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWRampage</a> <a href="https://t.co/IhwhTPfwiH">pic.twitter.com/IhwhTPfwiH</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1558290150999867392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

A game changer! That will show WWE. Sign the only outstanding amateur wrestler WWE didn’t want.

[XL]

Wow! Smackdown was ***** tonight

Awful?
Shite?
Borin’?

Why you got us guessing Gertner?

[Mr. Nerfect]

It’s a shame Ronda sucks so bad at promos, because this renegade gimmick is getting the crowd on her side something fierce.

[XL]

It doesn’t seem to have gone quite how they expected it to Liv is getting “you tapped out” chants, Ronda is getting more cheers than boos. They’ve lined up Baszler (heel) as Liv’s first opponent so it seems they want Liv as a face, but then you’ve got the whole Shayna-Ronda relationship. They’re exchange was interesting.

I’ve a lot more faith than this regime and “roll with the punches” though and take the story in a direction that makes sense.

[Mr. Nerfect]

They could just be rolling with the punches, but I think it’s intentional. They had to know Ronda was going to get cheered for snapping against Liv, even if she was supposed to tap at the same time as the pin. Liv’s promos have been coded a little bit with “I only tapped because I thought I had won” sort of stuff. It’s not heavy yet, but she’s going to be Bo Dallas, I think.

She has to go against heels at this point to continue positioning her like Rocky Maivia. It’s too obvious and defeats the purpose if she starts going against faces and you know you’re supposed to boo her.

The Ronda/Shayna stuff is interesting.

[xrodmuc316]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After a win in his <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWonTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWonTV</a> debut + an eventful night for The Trustbusters, it’s official: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheParkerB_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheParkerB_</a> is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AllElite</a>!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWRampage</a> <a href="https://t.co/IhwhTPfwiH">pic.twitter.com/IhwhTPfwiH</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1558290150999867392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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[Mr. Nerfect]

I don’t know when it will hit AEW and AEW fans that WWE doesn’t let go of top prospects unless there is something pretty major missing from them.

[Mr. Nerfect]

It doesn’t seem to have gone quite how they expected it to Liv is getting “you tapped out” chants, Ronda is getting more cheers than boos. They’ve lined up Baszler (heel) as Liv’s first opponent so it seems they want Liv as a face, but then you’ve got the whole Shayna-Ronda relationship. They’re exchange was interesting.

I’ve a lot more faith than this regime and “roll with the punches” though and take the story in a direction that makes sense.

Just to go back to this: The stuff between Ronda and Shayna is an effective way of keeping Ronda plugged into the story without putting her into the match. It creates a bit more drama as to who is going to win since both women have got potential pathways with Ronda.

[Blonde Moment]

I want to see Ronda vs Shayna at WM

[Mr. Nerfect]

I want to see Ronda vs Shayna at WM

That’s possible.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Just watched this edition of SmackDown. Such an easy watch. Everything flows so well. Everything happened with some sort of purpose. You can tell Heyman is involved now.

Shinsuke Nakamura and Gunther. What professional wrestlers, man. I don’t get where this “Nakamura is lazy now” bullshit comes from. Every time I see him he has a good match and gets over. Gunther is just tremendous at what he does. How can people whinge about the IC Title not meaning something?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Shayna Baszler is actually really likeable, imo. I’m naturally on her side against Liv Morgan.