Also, I've CENA NUFF of The Fiend's music.

I haven't watched anything but based on the results I've read, The Fiend has now gotten the leg-up on Rollins every time they've interacted. Normally that would mean Rollins is certainly retaining on Sunday but with the draft and the uncertainty on if they're going to put the majority of the biggest names on SmackDown, I'm not so sure.

If there is one big benefit to SD's new camera stuff, it made the Fiend's attack feel more cinematic and cooler than WWE's previous style.

Also Rollins going to get booed to hell this Sunday if he goes over the Fiend. Like Roman Reigns Mania level of booing.

Friday Night SmackDown highlights:

The preshow
The new intro
The new stage
The Rock/Becky/Corbin segment
Better commercial variety

Then it all went down from there...

KO gonna lose and go to nxt

KOwith the jobber entrance

Poor Owens didn't even get a televised entrance

"Can you imagine WWE without Shane?"

Wasn't he gone for like a decade? lol

Send Kevin Owens to NXT as well. Nakamura, Joe and Owens along with the current NXT roster would be excellent.

Imagine explaining to lapsed fans the concept of Shane McMahon.

"Remember that young rich kid that used to dive off things? Yeah, now he's a weezing beetroot dad. Kinda like you."

Shane is sort of a dumbass considering its a ladder match.

Had Owens motionless on a table outside the ring and had all the time in the world to just setup the ladder and climb to get the briefcase. Instead decided to just jump off the turnbuckle and crash into the table.

That ladder had a family

lol @ the overtly animated fan

Crowd being censored :nono:

:lol: at the crowd getting muted for the "holy shit" chants

Somewhere a FOX exec is throwing a tantrum

New 24/7 Champ, not shown on TV


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WHAT IS SHANE MCMAHON DOING IN THE IMPACT ZONE?

Owens wins! Owens wins! Bah gawd, Shane O'Mac is terminated, King!

"Can you imagine WWE without Shane McMahon?"

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E21/-y...SVKZehVaI=.gif

Shut up, Corey :nono:

Shane vs KO was fun

Bit surprised Owens actually won since his firing would have had more storyline possibilities.

Wouldn't be surprised if Shane just gets drafted to RAW next week because of some hidden terms or loophole in the contract.

Maybe Shane goes to NXT lol

Fuck off, Brodus Clay

That's gotta be that's gotta be Brodus Clay

Brodus Clay :lol:

LMAO AJ an Orton no intros, came out during commercial

Crap, Heyman said "spoiler"...you know what that means.

AJ and Orton entering during commercials and being thrown into an "everyone hits a finisher" multi-man tag match.

Cool, Fury's doing an angle

Dope.

Crowd being censored again :nono:

This Tyson Fury & Strowman stuff comes off as being really lame.

Also makes Strowman come off as if he's a heel despite being a face during the whole tag match.

Spaced out. Anything good happen?

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Britt Baker has set the bar for guest commentators this week, let's see if Daniel Bryan can beat it.

Oh, there's a full sentence, he's the new leader.

no kind of boring

This match is happening for the inevitable visual of Roman diving over the top rope onto all of the lumberjacks.

Kind of funny how much WWE managed to screw up what should have been their hottest angle of the summer with this "Who Attacked Roman?" angle.

Messed up soo badly that Bryan randomly turned face and got rid of what should have been the big money match of that feud.

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Looks like we are not getting a clean ending to the WWE Championship match.

Since when were lumberjack matches no dq?

this show sort of SUCKS

orrrrrrrrrrrrr Kofi is getting squashed relentlessly

less than 15 minuten for the champ match.

Lumberjack match was decent at best.

Expecting Rey Rey to interfere.

Let's go BROCK

Kingston pinning Lesnar in under a minute.

This WWE title match is either going to be surprisingly good or be the feather in the cap of Kofi's mostly dud title reign in terms of excitement.

Interference by Rey

AEW > WWE

Are we going into overtime?

So much for that

FUCK WWE

fuck me

Ummm...what the fuck?

No words. Paul likes his cuck storylines and this bullshit. Screw RAW too

That was garbage.

Cain Velasquez has arrived :eek:

holy shit

Velasquez's surprise appearance was cool but what a terrible way to make your new champ look.

A champion taken down faster than a challenger from the crowd. I love WWE's disrespect!

Cain Velasquez the new top star in WWE

Lol they went off 3 min early

Poor Kofi.

Guess WWE kept adding zeroes in order to get Velasquez to easily change his mind and sign.

With the lack of matches Sunday he almost has to get a rematch

I don't give a fuck about MMA in the slightest, so Cain does absolutely nothing for me.

I get why they're doing it. But one episode in and I can already tell I'm not going to be interested in the direction they will be taking this show.

Oh well. Fuck it. How many of us are actually gonna watch wrestling on a Friday night regularly

Between Cain and Tyson Fury, its pretty clear that WWE and FOX are desperately trying to get sports viewers on board since no way SD is hitting 3+ million expectations with the current tv fanbase WWE has.

Kofi gets a ton of fan support that drives him to a WWE title match at WrestleMania. Wins the title. Holds it for half a year.

And within 10 seconds, it's like his reign never happened.

I don't know or care who Cain Velasquez is, so that ending was terrible for me.

Dominic > Cain Velasquez

Obvi I'm gonna continue to see where AEW is going on Wednesday nights

Paul and his cuck shit doesn't make me want to watch RAW

Not going to commit to Friday Night Brock

Thursday might be a good night for me to catch up on NXT

Too bad Impact's network ....ah fuck. I just considered watching Impact

The nightly local FOX is recapping Smackdown. ahh

I guess this opens the door to DC joining WWE after he beats Miocic.

I now see where you were coming from. The local FOX channel just spent 20 minutes talking wrestling..during the news.

Only shitty thing about trying to watch NXT on Thursdays is that Hulu only puts up a one hour version. So I’d have to go back to the Network if I wanted to see the whole thing. Ugh.

Supposedly WWE is already considering extending the delay for uploading new episodes to the Network in response to AEW's success this week.

Being speculated that the 1-day delay is hurting more than its helping for NXT's numbers these past 2 weeks and WWE already made it clear they have no problems hurting the Network if it means more tv revenue.

Guess it'll be DVR for me, then.

I’m in the same boat on MMA and Cain. But I’m also all for guys with legit fighting backgrounds. I like Kofi but they HAD to get the title off of him and onto a legit star if they wanna appeal to the mainstream and succeed on Fox. And with the history Brock and Cain have, it SHOULDN’T be difficult to make me care.

Just... build up some fucking homegrown stars for once while this storyline is taking place, Goddammit.

Also, I tuned in just in time for The Rock segment. It was terrible. I can’t imagine potential new fans who tuned in and saw The Rock came out of that segment wanting to see more.

I didn’t catch the show, but I did log onto the Internet and saw a gif of the entire main event.

So I’m pretty glad I didn’t watch.

Oh yeah, hopefully they build something out of Kofi being brave/dumb as fuck, too. While I don’t think he has mass appeal as champion, there were hopefully new viewers who now know him as the guy who Brock took the title of in hilarious fashion. He has a secondary story already that they’d be stupid not to build on in SOME way.

A main event that lasted about 10 seconds, quality wwe.

Maybe when lesnar's contract comes up next time he can negotiate just having Heyman talk the opponent into a pinfall so his "client" has even less to do than he currently does.

Can I just say I'm happy they took the belt off of Kofi and his reign was boring as fuck?

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If they didn't take 20 minutes to embarrass Baron Corbin into irrelevance I think having him and Fury would have made more sense since Corbin at least has a boxing background

People are fickle

The title change buried the ENTIRE locker room.

If WWE were a territory, it would be dead right now.

I stayed up until 3am to watch that absolute horseshit.

Virtually the entire midcard and undercard went straight to Twitter after the show to tweet out support for Kofi.

So yeah, pretty clear they all saw this as a massive fuck you.

Would it have hurt to make it a 4 minute match? Just wrong.

I enjoyed the show with the exception of Becky whom I find quite false especially in her ring work. She misses much... She's not a worker, she's a performer trying to be a worker. Same with Shane, just pretending to work, no actual talent in either one of them aside from emmulating.

Rock was great, Corbin made me laugh. Bray was fantastic, Jake Roberts level promo.

Roman and Rowan was eh whatever.

I really like Tyson Fury and never saw that coming so that has my interest for sure.

Main event was shit booking I'd have like to have honered Kofi with some legit offense.


Cain coming in was a shock, I didn't think they would ever pull that off. That match has me very excited. Crown Jewel will finally be a must watch.