Damn... SmackDown being 2 hours really does psychologically have a huge impact... Feels like if there was still an hour and a half of this left I would feel really negative... but feeling pretty positive...

It is all about the quality control, baby.

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Can Heath Slater's fanbase be called his "kids"

Finally somebody said it Bray is all talk

this sucks

Oh. Orton's ready for a fight.

So has WWE's quack doctor cleared him?

k cool thought he was gonna keep talking for like 5 mins...

Why is this Jobber still feuding with Orton?

Bray probably just got pinned by the camera guy

So is Bray going to pull a Freddy Krugger if Orton sleeps?

Also this feud would be really great had the WWE not constantly make Bray lose almost every big match.

JBL "perfectly calm" at Bray Wyatt magically appearing in front of him

Comon Harper

Can't even randomly attack people correctly anymore.

Cool. New ring gear for Rowan.

much better jumpsuit for Rowan

no by the merch vendor in the lobby

Bray Wyatt vs the Hot dog Vendor

Big push for the Hot Dog Vendor.

What PPV was that where The Usos and Harper/Rowan opened the show with an absolute BANGER? I was trying to remember so I could rewatch on the Network later. Money in the Bank or something?

"I am the vendor that runs this center! I'm going to kick your buns!"

I think it was one of the battle grounds maybe? Hard to remember when they move the PPVs around so much.

Hope Styles' partner is a surprise.

Can't be Braun Victim #5.

Last night was the first time I noticed the lights in AJ's entrance ticking with the beat of his theme song. Dunno if they have always been doing that, but I think it's really cool.

That sounds correct. Thanks. :y:

What a time to be alive.

Yeah fuck you james!

MIZ!

Oh god gonna form a super team

Poor what's his name, didn't even get a chance to main event a WWE show.

The Miz is that dude right now.

booooooooooo

The Miz.

Alright. Let's do this.

YES

Ok Miz is great just saying

Lol, Curt Hawkins' WWE re-debut was just a backstage segment.

This tag match should be sweet

Miz and Styles is good teaming. Been a good Smackdown Live.

SD is Crushing.

Better belts

way more streamlined show

Heath SLATER

RIP James Ellsworth...I was about to join the James Ellsworth World Order...when you are JEWO you are JEWO 4 Lyfe

Might be Battlegrounds 2014 which was a Best 2 out of 3 match according to ProFightDB.com

That's exactly it.

David Otunga is already making great strides on commentary. Already better than Saxton.

Just saw that on Facebook :lol:

Remember when everyone was sure that Miz would be Jannetty to Morrison's Michaels?

A few segments late here but...holy hell does Erick Rowan need an overhaul. Somehow WWE managed to make a scary looking 6'8" dude less intimidating than Virgil.

goddammit, Super Cena didn't need that win

DEAN. FUCKING. AMBROSE.

Heel turn or Ambrose dealing with a sudden case of Lunaticitis?

Ambrose showing Cena no mercy

Neither. Cena was talking hella shit about Ambrose earlier in the show and he's also one of his opponents at No Mercy. Cena should have seen that coming.

Love the blue sideplates too

To be fair Morrison has been great in LU

Oh no doubt. I've always been a big Morrison fan. Still am. My main point was that The Miz has come a really long way.

Smackdown continues to put out better shows than Raw and should pay off with football season starting back.

Miz is killing it right now and I'd like to see him keep the IC title for a while. Not really a whole lot other contenders out there for him other than Ziggler right now. Interested to see what Miz's contract demands are.

Styles should come out winner at No Mercy taking advantage of Cena and Ambrose beating the shot out of one another(they don't want none). I have no problem with Dena going for number 16 but I hope he fails a few times and they stretch it out. Could hold it off til Wrestkemania.

Ready to see the Women's and Tag divisions get going now that the have titles. Lynch vs Bliss is a good first match for Becky. I'm glad Slater finally got signed and they didn't just throw the titles on a NXT call up team.

Looks like they realized they left Smackdown a little to dry and have moved Swagger over. Swagger has always been one of my favorites and I love the We the People gimmick. Would like to see Axle make the jump to Smack down as well.

Maryse is so fucking hot.

I keep hearing people mention that they love Swagger's "WE THE PEOPLE" gimmick, but what gimmick is that? He says the catch phrase and he literally does nothing else but job out.

God damn Alexa Bliss

Did they ever explain away all the extremely racist things he and his manager were saying about Mexican people

Maybe those people like his "gimmick" from back when he was doing that

Interesting character development for both Dean Ambrose and John Cena. Hopefully will make Dean Ambrose a bigger, more popular star.

They never really explained anything. His racism basically turned him babyface, though.

I still don't understand what the fuck that Mexamerica shit was supposed to mean either.

I ALSO don't understand why Baron Corbin backed down from him.

I ALSO don't understand why Swagger was so goofy in that promo.

I ALSO don't understand why he was wearing a backwards hat.

I used to love Swagger. Not so much since the Colter pairing.

Yeah when I first started watching again, really had no idea who most people were and felt extremely confused when Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter seemed to have a gimmick where they said extremely racist things, and they were seemingly supposed to be "faces"...

Also, I think I'm going to officially jump on board as a Baron Corbin fan. I never thought I'd say that a year ago.

miz was always better what morrison promo have u ever herd u gonna look back 10 years from now and go damn that was great

Not really. Think like ABT said, he just randomly turned face because of the MexiAmerica stuff taking over.

There was a promo one time where him and Zeb Colter basically went out of character saying they didn't actually hate Mexicans but that was more of a response to Glenn Beck and Tea Party criticisms of the gimmick.

I hope they actually try to give a shit about Swagger this time. If they're gonna go back to jobbing him out constantly they may as well release him, because they feel the need to mention every match of his that he's a former World Heavyweight champion.

I always liked The Miz. Being paired with him is what pushed Morrison to show any sort of personality at all.

Crazy that they are both products of Tough Enough.

Fans eat the We the People chant up. USA#1 who wouldn't? Just needs to get some wins and have some decent programs. Would have been better if he could win the US title but he makes a good IC challenger for the Miz down the line. Not sure I'd want him winning it though, kind of want Miz to break the record for longest IC reign.

I understand that people eat it up. But why? You said you enjoy the "gimmick". But what's the gimmick? It's just a catchphrase. People will chant anything.

Patriotic I guess. I really liked Zeb but think their best time together was with Cesaro. Think he needs to find a good tag partner, maybe Shelton Benjamin if he ever gets cleared.

Über-patriotic guy, I guess. Doesn't take much to get ANY US(A #1! :shifty: ) crowd to start being all "'MURICA! FUCK YEAH!".

I know right?Idiots.

When was the last time Swagger even did anything remotely patriotic? The Rusev "feud"?

He's a real American.

So you don't even know why you like him. Got it.

How do you even come to that conclusion? Dude is solid in the ring and has a gimmick people can get behind. You asked when was the last time he did something patriotic well he was announced as a Real American on Raw and We the People is as patriotic as it gets.

What has the fucking character done that could be deemed as patriotic lately? Fuck.

Nothing he has done lately should make you think he's still doing the patriotic gimmick outside of saying the fucking catchphrase. Why do I want to punch you?

Not really. Miz's Tough Enough was just segments on Smackdown. Don't think they ever lived together.

Kind of miss Swagger's old theme

Love his current one, but feel like it has been "ruined" via being associated with Jobber Jack for so long......

Every time the guy says We the People and places his hand on his heart, that's patriotic. Is it not? The guy hasn't done anything since Rusev and tonight was the first time he's got to show any character and I liked what I seen.

Can someone explain to me how an styles can even be in the title hunt much less champ I'm starting to wonder about the wwe first Kevin Owens now styles. Its as bad as tna

......What?

To be fair, what Miz match have you ever watched and thought the same thing.

As for promos, I do like Miz a lot, but it's not as if he's got a catalogue of all-time great promos to his name like the best do. People usually refer to the same three things - the WrestleMania music video that was made for him, the one promo on Raw when he started backstage and walked to the ring talking about being treated like shit, and the one on Daniel Bryan.

Slaters shirt but make it I got no Chin / I need this job

So Jack Swagger is going to be given a shot on SmackDown. Do you think they'll put him over Baron Corbin, or is this just a change of scenery for Jobber Jack? I hope he brings in his hot wife to face off with The Miz's hot wife. It's just missing Karl Anderson with his Hot Asian Wife.

Did Curt Hawkins return? I thought that was supposed to be a thing? At this point they might as well keep putting it off, because then at least people will know that he is a heel.

I like John Cena and Dean Ambrose both going for the title. These are pretty much In Your House shows, so they're kind of there to spin the wheels, and the match itself will be amazing.

I guess Alexa Bliss is the #1 Contender for the Women's Championship. It would have made more sense to give it to Natalya to close her feud with Becky, but I suppose that will keep until the Survivor Series, and they need to strike while people are still raving about Alexa Bliss' look. I still expect Nikki Bella vs. Carmella to be added.

Heath Slater & Rhyno defending the Tag Team Titles a lot is the way to go. They have to look like fighting champs and cram a few defenses in before they drop the belts to The Usos at No Mercy. I imagine that Rhyno will then turn on Slater and we'll get The Man Beast putting The Red Dragon over during the winter months.

He is announced as being a Real American, puts his hand over his chest so that every American within the sound of the ring announcer's voice rises and says along with them "We the People." He's the modern day Jim Duggan, except instead of winning the first-ever Royal Rumble he's a "former World Heavyweight Champion."

He's an American guy like John Cena is an American guy or Hulk Hogan was an American guy or JBL was an American guy or Bubba Ray Dudley was an American guy. If a rotten heel says something bad about America, you can bet Jack Swagger isn't too far from the scene to lose to whoever insults his great nation.

I think his last actually feud was with DEl Rio and that guy on in the wheel chair. He was all pro American there.

To be fair, he hasn't been in a actual feud since. Kind of hard to have a gimmick when you come out once every two months to job to someone.

You forgot the week after he cashed in MITB and won the title which involved showing reaction shots of "Miz girl" being pissed off.

How in the hell do people forget Zeb Coulter's name?

woah calm down there mate

His most recent promo had very little to do with patriotism outside of the chant. The one from yesterday.

In fact, he mentioned The Rolling Stones (UK) and having a hot wife (JPN).

He also mentioned 'being a problem' (ISIS).

Let's not look to far into a shitty Jack Swagger promo.

Not very American to me. He's just trying to leech off of something's previous popula--...

Oh, now I get it.