1-24-17 Smackdown Live thread: "Oh you didn't know? It's time for the A-Show babyyy!"
 

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Final Ryan Ward show tonight. Unless he's already gone and Road Dogg is in control right now.

Harper vs. Orton should be good. Pretty excited for Mickie James, too.

Quiet thread.

The Wyatt family EXPLODES!

I wish they didn't.

Already off to a better start than RAW. Opening segment was only a couple minutes long and did what took 15+ minutes for RAW to do last night.

Smackdown should add another person on commentary, possibly Jerry "The King" Lawler.

Me too.

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!

Lumberjack match? Looks like we're getting our annual pre-Rumble melee after all!

Time to pick a side, Bray.

There it is.

Yes! the YEAHHHHHHH is back!

This would have been a bigger deal in the 80s when Orton was in the Wyatt family for 2 years vs 2 months.

I see the split coming at the rumble or the night after.

It's cool that SmackDown makes a Luke Harper match seem kinda "important"

Feels like if this was Raw, this entire "angle" would just be Randy Orton fighting a different combination of the Wyatt Family in a meaningless match every week for the past 2 months, sometimes teaming up with someone else in a tag match... maybe even a 6 man tag match

Harper's pretty damn good.

I just hope this match isn't 1-sided in Randy's favor.

Luke needs to Examine his zipper

Just tuning in!


So far so good.

kinda got to watch The Flash right now.

Yes

FLYING NOTHING RKO looked really awkward.

I hope when Randy breaks from the wyatts he remains heel

Lame.

good match

Interesting.

:eek: Bray didn't give the kiss for the Sister Abigail move.

Really hope Orton is legit staying with Bray and Harper ends up being the one trying to foil the Wyatts out of revenge and hatred of Orton.

I like heel Orton better than face Orton. Face Orton only works when Randy still gets to be a dick.

Bray is supposed to be kinda savvy like knowing things that should be impossible to know
How the fuck is he being snowed by Orton enough to give his loyal no.2 the boot?

If this is a trap this would make it twice bray has been made a fool of in this manner

Why hello, Lady in Red Renee Young.

After all these years, Mickie still got her old music.

Heh heh.

Gotta admit, she looks great.

:lol: at random guy in the crowd screaming "what?" when Mickie claimed she answered the question.

Evil, Arrogant Heel Mickie James

Oh I like this take on why she is heel, she is sick of hearing about revolutionary the ladies today are, just like 99% of the fans

Getting the vibe a good chunk of the crowd has no idea who Mickie James is.

They should have held off on this for WM

She is only a 2 yrs older than Asuka

lol @ weak kick from Alexa

Mickie needs diff music though.

Hate that Twisted Bliss move.

She should stick with the DDT.

I dont get why Alexa Bliss is getting saddled with Mickie James. She was doing just fine with out Mickie. Makes no sense.

Yeah the whole Mickie James random heel return to help someone she has no previous association with is pretty fucking dumb.

Plus, ignoring her NXT return and saying it's her first time in WWE ring for however long it has been is just irritating me.

Hell ya, Lumberjack match! Alexa makes me want to take my dick out.

Carmella taking James Ellsworth shopping.

THIS IS WHY I WATCH WRESTLING.

This has been bugging me for weeks now. Is the Smackdown table sign purple or just the way the light keeps reflecting off of it?

Everything else in Smackdown is blue except that.

Slim pickings on Smackdown.

Natalya & Nicki are occupied with each other.

Carmella & Jimmy Chinless have their thing.

Eva Marie & Naomi are MIA.

Best bet for someone with her star power is to inject herself into the title picture. Kina like Gail Kim's 2nd run with the company.

Lol "what are you Sami Zayn"

this feels like a RAW segment....

should have kept the pimp outfit

WTF they cut off his entrance video!

That's harsh man.

Even Smackdown does "The Makeover of ..." segment better than RAW. Only took them 1-2 weeks to get a new look for Ellsworth unlike Emmalina still waiting on RAW.

:lol: at his new look though.

Also I don't think the Baron character should be posing

DirecTV Now shitty streaming service making this unwatchable 4 me again... prob just gonna use illegal streams from now on smh.......

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damn I missed a James Ellsworth segment due to buffering/freezing, smh....................

What did Mickie James say to "explain" her return... it froze for that whole segment until Becky Lynch came in... anything important

From James Ellsworth to #SlamMasterJames. I LOL'd when the guy working in the store commented "It's a choice".

Legitimately not sure who at lest two of those guys are.

@ Triple A

She said she is back b/c she is sick and tired of hearing about the women's revolution like she never existed in the first place. She said she hates every other diva except Alexa Bliss b/c Bliss is cool. Becky then ran down to the ring but Mickie and Alexa kicked her ass.

which two, I know who every1 is

Turns out it was Curt Hawkins.

From PWI's Smackdown recap:

I can picture Slater winning this.

Not anymore.

Aww wish Rhyno won

The other one was just Fandango wearing different trousers.

For someone who's entire gimmick is being full of hype (and possibly caffeine), Mojo's new gear looks very plain or non-hype worthy.

DONT HURT MOJO!

I know Smackdown is good. But damn, forgotten about most of those guys in that match.

Mojo Rawley winning Battle Royal seems like something new SD headwriter Road Doggie Dogg would do...ugh

As soon as Mojo won that, my dog farted

80% of that Battle Royal was people who have been brought up from NXT and then forgotten about.

She listed her accomplishments in WWE (5× WWE Women's Champion, Divas Champion) and said she watched WWE while she was gone from the company, and then went on a anti-Becky/Women's revolution rant and basically called Becky overrated and said Alexa was better than her basically, called Becky out and while Becky ran to the ring said if she wants to cry, she will give Becky something to cry about! Becky and Mickie brawl for a hot second and then Alexa comes in and Alexa and Mickie beat down Becky and Mickie says one last thing, Mickie's music hits and the segment ends.

Yeah... they fucking date.

I counted 100%

I didn't count Rhyno or Fandango.

I would count Baron Corbin but that would mean working out percentages for a total of eleven people and that sounds hard.

What? Most of those people are not new NXT people. Unless you count everyone that was in NXT as a NXT guy. I mean, everyone comes from NXT now because that is the way the system works.

I think my point was how badly they are being used since NXT rather than the importance of the fact they were from NXT.

I agree with Styles

Oh.

NEW CENA GEAR!

They should have had AJ sticking out from a window in the Alamo itself

Mets colors? Lol.

"See you sunday Kenny Omega" sign.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Not that I would ever wear a Cena shirt, but this one is like extra, extra, extra bad.

Cena's new gear being based on an actual sports team (Florida Gators) solves the problem of what would happen when the WWE ran out of colors for him. Wonder which team is going to get copied next for Cena's future new shirt/merch.

Fuck you, Today show hosts.

What's the over/under on the time before that sign gets confiscated?

That's a good point

Its basically Pats vs Falcons

Lol at the two people from the talk show. Hilarious.

John Cena using his black voice now.

Homie.

Cena's better than the indy scene.

I see.

John Cena forced "wigger" (sry for using racist term) voice driving me insane

Love Cena. Break into a rap!

Cena's promo doesn't make sense he shouldn't say he is below him etc AJ is 3 up on him.

Cena destroying AJ's accomplishments in a promo seems like something new headwriter Road Doggie Dogg would do...

This gatekeeper-like stuff with Cena would work a lot better if he was heel or turning into one and not the usual of him just shrugging off his opponent or their accomplishments being meaningless.

So I'll ask the question.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR SUNDAY?!