SMACKDOWN LIVE 5/16/17: The Phenomenal One vs. The Maharaja
 

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Glad he finally walked out of that lighting.

MY BAD, MY BAD

Who brought that huge Narc head?

Juicer Mahal!

Good evening.

A-Show should be a great show.

Jinder looks more and more ridiculous each week

Dolph looking to improve his record to 1-52 this Sunday at Backlash!

Jinder sounded like he has a cold.

Just got home... Did Jinder Mahal speak in a really boring calm voice again due to Jim Ross's suggestion, or did he scream a lot in his cool angry heel voice...

Calm like last week.

If being a disturbingly chiseled Hindu god-man is ridiculous then sign me up

You will show his abs the respect and reverence they deserve

smh :nono:

Jinder Mahal makes 90s Lex Luger look like Yokozuna

Canadian Canuck-God. fixed.

If Jinder wins the title, his side plates needs to be a logo of his muscles.

He needs a custom belt that has veins linking the plates and yes his abs should be on the plates themselves

These Smackdown moves are dumb. AJ and Charlotte were great heels. Hell, they could have made a great stable with AJ and Owens.

Calgarywood boyz going to interfere when AJ gets the upper hand. I like Jindar but he's no AJ.

SDL needs a main face and the King of Strong style isn't there yet.

Styles is the hero heel and/or face we don't deserve

Wrong Canadian interfered but same result

Welcome to the Zayne Zone, AJ!

Styles-Jinder was decent.

YES!(I love you to death Styles) but YES IRON ABS MAHAL!

I'll be honest. I love Jinder. And i really hope he beats Randy Orton. I hope they give him the strap and keep pushing him. I think he's great.

SDL would have won already, even if Braun had been on RAW.

Jinder Mahal is the heel we've always needed but didn't know how much we needed.

I heard the Jinder/Orton match was going to take place in an Indie ring.

Will laugh if they pull an Emmalina with Lana since there is no way its going to work.

Is Disco Inferno or Alex Wright the last time a dance gimmick actually worked for the long run in WWE and WCW?

Right? I am digging him like crazy J&J security Canadian branch just makes him even better.

Breezango is the greatest

that one segment was better than all of RAW

Fashion Files entertaining once again

Day One Is H

Really have no idea who the face/heel team is with The Usos/Breezango, though......

Both were heels..... since winning the contendership, Breezango has been fighting heel teams but are essentially "the same"....... The Usos largely been "non-existant" except for last week when they cut a face promo.......

Just change them to Fashion Police

Jinder Mahal's arms look at the "In my Veins" part of Randy's tron and they just laugh.

Breezango def the faces and the Usos def the heels!

Scott Steiner should guest referee

Who were "The Colons" feuding with before... weren't they feuding with someone... back 2 being jobbers I guess

They were feuding with American Alpha... forgot about them

Fashion Files will probably be the highlight of the week.

/yay. down with the midget romans

I'm enjoying it so far.

I liked the hint at the beginning that Jericho would return (instead of disappearing for several years). Fashion Files was funny. AJ/Jinder and this tag match are just ok but harmless - I'm not bored or anything.

Easier to watch than RAW for some reason, again.

I kinda like this Breezdango group.

Uso's are amazing right now haha

Holy shit! Uso's are red hot on the mic! Love it!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SHOWWWWWW

gg. usos can't cut a heel promo for shit.

Where was that "Head on a swivel" line from?

Usos cut one good promo vs. American Alpha with the whole "It's not paranoia, it's The Usos" line.......

Which made sense because they were "coming after the champs"

But now they just use it in every promo it seems......

If only the Usos had been able to do a promo like that when they were faces.

I don't think I understood one word from that Usos promo.

A for effort.

Also, nice to see The Fashion Police finally getting some love from the writers in back.

Shane is available tonight.

I have missed Rusev, hope he interferes here!

why tho? Who else could have done a heel promo on Smackdown like that?

It's that time again.

WHY IS JIMMY CHINLESS STILL ON SMACKDOWN?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?exclamationpointquestionmark

Incomprehensible promo the best kind of promo

All of those distracting tattoos

WWE pandering to the chinless market.

I'm a maaaaaaaann maaann maaaaan

Just let the SD tag division die and give Fashion Police promos to replace it

How come Nia Jax is on both shows?

:shifty:

lol

Who writes for the women?

"I'ma snatch you bald" not 1 of the strongest wrestling catch phrases...

For you NBA fans, Celtics win the #1 pick in the draft.

I'm sick of misgendering jokes in wrestling. In everything, really.

:lol: Ellsworth

FIRE ELLSWORTH! *clap clap clapclapclap*

lol @ Ellsworth.

I want Becky Lynch vs. James Ellsworth pretty bad

I for one am shocked, absolutely shocked, that a contract signed has escalated to violence.

Damn. Ellsworth has improved a ton on his promos. Wonder if he is wearing baggy clothes now because he is getting into actual wrestler shape.

It fits with the target demo for Total Divas outside of women

"Get dat weave" "Drag Ha" "Snatch ha bald" all do

duh

Still love Ellsworth...

Charlotte looks like she is always plotting and planning her next move....

What is the main-event tonight?

Will we see Sami or Shinsuke?

We better get a James Ellsworth vs Becky Lynch match at some point

:wtf: at that explanation by JBL for wanting Ellsworth to stay

WWE would need to convince Mattel and/or their other big sponsors to make it happen. Mattel (and the Benoit family tragedy) is pretty much the reason why they went PG.

I'd find them playing battleship against each other highly entertaining.

What does a man fighting a woman have to do with PG? They could do it in a "PG" way......

Supposedly Mattel hates inter-gender matches or at least that was the reason given by PWI whenever the topic would come up in their weekly Q&A articles.

Dolphin Swiggler.

Was Ziggler never Tag Champ?

I think Nakumura's got the perfect debute opponent in Ziggler.

Imagining some kid making their man/woman action figures fight each other, and then Mattel executive coming out of nowhere and being all "No, you can't do that! You're playing with them wrong!"

Oh wait he was tag Champ in the Spirit squad but that was before the Dolph character

Orton's tron says "In My Veins"......

Jinder Mahal's tron should just say "My Veins"

So basically it's fake news then right? Not everything you read in a dirtsheet is a fact :roll:

yawn..baron/orton?

Giving away Orton/Corbin again in a random match..... :nono:

They have done it before.

It's true. I'm a stockholder so shut your roll eyes

Who said anything about it being a fact. That's been the speculated reason PWI and the Observer have given over the years whenever the topic would get brought up.

You have some really unhealthy obsession with declaring stuff as fake news.

That's why I said "again".............

Feel like Aries and TJP have wrestled each other 10 times in the past two months