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Gotta be on par with last night's first hour Braun rampage.

And we're getting right down to it. No opening talking segment, straight to a fight.

So far, so good.

:eek: Rare moment where Smackdown starts off without doing a talkie segment first.

Nevermind, New Day snuck in a promo. Streak of no match starting off Smackdown first is still alive.

Do they do pancake now because they stopped selling cereal?

New Day should have made a guest appearance on RAW. Black people were so disrespected with curb stomps and such last night. Thrilla has to agree.

Talk all you want, X. Jinder still gonna beat ya.

Guess the crowd wants Jinder as champ since they most didn't respond back to the New Day's vote call.

Think Big E or Woods mentioned somewhere before they ran out of ideas for cereal gags and/or thought it was getting stale as part of their gimmick.

I can see WWE making Jinder US champ

Figured this match would be quick so Woods can go play Street Fighter Arcade Edition with Kenny Omega or something.

I'd like to take Jinder out with a crowbar!

You'd think after the Enzo thing they wouldnt do that

So, they ever explain what happened to Dolph Ziggler?

Vacation? Injury? Gonna make a surprise entry in the Rumble?

If Jinder has taught me anything is that WWE can develop a sudden hard on for the lowest jobber.

Feel like every foreigner wins the US belt at some point.

Which I always found stupid.

For what it's worth, Ziggler's got the 3rd highest betting odds to win the Rumble.

I feel like every North American used to win the European belt at some point. so so dumb

Renee got that "it" thing going on right now.

Smile, wardrobe, all clicking right now.

Ha, completely forgot about that title.

Now make Rusev win the WWE British Championship.

did Carmella get a lip injection?

Alright. What's with all the selfie/smart phone camera footage?

Probably Vince's dumb idea.

Did Carmella miss the B

that title is less relevant than the cruze title. Rusev Day should have it and make it great for the first time.

Vince can always count on America's stupid jingoism

Feel like they could have broken those up

Roode & Mojo right now?

Hmmm. I'd figure they'd space this out into the second hour.

Wonder why there's no WWE Polish Championship. They were here once!

Feel like Roode/Mojo should've been first. Putting the heel over in the first tourney match just makes this one a formality. But if Roode had won the opener there's at least a slight chance they do face vs. face in the tourney finals. They obviously aren't doing heel vs. heel.

Well...because you guys would win the title and then end up in some random jail somewhere.

Well played, but the more likely scenario is we'd sell it for booze money.

I have the show on mute -- I saw on Twitter the finals of the US title are on SD next week and not the Royal Rumble -- is that true?

then end up in jail :rofl:

Who ever said Mojo should ever be on my screen this long needs a bullet in the head

:rofl:

Did one of the Singh bros. just hurt himself?

Wonder if Mojo should have been a bit protected in this match.

Would be pretty funny if Jinder won the US title and then kept going backwards down the ladder so after he lost it, he then goes after the tag titles.

Aight, you make a good point. :D

He blew out his knee or somethin

What the?

We went from Royal Rumble, to next week, to tonight?!

Something's going on behind the scenes.

I kid, I kid. I showed my buddy that thread you talked about your arrests and he said it sounded so Polish..spent too many years traveling Europe getting his phd

So there will be a title match?

Hahaha, he certainly knows his Poles!

Daniel Bryan has CENA nuff! DBry said because of the Singh Bros. heinous actions the U.S. Title Final will be tonight!

Shenanigans and then the real match next week?

Ah, the Beer Truck.

I miss my childhood.

Possible.

Wonder how many more times in my life I will see the beer bath clip.

In regards to the U.S. title match, the thought had occurred to me with the semis being back-to-back they were going to squeeze in the finals tonight.

Why, who knows. Maybe creative is lazy tonight.

just tonight they're lazy?

He knows his way around some Poles, that's for sure ;)

Only got to go over and visit Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden when he was over there :(

Poland actually was going to be on the next trip but I couldn't make it over there.

Last few weeks Smackdown's been back to A-Show levels.

It's not going anywhere.

dare you to post more pix :p

Perhaps because KO can't work tonight.

which one of these riot squad chicks is going to be the next tna knockout champ

Uso's

Finally Uso treated like heels again....except they are faces...........

Its the Tag team life partners

Why does he promo with his mouth piece in?

SD isn't winning this week. They decided to phone it in after Braun's shenanigans last night...

AND it doesn't help with the RAW anniversary promotions!

No Lita @ RAW 25?

fuck vince for getting rid of fashion files :|

Really dumb for the Fashion Files to still be a website exclusive and not be part of Smackdown.

UPDATE on Roman Roids being, well, a true statement:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The person naming Reigns' had his property raided beginning of 2017. Roman served a suspension in summer of 2016 for what was &quot;reported&quot; as Adderall. Since then, of Roman passes his <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> tests that's ultimately what matters but named by this steroid dealer doesn't read well.</p>&mdash; Justin LaBar (@JustinLaBar) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinLaBar/status/953455176790237184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Even though its probably just a pure coincidence, both Roode and Jinder repping the Smackdown colors for their gear tonight is a nice touch for the US title tourney Finals.

is this match in half time? fuck

Unless the story blows up in the mainstream, WWE will probably do their best to sweep it under the rug like the time Cena got busted for cheating on his wife and Orton or someone else in recent years getting secretly busted for a Wellness violation.

3/4 of this match = promos and commercials

You know what would be funny? If Danielson left WWE, which he is considering cause of them not allowing him to rassle and tried to go to NJPW or ROH and they wouldn't have him!

Of course I know at least ROH would love to take him back, but still. This would be gold.

Cena was cheating on his wife?

at least roode isn't getting buried...

calling wrestlers by their real names is so creature of the night guy :nono:

Didnt Mickie James proposition him and he said no?

It's basically the same name. If they did that to my name I would be called Dobrogow Jakub.

I gotta say it I want Roode to lose he wins the US title he'll be a face he SUCKS as a face

Yeah. He got busted cheating on his wife with a porn star and WWE supposedly paid a lot of hush money to prevent the porn star from leaking details about it.

hope this isn't the dolph road for jinder but glorious!

Fine I hope he makes this work

Damn, but the wifey must know if you do?

Here is the link for Mixed Match Challenge:

https://www.facebook.com/WWEMixedMat...1343012312448/

Finn and Sasha??

please no more fucking replays of RR and 1-2-3 Kid-Pac

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i am LIVING for shinsuke wearing jim the anvil neidhart's jacket. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEMMC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEMMC</a> <a href="https://t.co/Rpq5TJmzeW">pic.twitter.com/Rpq5TJmzeW</a></p>&mdash; james mckenna (@chillhartman) <a href="https://twitter.com/chillhartman/status/953463693811113984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Only 120k watching..seems low

Fingers crossed for Charlotte and Roode matching robes

It's something new and people can also watch the ep later whenever they want.

Think she knew for a while he was likely cheating on her almost from the start of their marriage which is why it lasted just 3 years. Wasn't till around the divorce talks started that the cheating with the porn star allegations became public.

Don't think the WWE paid her any hush money but she likely made a good amount off of Cena from the divorce which is why Cena pushed for a prenup with Nikki. In a bit of irony, supposedly Nikki has been bleeding Cena dry of money on top of Cena himself supposedly not cutting back on his own spending.

Watching on tv can't see anything aside from the match..hmm

Cena was cheating on Orton?

Finn and Sasha win!

Lol Take this L

Who were they facing?

That was a fun 25 minute show, I dug it.

Miz/Asuka vs Big E/Carmella next week.

Nakamura/Nattie

Hmm, so faces vs faces?

Aweska