Smackdown Live Thread - I'll show YOU who's fired! (Featuring A.J. Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura) - 3-27-18
 

I'm hoping for a good show tonight. Who's with me?

I'm excited to watch.

Also... Shane out with diverticulitis... eek.... what will they do with 2 weeks to go before Mania???

Oh damn, for real? That could throw a wrench. They're not gonna do Bryan v. Owens and Zayn in a handicap match, are they?

Dude who is the girl on the right in your sig omg.

I am really hoping for some closure on the D Bry KO/Sami situation.

Also Nak vs Shelton could be the goods.

NXT Superstar Peyton Royce.

Billie Kay, Emma, and Peyton Royce, left to right

All Australian

Thread title reminds me of



And yes, hoping for an amazing show. Maybe DB hasn't recovered yet and K.O. and Sami are just raining down chaos and destruction all night. Could be fun.

Is that tonight? Sounds like fire. Would be dope if Nak got Gable next week too.

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A show time.

Oh great. Bobby Roode.

Seems Charlotte got injured recently since she got pulled from both tonight's Smackdown and MMC matches.

Nevermind, she decided to have dental surgery this week according to the Observer.

They could really put a little more effort into the "facts" with the name plates.

Love this theme. Bobby needs to live up to it!

*PHEW*

I wonder if Randy will dump Sunil on his neck in this match.

Haha, nevermind

Maybe Jinder will be Braun's partner.

Helluva trade up. I can get into this now.

nder Maha

Wonder if the Singh Bros get extra hazard pay for having to deal with Orton the past several months.

HOPEFULLY RUSEV DOESN'T JOB!

Seriously. I feel bad for those guys, even though it looks hilarious every time.

my lil lungs, can't get enough air.

POOR LITTLE LUNGS.... HE'S DEAD :(

I've never been skiing, but isn't it mostly just maintaining balance down a hill? The lungs don't seem ALL that important.

Think WWE might have spoiled the results of the WWE title match at Mania with this local ad for Smackdown the week after Mania.

It was advertising champ AJ Styles vs Nakamura vs Owens vs Sami in a Fatal 4 Way for the title.

Then again also could be a "card subject to change" type situation.

And you've now spoiled it for us, Smeat. :mad:

Those ads really don't mean shit, though.

my skiing/snowboarding knowledge stops at 80's movies, wham's "last christmas", and the movie "out cold"

so, sure.

is the top 10 dead?

Feels like they made it JUST for this feud.

Fucking silly.

I know Randy could just RKO any one of these guys outanowhere BOOM like that.

Was it not enough to just make the feud about the United States title? Did they need the list gimmick?

That top rope "clothesline" was fucking bullshit Bobby.

Probably. Only thing the list was ever good for was making the joke of #10 being Tye.

This commercial split screen is weird.

Makes me feel like I'm casting a stream from my laptop, wheres the x...

gotta wait for the countdown before clicking the x, dude

This combination of guys really bores me.

Did I miss anything

We can go ahead and bring it home, boys. We're half an hour into the show. The TWO HOUR show, mind you.

It's been this tag match the entire time.

Started watching Smackdown late.... thought "great, I can fast forward through this tag match"...... but it is still going on

HAPPY RUSEV DAY!!111

FUCK YEAH

Add Rusev, make it a fatal four way

:y: Rusev Day was a great success this week.

RUSEV WINS!!!!

Hope Nak and SB get the same amount of time as this tag match.

They could have wrapped up the miscommunication between partners story fifteen minutes ago and given more time to Nakamura/Benjamin.

New Day v. Bludgeon Brothers sounds awesome too. Is there a Smackdown Tag Title plan for Mania yet?

Nothing official yet but still rumored to be a Triple Threat involving Usos, New Day, and Bludgeon Bros.

Shinsuke sounding surprisingly clear tonight. I can dig it. Probably because he didn't have the mouthguard.

:heart: Becky Lynch

Makes the most sense, but that would make what looks to be like two triple threats and a fatal four way. Seems like a lot.

Oh, Sasha and Bayley are in the battle royale? Thought they were gonna have a singles match maybe.

Riott Squad theme is sooooooooooooo fun.

Liv Morgan is soooooooooooooo hot.

And Becky.

Liv Morgan hot braud

Womens trophy looks like a thong.

That'll probably come to light next week.

I dunno, I could see WWE not wanting to have three womens singles matches on the card

Something so adorable how she walks to the ring with her hands behind her back, kinda skipping, looking all innocent. I want to ravage her. Can't believe she was with Enzo.

Too many matches on the card for Sasha vs Baley... this is good to stretch it out.

Legion season 2 next week

Sweet

With this Revolution and probably 7 hours of Mania, they can probably find room on the Kickoff at least.

Sometimes I forget how much I love Becky Lynch since they forget to let her do anything meaningful a lot.

Rooting for Becky Lynch to win the battle royale

Ruby's a good worker. I just wish her promos didn't sound so contrived. I could watch her matches all day, though.

For a group called the Riott Squad, they don't really do much in terms of rioting or destruction on Smackdown.

How did they pass up the opportunity to team Seth Rollins with Becky Lynch in that tag Match challenge I mean they dressed like they should be partners

I'm so down with that, you don't even need two words for me.

Keep forgetting that Becky was the first Smackdown women's champion

Good match

I think Becky Lynch is one of the best female talkers, but they never really let her show it on TV. She's done some great stuff on Talking Smack and WWE.com, but for some reason never does on TV.

D-Bry in the house

If the rumors are to be believed, its because Kevin Dunn has some irrational hate for her and her accent.

Same for why Creative likes to use her to get crowds invested but don't want to fully commit into making her the top star of the brand even before Charlotte arrived.

I think Nikki Bella will be winning the Battle Royal. Failing that, probably Sasha Banks. I don't think they will give Becky two firsts.

Regardless of what the match is going to be at Mania now that Shane is out, Bryan is a lock to get the biggest pop out of anyone at Mania.

Fuck Kevin Dunn completely.

Daniel Bryan is the only person in the WWE that gives me pause to appreciate them like really appreciate them and what they do to an audience

Daniel Bryan looking like he is about to cry/just got finished crying

Wait a minute is Daniel Bryan's role as an active competitor a conflict of interest to the fact that he's also the general manager

Shane is inSHANE if he makes it to WM!

Here we go.

Hasn't stopped other authority figures in the past.

lol at booing meetings and paper work.

Rusev seems likely for the US Title match now too. I'd be pulling for him to win if he were in there. They are going to be leaving barely anyone for the Battle Royal though. They've confirmed it's happening, yeah? It wouldn't surprise me if Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler were also added to the US Title match in order to make it even more a cluster.

I'm not a "fan" of the Battle Royal, per se, but I am a fan of tighter cards. Some of these lower-card matches could probably be scrapped and just included in the BR pretty easily. I mean, I am glad Cesaro is getting spotlighted in a selfish sense, but are the Raw Tag Titles really adding anything? Cesaro going after the trophy again -- with all former winners being entered -- tying his stuff with Sheamus and Braun into it would be a lot more efficient.

"Or whatever the hell that thing is!" :lol:

Shelton is underrated. His stuff in New Japan may not have been stellar, but he's hell good.

Daniel said a swear 0_0

What a promo man, I love that guy.

I thought he was going to say Owens and Zayn are about to get their f****** heads kicked in

I got that shit tomorrow. like 3 meetings and the paperwork to go with it. I'm pulling a DB. #inspired

#jobless

The way they were talking, I was hoping Shelton was about to challenge the Undertaker at Wrestlemania. To which Undertaker walks up behind them out of nowhere and says "yeah, alright, sounds good".

Too bad Braun is stuck on RAW since he has the same dilemma Bryan has for his tag match at Mania.

Seems idiotic to bring Shane back this quickly considering how serious diverticulitis and hernias can be.

What happened to Flair?

Seriously who are these pop-ups for their too fast for the hearing impaired the generic as s*** which makes them annoying