Smackdown Live (TAPE DELAY) Thread 5/15/18
 

Some stuff happens.

AJ vs Nakamura Part 57: The Dickening.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I've had enough of Styles/Nakamura. Time to put a bow on it.

I specifically looked at the spoilers to find out if it actually had an actual finish tonight.

DB will single-handedly stop Brexit from happening before he returns from across da pond

YES! YES! YES!

So did I.

We need PPV #4 to get this over with. :roll:

What are you talking about Nakamura can't get enough of AJ's nuts and neither can I...wait.

lol at Daniel Bryan beating the shit out of Big Cass.

Is there a rhesus monkey controlling the camera?

yall buy your DP2 tix yet

Guys you heard it Daniel Bryan finally snapped and he was a badass submission machine

the prophecy has been fulfilled

If I were nakamura I would choose a title changes hands no matter the outcome of the match

Big Cass got sonned, hard

Aw man miz gave up his position as the 6th Hokage

One day Cesaro & Sheamus are going to do that pose 1 too many times and just fuse together Dragonball style.

Tuning in :)

At some point this week hopefully

I'm assuming Deadpool 2?

Eh, I'm on vacation from the job this week. I'll hit the first show Friday.

correct

A lot of wrestlers using mouthguards these days

Why is Miz so enthusiastic about Xavier Woods

Hope big E wins MITB

Maybe they're friends on PS4 and play a lot of Fortnite?

Just throwing that out there.

Go Lightning!



Go Celtics

Double Penetration 2

You offerin?

Hey good job prop Department those sledgehammers actually look real

This post absolution garbage is worse than absolution.

A POLE ON A POLE MATCH

Better than fake walls made of paper mache

need a tag team to step up and be the Aa team.

Can't tell if the crowd ain't into Almas or if they're fucking with the crowd mics.

Nice of SDL to give a plug to raw superstar Chad Gable.

Need Ron Simmons to come out of retirement and Ron Bass to come back as a zombie so we can have the Aa Rons.

who's da girl.
hmmm...

I don't wanna see Almas on jobber duty either, Zelina.

Really somebody needs to learn how to hold a camera.

Rusev Day officially a stable?

Hey yo

bah...wasted opportunity. should have came out as Meghan Markle's psycho sister, wheelchair and all.

That bright ass red jacket and carpet is melting my eyes.

Buying a OLED HDR TV was a mistake.

Princess
Queen
Empress
Goddess

What is the next big women's rassler gonna call themselves.......

Although... Mella's British accent is a spot on Llily Allen.

PAIGE HOME

Damn...'Mella was spittin' hot 🔥 before being so rudely interrupted...

Let's have Asuka tap out to give up her streak at Wrestlemania to Charlotte who will drop the title to Carmella and lose the rematch clean, and then let's have Asuka lose a tag match, and then let's give Asuka a title match.

This is what happens when you book hour to hour.

The woman who lost her streak and a chance to be SD Women's Champion at WM and has done fuck all since gets a 1-on-1 championship match at MitB.

MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

I wonder if the Saudi Arabian princes are watching

Dammit, stop making so much sense @DarkOne.

damn..he learned English pretty quick

Pharaohess?

You laugh now, but wait until you see what happens at Money in the Bank...

This has been a decent show.

Sonya's new theme has potential......

lame

BECKY LUNCH

:heart: Becky

This has actually been pretty competitive

Happy at Becky making it to PPV in the Co-Branded Era

Decent match, Sonya and Mandy both improving quickly

I'm just glad Asuka is back on track

Ghost of James Ellsworth is going to knock Becky off the ladder at MitB

F*** that he needs to do the whole show as Brother Love

Missed almost the whole show, what's left on the show just this week's edition of Ow! My Balls feat. AJ Styles?

Yeah.....

I think Sonya needs to lose her shadow-boxing taunt when she gets in the ring..... she just looks goofy doing it...... in my opinion

Billie Kay vs Lana might be the most random MitB qualifier ever.

If Samoa Joe loses the MitB qualifying match to Big Cass, I'll abandon all hope.

What happened to Naomi...... she won the battle royale and then disappeared? What has Lana done to earn the chance to qualify......

Samoa Joe has CENA NUFF of Big Cass

I will hunt down and kill Enzo in retaliation

Well she's a breathing walking talking human female so they need bodies that's how she qualified

Naomi is probably going off to fulfill her Destiny and defeat Sho Nuff the Shogun of Harlem

Shin has the best theme in the biz

Loving heel Nakamura..... like 50x more interesting/entertaining than face Nakamura

The iconics faces look like something out of the No Mercy engine

Y'all ready for this WRESTLEMANIA CALIBER match?

When the WWE goes back to Japan this theme song won't do any good

In AJ Styles little stats bracket they need to put refuses to wear a cup.

Oh no my friend I meant the No mercy era no mercy engine

Those actually look good in comparison

............... @ Camp WWE storyline with the kids sticking their wieners in the pool jets

Camp WWE looks stupid

but Vince finally found out girls fart...so there's that.

Crap I forgot that the day that we having its own network means they can renew all the s*** TV shows they want

Just the fact that it's 71 year-old-man and skulking around outside the girls cabin

It is mostly pretty dumb.

But there's something incredibly satisfying about hearing Vince play himself and drop f-bombs and say things that I 100% believe Vince would say in every day life.

He did allow Steph to grow up in da biz :wtf:

This is already a better match than Mania anybody think their escalating their fights on purpose

You just know those dick and fart jokes are all Vince he's probably laughing his wrinkled old ass off when they finally had to repeat them

stipulation is great balls of fire 2.0

Can't wait for the first ever Irondick Match.

Every time you hit a lowblow on your opponent, you score a point.

Most points after 60 minutes wins.

Lost interest in the show after watching the second episode of this season. The first episode was ok but the second was really terrible even by WWE cartoon standards.

That'd even make black widow's balls hurt

I love that flying kick then Nakamura does if too many people start getting in knee finisher that should be his finisher

"ASK HIM REF ASK HIM" :)

Love Nakamura so much!

I say this without having seen anything outside of WrestleMania, haha, but it wouldn't surprise me. What happened at Mania was exactly what it was meant to be. They worked so goddamn smoothly with each other. As someone who appreciates a good story, there was something to bite onto. Nakamura was brilliant throughout the course of the match (I made sure to watch him because I had heard people being critical of him). The finish was abrupt, but I like that, because not everything needs to be an epic, and that kind of advances the story.

Styles and Bryan incorporated the finish of Styles/Nakamura I (in WWE) into their SmackDown match, which had to be on purpose. I'm getting over all the ball-hitting I'm hearing about (thought it was great at Mania and on SmackDown after that, but I think that should have been it -- doesn't need to be the dude's gimmick), but from what I saw, these dudes clearly know what they are doing 100%.

I'm not super-enthused, because the product has me down, but it wouldn't surprise me if Money in the Bank is a great match. But it also wouldn't surprise me if it is actually, legitimately, a "Balls of Iron" Match, where the winner is the one to hit the opponent in the balls the most over a 30-minute period or something.

CKB time!

:lol: at the fake low blow spot.

Kind of Nakamura to spare Styles' balls from punishment this week.

Great heel move by Nakamura to steal a win. Decisive finish, but not clean enough to "end" the feud.

Really wish they would have done this in the last two matches rather than doing the double loss/no winner finishes. If you don't want to give Shinsuke the win, have him get caught cheating and worm his way into a rematch or something--or, you know, don't book a match you can't book an end to.

Really enjoyed that match, but unsure why they would give it away for free

I hate the phony non-finish spots. Just don't book them against each other for a little while. AJ Styles could have wrestled someone else in Saudi Arabia and Backlash if you are desperate to get this thing to Money in the Bank. Nakamura could have lost and just been a generally nasty piece of shit and gotten Styles to want the match, so he can die by his own sword sort of thing. You don't need to have them drawing and getting non-title wins over each other all the time.

I think a big "problem" with Nakamura (if you can call it that), is that there would be a large segment of the audience that does not know how good he really is. Hell, there is a large proportion of the internet audience that doesn't understand it. Given that I don't think Nakamura has wrestled on Raw, and there are more people that watch Raw than SmackDown or have the Network, then it stands to reason that there are "WWE fans" that have never seen Nakamura wrestle.

Over the course of last year, they did have Nakamura beat Cena and Orton on television and what have you, but I think the reasoning behind this match is to hook those people who just aren't seeing Styles vs. Nakamura on the Network to try and get them to get it. I don't know why this would budge that statistic, but I think that's the reasoning.

It's not like they actually sell their shows as PPVs anymore. You just need the Network and most of the time you can get that for free or close to it, so what are they really losing out on?