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The Raw creative team dropped the ball with Bayley & Sasha.

I hope Smackdown's team learned from their mistake and Becky and Charlotte are out for blood for a little while.

Crowd is not going to boo Becky. It's going to be so awkward and awful.

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THE BRASS KNUCKS!

Miz, Maryse, where's the baby?

WWE do backstage day care?

He could have drug that out more

Power of the punch

Brie better get out here and make this interesting.

New catchphrase

Daniel Bryan is a dweeb.

Uh oh.

There we go.

Legit have no interest in seeing Brie wrestle or a mix tag match between Miz & Bryan

Brie Mode... worst music ever

TOO BAD!

Mixed match ugh

Brie sux

No BIG DOG tonight. Owen the Brown will be happy

Someone should contact Constable GM Corbin so he can fix that grave injustice of a wrestling match.

Lol at the "Randy Orton shook my hand" sign

That's one sturdy announcer's table tonight.

I guess Bryan's not going anywhere. :(

Jeff Hardy's whole Feud with Randy Orton so far as consisted of Randy Orton beating the s*** out of him and I bet Randy absolutely loves it

That's new.

I love love love or never heal he just lives in it. You can really tell when he's going through the motions versus when he's putting effort in

Guess that's one way to prevent Orton from ever doing his special handshakes backstage.

Right in the trouser snake

And that's just conveniently stacked.

WWE snuck a 1 year option in his contract that they picked up

guess jeff will be in hell in a cell no time off for him

How far down the road do you all think it's going to be before Bray Wyatt is randomly targeting Jeff Hardy?

All Becky Lynch has to come out and do is say you hate Charlotte I hate Charlotte I decided to do something about it drop the mic go home

That's all she has to do but WWE will tell her how much she hates the fans

I was hoping he'd get out of it.

:lol: at the Club.

Renee's totally trying not to laugh.

Lol at ed shereen line

Hey somebody remember the good Brothers

Shake that ass, Peyton.

Just put on SmackDown and immediately saw The Bar do their catch phrase... how does any1 like them... the worst shit

Nice Bar shirts though

the fat girls

Look at that fat ass..... I'm referring to Naomi's posterior not Peyton

Why do they keep saying this is a special edition Smackdown?

I don't think The Offspring of people who lived in a penal colony can call any place a dumpster fire

As a concept in professional wrestling, I like the idea of Sheamus & Cesaro as a tag team. They are a good fit. But holy fuck if their promos aren't horrible, haha.

Did Graves just make fun of Peyton or Meltzer with that social media jab?

I fucking hate Gallows & Anderson though. So fucking awful. Anderson is solid in the ring. Both have this fake forced "charisma" thing they try and do, when they are two of the most bland and vanilla individuals ever. Their attempts at humor are like DX 2006 bad.

Pity win for Peyton Royce?

:eek: Peyton actually won a match for once

thanks to dave meltzer

Kofi was too good to shake his hand!?

They think they are Furnas & Lafon in the ring, with the personality of Hall & Nash, but they are really Hall & Nash in the ring with the personality of Furnas & Lafon.

:lol: Big E basically painting a Target on his side

Nothing says progression like pity.

Luke Harper is so good, but this run makes me sad about how much I used to care about him. I'm sure it will be a great match between them and The New Day, but...The Bludgeon Brothers? Come on.

Crowd already starting the Becky chants and her segment hasn't even started yet.

WWE would be a lot better off just binning whatever ideas they had for a potential Becky vs Charlotte feud since its not going to go anywhere near the way they want.

crossing my fingers they will keep her face.

Why on earth would this company think that anyone would want to boo Becky Lynch? "Hmm, people seem to love this girl. You know what? Let's give her a chance to look more aggressive and show more personality -- that will shatter their parasocial relationship with her."

No reaction for Becky unless they killed the crowd mics there.

:lol: WWE muted the crowd for Becky's intro.

This will be face/face if they are smart, but they are not, so they will force Becky as a heel and call it Bizarro World.

Crowd's with ya.

Becky's not wrong about anything she is saying right now

They are going to fuck with Becky's shit mercilessly and it's just going to get fans more and more aggressively behind her. But it will piss off Vince and Kevin Dunn instead of them just going with it.

Did whoever wrote this promo not watch SummerSlam?

Ugh

Becky more over than ever
When will this company learn that the fans hate their chosen ones

Becky was built up for ages, winning matches and earning her spot. Then Charlotte gets entered into the match because she is their golden child. I don't even hate Charlotte -- I think she's great -- but this is just further evidence that this company does not have its finger on the pulse or humanity of its performers, and if they are going to try and make Charlotte the likable one in this, they are going to do active damage to how people perceive her.

If their end goal is Charlotte vs. Ronda, then they need to make sure that they aren't going to Brock/Roman it, which is the direction they are currently facing because they're fucking stupid.

Aaaaaaand Becky attempts to run away

I love that the WWE version of a heel explanation is a perfectly justifiable explanation

I love how the crowd is cheering on Becky while she tries to cut a hellish promo.

:lol:

I was expecting the guys to come out.

LOL pull apart brawl for the women's division

They should have kept all the fan stuff out of it.

If Charlotte is not special come WrestleMania, then Ronda vs. Charlotte stops being special.

Is it just me or Becky kinda runs goofy?

that's another 1st for the wwe

So not only are Becky's actions Justified but she's also a "yeah I said what I said fight me "heel

How does any of this make her the bad guy it makes her that much cooler

Hope they're still going after commercials.

That was pretty bad overall for whatever WWE hoped to accomplish.

If there were plans to put the belt on Becky for a bit, that will probably change. They will actively try and make her look as dumb, foolish, incompetent and ineffective as possible to try and shake the fans out of liking her. They will not make her a babyface even though she is to their paying audience. She will start losing all her matches and the announcers will say "See! Becky's not that good! See!"

I hate this company so much.

Hey look there's Asuka another person who is screwed over by this company

Jesus WWE is so stubborn or ignorant.

Charlotte is not getting cheered over Becky.

It breaks my heart, because Charlotte could be a legitimate star and they're leaving so much money on the table by making her toxic.

That's the Silver Lining to this although with this company based on how they treat Roman Reigns it won't matter that no matter how much they make Charlotte out to be the better one she's never going to be more loved than Becky

This company has this amazing ability to not grasp the concept of underdogs

Not enough people say it, but Kevin Dunn has the be the biggest asshole in the company. I honestly can't remember anybody saying they like him personally.

This is small-scale in comparison, but this reminds me of the Goldberg heel turn. "You people stopped cheering for me!" *Crowd chants Goldberg*

We're all down on the product because it sucks, but I don't think it is stressed enough just how fucking weird and dumb it is. Like, if WWE goes out of business, shit like this is stupid enough to warrant talking heads from another company doing a documentary making fun of it. "They actually thought Becky Lynch would get booed against Charlotte."

Even Paul Bearer hated his guts which is shocking since Bearer had the rep of being one of the nicest people to hang around with back in the day.

They literally only have a few people that give a fuck about the product, and they are so hell-bent on taking the few people that those few people care about, and doing their absolute best, actively, to make them not care.

Let's keep coming to the small screen on Smackdown whenever the women are involved.

#EVOLUTION!
# praise2StephanieMcMahon

Kevin Dunn needs to go. Give him his $10 million severance package or whatever and put someone better in position.

They even put it in the script that the fans would be cheering...

Something tells me that when Triple H gets power he cannot wait to fire dunn

Dunn will go, but Hayes and Road Dogg will still be around.

:eek: Aiden didn't screw up for once.