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WWE Friday Night Smackdown August Thread - 8/28/20 feat. Contract Signing with a Monster, a Dog, & Creepy Guy
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That might be the first time WWE has put the FOX logo and start time on the main preview image for SD. Don't remember then ever doing that before for a SD show in the past nor for RAW either.
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In 1 week, WWE managed to turn a potential interesting idea of a Shorty G & King Corbin partnership and heel turn with Shorty G into a big pile of nothing.
Riddle vs. Sheamus was pretty good but suffered from WWE's recent fascination to have every main roster show contain at least one DQ or non-finish ending to a match. |
This current Miz Tv segment is on track to be the worst one ever and that's saying something since Miz TV has had a bunch of big duds before.
Like "quickly change the channel" tier bad in terms of quality. In the realm of "Bayley This Is Your Life" and "Old Day" for all-time bad. Heavy Machinery showing up at the end to wreck Miz & Morrison was the only real good thing about that whole segment. |
:lol: at Braun's big return is him showing up via a video promo on the big tron.
Literally nothing about him changed except now his voice sounds deeper. |
DQ/non-finish tracker for the night is now at 2 after what Sheamus just did during the Hardy vs. Corbin match.
For some reference, there has only been 3 matches on the show so far. Corbin getting the multi-feud and segment treatment recently for the blue brand has been dumb. |
:lol: at even Sheamus vs. Corbin had a screwy finish tonight. At least Riddle didn't cause a DQ ending.
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:| Steph inserting herself again in the Sasha & Bayley "Double Champion" storyline.
Think I'm going to go crazy from watching tonight's show despite it actually being pretty good in terms of ring action. Its not RAW level of weirdness or bad but the non-wrestling stuff has been very hit-or-miss tonight. |
Whelp its a lock someone from NXT is winning that Triple Brand Women's Battle Royale to be Bayley's challenger at SummerSlam.
Also shows how bad the SD women's division has become if it needs to have RAW and NXT talent involved to find a potential new challenger. |
Steph vs. Sasha makes perfect sense within the confines of that company.
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:lol: at Miz & Morrison vs. Heavy Machinery ending in DQ solely because Mandy and Sonya ended up randomly beating up each other.
Short hair Mandy sort of looks like Renee. |
This Retribution faction "taking over" Smackdown ended up being just a lamer version of Nexus debut and take over of RAW.
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Nexus was all known characters thanks to NXT. This is just stupid. The only possible way this pays off is if it was all a swerve by Vince and Khan all along, and that is a bunch of AEW guys under those masks. |
This week's episode was mostly decent.
Matt Riddle vs. Sheamus, Cesaro vs. Lince Dorado, and Jeff Hardy vs. King Corbin matches are the only real stuff I'd recommend from this show since they all were pretty good despite two of them ending in DQs. Everything else was either horrible or mostly skippable. |
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idk man
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Not that this angle is "good" anyway but WWE's production really makes everything seem incredibly shitty and cheap looking
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The guy who went right up the cameraman is probably Joaquin Wilde since his face looks familiar and same for the voice.
The frizzy hair woman might be Vanessa Bourne since I don't recall anyone else that had that type of hair in NXT. Chelsea Green is probably the other woman considering she had been rumored to be getting a call-up for a while now. |
I came in to say Mandy with shorter hair is still a fucking 11/10
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Yeah but wouldn't be surprised if he ended up being put in this new faction since WWE makes odd decisions a lot of the time.
Also wouldn't be surprised if some of the masked people are just placeholders for other people meant for the group as a way to throw off some guessing. Like if recent speculation about Dominik Dijakovic being a potential member is true, none of the people shown on SD were his height. |
Everyone looks 4 ft tall
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is the chainsaw blade made out of paper
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RETRIBUTION IS TEARING THE PLACE APART!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SmackDown?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SmackDown</a> <a href="https://t.co/d7UyDD4I6b">pic.twitter.com/d7UyDD4I6b</a></p>— WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1291916952450072576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Retribution is more Aces & Eights than Nexus. Bad gimmick. Don’t care.
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I dunno about worse. It's pretty bad though. So inauthentic. Feels like an AEW gimmick. That guy even sounds like Sammy Guevara.
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First was the rumor of him and Ali forming a new tag team, then him and/or Ali being the hacker, and now this potential heel turn resulting in him getting demolished a week later just so Corbin could have 2 feuds going on at once. |
Gable shouldn’t be a heel. Dude’s a great babyface. Just use him. It’s not hard.
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Dude is insanely shredded too. Great look despite his size.
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the thing about the end of SD that bugged me was no one, not even some low level roster guys came out to defend SD. Usually in similar angles someone comes out if only to get beat up. Oh also the guys on the opposite side of the crowd didnt do anything when they were beating up the woman
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Watching this now. Bray Wyatt is so good.
Kicking off with Riddle vs Sheamus, nice. |
Irish Curse backbreaker always looks brutal
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Good match, liked that Gable got involved to keep that story going (though it seems that this turn may not do much for Gable). Always good to see a Brogue Kick too. I like that they mention the winner's purse on commentary. I don't know if that's true, but it's a nice touch.
Seems like we're heading to a Corbin/Sheamus feud or at least match. That...could be good? |
Skipped most of the Miz TV segment. That was not good.
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Love the Lucha House Party theme
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This may be a dumb thing to be miffed about, but I don't like that they say guys "won the gold" when the belts are not gold.
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Lince/Cesaro was good. Admittedly not super familiar with the Lucha House Party but I've enjoyed them these last few weeks.
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This Braun promo is dumb.
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Man I wish they would stop cutting to the audience for reaction shots.
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Didn't think this Corbin/Sheamus match would happen this fast. So Gable turning was for what then?
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(I have not read the thread before running my own commentary.)
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V excited about this Big E singles run
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I guess the tri-brand battle royal makes sense the way Steph framed it (via Bayley making enemies).
It's still kinda dumb, though. If the brands are supposed to be separate, why is anyone floating? |
So Retribution is lame Nexus? (I did not see any Aces & Eights stuff so I can't compare.)
Feel like they tried too hard to "act tough" and came off sounding dumb as shit - like Ortiz in AEW at the beginning. When you try to look "hard," you usually end up looking like a doofus. |
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Guess the FOX logo is going to be in SD's main preview image for shows from now on. Wonder what was the reason for the sudden change. |
Guess WWE got bored of doing those cool show intro videos that ran down what was in store for the night's show.
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Damnit, I was about to say Big E vs Morrison was gonna be a good match.
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Either Retribution suddenly grew in numbers or WWE still isn't sure who to put in the group since a few of them seemed to look different.
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:lol: at the "foot clan from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" diss by Big E.
Way better for Retribution to be compared to them than the current online running gag of them being Aces & 5'8'' |
Jericho and Scott Steiner were way better and funnier when it came to ridiculing people entering the ring as guest ring announcers.
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Asuka pulling off a Mandy Rumble save spot via Bayley & Banks was cool.
Asuka also winning it and getting two title matches at SummerSlam is very interesting. Battle Royal itself was decent though. |
Mandy just busted out her best ever promo.
Also a hair vs. hair match between her and Sonya sounds interesting. Wonder if whoever loses that match stays bald for the rest of their WWE career like what happened with Big Show and Kurt Angle. |
abyss his 1st wwe sighting
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Holy Shit they just had Joseph Park on air lol
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Whatever potential there might have been in a Shorty G heel run, WWE decide to quickly wreck it in just 2 weeks.
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let him keep the park name surprised
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What's with Hardy being in back to back feuds that involve piss in some form.
First it was the piss jar throw segment with Sheamus and now him interrupting Styles' new P.I.S.S. ranking system. |
Don't think Jeff Hardy knows how stats work since just writing your name on a board doesn't automatically make you #2 in the standings.
:lol: at Lucha House Party stealing the SD tag titles. Must have gotten that idea from Sasha. |
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Seems odd to not just wait an extra week to do Hardy vs. Styles for the IC belt at SummerSlam instead of at next week's go-home show.
2nd time that type of situation has happened with Styles for the belt. |
First it was Orton's punt to Flair and now Braun's toss of Alexa that got the blacked out treatment this week.
Also think Strowman just snapped now so all that's left is a submission move and his transformation as a badass submission machine will be complete. This week's episode was mostly good overall. Asuka winning the Battle Royal and Mandy Rose's promo were the only really interesting stuff but the rest of the show was fine in general. |
lol watched the Retribution stuff. Santana Garrett definitely was one of the women this week but that doesn't really matter, like 20 people were running out.
Definitely going more and more towards Aces and Eights territory where you'll wind up with a handful of people getting unmasked that are the featured players with this overarching group of anonymous masked goons running in occasionally. |
Why isn't Big E with New Day anymore?
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Bald Strowman....
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Also, Abyss should play AJ's version of Heyman, as Slik said to me "a character that constantly is caught in lies" would be hilarious. Also Who are these kids with baggy black clothes? |
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They did the same thing with the IC tournament with not having the Finals be on Backlash and instead did it a couple days earlier on SD's go-home show as a ratings pop move. Assuming they don't do a quick rematch, that would be 3 straight PPVs where the IC belt didn't have a match on the card. |
Watching this now. Retribution angle still seems dumb as shit. Opening video did not help.
Really into this Big E singles run. I like when they have those little boxes in the corner during entrances for promos. |
Also Corey Graves is not very good.
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Fuckin hell the camera cuts during this Retribution run-in
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Tri-branded battle royal has been fun, as battle royals are.
Looks like we'll be seeing Peyton/Billie vs. Ruby/Liv. That'll be neat. |
Still kinda dumb/messy to have all three brands compete for the SD title.
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Final two are from RAW - for the right to compete for the SD Women's Title.
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Wait, Payback is one week after SummerSlam? I think the game is over.
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Asuka winning two belts in one night would be sick.
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Damn that was a good Mandy promo
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Chad Gable's theme is pretty sweet.
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lol so why did Gable kinda turn heel only to essentially get squashed by Sheamus twice?
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oh shit is that Abyss getting yelled at by AJ?
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haha P.I.S.S. - Heisenberg approved, I'm sure.
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Jeff/AJ for the IC title? Sign me up.
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:lol: Park's facial expressions while he was holding the board
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Had to do actual work [and watch animated Batman on my lunch break]. Big E vs. Morrison was good.
Sheamus just hitting every babyface with a Brogue Kick is a good little gimmick. |
I don't think I have ever liked a Braun promo.
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Textbook military press that we...didn't get to see? Weird.
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Braun laughing not helping
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In a sick and twisted way, I'll probably watch the first few minutes just to see how this experiment turns out.
All it needs is someone to hold up a good sign in front of their web cam and it's all over. |
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I'm sure the actual show won't be great, but the preview of the setup looked pretty cool, and I'm thinking at least 2 virtual crowd members are gonna get booted for doing something inappropriate. It will be pure comedy. |
so who will be master blaster
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WWE wasn't joking when they said the new ThunderDome was going to give a WrestleMania-like feel for entrances.
Still give it a month tops before it loses its luster like every other flashy production change or idea WWE has had to pop the ratings in recent years. |
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