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Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 08:18 PM

WWE Friday Night Smackdown July Thread - 7/31/20 feat. Mrs. Metalik's Baby Boy Quest for Blue Gold
 
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Friday Night SmackDown preview, July 3, 2020: Sheamus ready to raise a glass to Jeff Hardy

Sheamus is set to toast Jeff Hardy, AJ Styles will defend the Intercontinental Title against Drew Gulak, and Matt Riddle joins Michael Cole for an exclusive interview.

SmackDown Preview : Quick Hits
  • AJ Styles and Drew Gulak set for Intercontinental Championship clash
  • Sheamus ready to raise a glass to Jeff Hardy
  • Matt Riddle steps in the ring for exclusive interview with Michael Cole


Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 08:23 PM

Missed the opening stuff but this Matt Riddle vs. John Morrison match looks pretty good so far.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 08:33 PM

:lol: at Riddle needing a surprise roll up in order to beat Morrison.

Match itself was very good from what I saw but that ending was a bit anti-climatic.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 08:37 PM

Can cross Styles name off the list of people who probably tested positive for coronavirus since he showed up afterwards to beat up Riddle.

Meanwhile Bryan showing up via Zoom interview might mean he was the person who got pulled as a precaution from the Blue brand for tonight and last week's shows.

Also WWE shamelessly piped in crowd chants for this Gulak vs. Styles match since the actual crowd is barely reacting despite it sounding very lively on tv.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 08:54 PM

Bryan had a much better slow style and grapple match against Gulak a few weeks ago than Styles had tonight against him.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 09:08 PM

That Bayley and Sasha segment somehow managed to be both pretty good and terrible at the same time ... well mostly terrible to be honest.

Pretty good in terms of Bayley's mocking impersonation of Taker and terrible for everything else.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 09:18 PM

Show started off very well but its been dragging along ever since around mid-way into the Styles vs. Gulak match.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 09:49 PM

WWE really needs to go back to the drawing board with these pipped in chants for their empty arena shows. At least when they had actual crowds around, it was easier to fake it and not have it look as blatant and jarring as tonight.

Also Kofi vs. Shinsuke ended up being pretty disappointing in terms of quality.

Next week's show looks like it might be just as meh as tonight since its mostly repeats of what happened tonight but with little tweaks done.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 09:54 PM

Sheamus getting the live via big screen treatment for this Jeff Hardy toast segment is pretty interesting since his name was among those rumored to have tested positive.

Mr. Nerfect 07-03-2020 09:54 PM

I guarantee you SmackDown had the best actual wrestling match of the week on it.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 10:07 PM

Sheamus and Jeff Hardy segment at the end was pretty bad.

Show itself was decent at best but also pretty skippable. Only really interesting thing to happen was the Riddle vs. Morrison match.


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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5355732)
I guarantee you SmackDown had the best actual wrestling match of the week on it.

Maybe if all you watch is RAW and Smackdown.

NJPW alone had back-to-back days with much better Match of the Week contenders.

Mr. Nerfect 07-03-2020 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5355734)
Sheamus and Jeff Hardy segment at the end was pretty bad.

Show itself was decent at best but also pretty skippable. Only really interesting thing to happen was the Riddle vs. Morrison match.



Maybe if all you watch is RAW and Smackdown.

NJPW alone had back-to-back days with much better Match of the Week contenders.

I meant stuff readily on TV/cable. New Japan might be great, but exists off in the ether somewhere.

Emperor Smeat 07-03-2020 11:04 PM

That still would be very debatable considering this past week's AEW and NXT shows.

Based on what I saw, I'd say no for the Riddle vs. Morrison match.

Mr. Nerfect 07-04-2020 12:30 AM

Sounds like SmackDown had three really good matches.

XL 07-04-2020 04:46 PM

And yet it still feels so “meh”.

Mr. Nerfect 07-04-2020 08:19 PM

That’s modern wrestling.

Jordan 07-05-2020 08:20 AM

Morrison/Bro was 4 stars

Mr. Nerfect 07-05-2020 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5355936)
Morrison/Bro was 4 stars

Are you sure it wasn’t just alright because it didn’t happen somewhere else?

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 07:45 PM

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/wwe_16_...76f6c3680e.jpg

Seems WWE is using the same tactic of "replaying an old match to eat up time" for this week's show. On the bright side, Bray vs. Braun at MitB 2020 was only around 11 minutes long unlike some of the other lengthy past matches WWE has aired in recent months to eat up time.

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Originally Posted by WWE.com
Friday Night SmackDown preview, July 10, 2020: The New Day await title challenge from Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro

The New Day face a title challenge from Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro, Bayley & Sasha Banks set for non-title clash with Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross, and a special presentation of Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt's WWE Money in the Bank showdown.

SmackDown Preview : Quick Hits
  • The New Day await title challenge from Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro
  • Bayley & Sasha Banks ratchet up rivalry with Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
  • Jeff Hardy joins “Miz TV” after crashing Sheamus’ toast
  • Relive Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt’s showdown at WWE Money in the Bank

Meanwhile 205 Live seems somewhat interesting this week based on the card revealed.

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Originally Posted by PWI
Set for tonight's edition of 205 Live is:

*WWE NXT Cruiserweight Champion Santos Escobar vs. Oney Lorcan.

*Tehuti Miles vs. Mansoor.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thanks to the &quot;Eye-for-an-Eye&quot; Match a Swamp Match doesn't sound so stupid, does it? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReasonsToWatchSmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReasonsToWatchSmackDown</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1281620056376565762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:17 PM

Miz TV segment with Jeff Hardy was decent I guess.

Also seems Extreme Rules could be getting 3 cinematic matches depending on how WWE handles that newly announced Bar Fight match between Hardy and Sheamus.

Jordan 07-10-2020 08:19 PM

I think I'm going to skip it!

Mr. Nerfect 07-10-2020 08:20 PM

I can't wait for New Day vs. Nakamura & Cesaro to be "only decent I guess" versus a white noise clusterfuck on AEW that apparently "matters."

Cinematic matches are shit. The idea of Extreme Rules is shit. The photo above makes The New Day vs. Nakamura & Cesaro look like AEW-style parody. But the match itself will no doubt be excellent and underrated by people because it happened in the wrong promotion.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:29 PM

Do you have a sudden problem with my personal reactions to matches since that what these recent unprovoked digs by you have sounded like.

Since I'm watching NJPW's Lion's Break show right after SD, might as well as for your permission to post about matches there and not have fun watching if its a good show since it might upset you because its not in the "wrong promotion."

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:38 PM

That might have been one of the ugliest roll ups I've ever seen to end a match.

More so on Miz botching the ending sequence and less on Hardy just stumbling backwards into the spot.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:40 PM

:| Women's karaoke segment announced for later tonight.

Might be worth some laughs though.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:50 PM

Much rather have WWE's old way of going to commercial breaks mid-match than what they've been doing recently, especially with what happened for the Women's tag match.

This match has count outs but somehow Sasha and Bayley randomly taking a break to complain to the announcers at the commentary table, Nikki deciding to randomly dance with Bayley's belt on the outside, and Sasha and Bayley both getting baseball slided by Alexa didn't even register a 1 count by the ref. The match then went to commercial with Nikki still on the outside and the ref doing nothing. Like a good 30 seconds or so passed during that whole sequence with even the ref giving up on saying stuff mid-way.

Shit's just way too convoluted just to go to a simple commercial break.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 08:55 PM

Worst part was the women's tag match was actually pretty good up until that point but only came back somewhat decent from the break and ended in a sudden flat/weak finish.

Lost count on how many times they've done a similar finish for Sasha & Bayley matches these days.

Mr. Nerfect 07-10-2020 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5357462)
Do you have a sudden problem with my personal reactions to matches since that what these recent unprovoked digs by you have sounded like.

Since I'm watching NJPW's Lion's Break show right after SD, might as well as for your permission to post about matches there and not have fun watching if its a good show since it might upset you because its not in the "wrong promotion."

You have been a drone for a while. If something happens in AEW, no matter how sloppy or shit it is, you will overrate it. If something good happens in WWE, it's "meh."

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 09:22 PM

Was trying to figure what was it about this Bray vs. Braun match I soured on and then realized it was because it both happened during the low point of the MitB show and that ending being flat as hell because it just didn't work without a crowd around to feed off of that drama heavy sequence.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5357470)
You have been a drone for a while. If something happens in AEW, no matter how sloppy or shit it is, you will overrate it. If something good happens in WWE, it's "meh."

You do realize I watch other stuff as well.

This whole WWE "bias" issue is also the results of the attrition of watching countless years of WWE's downward spiral in quality and sticking to the same stale format for booking and shows throughout the years.

If anything, expanding my viewing habits over the years to include other promotions like NJPW and Lucha Underground just made me realize how much better WWE could be if they actually bothered to give a shit to improve for the long haul and not just use NXT as Triple H's personal toy to squash any competition like ROH and AEW.

Evil Vito 07-10-2020 09:37 PM

Noid’s turned into the very poster he spent years despising. Going after one of the best, most consistent posters here. What a fuckhead.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 09:51 PM

I will admit that sometimes I do feel like I might be too harsh on WWE programming but since barely anyone posts in SD threads these days during shows, its pretty much just myself watching shows most of the time. Lot easier to get quickly bored and not find that much real enjoyment without others around to have some fun watching and read up on how they are feeling during shows.

Plus at this point, think I'm just running on fumes with WWE's style of wrestling and format for shows after countless years of it not really getting any better.

Emperor Smeat 07-10-2020 09:58 PM

:| back-to-back matches ending in a no contest on SD.

This shit is why I've been having a hard time enjoying SD these days.

Tag title match was good up until that point but WWE's booking decisions for matches just keeps dragging things down. They've gotten way too happy with DQs and no contests for matches in recent times.

slik 07-10-2020 09:58 PM

Don't change anything Smeat, you are a great poster the way you are!

Triple A 07-10-2020 09:59 PM

Noid calling some1 a "drone" when he has the same embarrassing persona as every other one of the psychotically anti-AEW internet wrestling fan guys who "love Jim Cornette" and "hate Dave Meltzer" or whatever

slik 07-10-2020 11:07 PM

Judging from twitter this was not the best ep of SD to say the least....

Triple A 07-10-2020 11:11 PM

Seems like total dog shit based on the results...

Mr. Nerfect 07-11-2020 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5357480)
Noid’s turned into the very poster he spent years despising. Going after one of the best, most consistent posters here. What a fuckhead.

Cry me a river. Smeat’s dedication is wonderful, but his opinion is a carbon copy of Meltzer’s and he’ll rate something average outside WWE as great and something good in WWE as average.

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5357490)
I will admit that sometimes I do feel like I might be too harsh on WWE programming but since barely anyone posts in SD threads these days during shows, its pretty much just myself watching shows most of the time. Lot easier to get quickly bored and not find that much real enjoyment without others around to have some fun watching and read up on how they are feeling during shows.

Plus at this point, think I'm just running on fumes with WWE's style of wrestling and format for shows after countless years of it not really getting any better.

Hey, I don’t blame you for WWE fatigue. I stopped watching with any regularity a long while ago now. That doesn’t make the shit outside of WWE good though. The whole industry is a fucking mess right now.

That’s why I’m so pissed off at AEW. Could have been something revolutionary. Nope. More bullshit. And it gets a pass consistently just because it’s not WWE. I’ve seen too much shitty wrestling to get on board with that.

But I know how hard it can be to give something up. I love wrestling and it’s hard to stop following it, at least a little. Now my joy comes from the schadenfreude of watching people forcing themselves to enjoy it writhing around making excuses when it turns out this shit isn’t going to work.

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Originally Posted by Triple A (Post 5357497)
Noid calling some1 a "drone" when he has the same embarrassing persona as every other one of the psychotically anti-AEW internet wrestling fan guys who "love Jim Cornette" and "hate Dave Meltzer" or whatever

I don’t hate Dave Meltzer. He seems like a nice guy and his reporting over the years has obviously been very good. But it’s very clear he’s biased, taking cues from the AEW guys, and has a vested interest in the millionaire who read his newsletter looking like a genius when all the evidence points to the contrary.

675k viewers to 992k in that main event this week. This shit is off-putting, bad and not what wrestling fans want to see. But hey, ignore that I explain and defend my position on this and don’t just shrug like Meltzer or Alvarez when the slightly better product turns things around on actual merit instead of a desperate audience trying to will Anything Else Wrestling along.

Vince McMahon just announced an Eye for an Eye Match. This is the pressure the “competition” is putting on him. Enjoy your modern wrestling landscape.

Fignuts 07-11-2020 03:37 AM

There is no wrestling company that I really love right now. Most of my time spent watching wrestling, is spent watching older stuff, and OSW review. Actually I probably play Fire Pro more than I watch wrestling at this point.

That said, I still watch out of habit mostly, and I can say with certainty that I enjoy WWE's product the least. Because personally, the one thing I can't stand is when wrestling is boring. And the current WWE product is the most bland, homogenized wrestling that there's ever been. They occasionally get something right and put on some intriguing content but it's few and farbetween, and they usually fuck it up eventually.

Even NXT which I used to really enjoy feels like it's lost that spark that made it feel special. Ever since the fox deal, it's felt more like the generic main roster style of programming.

Plenty of things I don't like about other current wrestling promotions, but I wouldn't call any of them boring.

Fignuts 07-11-2020 03:42 AM

Also, what AEW could have been doesn't even remotely compare to what WWE could be. For the past few years, they've had what I would call possibly one of the best rosters ever. A great mix of big men, high flyers, mat technicians, great up and comers, experienced veterans, a wealth of talented tag teams, and even handful of women that can really go in the ring.

And they've consistently flushed it down the toilet for investor happiness.


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