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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
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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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