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The Usos seem like they were in a segment where they were made to look like bitches? Why are they doing that with this particular family?
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2 Dicks out for Trips
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King of Suplexes/Oxy
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Man.
Mustafa Ali went from Cruiserweight Championship match to wrestling Ariya Daivari. Rough |
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CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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It's a good thing Kurt isn't a real GM, he would be fired.
Got killed in the tag team division, gave up The Bar and The Good Brothers for Breezeango and Ascension?? Ouch Got destroyed in the women division, Askua and Absolution for Absolution light Riot Squad and Nattie?? Brutal Utterly victimized in the Men's division. Gave up Miz, Samoa Joe, and Jeff Hardy for Corbin, Bobby Roode, Ziggler, and Jinder. At least Kurt got a few extra throw ins for RTruth and Big Cass. Only credit would be for the signings. McIntyre, AOP, Ember, and Lashley are good signings. He doesn't even get credit for K.O. and Zayn, cause they were signed by Steph to spite him. WWE clearly trying to make sure SD Live is strong too for their TV deals coming up. |
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#5 |
King of Suplexes/Oxy
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Buddy Murphy's weigh-in results:
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President of Freedonia
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Raw Male Singles Wrestlers
Baron Corbin Big Show (inactive) Bobby Lashley Bobby Roode Braun Strowman Chad Gable Curt Hawkins Dean Ambrose (injured) Elias Finn Balor Goldust Jason Jordan (injured) Jinder Mahal Kane Mike Kanellis Mojo Rawley No Way Jose Roman Reigns Seth Rollins Zack Ryder Raw Womens Division Alexa Bliss Alicia Fox (injured) Bayley Dana Brooke Ember Moon Liv Morgan Mickie James Natalya Nia Jax Ronda Rousey Ruby Riott Sarah Logan Sasha Banks Raw Tag Teams The Ascension The Authors of Pain Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel Breezango Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler Heath Slater and Rhyno Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt The Revival Titus Worldwide I mean there are still enough guys and gals to book a 3 hour show with, but SmackDown very clearly got the better end of the exchange here. That singles division is especially light, even if you were to include Owens and Zayn in that group. |
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On the other hand, WWE needed to move one of them since neither is going to get the big face star spotlight because of Reigns for Rollins and Rollins for Balor. |
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#8 |
King of Suplexes/Oxy
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Hope you all enjoy weekly Mojo Rawley vs Jinder Mahal ironman matches.
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Really liked this Japanese People vs Luchadore feud
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Celestia's Left Hand
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Boy oh boy I cannot wait for the unavoidable triple threat match between Mojo Riley Baron Corbin and Roman Reigns
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Hot match
Wonder if this feud is done, and where everyone goes from here Wonder if Hideo and Tozawa start feuding |
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I'm pretty consistently impressed over the past several weeks how the 205 Live main event almost always manages to get the crowd invested and super into it.
You can almost see the crowd go from "Man, isn't 205 Live shitty?" to realizing it's a whole new show by the end. |
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Glad Paige's involvement was reduced to one little more than one quick backstage segment
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Luchadors + Itami & my boy Tozawa killed it tonight!
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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They never once implied or insinuated that Asuka challenging Charlotte moved her to the Smackdown roster
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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You have to apply WWE logic. She challenged the the Smackdown champion for absolutely no reason even though she was a RAW talent. Therefore, she was either jumping ship or unifying the belts. Very similar to Jinder going to RAW, dropping the US strap to Hardy, then Brother Nero going to Smackdown to keep their midcard title on the correct show, just less telegraphed because it was way before they announced "OMG SUPERSTER SHEKUPP!!!" |
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Just realized that Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt are going to win the RAW Tag Team Titles.....
oh no |
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President of Freedonia
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To give some perspective on how much they love to shift around the rosters, and also because I'm a total list geek:
Raw - Alicia Fox, Big Show, Bo Dallas, Braun Strowman, Brock Lesnar, Curtis Axel, Dana Brooke, Finn Balor, Goldust, Nia Jax, Roman Reigns, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins, Titus O'Neil SmackDown - Aiden English, AJ Styles, Becky Lynch, Carmella, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Naomi, Randy Orton, Rowan That's everybody left who was selected during the 2016 Draft and has remained with their brand throughout the nearly two years of the split. |
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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![]() WWE Paige's milksteak brings all the boys to the yard (Camera work to be provided by Brad Maddox) |
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#21 |
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Yeah Smackdown definitely won this Superstar Shake Up. Didn't expect Joe or Asuka, thought it would be Balor and Banks. The Good Brothers on Smackdown Live should be great plus The Bar, Smackdown tag division is stacked. Still think Joe wins the IC and Mahal wins the US to swap them once again. Miz returning actually has me looking forward to a Daniel Bryan match for once. If it wasn't for Braun I don't think I'd have a reason to watch Raw.
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#22 |
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Better than a 10 year old.
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dirty irani
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Wonder why their not calling up Nikki Cross.
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dirty irani
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Also I can see the Good Brothers turning on AJ and siding with Nakamura.
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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#26 |
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I would either guess a) she's going to RAW, or b) it isn't so much of a knock on her as much as she is now one of the in-ring vets down there. It is kinda thin on the side of the ladies, especially when they blew massive (figurative) loads on bringing up Ember Moon, The Iconic Duo, the former heaters for Paige, and the three-girl Riott Squad. Really, you can kinda add Asuka to that mix. That's a lot of *trained* girls to call to the main roster in a relatively short amount of time.
But, one thing NXT has been fairly good with is the overlap of training folks, having a few that are ready but still able to go with the ones who are greener, and those who get the main roster nod. I would wager she's still there to help carry the fresh meat until you get another handful of girls who can do the same, then she'll get called up. And further speculation would lead me to guess that Bianca Belair would be appearing on the main roster around the same time. |
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dirty irani
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RIP SABU
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Bayley's main roster call-up was also delayed when she suffered (IIRC) an arm injury.
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Just as 205 has its own show, do you think female wrestlers having their own show could ever work?
Women that are pure valets would stay on RAW or SD, but the female wrestlers could get their own show. Perhaps on this female wrestling show, you can have certain males be the valets/bodyguards of the female wrestlers. This could be a decent way to get some guys some additional TV time. Ronda Rousey, Charlotte, Asuka, Paige, and Stephanie McMahon would be the biggest stars on said show. |
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dirty irani
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Just for the fact I feel there is enough shows already I'd say no even though it could probably work.
Also you know that it will be spun as some as being sexist etc that women are on a separate show. One way you can work round it is to have one of Smackdown or Raw dedicated to a women's division and the other to a tag division. |
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Got a point, Figgy. Didn't even think of that... but they still kinda did that.
However, I think an all women's show could have possibly worked, but the problem is they got too worried about setting up Total Divas/Total Bellas for the longest time and women's wrestlers actually having women's wrestling matches were super far on the back burner. That's why you had AJ Lee basically being queen of a nearly non-existent kingdom at the time she cut that promo that actually started the Women's Revolution that Steph likes to take credit for. They basically took potential angles and nixed the wrestling to focus on the whole Reality TV vibe. They effectively became TV stars who happen to wrestle sometimes instead of wrestlers who happen to be TV stars. |
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Hard truth is that the women of WWE as a whole, aren't good enough to carry a show on equal footing with the guys on Raw or Smackdown. If they were, I'd be all for their own show. As it is now, they would just get exposed.
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I got one small thing to point out I really like the segment with the Usos and Naomi before they went out to get murdered by the bludgeon brothers that was sweet
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Inno Knows.
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Gedo should lead Sanity.
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