The Ultimate WWE Thread

[Ian]

Who is this cunt in shorts?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Who is this cunt in shorts?

It's Pat McAfee lol.

The former Colts punter.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

0/1. :drool:

That was not an especially good match or finish.

All of us are bar Bru.

[Pleb]

This panel though :moop:

Oh shit the Womens Battle Royal :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, it appears that Ember is back from injury.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They couldn't get a better trophy?

[Mike]

Is that pirate lady in this, I’ll have her as my pick

[Gray Fox]

Naiomi :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that pirate lady in this, I’ll have her as my pick

Kairi Sane? I believe she is.

Edit: Yep, just seen her.

[Pleb]

The glow gimmick died a few years ago lads.

[Pleb]

Asuka is my pick :wub:

[Mike]

That elbow!

[bruhnaldo]

one bad thing about a woman's battle royale is that the rope is generally so high for the girls they have to make a concerted effort to jump up to go over the top of it lol

[Gray Fox]

It can really only be Asuka from here tbf.

[Ian]

That elbow!

It is the best thing.

[Gray Fox]

That looked really awkward.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Kairi's elbow is genuinely one of the best in the business. The wind up she does mid-air is brilliant.

[Mike]

It’s also the reason I know who she is!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, I've seen so many rumours about Lacey Evans getting a HUGE push but she's not even in this ffs and still has done nothing bar a few cat walks.

[Pleb]

Asuka is my pick :wub:
Camilla :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Same shit they pulled last year and Asuka buried yet again.

[Browning]

She won anyway.... but what a stupid way to waste the element of surprise.

They really should ring the bell in that situation too, it feels fucking awkward otherwise.

[Mike]

Can’t teach that.

[Gray Fox]

I'd rather Lana won than have to put up with looking at or hearing from Carmella ever again.

[Gray Fox]

I'm calling Phenomenal Forearm reversed into RKO as the finish now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, I'm thinking the way they shat on Corbin there that Cena will replace him instead.

[Ian]

I dunno what's weirder, that they're not coming out at the top of the ramp or that they're so desperately trying to hide it.

[Pleb]

Of course Vince is going to finally give Curt Hawkins a win at MANIA

[Gray Fox]

After what Dash did last night I wouldn't be surprised to see him given the win.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I forgot that Hawkins was from New York.

If the streak isn't ended here (fuck me) then it will never end. What a shambles.

[Ian]

Do people still always lose in their hometown? I can't remember the last hometown match.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ryder's gear being closer in style to The Revival's than Hawkins' is really fucking me off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do people still always lose in their hometown? I can't remember the last hometown match.

Carmella is billed from New York and Nese is from New York...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking love a Brainbuster to the floor.

[Pleb]

:jayjay:

[Ian]

Sigh. That was crushingly inevitable.

Hawkins just getting the tag titles for a laugh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That ending was so fucking inevitable.

Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh.

[Browning]

Nailed on they lose tomorrow night and start a new streak.

[Gray Fox]

0/3 babyyyyy

[Mike]

Bed time for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

All the HOMETOWN HEROES have won.

[Pleb]

Whose the dude with the Beckham jr. Cleveland jersey? :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Only ones from NY/NJ in this are the two dickhead SNL guys...

[Ian]

Nailed on they lose tomorrow night and start a new streak.

And begin "1 day title reigns" as Zack Ryder's gimmick. Next year he beats Braun Strowman for the Universal title with a backslide and the following night on Raw Bork literally eats him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Braun is looking lean.

[Ian]

Yeah he's definitely toned up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a cracking elimination from Andrade.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That didn't look like a nice bump from Mustafa Ali.

[Ian]

If hardy was gonna paint himself up as Sting he should have gone the whole hog and worn a Victory Road tee.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ugh, ugh, ugh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mustafa still by the commentary table :\

[Gray Fox]

His face hit that table hard.

[igor_balis]

As with all ppvs I watch I'm now remembering how shit wwe is.

[Gray Fox]

Where's my moment of Bliss god dammit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That pyro after the choppers was so shit.

[Browning]

Amazing :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hulk come to root out all the ethnics.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Brock wants his cash and wants to just fuck off then.

[Gray Fox]

This deals with the co-main event argument.

[Browning]

3 suplexes, F5, done, thanks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That intro to Rollins' theme was great.

[Gray Fox]

Intro was great, not sure we're actually getting more than a beatdown.

[Browning]

If Brock loses from here it’s complete BS.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Get fucked Bork.

[Gray Fox]

Contract fulfilled.

[Pleb]

:|

[Browning]

Fuck me that was shite.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck me that was shite.

At least it was quick.

[SvN]

I think it was great. It didn't need to be a 20 minute slugfest. And it got the result we all wanted in a believable way

Plus he swung the belt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That look that Brock gave to the fan who touched him, lol.

[Gray Fox]

I think I'm 0/4

[Browning]

King has made this commentary so awkward.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

King has made this commentary so awkward.

At least he's not screaming about puppies.

[Browning]

That’s almost preferable to him tripping over the other 2 and not getting his words out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

His jokes about Randy are so bad.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"Oh please turn the lights off" :D

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/DopoT5X.jpg

Fuck me you can't see shit.

[Browning]

What are they chanting?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

All that money and they can't even see the actual match and are having to watch the screen.

Edit: Yes chants must be because the lights have gone.

[Gray Fox]

0/5

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

0/5

6, there were 4 on the pre-show.

[Gray Fox]

Excellent news. My condolences for all of my picks going forward.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't like that the champions are coming out first tonight.

Also, fuck this whole Lacey Evans thing now. It's gone on far too long and I don't understand what the goal is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ricochet and Aleister :drool:

I need them to win so bad.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Best match so far.

Ricochet and Black to win the RAW titles tomorrow I reckon.

[Gray Fox]

0/7 :nodd:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Torrie :wub:

[Gray Fox]

I've had to go with the Best in the World here. 0/8 incoming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The best striker in the game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking lol at that ending.

[Gray Fox]

Best in the World.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That match was dog dirt but the finish was spot on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Way too early to be done with both of the big male titles.

[Gray Fox]

Got to make room for important young and upcoming superstars entrances, like Triple H.

[Gray Fox]

I could however see this ending with a New Day heel turn/break up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I could however see this ending with a New Day heel turn/break up.

I think it's nailed on after that Big E present.

Kofi to win and then bam.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Although the present could ofc be the old title/a new one.

[Pleb]

:jayjay:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just a shame that WWE shop ruined it by posting this:

https://shop.wwe.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-main/default/dw52f3bed2/images/large/242B7B80AC.jpg

Right before the match.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Xavier Woods crying his eyes out is even better than a heel turn.

[Gray Fox]

I don't care if he loses it on Tuesday. That was great.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rey dressed as Mysterio from Marvel is awesome.

[Gray Fox]

Shame the ankle meant he couldn't put a match on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Indeed.

[Browning]

Kevin Nash wanting to finger a bloke’s arse was the sign I had to go to bed. That was so unsettling.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was actually Fake Diesel.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dr Thuganomics back :lol:

Fuck me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell, that was both incredibly sad but brilliant.

[Queenslander]

Don Cena looks like he has cut weight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Big Dave even botching the ring entrance, hero.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pete Dunne was loving that wrench spot.

[Gray Fox]

Feels like HBK is gonna get involved in some way.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Batista looks worse than me after a walk up a couple of flights of stairs.

He's been gassed to fuck since his ring walk.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wooooooooooooooo.

[Gray Fox]

It's been nearly 5 hours. Why would we want Carmella and R-Truth at this point? :moop:

[Gray Fox]

Bold prediction before the womens match starts, 2 of them have a submission applied to the other one at the same time and there's a tap out. Probably Charlotte and Becky on Ronda.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do we really need this long ass entrance?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Becky must be cold.

[Gray Fox]

Becky :wub:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Botched finish, ugh.

[Gray Fox]

That was a very good match and a very good idea. Shame the ref didn't see it as he could have extended the count one and it'll have been fine.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ref Hawkins would have seen it.

Felt like they overran though as they quickly ended after it.

[Shindig]

I only caught the arse end of the pre-show. Hawkins winning was fine but I bloody hate small package finishes. They don't convince me when the build is, "He's proper out of it and the guy he's fighting is fresh." Ali's face smashing the announcers table was good.

[Dan]

Didn’t bother watching but seeing that The Iiconics won makes me happy. Was the overall show worth fast forwarding through?

[Gray Fox]

I enjoyed it, but it was definitely too long. 5 hours 20 mins or so just for the main show. A lot of that was in-between matches or taken up with entrances though.

For example the Rollins v Lesnar, Joe v Rey and Balor v Lashley, the entrances were longer than the matches themselves. There was a fair bit of other shit inbetween matches.

Decent card though. No match was particularly shit, save for Joe v Rey but we know why.

My 2 biggest complaints were that 1, I feel they made The Miz look quite thick at the end of his match and 2, the womens match seemed to end quite suddenly. It was quite a fast paced match but it felt like it needed another 5 mins to build to it.

[SvN]

I was drifting in and out of sleep for most of it, but managed to catch all of the main matches. I loved Rollins battering Lesnar. Kofi winning was the moment of the year, and possibly even tops Bryan at 30.

I thought the women's match was a bit of a botchfest. I was expecting to it to be the best women's match of all time, and it just felt "quite good" to me. At least the right person won.

[Browning]

Agreed on the women’s match, it was nowhere near as good as I had expected though it was alright. Too many botches and I didn’t care for the finish.

Kofi vs Bryan was incredible, the rest was average at best, and I still can’t suffer through “the demon” so I skipped that.

Cena was another highlight.

[Browning]

Wait... people are acting like the Ronda thing was a botch? I felt her angry reaction and Corey pointing it out made it look like it was planned. Many other botches sure, but I didn’t think the finish was, I felt they were keeping her strong.

[bruhnaldo]

I really enjoyed the show. Damn near all of my favorites won including THE IICONICS :wub:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wait... people are acting like the Ronda thing was a botch? I felt her angry reaction and Corey pointing it out made it look like it was planned. Many other botches sure, but I didn’t think the finish was, I felt they were keeping her strong.

It was definitely a 'botched' finish like the Roman/Lesnar cage one. It just felt weird though that they cut so quickly after it.

I was pretty entertained throughout, none of the matches were really that great bar Kofi/Bryan and parts of the Smackdown tag match but I enjoyed it.

I'll also see who the winner in the pick em is later unless someone else wants to do it for me.

[phonics]

That Andre The Giant statue is so cheap it's incredible. What a piece of shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

In joint last place we have:

Bruhnaldo, Gray Fox and Mike on a grand total of 5 points.

In third place we have:

Master of the Pleb Roll, Pleb on 6 points

In second place we have:

Ian the bastard on 7 points

The winner and BEST IN THE WORLD at pick em:

Mahow on 9 points.

Only Gray Fox picked the BEST IN THE WORLD to win as we're all idiots and Bruh was the only one to pick Tony 'I count my abs' Nese. No one got Carmella to win the Battle Royal or Jezza to beat Angle in his last match.

[Browning]

So everyone though Kurt Angle who could barely move wasn’t going to put someone over? As much as it sucked that was incredibly obvious I thought.

I think the only proper shock outcome was the Iconics, but I’m glad they won. I originally thought Sasha and Bayley would retain but when the match started I was convinced Nattie was getting it with the Hart Attack.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Alright Captain Hindsight.

[bruhnaldo]

My extraordinary pessimistic view of creative finally doomed me but in the best way :drool:

IICONICS
KOFI
BECKY
SETH

beautiful.

[SvN]

The IIconics winning was brilliant. You could see how much it meant to them. I feel like they deserve it too, as they feel like the only "proper" women's tag team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I also loved the way that they won, it fits them perfectly.

I didn't even see Billie Kay make the tag live. It was very smartly done.

[Pleb]

So how long before Kofi loses the title?

[Waffdon]

Can’t beluve Don Cena wasn’t fighting Kurt Angle in his Thug Life gimmick since it was his debut match.

[Pleb]

That's Doctor of Thuganomics Waff, Don Cenah is dead.

[Mike]

Just finished watching. Kofi vs Bryan was amazing. The rest was alright.

[Pleb]

As WWE can't decide if there going to do a Saudi show or not on the Network, Money In The Bank is next and you would of thought considering putting the New Day lot up for consideration or god forbid Drew McIntyre for both men's ladder matches.

Who else we got for the men's then? Corbin?

[Pleb]

https://wrestletalk.com/news/finish-to-the-wrestlemania-main-event-reportedly-a-botch/ :sherlock:

Batista has also come out on twitter confirming his Sports Entertainment retirement.

[Lewis]

Don Cena. :cool:

[Ian]

While they got a surprising amount of the results right that was a very, very bad show.

Bork losing (not a good match though it amused me that he lost to 5 moves), Usos retaining (not a good match), IIconics winning (not a good match but a good finish), Becky winning (weak match, crap finish) and the WWE title match as the only good match top to bottom.

[Ian]

Oh, and hearing Cena's old music was good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I did like that Michael's Cole voice jumped off a cliff by the end of it.

I imagine he's barely going to be able to speak on RAW which could enhance the inevitable shitshow.

[Disco]

Cena was the best bit about that show.

[Gray Fox]

Kofi v Rollins in a Title v Title match on RAW.

I know I said I wouldn't care if it was only for 1 day or not but come on...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If they didn't have a Shakeup arranged for next week I think then I'd believe that they're doing away with the dual brands.

Hopefully/I assume that it will end in a double count out or a DQ or something.

[Gray Fox]

My assumption was going to be Lars comes out and causes the DQ but I guess that isn't happening now.

[Browning]

Advertising Kofi’s celebration for Smackdown :lol:

No contest main event.

[Gray Fox]

Or. OR Kofi is winning clean. That makes sense, right? Right?!

[Browning]

Wow, that show died on it's arse, didn't it?

I went to bed right before the Ricochet tag match because nothing they had advertised for later, other than the main event, appealed to me so it wasn't going to be worth staying up until 4:30. I had enjoyed the show to that point though. Just skipped through the rest of it now and everything including the main event was shite.

[Gray Fox]

The crowd royally shit on the main event and rightfully so.

They could have had someone come out in some way relevant to either title(Bryan and Rowan would have made most sense), or they could have debuted someone from NXT out to make a name for themselves.

What we got was disappointment. Followed by AEW, bullshit, CM Punk and we want refunds chants.

[igor_balis]

Watching MLW on freesports. It's pretty great! Jimmy havoc licked blood off world champion filthy tom Lawler's face (also of f4w podcast fame) during the title match, Dan severn is in the 40 man battle royal and Cornette is on colour commentary.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lawlor has taken up wrestling?

He'd make a great heel tbh.

[Browning]

Is "Smackdown after Mania" not a thing? Because that show felt like any old random episode.

[Ian]

Vince probably doesn't care enough for that to be a thing. Not that that helped Raw this week.

[Disco]

I had Raw on in the background yesterday and it was the same, very little of interest. On the upside though, after three days of shouting at each other Cole & Graves could barely summon the energy to bicker endlessly.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I haven't watched SD yet but fuck The Hardyz getting the tag belts.

I loved them in the old days but they're a shell of their former selves.

Oh but I'm meant to love them because they say DELETE all the time.

[igor_balis]

Dave and Chico made the point that raw was just like another raw cus the big stuff will happen at the SHAKEUP next week.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm trying to think of possible NXT call-ups but I can't think of many.

I imagine they'll officially add Aleister, Ricochet, Heavy Machinery , Lacey Evans etc to brands (not including Ciampa due to injury and Gargano as Vince apparently sees them as a duo). Outside of those I can only see Candace LeRae who has been mooted for a while and Kairi Sane. Could also see them calling up Pete Dunne and Rhea Ripley from the UK brand too.

If they do indeed call up Rhea my word, they could make her an absolute game changer in the female division. They wont though obviously.

[Disco]

Given the paucity of wrestlers at the top of the NXT card they'd be better off moving Yellow Peter there full time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

In my scenario you'd still have:

Johnny Gargano (I'm sure Vince wont let him on the main roster as a singles guy, he's not appeared once since Ciampa's injury)
Velveteen Dream
Adam Cole
Dijakovic
Keith Lee
Matt Riddle
Roddy Strong

You could then call up Tyler Bate full time, get Punishment Martinez on the TV more and throw in Kushida.

[Ian]

Thing is the nature of the SHAKEUP is that they need to rinse NXT a bit because if there aren't surprises people will, somewhat understandably, moan that it's been an anticlimax.

But the main roster is absolutely fine, they just need to actually use the people they have properly. Vince calling up a few more people to misuse is a waste of everybody's time.

[Browning]

The shake up is still shit. I know kayfabe is deader than ever (your finisher is fake, those aren’t real security guards etc) but it just makes zero sense within it. The old draft systems were all better.

[Ian]

Don't they basically run the shake-up along the lines of the draft anyway? Or am I just thinking of the first part of the new brand split?

That reminds of that HHH trade back to Raw back in the day though. For about three other people, wasn't it? :D

[Ian]

I also forgot to have a good lol at this:
http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwe-advertise-for-continuity-supervisor-role

I mean it's no surprise that nobody's doing it but I thought that somebody would at least nominally be doing so.

[Browning]

The shake up is meant to be “trades agreed by the GMs” but they never go into detail as to who was traded for who so the SD GM always looks like a twat when all their top talents show up on RAW and they get a midcard tag team and a diva who hasn’t been seen for months in return.

“Responsible for watching all shows...” pass.

[Ian]

:D

Responsible for watching all the shows and then having your observations ignored anyway.

[Shindig]

I don't get why they don't use the traditional big four as season opens and closers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nia Jax needs surgery on both of her knees due to torn ACLs.

Out for about a year so we don't have to put up with her and Tamina \0/.

[Lewis]

I also forgot to have a good lol at this:
http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwe-advertise-for-continuity-supervisor-role

I mean it's no surprise that nobody's doing it but I thought that somebody would at least nominally be doing so.

My friend is always threatening to write a book on wrestling precedent to properly codify the laws of the sport. He would be perfect for that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched SD.

I'm seriously over Shane, that segment of his was fucking woeful.

Also, Paige must be talking about the Sky Pirates which would be great. Io and Kairi :wub:

[Lewis]

Wasn't everybody 'over' him as soon as he actually started talking after his music hit?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes but it's just getting so much worse.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Viking Experience? Ugh.

'Ivar' and 'Erik' fuck me, this is the worst name change they've done.

[bruhnaldo]

My only tak away from last night is that holy shit Naomi and Bayley should've been tag partners the entire time. Their aesthetics match up perfectly. They've literally ruined Sasha Banks because of their inability to figure that out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sasha ruined herself.

Story is that she's had a massive chimpout over losing the titles, requested her release and refused to work this week.

Obviously a work though considering Batley couldn't contact her on RAW.

[Ian]

The fucking Viking Experience?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ivar and Erik too, it's fucking mental.

[Pleb]

https://lordsofpain.net/luke-harper-says-he-has-requested-his-release-from-wwe/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm preparing myself to seethe massively tomorrow when they call up Adam Cole but not the rest of UE destroying the storyline NXT were starting regarding a breakup.

Edit: Oh and if Vince's tease isn't regarding Baroque I'll be shocked.

[Pleb]

But Mahow he's Adam Cole babay.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

*BayBay and I want to see the storyline NXT have teased regarding Roddy seizing leadership.

[Ian]

So the tease was Roman, not Bork.

I'd rank that as one of the better changes they've made, gets him away from Rollins so they can forget about the Shield for five minutes.

I think that along with AJ and the Usos going the other way are some of the more sensible changes from the SHAKE UP.

[Browning]

Before the show me and a mate were discussing who the big name to replace Styles would be and Reigns was the only logical
one. Brock will end up there for sure but was never going to happen last night given he’s “fucked off to Las Vegas”. Some good moves although Miz seems to move every single time.

[Ian]

I thought Miz was a slightly odd one if they're planning to keep him as a face following his feud with THE BEST IN THE WORLD because being a face gave him some other options for stuff going forward.

And as you say, he seems to move every time.

[Disco]

He has another tv show to promote and RAW has a bigger audience.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sanity is officially done :(

Eric Young gone to RAW and now Alexander Wolfe has said goodbye to THE UNIVERSE.

Such a shame that they were killed on the main roster as they were fucking brilliant on NXT.

Oh and Buddy Murphy could be brilliant on Smackdown.

[Queenslander]

Adam Cole Bay Bay would be solid get for Smackdown and wee US run.

[Ian]

I'd like to see UE get all the gold in NXT as promised, a few months of dominance then they lost their belts ahead of a collective call up next year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's what I want.

[Ian]

The end of Baszler / Sane on NXT was a bit odd given it's Sane's last match there.

And Dream / Murphy was excellent.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Samoa Joe is also heading to RAW apparently.

Word is that he was to come out and start a feud with Boatman but was too sick so they buried EC3 instead.

Would make sense considering Finn is now on SD.

[Ian]

Yeah I did wonder about that and wasn't sure if I'd missed something. I hope EC3 going through the stage was just filler and that wasn't the plan for Joe...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I assume filler.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wolfe apparently is not done with the company. Word is that he's going to NXT UK.

I don't mind that at all but I'm still mad they fucked Sanity.

[Ian]

Sanity were possibly the biggest waste of a call up and that's a fucking strong field.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How many matches did they even have on the main roster?

Tables match against New Day on the Extreme Rules pre-show and the handicap match against Miz?

They were only on TV another 2 or 3 times and that was it.

Absolutely mental.

[Ian]

They just turned up and lost a whole bunch of times. They may have won one or two but who even cared at that point?

You watched NXT this week, 'How?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not yet, will start on it in a little bit.

Really excited for Murphy/Dream though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well I've only watched that match thus far but what a cracker it was, definitely lived up to the hype.

I wasn't a fan of Murphy's when he first came to 205 but he's brilliant. That running knee strike whilst they were on the apron was spot on.

[Baz]

Any of you heard of a wrestler called Isaac North?

I have a Facebook friend request off him from years back; turns out it’s someone I went to school with. He is known as Big Dave to me, because there were three lads called David Jones in our year and he was the tallest. The other two were known as Doddle (dunno) and Fester (looked tired).

Anyway, I have heard from an unreliable source that he’d “been done for noncing” but I wouldn’t like to start any rumours if he’s an up and coming wrestling [face] superstar.

[Mike]

Apparently this is CM Punk. AEW soon?
1119738101751066624?s=20

[Pleb]

Well he is linked to AEW though iirc.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've just realised that Nikki Cross wasn't given an actual brand last week.

I'm now worried that she's going to be one of Bray's 'puppets' when he returns this week or next.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aleister Black and Ricochet are no longer a team.

Aleister, Zelina and Andrade have been moved to Smackdown. Apparently Fox wanted more Latinos and Aleister was moved so he's on the same brand as his wife Zelina.

Cesaro has been moved to RAW but no news if Cesaro will follow him when he's back from injury.

[Queenslander]

Cesaro is long overdue a singles run.

[Disco]

I wouldn't hold your breath, Seamus has a dodgy back and can't really do singles hence why that tag team has lasted a million years longer than most do.

[Gray Fox]

#FireFlyFunHouse


Thank me later.

[Ian]

"The Viking Raiders." With The Viking Experience as their double-team move name.

It's better, WWE, but not much, and having Cole sort-of-address the response doesn't mean it's all good now.

I was also surprised that they had AJ get the #1 contendership, I was sure that was going to be McIntyre to take it. Them two should have a great match.

Aaaand lastly.... "Robert Roode?" I dunno if by shaving the beard into a tache he was going for a Rick Rude vibe but I'm getting Bennett from Commando.

[Ian]

#FireFlyFunHouse


Thank me later.

Why the fuck did Sky cut that out and have 4 minutes of Raw muzak instead? Odd. I did wonder as I was winding through it.

[Browning]

I heard they mistook it for a commercial.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"The Viking Raiders." With The Viking Experience as their double-team move name.

It's better, WWE, but not much, and having Cole sort-of-address the response doesn't mean it's all good now.

I was also surprised that they had AJ get the #1 contendership, I was sure that was going to be McIntyre to take it. Them two should have a great match.

Aaaand lastly.... "Robert Roode?" I dunno if by shaving the beard into a tache he was going for a Rick Rude vibe but I'm getting Bennett from Commando.

He just looks like a muscular paedophile tbh.

The name doesn't help either.

[Disco]

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[Shindig]

It puts years on him.

[Queenslander]

Suzuki could wrestle for ever.


https://youtu.be/i5iYdZDqR2A

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"The Viking Raiders." With The Viking Experience as their double-team move name.

It's better, WWE, but not much, and having Cole sort-of-address the response doesn't mean it's all good now.

I was also surprised that they had AJ get the #1 contendership, I was sure that was going to be McIntyre to take it. Them two should have a great match.

Aaaand lastly.... "Robert Roode?" I dunno if by shaving the beard into a tache he was going for a Rick Rude vibe but I'm getting Bennett from Commando.

Word is that it's been changed again. This time to Viking Warriors.

Just change it back to fucking War Machine or Raiders you pricks.

I also think I might apply for a job with the company for coming up with new names. I can only think of shit ones like they have been doing too.

[Shindig]

Change it every week like an IRA branch.

[Ian]

I'm glad to see that the womens tag belts are much like the mens often are and there largely to point out who the designated jobbers are.

What a waste of time.

[Ian]

Of course because NXT is taped in advance I'm watching last night's and they've just come out as the "War Raiders."

Just as well Vince forgets NXT even exists.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Fucking hell.

Apparently a replacement ref came down, twisted his ankle and couldn't continue the pussy.

[Ian]

Well there's something for next time somebody tries to give me the "You it's fake lol" chat. Even the refs carry on with broken limbs.

Stupid carny bastards.

[SvN]

Reminds me of when Sin Cara couldn't continue because he broke his pinkie.

[Ian]

Which Sin Cara? Presumably not the one who is / was a bit of a loon who'd won a number of backstage fights?

[phonics]

How did the ref break his leg?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Took a superkick and fell weirdly apparently.

[Shindig]

Must be the only ref around that can't take a bump.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Goldberg is going to Saudi Arabia (Baroque is also advertised ofc) and Killian Dain is apparently going back to NXT.

[Ian]

Blood money. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nothing better according to Vince.

[Ian]

Well it's nice to see that with Reigns' move to Smackdown they've freshened up his booki-.... oh no it's just him vs. Authority again.

That'll go down nicely with THE UNIVERSE.

[Pleb]

So Beth Pheonix is apparently now a full time commentator for NXT :cab:

Not sure how Mahow will react to that.

[Disco]

I love that John Moxley (Dea Nambrose) posted nothing on his WWE twitter account since signing for the company then a few hours after his contract expired he posted a minute and a half rammed with subtext and references.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BbTpwukFj8

[Ian]

http://whatculture.com/wwe/vince-mcmahon-refuses-to-use-luke-harper-because-he-34-doesnt-get-him-34

Good work, Vince.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So Beth Pheonix is apparently now a full time commentator for NXT :cab:

Not sure how Mahow will react to that.

Badly.

She's an awful commentator.

[Ian]

Worse than Percy?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd say so.

Percy is a bit like a crap uncle though, he's still family.

[Ian]

I didn't know that Kevin Nash's "Vinnie Vegas" gimmick had been a thing.

http://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2014/12/vinnie-vegas-promo-600x338.jpg

That left hand picture in particular is amazing.

[Shindig]

Yeah, he went through plenty before Diesel. I want to say he went through 3 in as many weeks for WCW.

[Browning]

Wasn’t one of them a wizard of oz thing or something?

[Shindig]

Yep. With Kevin Sullivan shouting, "Welcome to OZ!" every three seconds. Magnificent. Actually, fuck that. Oz never spoke. :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFISwncPag

[Ian]

Yeah Oz was great. :D

[Lewis]

Did Dea Nambrose go downhill once we started calling him Dea Nambrose?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Christ RAW this week is bad.

It's been a proper slog to just try and watch it.

The Bliss/Naomi was baffling.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What's even the point of the brand split now?

[Ian]

I only watched about the first three minutes of Raw before I had to leave for work but that was my first thought.

[Disco]

Ishii v Evil from Dontaku was immense, two beefy boys putting on a really good show.

Onto the Super Juniors next and I'm really looking forward to seeing more of El Phantasmo, any situation that gets me Phantasmo v Ospreay is the correct one.

[Ian]

The "Wild Card rule." :face:

Sounds like Fox and USA want rid of the brand split anyway.

Fox must be seriously wondering what the fuck they were thinking when they agreed to hand WWE a billion dollars for Smackdown coverage.