RAW is built around head of creative Stephanie McMahon. Her Character dominates faces, heels and everything possible. She never gets her's because she is female (with the exception of Mania and that was really the only pop to the main event) and the show suffers. Its refreshing to watch two hours of a WWE product and not see the commish/GM. Daniel pointed this out tonight on Talking Smack
I have a hard team believing he would work with Steph. But she's getting smoked by Smackdown so she's probably desperate
Broken Matt hardy is great. there is no way WWE would let it on air. Its great the same way that Lucha Underground is great. It's great because it's different.
Holy hell he fucking ethered him! It's amazing what can happen when they let these guys go. Take into account how much Cena also put him over earlier during the match - Cena is gonna make him a star.
Catching up on Raw and SD. Is this tape now just becoming Cesaro's gimmick? Jesus it annoys me how Foley just screams into the mic
Pretty much every time he raises his voice to show 'emotion' or whatever it just reminds me of the promo where he tricks The Rock into an "I Quit Match". Its that same tone, when hes like "Thats it! You got your match!"
JBL is the only thing wrong with Smackdown. Just think if we got Graves and Ranallo and that was it. There were rumors about Ziggler retiring. Is it possible Miz beats him?
yeah I want Ziggler in the ring helping guys get over. No need to retire unless he is just tired of the 300 days on the road. Smackdown better be getting Joe and Naka because if they lose Zigg's boy the upper middle and main event crew is thin
Naka and Joe on Smackdown and I don't think you could really have a better show that what they would be putting out every Tuesday.
The tape is used to show injuries.. since he was in a "brutal" best of seven. After 6 matches Sheamus has no bandages but being clotheslined over the rail broke him in half... notice the thumb, elbow and knee taped on RAW.
Think Ziggler wins simply because Smackdown is being run like an Old School wrestling show, so the heel has to get his comeuppance
I was just thinking about back in the day... if The Rock or SCSA were not medically cleared to wrestle on the show they still would of ran in gave a rock bottom or stunner and then been escorted out of the building. Seth walks slowly to the ring and gets cut off and walked to the back like a little kid... And this is the face we need to support? He's a pussy
Just got caught up on SD. Awesome sauce. The best things in wrestling right now are AJ's title reign and Miz-Ziggler.
Also Talking Smack is super. It looks like Daniel Bryan is having so much fun and that makes me happy :) Renee is so good though, someone's gonna make her an offer she can't refuse :(
Duck a closeline, boot to gut, Pedigree, walkout. Minimal impact on your injured rib. Nope, get stopped by the traditionally goon security of WWE. Raw is a joke.
Possible spoiler I guess, kind of on topic with what you are all talking about I knew a guy in High School who basically gets autographs and sells them for a living and he is also posting pics of him with the people he runs into. He posted a bunch of photos from Smackdown where he got all of their autographs and someone posted on his post "Get me a Ziggler autograph next time you go". His response was "You aren't going to like what I have to say about dolph lol. We asked him if he's going to quit and he said 'I still have a couple weeeks' then I told him make sure he wins the belt, he said 'meh I don't know man'"
Possibly... I actually think Joe is going to RAW. He can cut promo's and has acting skills. Plus Brock is RAW and that matchup must happen. Naka should be on smackdown. Less promo needed more about wrestling.
Even though everyone knows AJ is going to retain at No Mercy, I will spoiler this any ways, but Spoiler Ambrose is taking time off after No Mercy to film a movie and Cena is taking time off again for filming. So who does AJ feud with coming out of No Mercy?
Its going to be Orton would would think... Poor Bray its another reason why Ziggler isn't retiring. He's the #2 or 3 baby face on the Smackdown brand. He's pretty high on the card. Making some good money would would think
Cesaro word be awesome. He is pissed RAW screwed him out of a title shot with that best of 7 series, storyline is his contract runs out, SmackDown offers him the title shot RAW screwed him out of and boom
Hoping Harper comes back and Bray goes over, family is reunited and losses don't stick to Randy so he just moves up to the title picture with AJ.
New Day is going to beat Demolition's record, so there is no point in having this Cesaro/Sheamus tag team. So fucking pointless and so much Raw.
They're going to be the ones to take the belts from them, at Survivor Series if the record is broken by then.
Thanks I didn't feel like googling it I still think they're grooming the two of them to be the next champs.
The record is 478, I think today is day 402 for New Day. They'd break the record on December 13th I believe.
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/embracing-small-things-smackdown-live-continues-fe-243256#oo Yet another show review praising Smackdown, but I didn't realize it until the end bits of this article that holy crap there were only 3 matches in that 2 hours last night. Yet it felt like more was happening. I mean, obviously more was, but I never felt like there was a lull in the action.
Headlined by a WWE World title match which was announced a week in advance, SmackDown Live drew an audience of 2.340 million. The two hour broadcast was the highest rated program among 18-49 year olds for the third week in a row with a .74. The only programs on cable which attracted more viewers were Fox News programs, presumably still analyzing and spinning the debate from Monday night. Speaking of the Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, which had a Super Bowl-esque ratings performance and crushed Monday Night Raw, the red brand still managed to pull a bigger audience than SmackDown, barely winning the intra-company competition by 138,000 viewers.