They aren’t taking the belt off the hottest thing in the company... y’all crazy. That would stall her out with the quickness.
RAW was horrendous. Dean’s WWE special was so good. Why not let that be his reason for the heel turn. Nope we get Corky funny crazy dean who takes a needle to his ass as he calls the crowd stinky. Man fuck yoy Vince. That dark, conflicted dean from the network special is the sweet spot. Braun cut a shitty taped promo. Seriously how to air that on TV. Speaking of terrible promos. Nia better thank god every night that she comes from the family she does because she doesn’t deserve to be on the main roster Pissing on a robe. AOP needs distractions to retain its titles now. Sad Why in a company that had Adam Cole, Dream, Black, Ciampa and Gargano I’m still seeing Jinder and Jose? Smackdown. My baby. Becks straight fire promo. Calling out Char for jacking her style. Poor Asuka going to eat that pin. If Becky is gonna be stuck with a Mania match with Nia I’ll be pissed. Let them fight at Rumble. Give me Becks and Ronda at Mania Uso’s need those belts back. Did laugh at the 7,998,368,902 turn by bigshow. AJ with a nice promo. Samoa Joe with a fantastic promo
I dont know, short turn bump in the road for a long term gain. Her winning the rumble would get a huge pop and would set up her match with Ronda for the title, giving higher stakes than nothing on the line
Either Becky or Ronda going to have to drop the belt before mania for that match to work because the winner of the royal rumble gets a title shot at mania...that cant happen if you book a match with both champions.
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought WWE changed it that the rumble winner must challenge its brand champion and you can’t swap brands
Not sure I want Becky winning the rumble and challenging Ronda for her belt because that would put her on RAW and they would ruin her
I get that reasoning but I recall Austin winning and losing the belt throughout 1998-1999. The chase is always more fun, watching the hero be screwed, get vengeance, and regain the belt...living vicariously through Austin is what gave WWF the win on Monday Nights. But then again I don't trust 2018 Vince McMahon with Becky the way I did 1998 Vince with Austin.
That is a legitimate worry. Maybe have Tamina and Nia cheat to get Nia a victory over Ronda and have Ronda win the rumble and challenge Becky. Can move Charlotte to RAW to even it out. You would have a God awful champ on RAW, but who cares because its unwatchable anyway. Highly doubt that happens though
Ya but they don't need 3/4ths of the states to ratify a rule change. They could just pretend like that was never the rule.
Also I bet the brand split ends once they move to Fox. This is how you get Ronda vs Becky at Mania with both as champs. Title unification.
Nah, Fox has already said they don't want to cross promote shows on USA. They want unique superstars.
If Brock sticks around it wouldn't shock me if Brock or Ronda moved to SD to give them a bigger draw/star to promote on Fox
https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2018/11/28/18116522/wwe-raw-nov-26-2018-ratings-viewership-bad Viewership was down than last week’s 2.49 million, clocking in among the worst figures of the modern era as the three hours averaged 2.37 million. The hourly breakdown also showed that this was an episode viewers didn’t want to stick with as it built to a Baron Corbin main event: Hour one: 2.61 million Hour two: 2.38 million Hour three: 2.11 million Next week can’t be worse. Right?
Every now and then I have to stop and wonder how deep up his own asshole Vince McMahon is that he would waste talent like Finn Balor and Seth Rollins in do-nothing tag matches and endless midcard feuds, while pushing Baron freaking Corbin as one of the show's central characters.
To be fair RAW has had a little bit of bad luck They book Roman to be THE GUY and he gets cancer (maybe they should have made some other stars instead of putting all eggs in one basket but whatever). They then decide to get Braun into the top spot and he gets hurt. Alexa is the only one of their females who can cut a promo, which is needed on a three hour show, and she gets hurt leaving a bunch of women who range from average to awful on the mic left to feud on their brand. But their writing has also just flat out been awful, so don't think I am trying to give them excuses.
Reports today are that Fox is asking WWE to move Rousey to SmackDown when they get the rights next october
No thanks. Plus rumors had it that her run is to Mania and then she’s taking time off to start a family.
Definitely will be interesting how brand swaps will be moving forward. Guessing it’ll be mostly midcarders and an occasional high-midcarder.
Fox and USA will probably have a much larger say considering the money they’re paying. Competition is good, even if still owned by the same company. If FOX starts blowing USA out of the water, NBC will definitely throw in their two cents to Vince. There’s always certain bonus structures considering the ratings.
Found a 2nd person beside Vince who likes this angle, when Lagreca was lamenting how bad RAW was on Busted Open, when he got to the AOPee segment, Mark Henry said he loved that segment.
Dude was so fucking legit. Doing things like the Phoenix splash in the mid-90's when suicide dives were still a big deal. Used to play as him in one of the N64 WCW games. Its too bad he never got an extended run in the US like a lot of those great Japanese wrestlers did in the late 90's.
Only point in the article I disagree with is the part about possibly adding Charlotte to the Rousey v Lynch match to make it a triple threat. Please keep Charlotte out of that match. I know they did it last year, but do her v Asuka again. Those are the 4 who deserve mania matches. You cool Asuka right off again by giving her the belt but having face like Naomi or someone like that at Mania
Lucky fucker. Austin Aries is an idiot. Could have been cashing easy WWE checks and been still fucking that pussy, but decided he wanted TNA instead.
my firm "adopts" an underprivileged class every year and buys the kids in that class christmas gifts. The 5 year old I picked wants a WWE ring and some action figures. Anyone with kids got recommendations? So far got these two items. Seems like the value is pretty good.
Refuse to watch this week, are they really doing the Bayley and Sasha segment again??? After how awful it was last week. Who would ever think it was a good idea to give them a promo segment, let alone two weeks in a row