I’m for the new belt. Kinda wish it was brays normal face and not the fiends but I guess it works either way. I thought they needed a more weird belt for him than the blue strap.
Oh god please, can it be reversible? Have his goofy funhouse grin on one side to carry when he isn’t the fiend and the fiend one on the other side for when he is the fiend?
So when Bray finally loses the belt it’s gonna be because he is convinced to wrestle as Bray and not the Fiend right? He and Bryan are the only reason to really tune into Smackdown.
Wings game ends, haven't watched raw in weeks, tune in and see Charlotte going full Reigns on tag champs in a handicap match. Yea I'm done
The start of the Lashley and Rusev story was pretty bad. But over the last couple of weeks they have done a nice job of being entertaining. Also they have gotten Rusev over again. That crowd loved him last night and the previous night in Atlanta. The Rusev Day chants are back and loud. This Attitude Era story worked. Also Samoa Joe is amazing on commentary.
more appropriate Also king is awful. Is he supposed to be a heel announcer or did he have a stroke that he is recovering from?
Its so weird. He was the heel announcer when Diho was part of the booth. Then he got taken off and during the two man booth King was a baby face. Now that Joe is back he went back to being a heel and Joe was more a technical guy explaining why moves were being done and psychology of the match like a McGinnis in NXT but only better. King had some awful moments last night. The Asian accent, and then saying the cops had guns they should shoot Rusev. Like what in the fuck.
if you have 10 minutes, Brandon Stroud's retrospective on Survivor Series 98 (the deadly games tourney) is stellar https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/wwf-survivor-series-deadly-game-1998-best-and-worst/11/
Oh my gosh Luchasarus with the "we dinosaurs have been marginalized for 65 million years" line I'm dying
Yeah its a little bit much maybe. I appreciate working some of that in, but we'll see. But they've built a lot of trios, I wonder if they're going to do intergender trios titles. I know there's rumors they'll have a wargames-esque PPV or something .
I am all for something different. This is the time for them to throw shit against the wall and see what sticks. I find the show highly entertaining as it is, but everyone is either trying to be funny or super dark. I would like to see more variety in the characters.
Next week should be great for NXT and the 18th seems to be major shows for both brands. What hooks me to keep tuned in with AEW is the promos. Cody once again was money. Jericho very entertaining. Need more of it because the wrestling isn’t keeping me. Not that it’s bad but most of the talent I don’t care for. I was going to give Brandy some time with this stuff. But that was hot garbage. I’m in on the Butcher, Blade and Bunny. I like the look and I liked the video promo.
I know it would be different for the crowd but imagine someone making a surprise debut with that camera shot
Dakota's titantron just being the same clips of her kicking the crap out of Nox over and over was great
They did a great job with Bray and Miz tonight. Also liked the Dana/Drake/Elias stuff. pretty good episode of Smackdown
And then we go with Super Roman having multiple cans of dog food dumped on him to close the show. Yikes I need that boss man dog kennel match for TLC
tbh I should’ve just tuned out when Roman came out with 25 minutes left knowing nothing else was left. A great 90 minutes of Smackdown.
I think it’s interesting that The Fiend didn’t show tonight but Bray did. And the match isn’t The Fiend vs Miz it’s Bray. Hope they make Bray easier to beat
Catching up on AEW. Cody and Jericho are such great promos. Glad they had lucha bros work more heel. Really think they’re missing by not using penta like lucha underground used him
Did Daniel Bryan make an appearance? I'm sure he'll factor in the match in some way. Would be trippy if they had the Fiend possess Daniel and he came out as the Fiend.