Starting to think this KOTR tournament is basically "the prince hand picked legends tournament" and thats fine... but I don't really want to see Big Show wrestle 3 times in a single night lol...
They should've closed Smackdown with Becky vs Char... outside of that no complaints. Also I was fearing the worst with the Rusev/English/Lana stuff but it didn't turn out awful... nice
Sounds like KO is headed towards knee surgery. That means Lashley has "injured" both Zayn and KO now. Will be interesting to see if they just ignore that, or if they come back and get their revenge.
Evolution PPV... Smackdown Championship: Charlotte vs Becky (last women standing) Raw Championship: Ronda vs Nikki NXT Championship: Sane vs Baszler Final of the Mae Young Classic (sorry not sorry no spoilers) Micky/Bliss vs Trish/Lita Rumored: NXT UK Championship match LayCool vs Sasha/Bayley Beth vs Nia Naomi vs Melina
Thats a solid card. More excited for that than the Saudi Arabia house show. They've shown no inclination of doing it, but perfect time to make Charlotte the heel again and Becky the anti-hero baby face. Last woman standing match is the perfect time for some outside interference fuckery that costs her the title.
I think it was on the Post wrestling podcast I heard this but someone was saying that a big reason they don't want to turn Charlotte is because she does the most interviews and promotion in the company. And they prefer her to not be a heel when she does make those appearances
They stopped calling Big Show's punching finisher the "weapon of mass destruction" because they don't want to offend the Saudi's. That'sssssbad.
I wasn't around when he started using it, but as far as I can recall they've just called it "The knockout punch" or something like that the past couple years.
I can't remember the last time i've heard them call it WMD... part because he's always losing and part because he's off TV for over a year. Saudi is giving them a huge amount of money... they are daddy and wwe is being a good kid
Ricochet-Cole-Dunne is THIS week MYC moving into the better quality of matches, last week was really good
becky’s last name isn’t Flair. They aren’t doing those interviews or media appearances for fans who already watch or subscribe, they are doing them for potential watchers and subscribers. The general public is more likely to pay attention to an interview or appearance by charlotte if for nothing else but for her name; everyone has heard of Rick Flair and she is his daughter.
If you haven't watched Cole vs Dunn vs Ricochet from NXT this week do yourself a favor and go watch it immediately. NXT has given us 2 matches this month alone that could headline most WWE PPV's. Other thoughts War Raiders are who WWE want AOP to be. 2 huge bad asses that can absolutely go in the ring and are amazing together. I can't fucking wait for the series of matches between them and UE. Speaking of UE, has there been a better group of 4 chickenshit heels before? The War Games they are setting up is going to be absolutely spectacular. Its too bad they couldn't bring the 4 of them up and add Sami and KO and make a ridiculously great stable of heels.
Seems like there's more and more smoke to some of Bullet Club making the jump to WWE. Omega, Rhodes, and a 3rd (Cole?) would make a good faction to roll them out. Young Bucks would have to be separate on Smackdown. Them feuding with New Day, Usos, etc would be fun.
Yeah apparently a lot of people are not happy with the new NJPW management. They had no previous wrestling business experience. Not sure why they got new management to begin with.
Also, there is a CT senator who is calling to end any and all business the state has with Saudi Arabia because, you know, they suck. Doubtful it will happen, but could affect Sharia Raw and other Saudi events.
If you really want to play fantasy booker, have the Indy/ROH guys (Cole, KOR, Fish, Strong, KO, Sami) vs Japan (AJ, Balor, Anderson, Gallows, Naka, and mystery partner who ends up being Omega). If they bring over the Bullet Club guys, Cody will be on his own. They might keep Kenny and Bucks together and put them up against New Day right off the bat before Kenny gets up and running as a singles wrestler.
Borh of these are nice but what we will really get is BC vs the Shield with the big dog standing tall at the end
I can't imagine WWE not going through with it. Them oil checks is big, and carnies will be carnies. Might prevent them from doing it again in the future though. Which is fine because next year they can just do two shows in Russian instead. MONDAY NIGHT MOSCOW HERE WE COME
I get it now! This is all a ploy to Get Roman Over. Roman comes out on Twitter saying he's not going. He gets cheered for the first time. Vince finally wins
Remember back in 91 when WWF got flack for just pretending one of their own was buddies with Sadaam? And now here we are today and the whole fucking company is buddying up to a country that just beheaded a woman