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Apparently they didn't plan for Taker's entrance/the crowd to chant for him... their own fault tbh

 

So they had that ridiculously long/dramatic storyline of Dolph finally winning the IC and then he drops it on a random SD off a stupid/cheap finish? lmao makes everything before that so pointless.

The Undertaker stuff was really random. I was hoping he'd take Shane's spot in the match but I guess not. I'm interested to see where it goes from here though. I'm sure SD team loses now so we can see Undertaker get mad at everyone.

Oh and someone needs to tell Shane he dresses like a total loser.

 

Shane is one of those guys who buys really nice, often stylish clothing, but has no idea how to pair them all together. Also, he needs to tailor his jeans.

 

Taker's probably just there for a while so Cena can challenge him.

 

A really nice suit and tie, skinny jeans, high top nikes

lmao

 

Undertaker is back for the next little while? I am interested in watching wrestling again

 

see....the way they did the angle on raw last night with the stand off, it felt a BIT more natural. It was logical pairing offs during the segment. the two champions, bray/strowman, ambrose/ex-shield.... but the women, haha i mean, seeing Bayley beat up Nikki...what the fuck!

i have no problem with the survivor series card, i'm actually pretty excited about it, but the way they've been hyping this up is insanely laughable.


It doesn't bother me that Miz won. Miz should've beaten Ziggler for his career (long vacation), but the belt needs to be on Miz. I think it's stuff like this IC title change that makes smackdown a must watch show.

edit; also edge's theme is still one of my top 10 all time favorite.

 

I wouldnt be so sure. It makes way more sense for RAW to lose and Foley to ultimately get fired (so HHH can come back) than it does for Smackdown to lose to turn Taker heel.

That said, in back to back nights, Shanes been put over. He's the guy that can take out Strouman, and Undertaker hands him a tag-line. At this point, Ill be disappointed if they arent doing Shane/Brock with how they are building him.

 

Agreed. Though, it makes it really hard to believe that Sami is taking the belt off Miz. Are they really gonna hot-potato the belt like that?

 

oh def not. i'd say there is no chance at all that zayn wins this.

 

Just saw Nikki's chipped tooth. Gnarly

 

This is pretty fucking cool

 

Love this

 

Got my WM tickets!

 

Ok now I got my tickets. Section F7

 

Sami prob going to SD!

 

#DDT

 

where did Bayley go after her random one kick to Nikki (or whoever it was)? when Naomi (think that's her name / who it was) launched into the pile of Raw girls, Bayley was nowhere to be seen.

 

I cant make sense of this CW/IC title thing. Im not even sure I see a logical outcome for either side, aside from both belts staying where they are. If they switch brands, they'll be hot potato-ing both belts to do so, especially since I cant see Kalisto having some 3+ month CW reign.

 

I didn't even notice that Bayley was part of the attack because my attention was elsewhere for most of the show. God, that's dumb. That's gotta be a Vince thing, right? I don't know if I'm more frustrated with that or the Usos, honestly. They full on abandoned the heel attitudes in every way. It would be much more compelling if they played up the "dissension in the ranks" and "how will these guys work together". Smackdown was the better show, but Raw handled the storytelling within the teams much better.

 

Its especially dumb since nothing is at stake. There are basically 2 people with real stakes at SS (Sami and Miz).

If the winning brand got to steal wrestlers, or got to pick entrant #30 to the rumble, or anything useful, then id understand them banding together. Uso's would be playing along because they know Shane/Daniel will give everyone a chance to compete for #30, for example (Bayley still makes no sense). At least the Smackdown male team has Shane on it, so, there's a pride angle...

But, how am I supposed to believe Seth Rollins is worried about Steph firing him when Jack Swagger got a smackdown job? And why would he work with Jericho and KO at all when they've cost him title shots?

Survivor Series is basically WM32. Lots of potentially fun matches, but with build that makes no sense.

 

Agreed, but I think Raw is handling the team dynamic slightly better. Seth with Roman, Owens with jericho, and Braun as the wildcard. Although Seth teamed with Jericho on Monday, it was at least reluctant and he laid him out after the match. Whereas the Smackdown teams have been buddy-buddy up and down outside of a few verbal shots.

The silver lining here is I love big multi-man elimination matches more than anything else in wrestling. It allows for such unique booking and so many feuds can be set up if done properly.

 

I really thought Taker was going to take Shane's spot.

 

Vince is still in charge of both shows, so

 

Vince has final say with both shows, but it's still creative that comes up with most of the material that he then says yay or nay to.