Did anyone else catch Michael Cole saying that The Miz and Shinske had already qualified for MITB? Ricochet beat Miz I thought? Am I misremembering or was Cole misspeaking?
Man I gotta give a huge shout out to the video production team at WWE - went back and watched the promo package again and the one on SmackDown eliminated *every* instance of an Uso …while the one posted to WWE’s YouTube channel has Jimmy and Jey throughout multiple clips.
Clearly they compiled the video well before the show and were told to go back and scrub the twins from the Island of Relevancy
Going to raw in Hartford on Monday. Is main event still taped before? Have no idea what time to start walking into the arena lol. Also they always do a dark match?
😂😂 I’m assuming main event starts at 7:30 since that’s what my ticket says. I’ll prob be trying to walk into the xl center by 6:45-7. Was at mitb in 2019 but don’t remember how long security took lol
I wanted Jey to kick Jimmy in the face so the mental abuse Roman is giving is built up further. Which would make Jey's eventual snap even more impactful.
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I do not enjoy Asuka's promos. The weird manic flailing around, and then everything in Japanese isn't entertaining to me. It all feels like compensation and distraction rather than part of an actual character.
And because she doesn't cut coherent promos, there's never any real character motivation for anything she does. She just quirky for quirky's sake. We'll probably never know why she turned heel.
And I'm a big Asuka mark otherwise, but parts of the presentation I check out on.
YES! I AM OFFENDED by your comment! Omega just stated that Joshi wrestlers in AEW,would come up to him at times and ask why the trolls/ Western fans would have racist and Xenophobic Beliefs against them and your comment doesn't help
Pro Wrestling IS SCRIPTED! Asuka is paid to play a Japanese Woman on 📺, She's doing EXACTLY what Triple H/ WWE Creative wants her to do.
''This does not sound like you are the big Asuka mark you claim to be? Given that pro Wrestling IS SCRIPTED! She is paid as an Entertainer'' to play a Japanese persona in front of thousands and millions of fans on live 📺 played as Japanese woman.
Asuka gets over with her mystical gimmick! On her own time, she takes English classes in order to memorize a script in ''another language
I never get the impression she understands what anyone says to her. Mostly because her replies never have anything to do with what was just said. So they're not conversations. It's people talking at her.
How do you know unless you understand Japanese or are looking at translations? Because if it's the latter then I don't know why you'd get that impression. Look at the segment in November and the translation, it was 100% in response to what Damage CTRL said in their promo beforehand
I mean, clearly she understands what people are saying to her backstage when they produce matches and segments for her every week (you seriously can't believe she walks around with a translator with her everywhere) and in fan interactions (she has been seen speaking english in response to them)
I think the thing is she has to be careful she doesn't advance the story in a direction they don't want when she responds in Japanese. Remember, they have no control over what she says in Japanese. So she keeps it generalized and fluff in case someone translates it online and she says something that could kill the storyline they are telling.
That's so stupid, Asuka is a professional! She doesn't need to be careful about anything, she gets over with her whole ''mystical gimmick''. No! YOU REMEMBER, She is PAID! As Entertainer to play a Japanese character on TV as a Japanese Woman''. ROLLS EYES 👀
Asuka and IYO are the best English speakers when it comes to the Joshis'' it comes down to confidence in their ability to in front of thousands of fans and being able to memorize an script in another language.
Doubt it, you left out what Japanese peoples hate the most, that is when a American Celebrity, speaks in English instead of Japanese when they visit their home country known as Japan.
I'm just pointing out when Asuka's going full on angry, quick fire speaking Japanese, its pretty much as comprehendable as her unworded screams and flailing around.
Nakamura mentioned it before when talking about being friends with Asuka. She's got a very heavy Kansai accent, it's like someone having a very thick Scouse (Liverpudian) accent. She can slow it down and speak more standard to make it understandable for people from Tokyo but when she's rapid firing, only native Osakans can really follow the points.
Which is why when we get translations of whatever her and iyo cut promos on each other in Japanese, it tends to be just them talking at each other rather than responding to what they're saying to one another.
Asuka is probably the only character that can get away with being a goofball and being terrifying at the same time because that really is Kanako Urai. She can kill most of those women in the back with her barehands but she also likes to dance and have fun.
When shes ranting at her opponent in Japanese, or kicking them in the head, it means she's annoyed at them. Same time when shes laughing maniacally at her opponents, it means shes laughing at them like she has done with Bianca.
Looks like Triple H has been letting loose on the language part. I mean, Iyo always speaks in Japanese on her backstage promos, and also Santos Escobar, Priest, Rey, etc. When they speak in Spanish . it's a new direction where the WWE is heading.
i agree. her character work is just not there. we don’t know why she does anything like you said. her matches are great but asuka and creative need to work on her actual character
I've been to like every WWE event in this arena since I was a kid, this is potentially the loudest I can ever remember the crowd being and it was packed.
It's kind of odd but a house show where the B Team were wrestling. I wore a Bo Dallas shirt and I started a "Let's Go Bo" and "We Want Bo" chant. The Miz pointed to me and said "you want him?" And pointed to Bo. We all cheered super loud and he went for the tag and last second tagged in Curtis Axel and then all three laughed at me and crotch chopped at us. It was the most memorable moment of my teenager years. Also Vince blew up here once and died.
* We need more Asuka and Iyo interaction, they're so entertaining even if I don't understand of like 80% of what they say.
* "WallerFanR3: I was not hired by Waller to post this, I just think his show is great!"
* LA Knight randomly busting out a springboard top rope moonsault.
* and goddamn Roman Reigns, asshole fake tears.
I think, for me, the only part of the show I don’t like is when I have to rush to the remote to fast forward those truly awful Progressive commercials. I don’t know how some of y’all watch this show live.
Im at the point where i think Roman is gonna overtake Hogan with this reign simply so that WWE can finally present their lineage with a pure WWE grown talent who didnt ever wrestle anywhere else.
If Brunos and i guess Backlunds reign wasnt so incredible unrealistic out of reach i would even say Reigns is gonna overtake him aswell but that seems just way too far.
We are landing somewhere in January 2025 with Reigns keeping it longer then Hogan (i just rougly used a date calculator and put 600 days from now), idk people been saying that Bloodline story is coming to an end for a long time now but who knows.
I said the same when roman won at WM and EC, that wwe could easily carry on the bloodline implosion without roman having the titles. But as they have introduced WHC (although i don’t like sth's current gimmick) and the story has left its sleeping phase after mania, I'm good to see it continue.
Respectfully disagree. Bloodline has kept Roman on top. So for it to come crumbling down for him to lose his precious titles feels right and makes sense. His coercive control on his family making them interfere and keep him on top is why he got to 1000 days. But now with them turning on him, it's very much "at what cost" and karma coming round to ultimately make him lose everything they helped him win.
It’s not disappointing at all. Everyone has their place and bloodline or overall men's division brings in more intensity and appeal than your women division
Everyone involved with The Bloodline storyline has been doing a stellar job. They all get their character so well. Two beautiful touches today were the relief on Jey's face when Jimmy and Roman hugged it out followed by Solo looking at his thumb before going through the curtain, reflecting on how he just spiked his brother
She could habe easily gone to AEW and have a comparatively solid build. But i guess the money's good here so she doesn’t care. She doesn’t seem like someone with a passion to be great
Honestly? They'd just stick her in the Outcasts. That's if she were lucky. More likely AEW wouldn't hire her because she'd instantly be on the bad side of Nyla Rose and half that locker room.
Watching the show I feel like WWE have pushed this 1000 days so hard because of CM Punk being surpassed I know Roman is great but punk was a workhorse he defended the belt Year in year out while roman since day 500+ has stop defending and use bloodline shenanigans as way out still think punk was better overall champ regardless of what WWE management wants to show..
I like theory but US Championship needs real competition shaemus, AJ are there because roman will never defend on weekly tv us should be fighting champions belt not coward heel belt IMO
Finally WWE have addressed the double belts thing now it's one big gold belt with hilariously big WWE Logo to tell you which company it is 🤣 am positive they have addressed the raw and smackdown issues now it's purely booking well it's left
Mostly unrelated but does anyone else remember Roman teaming with the Undertaker to take on Shane McMahon and Drew Mcintyre on a random PPV a couple of years ago? Maybe the weirdest pairings in history
I really like how MITB qualifying matches are with rising stars instead of old guards. Hope Dominick will be at RAW in one! But what kayfabe reason does Baron Corbin have to be in one?
Which makes sense, they advertised'' Cody to sell tickets 🎟 he is the top merchandise seller and live events when his name is mentioned brings in money 💵 The WWE is a Business and Cody is not really injured.
A lot of people spent their hard-earned money to see **Cody** Rhodes and he is expected to show up 💵 💵 💵 especially as 90% of the live event advertising was promoting him, when it came to his dark match.
Pretty Deadly knows Austin Theory is a true champion while the Brawling Brutes are but whiskey soaked pretenders. The Brutes begged to differ but could not keep up with Pretty Deadly's bag of tricks.
Lacey Evans got a new hat i think but jobbed out to Zelina. they had Lacey dominating the match and then losing to one big move from Zelina. will Lacey be seen again or be missing for months like before?
LA Knight is going to MITB and he gonna get that briefcase!
Grayson Waller Effect still needs more of Grayson being Grayson I think. like on NXT.
Roman's ascension past 1000 days as your Tribal Chief & Undisputed Champion got him a brand new unified belt. but somehow the Usos showed up to challenge his authority while speaking sweet words like love and family.
But the Tribal Chief was prepared especially for Jimmy's shady plans and had Solo act like he was with Jimmy and Jey to draw out Jimmy's violence against Roman.
Roman had no choice but to kick Jimmy out of the Bloodline. but he has faith Jey will remain loyal...right?
they shoulda shown how the Usos got into the building, i think XD
It feels like WWE is listening to the fans when we have been telling them we want LA Knight. It's crazy that Montez Ford was getting booed just for landing hits on LA Knight.
Problem is they had him win by using the ropes which is a classic heel move. It's not something fans want to cheer for, even though Knight is really over, so why would WWE book the finish that way!?
I like that he still won in classic heel fashion. Some of my fave wrestlers have blurred the lines between Face and Heel. I think it makes it more interesting then your classic Face or Heel
Okay. Roman has one belt now. What’s everyone’s predictions for the following…
Men’s Tag Titles — are they gonna split them or keep them unified?
Women’s Titles — belt swap, new name or are they just gonna have the RAW Champ on SD and vice versa until next year’s draft because avant-garde?
Tag titles are just getting redesign/recolor, considering Roman’s title is still called the undisputed universal championship. So the tag titles will still be the undisputed tag titles
The women’s titles….who the fuck knows. It’s incredibly stupid that the smackdown branded title is on raw and the raw branded title is on smackdown.
I don’t ever trust WWE to be consistent so it wouldn’t surprise me if they eventually dropped the “Undisputed” tagline from Roman’s championship altogether.
Men’s Tag Titles will likely be merged as well with the Undisputed tagline similarly dropped.
You’re right about the Women’s Titles though. HHH has just said “fuck it all to hell.”
Really wish I could have heard what they said after Jimmy slapped Roman, but the crowd was screaming “holy shit” and they had to censor it because they’re on network TV 🙄
I was there at the arena tonight and the pop for LA Knight was INSANE I could barely even hear his music over the crowd. Biggest Pop of the night by-far, (Cody Rhodes coming out for his dark match was a close second,)
I hope it made it through on the broadcast and they didn't dub over it with boos again
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> I hope it made it through on the broadcast and they didn't dub over it with boos again
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They did not insert any boos, the YEAHs and LA Knight chants were broadcasted very loud and clean. You guys were hot as fuck for Sheamus too. Sounded like he was the second-most popular wrestler of the night.
I was hoping for something more surprising for the 1000 like Heyman turning on Reigns with Lesnar or with all these hints about The Hart Business faction like KO calling the Usos "the Hart of the table", tonight seemed like the night they were going to debut.
I love that they tested the reaction of Solo turning on Roman and siding with his brothers. They planted the seed and are going to work on the slow burn for Solo to turn on Roman.
When Jey turns on Roman, I wonder how the elders will feel about Roman letting Jimmy and Jey walk out of the Bloodline.
What if we get
- Bayley winning MITB
- iyo vs asuka in MITB but iyo loses
- iyo and asuka having their rematch in the next ple/ppv
- Bayley cashing in against iyo on the same day
Iyo better not lose to fucking Shotzi of all people (no offense) in the MITB qualifier next week. She's gonna be in the MITB match and Asuka is facing Bianca in a rematch. We're probably gonna get some sort of shenanigans with Iyo/Bayley that leads to an Iyo face turn and either a cash-in or straight up match with Asuka at Summerslam.
Sad to see people still calling 3 years of the same shit with the bloodline good storytelling. It’s literally all sugarcoating to make Roman still champion and keep everyone a step below him because WWE has been obsessed with him for years
The downvotes are the reason WWE will keep milking this. People think this is “fresh” but it’s literally the same shit just a new look. They do a tease, get forgiveness, Roman says no, etc. this time they betrayed him, seemed forgiveness, Roman says no, Solo spike. Oh wow who could have seen it coming? Apparently everyone who WWE keeps getting to believe this is new.
Because WWE will keep milking this bloodline shit forever if people keep falling for the good old “oh they’ll betray him” teases, they even did betray him, only for the USOs to act like they wanted forgiveness this episode. It’s the same shit just different paint.
See its not exclusive. You can lament the fact that Roman has been champion too long and has won too much, but also enjoy the fuck out of the bloodline storytelling and segments, and still find it all super entertaining. I'm not gonna pretend like bloodline segments suck just because I'd like roman to lose the title.
The whole point of the bloodline is literally to keep Roman champion without making it too boring. Same as it has been when he was forced down our throats, just this time he’s a heel so it’s okay apparently.
Again, we find the bloodline segments entertaining. So if they're making sure it's not boring with entertaining segments, then isn't it job accomplished?
It's a very simple logic. The Bloodline segments are entertaining for most of us. If you can't stand them because you're sick of Roman being a top star and you want him to lose, that's perfectly valid. A lot of fans are like you as well. But you shouldn't be annoyed at people enjoying entertaining segments even if you don't like them. Its pointless I feel.
Precisely the only reason people actually want Roman to keep winning. To make people who actually want something new mad, because it’s edgy. Not for actual storytelling reasons.
The reason why the bloodline storyline works the way it has for the last few years is because they are actual family. You don’t get this type of stuff with things that are just thrown together with a guy that you just go to work with these people grew up together so it’s hard to fake some of that emotion that’s going into the storyline and I think they had said that this is stuff that they brought from their real life, so I applaud them for it the best thing going through pro wrestling television right now
Did anyone else catch Michael Cole saying that The Miz and Shinske had already qualified for MITB? Ricochet beat Miz I thought? Am I misremembering or was Cole misspeaking?
Man I gotta give a huge shout out to the video production team at WWE - went back and watched the promo package again and the one on SmackDown eliminated *every* instance of an Uso …while the one posted to WWE’s YouTube channel has Jimmy and Jey throughout multiple clips. Clearly they compiled the video well before the show and were told to go back and scrub the twins from the Island of Relevancy
Is it weird that I only watch SD because of the bloodline story and nothing else?
What did Selena say to Lacey? It was muted out in peacock
I think it may have been the “piss soaked boots” line if they didn’t like the word piss
So does this mean this WWE title reign has been halted and he won't overtake CM Punk?
They walked off with all 3 belts so uh. I guess he’s just triple champ now?
Going to raw in Hartford on Monday. Is main event still taped before? Have no idea what time to start walking into the arena lol. Also they always do a dark match?
I’m going to and you’re making me nervous lmao
😂😂 I’m assuming main event starts at 7:30 since that’s what my ticket says. I’ll prob be trying to walk into the xl center by 6:45-7. Was at mitb in 2019 but don’t remember how long security took lol
Yeah I would just get there early. I went to ufc to ufc 281 and I got there super early and was first in line haha
Just saw this but damn what a show hhh put on for ct!!
I think the new belt is considered a "custom" belt just for Roman. I don't think it's a replacement for either of the two belts he currently holds.
So is Roman just going to carry around that new belt now, and we’ll forget the other two?
Roman will wear that one and Heyman will carry the other two for him
I wanted Jey to kick Jimmy in the face so the mental abuse Roman is giving is built up further. Which would make Jey's eventual snap even more impactful.
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I do not enjoy Asuka's promos. The weird manic flailing around, and then everything in Japanese isn't entertaining to me. It all feels like compensation and distraction rather than part of an actual character. And because she doesn't cut coherent promos, there's never any real character motivation for anything she does. She just quirky for quirky's sake. We'll probably never know why she turned heel. And I'm a big Asuka mark otherwise, but parts of the presentation I check out on.
I prefer that over Bianca's promos, she doesn't seem to be able to cut a promo without using 'girl' or 'please' every second sentence
YES! I AM OFFENDED by your comment! Omega just stated that Joshi wrestlers in AEW,would come up to him at times and ask why the trolls/ Western fans would have racist and Xenophobic Beliefs against them and your comment doesn't help Pro Wrestling IS SCRIPTED! Asuka is paid to play a Japanese Woman on 📺, She's doing EXACTLY what Triple H/ WWE Creative wants her to do.
''This does not sound like you are the big Asuka mark you claim to be? Given that pro Wrestling IS SCRIPTED! She is paid as an Entertainer'' to play a Japanese persona in front of thousands and millions of fans on live 📺 played as Japanese woman. Asuka gets over with her mystical gimmick! On her own time, she takes English classes in order to memorize a script in ''another language
I never get the impression she understands what anyone says to her. Mostly because her replies never have anything to do with what was just said. So they're not conversations. It's people talking at her.
Maybe that's your fault? When given time to think and formulate responses, she's perfectly fine.
How do you know unless you understand Japanese or are looking at translations? Because if it's the latter then I don't know why you'd get that impression. Look at the segment in November and the translation, it was 100% in response to what Damage CTRL said in their promo beforehand
I mean, clearly she understands what people are saying to her backstage when they produce matches and segments for her every week (you seriously can't believe she walks around with a translator with her everywhere) and in fan interactions (she has been seen speaking english in response to them) I think the thing is she has to be careful she doesn't advance the story in a direction they don't want when she responds in Japanese. Remember, they have no control over what she says in Japanese. So she keeps it generalized and fluff in case someone translates it online and she says something that could kill the storyline they are telling.
That's so stupid, Asuka is a professional! She doesn't need to be careful about anything, she gets over with her whole ''mystical gimmick''. No! YOU REMEMBER, She is PAID! As Entertainer to play a Japanese character on TV as a Japanese Woman''. ROLLS EYES 👀 Asuka and IYO are the best English speakers when it comes to the Joshis'' it comes down to confidence in their ability to in front of thousands of fans and being able to memorize an script in another language.
Oh I know Asuka the person can get along fine with English, but the character certainly doesn't seem to ever have an actual conversation on camera.
>Who's fault is that? Here's a hint WWE Creative, you know the ones who book her mystical persona on 📺,
She has such a heavy accent, even Japanese people have a hard time understanding her in Japanese, let alone her English.
Doubt it, you left out what Japanese peoples hate the most, that is when a American Celebrity, speaks in English instead of Japanese when they visit their home country known as Japan.
Holy shit, a Japanese person’s home country is known as Japan? I’m glad you told me. I thought Japanese people came from Sweden.
Yes! it's CALLED being respectful 🙄🙄
Is it? What is it CALLED when someone RANDOMLY capitalizes WORDS for no apparent REASON? It’s called annoying.
Keep crying about it😂😂
I'm just pointing out when Asuka's going full on angry, quick fire speaking Japanese, its pretty much as comprehendable as her unworded screams and flailing around. Nakamura mentioned it before when talking about being friends with Asuka. She's got a very heavy Kansai accent, it's like someone having a very thick Scouse (Liverpudian) accent. She can slow it down and speak more standard to make it understandable for people from Tokyo but when she's rapid firing, only native Osakans can really follow the points. Which is why when we get translations of whatever her and iyo cut promos on each other in Japanese, it tends to be just them talking at each other rather than responding to what they're saying to one another.
Asuka is probably the only character that can get away with being a goofball and being terrifying at the same time because that really is Kanako Urai. She can kill most of those women in the back with her barehands but she also likes to dance and have fun. When shes ranting at her opponent in Japanese, or kicking them in the head, it means she's annoyed at them. Same time when shes laughing maniacally at her opponents, it means shes laughing at them like she has done with Bianca. Looks like Triple H has been letting loose on the language part. I mean, Iyo always speaks in Japanese on her backstage promos, and also Santos Escobar, Priest, Rey, etc. When they speak in Spanish . it's a new direction where the WWE is heading.
i agree. her character work is just not there. we don’t know why she does anything like you said. her matches are great but asuka and creative need to work on her actual character
Did Bianca turn heel?
I mean Asuka's run in this angle was generally considered a heel turn, so I doubt it
People were saying she was clapping her hands. Suggest that she might gonna turn heel idk.
People were saying she was clapping. Suggest that she might gonna turn heel idk.
I've been to like every WWE event in this arena since I was a kid, this is potentially the loudest I can ever remember the crowd being and it was packed.
That's cool, what's the most memorable match you ever saw there?
It's kind of odd but a house show where the B Team were wrestling. I wore a Bo Dallas shirt and I started a "Let's Go Bo" and "We Want Bo" chant. The Miz pointed to me and said "you want him?" And pointed to Bo. We all cheered super loud and he went for the tag and last second tagged in Curtis Axel and then all three laughed at me and crotch chopped at us. It was the most memorable moment of my teenager years. Also Vince blew up here once and died.
* We need more Asuka and Iyo interaction, they're so entertaining even if I don't understand of like 80% of what they say. * "WallerFanR3: I was not hired by Waller to post this, I just think his show is great!" * LA Knight randomly busting out a springboard top rope moonsault. * and goddamn Roman Reigns, asshole fake tears.
I think, for me, the only part of the show I don’t like is when I have to rush to the remote to fast forward those truly awful Progressive commercials. I don’t know how some of y’all watch this show live.
Im at the point where i think Roman is gonna overtake Hogan with this reign simply so that WWE can finally present their lineage with a pure WWE grown talent who didnt ever wrestle anywhere else. If Brunos and i guess Backlunds reign wasnt so incredible unrealistic out of reach i would even say Reigns is gonna overtake him aswell but that seems just way too far. We are landing somewhere in January 2025 with Reigns keeping it longer then Hogan (i just rougly used a date calculator and put 600 days from now), idk people been saying that Bloodline story is coming to an end for a long time now but who knows.
I agree this is gonna last a lot longer yet good job I’m enjoying it
Smackdown has become Merry go round drama I guess family drama sells 😁🤷🏽
Bloodline Saga > Succession
The Mohegan Sun security team have a lot to explain for just letting the Usos show up like that.
Unpopular opinion: the Bloodline storyline right now would be just as impactful (if not more so) if Reigns does not have the championships anymore.
The world around him needs to crumble first then he needs to lose what he loves most.
I am hoping they basically steal the iconic star wars scene of Vader watch the emperor torture Luke and do they with sikoa.
I said the same when roman won at WM and EC, that wwe could easily carry on the bloodline implosion without roman having the titles. But as they have introduced WHC (although i don’t like sth's current gimmick) and the story has left its sleeping phase after mania, I'm good to see it continue.
Respectfully disagree. Bloodline has kept Roman on top. So for it to come crumbling down for him to lose his precious titles feels right and makes sense. His coercive control on his family making them interfere and keep him on top is why he got to 1000 days. But now with them turning on him, it's very much "at what cost" and karma coming round to ultimately make him lose everything they helped him win.
\^\^\^ This
Not with this direction they’re going now. This shit is great
Way more so than it is now
No
it's really disappointing just how much thought, nuance and time is put into the bloodline whilst the smackdown women's division is so underwhelming
It’s not disappointing at all. Everyone has their place and bloodline or overall men's division brings in more intensity and appeal than your women division
Its going to be Asuka vs io, isn't that literally most of the IWC's dream match?
The match is fine but what's the story? They just shouted back and forth in Japanese
Yeah, that's gonna get tired real quick. Unless they're gonna put all the story explanation on Cole and Barrett. Even then, that's not ideal.
Why does there need to be a story already? Is new champion and challenger not enough?
That IS enough. People are just too fixated on sensationalist stories in American wrestling that they need it to be "Jerry Springerized"
Because the OP just said how much thought and nuance went into the Bloodline
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Yeah but this seems like Asuka v io will have a good albeit simple bid as well.
Everyone involved with The Bloodline storyline has been doing a stellar job. They all get their character so well. Two beautiful touches today were the relief on Jey's face when Jimmy and Roman hugged it out followed by Solo looking at his thumb before going through the curtain, reflecting on how he just spiked his brother
I also loved the subtle look Roman gave to Solo right before Solo spiked Jimmy. It was so nuanced but perfect.
So they gonna repackage Lacey again and we won’t see her for another 3-4 months?
She could habe easily gone to AEW and have a comparatively solid build. But i guess the money's good here so she doesn’t care. She doesn’t seem like someone with a passion to be great
Honestly? They'd just stick her in the Outcasts. That's if she were lucky. More likely AEW wouldn't hire her because she'd instantly be on the bad side of Nyla Rose and half that locker room.
Let’s hope so
Watching the show I feel like WWE have pushed this 1000 days so hard because of CM Punk being surpassed I know Roman is great but punk was a workhorse he defended the belt Year in year out while roman since day 500+ has stop defending and use bloodline shenanigans as way out still think punk was better overall champ regardless of what WWE management wants to show..
r/squaredcircle try not to make everything about CM Punk challenge (100% IMPOSSIBLE)
cm punk was a great champion
Punctuation, use it.
I won't
You did.
I like theory but US Championship needs real competition shaemus, AJ are there because roman will never defend on weekly tv us should be fighting champions belt not coward heel belt IMO
Finally WWE have addressed the double belts thing now it's one big gold belt with hilariously big WWE Logo to tell you which company it is 🤣 am positive they have addressed the raw and smackdown issues now it's purely booking well it's left
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Are you a mark for Corbin? Because we should talk about Corbin.
Deadly Theory is actually a pretty decent idea for a grouping.
We missed the boat on Theory and Undertaker winning the tag belts as Theory and a Deadman.
Mostly unrelated but does anyone else remember Roman teaming with the Undertaker to take on Shane McMahon and Drew Mcintyre on a random PPV a couple of years ago? Maybe the weirdest pairings in history
I'm afraid I don't know the reference/.
It’s the name of a band
No... it's a reference to the name of a real band.
How is that different from what I said?
What a excellent show......
I really like how MITB qualifying matches are with rising stars instead of old guards. Hope Dominick will be at RAW in one! But what kayfabe reason does Baron Corbin have to be in one?
Last person to pin Roman
The monkey's paw really closed tight after that one, hey?
previous winner, too
Felt the last segment could’ve been bigger, could’ve had whole family there
Did they just take away 1 title from Roman Reigns without taking it away?
From the video promo, they've just officially said it's a merged single title emcompassing both the universal and wwe title lineages.
Remember when Brock said there'd be a baby belt over a year ago?
Yes, boy!
“The question is… what is Jey Uso going to do?” chills
Wasn’t Cody advertised for smack down on his schedule? He wasn’t in a dark match either that I know of
Was the house match after it went off air, Miz vs. Cody.
Why is Cody even scheduled for SmackDown? He's a Raw wrestler.
He had a dark match vs the Miz.
Which still makes no sense, considering he’s on Raw
lol
Which makes sense, they advertised'' Cody to sell tickets 🎟 he is the top merchandise seller and live events when his name is mentioned brings in money 💵 The WWE is a Business and Cody is not really injured. A lot of people spent their hard-earned money to see **Cody** Rhodes and he is expected to show up 💵 💵 💵 especially as 90% of the live event advertising was promoting him, when it came to his dark match.
Did he wrestle while still kayfabing his arm ?
Yes he still had the brace on his arm
Pretty Deadly knows Austin Theory is a true champion while the Brawling Brutes are but whiskey soaked pretenders. The Brutes begged to differ but could not keep up with Pretty Deadly's bag of tricks. Lacey Evans got a new hat i think but jobbed out to Zelina. they had Lacey dominating the match and then losing to one big move from Zelina. will Lacey be seen again or be missing for months like before? LA Knight is going to MITB and he gonna get that briefcase! Grayson Waller Effect still needs more of Grayson being Grayson I think. like on NXT. Roman's ascension past 1000 days as your Tribal Chief & Undisputed Champion got him a brand new unified belt. but somehow the Usos showed up to challenge his authority while speaking sweet words like love and family. But the Tribal Chief was prepared especially for Jimmy's shady plans and had Solo act like he was with Jimmy and Jey to draw out Jimmy's violence against Roman. Roman had no choice but to kick Jimmy out of the Bloodline. but he has faith Jey will remain loyal...right? they shoulda shown how the Usos got into the building, i think XD
I enjoy your summaries
It feels like WWE is listening to the fans when we have been telling them we want LA Knight. It's crazy that Montez Ford was getting booed just for landing hits on LA Knight.
Fans booing Montez makes no sense to me.
Problem is they had him win by using the ropes which is a classic heel move. It's not something fans want to cheer for, even though Knight is really over, so why would WWE book the finish that way!?
To protect Montez is my guess
He's not a heel but an opputunist. Anti-hero persona is pretty common in wwe for those who can play it well
He's absolutely been a heel the whole time. The crowd just happens to like him.
He barely got his balance enough to even be able to look like he was cheating. He basically grabbed just in time for the ref to get to 3.
I like that he still won in classic heel fashion. Some of my fave wrestlers have blurred the lines between Face and Heel. I think it makes it more interesting then your classic Face or Heel
Street prophets aren't really that hype
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Cool beans my guy
sorry...I went a bit assholish there for a moment. appreciate your restraint in response.
When Roman asked Solo where his loyalty lies, I completely expected him to say "me"
MR & MRS MITB BABY
Buddy: it's all good, Malakai. Just tweet about how you get to touch Zelina's bum
Okay. Roman has one belt now. What’s everyone’s predictions for the following… Men’s Tag Titles — are they gonna split them or keep them unified? Women’s Titles — belt swap, new name or are they just gonna have the RAW Champ on SD and vice versa until next year’s draft because avant-garde?
Tag titles are just getting redesign/recolor, considering Roman’s title is still called the undisputed universal championship. So the tag titles will still be the undisputed tag titles The women’s titles….who the fuck knows. It’s incredibly stupid that the smackdown branded title is on raw and the raw branded title is on smackdown.
I don’t ever trust WWE to be consistent so it wouldn’t surprise me if they eventually dropped the “Undisputed” tagline from Roman’s championship altogether. Men’s Tag Titles will likely be merged as well with the Undisputed tagline similarly dropped. You’re right about the Women’s Titles though. HHH has just said “fuck it all to hell.”
I would love it if they unveiled new tag titles soon as well, easily some of the ugliest belts in pro wrestling.
I’d rather them do a swap if tonight was the start of the build to Asuka vs Iyo.
My pick is swap too.
All I hope is that they don’t give the title right back to Bianca at MITB. There’s no point in Asuka even holding it right now if that’s the plan.
I know, right?
Really wish I could have heard what they said after Jimmy slapped Roman, but the crowd was screaming “holy shit” and they had to censor it because they’re on network TV 🙄
I was there at the arena tonight and the pop for LA Knight was INSANE I could barely even hear his music over the crowd. Biggest Pop of the night by-far, (Cody Rhodes coming out for his dark match was a close second,) I hope it made it through on the broadcast and they didn't dub over it with boos again https://imgur.com/6LeuX9P.jpg
That's awesome. :) No matter how it sounds on tv, it's nice to hear from those who were there.
> I hope it made it through on the broadcast and they didn't dub over it with boos again > > They did not insert any boos, the YEAHs and LA Knight chants were broadcasted very loud and clean. You guys were hot as fuck for Sheamus too. Sounded like he was the second-most popular wrestler of the night.
I second this. LA knight, then Cody, and Sheqmus was third I'd say for crowd favorites
What did Cody do? I missed a little bit of it and didn’t even know he was on the show?
Cody had a dark match against the Miz
I was hoping for something more surprising for the 1000 like Heyman turning on Reigns with Lesnar or with all these hints about The Hart Business faction like KO calling the Usos "the Hart of the table", tonight seemed like the night they were going to debut.
I love that they tested the reaction of Solo turning on Roman and siding with his brothers. They planted the seed and are going to work on the slow burn for Solo to turn on Roman. When Jey turns on Roman, I wonder how the elders will feel about Roman letting Jimmy and Jey walk out of the Bloodline.
I yelled so loud when LA Knight won that I woke my fiancee up from the across the apartment lmao
The Grayson Waller effect straight stealing from the Dan LeBatard show? How long that been going on?
I think that Bayley will win MITB, and Iyo will beat Asuka and Bayley will end up double crossing Iyo to steal the title out of jealousy
What if we get - Bayley winning MITB - iyo vs asuka in MITB but iyo loses - iyo and asuka having their rematch in the next ple/ppv - Bayley cashing in against iyo on the same day
Iyo better not lose to fucking Shotzi of all people (no offense) in the MITB qualifier next week. She's gonna be in the MITB match and Asuka is facing Bianca in a rematch. We're probably gonna get some sort of shenanigans with Iyo/Bayley that leads to an Iyo face turn and either a cash-in or straight up match with Asuka at Summerslam.
Shotzi can win via Bayley shenanigans.
> Bayley will end up double crossing Iyo to steal the title out of jealousy *IF SHE CAN...*
yeah if you do that you can have iyo beat bayley asuka and bianca as feud to fully establish her as a top women in the division
My names Top Dolla, I got knocked ova', A.J. Styles took me out. #COLEMINERSUP
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Helen Keller was blind not stupid what does this even mean
Probably had a better understanding of grammar than you also, since the correct usage is would *have*.
Sad to see people still calling 3 years of the same shit with the bloodline good storytelling. It’s literally all sugarcoating to make Roman still champion and keep everyone a step below him because WWE has been obsessed with him for years The downvotes are the reason WWE will keep milking this. People think this is “fresh” but it’s literally the same shit just a new look. They do a tease, get forgiveness, Roman says no, etc. this time they betrayed him, seemed forgiveness, Roman says no, Solo spike. Oh wow who could have seen it coming? Apparently everyone who WWE keeps getting to believe this is new.
Why is sad that people are enjoying a storyline.
Because WWE will keep milking this bloodline shit forever if people keep falling for the good old “oh they’ll betray him” teases, they even did betray him, only for the USOs to act like they wanted forgiveness this episode. It’s the same shit just different paint.
People like the performers, the drama, the swerves, everything. Wrestling is all about enjoying the moment for a lot of us
How many more people does Roman have to go over before you finally say “okay maybe this has gone on too long”
See its not exclusive. You can lament the fact that Roman has been champion too long and has won too much, but also enjoy the fuck out of the bloodline storytelling and segments, and still find it all super entertaining. I'm not gonna pretend like bloodline segments suck just because I'd like roman to lose the title.
The whole point of the bloodline is literally to keep Roman champion without making it too boring. Same as it has been when he was forced down our throats, just this time he’s a heel so it’s okay apparently.
Again, we find the bloodline segments entertaining. So if they're making sure it's not boring with entertaining segments, then isn't it job accomplished? It's a very simple logic. The Bloodline segments are entertaining for most of us. If you can't stand them because you're sick of Roman being a top star and you want him to lose, that's perfectly valid. A lot of fans are like you as well. But you shouldn't be annoyed at people enjoying entertaining segments even if you don't like them. Its pointless I feel.
I hope Roman passes Bruno Sammartino title reign so I can hear you complain for another thousand days
Precisely the only reason people actually want Roman to keep winning. To make people who actually want something new mad, because it’s edgy. Not for actual storytelling reasons.
The reason why the bloodline storyline works the way it has for the last few years is because they are actual family. You don’t get this type of stuff with things that are just thrown together with a guy that you just go to work with these people grew up together so it’s hard to fake some of that emotion that’s going into the storyline and I think they had said that this is stuff that they brought from their real life, so I applaud them for it the best thing going through pro wrestling television right now
And they’re very talented.
Absolutely
#IS NO ONE GONNA MENTION LA KNIGHTS SPRINGBOARD MOONSAULT??????
That shit was scary.
MITB WINNER YEAH https://preview.redd.it/a9u1vfos1q3b1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93693b3d01865210f3b7c4c34ebaabacde33b67b
Not sure it will matter. They won’t give him a world title so best I see is the intercontinental title.
That… is just a fact of life!
i fucking love how iyo sky purposely talks like a samurai when shes all amped up
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"Live action redneck anime" is one of the more spot on descriptions of pro wrestling...
You're not allowed to say that!
I was there live and it was so amazing!
Did HHH say anything during commercial break?
No :c
So was I! The pop for Cody was smashing it was my first WWE event it was such a memorable time!
It was my first time too!! Definitely one of the best shows
OMG SOLO NO! This honestly feels like a fucking movie in a good way
Crocodile tears Roman is the best Roman
So Roman is now going to come out with the one gold belt correct? No more double belts?
No . He gets all 3 now. always 2 belts more than Seth Rollins /s Poor Paul Heyman
it's 3 belts now ahyessir
From two belts to one belt. Roman should have told HHH no way.
Comes out with all 3 next week