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mooseinfants
Dec 22, 2014
WWE still gives their women more total tv time than AEW does but it's all bad promos and boring feud building that it hardly matters. I'd rather watch AEW's one women's match a week because at least I know that it'll be good.

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MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

mooseinfants posted:

WWE still gives their women more total tv time than AEW does but it's all bad promos and boring feud building that it hardly matters. I'd rather watch AEW's one women's match a week because at least I know that it'll be good.

They give them more TV time because they have more TV time. AEW had more women's wrestling on one episode of Dynamite than Smackdown had during the first three weeks of April combined. Some weeks 2 hours of Dynamite have more than 3 hours of Raw.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Raw and Smackdown are killing the women's division on those shows. They don't give them time or good storylines. Instead of giving Bianca, Bayley, and Sasha at least a half hour or 45 minutes, they get like 20 total. Raw is even worse in that all the time goes to Charlotte, Nia, and Shayna. Nia and Shayna are also killing the division in being featured on both shows in stale feuds that they never lose for some reason. Shayna is good but is totally wasted by Nia's dead weight and this go nowhere tag team.

NXT still does well by the women, giving them time and storylines and matches across the show.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


NXT https://www.f4wonline.com/nxt-results/wwe-nxt-live-results-finn-balor-returns-340551

Isaiah "Swerve" Scott defeats Leon Ruff in a Falls Count Anywhere match after former NFL player AJ Francis makes his debut, interfering to help Swerve
Cameron Grimes defeats Asher Hale
Timothy Thatcher and Tommaso Ciampa defeat Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson)
Karrion Kross challenges Austin Theory for next week
Kross stands tall in a brawl between himself, Kyle O'Reilly, Pete Dunne and Finn Balor. Kross is then jumped by Johnny Gargano and Theory
Sarray defeats Zayda Raimer
LA Knight defeats Jake Atlas
Toni Storm threatens to take Zoey Stark out of the business
KUSHIDA defends the cruiserweight title against Santos Escobar next week; Raquel Gonzalez defends the women's title against Mercedes Martinez next week
The Way (Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell) win the women's tag titles over Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart in a street fight

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib

Chris James 2 posted:

Isaiah "Swerve" Scott defeats Leon Ruff in a Falls Count Anywhere match after former NFL player AJ Francis makes his debut, interfering to help Swerve
https://streamable.com/v9i2ze
Blinded by the light!
https://i.imgur.com/3WgsvdF.gifv
https://mobile.twitter.com/WWE/status/1389737333575008256

Austin Theory boob joke
https://streamable.com/kbczme

https://mobile.twitter.com/WWE/status/1389745775324827648

Chris James 2 posted:

Timothy Thatcher and Tommaso Ciampa defeat Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson)
https://streamable.com/uc2dmv

Chris James 2 posted:

Karrion Kross challenges Austin Theory for next week
Kross stands tall in a brawl between himself, Kyle O'Reilly, Pete Dunne and Finn Balor. Kross is then jumped by Johnny Gargano and Theory
https://streamable.com/ixrsog

Chris James 2 posted:

The Way (Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell) win the women's tag titles over Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart in a street fight
https://streamable.com/tve2gx
https://streamable.com/e2qkvs
https://streamable.com/haauni
Finish
https://streamable.com/7vdhb7

M'Lady
https://i.imgur.com/to4aKn5.gifv

LA Knight has bad jokes
https://streamable.com/sshdam

Grimes
https://streamable.com/1zfz5u

Indi Lumis I think is the highlight of NXT for me
https://streamable.com/l72ai3

This is why tanks need hatches
https://streamable.com/8ge802

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

Is that guy supposed to be a mixture between bray wyatt, orange cassidy and a brony

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
The NXT women's tag belts have existed for 2 months and already has 3 different champions

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST

Benne posted:

The NXT women's tag belts have existed for 2 months and already has 3 different champions

This is just baseless speculation on my part, but I think Shotzi and Ember lost the tag titles because they quickly need challengers for Raquel. She has no one to face after she (inevitably) beats Mercedes next week. Everyone else credible are heels.

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Orange Carlisle posted:

Is that guy supposed to be a mixture between bray wyatt, orange cassidy and a brony

giant bomb podcast listener

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

DarkstarIV posted:

This is just baseless speculation on my part, but I think Shotzi and Ember lost the tag titles because they quickly need challengers for Raquel. She has no one to face after she (inevitably) beats Mercedes next week. Everyone else credible are heels.

It's good to know that NXT is as badly booked as the rest of the company.

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

JOHN CENA posted:

giant bomb podcast listener

My monitor is on

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

Benne posted:

The NXT women's tag belts have existed for 2 months and already has 3 different champions

I don't mean to gently caress up your suspension of disbelief but for a couple hundred bucks and a visit to wwe's online shop you too can be a world champion

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
I think Kool Kyle is funnier than the Fiend right now.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
wrestlers just look like regular people now. it sucks.

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
Say what you will about WWE booking, but at least they semi-regularly provide a platform for Shotzi Blackheart to just throw her body into poo poo

Also Leon Ruff rules and I'm glad he's getting stuff to do beyond the initial Gargano-Priest story

Eat My Fuc
May 29, 2007

Shayna Baszler posted:

wrestlers just look like regular people now. it sucks.

Yea it’s a big reason why NXT isnt for me when it comes to the mens division

Wazzu
Feb 28, 2008

Are you sure I'm winning the Rumble? That does'nt seem right.....

DarkstarIV posted:

This is just baseless speculation on my part, but I think Shotzi and Ember lost the tag titles because they quickly need challengers for Raquel. She has no one to face after she (inevitably) beats Mercedes next week. Everyone else credible are heels.

I mean Candice hadn't held a title, and Indilumis can have different intrigue with them as Champions. What plots are ember and shotzi doing?

Also Candice motivating Indi while flipping the blinds on the serial killer in the closet is hilarious.

Crazy to watch NXT build things for the next week now. And Kyle continues to be painfully lame, unclear if that's the point.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

xbilkis posted:

Say what you will about WWE booking, but at least they semi-regularly provide a platform for Shotzi Blackheart to just throw her body into poo poo

Also Leon Ruff rules and I'm glad he's getting stuff to do beyond the initial Gargano-Priest story

All I've seen of Shotzi is her taking stupid bumps for no reason.

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova

Dango Bango posted:

All I've seen of Shotzi is her taking stupid bumps for no reason.

This is the purest, most beautiful form of wrestling, my friend

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
Man, Sarray's suplexes are incredibly good looking for a woman as small as her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTCkKbol34

YourHumbleMessiah
Oct 11, 2005




Leon Ruff vs Swerve was a lot of fun, worth a watch!

Nipponophile
Apr 8, 2009
Do they still have two Cruiserweight Champions?

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1389785901094559744

YOU'RE FREE MR. DANIELSON LEAVE AND NEVER LOOK BACK

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Rarity posted:

Imagine telling people a year ago that AEW's women's division would be ahead of WWE's
tbf I kept saying from Day 1 of the pandemic that the biggest reason it was bad was because

1) Lots of injured mainstays
2) No travel between Japan/US which put a hold on their Joshi imports
3) Almost everyone had been signed up just before the pandemic by WWE or Impact

mooseinfants posted:

WWE still gives their women more total tv time than AEW does but it's all bad promos and boring feud building that it hardly matters. I'd rather watch AEW's one women's match a week because at least I know that it'll be good.
All it takes is 7 hours a week of television to overpower the 25~ minutes a week AEW gets in 2 hours.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Fightful posted:

Fightful has spoken with sources both inside and outside of WWE that have indicated that Daniel Bryan's WWE contract either expired or was set to expire last week, after his Smackdown match. Bryan was on the losing end of a WWE Universal Title match to Roman Reigns in which stipulated he leave Smackdown if he lost, and was quickly moved to the alumni section of WWE.com.

High level sources both outside and inside have noted that they'd heard of the expiration of the deal, but that Bryan had not spoken openly about his contract status that they're aware of. We also hadn't heard of any particular farewells backstage as if he wasn't going to be around, although that doesn't mean they didn't happen privately.

Bryan did an interview with TV Line, where they noted that he was tight lipped about when his contract actually ended, and Bryan said the following: "It’s funny that people gravitate towards the date “September,” and I think it’s because that’s when my last contract ended, but it doesn’t end in September. [Note: Bryan was tight-lipped about when his contract actually runs out.] I’m still trying to figure out what that looks like… I had a tag team match on SmackDown last Friday, and it was a lot of fun, but my neck was just wrecked" We should note that this doesn't mean that Bryan is leaving WWE, hasn't re-signed since or that he won't work for WWE without a contract, as we're told he's been vocal about doing some unconventional work with and for WWE. This wouldn't come as a surprise since he's said as much in interviews. What we can confirm is that several talent within WWE had heard that Bryan's contract was set to expire.

Fightful has reached out to numerous officials and representatives to get a comment or confirmation on the news, but thus far have not heard back. We'll continue to work to get an official confirmation

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1389786271975985152

This is a legit massive scoop, toss Fightful a fiver if you're as happy about this news as I am.

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

He’s resigning

Procrastinator
Aug 16, 2009

what?


Chris James 2 posted:

KUSHIDA defends the cruiserweight title against Santos Escobar next week

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzxzz

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

JUNGLE BOY posted:

He’s resigning

He's not resigning, you piece of poo poo, he's resigning.

Procrastinator
Aug 16, 2009

what?


hes resigned to re-signing, sook to be residing in NXT JAPAN

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

JUNGLE BOY posted:

He’s resigning
re-signing?

e:

quote:

KUSHIDA defends the cruiserweight title against Santos Escobar next week
Poor guy left NJPW as one of the most popular Jr Heavyweights (Because they wouldn't let him move to the Heavyweight division) to go to NXT, barely be used for two years, and become a cruiserweight champion.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


This bit already sucks, so looking forward to it going on for three more pages

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

oMG bryan is free to ensure that his next contract is a bit better in spite of his value decreasing slightly over time

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
I’ll believe he’s out of WWE when he shows up in a rival promotion. Until then, eh.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon

Chris James 2 posted:

This bit already sucks, so looking forward to it going on for three more pages

resign

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
They’ve heard the last of Daniel Bryan, but not the last of Brian Danielson

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Of all the moves Bryan could do I'm not sure what would be worse, resigning with WWE or working current CMLL

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Anyone doing jokes I don’t like will be fined $100k and suspended for a week

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CarlCX
Dec 14, 2003

There's such an aura of incredible lameness around LA Knight.

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