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my favourite speculation is that the reaosn the match was so short wads that Becky isnt ready to wrestle a full match shes now the champion! your theory is predicated on that they decided to put their belt on a woman who cant wrestle!
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Renaissance Spam posted:The plan was probably going to be a decent match between Sasha & Bianca (there was a lot of interest because they had a solid match at WM) and assuming Becky wasn't a full on Break Glass she was going to come out and challenge the winner. I agree on all points I guess! My decision to stop PVR recordings on Smackdown/Raw shining through here, I did have fun last night but it was 90% Live Thread Fun 10% watching-car-accident-in-slow-motion I really want to read more about the stadium issues now though
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Cerebral Bore posted:Assuming that Becky is so out of shape that she can't even go for some five to ten minutes then why the gently caress would you put the belt on her in the first place? Are they gonna have an absentee champ until she can work a match again? *gestures at half of the last WWE champions*
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Every time I see a clip from WWE it's still somehow shocking how they take a dump on all of your senses at once with their awful production Cole shrieking like he's being chased down an alley and needs help, the rapid cuts, zooms and bad angles, the overall stupidity level of what's happening on screen I'll never understand how people put up with it
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Aug 22, 2021 17:01
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Orange Carlisle posted:I'll never understand how people put up with it they have bad brain
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Lid posted:my favourite speculation is that the reaosn the match was so short wads that Becky isnt ready to wrestle a full match It could also be that they don't trust their talent enough to wrestle a match on the fly, and they didn't have enough time to fully script out the match like they seem to love doing, so they said "gently caress it" and just wrote the laziest thing they could come up with.
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Aug 22, 2021 17:11
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Cerebral Bore posted:The latter was on a PPV with plenty of time to spare, the former was on a one-hour show built entirely around one segment that clearly had to get as much time as it needed and everything else had to make room for it.  putting the belt on someone who cannot wrestle makes essentially no difference to the bottom line of the division right now
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Aug 22, 2021 17:12
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The thorg reptar fight was choreographed exactly like a Goldberg Lesnar match. The babies were Kevin Owens
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Lid posted:my favourite speculation is that the reaosn the match was so short wads that Becky isnt ready to wrestle a full match Well that's certainly something the WWE would never do with their title belts
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Lid posted:my favourite speculation is that the reaosn the match was so short wads that Becky isnt ready to wrestle a full match she will, probably, be ready to wrestle the next time she's in a match. which will probably be the next PPV at minimum.
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That DICK! posted:thorg reptar NXT changing up its naming scheme I see
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Oh Snapple! posted:she will, probably, be ready to wrestle the next time she's in a match. which probably be the next PPV at minimum. haha you think they're not going to drag her to Saudi Arabia edit why did I think that wasn't a ppv and it was next month
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Just  'ing at the fact that Vince is so clearly shook by Punk's signing with AEW and debuting there on Friday that he pressed all his panic buttons at once 
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Dango Bango posted:Was it just a coincidence that Carmella was wearing leopard print with teal last night? lol What's the significance of leopard print with teal?
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Vandar posted:What's the significance of leopard print with teal? 
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Rofl. Amazing.
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I highly doubt Becky isn't in ring shape. More likely is that since this was last minute, they didn't want to throw them out there to try and put a match together on the fly, even though Becky is someone who could do that. Just no trust in the talent since the match wouldn't have been rehearsed like they want.
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I doubt she ever would, BUT if Carmella ever left WWE and signed with AEW, I wouldn't be horribly upset. There was a mixed tag she was in a while back where she got the win over Zelina Vega, and she looked like she'd improved a fair bit. Train her out of the WWE style and let her have a few matches with workers like Shida and Thunder Rosa and she'd probably get even better.
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If what Dave says is true and they knew Sasha wasn't going to get cleared 8 days ago, that's plenty of time to put a match together between Becky and Bianca.
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Hector Delgado posted:Did Alexa's doll blink or anything? Not at all. Alexa got pissed off when the doll was disrespected, which actually makes sense so I imagine it was a booking error.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I doubt she ever would, BUT if Carmella ever left WWE and signed with AEW, I wouldn't be horribly upset. There was a mixed tag she was in a while back where she got the win over Zelina Vega, and she looked like she'd improved a fair bit. Train her out of the WWE style and let her have a few matches with workers like Shida and Thunder Rosa and she'd probably get even better. Carmella has come a long way. She's pretty decent in the ring now, and with the WWE stink off of her I bet she'd be pretty good.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Nobody’s even talking about the fact that they had Nakamura do his entrance and then just… leave. Didn’t have a match or anything. Is Rick Boogs' guitar still out of tune?
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Cerebral Bore posted:Personally I just hope that Brock took Vince to the cleaners. lol same. they're going to end up firing more people to justify the brock salary and continue the cycle of devouring themselves until the roster is just brock, roman, and 13 non wrestlers they picked up from an open try out that they constantly cycle out so no one else ever makes more than $120k a year
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Pylons posted:If what Dave says is true and they knew Sasha wasn't going to get cleared 8 days ago, that's plenty of time to put a match together between Becky and Bianca. You don't even have to "put a match together," you just have to give Bianca a LITTLE offense. Just do this: - They square up and Bianca says something cocky to Becky - Becky smacks Bianca around for ~15 seconds, just punching her in the corner or whatever - Bianca shoves Becky back and they brawl evenly like Owens/Zayn always do - Becky misses a big punch and Bianca picks her up for a slam - Becky counters into a DDT or some other impact move - Becky follows it up with a finisher and wins Like, that's not exactly inspired but I also wrote it out in a minute and I'm sure they wouldn't need to rehearse that. Do something that makes it clear that Bianca has functional limbs and is Very Strong, and make Becky hit her more than two times to win. surf rock fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Aug 22, 2021 |
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Pylons posted:If what Dave says is true and they knew Sasha wasn't going to get cleared 8 days ago, that's plenty of time to put a match together between Becky and Bianca. They announced Sasha's absence literally only after Bianca's entrance, so I really have no idea what the gently caress their plan was.
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Pylons posted:If what Dave says is true and they knew Sasha wasn't going to get cleared 8 days ago, that's plenty of time to put a match together between Becky and Bianca. Knowing WWE they convinced themselves Sasha could be cleared on the day so they kept refusing to admit defeat until SummerSlam actually started.
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I want to see everything crash and burn, including Dominik turning on Rey a year later than he should've while Vince breaks another panic button and says "Eddie was a better father to me than you ever were!"
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Even if they were somehow holding out hope that Sasha might get cleared an hour before the match started, however the gently caress that would happen, that doesn't mean they couldn't at some point that night before the match announce the match has been changed to Bianca vs Carmella. Do everything else the same way they did it if they really had to hotshot Becky back on top but like they showed the entire hype package again immediately before the match lol. Fortunately for them this bait and switch got quickly usurped by Becky making Bianca look like a chump so nobody had time to be mad about it I guess because nevermind that poo poo becky's back!
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So had there been any word about Vegas being pissed at WWE for running past 8pm? Or is it just an "aww shucks" thing they're handwaving?
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Bianca isn't comparable to Kofi. It's much, much, much, much, much worse. Kofi was like pushing and had been a midcarder for 10 years and his run post-Mania kinda wasn't even that good. Was the way they punted him back to the tag division as blatantly as possible and didn't even let him be a guy who could still contend for the title insulting? Yes. But Kofi is a guy who has his ceiling. He doesn't matter for business. Bianca was the closest thing this company had to a young babyface star in the last 10 years. And they've been slowly killing her since WrestleMania and they just shoved the knife between not only her shoulders, but Becky's too. I know it doesn't matter, but they basically just killed two of their top five stars at once and that should be devastating from a business perspective.
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That DICK! posted:Gorg hungry! Gorg want EAT!
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MJeff posted:Bianca was the closest thing this company had to a young babyface star in the last 10 years. And they've been slowly killing her since WrestleMania and they just shoved the knife between not only her shoulders, but Becky's too. I know it doesn't matter, but they basically just killed two of their top five stars at once and that should be devastating from a business perspective. Yeah, this.
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I appreciate the fact that wwe always makes sure they design every decision around not getting anyone involved over Their commitment to shooting themselves in both feet before the race starts is impressive
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The next time Carmella wrestles on TV she should wear gear that says "I <3 TK" on it
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Raeg posted:Gentlemen behold, a championship squash! IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT, MARKS?
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Raeg posted:Gentlemen behold, a championship squash! sticklefifer posted:IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT, MARKS? Now I'm picturing Johnny Ace and Bruce Prichard as The Mooninites, smashing up HHH's beloved NXT and corrupting Vince like he was Meatwad.
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Nikki ASH was a transitional champion from Charlotte Flair to Charlotte Flair.
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anakha posted:
Gorg, who lives in a cave and has saved $1 million a year for the past 20 years, was an outlier and should not have been counted
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