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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


lmfao

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


also lol Bray Wyatt has had five big moments in seven years resulting in major Mania matches with fans in attendance (half of them involving Orton even) and won none of them

Cena Mania 30
Taker Mania 31
Dwayne Mania 32
Orton Mania 33
Orton Mania 37

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Lazy like a Fox posted:

Can someone post Night 2 results so I don't have to parse the GDT? I know Night 1 had some decent to great matches, was there anything redeeming in N2?

Orton beats Fiend via distraction from Alexa impersonating Carrie
Nia and Shayna retain tag titles over Natalya and Tamina; Tamina botches a hot tag
Kevin Owens beats Sami Zayn, then stunners Logan Paul
Sheamus wins US title over Riddle, kicks his teeth out
Apollo Crews wins IC title over Big E after interference from Dabba Kato
Rhea Ripley wins Raw women's title over Asuka
Roman Reigns retains Universal title, pinning Edge and Bryan at same time

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzSMaQSNRm8

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Alan_Shore posted:

Wait, so Daniel Bryan didn't win in a feel good moment of the year? He was inserted pointlessly into a match you say?

Who could have seen this coming

They finally just said "gently caress it, what if Mania 30 had the ending We wanted" and the fans didn't riot over it. He's never getting anything again, and he's too in love with them to sign elsewhere despite it

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


He definitely gave up on him recently, nobody's just been able to agree on why, and the reasons vary from "he thinks he's fat" to "he thinks he's weak for getting COVID" to "he thinks he can't talk and is boring"

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Pylons posted:

https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1381713837875982337

Dunno what exactly this is yet, I'll edit this post when I find out.

:laffo: Bray was supposed to win and it got changed

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Raskolnikov38 posted:

lol not even jawwny defends the fiend anymore

He still thinks he rules, he's just given up on him being booked even half-decently

During the Mania sim stream Orton squashed Bray in...barely less time than the actual match I think? And they were all like "yeah that's probably the most likely result that's gonna happen from this"

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/ScrapDaddyAP/status/1381638754843172870
https://twitter.com/ScrapDaddyAP/status/1381710173568385025

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


PostMania Raw, what was once the highlight of the year https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-results/wwe-raw-live-results-raw-after-wrestlemania-37-338541

Earlier in the day Bobby Lashley arrived to greetings from everyone and even did an autograph, then got annoyed by Riddle who wanted a match. Lashley shoves him down, accepts and calls him a loser
Lashley defeats Riddle in a long squash
Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) return, defeat Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander
Charlotte returns, says it's unacceptable she wasn't at Mania. Her challenge to her ex-partner Asuka was ignored and Lacey got pregnant, none of which was her fault, yet she couldn't get booked. Every woman who was on the show over the two nights can't compare to her; she's the opportunity, that bitch, and that drat good
Rhea Ripley retains the Raw women's title over Asuka via DQ after Charlotte kicks both their asses
Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke beat up Nia Jax after she makes fun of Mandy falling on her entrance at Mania
Alexa Bliss says she doesn't need the Fiend to realize her potential, and reveals new friend Lily the doll who does a jump scare to the camera
MizTV with Maryse returning is interrupted by Damian Priest
Miz and John Morrison defeat Priest in a 2-on-1 handicap match because Bad Bunny's done post-Mania and Priest is alone now lol
Nia and Shayna Baszler defeat Mandy and Dana via countout. Nia tripped a couple times
MVP interrupted by Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton and Braun Strowman, all wanting title shots. Adam Pearce announces triple threat, winner vs Lashley at Wrestlemania Backlash
Elias performance interrupted by New Day
New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) defeat Elias and Jaxson Ryker
Bray Wyatt says he feels reborn in the Firefly Funhouse and that he'll always have his puppets
Drew defeats Orton and Braun, earning a rematch against Lashley at Wrestlemania Backlash. Postmatch T-Bar and Mace attack Drew as MVP looks on

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Professor Funk posted:

Is adam Cole ever getting called up?

Balor?

Io??

HHH wouldn't be able to save Cole from the height jokes and the burials to come
Finn explicitly asked to be sent back to NXT
Io's ceiling would be current-Asuka where there's ideas for her only as a backup option to the backup option when everything else has gone wrong
Gargano and Ciampa already got called up and made a joke in record time

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


:laffo: their Biggest Raw of the Year now can’t get 2.2mil viewers even for an hour

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1382071970397831170

Thurston losing it

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Post-Mania NXT https://www.f4wonline.com/nxt-results/wwe-nxt-live-results-takeover-stand-deliver-fallout-338631

Karrion Kross says he commands NXT until he decides he doesn't want to anymore
MSK (Wes Lee and Nash Carter) retain the tag titles over Killian Dain and Drake Maverick. Postmatch Imperium (sans WALTER) attack Dain
Exclusive footage from after Takeover, Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly both get stretchered to the hospital and Cole says he's gonna kill him
Mercedes Martinez defeats Jessi Kamea. Postmatch Mercedes chokes Robert Stone till he gives her money he owes her, then challenges Raquel Gonzalez
Santos Escobar issues an open challenge answered by KUSHIDA
KUSHIDA defeats Santos and wins the cruiserweight title. Postmatch backstage Jordan Devlin confronts KUSHIDA
Raquel promo interrupted by the debut of Franky Monet (fka Taya Valkyrie) and her dog
After Monet leaves, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair come out, hug Raquel, and all three pose with their titles
Sarray debuts next week
Roderick Strong gives William Regal his notice, Regal says he's welcome to return anytime
Isaiah "Swerve" Scott defeats Leon Ruff
Zoey Stark wants a shot at Raquel, Mercedes interrupts and calls her a nobody
Ruff attacks Swerve and says this isn't over
Bronson Reed, Shotzi Blackheart, Dexter Lumis and Ember Moon defeat The Way (Johnny Gargano, Candice LeRae, Austin Theory and Indi Hartwell). Lumis carries Hartwell away to safety as she plays dead and smirks at the camera behind his back; Bronson squashes Gargano

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


RealFoxy posted:

Ibushi turned down his first NJPW contract to do Kaiju Big Battel, I don't think he.....thinks.

KBB rules, this is the second smartest thing he's ever done

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Pope Corky the IX posted:

I’m so loving tired of Triple H

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



Last week/the last time they competed against AEW they had the exact same 18-49, and having the night to themselves only immediately gained 37k fans

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


karmicknight posted:

Please do not post Jim Cornette

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



*Wesley Blake

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Kalisto too

https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1382759893342511104

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



ICR posted:

Nick Khan was on Colin Cowherd’s podcast:

Here’s the notes:

Khan sees Latin America, specifically Mexico, as a prime region for market growth. He mentions that WWE could create their own lucha libre company in Mexico and put WWE's production values into it while keeping it authentic, it would be a success.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1382760763241160707

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Pylons posted:

Samoa Joe is gone.

Any other company ruining him this much to the point him being fired is worth a blip of a mention in a tweet of a mass release would surprise or upset me

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Jiro posted:

No way? Source please.

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1382763579913429002

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Alan_Shore posted:

This company is evil and dumb

They fired Zack Ryder's wife a year to the day they fired him

https://twitter.com/TheMattCardona/status/1382761127134830595

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


:lmao: gently caress you

https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1382765899690733570

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Nikki Cross is probably on the list too tbh

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


JUNGLE BOY posted:

Does anyone know about their visa status? It’s so much worse to gently caress with someone’s entire livelihood like that when they’ve sacrificed and probably haven’t been home the entire pandemic

No clue if they're in the same situation, but the last time this happened with a talent was exactly a year ago when they fired Cezar Bononi from NXT, an he was stuck in the country without a visa and his wife informed him the day before that she was pregnant. Can't imagine what would have happened if AEW hadn't picked him up soon after

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Dacap posted:

Weren’t both Edge and Bryan cases where only WWEs doctors wouldn’t clear them but every other specialist they saw said they were fine? I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same case.

And Christian

Christian said on Renee's podcast IIRC when they wouldn't even let him get cleared for contact more intense than a nutshot in that Orton fight, he went to doctors after because he was pissed and thought he wasn't that fragile anymore, and they cleared him but WWE still wouldn't until the Rumble when they wanted him to stay long-term/not go elsewhere

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Do it ironically posted:

lmao anyone who gives this company a single cent

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



I'm fine with her going back to TNA with Cardona

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/catherinekelley/status/1382764287656034304

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


not stuck:


stuck:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Invalid Validation posted:

I wonder if anyone laughs to the person giving the firing phone call, I know I would.

This happened with writer Patrice O’Neal and Steph called him multiple times to tell him hoping he’d have a different reaction

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


hahaha

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


The second GOTG made more money than the entire Expendables franchise combined

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I'd also like to leave box office aside and say Batista's films are simply better films than Austin's

GOTG over Expendables, Blade Runner 2049 over The Condemned, Stuber over The Longest Yard

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


SD commentary team going forward is Michael Cole and Pat McAfee

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Blaise330 posted:

aaaand?


Or we finally back to 2 man

Press release only mentioned them

quote:

Pat McAfee joins Friday Night SmackDown announce team

WWE today announced that Pat McAfee will debut as the new analyst for Friday Night SmackDown tonight at 8 pm ET live on FOX.

McAfee dropped the news on the WWE Universe with a huge social media announcement on Friday morning.

“For as long as I can remember WWE has been a company that I have admired, both for its incredible staying power of creating riveting entertainment and for its ability to connect people all over the globe,” said McAfee. “I’ve been fortunate to try a lot of cool professions but working for WWE was the one I looked forward to most. I am incredibly honored and grateful for the chance to give back to the business that has given me and many others so much and having the opportunity to sit at the same table that legends have graced is truly a dream come true. Now let’s go get it.”

McAfee will be joined at ringside every week by Michael Cole, VP of WWE’s on air announce talent and voice of Friday Night SmackDown on FOX.

Known for his candid, relatable, and refreshing opinions, McAfee’s insight and sense of humor have built him a large, loyal and active fan base. In addition to being a philanthropist, social media influencer, stand-up comedian and former All-Pro punter for the Indianapolis Colts, McAfee is also the host of the #1 international daily streaming sports show The Pat McAfee Show, which is simulcast both on YouTube and on Sirius XM Channel 82 Mad Dog Sports Radio. Additionally, McAfee is the host of the popular podcast The Pat McAfee Show 2.0 and has performed both inside the ring and behind the microphone on WWE’s NXT.

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/PeytonRoyceWWE/status/1383063939454488580

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