Jaysin Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Why have Xavier and Kofi win the smackdown tag belts if they're moving to raw? Seems dumb to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djthefunkchris Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Why have Xavier and Kofi win the smackdown tag belts if they're moving to raw? Seems dumb to me A way to call for brands to interact. Give a belt that belongs to one brand, to another, and vise versa, and you have the appearance of brand splits while still being able to have match's involving both brands? Haven't watched in a while, but that's why I would do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="djthefunkchris" data-cite="djthefunkchris" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A way to call for brands to interact. Give a belt that belongs to one brand, to another, and vise versa, and you have the appearance of brand splits while still being able to have match's involving both brands?<p> </p><p> Haven't watched in a while, but that's why I would do it.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I mean, I guess that works but they've already established the roster split doesn't matter because they keep making wild card rules where people can appear on both shows anyway. </p><p> </p><p> If I was doing a brand split, I'd do everything I could to make them two separate entities instead of clones of each other.</p><p> </p><p> It's bad enough they've ruined NXT since the move to USA Network.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I mean, I guess that works but they've already established the roster split doesn't matter because they keep making wild card rules where people can appear on both shows anyway. <p> </p><p> If I was doing a brand split, I'd do everything I could to make them two separate entities instead of clones of each other.</p><p> </p><p> It's bad enough they've ruined NXT since the move to USA Network.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> So do the Street Profits go to SmackDown with the Raw belts? Either that or hot potato it off New Day to the previous champs.</p><p> </p><p> Didn't even know Xavier was back, but the clip got me invested in their split. "Say He's name!"</p><p> </p><p> Unfortunately, they will probably reunite at some point. I would rather E get to new heights without the team, while they struggle to find their footing for a bit before they find a sense of normalcy without him.</p><p> </p><p> Eventually you can have a match where E helps them, but then go off their separate ways. Like a bit of nostalgia, where they tip their cap to their history, but they realize they should go their separate ways.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 So New Day and Street Profits simply traded tag titles. Kinda dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 KOR is going to be the one behind the attacks, isn't he? I could actually get behind that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 <p>Really enjoyable HIAC. Despite the gimmick being over done well before last night, it didn't feel overused. They should look to retire it for a few years though.</p><p> </p><p> Right results for the most part. Maybe The Hurt Business comes across better on TV. The group does less than nothing for me. You could see Tucker's turn coming. Not sure what the fascination is with makeshift teams when they continually break up established teams.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Watching Hell in a Cell and Michael Cole and Corey Graves are so bad on commentary. I used to love Graves, but his pairing with Cole is just bad. They have negative chemistry in TEW terms. I know Vince is yelling in their ears, but man, they're annoying. They explained the rules of the I Quit match like ten times! At one point, Cole said something to Graves and there was a 30 second pause before Graves responded and if was super awkward. Roman and Jey is very good, but commentary is really detracting from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Interesting turn of events at Halloween Havoc. Still think someone from the UE is involved somehow. Maybe not. Will probably watch the show on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 <p>Also watched most of Havoc. Liked the presentation of Shotzi, the Ciampa promo and the 'movie' match, but there's just something incredibly stupid about casting fake crowd sounds when there's... no crowd. I can suspend my disbelief (this is pro wrestling after all) but it all feels very hokey. The random people on the monitors all over aren't exactly contributing much to anything, being motionless after a key win and looking all excited when the match is dull. Dumb decisions that almost destroy the experience for me. The performance during Shirai's intro was obviously fake as well.</p><p> </p><p> The show was fine and the concept was nice but cancelled my subscription for the second time in years, despite NXT still being in a good place (Gargano cracks me up every week with his antics). I haven't watched anything "main show" for months. I looked at the Clash of Champions card and just passed on it.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Also watched most of Havoc. Liked the presentation of Shotzi, the Ciampa promo and the 'movie' match, but there's just something incredibly stupid about casting fake crowd sounds when there's... no crowd. I can suspend my disbelief (this is pro wrestling after all) but it all feels very hokey. The random people on the monitors all over aren't exactly contributing much to anything, being motionless after a key win and looking all excited when the match is dull. Dumb decisions that almost destroy the experience for me. The performance during Shirai's intro was obviously fake as well.<p> </p><p> The show was fine and the concept was nice but cancelled my subscription for the second time in years, despite NXT still being in a good place (Gargano cracks me up every week with his antics). I haven't watched anything "main show" for months. I looked at the Clash of Champions card and just passed on it.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> When is Clash of Champions? Survivor Series looks OK, but all I ever watch is NXT and the main show PPVs...and even those I usually just go in blind on what the card is.</p><p> </p><p> I haven't paid much attention to the people on the screens at the Capitol Wrestling Center. I would rather they pipe in the noise than hearing people yelling and banging on plexiglass. Works great for soccer for the European leagues. I was so fixed on the action that I didn't notice there were no fans. For wrestling you would have to black out the crowd area, since they would always be "visible" in some shots.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 When is Clash of Champions? I haven't paid much attention to the people on the screens at the Capitol Wrestling Center. It WAS two months ago, I think. And the NXT crowd of talent that watch and 'animate' every week is a good thing imo. The bashing does make some noice that is suitable to the action, so that's definitely a positive imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Survivor Series was enjoyable overall. Neat send off to the Undertaker, but if they weren't going to speak or do anything, not sure what the point was to bring out his buddies. I would say the booking decisions made sense for thelat part - don't recall anything egregious happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHK1978 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I was watching an old WWF MSG show from 1982 yesterday and I was a little shocked by who was in the first match. It was a match between Eddie Gilbert and his opponent was Curt Hennig. I was shocked because I had no clue that Curt wrestled in the WWF prior to his days as Mr. Perfect. I just assumed all of his pre-Mr. Perfect days were in the AWA. I was not shocked to see Eddie Gilbert in the match because I knew he was in the WWF around that time. It was just odd to see Curt as a young babyface. Yes I know he was that in the AWA as well but I have never had the chance to see much of the old AWA stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Just read NXT India is launching in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 It's being reported that a NXT Mexico or some sort of Lucha libre show for the network is in the works, possibly with Chavo Guerrero Jr involved back stage due to his work in Lucha Underground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 If it's anything like LU that'd be gold. Cancelled my sub atm because of lack of interesting things happening, but that might change that. And it's been said before, but how sad is the women's tag division booked? I criticized TBA's because the roster wasn't deep enough, but here, based on the matchups alone, it's just lack of effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BHK1978 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I do not know if I ever shared this story or not on here about Luke Harper. I once saw him wrestle for Dragon Gate USA in a show outside of Boston. He was working as a heel and for the entire match there was a little boy who was maybe seven or eight (He could have been younger) screaming and yelling at him the entire match. After the match was done Luke left the ring and went over to where the young heckler was. I believe Luke's intentions were to give the kid a little scare as a joke because he looked down at the kid and stared at him. The kid started laughing and it was at that point that Luke noticed the kid had a deformed hand (No I am not a mind reader but I could tell by the look on his face). Luke went and gave the kid a hug and then clapped for the kid and told him he did a good job bothering him. What is the point of this story? There is none really, I just always thought that was kind of cool of him to do that. I thought I would share this again. This is why I always liked Luke/Brodie. I always felt there was so much more that the WWE could have done with him and they just never did for whatever reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 I was thinking about unique match types and I wish WWE would bring back the Championship Scramble match. I was in attendance for Unforgiven 2008 and the crowd ate the matches up like crazy. Also, another concept I really enjoyed that only happened once (to my knowledge) was the Elimination Chase. The first week it's a multi man match. The following week it's another multi man match except the loser from the previous week isn't in the match. This went on for a few weeks until it was down to two competitors. I thought it was one of the highlights of WWECW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShibataHeadbutt Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 I was thinking about unique match types and I wish WWE would bring back the Championship Scramble match. I was in attendance for Unforgiven 2008 and the crowd ate the matches up like crazy. Also, another concept I really enjoyed that only happened once (to my knowledge) was the Elimination Chase. The first week it's a multi man match. The following week it's another multi man match except the loser from the previous week isn't in the match. This went on for a few weeks until it was down to two competitors. I thought it was one of the highlights of WWECW. the elimination chase is something i always do with the floating titles in my games to crown the first ever champion, it will be four teams or six singles would love to see that in wrestling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I usually start paying attention to the main roster around this time for the road to Wrestlemania, but I'm not even interested in NXT anymore. That said, I am cautiously optimistic about Roman vs Adam Pearce. I always liked Adam on the independent scene and I know he hasn't wrestled in six years, but I think he's a smart enough worker to be able to have a good match with Roman. As long as it isn't a squash anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Super random, but Bo Dallas is still under contract and hasn't worked a match since November 2019. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 WWE Network is shutting down in March in the United States. All the content will be moved to the Peacock streaming service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kijar Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>WWE Network is shutting down in March in the United States. All the content will be moved to the Peacock streaming service.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I had just convinced myself Peacock would be the one service I don't need, and then this. <img alt=":rolleyes:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/rolleyes.png.4b097f4fbbe99ce5bcd5efbc1b773ed6.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />:rolleyes:<img alt=":rolleyes:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/rolleyes.png.4b097f4fbbe99ce5bcd5efbc1b773ed6.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />:rolleyes:<img alt=":rolleyes:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/rolleyes.png.4b097f4fbbe99ce5bcd5efbc1b773ed6.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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