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The obvious solution to this very complicated booking conundrum is that Becky makes Ronda tapout in 5 seconds. Becky rules, Ronda drools.

When you already love Becky Lynch, that's increased with a Johnny Cash reference.

Okay, so I'm in Bermuda right now. And I checked in to see what they're doing about Becky Lynch. And the answer is.... *checks notes* Doing a flash title change on the WWE Championship and turning Daniel Bryan heel. ... I'm posting this and then throwing my phone into the ocean, as I'm sure this is the Bermuda Triangle fucking with my brain.

Watching what's happening with Becky Lynch is like actively watching something special happen with a wrestler where they're becoming the biggest thing in the company. The only difference is that this isn't 20 years ago, hell it isn't even 10 years ago, and this creative machine has no idea what to do with this.

I don't mind Bryan's turn. Yeslemania was more than 4 years ago and they're never going to recapture that moment. Bryan's run up till now has been pretty stale and I'm sure Bryan is itching at being a heel again. WWE also can't book babyface worth a lick, so he's better off being a heel.

It's Sapp, so whatever. The smart booking for Ronda/Becky would be a 10 minute bomb throwing prime-Puerto Rico brawl with 3 ref bumps then someone finally tosses the match out. Best thing to protect both.

Yo:

It's amazing how Becky is basically stumbling, open-eyed into one star-making moment after the other. It's starting to feel like Bryan in 2013. It's been years since someone actually dared to act like a star that was bigger than the brand. I'm pretty sure that it's closing in on critical mass. If she beats Ronda, she's a star. If she doesn't beat Ronda, the fans are going to revolt and make her bigger than she is now. This isn't the first bit of blood over the last few years, but it's the first bit since Reigns at Wrestlemania 2015 that felt like it mattered. Instead of having refs rush to put towels on her head and scurry her off, she got to pose defiantly, face exploded, what looked like a tear of blood running down her face. That should be on her merch tomorrow, by the way. Crying blood feels like the sort of iconic image that's marketable. Unless her knee or her neck explodes in the next week as well, they've pretty much got a monster on their hands.

They really are between a rock and a hard place. Ronda is the mainstream star, and she's gotten over. They've protected her well, she's looked good in all her matches, everything is going swimmingly and beating her now would be shortsighted. But Becky is absolutely on fire, the hottest act in the company, the crowd has already turned on one "chosen" star in favor of her, and beating Becky risks both killing off the heat of the person with the most momentum in the company AND turning the audience against Ronda, who they desperately want to be a top face.

I've told this story before on earlier versions of the board as well as on my defunct blog.... I was 19 years old and somehow got myself a job in the Marvel mailroom. About 5 months in I'm doing my rounds of delivering bundles of comics to every employee at Marvel who worked at the old Park Ave South address. I whip around a corner with my mail cart full of comics and stop short of running over Stan Lee. I immediately start apologizing while trying hard to fanboy freakout alll over him. He makes like its big deal and smiles that Stan Lee smile. I finally tell him what his work means to me and how his stories were one of the major factors in me learning to read. He flashes that smile again points at me and says "The smile on your face says it all true believer" and then walked off waving to everyone who he knew or that called out to him in the office. Stan Lee called me a True Believer to my face and wasn't being sarcastic or ironic. That is all that maters to me and all that ever will James

Miz should never, ever be a face again.

This is where “YASSSS QUEEN” or whatever it is the kids say these days is appropriate I think.

This makes me almost want to get back into GTA Online and make a criminal that looks like Dean Ambrose. I think I have the unlock that would allow Niko Bellic to be his father.

This is perfect for Bryan. Whether he’s cheered or not, this was a needed character reset he almost certainly wanted, and—Lesnar match aside—it should make it easier for him to work a safer style. Oh, and he’s champion. Quite the punishment for his Crown Jewel protest.

Bryan wasn't ever going to be a top guy as a face again so I'm fine with this.. he has all the potential in the world to be a huge asshole and we've seen him do exceedingly well in a heel role before both in ROH and then with AJ Lee by his side in WWE. Becky's promo was fucking badass. Also, I'm not sure what to expect out of either Ronda/Charlotte or Brock/Bryan so.. that's a good thing... both matches are certainly intriguing. I don't think Ronda/Charlotte ends with either as the clear victor. Asuka might not be dead.. her entrance was ehh but once fans saw that she could possibly be Ronda's opponent they went wild. I hope WWE creative sees this and books her accordingly.

It works for Austin Aries on this board.

You set 'em up, and I knock 'em down. Jon Favreau is so money and he doesn't even know it.

You mean Shaffir & Duke laid out with The Man standing over them and the locker room holding Shayna back.

It's almost TOO convenient of a way to get themselves out of the corner they were backed in to with her and Rousey. Pulling Becky from the match and having her go all Stone Cold because of it could be nuclear. Strip her of the title, have Charlotte win a mini-tournament or something tonight on SD because THEY NEED A CHAMPION FOR SURVIVOR SERIES! Becky comes back at Rumble, destroys Charlotte for the title, enters herself in the Rumble and wins. She comes after Rousey Title vs Title and there's your women's WrestleMania main event match while solving the "Roman's gone so WTF do we do now" problem

I was thinking about that too. It feels like when something special comes along, it's because WWE stumbles into it backwards. Whether it's Cena, Daniel Bryan, Becky, etc. they do this adverse booking bullshit and then lo and behold, like you said, the wrestler is uniquely bulletproof. The only thing I worry about is it felt like moving a mountain to do what they did with Daniel Bryan and I wonder if Becky will continue to go through the same kind of adversity. In all actuality, booking this shit is easy. There have been two or three good ideas tossed around in here already for how to do this right and to build on something for the future. They just need to not backslide into doing Ronda vs Charlotte and maybe for once learn from UFC where you go with the best shit talkers and best heat machines to build around your marquee matchup instead of whatever plan was devised months ago. There just needs to be some sort of flexibility for this stuff where it doesn't take an injury or, sadly in Roman's case, illness to change booking plans. I know that last part flies in the face of something many of us wanted from WWE where they would actually have a plan and stick to it, but the results from that sort of booking are dim and if I had to choose, I'd rather the booking be more fluid.

It ends with Tyrion on the throne, I'm calling it now. All hail the Imp King!

Straight Fire, hottest thing going in WWE.

There was a moment where it looks like Becky first realized her nose got busted open, and she *threw*her*blood*out*of*the*ring*. Loved it.

Stone Cold Becky Lynch. Hottest act in WWE.

LASS. KICKER.

I want Balor vs Drew so bad. Becky motherfucking Lynch y'all. In a just world, she'd be the face of the company right now.

First, a 95 year-old man passing shortly after the death of his spouse of sixty-some years is not in itself surprising. 95 is a damn good run that I'll never see. Secondly, and most importantly, I've been sitting here thinking "What would my life have been like without Stan Lee in it?" I can't imagine such a scenario, I just can't, Stan Lee's superheroes with hang-ups as he termed them showed me as a little kid that it was okay to be different and a bit weird. I can't think of anyone else who I never so much as met that has had such a powerful impact on my life. Godspeed, Stan and thanks for all the comix.

Paging @piranesi

With a little bit of rain on the parade for the finish- the image of Becky bloodied and standing triumphant worked, but having said that: The one plus about the Survivor Series that had been so good for this year is that they didn't go with the same "Grr. Argh. Me wear a red shirt so me want to hurt everyone wearing a blue shirt" bullshit they've done the last two years, and they suddenly go with it as the payoff going into Survivor Series where you actually do have that moment. It's even worse for the endgame like this when the payoff happens AFTER the Raw/Smackdown teams have been finalized. Even if you assume, in kayfabe, for example: Charlotte Flair may have some problems with Becky Lynch and hasn't officially said she'd captain the Smackdown team...but she MIGHT join in on the attack, even if she has to work with Becky Lynch, just so that Smackdown has an advantage for the Raw/Smackdown match on Sunday.... ...then if the Smackdown team is effectively finalized, why should, say, the IIconics have any particular reason to go in the attack? Neither one is on Team Smackdown, neither one's allied with anyone on Team Smackdown, by all facts they have absolutely nothing to do with the Raw vs. Smackdown match. Having them in the beatdown goes past "Well, I'm on Team Smackdown, so I need to fight the Raw people", or even with Mandy Rose "Well, I'm not on the team, but Sonya Deville is my good friend and I want HER to succeed, so I'll beat them down with you", but is blatantly "They wear red T-shirts? LET'S KILL THEM!"

Given the median age of posters here ...

I feel like we're risking some interesting banner ads with the number of posts that have both "cougar" and "fuck" in them in this thread.

The health of Lynch is more important than the match going ahead. I was right looking forward to that. This isn't the first time Nia Jax has injured someone, second at least. More than that.

The bigger problem for whether they do this is the elephant in the room for whether they'll go all in there: The Roman Reigns factor. The biggest difference between Becky Lynch and people like Cena, Bryan, Punk, Ryder, (name the hot hand that WWE cooled off) is that: Most of the time, those hot hands happened when WWE already HAD their "face of the company" they build around, and WWE could only change course in other instances. Cena got his chance because Brock Lesnar wasn't "the guy" and didn't want to stay. Daniel Bryan got his chance because the fans just flat-out refused anything else BUT HIM, and refused to give up on getting what they wanted until WWE had to cave...and even then, if CM Punk didn't walk out Bryan probably doesn't get the ball. That's a bigger difference for Becky Lynch right now- there's a vacuum at the top for "the face of the company", and ideally the person you go with is "who has the momentum on their side". If anything is against Becky right now, the biggest problem would be "this is the first time that a woman has the momentum on her side", and THAT'S something we have no clue on how WWE can react to something like that.

Every time Jon Snow and the Night King face off all I think of is the Rock asking someone if they want to go ONE ON ONE WITH THE GREAT ONE. The first time I typed that out, I typed out Ice King instead of Night King, and I just wound up giggling to myself with Jon Snow facing off against the Ice King from Adventure Time.

I'd like to be optimistic but WWE fucks hot things up in recent times. I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong.

However, is that the standard or is the standard Ashburn, Duffy, Averill, Roush, Combs, & Waner? I'm not about to play the "if so-and-so" card, (you know me better than that); but to look at either the upper echelon as you did or the lower as I did isn't giving us a clear picture of a HOF Center Fielder. I'm going to go with the same sort of cop-out that I use describing Fred McGriff, Lofton's induction would hardly be an embarrassment but there's really no crime in keeping him out either. Making a case for Lofton on his own merits is quite doable without anyone needing to resort to playing the "if-so-and-so" card. (Damn, I hate that whole line of reasoning, that's what gets guys like Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson in the HOF.)

Also, can we talk about “that” promo? Ronda came off pretty horrible, I thought. I wonder if wwe is just preparing for rousey to get booed out of the building Sunday.

Rene's awkward "Well, he just refuses to talk about it at home" segments make it even more nonsensical and annoying. I'm thinking Rhonda does something like Danielson's old ROH ref stoppage elbows to the face capture finish.

There's no way that car was that nice. As the owner of a Chevy Cavalier that will keep it running as long as possible because 1) we own a Chevy Volt and 2) I work from home, that looked like a Chevy Cavalier. Probably a 2000 or 2001 model. If not that, then it maybe a Ford Probe or Dodge Neon. Either way, I can almost see the cigarette burns on the seat and it probably smells like whatever was spilled on the floor in the backseat 10 years ago.

It would be great if they did a 6 man if Drake was Little Spike Dudley and Show was Bigelow then Show launched him into some plants in the crowd.

That end was sick as fuck, despite the zoom overdose (Kevin Dunn just has to remind you he works there). They sure didn't expect juice but they couldn't ignore it. Becky was awesome and for some reason I was reminded of mid-'80s Riki Choshu in her badassery. Speaking of Japan, the apron work in the six thousandth Sasha/Bayley match was right there. The missed baseball slide with Bayley eating rail was nasty enough and then they topped it with the Bayley-to-Belly. Good stuff. Oh, and Ronda's eye twitch was super creepy

Finally saw Venom and the reports of it being an amazing accidental comedy pan out. My wife and I were both in hysterics over some of the ridiculous action beats and Eddie/Venom interplay. The lobster scene had me in tears. Not a great movie or anything but a great time.