TheVileOne Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I thought the Owens/Vince promo was pretty awesome, but yeah it's hard to care about the Shane/Owens match. For one, it feels like a rehash of Styles vs. Shane. For another, I just don't get why Shane is continually booked in these matches. He's 47 years old, and he probably shouldn't be taking bumps like this at his age. The Hell in a Cell match with Undertaker was bad and basically pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenalysis Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 6 hours ago, Beech27 said: Jinder's promo was offensive, terrible, and offensively terrible. Shane's, maybe, was worse. He could have been quoting the worst Fist of the North Star fansub. FotNS is too manly for anyone on Smackdown not named Rusev. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I will also gladly accept some sort of Rusev/Aiden English tag team 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamal Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I dug the women's 4 way although we all knew Charlotte was winning anyway after her promo. Like that Tamina got to look dominant during the early portion of the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 3 hours ago, TheVileOne said: I just don't get why Shane is continually booked in these matches. You can thank the casual fans that showed back up to care about the cell match with Undertaker for this. I know we're all tired of seeing it, but there is an actual business-motivated reason to having the McMahons on TV. Remember that USA supposedly intervened when The Authority was initially taken off TV after Sting showed up to insist that the McMahons return. There's also supposedly a ratings bump whenever Vince shows up - don't know if that was the case last week or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 They went up. Last week's SDL - with Vince - was their highest rating since April and their 4th highest of the year. So yes Vince = ratings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Watching The Vietnam War instead of Smackdown will make you even more angry than Jinder Mahal saying racist shit. You should watch it anyway though. Let's call it a "good angry" versus a "bad angry". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehabilitated Rick Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Mad that a show with all the apparent good they do with Connor's Cure in attempt to pose as a respectable company had a segment like the Jinder one on the same show, shit wasn't even funny either, just appalling out of date toilet trash humor. I'm surprised there hasn't been a media backlash yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCM Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 I'm more offended by what a shitty show SDL has become than anything Jinder said in his promo. Also the building was about half full so they may want to look at a change in direction. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Give Jinder the US Title as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 41 minutes ago, Rick said: I'm surprised there hasn't been a media backlash yet. One of the Washington Post's sport writers is on Twitter soliciting quotes specifically from people who were at Smackdown last night, so it might be on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Deadspin has mentioned it. Quote There’s a litany of racist promos in WWE’s history, sure. But there’s no reason for this kind of shit. It doesn’t make Mahal a better character and it doesn’t build for his match against Nakamura that much. It’s just awkward and sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Boycotting the show because it just plain sucks right now also works. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 None of you are going to boycott. And nothing will come of this. Triple H did it with Booker T and Randy Orton did it with Shelton Benjamin too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 1 hour ago, TheVileOne said: None of you are going to boycott. And nothing will come of this. Triple H did it with Booker T and Randy Orton did it with Shelton Benjamin too. Does me not watching Smackdown for the last month cause it's been shitty count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Just now, El Dragon said: Does me not watching Smackdown for the last month cause it's been shitty count? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Hero Morganti Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 6 hours ago, JCM said: I'm more offended by what a shitty show SDL has become than anything Jinder said in his promo. Also the building was about half full so they may want to look at a change in direction. Less than half full. Like 1/3 full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarrie Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 21 hours ago, JCM said: Also the building was about half full so they may want to look at a change in direction. Half full is fine. If it were half empty they'd have a problem. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Here's an idea I actually like. A foreign heel who gets booed because he sucks at wrestling and is a cheater, but he blames it on being a foreigner and racism. He then meets another foreign wrestler who gets cheered, and his fucked up brain can't comprehend it so he tells the face that all the white people secretly hate him. He even takes it a step further and resorts to racist jabs revealing his own hypocrisy. It's like it's ripped from the headlines with every oppressed people battling each other over who is getting screwed most. I think that's kinda great, especially when the face is of the same race I am and the fans react by calling the heel out instead of chanting USA USA USA, which is usually the case. Do I think that's what they were thinking when they wrote it? Who knows. Sometimes they're Shakespeare and sometimes they're the million chimps with a million typewriters accidentally writing Hamlet. Either way they don't know how to handle these things well enough to satisfy anyone in the long run, so it probably would have been better if they left it alone. Part of me likes to think that Jinder did it on his own. Like he was listening to Steve Austin's podcast(he's already got the upperbody business part down) and he was like "Yeah I need to take more risks and just ask forgiveness later." And his big idea to get heat was slipping "rook" in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 WaPo reporter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, odessasteps said: WaPo reporter ...what a humanoid. (Not Marissa, obviously.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 After that Scott Steiner video in the other thread, I totally read that "sentence" in his voice. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 3 hours ago, odessasteps said: WaPo reporter Vince should really keep those thoughts to himself. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Be A Star, WWE. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go2Sleep Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 I didn't actually watch the show, so I was reading the thread wondering if "rook" was some kind of racial slur I wasn't aware of, so I watched the segment for some context... "Engrish" jokes in 2017, really? Whoever wrote that promo should've been fired when they handed it in for review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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