Dolfan in NYC Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Decent enough show. I mean, I still have no desire to watch Stomping Grounds, but ymmv. And meanwhile Daniel Bryan is out here dropping Shepherder references in 2019. Bless him forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 For the first time in a while I think RAW and SDL were both passing grades this week. I really liked the Bayley and Bliss segment. The R-Truth stuff was funny AWESOME TRUTH back and I think the new La Parkour gimmick for Seth is the best use of him in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 The booking of the Alexa/Bayley feud continues to be weird. That promo made Bayley look like a jerk. The crowd was actually rooting for Alexa. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Decent enough show. I mean, I still have no desire to watch Stomping Grounds, but ymmv. And meanwhile Daniel Bryan is out here dropping Shepherder references in 2019. Bless him forever. Followed by Graves asking him whatever happened to the guy that used to wave the flag around for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ziggler/Xavier was pretty good. It was good to see AoP back. Heavy Machinery/B-Team was decent. Loved Bryan on commentary. I like Seth continuing to murder potential guest referees. I hope this is all leading to Bray as guest ref. That Bayley/Alexa segment was better than anything they did in the past with each other and kind of interesting with them seemingly pulling a bit from Alexa and Sasha's real life feud. It was good to see the Kairi and Asuka back on tv and getting pushed toward the tag belts finally. Nice to see Ember try to beat the shit out of Mandy and Sonya. Loved the return of Awesome Truth. Kind of loved how Truth lost the 24/7 belt to Drake. Thought this was better than SDL has been the past few weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) I LOVE Daniel Bryan. Edited June 19, 2019 by The Natural 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custos Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Plenty of good stuff between this show and Raw this week, hopefully it's the start of a solid streak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Popped at the Senor Benjamin reference. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 1 minute ago, Peck said: Popped at the Senor Benjamin reference. I happened to catch that while I flipped from the Yankees game during a commercial. I also popped for Rowan's Corrosion of Conformity shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Bryan is going to be an amazing heel commentator someday if he wants to do that. Bryan vs. Otis is going to be amazing. WHY IS HE DOING THAT WITH HIS HIPS? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Blue Sam Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I loved Maverick putting his feet on the drivers seat as he pinned R-Truth to gain elevation 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 DBry's "I'm going to take advantage of him shaking his hips" probably launched 1000 fanfics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) I heard that Bryan took a shit on the WWE Hall of Fame, by singling out Koko B. Ware’s alumni status. Bryan is a good man. A very good man. Edited June 19, 2019 by LoneWolf&Subs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I remember when the Alexa/Trish match was announced and Sasha made a stink on Twitter. I thought to myself “Sasha’s mad because Alexa’s having the career Sasha thinks she should be having.” That was a very interesting line in that promo last night. And I do wonder if there’s bad feelings between Bayley and Alexa going back to nXt or Bayleys burial a couple years back. Or just because Sasha and Bayley are so close. I think the play is Nikki costing Alexa the match and then Lex turning on her, but a Bayley/Alexa double turn wouldn’t shock me either. Kofi is great. That is all. Dug the Mandy & Sonya vs. Ember thing. Nice to see them get the women on the show. Hey, what’s worse than being bored to tears by Seth Rollins every week? Being bored to tear by Seth Rollins twice in a week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 5 hours ago, The Natural said: I hope they put the match up on the network. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Considering how things have been going, now would be a really great time for them to pull an entertaining Live in Japan Network Special out of their ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) The pay off to this fucking Alister Black angle better be a Braden Walker joke. Or it turns out instead that, the “fight” that he wants isn’t an actual fight, but they zoom out, and you see two Milton Bradley’s Karate Fighters on a table. Edit: Honestly I can see why writers just write stupid shit for Vince. If the directive is to write nonsense, I’m going to write something more nonsensical. Edited June 20, 2019 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I worry they're going to do Aleister vs Bray, which means someone has to lose when both need to win. I think someone realizes they can do something cool with Aleister, but don't know which direction to take. So they have him doing the dark room promos, which would be OK if it had been for 3 weeks instead of nearly 3 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) It’s funny because these are reminding me of the Shannon Moore “Prince of Punk” videos on ECW. I’m just waiting for someone to slap him in the mouth and call him a poser. He’s fucking dead if that happens. Looking back you can see at the start they were trying to get this dark character over with these promos(Which aren’t Black’s strong suit). Vince must have hated them. So now they’re redesigned these to make him come off as whiny, and annoying. It’s going to be so sad when they squash him dead. Edited June 20, 2019 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) On 6/19/2019 at 8:28 AM, LoneWolf&Subs said: I heard that Bryan took a shit on the WWE Hall of Fame, by singling out Koko B. Ware’s alumni status. Bryan is a good man. A very good man. Bryan kind of lost me with the slagging on Koko B. Ware. If you're dropping a Sheephearders reference, chances are you know about Koko's pre-WWE work. Edited June 21, 2019 by Nice Guy Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I thought the rumor was Buddy Murphy was going to answer Black’s challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) 26 minutes ago, JonnyLaw said: I thought the rumor was Buddy Murphy was going to answer Black’s challenge. When they first started these I thought the same after reading about the house show matches. But these promos Blacks’s been doing recently have positioned him in my eyes as a heel. Unless now Murphy will be the heel. Edited June 20, 2019 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custos Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 It's a shame that the positivity around this week's shows is not borne out in the ratings. Yes they are not the be-all end-all by any means, but Smackdown hit an all-time non-holiday low of 1.27 (last Xmas day was 1.24) with 1.8m watching. The 18-34 demo was a third of what it was this time last year (0.34 vs 0.96). Surely they can't keep on tanking like this without some serious challenge at the quarterly shareholder call, or by FOX execs. Or do they just ignore it and keep swimming Scrooge McDuck style in the vast pool of Saudi and TV money and ignore the issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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