2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

Best thing they could do is a non-ending, with someone interfering and it turns into a DQ of some sort.

 

I think Bayleys just not as over as they'd hoped and they're moving on. Rebuild her from the bottom and hope it catches on.

 

Yeah. I agree with the Masked Man, who noted on his pod this week that they kind of booked her all wrong - having her come in as a semi-big thing, etc. Like, she's best as the white meat babyface that needs to work up from the very bottom, but to do that, it means you have to have more than just the woman's title chase regularly on a show.

 

I've been wanting to see Joe vs. Brock for a long time. It's a dream match.

But does anyone actually think Vince will book one of the faces of TNA/ROH to go over against his homegrown megastar?

This will be Sting jobbing to Triple H all over again.

 

I could see them booking him over Brock simply because they realize they need a champion who's actually there. Sets up a rematch at Summerslam. Honestly, that might be where Lesnar drops the belt. I could see the first match end with a double countout or something where they end up brawling in the back, so the Summerslam match is made a no-countout, no-DQ match.

 

I think it depends entirely on what the true severity of Strowman's injury is. If they're working us and he's back for Summerslam, Joe's going down. If not....anything's possible.

 

Yeah, but one problem was that she was a semi-big thing. Fans were going crazy for her when she entered the main roster and if they would have started her out at the bottom, they would have been flipping out that Vince was burying her.

Her issue now is that her character needs to evolve somewhat. She's still very marketable, but she needs some tweaks to the character. Unfortunately, she really isn't that great on the mic.

 

I think the character needs a re-boot. Start from where she was when she was hugging AJ Lee. Introduce that to the masses of people who don't watch NXT and clearly to this point don't see what the big deal is/was.

In a lot of ways she was doomed by her success in NXT. She was too big to start as the hugging loser kid after not getting drafted, but 70% of the fans just don't connect with her because they didn't watch all that happen.

Although honestly if she was on Smackdown wouldn't she be over? It's worked for Bliss, for Becky...she kind of got swallowed into the Charlotte/Sasha thing.

 

Ambrose-Miz was a very entertaining match last night. Miz is the perfect heel going today, and I love it when he showcases that dastardly side of him.

Cruiserweight bout was great too, though I wish they'd have put the belt on Aries. Now that he's lost -- again -- where do they go from here? Swann?

Didn't see the tag match because I was flipping back and forth between baseball games, but I've heard it was pretty good as well. I'll have to watch it sometime.

Main event. My gosh. Did not expect that ending, but it was a nice little swerve. But since Balor didn't tap and he passed out, I wonder if he'll stake claim to getting a match with Joe or Brock?

 

So, when it comes to Joe vs. Lesnar, will it be heel vs. heel?

 

Lesnar's pretty much a tweener. He'll play baby face here, and heel against Balor.

 

So with the Money in the Bank PPV being a Smackdown PPV, does that mean we won't have a briefcase for Raw? Or will they have a MITB match for Raw and the rest of the show is Smackdown matches?