2019 Pro Wrestling thread

So, after a night’s sleep, to recap:

1. The E just made its champion look like an absolute wuss.

B. The absolute wuss’ finishing moves are permanently ruined as finishers,

III. They managed to make their most interesting heel look like a ridiculous cartoon character (more than usual).

4. They get their own crowd chanting for a different company at the show. That is the equivalent of going to McDonald’s and demanding Wendy’s.

E. They manage to fuck up one of their biggest concepts for a match.

That about sum it up?

 

I find myself wondering how JR would’ve even called that finish. Like “Don’t do it Seth, he’s a human being with a family” ?!? But he’s NOT. He’s a FIEND!

I don’t think they ever betrayed the Taker or Kane characters with that kinda medical help, rescue type angle right? Fiend needs the same treatment. Hell they literally buried both those guys alive!

(I also think both cell matches suffered for having the new announce team. I get it, those guys need to do ‘em to get better, get us used to them, etc, but they weren’t as good as Cole or Phillips with Graves).

 

They painted themselves into a corner and had no way to get out that they could imagine. They needed to keep the belt on Rollins, but they wanted to make the Fiend look unstoppable. So they did this crap.

Better storyline: Have a match where the Fiend beats Rollins down early. Rollins gets the upperhand a couple of times with sledgehammer/chairs/whatever and a few well-timed moves. Gets, I don't know, a two-count a few times so he doesn't look like a complete wuss. But let there be some back and forth. The Fiend puts him down eventually. Then you go one of two ways. Either instead of pinning him, the Fiend leaves Seth lying in the cell and walks off, showing he is only interested in destruction and not the title; or he lifts Rollins on his shoulder, lights go out, and suddenly they're both gone. Next night on Raw, the lights go out and come back up and Rollins is in the middle of the ring, beaten and tied to a chair with some kind of ominous note ("Let me in" would be fine) and a Firefly Fun House VHS tape taped to him. They watch the video and it's a message from Bray about how the Fiend did bad things to Seth, and he wanted to do more, but Bray convinced the Fiend that he should be nice and let Seth go back to Raw. But Seth needs to be careful because the Fiend isn't happy. The Fiend wants more. The Fiend went to Hell with Seth. But he doesn't want Seth's title. He wants Seth's soul. Set up a rematch for Crown Jewel or the next PPV, and at the rematch make it a double count-out, setting up an eventual falls-count-anywhere, no-DQ match for Survivor Series or Starrcade. You could stretch this a little longer if you needed to, with the last match landing at the Royal Rumble. End that one with the Demon (Balor) coming out to cost the Fiend to tease a Demon-Fiend match for Wrestlemania.

Oh, and no red light for the whole match. That sucks.

 

Here’s the killer: They’re not in a corner. Brock’s belt is the one that matters.

Move Seth to Smackdown, make RAW the home of goofy, storyline gimmick stuff like the Fiend, cuckolding, etc ; Make Smackdown the home of sports like competition. Two flavors of ice cream etc.

Or don’t book the damn match.

 

Two simple solutions: Either have just Becky/Sasha be in the cell, or have Fiend/Seth be a non-title match. Just make it where Fiend hasn’t competed enough to earn the title shot, so he needs to get a win. Then have him destroy Rollins to earn a later title shot.

 

So, the start to Raw is ... um ... decidedly not PG.

And no, they did not start with Rollins and Bray. That may get the Vince/limo treatment.

 

Nice. After last night's ending, they start Raw by doubling up on the grimacing horseshit.

 

Is the E skipping entrances now? First they join the beating of Rusev in progress, then they skip Lacey’s entrance.

 

They've really only featured it in two segments so far, and already the Rusev-Lana angle is sprinting to the front of the pack of 2019 Gooker Award candidates.

 

Damn. Just about into hour 3, and not a single mention of Rollins or Fiend.

 

That was my thought too.

I’ve flipped around between this, MNF, and MLB and it seems like they’re just throwing away this episode because of the draft next week.