2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

Good thing Lesnar leaves after his segments or Smackdown could've been in trouble.....

If Rollins/Ambrose are in a tag title match with Usos then Smackdown definitely has an advantage in male main eventers.....their team could be New Day, Nak and Styles and that leaves out Owens and Orton. Raw would have Roman, Balor, Strowman (if they let him and don't do a stupid Kane thing) and who? Sheamus/Cesaro? Could Kurt be on the team? Could Kurt AND Shane be on teams?

Kurt/Shane one on one? That's tantalizing.

 

Yeah, I agree. There needs to be stakes.

Just go old-school and have Vince come out and say that the winning brand will receive $1 million Kayfabe dollars to split between the members. Make it best-of-seven, with Brock and Jinder being the seventh match. You can even have Heyman complain that his client is already rich, so he doesn't need the money and have Vince threaten to strip him of the belt if he doesn't compete against Jinder (who also gets the same threat). You also can have the undercard guys on both brands get upset that they're not in the money matches.

 

Zayn is one of the few guys who actually has a legit beef with Raw.

 

So anyone watching Smackdown? Any payback happen from the Raw gang tonight?

 

Nope, but Daniel Bryan criticized Shane for attacking Raw and opening a potential powder keg.

 

I will wait for next week's Smackdown when Raw invades Smackdown with Nia Jax and Braun Strowman leading the way.

At first, I thought we were going to get to see Ellsworth strung up outside the arena when Carmella was looking for him as a warning that retribution was coming. But instead we got Fashion Dogs and a dirty undies skit ... or should I say skid

 

I hadn't seen this until late yesterday, but Nia Jax requested personal time off from RAW apparently after she didn't like that booking had her losing clean to Sasha at TLC (hence why Alicia Fox was used.)

She called The Rock and got his advice and he told her to take some time.

I know she's still green, but man, the way they aren't using her to her full potential is typical WWE.

 

Green is an understatement she's almost killed Charlotte at least 3 times

 

Once from what I remember. However, she was also in the match that Bailey jacked her shoulder too sooooo

 

There were two near death spots in that match with slams on the neck and then she seemingly also didn't catch her right on one of the moonsault outside the ring deals. Or so the internets say, always have to be careful with that stuff because we have no idea how to "work"

That said it rubs me the wrong way that someone as obviously green as her is making a stink like this. She's already been rushed through NXT because of her look/family connections, she wants the belt now too? She gets more TV time and angles than Mickie James or Becky Lynch lately. She's done less with her hot shot to the main roster than Bliss has.

If I can make a loose analogy this feels me to me like Rhynos' walks out than CM Punks

 

Looks like the axe fell in Stamford: Darren Young, Summer Rae and Emma got their WWE releases today.

Emma's is the most surprising: They had her do the job in the much-hyped Asuka debut (and got in a little more offense than many expected) and they had been pumping up her new "social media" gimmick during her matches. Kind of makes me wonder if she requested the release, or it was a mutual parting of the ways.

Emma released by WWE

 

Yeah, Emma is a bit of a surprise, although they supposedly weren't happy with her not going along with the Emmalina character. The other issue is, besides Alexa and Alicia, what female heels do they have on Raw right now? Nia also is sitting out right now.

Young kept getting hurt, and besides his tag team with Titus, never really did much.

Summer also kept getting hurt, and, although she seemed quite talented, the E never really wanted to push her. Supposedly, she wanted to leave.