2018 Pro Wrestling thread

That one made me scratch my head a bit, too. She's won the Raw Women's Championship three times, Smackdown Women's Championship two times. Add to that, she won the Women's MITB briefcase. Pretty sure the E are high on her.

 

I agree with most of what you said but the dirtsheet did not.....seems like HHH is very high on Bliss. But I think they want to close with an NXT style match, and lets be honest Bliss never even had a match on an NXT Takeover.

She's not the type of wrestler who could've had the match that Banks and Flair had the night before the Mania in San Francisco that made Vince change his mind about all this......and for anyone still holding out about women's wrestling, this show has got to be packed with and close with something like that.

 

Not sure how they get there, but with a good build Flair vs. Rousey is the most interesting match for me.

 

New 6-man tag champs (Cody and the Bucks) pinning the illegal member of The Kingdom.

Kingdom has been all over social media playing up The Conspiracy.

Also, Cody left a kind of cryptic tweet about his next move.

 

Have Flair come out at Summerslam and cost Rousey the title or at one of the two PPVs after that if they put it on her. Or just have her jump Rousey after one of the PPV matches before then. If they go that route, we'd probably see Asuka-Lynch for the Smackdown title.

 

I think Bliss fills a pretty vital role - she's credible as a chicken shit heel champion, kind of like in the way The Miz is. Neither one is going to have a five stars in the Toyko Dome match, but both are credible against anyone you put them up against. You're always going to need bridge champions, and it's always better to have her in the mix than, say, Naomi, who's never been all that over to me.

Also - I think if Bliss gets squashed, maybe you can have her as a face for a bit. I might be the only one, but I think because her size, she'll make a great face whenever she does turn. Have her eat shit for a couple weeks or months to humble her, and then have her work her way back up the ranks in a legitimate fashion. You know, kind of like what they should have done with Bayley in her main roster debut, but they fucked that up...

 

It's the little things as a heel. Ciampa didn't want to even give Johnny the pleasure of being retweeted or @'ing him.

 

Surely we see blow off match at November Takeover & it should be 3 Stages Of Hell Match. First match normal match, 2nd Match Street Fight, 3rd Match a Last Man Standing Match where Gargano finally gets NXT Title.

 

There isn't a better feud in wresting now than Gargano-Ciampa, and probably hasn't been one like it in years. The personal connection makes it better, but the two do such an amazing job selling it all outside the ring, which makes their in-ring performances mean that much more. Has anything on Raw or Smackdown approached it in the last few years?

 

Not even close. Because Raw/Smackdown don't slow build their storylines. The need to fill 2/3 hours every week, to fit all your stars in every week, to fill a PPV lineup every 4 weeks leads to hot-shot storytelling with no emotional backstory and haphazard logic (expecting the audience to forget everything in the past). That's why I was impressed Smackdown writers actually remembered to bring up Kane's past indiscretions toward Daniel Bryan.

Granted, Ciampa was injured, forcing the slow build. But that turned out to be a blessing. Having to only fill one hour of taped TV every week plus a Takeover every 3-4 months helps stories like this one breathe. Not to mention the chemistry the two have together.

 

I'd surmise the Jericho/KO friendship and breakup was trying to be Ciampa and Gargano but Jericho's star power made it different and impossible to be as good. Ditto Banks and Bayley. And the main roster simply can't manufacture the way NXT's small vocal crowds translate to TV and make the moments feel so much hotter and better.

How pissed off was I when HHH posted a picture of Ciampa with the belt Wednesday at like 9:30 pm? Who watches NXT live? Spoilers asshole.