Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted September 6, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted September 6, 2018 I suppose I wouldn’t really have known it was so soon since I’m not even watching highlights of Raw or Smackers at the moment, but when the ad came on before this week’s NXT I was surprised to see this show is next weekend! Is there anything worth discussing on the show? Here’s the card, which is (again, as a non-watcher) is looking surprisingly complete, at least on the SD side: Daniel Bryan & Brie Bella vs Miz & Maryse The New Day defending the Tag titles AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe for the WWE Title Charlotte Flair vs Becky Lynch for the Women’s Title Randy Orton vs Jeff Hardy in a Cell match. The Raw side’s a little smaller: Ronda Rousey vs Alexa Bliss for the Women’s title Roman Reigns vs Braun Strowman, cashing in the MITB in a Cell match. Looks to be shaping up as a decent card, even if the show’s sneaked up on me. Anyone particularly looking forward to it? And the poster: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 I saw that poster doing the rounds yesterday and assumed it was just the worst piece of fan art I'd ever seen. Is that seriously it though? They both look like extras from the Tenacious D "Tribute" video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Is that really the official poster? Holy shit it looks bad if so, Brauns face is all skewed as if someone was fucking about with the morph tool in GIMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King of Old School Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 I imagine the Raw side will fill up with Shield vs Drew & Ziggler, Lashley vs Owens and maybe something with Corbin/Balor. Again, on paper it looks ok, but no doubt it will go on far too long and nobody will give a shit about it come the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted September 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 6, 2018 Last year: I stayed spoiler free throughout Monday at work, couldn't watch due to things popping up in the evening, then managed to watch half on Tuesday morning and the rest on Tuesday evening. Still managed it spoiler free too, with the extra added effort of Twitter muting and everything. This year: I'll skim the results at work and I'll catch some GIFs of the big spots. Incredible how much my interest has plummeted, especially considering that I used to enjoy sticking to just the PPVs. A bi-monthly fix of WWE used to be perfect post-work Monday evening fodder. Now I just read a report and browse Twitter a bit whilst on the bog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambulance Chaser Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 The introduction of the wives into this Bryan/Miz thing is absolute shite I reckon. Brie has less personality than Nick Aldis, it's frightening. You get this awkward thing where the crowd wanna cheer Bryan but then she starts talking and they go "arghhh give the mic back to Bryan you're a bit boring" and the whole thing suffers. Jeff Hardy is going to break some bones in his body isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTonetta Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 It's not that it's shite because she's boring (she is), it's because it was a personal feud, made into a "oh look they're both married so they have to get their wives invovled!" it's lazy, typical WWE booking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 But how are they going to get the babies involved? I’m hoping Miz’s kid steals Bryan’s kid’s rattle like how everyone used to steal the urn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted September 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 6, 2018 When I was a young warthog the build up to the six-man at Armageddon felt like the biggest fucking deal ever at the time. You had Austin who’d not long been back after injury, The Rock who I was desperately hoping would regain the WWF title, Undertaker who was another one of my favourites (I know he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea at this point but as a kid I thought he was the bollocks), then you had Rikishi who’d been revealed as the guy who ran over Stone Cold, you had Triple H who was the top heel in the business and the man who’d orchestrated the running over of Stone Cold, and everyone’s favourite Olympian in Kurt Angle who was two months in to his first WWF title run. It felt absolutely massive. A six-pack challenge in it’s own right for the gold was a big deal, but back then in the relatively early days of the cell when it had never been done before? Blow me down! With the exception of maybe HHH/Undertaker at Mania, no cell match has come close for me when it comes to the actual build-up. It just felt like an absolutely massive spectacle leading into it. Can’t remember a great deal about the match itself other than the Rikishi spot, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamTH17 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Yeah, that's basically been the downfall of the cell over the past few years. Long gone are the days where you'd have wrestlers fighting in the cell because the situation, feud and wrestlers in question called for it, now it all just hinges on the date and PPV name giving them an excuse to bust out the cell, which they'll continue to do until the HIAC gimmick stops being an attraction, or until they're unable to wheel out Foley to warble on about the dangers of the thing, both of which I can't see happening for a while. Surprised that AJ/Joe doesn't warrant the cell given how their Summerslam match ended mind, would've made logical sense, but with that in mind we are discussing WWE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WeeAl Posted September 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 6, 2018 1 hour ago, AdamTH17 said: Yeah, that's basically been the downfall of the cell over the past few years. Long gone are the days where you'd have wrestlers fighting in the cell because the situation, feud and wrestlers in question called for it, now it all just hinges on the date and PPV name giving them an excuse to bust out the cell, which they'll continue to do until the HIAC gimmick stops being an attraction, or until they're unable to wheel out Foley to warble on about the dangers of the thing, both of which I can't see happening for a while. Surprised that AJ/Joe doesn't warrant the cell given how their Summerslam match ended mind, would've made logical sense, but with that in mind we are discussing WWE. I think Joe and AJ may also be booked to wrestle each other on the Australia show already, as well as at HIAC (I may have dreamed this, mind). That could be why they aren't inside the cell, as they are going to run it back again in a couple of weeks, but what gimmick do you go to after the cell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Weezenal Posted September 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 6, 2018 Iron man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 7, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 7, 2018 I don't know if it's why they're doing it but Joe/Angle is great enough on its own and doesn't feel like it needs a stipulation. Hardy/Orton needs something and the obvious suggestion that Hardy might jump off shit makes it sensible to stick it on HIAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambulance Chaser Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 WENDYYYYY, Joe is so great. A real all rounder, comes off as a menacing bastard that would actually show up at a family function and cause aggro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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