The Smackers Thread

[TheBurningRed]

[DavidB6937]

55 minutes ago, RedTwoster said:

Why do they keep doing this? Barrett can grate, but on the whole he and Joe Tessitore are a good team. Tessitore is a fantastic announcer, and Barrett is certainly more tolerable than Graves. Whatever the case, Tessitore and Barrett were doing just fine, I don’t understand the logic in their constant announce team shifts. 

Wade has time off and Joe is doing football stuff.

[uklaw]

48 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

Only saw this and came back to correct my original post.

Thanks for doing this.

[Devon Malcolm]

Wrestle Oops, more like.

[air_raid]

4 hours ago, RedTwoster said:

They’ve still not done the Randy Orton match, so probably that.

They fought in the KOTR final.

[RedTwoster]

10 minutes ago, air_raid said:

They fought in the KOTR final.

Not going to lie, I’d completely forgotten that - but that felt like a first step towards something further that was derailed by the Owens injury. They struggle to resist an Orton heel turn, as ill-advised as it usually is.

[OzExile]

Cole said something like "Cena paying homage to his great rival, the former big dog" - with his spear. but there was no ooohhhaahh. I think this was a nod to Edge? 

[DavidB6937]

It was obviously a nod to Edge. He did the bit in the corner. And Corey basically said it was after.

[burchybabi]

9 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

It was obviously a nod to Edge. He did the bit in the corner. And Corey basically said it was after.

Plus if you look in the background you see Michael Cole give Corey a thumbs up for referencing Edge.

[NeverYield]

I thought Cena giving nods to lots of his old rivals was pretty good.

[d-d-d-dAz]

This final Cena run has done a great service to future theoretical debates about wrestling. I think, without it, we'd have been cursed to years of people saying 'they wasted Cena, such a shame he never turned heel as he'd obviously have been a better heel.'

Thankfully, we now know that absolutey isn't the case. 

[LaGoosh]

He might very well have been a good heel under a different creative team. Sadly we'll never know!

[d-d-d-dAz]

11 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

He might very well have been a good heel under a different creative team. Sadly we'll never know!

I dunno. His performances haven't stood up, creative or otherwise. He seems so much freer, authentic and more convincing as a babyface, plus he seems capable of far better matches 

[Supremo]

Having them reference the US Open Challenge just made me even sadder. Imagine if he’d spent the year doing a WWE Title Open Challenge, having these daft WWE2K matches against everyone. Would’ve been wild. A million times better than all the crap, “YOU PEOPLE,” promos.

On that subject, do they even have anyone in NXT they could bring up for the huge, Kevin Owens-style surprise win on his final night? Is Oba Femi the best they’ve got?

[RedTwoster]

7 hours ago, Supremo said:

Having them reference the US Open Challenge just made me even sadder. Imagine if he’d spent the year doing a WWE Title Open Challenge, having these daft WWE2K matches against everyone. Would’ve been wild. A million times better than all the crap, “YOU PEOPLE,” promos.

On that subject, do they even have anyone in NXT they could bring up for the huge, Kevin Owens-style surprise win on his final night? Is Oba Femi the best they’ve got?

Femi, Williams or Je’Von Williams are probably the three best they’ve have on the men’s side, but outside of that it’s slim pickings. It’s a shame that they’ve relegated Bron Breakker to the role of lackey, as it feels like a perfect spot for him. They’ve become weirdly bad at elevating new talent lately though, which is bizarre given how desperately their main event scene needs some kind of refresh.