pu7pl3:

ValeeLove:
Guess the wrestler. No one can get it.

pu7pl3:


Please tell us.

ValeeLove:
Woooooooo!

pu7pl3:


wow for real? I never would have gotten it.

pu7pl3:

That’s a Thing That Happened
I like Apollo Crews. I like Grayson Waller. I do not like what they’re doing with this feud right now. The fact it was the last image of a segment mostly about Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez’s Halloween Havoc match makes it even more annoying. Cora and Roxanne guested on the Grayson Waller Effect, constantly cutting each other off and doing a great job showing how much they hate each other.
That hate went to another level during their pull-apart brawl. Security pulling wrestlers apart is always a good move. A weapons match is perfect for these two.
But back to Waller and Crews. Apollo showed up disguised as NXT security, dragged Waller under the ring, and then put red food dye around his eyes to make it look like his eyes were bleeding. Yet, somehow, Waller’s vision was great enough to see Apollo walking towards him as he backed up in the straightest of straight lines to get to the locker room. Just think both men are better than this silliness.

ValeeLove:
yep. That pic was before a plane crash which he survived. The experience changed him and he decided to cut size and grow a hair. The rest is history.

pu7pl3:


I didn't know about any of these...Ric flair has never really been my cuppa tea sha.

ValeeLove:
you hate him? You're in the minority if you do.

ValeeLove:
E be like the reason Pu.7pl3 no wan post last night SmackDown review is because he knows I'm going to taunt him about the failure of Max Dupri and MMM.

Lol, hope you know I'll have to watch the show first before I post

I didn't have enough time to watch it since

pu7pl3:
WWE SMACKDOWN REVIEWS RECAPS AND REACTIONS


Logan sucks! Logan sucks! Logan sucks!”
That’s how the crowd responded to Logan Paul getting into the ring with The Bloodline on Friday Night SmackDown this week. WWE had promoted a face-to-face meeting between the two, and they delivered on that just as soon as the show went on the air.
The fans were delighted to see the heel, and none too pleased to see the babyface. There’s been no double turn, so that’s still the case, right?
It’s so hard to tell these days.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Anyway, Paul Heyman was tasked with smartening Paul up, but really he just admitted what we already knew — Paul is this generation’s outside celebrity who can bring some new eyeballs to the product and so will be placed in a big match on a big WWE card.
Then Heyman started popping off about Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Andrew Tate, further proving his point that this is really just all about publicity and how pro wrestling does anything to go after it. He eventually got back around to Paul, and I suppose the idea is he’s controversial on the level of the other three, even though I’m not sure that’s even remotely the case, at least not in 2022.
But whatever, the point was made.
Paul ignored all that and tried to create conflict within The Bloodline, claiming he couldn’t tell if Reigns or Jey Uso is the tribal chief. This, for some reason, sincerely upset Reigns, who was going to go after Jey until Sami Zayn played peace maker.
This was a downright strange segment. Why would Reigns take such obvious bait like that?
Later, Solo Sikoa beat up Ricochet, and the match was fine but it was really just about getting to a backstage segment where Zayn and Jey could argue about it and Reigns could side with Sami and then make Jey being a hothead his problem to deal with now.
This could only end well!
Later still, Sami decided to respond to The New Day antagonizing them by telling them to get a partner for a six-man tag team match and, of course, they went and snagged BigCut McSlimTruck and easily won the match while Sami and Jey continuously went at each other’s throats. I’m just imagining The Bloodline in a War Games match and that being where the turn finally happens.
I’m just no longer clear on who exactly will be turning.
Despite the weird Reigns stuff, this was all pretty good advancement for this story.

Sheamus is a warrior
I’m giving this its own spot not because I have all that much to say about it but because Sheamus and GUNTHER put on yet another good match that had an actually effective finish because it legitimately pissed me off.
There’s nothing better in pro wrestling these days than when you find yourself just rolling with it in a natural way, going right along with the babyface (at least for this match, in this case) in his quest to win the Intercontinental title for the first time, and it’s going swimmingly, and he’s so close, and then NO THAT SON OF A BITCH CHEATED THIS CANNOT STAND!
This also acted as a solid way to promote the six-man tag team match Imperium and The Brawling Brutes will be having at Extreme Rules. A pretty damn good piece of business and a fun close to the show.


All the rest
Hey, Triple H looks good, huh? Anyone else surprised we haven’t seen more of him since he took over?

Zelina Vega returned to apparently head up the debuting Legado del Fantasma, replacing Elektra Lopez. I’m not sure how much of an upgrade that is for my tastes, but your mileage may vary. It’s obviously far too early for any judgments here, however. Either way, they laid out Hit Row and they’re a fun group. There’s reason for excitement.

Raquel Rodriguez is once again in a new tag team, this time with Shotzi Blackheart. They beat Sonya Deville & Xia Li on this show, presumably to better establish themselves as a team. The division needs teams and there isn’t much for Rodriguez as a singles star in the stagnant SmackDown women’s division, so it does make some measure of sense. But what of Aliyah? Maybe we’ll never know!

Drew McIntyre tried a surprise attack on Karrion Kross in a reversal of how things have been going between these two and he ended up beaten pretty badly with a strap. This entire program has done wonders for making Kross look good but I’m not so sure McIntyre is taking the loss at the actual PPV. We shall see. I did like how Kross wasn’t entirely surprised because the crowd started cheering during his entrance and he instantly recognized that couldn’t be right and knew there must be someone behind him. Little stuff like that goes a long way.

A brief promo aired that seemed to tease The Viking Raiders returning with … Sarah Logan?!?

Max Dupri finally realized the truth — he is LA Knight❗❗.

A damn good show.

Grade: A+

pu7pl3:


Lol, hope you know I'll have to watch the show first before I post

I didn't have enough time to watch it since

ValeeLove:
admit I was right still.

ValeeLove:
color][/i]you said the main segment was strange but you still gave it an A+. I'll say this about it; we were supposed to get an interview session between Roman and Logan, but it ended up being a Heyman speech and a Bloodline story continuation. Nothing they did looked like it was promoting a match at Saudi. It might have even done more harm cos it made WWE look less mainstream with Heyman's uncalled-for examples and illustrations and making Logan look incompetent. Logan didn't respond and talk about the match, he just did whatever he did.
And let's not forget the opposite reactions they were getting. Who's the heel and who's the babyface? O my.

pu7pl3:


You're never going to quit are you

pu7pl3:


would have been a B or C but Sheamus elevated it

ValeeLove:
there is no quit in ValeeLove my friend no no no no no no no nooo! ValeeLove says you take off one of his arm, he'll fight you with the other arm! He says you take out one of his legs, ValeeLove will hobble and hobble and hobble and kick you with the other leg!! ValeeLove says you take out one of his testicles, the people's testicles, he'll take out the other one shine it up real nice, turn it sideways and STICK IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDY A*S!!
So yeah, I don't quit.

ValeeLove:
this one na ojoro.

No vex

Gidah:
You can see the smile on ole sheamy and the oda lads face the match was da bomb of the night. Read it with British accent

pu7pl3:




Blame Brock
Seth Rollins is your new United States champ! It wasn’t much of a match to speak of as far as “quality” goes. And you can thank Brock Lesnar for that. The Beast showed up in Brooklyn with a message for Lashley. Not so much in words but in violence, as he F’5’d the now former champ several times and locked his arm into the Kimura Lock.
Bobby, clearly not ready for competition anymore, let Seth goad him into a match. Seth called Bobby a bad solider and disgrace to the country, etc. So, yeah, Bobby fought valiantly but the damage was done.
IF you’re taking the title off of Lashley and setting him up for a match with Lesnar at Crown Jewel, this is probably the best way to do that. Although, Brock destroying another Black champion with the ease of an adult tossing a balloon into the air is definitely a thing WWE needs to acknowledge. Even if it’s not intentionally racist, appearances are everything.

ValeeLove:
I care less about their racism and if they were I wouldn't be surprised. I'm glad Brock is back, but should I care? Is he back to compete or to just make some money for and off WWE at their bosses' event over at Saudi? Now he's back...for Lashley. The same guy that wasn't interested in facing Lashley some months ago even when if felt like he was almost going to be begged to do one. Now he can't face Roman again, because they've had their tagged "final match" and I'm pretty sure that's what he wants. What am I trying to say; WWE lacks new names. People you can count on to draw money. They had one with Theory until they made him look like a fool several times on TV.
There is absolutely no one with Lesnar's influence in the whole of wrestling and if WWE can't create names as big as that for over a decade then they have failed. It's that simple.
I wonder who Brock faces at Mania cos it's definately not Roman.

pu7pl3:


what of AEW?

ValeeLove:
let's see. They are just 3 years old and they got legends in Mox, Jericho, Punk, Joe and Danielson. Then they've Kenny, Cole, Hangman and Miro. They've also got the 4 pillars in Sammy, Jungle Boy, Darby and MJF. After that there's Wheeler, Daniel Garcia, Ricky Starks, Hobbs, Wardlow. Let's not forget HOOK! They look like they are doing something. Meanwhile this isn't even about AEW.