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There were two versions of the Undisputed Title. The very first one was smaller
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The 98-02 belt was alwaysmy favorite
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Dang.... great triple threat on NXT this week
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Rollins vs. McIntyre, and Ambrose vs. Ziggler on Raw again this week...
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Having flashbacks to when like 50 Raws in a row opened with a match involving Sheamus and Cesaro
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Still hate the Ricochet name because all it makes me think of is Mucha Lucha and that teacher/principal saying "Rrrrrricochet!"
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They’re better off not advertising it in the hope that a few people might tune in just to see if anything happens as opposed to warning then that two meaningless matches they’ve seen 50 times are gonna be featured. |
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Been an issue for years but the brand split makes it a lot more apparent, especially on RAW since they have to deal with the extra hour. |
I seem to have went a bit crazy with my use of gifs so I'm going to try and cut down on them next time.
Raw: https://i.postimg.cc/xTSLp5sj/zx1.png Raw opens with an announcement of a Lingerie Match between Trish Stratus and Terri for the Women's Championship and it got me wondering when the last Lingerie Match was. I tried to find out but all I managed to find was when the last Bra & Panties match was and it was on the 19th March 2007 episode of Raw between Candice Michelle and Melina, just as the "Ruthless Aggression Era" was nearing its end and the "PG Era" was on its way. https://i.postimg.cc/zvYHMDF2/zx2.png We then get told that Kevin Nash has a "Major Announcement". This is what would have kept fans watching the show and that tactic is something that rarely happens now. We're rarely given a reason to stay and watch now and you think it would have happened more after Raw went to three hours. Here's Steve Austin pissing on Arn Anderson. SPOILER: show Judging by the colour of his piss, Austin was really dehydrated and he might have also wanted to check his prostate with all that stopping and starting he did whilst pissing. A Hardcore match for the title happened between Steven Richards and Bradshaw which Bradshaw won, becoming the new champion. He almost kissed the steps when he was celebrating. SPOILER: show Also, Jacqueline was the referee, so I hope the WWE don't try (or hasn't tried) to make a big deal out of female referees recently. Am I going crazy or is this policeman Kevin Dunn? https://i.postimg.cc/7PXqjY9C/zx3.png A video of the winners of Tough Enough 2 was shown and during her victory speech, Jackie Gayda said "You wish upon a star and you have a dream and no matter what, your dream comes true, you keep on pushing and pushing and pushing and it'll just work!". After the video, Lawler said "Yeah, I wanna tell Jackie to keep on pushing and pushing and pushing, she'll go far in the WWE, Woo-Hoo!" The Undertaker and Tommy Dreamer have a match and Undertaker wins with a Dragon Sleeper. I can't remember the last time I saw someone win a match with a Dragon Sleeper. So the moment has arrived for Nash's "Major Announcement" and it's that Shawn Michaels is the newest member of the nWo. I remember that and I also remember the random beeping that happened during Michaels' entrance. SmackDown: We start off SmackDown with a 20-Man Battle Royal that only consisted of 19 wrestlers and had no winner. During the Battle Royal, Lance Storm and Triple H continued their rivalry which consisted of Storm getting the better of Triple H by throwing him outside the ring (through the ropes) and beating him up. You may not know how much I like the fact that Lance Storm and Triple H had a rivalry and that Lance Storm was portrayed as being a legitimate threat to Triple H. I didn't really watch much of SmackDown back in 2002 for some reason, so a lot of my watching of SmackDown 2002 and onwards is in a way, going to be kinda new to me, which I think is pretty cool in weird way. Rico hasn't been hanging out with Billy & Chuck much since becoming Tag Team Champion and as a result, Billy gets zits on his ass. SPOILER: show During Billy & Chuck's elimination match against Rikishi & Rico for the titles, Rico quickly taps out to a wrist lock so he can be quickly eliminated so it's a handicap match but Rico continues to sell by holding his wrist and Tazz constantly points out that Rico has a "limp wrist". Tazz just wouldn't let it go. He must have mentioned Rico having a limp wrist about twenty times. At one point Tazz said "I guess it's better to have a limp wrist than a limp biscuit". This episode of SmackDown saw the debut of Jamie Noble. I had no idea that there was a backstory here that The Hurricane and Nidia were in a relationship and that The Hurricane left Nidia because she had multiple boyfriends. A match for Velocity was actually made on SmackDown and it was made by Vince himself. He then proceed to check out Jackie Gayda's ass as she walked out the room. SPOILER: show Kurt Angle vs Hardcore Holly and Kurt Angle became Holly's tron. SPOILER: show All the way through SmackDown the ring bell was just an obvious sound effect that was added in post-production but the worst point of it was when Angle took the bell and tried to hit Holly with it. Angle dropped it in the ring and a sound effect was added when it hit the canvas and then another sound effect was added when Holly hit Angle with the bell. It reminded me of when you hit someone with the bell on "WWF No Mercy". We see Maven in the hospital with a broken leg and Torrie comes to visit him with a banana (as you do). She then does this with said banana: SPOILER: show A nurse comes in and tells Maven to keep his leg elevated to which he replies "Oh, don't worry, I'm real elevated right now!". And then cue Tajiri in the hospital and his fantastic facial expressions and mannerisms: SPOILER: show I've always loved Tajiri. Later on he finds Maven's room, opens the door and spits green mist in Torrie's face and pulls Maven off the bed and breaks his leg again by jamming it in the door. I remember Tajiri as a heel back during this time but I didn't know he was this much of a heel. He's great. He's both unintentionally funny and an absolute bastard, all at the same time. Man, Cole (and sometimes Tazz) was so bad back then. Edge had just forfeited his King of the Ring Qualifying match against Chris Jericho and Jericho appears. The camera is solely on Jericho and you can clearly see him grab a mic and then enter the ring and all Cole could say was "Edge's scheduled opponent has just taken a microphone into the ring with him!". I got big "SmackDown!: Just Bring It" vibes right there. I got more of those vibes again when Jericho hit Edge with a chair and Tazz said "Jericho has crossed the line and his victim is Edge!". Also, at the end of the show, Hogan offers his hand to Triple H and Cole said "Hulk Hogan acknowledged Triple H!" and later Kurt Angle's music hits and Cole says "Kurt Angle's out here!". Maybe the commentary in "Just Bring It" wasn't that bad after all. It was just actually really accurate. Anyway, as I've used a hell of a lot of gifs here, I'll end with two images of random signs from Raw and one of just a random image: https://i.postimg.cc/kMVdYF2H/zx4.png https://i.postimg.cc/fbH6BJDZ/zx5.png https://i.postimg.cc/664DfWSJ/zx6.png |
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Seems WWE can't catch any real break with their handling of the upcoming Evolution event.
Took them weeks to finally realize Alexa Bliss is not a draw as a big star since ticket sales for the event were very sluggish after her match with Trish was announced. Then the belt maker for the Women's Tag title said he hasn't heard anything definite for plans for the belts status at the event. Now the rumored NXT UK Women's match for the event might be off because WWE waited way too long to start airing the tapings from the summer. Current champ recently mentioned she hasn't been told of any plans for her at the moment for the event. Don't even think ticket sales spiked after they announced Nikki Bella as Ronda's opponent for the RAW Women's title match. |
Nassau is gonna shit all over this ppv damn it.
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I think the people who actually go are gonna enjoy it and be into it
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John Oliver has CENA NUFF of WWE and Saudi Arabia
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here are the sections about WWE from the feature story about Saudi Arabia on the new “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that premiered earlier tonight on HBO. <a href="https://t.co/NNOVgzVftW">pic.twitter.com/NNOVgzVftW</a></p>— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1051685815313723392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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Kinda funny now compared to 21 years ago when he was talking about Hogan vs Piper in WCW when the WWF was doing Taker vs HBK |
WWE has turned into 1998 WCW.
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Comments not going as they hoped...
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Ronda also doesn't feel 'special' at all anymore.
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It would be like if the NFL decided which players make the playoff roster not by being good at their respective positions for the regular season and getting their team wins, but how cute they are! That ugly-ass running back who got all the yardage all season will be benched in that playoff run... then when fans complain, the NFL says "well, see nobody wanted that team to succeed anyhow". If the PPV was building to something like Asuka vs Ember Moon (before they killed Asuka and banished Athena to the depths of whogivesafuck - you know; keeping their NXT pushes intact), there would be the air of "YO, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!!" |
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No, but the American/World economy would take a big hit if everybody stopped doing business with Saudi Arabia. So, it's not really a shitty thing. The USA isn't getting out of the oil business. Nobody of any real note is really taking any money out of Saudi Arabia.
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Shane seems like the only one in that family with a good sense of humor.
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