Wrestling Thread 8: Follow The Buzzards • Page 804

Was Punk under the ring or did production/camera crew do a great job blocking him out until the reveal / avoid or mute the crowd to not give him away?

 

Priest v Jey is such a mid matchup that you cant even have it open Backlash. You gotta bury that someone in the middle of the card

 

When is Punk expected to be healthy enough to actually fight again?

 

El Desperado is doing a mystery show.

 

Realistically for a consistently broken 45yr old dude, maybe Summerslam/Bash at Berlin. When he tore his triceps at All Out, he didnt return until nearly 10 months later on Collision.

 

What did Rock give Cody is going to be this eras what’s in the lock box. Unless they already said it.

I know a few years back Cole was kinda looking to phase himself out and find his replacement. I wonder if now with Vince gone he’s like fuck it I’m not going anywhere

 

There was a fun little reddit theory that that because the match was Bloodline Rules, because the Rock functionally acknowledged him as champion with the belt trade, etc...that what he handed him was basically a symbol that he's the Tribal Chief now.

Other fun theory is they go full kayfabe with Cody's bus and The Rock handed him the lighter

 

I really want them to change up the dynamic for judgement day. Rhea and Priest should be berating the other losers.... take it more seriously. The truth comedy angle was funny but if you want Priest to have any chance of making this work and being credible then he needs to level up as a character

 

Hell yeah Sheamus is coming back?

 

Its what I was expecting. Finn to get jettisoned as he couldnt keep them as tag champs. Priest is pushing for Dom to go too, but Rhea sticks up for him. I mean, its not humanly possible for Finn to have looked weaker anyway...probably smarter to write him off TV for 3 months and have him feud with Priest after he drops the belt

edit: Wow, Finn has 4 total singles wins since last WM. Rey, Nak, Carmelo, AJ...Im gonna assume at least 2 of those were via absurd interference. Kinda wild he hasnt been kicked out of the group yet.

 

Tbf, Finn's wrestled maybe eight singles matches on TV since then.

 

I mean, thats kinda the point. He's not even a singles dude anymore. Nak just got functionally squashed by Ilya and he has way more singles action and wins than Finn.

He's gotten to Malakai Black levels of being inexplicably not a feature guy.

 

Any idea what the “don’t break my heart again” line was referencing? I assumed it was something covered over the last two months as I really wasn’t paying any attention but seems like a lot of folks in YouTube/Reddit comments didn’t get what that was referring to either.

 

i just took it as losing the war at Mania

 

The two theories of what he handed him that I like are it’s either a piece of Roman’s necklace or a lighter to make Cody’s bus burning a storyline and have it be Rock that did it

 

A really small USB drive with a bitmap of that Bloodline family tree.

 

I’m happy for Priest and all but man he’s so bland. I have no interest in Priest/Jey. Also being in attendance last night made me realize this Yeet thing needs to die

 

Broken be like no yeet

 

an absurd amount of money TKO is raking in right now between WWE and the UFC

(There should be 0 need for roster cuts after mania)

 

I wonder how long they’ll keep the Uncle Howdy teases going. Hope it goes well for Bo.