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i wonder how long the wyatt/orton thing was supposed to go if ryder didn't get hurt?

I'm totally okay with it, i think it was getting to the point where Alpha were really losing ALL steam, and i always support belt switches on tv

plus, i always laugh at depressing wyatt family booking. Even when they actually win a BIG ONE, it's comically short!

 

Saw the house show in STL last night.

Reigns is absolutely killing me.

 

I know obviously it wasn't her last night, but what if that was a way to get Eva Marie back in the picture.

Although count me as one who thinks we don't see her back.

 

Seth/Jericho in Brooklyn tonight was advertised as a street fight, but it was a normal singles match. Wonder what happened

 

If Reigns wins the Universal title at RR, any chance he relinquishes the US title and we get some kind of tournament to crown the new champ?

 

For the Lucha Underground watchers: What the hell is this Puma storyline?

 

For anyone who watches PROGRESS: Why did British Strong Style relinquish their tag titles? I completely missed that.

 

There is 0 drama to the Wyatt angle right now. Without the titles, there are no stakes. And no, the "fate" of the useless Family does not count. The turn has to mean something, which is why you need the belts to give them something to lose.

 

AA is probably the best team on the entire main roster, it's weird to me that people think they got the titles too early. If anything I feel like they had to do it now cause they were running out of excuses for why they didn't already have them.

 

Just should have been a bigger moment. Have them chase the titles for a while, build it up, make people really care about them and end up culminating at a big event. Preferably Wrestlemania but would have taken Rumble, or another PPV. Only reason I think they did it this early is because they wanna start building Orton/Wyatt again. Still happy as hell for them though.

 

People cared about them the day they debuted. If it weren't for Slater's rise, they'd have won the belts first.

 

It's a great story, though. It was a foregone conclusion to everyone and their mother that the Wyatts would at least retain through a PPV cycle or so, and the newest/hungriest team on the main roster slips in and knocks them off at the first, smallest miscommunication. And in a world where practically everyone has a pin on Bray, they got the fall on Orton.

 

Not judging by the crowd reactions I've been hearing. They've been OK at best. They'll still be over but I just wanted a bigger moment personally.

 

Most Smackdown crowds are tepid as fuck. When they debuted and just suplexed the shit out of everyone, they were getting huge pops. They just hadn't been booked well recently.

 

Yeah I dunno guess I'm just an attitude era kid at heart and what you think is a huge pop isn't necessarily one in my judgment of it. In my honest opinion I think crowds have been pretty dead for the most part over the last couple years.

 

I went to the first SD post draft and the boos were borderline deafening when the vignette played saying AA was debuting the following week.

 

The boos?

 

We were all under the impression AA would be debuting that night

 

Ah gotcha.

 

Smackdown finally did it. They beat Raw in the ratings as they should have

 

I thought AA winning the titles was too random considering they only got their shot because the team who was originally planned as the #1 contender had to drop due to injury. Just a random match against big-time stars on a random SD. No build. I wasn't even excited for them and I'm a big fan.

The women's match was a mess. The arm spot was cool, I guess, but the whole vibe of the match was weird.

 

I love that the picture used is of the two authority figures who weren't on the episode at all.

 

Probably since it's a ratings report and not something like a "-insert segment- popped ratings" thing, I mean afterall numbers & ratings are all business side anyway lol.