Official SmackDown on FOX Premiere Thread: FRIDAY, 10/4/2019

All I'm saying is this better end with Rey beating Brock for the title with help from Valasquez and NOT Valasquez beating Brock for the title.

I didn’t watch either show until Thursday morning and if I’m being honest I felt like AEW had a major WCW vibe to it. Which I liked and along with Pac being there will get me to watch it again. With NXT I watched and was mainly hoping Ciampa would return so I was a little disappointed there. But having Balor back on NXT and Ciampa when he finally returns makes NXT must watch for me. But I think AEW “won” the ratings this week mainly because it was “new” and people wanted to see what they bring to the table, but I feel that once the novelty of AEW wears off NXT will reign in the ratings.

Now as for SD last night I didn’t watch it yet and wasn’t going to post anything about it until I did. But that was spoiled on the Mattel board by someone saying the WM Kofi figure’s facial expression but honestly while Kofi’s title reign was “fun” I could never get behind him as a legitimate champion. Because whenever I see him all I can see is a tag team wrestler who for 10 years claim to fame was his Royal Rumble Elimination saves gimmick. I just didn’t see “Top Guy” in his work. So yeah I have no issue with his Championship reign coming to an end in 5 seconds to Brock.

But I honestly thought they would have had Rey or the rest of New Day come out and attack Brock to have Kofi keep the belt on a DQ from outside interface. So I am glad that didn’t happen although I personally would have had Kofi drop the belt to Orton last month.

Lmao okay. AEW’s show was god awful. Was the wrestling good? Yes. But so is the wrestling on NXT every week.

AEW did nothing to present who anyone is. They did nothing to build new storylines. They worked off storylines they had previously going, which new viewers will know nothing about. At least WWE’s constant recaps & Coles constant re-introducing of superstars came in handy to show new viewers what had been going on and tell who people are.

Dynamite was a Glorified PPV. It was not a weekly show that advanced/introduced storylines the typical way. Instead it was matches filled with interferences or post match attacks.

I have nothing against AEW, but the one and only reason their ratings were higher was because it was their FIRST EVER SHOW.

I bet there are people, like me, who won’t be tuning in next week now that we’ve seen what the product is.

WWE promised nothing groundbreaking or new except that it was the season premiere of both shows so I don’t know what you expected.

Raw & Smackdown are not against AEW during the week. NXT is, so that’s who needs to up their programing if anything. Finn Balor is on the show now, which will draw in a lot more viewers for the coming weeks. I’m sure more people will transition over to the show who were underutilized on the main roster as well.

Cain Velasquez is wrestling brock Lesnar at crown jewel on Halloween

I think we all know that Vince and Steph are salivating at the thought of two washed up MMA stars going at it for their top title. Rey is simply an afterthought and was just a tool to get them to this point (just my thoughts based on their long history of crap booking).

Cain looked like wet toilet paper. Put some work in the gym god damn fam.

I wonder if WWE will let Cain wrestle in his AAA mask?

For those that have not seen Cain wrestle, here is a little of this work. He needs to spend some time in PC.

Things I liked about the show- Rock/Lynch/Corbin segement, Horsewomen tag match, Kofi losing the tite, the ending with Cain, and the Tyson Fury segment.

What I didn't like- Ladder match, Rollins vs Nakamura, the lumberjack match, and the 8 man tag(such a throwaway).

Well it was nice being able to discuss SD without people bringing up AEW.