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Post by Jim Cornette’s Wendy’s Order🍔 on Jul 31, 2020 20:59:08 GMT -5
Lol yeah, and WWE has HUGE babyface turn plans for the fiend 🙄🙄🙄 lmao give me a break
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Post by McBlake on Jul 31, 2020 20:59:39 GMT -5
Huh 🤔
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Post by marino13 on Jul 31, 2020 21:00:30 GMT -5
oh great. the Fox app removed FOX...and only has fox sports, fox news and other random bs. there goes me watching SmackDown on xbox I wondered what was up.
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Post by JL Styles on Jul 31, 2020 21:01:01 GMT -5
Swamp Fight continuity. I didn’t see that coming, at all. Nice twist.
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Post by East Coast on Jul 31, 2020 21:01:22 GMT -5
dear god
what a way to end a show tho
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Post by East Coast on Jul 31, 2020 21:02:36 GMT -5
oh great. the Fox app removed FOX...and only has fox sports, fox news and other random bs. there goes me watching SmackDown on xbox I wondered what was up. not sure. i tried the fox website..and it was same thing. No actual FOX channel. just the other ones. Maybe its some shenanigans with Xfinity...idk
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Post by shenmue on Jul 31, 2020 21:03:00 GMT -5
Alexa is turning on Nikki Cross. It seems like your sources were wrong AGAIN, JD.
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Post by marino13 on Jul 31, 2020 21:04:56 GMT -5
That Fiend part was fantastic. Guess now he knows Braun’s weakness after he saw her in the swap fight. Cool stuff if that’s what they are going for.
Hopefully we are getting a heel Gable. Preferably with a character change.
Miz vs E was very good. Morrison’s flip kick was amazing.
Women matches were fun.
Overall a good show.
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Post by East Coast on Jul 31, 2020 21:05:45 GMT -5
kinda wish they dragged it out more...of Fiend stalking alexa for a month or something.
i would totally love if Fiend can turn her evil for a little while. Like have her play innocent victim. Then screw Braun over and be evil.
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Post by East Coast on Jul 31, 2020 21:07:02 GMT -5
its all kinda weird and meta too. Because didn't bray catch flack years ago for having weird pics of her on his phone that ppl saw by accident.
and isn't Braun semi stalking Alexa irl?
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Post by JL Styles on Jul 31, 2020 21:16:14 GMT -5
I have to start with the ending. That was awesome. I love the continuity with the Swamp Fight. I just love the idea of Alexa potentially “turning” into Sister Abigail. This is how you build a big PPV match. Strowman-Fiend went up several notches tonight.
The IC title match was fine. I would have liked more offense from Metalik, but they made AJ look really strong. If this keeps up, it will make whoever beats AJ look like a huge deal.
The Big E singles run got off to a good start. Good match with Miz.
Heel Gable could be interesting, and Gable vs Riddle has great possibilities.
Naomi-Lacey was fine.
The main event was good. Bayley retains, and there was more friction between Bliss and Cross before that amazing last couple of minutes.
Good show, that turned great because of that ending. On to Monday.
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Post by FLUX '97 on Jul 31, 2020 21:18:04 GMT -5
They really just gonna kill off Bliss-Cross Applesauce to give this Braun/Fiend mess some heat huh
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Post by Triple S: POOR on Jul 31, 2020 21:36:00 GMT -5
So many different approaches they can take with this Fiend/Braun/Alexa angle.
It’s got my attention. Had to re-watch it a few times. SO well done.
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Post by sonstuds on Jul 31, 2020 21:36:07 GMT -5
I know they're both heels but I really want to see Styles defend against Cesaro and Morrison.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jul 31, 2020 21:42:22 GMT -5
Would have it been better if Fiend, ya know, not go all "let me slowly insert my fingers into your oral cavity"? As they say, you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar. Have Fiend be super protective of Alexa and worship her (not like Corey) until she actually becomes the vessel for Sister Abigail.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jul 31, 2020 21:47:14 GMT -5
AJ and Metalik was ok. Match wasn't great but AJ was.
At least with Corbin it makes Gable little more interesting. Riddle/Gable is gonna be great
Nice to see Big E get the win hope this ends with a title around his waist.
Good seeing Otis back and Sonya deserves to be the next SD Women's Champ.
Bayley and Nikki was ok but that ending was awesome it's so many ways they can go with this hopefully with Alexa standing beside The Fiend. Well done WWE
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Post by marino13 on Jul 31, 2020 22:37:38 GMT -5
If they go all out with the Gable heel turn, we could get Gable vs Riddle, Gulak, & Bryan. ALL 3 would be fantastic.
Oh and Sheamus still looks awesome in that gear. Keep it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 0:51:34 GMT -5
Well true to my word, I tried watching a smackdown for the first time since Last September as well. Metalik-AJ was pretty good. I would have preferred someone other than Metalik for that style of match. Did feel kind of like a WWE attempt at a New Japan style pacing, and overall I enjoyed the structure of the match, just didn't really make sense having Metalik be the other guy in it. He did fine with it, but I don't think it did much for him. AJ is the type of guy who can make the IC title actually mean something though, so that's cool. Corbin Gulak was ok, I don't really care what story you give Chad if you can drop the Shorty gimmick and let him wrestle Riddle. There is some long term potential here even with the Corbin aspect. I didn't care for Big E-Miz, but it would probably take a miracle for me to enjoy the Miz, so I can't really offer anything significant. He just doesn't do it for me. I would be plenty happy if they can just kinda forget about the Jeff Hardy part and turn Sheamus into an Irish bootlegger with that getup, it looked dope. Of course, my half sleeve is prohibition bootleg tunnels themed so I might be a little biased. I've never been a fan of Sheamus but I could quickly get on board with bootlegger Sheamus. Dissapointed in Naomi/Lacey. That match could have gone a lot longer, I blinked and it was done. I giggled that of course the bald guy was the one who could stop Sonya with the clippers. I really hope that was intentional. Bayley-Nikki wasn't as good as two weeks ago, but the TV version shouldn't be. Good match overall though, and it's nice to see them continuing to evolve Nikki and Alexa. I love me some good ol' Bliss Cross Applesauce Pooh & Piglet vibe goodness, but adding some depth to their current characters isn't a bad thing at all. There is a really cool full circle angle here with tying Bliss into the whole Sister Abigail thing (unwillingly) with Braun trying to deal with the Fiend and Alexa being kind of a victim, forcing Nikki to really come to terms with her friendship with Alexa, and also embrace the Sanity version of Nikki, who would have no problem walking into the Fiends weird ass land to save Alexa. I dunno if they'll go there but the options open and it could be a good way to add a huge amount of depth to the Smackdown version of Nikki and keep that tag team together. (They already broke up Fire and Desire, can't afford to split up women's tag teams when there are so few. I don't know when the Iconics contracts are until, but I really have a hard time seeing them resigning for how long they sat at home for too, so if I'm thinking to the future I dunno if I'm breaking up what should clearly always have been called Twisted Bliss ) Dug the ending. I'm not gonna pretend I enjoyed the Swamp Fight thing, I hated it, but I really dug this ending. If the Swamp fight was needed to add direction to the fiend again and fully recover from that Seth disaster, so be it. I can make that trade off gladly. (I actually liked the Funhouse match at Mania. Swamp Fight just kinda jumped the shark a bit for me, much like the Street Profits/Viking Raiders one did). I definitely preferred Raw on Monday to this, but again overall, significantly better than the product in September. There's far too much wrestling out there for me to start watching these again consistently in all likelihood, but watching them later and being able to skip through the commercials and everything makes it much quicker.
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Post by Controversial Maverick PUNK on Aug 1, 2020 3:23:47 GMT -5
See, that's how low down the neck of the singlet, on the ultimate Fiend should be.
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Post by cableV on Aug 1, 2020 9:44:00 GMT -5
So who stops Sasha and Bayley? Charlotte by herself, or Charlotte and maybe Tessa?
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