Meanwhile, commentary has mentioned about 15,000 times so far that Cody is going to be wrestling with a torn pec tonight, because it’s been eight years and Vince still isn’t done being petty and bitter about CM Punk.
So many wrestlers not on the show, yet the three hour show is 90 minutes of video packages and 90 minutes of wrestling. And if you watched the buy-in hoping for the match that wasn’t there, it is the same damn packages.
At least AEW actually has pre-show matches on its PPVs.
Yeah, I think I’m gonna be skipping Hell in a Cell.
you know someone told me when it was first announced that you didn’t have to buy each WWE event as a separate PPV that at some point they were just going to be “just another tv show” like say the old sat night main events … since the audience is "built-in: they have an excuse to quit trying to make them special
Sweet Jesus, Cody’s pectoral looks HORRIFYING.
Vince must really want to try to stick it to Punk.
heres an article … WWE Reportedly Struggling With Lack Of Roster Depth Ahead Of Hell In A Cell
It’s almost as if firing 150 wrestlers in the last two years might have been a bad idea.
Well if the recent aew rumors are they might have a few people returning cause some of the veterans aren’t impressed with the “professionalism” of AEW thoughts along the line of "like a rich fan’s idea pf am indy show " or " I hate to say it but (Jim)Cornette’s right after all "
Given the choice between working for a trust fund billionaire money mark who wants to be one of the boys, and a roided-up 80-year-old megalomaniac who’s best friends with Donald Trump, I’d go with AEW any day of the week.
Another thing I noticed during tonight’s show; during Kevin Owens’ match with “Ezekiel”, Corey Graves mentioned that Owens’ first ever match in NXT was against Elias.
That is not true. Owens’ debut, at Takeover: R Evolution back in 2014, was against CJ Parker. You can watch that match on Peacock. You’d think Corey might even remember that match, because it was also the first match he ever did commentary for. Elias wasn’t his second opponent either - I looked that up, and that was against Adrian Neville. He didn’t face Elias until a month after his debut.
But again, Vince is a petty little manchild, so commentary has to pretend that anyone who doesn’t work for him any more never existed in the first place.
It’s weird because they really did have an overbloated roster with plenty of talent that really contributed little. It’s still weird to me they were never able to fully capitalize on guys like Bray Wyatt, Cesaro etc.
If Kevin Owens wants to find out for sure if Ezekiel is actually Elias he just has to put a guitar in his hands. If he can’t play it then he must be Elias.
I haven’t seen anything so disturbing since Cody’s dad, Dusty Rhodes, wore those polka dots when he started in the WWF. I guess that bruise on Cody is kind of nasty looking also.
From a practical standpoint, you’d think Ezekiel would have had to show someone his ID or give his SSN when he signed a WWE contract, and that Owens could just ring up Titan Towers and get somebody to check on this for him, but that would require him to think logically and exist in a world that operates based on logic and basic causality, whereas WWE TV operates on the equivalent of Looney Tunes rules, where the camera is invisible, there are never any legal consequences for your actions, and having your windpipe crushed by Bray Wyatt on Thursday night is no obstacle to you wrestling at 100% on Monday night.
Does anyone agree with this analysis?
You have to stop watching if this is where it takes you. Realism does not look good on wrestling.
When even wrestling insults your intelligence, you know you need to distance yourself.
As far as Cody goes, that’s probably the result. Personally I think having an injured Cody win against a healthy Rollins is idiotic even in wrestling, but that’s the kind of fans they aim for now. They must have promised Rollins something big to lay down like that.
Cody should not have been wrestling with a torn pectoral, and WWE is stupid to have let him do so.
WWE reasoning, after being harangued by Cody, was that he could not do additional damage to the torn pectoral. Still, if he’s going to be out 6 months, give Rollins the win, and let Cody take it back immediately upon his return. But that would be semi-intelligent booking, something WWE never does and AEW sometimes, but certainly not always, does.
As for KO getting information from WWE HR, that would be a big no-no. No HR should ever give out that type of information. But even if KO “knows a guy/gal/other” in HR, that person would be going against Management allowing Elias to be Ezekiel. So even that would have a strong chance of failure. Would you rather have KO or VKM mad at you?
I’m waiting for the swerve where Vince secretly learned how to clone people then accelerate their aging. Ezekiel is the first successful test, and soon he’ll be teaming with Elias. Once Vince is convinced it works, soon we’ll have 35 year old Vince in charge, though I doubt Vince would turn the company over even to his younger self.