Yeah, was worried there for a bit that they were going to job out Finn in his Raw debut. I would love to see him beat Rollins to become the first WWEU champ, but I won’t get ahead of myself on that one.
Of course, if it looks like Seth is going to win and the Club comes out to distract him, then stand with Finn, all will be right with the world. 
Aww man, the one RAW I miss and it’s a good one.
Boo on AT&T. Guess I’ll go to Hulu now for it
Just call the two main belts what they are - the WWE Ram - er, Raw - Heavyweight Title and the WWE Smackdown Heavyweight Title. Why not? That’s what everybody else is going to be calling them. And wasn’t having separate belts the whole reason the Intercontinental and United States titles haven’t been unified yet?
Wait, don’t tell me, let me guess: the whole point of this is to lead up to:
WRESTLEMANIA 2017 - UNIFICATION
JBL is the goddamn worst.
I see him as being the senile ex-wrestler who still thinks he’s on RAW but everyone just kind of accepts it
I pretty much hate him and King equally…but god I hate him so so much
Wait, what? WHO is wrestling Ambrose at Summerslam?
So you’re saying there will be shenanigans between now and then?
All the SD girlz got to introduce themselves, although Eva Mannikin again manages to avoid doing anything too strenuous by using a prerecorded announcer to do her promo for her. Whose cock did she suck? Apparently, everybody’s.
If Randy Orton looks that weak vs the Miz, his match with Lesnar will look like big rig vs crossing possum. He didn’t even do the “I hear voices” mat slap.
Didn’t expect Ziggie to win the 6-way, much less do it by pinning AJ. Every now and then they throw him a bone, then bury him instead of the bone, but he and Dean should still throw down.
Meanwhile, in the “shooting yourself in the foot” department, a WWE spokesman told TMZ today that Brock isn’t going to be suspended for his drug test failures because he’s only a part-time wrestler and is therefore exempt from the Wellness Policy. :eek:
“We don’t test our most famous and biggest-drawing talents for PEDs” is really not the message WWE ought to be sending out right now.
Although I guess it explains how the Undertaker is able to go from “scrawny 50-year-old man” to “buff and having the stuff” in a matter of weeks every spring.
Did suspending Roman make him part time? Could he just keep using while on suspension? What a crock.
And I suppose HHH must be part time, so he’ll be back in great shape.
HA.
Well we know it’s that dude’s last day at work.
Smackdown was fine I guess. Nothing super spectacular happened, but it wasn’t a shitshow either. I was actually most impressed with it’s ability to end on time. I haaaaate when RAW ends at 11:15 because I need my sleep. I always attributed that to the fact it was live, and SD ending on time because it was taped.
Apparently not.
It seemed like the real show ending was a few minutes too early, so they kept repeating the last bits to pad out time.
RAW started to go over because it was live and they could initially because they had the next time slot to repeat the show. During the Monday Night Wars they stopped repeating the show, I think to say to the fans don’t watch the other guys and expect to catch us later. Raw now finishes on time mostly, they just have the time slot scheduled until 11:05, but lately they’ve run over that a few times. SmackDown may start to go over so they don’t have to hold it to such a tight schedule. It will benefit them more now as Tuesday becomes the end of the wrestling week so they’ll have the real cliffhanger spot.
Well, three days and a gazillion hours of wrestling was enough for me. I need at least a couple of days break from it now.
First time I’d seen Zack Sabre Jr. He’s skinny as a willow weed, and I expected him to be lucha style, but he really surprised me. No flashy moves, he’s more like Dean Malenko, who despite being technically brilliant, was dull as unbuttered toast. Saber however, displayed kind of a diabolic genius in his moveset. I don’t know if his style will go over in WWE’s environment, but it will be an interesting development.
Thee Brian Kendrick vs Raul Mendoza knocked me out of my adult diapers. Kendrick used to be the ultimate patsy, always the one who gets beat up and bloodied, but he’s really repackaged himself into the Kenny “The Snake” Stabler of wrestling. He’s crafty, nasty, and cold blooded. Mendoza gets props for working with braces on his teeth and getting his mouth kicked into the ring ropes. Jesus Og, that had to be painful. Hope they keep him.
OMG Zach Sabre was boring as shit.
Not only was he slow and plodding, but his moves required way way too much cooperation with his opponent for me to believe. Obviously it’s all scripted anyway, but every single one of his moves required the other guy to just sit there and let him slllloooowwwllllyyyy do his arm things.
Bo-ring. Please lose and lose fast (even though it won’t happen)
I’m gonna break with the consensus and say I loved Sabre. Not a lot of flash, and I can see why it wouldn’t appeal to some people, but it has a very old-school vibe to it, and he has this weird vibe to his body language where he’s acting heel-ish even though he really isn’t a heel.
Mauro said either in this episode or the last one that the time limits are going to get more generous in future rounds, so I’m guessing the final match is going to be a 60-minute match that goes the distance, and his style would probably play pretty well in a match that long.
In other news, we won’t have to wait very long for Lucha Underground season 3 - it premieres on September 7th with a 40-episode run.
I’ve still got to catch up on the last half of season 2, myself. Guess I better get to binge-watching.
Of course it would, it’ll be 90% rest holds as he climbs on the dude’s back in order to sit there for another 3 minutes as the opponent pretends his being hurt. All while not realize that ALL HE HAS TO DO IS FALL DOWN.
I generally like to be a bit of a contrarian to the popular guys because smarks annoy me and I like to annoy them. But hand to God this isn’t that…
In personal news: Ms. Cups and I are seeing an NXT house show tonight. This should be interesting as everyone is currently in San Antonio right now…so I have NO idea who we will see.
I’ll keep my list (as always) and if anything interesting happens I’ll let ya’ll know.
Gotta admit those are the things I catch in matches too, and they annoy me.
When wrestler 1 stands there for an interminable period of time very obviously waiting for their opponent to get off a move. I don’t mind it so much when the ‘victim’ is doing a good job of selling being stunned or confused, but all too often it is simply “I stand here looking stupid for 5 seconds while my opponent takes his time setting up his move” and THAT annoys the fuck out of me.
That and what we see most often in experienced women’s matches, where they’ve obviously walked through moves but haven’t done them enough to become fluid and you get that long slow “I turn this way, pause, then turn this way, pause, hit this shot, pause, do that thing, pause…”
Along those lines, the moveset where W1 throws W2 to the ropes, then bends down in anticipation of flipping W2: that NEVER works. W2 always punches him in the throat or something.
Re: LU, Sexy Star retired and took up boxing. Whuuuut? Sans mask
The “it’s obvious they’re setting up the next move” is something I noticed a lot in the 2 or 3 episodes that KO (heh) showed me of Lucha Underground.
Lucha is a lot of fun, and I like the flippy-shit…but every once in a while you can tell it the opponent is basically sitting there with “Imma let you finish…” on his (masked) face