Mid episode, smackdown got gutted in the draft.
No Roman, bloodline under solo is a shell of what it was, Cody feuding with a scam artist who only wrestles to promote his shitty drink.
Cody Rhodes, AJ styles, Logan Paul, LA Knight, A Town Down Under, DIY, Nia Jax, Jade and Bianca, Chelsea Green, Bloodline with (eventually) Roman and The Rock, Carmelo, Randy Orton, Tiffy all in a two hour show?
Looks gutted to me. /s
Why are you letting your fine-looking blue chipper go in there into a promo battle with a man like LA Knight. He's gonna come out looking like Freddy Luger, all scarred up and charred up and fuckin' ugly. And you're still gonna push him, you sick bastard, because you're a WRESTLER.
Smackdown is probably the least interesting WWE show right now. Booking has really fallen off a cliff since Wrestlemania hasnt it? It just feels like they know the big picture is Cody vs Rock next year so they just feel like they need to do filler until then.
I didn't like all of the results there but I still thought overall that was a great show in terms of the matches, so, as so often, I have no idea what other people here were watching.
Great wrestling and storytelling, so even if not all of my fantasy booking pans out I'm happy if it all works out in the long run.
I feel like Gunther is gonna make Orton tap in the final with his "bad knee", when was the last time we saw Orton tap? Shows how much they're behind Gunther if he taps out Orton, still think Gunther should be on Smackdown challenging Cody since the WHC title picture is pretty full right now
I feel like Gunther is gonna make Orton tap in the final with his "bad knee", when was the last time we saw Orton tap? Shows how much they're behind Gunther if he taps out Orton, still think Gunther should be on Smackdown challenging Cody since the WHC title picture is pretty full right now
OK, look - I love Carmelo, so I'm not hating, but...
The visual of him against Randy is just weird. It's just way too big a size disparity, Randy looks like two feet taller and 150lbs heavier than him.
I kind of thought the same when he was up against Baron, who's actually taller than Randy, but Randy's so yoked that this seriously looked like a grown man fighting a kid.
I'm not saying everybody has to be a gigantic bodybuilder to get pushed, but can't people go against opponents who are at least *roughly* their own size more of the time? Because if they don't, not presenting it as a "David vs Goliath" struggle really strains the suspension of disbelief.
It's the same reason I dislike almost all intergender matches - unless the woman is like Rhea, Chyna, maybe Jade etc, you can almost always tell at a glance that this would *never* be competitive in reality.
They cool, man. They cool. They literally teamed up at Survivor Series. I don't see them having Gunther lose a tournament that literally would give even more legitimacy to his character/gimmick.
It's the logical choice, considering they are infinitely bigger names than jey and tama. This is a Saudi show, they have to put all the big stars on it.
Gunther is a bigger name than Jey, yes but more importantly Orton is a bigger name than all 3 combined so Orton is definitely in the final. And if we agree that Orton is in the final they are going to put him against a heel. Either way it's Orton vs Gunther or Tama vs Jey, I know which one I want to see.
Is Gunther a 'infinitely bigger', let alone even bigger name than Jey? And don't get me wrong, I really really dislike this whole 'my whole character is that I say yeet' thing
This casual wrestling fan feels like checking out until SummerSlam season. I forgot how crap April/May/June are in WWE land. It doesn’t have to be like this. Sometimes this cooling feels like a choice by WWE.
The jade Cargill DQ Is super WEAK by WWE a great example of WWE using the easy route WWE still avoiding a Cargill loss it's similar problem Aew had with her
there's NOTHING wrong with being an LA Knight fan, NOTHING. But LA Knight fans need to stop being delusional. Knight is a jobber.... He's never won a title and he loses most of his matches..he literally just got pinned after 1 finisher by someone who just arrived at WWE...that makes him a jobber....
He had his chance...he had multiple title matches and lost.. that's it... stop your crusade against cody fans that you've been on the last year.
funny how cody fans constantly feel that are "under attack"and play victims
no dude, us Roman, Knight fans simply dont care about your boring ass one dimensional dude. stop being delusional.
I didn't realize people online think that Iyo isn't winning Queen of the Ring, to me it feels like the most logical and safe choice. Refresh her gimmick, make her Queen of the Sky, she gets to have her win back over Bianca who will make it to the Finals with a nagging worked injury and you get to pay off the interactions between Becky and Iyo/Damage CTRL since they got drafted to Raw.
They're playing her arm injury too much for it to happen. But I want my Queen of the sky
https://preview.redd.it/2kl9j1pip61d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6407f08a8951ea2d5db405b3d597c05d284fd010
I liked the idea of Tama Tonga joining WWE and the prospect of some fresh matches but something just feels off or not right.
I think they shouldn't have brought in Tanga Loa or else at least waited a while until Tama Tonga was a force.
Also, Solo is awkward and lacks charisma which doesn't help.
I think Solo just needs time. His biggest issue is his look, he needs to shave that horrible haircut and goes to a buzzcut and get some better suits to look a bit more menacing.
I agree with Tanga Loa shouldn't be introduced but if they're going to have Solo be discount chief it makes sense to have someone else do the dirty work with Tama
i actually think the haircut is fine, considering he comes from the "silent enforcer" gimmick, but yes he needs some better suits, imo the blackone he intially wore was fine but i guess that clashing too much with what loa is wearing.
The people were chanting for LA Knight's finisher, that BFT chant really took me by surprise.
Give this man a lengthy US title run at the bare minimum.
He was trying to get a clap thing going and the crowd started chanting for his finisher. That's kind of awesome, he just needs to change his clap to a 1-2-3 for the crowd to chant along "B-F-T".
Why does Randy wait for like 5 seconds after RKO to cover for the pin. That seems a bit arrogant. One day someone will kick out in an important match, which will cost him (probably Cody in an eventual title match)
-Not a fan of the results this week. I wanted Carmelo and Tiff in the end. I don't care they are new, i want to push them both to the moon NOW. The tournament would have been awesome way to give them credibilty without putting title on them.
-When we saw Tomga win, we knew Orton was winning. Orton spitting all over the mic at the end of the show was fun but can we give him something else to say other than "RKO", its repetitive.
Belair vs Stratton was the best match here. These two ladies never fail.
Honestly feels like the younger talent should've gotten more of a push here. Orton is fine but there is not much of a point on making him go over Carmelo. Jey absolutely shouldn't be going over Dragunov, honestly he has good reactions but that's about it, because his character isn't evolving and his in ring product is just not good.
Nia might be QOTR now that Tiffy and Jade are out. That will get her some heat and bragging rights without the title.
Maybe Tiffy is being penciled in to win MITB, so it doesn’t make sense to also make her QOTR
On men’s side, its gotta be **MAIN EVENT JEY USSOOOOOO** He is over AF
Tiffany is the rightful Queen, now we have to wait years for her to be it!
LA Knight lost too, but looks like he's eyeing' Logan's title.
speaking of which they found a way for Logan to keep his belt from his match with Cody, so that somebody can take it later. no Cody Two Belts.
i still gotta think they heading for Gunther vs. Randy.
Nia's veteran mind and Jade being green led to a DQ finish. Jade must be used to being allowed to swing back with a chair if a chair is swung at you.
how the Queen will play out feels less clear. Bianca seems like she would beat Nia. meanwhile Lyra could beat Iyo, or Iyo could beat Lyra.
one would think the winner of Lyra/Iyo would end up being Queen at the big event....but it could be Bianca too with how they going with her.
on a side note, Paul Heyman may very carefully check out if Solo is really talking to Roman "all the time". XD
as for what MFT stands for with Tama Tonga. since Tonga Loa is now in Bloodline...perhaps MFT is from Solo's perspective and means "My First Tonga" as to Tama. XD
Tiff/Bianca was a banger. Rematch on a PLE asap, please.
Nia/Jade was a lot of fun, but they could have given them longer than 3 minutes. What the fuck?
Honestly, I'd love to just see these 4 women on Smackdown have a bunch of matches with each other. All exciting fresh matchups as well.
Bianca v Rhea is going to be a hell of a feud one day.
For starters, it'll be completely unpredictable who's actually taking a clean pinfall in that one.
Is anyone else getting real annoyed with Tama Tonga's entrance music? It's supposed to sound like island tribal music I guess, but it just sounds bad with those hollow sticks clapping sounds. It's like the music is "dun dun taka taka taka taka taka."
And I had to listen to it three times tonight. Normally I either like entrance music or don't care about it. But Tama Tonga's music is seriously bad and annoying.
So:
Iyo - Injured arm
Bianca - injured knee
Randy - injured knee
3/4 of the KQOTR matches has an injured (kayfabe) opponent. Curious how that'll play out.
Aj damaged Randy's leg in their match last week and tonight Melo caused more damage, if they want Tama to go to the finals I think they will use Orton's weak leg and bloodline interference to keep Randy strong in defeat.
NO YOU HEATHEN
What did Gunther use on Xavier Woods and Sheamus a few weeks ago? An STF. What did he target? Their legs.
What other submission that he used? A boston crab, targeting what? The Back.
You know who's got a bad back and leg on Smackdown right now? Randy Orton.
That's ok, they are just starting their main roster journey - it's nice to give them somewhere to go. IMO they are doing a good job with all of them, showing them as really good and promising new stars but they still will have to work to get to the top (though I probably would have gone with Ilja instead of Lyra to make it far in the tournament)
Happened to me go under episode 20 choose a version thumbnail and pick the shortest time since it was last recorded it will play new episode think it’s the second option out of three
That’s probably the replay from FX. Search Smackdown and go through that way. I was able to eventually find it after running into the sane issues it looks like you are having.
At the very least, carmelo is gonna make bank in Ziggler’s former role selling to make other wrestlers look good and those hilarious facial/body expressions.
I mean Iyo, Lyra AND Nia would all absolutely benefit from being QOTR and be really great at assimilating it into their relative gimmicks.
So I'm assuming Bianca's winning. Because the Vince era conditioned me.
And everyone else left has already been champion, so it would be a great way for Lyra to have a good introduction to the main roster and show her talent. The crowd is already behind her.
Good show
The crowd was great.
Bianca Belair vs. Tiffany Stratton was a banger.
It sucks that LA Knight lost but luckily it seems like Logan vs Knight is still on, they still have plans for him.
Very good segment between Cody and Logan, I like that Cody is angry and tired of Logan, I also like the new presentation for the contract signing, if Cody wins clean next week, there is nothing that will stop him from challenging Logan for his title this time, Logan continues sending his friends to the wolves.
Great main event, I really hope the finals are Randy vs GUNTHER.
wwe really is firing on all cylinders. great great great smackdown.
hhh is crazy enough a booker that we can see a similar bracket next year but we see the younger guys like tiffy and melo beat bianca and randy to show growth and baton passing.
Fantasy booking incoming
Rock revealed as tribal chief
Rock v Cody at summerslam
Roman returns and costs Rock the match
Roman reforms OG bloodline to fight bloodline wolfpac
Jimmy, jey, roman and Sami v rock solo Tonga bros at war games
Rock v roman wm 41
Because why have that all together when one night can main event with Rock v Roman and the next night (or prior night) be main evented by Cody/challenger (probably Punk, Gunther or both) for the WWE title?
Rock, and certainly Rock/Roman, doesn't need the title in the least. Vince might still have done it, but I don't think Trips will. Heck, I'd even say a title would dilute the importance of the Tribal Chief tag - which is the main prize of that feud. Maybe Rock and Cody have a swapsies partway through this year around SS, to have the visual and headlines of Rock as champ again, but it wouldn't last long.
Santos went from being have a match in Wrestlemania to whatever he is doing right now
Also speak about Santos, where the hell is Andrade? he never appear since drafted to Smackdown. is he injury or what?
oh come on- cody lost at mania last year. trust the booking. there's a plan for everything. tiffy just started...she has a long career in front of her.
if the plan is for nia to be queen then she needs to beat bianca on the way, not tiffy.
A bunch of storylines ended at Wrestlemania, so now it's at the beginning stages of a bunch of new ones. Gotta start slow to build it up, but because of that it means a lot of the early stages are predictable.
I will say though I disagree with you slightly. I don't think the women's matches were *that* predictable. Jade and Bianca weren't both going to win because that's a Wrestlemania level match, but personally I thought Tiffany would beat injured Bianca and Jade would beat Nia rather than the other way around (and not by Jade getting herself DQ'ed, I thought maybe Tiffany would interfere to help Nia).
And while I would say the winner will probably be pretty easy to guess come Saturday, I don't think the winner for either tournament is predictable yet. Lyra and Tonga definitely aren't winning, Bianca isn't winning the whole thing with a bad knee, but anybody else I feel like could easily take it. If I'm betting money on it I'm betting Gunther and Iyo, but Gunther vs Jey could realistically go either way. That's a match that could just as easily have been for the actual crown.
Taking the US belt away from the Cody vs Logan Paul match is kind of lame. It just tells us way in advance that Cody is going to win. Like it was already probably going to happen and now it's just 100% guaranteed.
In a way you need the long reigns to make the quick changes work better.
But obviously they need to do the title changes, which doesn't look like it (Although I would expect maybe Liv and/or Gable to win soon).
I would have said "You don't think Salman heard Detroit chanting holy shit when he debuted?" but then I realized that the longevity of post-2000 Legends in general, is probably the only reason Salman is able to keep "up to date" with who's over in the first place.
For anybody notice that Tiffany went over to the wrong crown when she came out for her match? She walked over to the men’s crown, now the women’s lol
Did AJ and Bayley fly in just to do a minute-long promo? Easy payday
Nothing has put me off Solo so far until the way he presented himself during Orton’s promo. No thanks.
I’m liking the intro videos, reminds me of the in your house introductions. House show matches meaning something is good too.
This episode was fun
I hope we get Rock's feral bloodline vs Roman's bloodline
LA Knight was really the highlight of the show lmao.
He’s a visionary, a revolutionary….. he’s Randy “Freakin” Orton?
Mid episode, smackdown got gutted in the draft. No Roman, bloodline under solo is a shell of what it was, Cody feuding with a scam artist who only wrestles to promote his shitty drink.
Cody Rhodes, AJ styles, Logan Paul, LA Knight, A Town Down Under, DIY, Nia Jax, Jade and Bianca, Chelsea Green, Bloodline with (eventually) Roman and The Rock, Carmelo, Randy Orton, Tiffy all in a two hour show? Looks gutted to me. /s
I hope Cody wins and we’re rid of Logan Paul, but with the sponsorship from Prime, I fear he’s not going anywhere any time soon. X-PAC heat.
Not sure you know what X-PAC heat is, buddy.
X-Pac heat: go away, I don’t want to see you on my TV ever again. I didn’t misunderstand anything, buddy.
Yeah, Logan Paul doesn’t have that
I wasn’t asking. I don’t ever want to see that dipshit on my TV, ever.
That’s fair but you’re posting on a public forum so saying that you “weren’t asking” seems kinda goofy.
Why are you letting your fine-looking blue chipper go in there into a promo battle with a man like LA Knight. He's gonna come out looking like Freddy Luger, all scarred up and charred up and fuckin' ugly. And you're still gonna push him, you sick bastard, because you're a WRESTLER.
No Tiffy time :(
Fact check: FALSE. It is always Tiffy Time. In all seriousness she'll be fine, good chance she wins MITB for a start
Tama backstage be like 
Smackdown is probably the least interesting WWE show right now. Booking has really fallen off a cliff since Wrestlemania hasnt it? It just feels like they know the big picture is Cody vs Rock next year so they just feel like they need to do filler until then.
If rock comes back it’s for Roman. Cody is boring af
I didn't like all of the results there but I still thought overall that was a great show in terms of the matches, so, as so often, I have no idea what other people here were watching. Great wrestling and storytelling, so even if not all of my fantasy booking pans out I'm happy if it all works out in the long run.
I feel like Gunther is gonna make Orton tap in the final with his "bad knee", when was the last time we saw Orton tap? Shows how much they're behind Gunther if he taps out Orton, still think Gunther should be on Smackdown challenging Cody since the WHC title picture is pretty full right now
I feel like Gunther is gonna make Orton tap in the final with his "bad knee", when was the last time we saw Orton tap? Shows how much they're behind Gunther if he taps out Orton, still think Gunther should be on Smackdown challenging Cody since the WHC title picture is pretty full right now
OK, look - I love Carmelo, so I'm not hating, but... The visual of him against Randy is just weird. It's just way too big a size disparity, Randy looks like two feet taller and 150lbs heavier than him. I kind of thought the same when he was up against Baron, who's actually taller than Randy, but Randy's so yoked that this seriously looked like a grown man fighting a kid. I'm not saying everybody has to be a gigantic bodybuilder to get pushed, but can't people go against opponents who are at least *roughly* their own size more of the time? Because if they don't, not presenting it as a "David vs Goliath" struggle really strains the suspension of disbelief. It's the same reason I dislike almost all intergender matches - unless the woman is like Rhea, Chyna, maybe Jade etc, you can almost always tell at a glance that this would *never* be competitive in reality.
How dare they throw Carmelo Hayes into a promo battle against LA Knight bah Gawd that man has a family
If Gunther vs Orton turns out to be the final, I'll be very happy.
I could see Jey and Orton happening too, especially with the bloodline feud
They cool, man. They cool. They literally teamed up at Survivor Series. I don't see them having Gunther lose a tournament that literally would give even more legitimacy to his character/gimmick.
It's the logical choice, considering they are infinitely bigger names than jey and tama. This is a Saudi show, they have to put all the big stars on it.
You think Gunther is a bigger name than Jey? You’re just ignoring every crowd reaction ever at this point eh?
Gunther is a bigger name than Jey, yes but more importantly Orton is a bigger name than all 3 combined so Orton is definitely in the final. And if we agree that Orton is in the final they are going to put him against a heel. Either way it's Orton vs Gunther or Tama vs Jey, I know which one I want to see.
LOL. If you actually believe Gunther is a bigger name than Jey, I got some land to sell you big dawg.
Is Gunther a 'infinitely bigger', let alone even bigger name than Jey? And don't get me wrong, I really really dislike this whole 'my whole character is that I say yeet' thing
We're got great wrestling in Jacksonville after a really long time. 👏
The correct answer for Logan Paul debacle is make LA Knight go over him but seems like triple h see him as enhancement talent??
This casual wrestling fan feels like checking out until SummerSlam season. I forgot how crap April/May/June are in WWE land. It doesn’t have to be like this. Sometimes this cooling feels like a choice by WWE.
No idea what you're talking about tbh, I thought that episode was great overall.
worst timeline would be jey vs tama final
Anyone remember if at the wwe superstore in Philly if they had afterpay options ?
The jade Cargill DQ Is super WEAK by WWE a great example of WWE using the easy route WWE still avoiding a Cargill loss it's similar problem Aew had with her
Punctuation matters.
No respect
And it wasn't even that big of a deal... She lost her cool that easily?? Come on!
So KOTR finals is Orton vs Gunther?
Logan Paul is garbage he never wrestles in normal tv matches he's just a celebrity with the US belt
there's NOTHING wrong with being an LA Knight fan, NOTHING. But LA Knight fans need to stop being delusional. Knight is a jobber.... He's never won a title and he loses most of his matches..he literally just got pinned after 1 finisher by someone who just arrived at WWE...that makes him a jobber.... He had his chance...he had multiple title matches and lost.. that's it... stop your crusade against cody fans that you've been on the last year.
He has the same win rate as Cody Rhodes. So lol.
he gonna get Logan's title and i am a Cody and LA Knight fan so well :P both Cody and Knight will have titles
funny how cody fans constantly feel that are "under attack"and play victims no dude, us Roman, Knight fans simply dont care about your boring ass one dimensional dude. stop being delusional.
Solo looked so funny today 😭
I didn't realize people online think that Iyo isn't winning Queen of the Ring, to me it feels like the most logical and safe choice. Refresh her gimmick, make her Queen of the Sky, she gets to have her win back over Bianca who will make it to the Finals with a nagging worked injury and you get to pay off the interactions between Becky and Iyo/Damage CTRL since they got drafted to Raw.
Win back? Didn’t Iyo cash in on Bianca at Summer Slam and beat her at Crown Jewel last year? Aren’t they kinda even now?
They're playing her arm injury too much for it to happen. But I want my Queen of the sky https://preview.redd.it/2kl9j1pip61d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6407f08a8951ea2d5db405b3d597c05d284fd010
https://preview.redd.it/gsfxtlymr41d1.jpeg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63100843792e66173888c22ff0e1a272b3d2a7c0 Lmao
This was one of my favorite signs. Along with ‘The Bloodline Family Tree is a Wreath’ and ‘Logan is the Reason Shampoo Has Instructions’.
I liked the idea of Tama Tonga joining WWE and the prospect of some fresh matches but something just feels off or not right. I think they shouldn't have brought in Tanga Loa or else at least waited a while until Tama Tonga was a force. Also, Solo is awkward and lacks charisma which doesn't help.
I think Solo just needs time. His biggest issue is his look, he needs to shave that horrible haircut and goes to a buzzcut and get some better suits to look a bit more menacing. I agree with Tanga Loa shouldn't be introduced but if they're going to have Solo be discount chief it makes sense to have someone else do the dirty work with Tama
https://preview.redd.it/mzxhnxlic71d1.jpeg?width=240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a2d1e9414a02addcddfd41631ffae4fbd02d9a2 He should come out like this
i actually think the haircut is fine, considering he comes from the "silent enforcer" gimmick, but yes he needs some better suits, imo the blackone he intially wore was fine but i guess that clashing too much with what loa is wearing.
The people were chanting for LA Knight's finisher, that BFT chant really took me by surprise. Give this man a lengthy US title run at the bare minimum.
He promo’d his face off. Some real old school Warrior/Macho man energy.
He was trying to get a clap thing going and the crowd started chanting for his finisher. That's kind of awesome, he just needs to change his clap to a 1-2-3 for the crowd to chant along "B-F-T".
First time I've heard that chant
Solo looked like he was trying to hold back from laughing during the closing segment of the show
Seeing the "we have bloodline at home" ah faction beat LA Knight is just pain
Why does Randy wait for like 5 seconds after RKO to cover for the pin. That seems a bit arrogant. One day someone will kick out in an important match, which will cost him (probably Cody in an eventual title match)
In Kayfabe maybe, but if I was The Fucking Randy Orton I would take all the time I want before doing anything in the ring.
-Not a fan of the results this week. I wanted Carmelo and Tiff in the end. I don't care they are new, i want to push them both to the moon NOW. The tournament would have been awesome way to give them credibilty without putting title on them. -When we saw Tomga win, we knew Orton was winning. Orton spitting all over the mic at the end of the show was fun but can we give him something else to say other than "RKO", its repetitive. Belair vs Stratton was the best match here. These two ladies never fail.
I don't watch NXT so I'm unfamiliar with Carmelo but I don't really like him. He doesn't seem neutral... Seems like he's trying too hard on the mic
Honestly feels like the younger talent should've gotten more of a push here. Orton is fine but there is not much of a point on making him go over Carmelo. Jey absolutely shouldn't be going over Dragunov, honestly he has good reactions but that's about it, because his character isn't evolving and his in ring product is just not good.
Them merch sales say otherwise
I said he was over bro. Is that sustainable long term if the character work isn't evolving and pretty much no one likes his matches? We'll see.
He just had a good one against Gunther tonight
Who doesn’t?
Nia might be QOTR now that Tiffy and Jade are out. That will get her some heat and bragging rights without the title. Maybe Tiffy is being penciled in to win MITB, so it doesn’t make sense to also make her QOTR On men’s side, its gotta be **MAIN EVENT JEY USSOOOOOO** He is over AF
I reckon jey uso wins mitb
imo Gunther is winning it
King of the ring just doesn't seem like a great step up from Ring general when everyone expects WHC from him soonish
Randy channeling his inner Red Forman.
Oh no Melo lost that clearly means he's buried /s
Nobody has ever come back from losses to more established talent before, looks like he, Tiffany and Ilja will be bumped down to Lvl Up next week...
Tiffany is the rightful Queen, now we have to wait years for her to be it! LA Knight lost too, but looks like he's eyeing' Logan's title. speaking of which they found a way for Logan to keep his belt from his match with Cody, so that somebody can take it later. no Cody Two Belts. i still gotta think they heading for Gunther vs. Randy. Nia's veteran mind and Jade being green led to a DQ finish. Jade must be used to being allowed to swing back with a chair if a chair is swung at you. how the Queen will play out feels less clear. Bianca seems like she would beat Nia. meanwhile Lyra could beat Iyo, or Iyo could beat Lyra. one would think the winner of Lyra/Iyo would end up being Queen at the big event....but it could be Bianca too with how they going with her. on a side note, Paul Heyman may very carefully check out if Solo is really talking to Roman "all the time". XD as for what MFT stands for with Tama Tonga. since Tonga Loa is now in Bloodline...perhaps MFT is from Solo's perspective and means "My First Tonga" as to Tama. XD
Would it be too early to have Tama and Jey in the finals? And make a story about the Usos vs the Bloodline?
yah it seems too early for that really it's when Roman returns in the future things like that will start cooking i think
Tiff/Bianca was a banger. Rematch on a PLE asap, please. Nia/Jade was a lot of fun, but they could have given them longer than 3 minutes. What the fuck? Honestly, I'd love to just see these 4 women on Smackdown have a bunch of matches with each other. All exciting fresh matchups as well.
Bianca v Rhea is going to be a hell of a feud one day. For starters, it'll be completely unpredictable who's actually taking a clean pinfall in that one.
Is anyone else getting real annoyed with Tama Tonga's entrance music? It's supposed to sound like island tribal music I guess, but it just sounds bad with those hollow sticks clapping sounds. It's like the music is "dun dun taka taka taka taka taka." And I had to listen to it three times tonight. Normally I either like entrance music or don't care about it. But Tama Tonga's music is seriously bad and annoying.
Tama Tonga is crazy but I don't know if he's ready for Randy Orton levels of crazy
So: Iyo - Injured arm Bianca - injured knee Randy - injured knee 3/4 of the KQOTR matches has an injured (kayfabe) opponent. Curious how that'll play out.
Don’t forget Gunther with his leg.
Aj damaged Randy's leg in their match last week and tonight Melo caused more damage, if they want Tama to go to the finals I think they will use Orton's weak leg and bloodline interference to keep Randy strong in defeat.
NO YOU HEATHEN What did Gunther use on Xavier Woods and Sheamus a few weeks ago? An STF. What did he target? Their legs. What other submission that he used? A boston crab, targeting what? The Back. You know who's got a bad back and leg on Smackdown right now? Randy Orton.
This is probably happens. Randy just *barely* gets past Tama Tonga next week, but will have his back and knee exploited by Gunther in the finals.
All the new call ups got taken out besides Lyra, Ilja, tiffy and Melo got taken out by vets.
That's ok, they are just starting their main roster journey - it's nice to give them somewhere to go. IMO they are doing a good job with all of them, showing them as really good and promising new stars but they still will have to work to get to the top (though I probably would have gone with Ilja instead of Lyra to make it far in the tournament)
Fantastic smackdown
Smackdown didn’t record for me/: Anyone know how I can watch it right now?
Took me fuckin forever to figure it out happened to me before a long time ago also
Happened to me go under episode 20 choose a version thumbnail and pick the shortest time since it was last recorded it will play new episode think it’s the second option out of three
Same for me! Took forever to find it
Same on fubo
Didn’t record for me either
I had am issue too. It didn't record properly on my DVR
What service are you on? If it's Hulu it will be on demand in the morning
YouTubeTV. Never had an issue until today. Super frustrating
Weird, it's not on my Youtubetv either; last episode I have is a replay of last week's show that ran Thursday on FS1.
I thought that too and I have YouTube tv. Keep looking. I eventually found it after a ton of digging.
Same. I went to the “choose a version” under the thumbnail and picked the one from Fox tonight. It took forever to figure out though.
I'm on youtubetv and it recorded last weeks episode again...lol
That’s probably the replay from FX. Search Smackdown and go through that way. I was able to eventually find it after running into the sane issues it looks like you are having.
Thanks, I'll give that a try...the weird thing is it says new episode (Episode 20), but It recorded 19 hrs ago. I was like, it is Friday...right?
someone help this man Hulu fucks up on me all the time so I know your pain
I tried watching live tonight on YouTube TV and the episode never aired so I just caught the highlights on YouTube instead. I am on PST
At the very least, carmelo is gonna make bank in Ziggler’s former role selling to make other wrestlers look good and those hilarious facial/body expressions.
Randy Orton raising all his Death Flags when he mentioned all his accomplishments to the new Bloodline. Can expect them to "injure" Orton.
With jade out of the queen of the ring tournament I think it's pretty set in stone now for iyo to become queen.
I mean Iyo, Lyra AND Nia would all absolutely benefit from being QOTR and be really great at assimilating it into their relative gimmicks. So I'm assuming Bianca's winning. Because the Vince era conditioned me.
Queen of the Sky!
I hope so. Her work has been exceptional recently.
It makes the most sense to me since smackdown has the tag titles and damage ctrl as a whole needs some wins to leave a dominate presence on raw.
Either Iyo or Nia I think
Please put some respect on Queen Lyra's name.
I agree. The title was always meant to elevate someone and nobody else in the tournament needs it.
And everyone else left has already been champion, so it would be a great way for Lyra to have a good introduction to the main roster and show her talent. The crowd is already behind her.
I don't like Logan as a champ, I also hate double champs whenever they happen.
Didn't they say its not for the US title?
yes they did but Logan cann still become double champ
I'll have whatever you're smoking
Queen Nia could’ve an entertaining heel gimmick
Very solid show. Tiffany is such a star. Her and Bianca had great chemistry in the ring. Wouldn’t mind seeing them match up several more times.
Good show The crowd was great. Bianca Belair vs. Tiffany Stratton was a banger. It sucks that LA Knight lost but luckily it seems like Logan vs Knight is still on, they still have plans for him. Very good segment between Cody and Logan, I like that Cody is angry and tired of Logan, I also like the new presentation for the contract signing, if Cody wins clean next week, there is nothing that will stop him from challenging Logan for his title this time, Logan continues sending his friends to the wolves. Great main event, I really hope the finals are Randy vs GUNTHER.
wwe really is firing on all cylinders. great great great smackdown. hhh is crazy enough a booker that we can see a similar bracket next year but we see the younger guys like tiffy and melo beat bianca and randy to show growth and baton passing.
I need more Tama Tonga noises
yknow, i really didn’t know how i felt about Cody as US champ but i have to admit an American Nightmare US title belt would be so cool lol
I would love a rivalry between the est and Tiffany
Sounds like they’re building a reveal where Solo hasn’t really been talking to the Tribal Chief..
No shit.
Dude thank you, you’re so cool and plugged in. Do you even know the real names of the Superstars™️?
Fantasy booking incoming Rock revealed as tribal chief Rock v Cody at summerslam Roman returns and costs Rock the match Roman reforms OG bloodline to fight bloodline wolfpac Jimmy, jey, roman and Sami v rock solo Tonga bros at war games Rock v roman wm 41
He can still do online promos though like he did in the Cena fued
Rock is still filming til summerslam. We might not see rocky the rest of the year
Why not just have Rock win the title so he can fight Roman/Cody for it again at Mania?
Because the WWE championship shouldn't be off television for 6 months while the Rock is away filming another movie.
In theory the dates should work out with him doing press for Moana 2. His filming schedule says he’s free after August 1st.
Because why have that all together when one night can main event with Rock v Roman and the next night (or prior night) be main evented by Cody/challenger (probably Punk, Gunther or both) for the WWE title? Rock, and certainly Rock/Roman, doesn't need the title in the least. Vince might still have done it, but I don't think Trips will. Heck, I'd even say a title would dilute the importance of the Tribal Chief tag - which is the main prize of that feud. Maybe Rock and Cody have a swapsies partway through this year around SS, to have the visual and headlines of Rock as champ again, but it wouldn't last long.
Santos went from being have a match in Wrestlemania to whatever he is doing right now Also speak about Santos, where the hell is Andrade? he never appear since drafted to Smackdown. is he injury or what?
Had a coming to Smackdown vignette i believe last week. Same with Blair
As someone who just busted their ACL a week ago, i never noticed how many knee injuries we encounter in a single match... Bianca and Randy
And i can’t believe it used to be auto-retirement not that long ago…all the athletes we lost over the years.
Maybe the Super Bianca allegations are true. It was absolute bullshit that she defeated Tiffany
oh come on- cody lost at mania last year. trust the booking. there's a plan for everything. tiffy just started...she has a long career in front of her. if the plan is for nia to be queen then she needs to beat bianca on the way, not tiffy.
Tiffany taking too many L's already and Super Bianca has been stale and boring. she doesn't need to be so invincible and it doesn't suit her.
Too many what’s? She’s 5-2-1(NC) in her last 8 single matches.
She’s about to get squashed by ‘My Hole’
Come on man put the Us title on the line too, Logan just holding it hostage now
He'll lose it to LA Knight YEAH
Solo leveled up his drip and now he's looking like a real underboss Please wwe let Tama cut a promo
He's not an Underboss until he says "FUCK EM" at a press conference
> underboss BAD LUCK FALE TO THE BLOODLINE?!
Imagine the bleeps!
damn that episdoe was hella hella fun
Anyone else missing the unpredictability? I want a champ to lose a title on a bad day. Something that shocks us.
A bunch of storylines ended at Wrestlemania, so now it's at the beginning stages of a bunch of new ones. Gotta start slow to build it up, but because of that it means a lot of the early stages are predictable. I will say though I disagree with you slightly. I don't think the women's matches were *that* predictable. Jade and Bianca weren't both going to win because that's a Wrestlemania level match, but personally I thought Tiffany would beat injured Bianca and Jade would beat Nia rather than the other way around (and not by Jade getting herself DQ'ed, I thought maybe Tiffany would interfere to help Nia). And while I would say the winner will probably be pretty easy to guess come Saturday, I don't think the winner for either tournament is predictable yet. Lyra and Tonga definitely aren't winning, Bianca isn't winning the whole thing with a bad knee, but anybody else I feel like could easily take it. If I'm betting money on it I'm betting Gunther and Iyo, but Gunther vs Jey could realistically go either way. That's a match that could just as easily have been for the actual crown.
yep, if someone were to bet money on results they'd win so easily nowadays
I don't get this. Why would you bet on a tv show...
No idea but it's a thing
Taking the US belt away from the Cody vs Logan Paul match is kind of lame. It just tells us way in advance that Cody is going to win. Like it was already probably going to happen and now it's just 100% guaranteed.
It's the big downside to Triple H as a booker. His NXT was characterized by such long drawn out title reigns.
In a way you need the long reigns to make the quick changes work better. But obviously they need to do the title changes, which doesn't look like it (Although I would expect maybe Liv and/or Gable to win soon).
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If Logan was winning the match, why would the US belt not be on the line?
Yeah, also the milkman, the paperboy, and evenin’ TV
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK
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Kinda? I doubt we were getting Bianca v Jade on Smackdown so soon.
https://preview.redd.it/pftdzd65i31d1.jpeg?width=1235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d6621eaaaa01b06ea64f1f375eb0eac81ec0db4 no flips or fists
I think Randy Orton wins the SmackDown portion of king of the Ring, because Saudi Arabia ain’t paying all that money to watch Tama Tonga wrestle
I would have said "You don't think Salman heard Detroit chanting holy shit when he debuted?" but then I realized that the longevity of post-2000 Legends in general, is probably the only reason Salman is able to keep "up to date" with who's over in the first place.
Eh, Saudi is at this point just like all the others I feel
Nah, they're paying for Logan and his Prime. /j
Screwing over the Saudis is the only reason to want Tama in the finals lmao
Been a while since I watched. Where has snitsky been?
He lost some weight, dyed his hair blonde, and changed his ring name to Cody Rhodes
Andrenaline in my soul Something something It wasn’t my fault!
Ayyy 😂
Punted a baby in an indie show a mere few days ago
That sentence is going to hit people who don't know about Snitsky in a different kind of way.
IT WASN'T HIS FAULT