July 10, 20232 yr comment_6006986 BTW, Becky Lynch vs Zoey Stark not happening tonight. Becky not cleared to wrestle.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007001 Indus Sher getting a "COMING SOON" vignette. They already came! More than once!
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007002 Real scammer Logan Paul is gonna get Ricochet super fucking over. Their match is going to be crazy.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007003 Babyface Alpha Academy is good, good shit. Workrate and schtick bullshit! Also, Maxxine.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007005 Well, he's giving the audience verbal hand-jobs, so that might be a factor.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007006 "I feel you all in the ring with me, and I know the ring is a dangerous place, so thank-you." Yes Cody, they risk concussion and torn rotator cuffs going "ooooh" on a 2.5 count.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007013 Speaking of D-Lo Brown, which we weren't, Gunther's opponents should take to wearing chest protectors.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007014 2 hours ago, Dav'oh said: Well, he's giving the audience verbal hand-jobs, so that might be a factor. True, but dude is a worker the type WWE fans in particular aren't familiar with. The difference between his first run where he was WWE Create-a-Wrestler #70890 and now when he's basically Dusty in a suit is striking.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007016 Not sure what the point was for Ciampa to Just For Men his beard if his entrance video is just him with a grey ass beard.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007051 It's almost SummerSlam. I just want to say that I was wrong on Cody Rhodes. I'm big enough to admit it. The crowds did not turn on him & he is mega over.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007058 I never envisioned Cody reaching these heights. Putting weight on definitely helped. His gruesome pec injury made him look tough and helped cement that he wasn't only a Ken doll. I know the tattoo shocked people, but again he needed to look tougher. Cody's earlier career failures have actually worked out because smart fans have seen him overcome those gimmicks and it has given him an underdog appeal (despite his "royal status"). Cody managed to get over outside of WWE, whereas Cena or Reigns got more polarized reactions as faces because they were seen as "too big to fail". Older fans loved Cody's dad and a lot of his goodwill is inherited, they want to see him succeed for Dusty. He's almost like Bruce Wayne in the suit. People who lost parents relate to him. Kids absolutely love Cody, he reminds me of Surfer Sting in his current iteration (Bleach blonde, the Sgt. Pepper jacket, colorful long tights). I'm probably not the first to draw that comparison. John Cena is receiving a lot of crowd love nowadays, but at his peak he wasn't as universally over as a babyface as Cody is right now.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007065 There's a chance last week's Smackdown will have been the top-rated program on network TV for the week, which would be the first time in history a wrestling program achieved that feat. Those of us who thought the Bloodline storyline would run out of steam after Roman vanquished Sami and Cody were clearly mistaken. I suppose the case could be made that things would be at least as hot right now with Cody as champion, but counterfactuals are inherently unknowable. Then again, the family conflict aspect of the story does not appeal to me on any level, so that's probably a blind spot on my part.
July 11, 20232 yr comment_6007069 Yeah, I haven't watched WWE since pre-pandemic and really still have no interest in watching anything they produce, but I've got to tip my hat to them for booking an angle with such impressive staying power, critical praise, and, to top it off, being responsible for turning things around business wise and delivering consistent big crowds and ratings
July 12, 20232 yr comment_6007084 Bron and Dragonov putting on another banger, Ilja vs Melo is gonna be nuts at the Bash
July 12, 20232 yr comment_6007085 Not sure what you do with Ivy Nile at this point, the Creeds were clearly primed for the main roster but she doesn't have much without them. Having the emotionless killing machine suddenly catching feelings seems like an abrupt character shift too.
July 12, 20232 yr comment_6007086 Rhea rocking her normal hairstyle on NXT has me respectfully noticing
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