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Based meltzer burying the Japanese fandango

Karate Michael Jackson would have been a great midcard gimmick in the 80s.

>>2496670
Well he's not wrong.

If he can't cut a promo and hasn't had a good match since his debut against Zayn and looks like a faggot on top of all that, then what exactly is he meant to be good at?

>This past week we were told that Reigns isn’t going anywhere and the key moves were said to be Styles to Raw and The New Day to Smackdown. The latter makes sense since the tag team division in Smackdown has been weak from day one. However, with Cena leaving for a while, moving Styles also, which is taking the two most over guys on that side off the table, makes no sense. Smackdown gave you the impression that Styles will be moving over. He wasn’t booked for any program going forward and settled his issue with Shane McMahon.

WWE WrestleMania 33 Star Ratings:
> Neville pinned Austin Aries in 15:37 to retain the cruiserweight title. ***3/4
> Mojo Rawley won the Andre the Giant Battle Royal in 14:08. **
> Dean Ambrose pinned Baron Corbin in 10:45 to retain the IC title. **
> A.J. Styles pinned Shane McMahon in 20:28. ****
> Kevin Owens pinned Chris Jericho in 16:47 to win the U.S. title. ***1/2
> Bayley won a four-way to keep the Raw women’s title in an elimination match over Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Nia Jax in 12:05. ***1/4
> Matt & Jeff Hardy won the Raw tag titles in a four-way ladder match over Enzo Amore & Big Cass, Sheamus & Cesaro and champions Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson in 10:59. ***3/4
> John Cena & Nikki Bella beat The Miz & Maryse in 9:37. **1/4
> Seth Rollins pinned HHH in an unsanctioned match in 25:23. ***1/2
> Randy Orton beat Bray Wyatt to win the WWE title in 10:24. *1/2
> Brock Lesnar pinned Bill Goldberg in 4:45 to win the Universal title. ***1/2
> Naomi won a six-way to win the Smackdown women’s title over champion Alexa Bliss, Carmella, Natalya, Becky Lynch and Mickie James in 5:32. *1/2
> Roman Reigns pinned The Undertaker in 22:58. ***

WWE NXT TakeOver: Orlando Star Ratings
> Sanity of Eric Young & Killian Dain & Alexander Wolfe & Nikki Cross beat Tye Dillinger & Roderick Strong & Kassius Ohno & Ruby Riot in 12:21. ***1/4
> Aleister Black pinned Andrade Cien Almas on 9:32. ***1/4
> Authors of Pain won a three-way elimination match to keep the tag titles against Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson and Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano in 23:40. ****1/2
> Asuka beat Ember Moon to retain the women’s title in 12:10. ****1/4
> Bobby Roode pinned Shinsuke Nakamura in 28:04 to retain the NXT title. ****1/2

> The reason the original women’s storyline for this year, which was to culminate in Bayley beating Charlotte to win the four-way at Mania and take the title was changed to having Bayley win a TV match earlier was the feeling that they needed more ups and downs in the story to get from January to Mania so did the title change earlier.

> Plans right now on the house show circuit are, at least based on advertising, since the brand shuffling can change things at the top, are for Reigns vs. Strowman to continue to headline Raw house shows with Balor & Rollins vs. Joe & Owens. On the Smackdown side, it’s Orton vs. Wyatt as the key match, but since Orton doesn’t work a full house show schedule, they’ll be doing Wyatt vs. Harper vs. Styles as the main events on non-Orton shows. Of course this will likely change quickly.

> DDP did an interview and noted it was WWE that chose Bischoff to induct him. He said that he would have wanted Dusty Rhodes to do so, but since Dusty passed away, he listed five people, Jake Roberts, Scott Hall, Bischoff, Austin and Foley and the company went with Bischoff. It’s notable that Angle also wanted Austin to do so but they went with Cena. Austin was not in Orlando all weekend. From what we understand, although nothing has been said about it, the contract with Austin and WWE for putting regular podcasts on the network has expired. People have asked about it since the one he did with Ambrose, which got a lot of negative reviews. The Austin podcasts at first were the highest rated shows on the network other than the PPV shows. They went with Jericho at one time after there was an issue with WWE and Austin, but then went back to Austin, and then to JBL, and even though the JBL shows were good, for whatever reason, the company made the decision not to do them.

Still an increase

>>2496594
>This Smackdownie damage control

topkek

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Highest rated Smackdown after WM EVER. Manlet AJ leaving and Big Rating Reigns coming over.

something something pearl harbor
something something that's racist

shinpuke nakamura
shingook nakamura
shinsuke fagamura
shitsuke nakapoora

>>2496537
>no Asuka
>no Hideo
>No Xavier Woods with an "ULTIMATE WEEB" gimmick

It's like you don't want to have a stable at all

>>2496520
Quite a lot of people really.

>>2496520
I do.

>>2496524
>>2496525

>two manlets punching each other are a huge draw

ASP AND NASH BTFO

New Day are probably going to Smackdown next week. Hopefully they get DIY as well and things will balance out a bit.

AA flopped and got their tag title reign too quickly
Slyno got relegated to jobber status sadly
Vaudevillains are no more
Ascension could have been built back up but for some reason they decided to fuck them again

Dead on Revival is boring as shit
G&A are nothing spectacular in the ring also
New Day barely wrestles
Primo&Epico/Golden Truth are the jobberinos
E&C are absolutely awful

Only good tag teams in WWE are Hardys and Cesaro & Sheamus, unironically

>>2496441
vaudevillains no longer exist, gotch got released yesterday

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>>2496360
>OP

>>2496360
Haha, he is over. Very much over.

>>2496360
In a face way? Because he's constantly put against crowd favourites, basically never loses clean, commentary sells him as someone stronger than prime Kane while he fails to lift anyone around his weight, etc

>BAH GAWD IT'S THE DEMON MAYOR, KANE

When Reigns comes to Smackdown. He will retire Kane in a dark match.

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>>2496649
BASED BIG DOG

Daniel Bryan and BMJ

Roman Reigns and John Cena

>>2496295
Kane and Hogan

>>2496259
"It ain't easy being the GOAT"

The LBF: lesbian Bitch face

Bret is just one of those "serious all the time" niggas; leave him alone. Not everyone can be Mr. Charisma like The Rock

>>2496183
Divorces.

Divorce and extravagant spending. Like I don't care how much they made, no way you can come out on top if you're wife takes half and you continue blowing a couple k a week.

Wrestlers, rock stars, stand up comedians all say the crowd reaction is a genuine psychological addiction.

They've spent their adult life getting immediate validation for everything they have done. When they retire, it must be a lonely isolating process. It's as simple as wanting the cheers and the boos.

>>2496131
neither of these guys yet. They've generally managed both fairly decently, apart from botching Strowman's confrontation on RAM this week. Brock will walk away from the WWE if he gets a shitty angle and everyone knows it.
>>2496133
this

>le dancing gimmick

This forced meme is unfunny shit even by /asp/ standards.

Austin living rent free in your head

>>2496063
Hi bret!

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Get with the program, gramps. This is what all the cool kids are rockin' nowadays

>>2496060
You tell me.

>>2496060
Cuz it's wacky and full of idealization and escapism

>>2496114
same thing with anime

WWE is bad at booking

Rollins got fucked with after his return

Ambrose got buried time and time again

Reigns became the one thing everybody hates: a WWE-style "babyface"

Ambrose was the biggest failure. He was the leader of the group and did all the talking and first to get a singles push. Now he is wrestling on the pre show. He will be hanging out with Virgil in a year or two