The Wrestling Thread~

[Tetsujin]

Not minding the current bloodline story now that it’s pretty much just US Champion Jacob Fatu dealing with his less talented cousins (and Jeff Cobb for some reason) and being built entirely as a way to establish him as a face despite his entire character just being “He’s a psychopath monster” for the first year of his WWE run.

 

[Tetsujin]

The Cena heel turn worth it for this promo alone.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937677870815498453

Inamura went from written off the show via “Inamura died on the way back to his home planet” to feuding for the NXT title in the span of a single month. Gotta love that HBK ADHD booking haha

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937901401868267543

Pleasantly lukewarm take: Wrestling was better when every other guy on the roster had a weasly dweeb as a manager.

 

[Tetsujin]

Well I’ll be damned

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938690729385083298

Maybe not the right crowd to do this in front of because this would have killed at MSG or the Intuit Dome haha

 

[Tetsujin]

lol they’re really going to have Cody turn heel aren’t they?

 

[Tetsujin]

I hate- HATE that they made the Saudi show cannon this year

Spoiler: https://x.com/wrestlepurists/status/1939050120663994857?s=46&t=F0QdLwSmnj7UC8H8GGYnSw

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939050120663994857

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939374657389617293

Look at Tiffy Hogan out here dropping a boy with a hard r. It’s probably going to hurt her extra hard when Naomi or Jade takes the title off her at Summer Slam.

 

[Tetsujin]

Mariah May and Jordynne Grace hanging out in NXT like two NFL players hanging around a high school for some reason

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Apropos of nothing in particular, this is a Wolfpac household.

 

[Tetsujin]

And like clockwork, Trips remembers that the women tag team titles exist and then decides to reunite the Kabuki Warriors to get some more interest in the division again lol

 

[Tetsujin]

Forgot this stupid Bill Goldberg retirement match was still happening. Who aside from Goldberg asked for this?

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942357168910414166

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942757397736612030

Setting up the Mariah/Jordynne feud… HBK, you are not slick. (Also taking into account his insane pacing, this feud is probably happening in like two weeks)

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Hopefully with Jordynne as the champion.

 

[Tetsujin]

Oh so NOW Linda is worried about keeping women safe in locker rooms.

 

[Tetsujin]

Lol

Spoiler: Smackdown

these Smackdown tag titles getting passed around like broccoli at a house party

 

[Tetsujin]

Logan Paul not realizing that he’s actually getting booed for real and not as a heel is getting old real fast.

And now he’s going to wrestle Jelly Roll at Summer Slam apparently?

 

[Tetsujin]

So uhhh does that count as Dustin ‘finishing his story’?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Not a fan of how the ending to Great American Bash portends for Evolution. Based on standard WWE booking, the finish to the GAB main event means Jacy Jayne is a lock to retain tonight. And I don't like the sound of that at all.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1944491321743568966

The most wrestling the Miz has done since the Royal Rumble

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

The most wrestling the Miz has done since the Royal Rumble

And the Delroy Lindo "All in a Day's Work" Award goes to... (s/o to Cinephobe)

 

[Tetsujin]

So finally watched All In all the way to the end (I don’t know if two day events are necessarily the solution but these 6 hour mega events are not it either because ain’t nobody got time for that) and I guess my main question coming out of it is “Is AEW finally going to do something to boost the rest of the women’s division now that it’s two biggest names finally had their match and Mercedes finally lost?”

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1944515737613480316

You mean Kiana James somehow escaped all twenty seven waves of roster cuts over the last two years?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

You mean Kiana James somehow escaped all twenty seven waves of roster cuts over the last two years?

Must have applied the JTG gambit of just never answering the phone.

 

[Tetsujin]

So the Countdown show was just a pregame show for a pregame show? This is such a weird start to a PLE

 

[Tetsujin]

**** you Vickie Guerrero

 

[Tetsujin]

oh Mariah is totally costing her the title tonight, isn’t she?

 

[Tetsujin]

Lol