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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    Main event of Smackdown is must see, as it was the week before.
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Main event of Smackdown is must see, as it was the week before.
    Thought Orton & Owens segment was brilliant. Everyone involved sold the piledriver as the most dangerous move in the world.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,238
    edited November 2024
    SouthWest_Addicks said:
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Main event of Smackdown is must see, as it was the week before.
    Thought Orton & Owens segment was brilliant. Everyone involved sold the piledriver as the most dangerous move in the world.
    Don't worry though because guys on the other side are using them as set up moves for superkicks, so they must be way tougher
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    SouthWest_Addicks said:
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Main event of Smackdown is must see, as it was the week before.
    Thought Orton & Owens segment was brilliant. Everyone involved sold the piledriver as the most dangerous move in the world.
    Using Orton's (real) injury issues and blurring that line between kayfabe and reality is a good touch, obviously quite hard to pull off successfully in the modern era but when it works it can add to the storyline well.
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    Ladies & Gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman.

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,238
    Saturday Night Main Event! On YouTube now for anyone interested
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    https://www.youtube.com/live/zIo2BgDwQeg?si=Cxg0wrEOx09G_AOF
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    That's pretty much unwatchable with the amount of adverts. 😕
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,361
    edited December 2024
    Sorry I don’t know how to do the ‘spoiler’ thing…

    Pleased to see Chelsea Green get the win. I know she’s not the best in the ring, but I think there’s a ‘guilty pleasure’ element about her. Very charismatic in that comedy heel role, though I think she’ll naturally turn face with the support of the live crowd over time. A women’s US title is just right for her level to keep her on TV.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    I would have been happy with either winning it. Good to see Michin receiving a push.

    Jesse was the highlight of the show, which was another superb one.
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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    cafctom said:
    Sorry I don’t know how to do the ‘spoiler’ thing…

    Pleased to see Chelsea Green get the win. I know she’s not the best in the ring, but I think there’s a ‘guilty pleasure’ element about her. Very charismatic in that comedy heel role, though I think she’ll naturally turn face with the support of the live crowd over time. A women’s US title is just right for her level to keep her on TV.
    Chelsea has stayed at our guesthouse in Phuket, though I didn't get to meet her, but I have known her mother for many years, so I've been following Chelsea's career from the day she first took up the wrestling busniness. Pleased for her and I know her mum is delighted.

    I think she might be staying somewhere more upmarket next time she's in Thailand!

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    PPVs all on Netflix now! Treated myself to Wrestlemania 1 last night, will work my way through them all! My main watching was between 1994-1998 so that'll pass quickly enough.
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Smackdown is live on WWE YouTube channel tonight, 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    3 hours with YouTube adverts. 🥲

    https://www.youtube.com/live/9u4gKFTpTDU?si=AhWmEXyh_iM4lywo
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    Wrestle Kingdom 19 is currently underway.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    Roman v Solo, Rock returns costing Roman. Solo puts the necklace on The Rock and acknowledges him as the tribal chief. (Solo isn't ready yet)

    All roads to Roman v The Rock.
  • Addick_and_Chips
    Addick_and_Chips Posts: 442
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Wrestle Kingdom 19 is currently underway.
    Thanks for the reminder! Was great having breakfast while watching some live wrestling. 
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,982
    For any old ECW fans, I recommend the Sandman podcast. He has lived such an eventful life and he doesn't hold back. The most outlandish story has been him and New Jack buying coke in a ghetto, finding out it was fake, so New Jack went and beat up the dealer - whilst shouting out to other dealers that someone is selling fake gear on their corner. 

    Also, Dark Side of the Ring seasons 1-3 are free on ITVX now. Some stories are old and don't appeal to me but they all have big, reliable names giving details (eg Chris Benoit's other son, Stone Cold in the Brian Pillman episodes). 

    Some of it is heartbreaking. I didn't know about the stunt the WWE and Undertaker pulled with Chris Kanyon before he came out as gay - him emerging from a box singing Boy George and getting an actual beat down.

    The weak, cheap clip that was used to lower Owen Hart as well  :/
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,974
    Ive been a subscriber to WWE Network for a good few years, and after using it to watch some of the early WWF PPVs I decided to go for it and watch all of the WCW and WWF TV shows and PPVs until I got bored or gave up. It's quite a task, especially when you get to end of the 90s and both WCW and WWF have 2 multiple hour long TV shows and a PPV every month, you end up fast forwarding through the pointless stuff on each TV show to get to the good bits. I got as far as late 1999 recently only for WWE Network to shut down, with everything supposedly moving to Netflix. Well it turns out that there is no WCW archive on Netflix at all, and there's also nothing pre-2001 for WWE apart from the PPVs. 

    Very disappointing, I'll have to see if I can get my retro wrestling fix elsewhere as it will probably be a while before all of it is on Netflix, if ever!
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,342
    Anyone else really excited for this? 

    Could be one of the biggest nights ever in Wrestling and push WWE to a wider audience. I hope it all runs smoothly.
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  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,342
    CAFCTrev said:
    Ive been a subscriber to WWE Network for a good few years, and after using it to watch some of the early WWF PPVs I decided to go for it and watch all of the WCW and WWF TV shows and PPVs until I got bored or gave up. It's quite a task, especially when you get to end of the 90s and both WCW and WWF have 2 multiple hour long TV shows and a PPV every month, you end up fast forwarding through the pointless stuff on each TV show to get to the good bits. I got as far as late 1999 recently only for WWE Network to shut down, with everything supposedly moving to Netflix. Well it turns out that there is no WCW archive on Netflix at all, and there's also nothing pre-2001 for WWE apart from the PPVs. 

    Very disappointing, I'll have to see if I can get my retro wrestling fix elsewhere as it will probably be a while before all of it is on Netflix, if ever!
    Yep, the WCW thing annoyed me too, I loved watching WCW ppvs, and I'm a bit annoyed they haven't made it on to Netflix.

    Still great a lot of it is on there though and hopefully they expand the catalogue. This is a huge deal so you'd imagine they will at some stage.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,238
    edited January 7
    Cena declaring for the Rumble will be a great story, especially if they "give him his flowers"

    Haha at Michael Cole Yeeting with Pat, Travis Scott and Jey Uso. Wrestling is wild 
  • Crispy
    Crispy Posts: 583
    Not putting any spoilers in here but actually thought it was a pretty average show...
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    CAFCTrev said:
    Ive been a subscriber to WWE Network for a good few years, and after using it to watch some of the early WWF PPVs I decided to go for it and watch all of the WCW and WWF TV shows and PPVs until I got bored or gave up. It's quite a task, especially when you get to end of the 90s and both WCW and WWF have 2 multiple hour long TV shows and a PPV every month, you end up fast forwarding through the pointless stuff on each TV show to get to the good bits. I got as far as late 1999 recently only for WWE Network to shut down, with everything supposedly moving to Netflix. Well it turns out that there is no WCW archive on Netflix at all, and there's also nothing pre-2001 for WWE apart from the PPVs. 

    Very disappointing, I'll have to see if I can get my retro wrestling fix elsewhere as it will probably be a while before all of it is on Netflix, if ever!
    I did something similar during the pandemic. In terms of the 2 promotions:

    First half of 96 - WWF was better.
    Second half of 96 - WCW was better.
    97 - WCW by a distance. 
    98 - WWF
    99 - WWF by a distance.

    I found 96 WWF to be far better than 97. Quite an underrated year for WWF imo. Austin was the only thing WWF had going for it in '97 IMO. The Attitude era stuff is very dated where as midcard Nitro matches are still great.

    Netflix means i can now catch up with last year's NXT having cancelled the network after the pandemic.😃
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Crispy said:
    Not putting any spoilers in here but actually thought it was a pretty average show...
    Agreed. Felt like they didn’t get the balance right between attracting new fans who never watched WWE, and us who watch religiously every week. Had a PPV feel to it, with the non stop action compared to the weekly Raw/Smackdown tapings.

    Always felt like the first episode was going to be a bit of a circus occasion. Now it’s over, we can enjoy the road to Wrestlemania. 
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Hogan went down like a lead balloon 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,067
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Hogan went down like a lead balloon 
    Good to see, he's a POS.
  • Crispy
    Crispy Posts: 583
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Hogan went down like a lead balloon 

    Such a stupid thing to do, nobody wants to see him limp out there and promote a beer ffs
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,068
    Just watched Hogan, glad he was booed

    Cena was good 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,238
    The more Hogan gets booed the better. 

    I liked the change in the presentation, the ref cam, the drone shots in the arena were all well done, I hope they run with the smaller Tron wherever they can too (the intuit dome is a brand new arena though, built for this kind of stuff with the wraparound screen etc.)

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