[04/08] SmackDown After Mania: On To The Next Phase

[Dog Based Gremlin]

They need to end the brand split anyway so...

Ending the grand split would be disastorous half the roster woulnt even be on tv and marks will want it back 4 years later anyway

I don't think the brand split is ending. I think they are just unifying both World Titles & Tag Titles. Which should be done b/c the tag team division is overall horrendous.

This isn't 2012 anymore

WWE has no depth at main event for 2 full shows in 2022.

AEW is a legit 2nd brand so WWE doesn't have to "compete" with itself anymore.

WWE needs to end the split and be one big roster again

Preview to a Full Roster....

Spoiler

Main eventers

• Roman Reigns (champion)
  
• Brock Lesnar
• Seth Rollins
  
• Randy Orton
  
• Edge
• AJ Styles
  
• Lashley
  
• Cody Rhodes
• Kevin Owens
• Sami Zayn
• Gunther
• Kofi Kingston (Kofimania!)

Midcard Contenders

• Finn Balor (champion)
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura
• Ricochet
  
• Damien Priest
• Omos
• Chad Gable
• Montez Ford
• Apollo Crews
• Veer
• King Woods
• Sheamus
• Tommaso Ciampa
• Ezekiel
• Rick Boogs

Tag Teams

• The Usos
• RK-Bro
  
• Street Profits
• Alpha Academy
• Viking Raiders
• Los Lotharios

Prospects

• Bron Breakker
• Gable Steveson
• Carmelo Hayes
• Ridge Holland
• Butch

Divas

• Bianca Belair
• Sasha Banks
• Naomi
  
• Charlotte
• Becky Lynch
• Bayley
• Ronda Rousey
  
• Rhea Ripley
  
• Raquel Rodriguez

 

[Rell84shots]

Then they should be using every thing in their power to turn the B+players into stars. They have every resource to.

Or maybe the best they can be is a B+ player. Remember all the underutilized people they released? Have any of them proven the WWE wrong yet? The brand split doesn't work anymore, and all it has done is devalue every single title.

 

[Damnshow]

What a horrible Smackdown show, Jesus Christ the show is dry like a muthafukka. 3 hours of Raw + 2 hours of Smackdown + whatever time it takes to show the NXT is wayyyy too much for a week when most of your roster has no direction.

This is like WCW when they had Monday Nitro for 3 hours and then would tape the show the same week. It did them no favors.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

What a horrible Smackdown show, Jesus Christ the show is dry like a muthafukka. 3 hours of Raw + 2 hours of Smackdown + whatever time it takes to show the NXT is wayyyy too much for a week when most of your roster has no direction.

This is like WCW when they had Monday Nitro for 3 hours and then would tape the show the same week. It did them no favors.

How did wCw do that anyway? The crowd sitting there for six

 

[SpacelySprockets]

This isn't 2012 anymore

WWE has no depth at main event for 2 full shows in 2022.

AEW is a legit 2nd brand so WWE doesn't have to "compete" with itself anymore.

WWE needs to end the split and be one big roster again

Preview to a Full Roster....

Spoiler

Main eventers

• Roman Reigns (champion)
  
• Brock Lesnar
• Seth Rollins
  
• Randy Orton
  
• Edge
• AJ Styles
  
• Lashley
  
• Cody Rhodes
• Kevin Owens
• Sami Zayn
• Gunther
• Kofi Kingston (Kofimania!)

Midcard Contenders

• Finn Balor (champion)
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura
• Ricochet
  
• Damien Priest
• Omos
• Chad Gable
• Montez Ford
• Apollo Crews
• Veer
• King Woods
• Sheamus
• Tommaso Ciampa
• Ezekiel
• Rick Boogs

Tag Teams

• The Usos
• RK-Bro
  
• Street Profits
• Alpha Academy
• Viking Raiders
• Los Lotharios

Prospects

• Bron Breakker
• Gable Steveson
• Carmelo Hayes
• Ridge Holland
• Butch

Divas

• Bianca Belair
• Sasha Banks
• Naomi
  
• Charlotte
• Becky Lynch
• Bayley
• Ronda Rousey
  
• Rhea Ripley
  
• Raquel Rodriguez

So fukk half of the roster right

 

[Busby]

Why? Losing to Woods isn't a bad thing.

STOP. MAKING. EXCUSES. FOR THE fukk shyt !!

 

[SmarkMero]

So Raquel went from Gonzalez to Rodriguez. Ehh..whatevs.

Raquel Rodriguez?

WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING NAMES?

I literally was like have I been calling her the wrong name all this time!

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

 

[NoMorePie]

 

[R=G]

What a horrible Smackdown show, Jesus Christ the show is dry like a muthafukka. 3 hours of Raw + 2 hours of Smackdown + whatever time it takes to show the NXT is wayyyy too much for a week when most of your roster has no direction.

This is like WCW when they had Monday Nitro for 3 hours and then would tape the show the same week. It did them no favors.

Told everybody the Roman stuff was predictable..don't know how people can watch his predictable segments. He does a feud and wins..doesn't even look weak to build up matches. Nah...that's a negative, kiddo.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I literally was like have I been calling her the wrong name all this time!

I had to take a second myself like "Wasn't this broad named Gonzalez just a week ago or am I remembering it wrong?".

 

[Jello Biafra]

Isn't Lacey Evans new gimmick the same gimmick she had in NXT that didn't work which was why they went with the Southern Belle thing?
Not sure if "I was a poor white trash who pulled myself up by my bootstraps, joined the Marines and now I'm a WWE Superstar" is the type of gimmick that Lacey has the charisma to pull off without fans turning on her pretty quickly.

 

[CBoz]

I'm talking Barthel levels of full on shoot name, I should have worded it better. I would completely get it if she had been on NXT TV for years as Victoria Gonzalez.

If she was Raquel Rodriguez all those years and went to Raquel Gonzalez would it be any different for you?

This is exactly what Gunther said about the change from WALTER.

Any real name talent in WWE is rare these days. John Cena and Randy Orton are the anomalies. This is good tho because it gives the talent a fall back if working for WWE doesn't work out. Taya Valkyrie is a perfect example.

 

[CBoz]

These two are morons. Raw was in Dallas and SD was in Milwaukee. When it's LIVE it says LIVE.

The wedding was Thursday. Plenty of time to fly out to Milwaukee for the ones that were needed.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

give it 90 days...Gunther will have some comedic partner