Official Summerslam 2023 Thread 8/5/23

[DaylitoJames]

HHH's daughters teaching him what's hip in today's world... she gonna teach him how to do the griddy have Sexy Redd come out with Bianca for an entrance

 

[VegetasHairline]

Does this mean we're eventually no longer gonna hear The Usos theme? That's the real loss here!

 

[Sghost597]

People will complain about that too

Considering he'll probably only defend it 5 times between now and Mania. It's not a lot lol.

 

[VegetasHairline]

I was saying the night of wrestlemania 38 that even Jimmy & Jey retaining while Roman lost to Brock would be more interesting than what we’ve gotten since because we could see him get jealous and lash out at them while he’s the only one with no gold and we could at least get some new title matchups along the way. Imagine how bad this shyt would be if they hadn’t stumbled into Sami becoming the honorary Uce. He single handedly revived an angle that was running on fumes as far back as 18 months ago and essentially carried it for the back half of 2022 and the first 2 months of 2023 even as Roman took a 3 month vacation in the spring last year and then went another 3 months without defending the belt last fall/winter while Drew in September & Matt Riddle in June on a random smackdown taping were the only full time wrestlers Roman faced for the belt from February last year until KO at the Royal rumble. Now we just sat through Roman not defending the belt for 4 months and likely won’t see him defend it for another 3 months before we get a filler feud at the Royal Rumble to buy time until wrestlemania. We know he isn’t losing it at a b level pay per view or the survivor series (if the event isn’t that dumb brand warfare nonsense full of non title matches again), and the rumble is rarely ever a time we see a new champ. I think the rock in 2013 & John Cena (who’d lose it a month later) in 2017 are the only times in the past 15 years the title changed hands at the rumble.

Basically we have nothing but filler for the next 6 months in regards to Roman since it’s obvious he’ll only ever drop it at wrestlemania and no other face is really over at the main event level on smackdown anyway.

 

[Sghost597]

Does this mean we're eventually no longer gonna hear The Usos theme? That's the real loss here!

I'm still listening Mark Henry theme song on YouTube atleast once a month

 

[Roid Jones]

It’s repetitive and lazy booking

Meh, I've seen him win clean and I expect heels to get wins by any means

 

[Him]

Brock was unscripted tonight. He really respects Cody.

 

[itiswhatitis]

Everyone is paying to see Roman lose, that's why they making so much. It's that simple.

A company known to have a babyface champion running the territory has a heel champion that’s putting asses in seats for people to see him get beat… who would’ve thunk it that wrestling 101 still makes money…

 

[VegetasHairline]

Jimmy turning on Jey > Cody winning at Wrestlemania

 

[DaylitoJames]

Shelton Benjamin at home watching like "Brock never hugged me or raised my hand like he did with Cody Lashley hasn't called me for a spot in the new Hurt Business crew"

 

[Sghost597]

Meh, I've seen him win clean and I expect heels to get wins by any means

Let me rephrase that.


Roman gotta win without interference.

Because that shyt has gotten stale. He can cheat, but I would like too see him go on a dominant run.

 

[CBoz]

Does this mean we're eventually no longer gonna hear The Usos theme? That's the real loss here!

Jey will probably keep it going.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Everyone is paying to see for the possibility of Roman losing, that's why they making so much. It's that simple.

I thought Roman and Jey would be a great match and it was a decent match but I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone in thinking that Jey had zero chance. They didn't build it up in the same way they did for Cody, or even Sami. I said it after SD! on Friday.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

He cheated to retain. Cheating is cheating. Whether it’s Bloodline,Dangerous Alliance, Four Horsemen, Evolution, nWo, it’s cheating.

How you gonna get mad because a villain of a TV show doesn’t win how you want them to win.

Because at some point it breaks the suspension of disbelief. No other combat sport allows run ins every time the champ defends the belt and it’s made worse by the fact that the announcers don’t stay on that point and the guy who got screwed just moves on with his day. It’s the same problem that JBL’s run as champ had. When the finish to every match is entirely unsatisfying for several reasons that are all illogical, it leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouths and essentially nobody really benefits. Makes everyone feel like their time was wasted. Look at the match vs Cody. Solo interferes 3 times before the ref ejects him. Then Jimmy & Jey run in for interference spot #4 of the match before Sami & KO run them off. Then Heyman distracts the ref & solo comes back through the crowd for the ending sequence which is interference spot #5 of the match. Then there’s no follow up to that. It’s like if a story ends on a cliffhanger but there’s never any resolution to it.

 

[thaKEAF]