Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
Will Bayley beat Asuka?
This poll is closed.
No. 3 8.57%
:lol: 18 51.43%
THE BIG DOG! 14 40.00%
Total: 35 votes
[Edit Poll (moderators only)]

 
  • Locked thread
Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?



Reigns battles Wyatt in Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match
Last week, three hard-hitting Qualifying Matches determined that Braun Strowman, Elias and John Cena would compete in the Men’s Elimination Chamber Match on Sunday, Feb. 25, with the winner of that hellacious bout going on to challenge Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at The Showcase of the Immortals, WrestleMania. However, there are three slots left in the match, and WWE.com can now confirm that Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt will clash one-on-one on Raw for the right to enter the structure, where WrestleMania glory will be on the line.

Triple Threat Match to determine the final entrant in the Men’s Elimination Chamber Match
The Elimination Chamber Match is a grueling test of endurance, both physically and psychologically, as four Superstars — encased in pods — await their chance to enter the fray and battle the competition inside the structure. Naturally, the bout’s final entrant has a clear advantage, getting the opportunity to take advantage of their foes’ fatigue. Tonight, the three Superstars who qualified for the Men’s Elimination Chamber Match will collide in a Triple Threat Match to determine who will be the perilous contest’s final entrant, thereby getting the best opportunity to emerge victorious and challenge Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania. Will Braun Strowman, Elias or John Cena earn that honor?

Cesaro & Sheamus to defend Raw Tag Team Titles against Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan
After Jason Jordan’s injury transformed Royal Rumble’s Raw Tag Team Championship bout into a glorified 2-on-1 Handicap Match, Cesaro & Sheamus defeated Seth Rollins and the “gold-blooded” son of Kurt Angle to become four-time champions. Tonight on Raw, Rollins & Jordan will have an opportunity to reclaim those titles when they face The Bar in a Raw Tag Team Championship rematch. Can Jordan find redemption alongside The Kingslayer?

Bayley to take on Asuka tonight
One week after Sasha Banks was taken to the limit and defeated by the seemingly unbeatable Asuka, The Boss’ best friend Bayley will attempt to give The Empress of Tomorrow her first loss tonight on Raw. Can The Huggable One succeed where Sasha failed, or is Bayley—like so many Superstars before —simply not ready for Asuka?

Which Superstars will compete in the first-ever Women’s Elimination Chamber Match?
Asuka defeated Sasha Banks in an incredible matchup this past Monday night. And while the entire WWE Universe awaits the 2018 Women’s Royal Rumble Match winner’s decision as to which title she will challenge for at WrestleMania, the Raw Women’s division shifts its focus to Sunday, Feb. 25, when the first Women’s Elimination Chamber Match in history is waged for the Raw Women’s Championship. We already know that Little Miss Bliss will be entering the formidable structure to defend her prize, but who else is going in? Look for female Superstars to be confirmed tonight for this anticipated and history-making match.

What’s next for The Miz?
With a little help from his co-stars, The Miztourage, The Miz defeated Roman Reigns in their Intercontinental Title rematch this past Monday night on Raw. This brings The A-Lister that much closer to walking under the bright lights of WrestleMania with Team Red’s workhorse championship around his waist. Now that The Big Dog has been turned back, will we see a new challenger step up to the “must-see” Intercontinental Champion? We’ll find out on Raw.

“Top Guys” finally live up to their nickname
Injuries have plagued The Revival since their debut on Raw last year, but Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder finally seem to be clicking like the “old-school” teams they emulate, picking up back-to-back victories over Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and Heath Slater & Rhyno on the Royal Rumble Kickoff and Raw, respectively. Who will get a wrestling history lesson from these throwbacks this week?

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Jiro posted:

Bray's nemesis is Roman?

This reminds me how WWE tried to insist that Cena's greatest ever foe was Randy Orton, when it was clearly Edge.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Roman: Let me tell you what a failure is
Pulls Jason Jordan into frame

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

I like that Bray straight up said,"When you're a loser and a failure and you hit rock bottom... I'm there too! :haw:"

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

fart blood posted:

Wait is that Coach talking wtf

Coach is back, yep.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

DarkstarIV posted:

Bray Wyatt is the Dolph Ziggler of RAW.

Jesus Christ dude, have a LITTLE chill

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

bartok posted:

I thought they scraped the reboot and now with Jerry Van Dyke dead what is the point?

No no, the show is actually a combination Cheers and The Good Place spin-off, starring Jerry Van Dyke and Nicholas Colasanto

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Baron Corbin posted:

did i miss anything important

Bray explained that Roman is a failure spiraling into the oblivion of being a total loser moron idiot... and that Bray would be waiting for him when he got there.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Fat Lowtax posted:

Coach himself is whatever but I associate him with the time WWE commentary was good

Also is Tazz underrated in the booth or do I just feel that way because he was there when I was a child

Tazz and Cole were really good together, but apparently a lot of their best commentary was actually done on tape under Heyman's guidance, after doing live commentary during the show and then working out what worked best, what didn't, and the best narrative to put together for the show as a whole.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Push El Burrito posted:

I love Roman kicking out of at least one finisher every match.

He won't be able to kick out of the F5 though! They've established that one F5 is able to put out anybody, even Braun Strowman and Samoa Joe! So there's no way Roman would be able to do that.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Professor Funk posted:

that was a real lovely spear lmao

It looked like he was going for a little smooch of his own.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

SamuraiFoochs posted:

That was a pretty good match.

I got what they were going for with Bray freaking out when Sister Abigail failed to pin Roman, but there's only so many times they can show Bray loving things up for himself before it starts (continues) to make him look pretty dumb.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Le Saboteur posted:

Roman gets super horny when you kiss him and it wakes him up.

I'm glad he remembers some of the lessons Ambrose taught him.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Push El Burrito posted:

I never saw Prometheus 2. What happened in that?

They took all the good parts of Prometheus and dumped them out, then took onboard all the criticisms about how it wasn't straight up an Alien movie and so just did that instead.

It was deeply disappointing, and the only redeeming features were Michael Fassbender's performance (writing aside) and the art direction.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Go full heel, Sasha!

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

GO FULL HEEL SASHA

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

fart blood posted:

So I was in a hospital yesterday, should I safely assume if a commercial has a celebrity in it, it was a super bowl commercial?

Tide actually instituted a hostile takeover of every single company in America. All commercials are for Tide now.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

God loving DAMMIT John Mahoney died.

He was Frasier's dad :smith:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Baron Corbin posted:

in the end, he never knew what to do with those tossed salad and scrambled eggs

They're not calling again... :smith:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

I expect Itami vs Strong to be real loving good.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Did he forget the PPV name? :stare:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Alexa Bliss, Sasha Banks, Bayley and also two other people!

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

So... if Asuka chose Charlotte as her opponent then Nia would also be in that Smackdown Women's Title match?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

DeepDickPizza posted:

Frasier's dad was a company member at Steppenwolf Theater here in Chicago for like four decades. Tonight they cancelled the opening night of their new show and opened the front bar for everyone to come drink and celebrate him.

That's really nice :)

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Alexa's totally right.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Alexa, ask them if they want to see Brock in the Elimination Chamber! ALEXA ASK THEM! AX THEM! >:(

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Why would they point out that double standard and then let it stand? :confused:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

STAC Goat posted:

That was a weird rear end segment.

Like... Why would you do a segment that serves no purpose except to point out the inconsistent booking and rules? I don't get you, WWE.

The last few years WWE has increasingly just booked in complete denial of how the crowds vocally react to particular wrestlers/angles. If WWE believes somebody is a heel, they refuse to accept the crowd disagrees AND frequently act as if the crowd is totally onboard with what they're doing.

The argument I used to hear was WWE considered certain towns "bizarro land" but bizarro land seems to be wildly expanding its borders :colbert:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Oh boy we're at the Murder Factory at last :neckbeard:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

DeepDickPizza posted:

Time for some hilarious WWE Black History segments!!!

This one was pretty good I thought. But maybe I was just happy to see Mark "Should be GM" Henry.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

fart blood posted:

Wow Bayley got no reaction.

I remember in NXT she'd get massive pops.

What happened?

She was booked AWFULLY.

It's depressing.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

You know it's sad, the moment Asuka fell over the top rope I cringed in horror... then turned my head away because I've been taught by WWE that a big spot to the outside is almost always followed by a commercial break.


Annnnnndd.... there we are!

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

That was pretty good but the crowd was dead, and the Sasha match last week was way better.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Shima Honnou posted:

the game looks like it owns but i'm waiting on the pc version, which unfortunately means i don't get to play with asuka

Yeah, I'm really excited to play the game but I'm holding out for PC too.

I think that makes me safe from the cruel vengeance of Asuka? Well, as safe as any of us can truly be, I guess.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Miz talking up Roman to make himself look better :mmmhmm:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

THE POWER OF THE BIG DOGAPOLLO CREWS

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Erebus posted:

They allowed this once and then never let Dana have cleavage on TV again



Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Codependent Poster posted:

Corey Graves describing wrestling physics rules.

Also his answer to Cole's question about why Miz wants to be IC And Universal Champion.

"MORE MONEY!"

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

That swing into the overhead suplex ruled

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Jordan... :cripes:

  • Locked thread