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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?




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Hell in a Cell Results:
  • There were only four matches advertised for the card by the time the pre-show started.
  • Nattie Neidhart defeated Lacey Evans on the pre-show, submitting her with the Sharpshooter and then KOing her with a punch post-match.
  • Ali was interviewed backstage and mocked by Randy Orton. Ali challenged Orton to a match tonight and Orton accepted. So that's at least 5 matches on the main card.
  • The show opened with Becky Lynch (C) vs. Sasha Banks for the Raw Women's Championship in the Hell in a Cell. Sasha jumped Becky before the match and attacked her outside the cell, but Becky took control, grabbed the chain intended to lock the door and punched Sasha with it. The match got better and better as it went along, with some really neat creative spots including Becky putting Sasha on a chair suspended on kendo-sticks in a corner of the cell and hitting a flying kick off the ring apron. In the end, Becky submitted Sasha with the DisArmHer after superplexing her into a pile of chairs that Sasha had set up on the mat. Becky celebrated postmatch as a tearful Sasha watched from the entrance ramp.
  • Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns defeated Erick Rowan and Luke Harper in a Tornado Tag match. It was a messy, chaotic match by design and it looked like Rowan, Harper AND Roman all might have suffered injuries (or maybe they were just selling well) which is ironic given Bryan is the one everybody is always concerned by. The finish came with a cool Superman Punch/KNEE THAT BEAT JOHN CENA/Spear combo on Harper.
  • Postmatch, Roman offered Bryan a handshake which Bryan declined.... then motioned for a hug. Roman was unsure but the crowd went nuts and chanted YES! so Roman accepted and they hugged it out. Roman still hasn't apologized though :mad:
  • Seth Rollins did a backstage promo saying he was going to beat THE FIEND.... then kind of paused and went,"...at least I hope so...." which. Well. I mean. Jesus Christ.
  • A promo aired for the latest Blood Money show in Saudi Arabia, in which they did not mention Saudi Arabia.
  • Randy Orton defeated Ali in a singles match. It was kind of an unremarkable match when out of nowhere Ali did a loving INCREDIBLE counter to the RKO.... and didn't get the pin and then Orton just RKOed him anyway and won and goddammit.
  • Lacey Evans vs. Nattie Neidhart AGAIN was advertised for Raw, this time in a Last Woman Standing match.
  • The Kabuki Warriors defeated Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross (C) to become the new Women's Tag Team Champions. The Kabuki Warriors were acting far more heelish than normal throughout the match. The finish came when Kairi blocked Alexa from getting the tag, and Alexa took out Kairi at ringside. That left Nikki isolated and she turned and Asuka spat green mist in her face and then pinned her. Awesome.
  • A lengthy recap of Smackdown's premiere on Fox aired. Tyson Fury will be on Raw tomorrow and given a live mic which has the potential to be a loving disaster.
  • The OC faced The Viking Raiders and BRAUN! in a six man tag. The match wasn't advertised, had no build, and ended on a DQ so technically the OC won. BRAUN! punched AJ Styles out of the air during a Phenomenal Forearm which looked very cool. Gallows and Anderson helped AJ up after the match and he shoved them out of the way then fell down, and the commentators laughed about AJ being concussed.
  • The Street Profits were backstage but Angelo Dawkins was distracted by the news there would be a Draft Showcase on Raw tomorrow and the draft itself in 5 days. Suddenly Truth ran into them and fell over. As they were helping him up, Tamina Snuka rolled up and pinned Carmella to become the new 24/7 Champion. As she ran away, she bumped into Tyler Breeze who smiled at her, so she decked him and took off.
  • Baron Corbin and Chad Gable came out for a King of the Rings Final rematch (again), and Corbin spent considerable time before the match doing a promo mocking Gable's height, calling him "Shorty Gable" and laughing about how he wasn't tall enough for anybody to take seriously.
  • The match was incredibly dull, the crowd was bored, and the commentators kept referring to Gable as "Shorty" like it is his new name. Gable won with a roll-up pin. Nobody cared. Gable deserves so much better.
  • As Bayley (C) vs. Charlotte for the Smackdown Women's Championship was about to start, Tamina ran out chased by Truth and hid behind Funaki. Carmella hit Tamina with a superkick and cheered for Truth who pinned her to regain the 24/7 Championship.
  • Charlotte defeated Bayley after the ref caught Bayley with her foot on the ropes during a pin attempt. Charlotte put Bayley into the Figure 8 and made her tap. The commentators pushed that Charlotte was one of the greatest since she'd won the title 10 times now. Bayley was distraught and considerable time was spent on her after Charlotte left, looking miserable, screaming at the crowd to shut up and shoving the referee away from her.
  • Chad Gable was interviewed backstage where he claimed he didn't mind being called Shorty, because after beating Corbin he had proven he was the bigger man. He was IMMEDIATELY jumped and beaten up by Baron Corbin after this, then tossed like a sack of garbage into a stairwell just in case there had been any chance he might have accidentally gotten over at all tonight.
  • Seth Rollins (C) faced THE FIEND in a Hell in a Cell match for the Universal Championship. THE FIEND came out in red light which stuck around for the entire match.
  • Seth hit multiple Curb Stomps, a Pedigree and another Curbstomp... and THE FIEND kicked out at one. Seth delivered multiple more Curb Stomps as the crowd booed, then grabbed a chair from under the ring. He hesitated and then delivered a chair shot to THE FIEND's "head"... and THE FIEND kicked out at 1 again. So Seth grabbed a ladder, put the chair on THE FIEND's face and whacked it with the ladder, which got him a 2-count.
  • Seth got desperate and stacked up chair and ladder on his opponent and began smashing them with a toolbox as the crowd's boos got louder and louder. Seth grabbed a sledgehammer and the ref tried to stop him, warning him not to do it. Seth started crying (!) and then hit him with the sledgehammer and the ref called for a DQ.
  • The ref called for a DQ.
  • In a Hell in a Cell match.
  • The crowd was relentlessly booing as officials rushed into the ring to try and stretcher THE FIEND out. Seth shoved them aside to scream at him only to get put in the Mandible Claw, then get tossed out of the ring. The crowd roared,"RESTART THE MATCH!"
  • THE FIEND hit Sister Abigail as the crowd chanted,"AEW!". THE FIEND put Seth in the Mandible Claw and the screeching music played to close out the PPV in exactly the same way as the last few weeks of Raw, with Bray's laughter. The crowd booed furiously as the show went off the air, and an episode of WWE Chronicle immediately opened with Bill Goldberg saying,"This is nothing but self-inflicted misery."
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Raw Results:
  • Raw opened with a recap of the Lashley/Lana reveal from last week, interspersed with Total Divas footage of Rusev and Lana's wedding. The show then cut to Rusev fighting Baron Corbin and Randy Orton by himself in the ring?
  • Suddenly Lashley appeared on the screen wearing Rusev's bathrobe and in his bedroom. Lana showed up and they climbed into bed toge....Jesus Christ what the gently caress is this spectacularly stupid goddamn bullshit?
  • Big Queefy posted:

    This really does explain why Rusev is on team Hogan now.......
  • Rusev saw Corbin and Orton laughing at him from ringside so he ran out and beat both their asses, putting Corbin through the steel steps and Orton into the ring barricade.
  • Lacey Evans did a promo (oh God) next to a trashcan at ringside with Nattie's name on it, saying it was time to take out the trash in her Last Woman Standing match with Nattie.
  • Lacey Evans beat the poo poo out of Nattie for close to 15 minutes, then Nattie made a comeback, put Lacey through the announce table with a Powerbomb and won the Last Woman Standing match.
  • Aleister Black did another promo in an empty room saying he wants somebody to challenge him.
  • The Street Profits did a promo backstage for the Draft, talking about a few different wrestlers before talking about Drake Maverick's failure to consummate his marriage (Vince McMahon you pathetic pile of poo poo). They then brought up Tyson Fury and BRAUN! which lead to a video recap.
  • Tyson Fury was interviewed backstage and was booed. He said he perhaps overstepped the bounds by jumping the barricade, but BRAUN! was the one who started things and he wanted an apology tonight or else BRAUN! would "get these hands."
  • The Viking Raiders won a surprisingly long and competitive non-title (boo!) match against Raw Tag Team Champions Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler.
  • Aleister Black did another promo saying he was going to the ring so somebody could answer his challenge.
  • The Bollywood Boys showed up in ring to state their case for being drafted to Raw. Aleister Black came out and beat both their asses and got a quick submission win.
  • A recap aired of Smackdown's premiere on Fox. So far nearly halfway through the show there has been no mention of Hell in a Cell outside of Asuka/Kairi being mentioned as the new tag champs when their upcoming match with Becky/Charlotte was advertised.
  • BRAUN! was interviewed backstage where he said he MIGHT give Tyson Fury an apology if asked nicely, but if he doesn't he might "get these hands".
  • A further Smackdown recap aired of Brock Lesnar being confronted by Cain Velasquez. Still no recap of Hell in a Cell.
  • Rey Mysterio was interviewed backstage about how difficult it was for him to deal with the mauling of his large son Dominic took at the hands of Brock Lesnar recently.
  • The AOP did another sit-down piece to camera talking about how they were the men with the will to take another man's food and money for themselves, and that no other tag team had that same will. This was a lot better than it sounds.
  • The OC defeated Lucha House Party in a six-man tag. AJ won with the Phenomenal Forearm on Kalisto. Most notable part of the match was AJ doing an incredible sell for a hurricanrana. It looked fantastic.
  • The OC beat up LHP post-match and AJ hit Lince Dorado with a middle-rope Styles Clash.
  • They FINALLY talked about Hell in a Cell, discussing the (very good) Raw Women's Title match between Becky Lynch and Sasha.
  • WWE's annual partnership with the Susan G. Komen Foundation has started up with a new campaign about 1-in-8 women suffering from breast cancer. Susan G. Komen represents a good cause but they are a loving lovely charity.
  • Push El Burrito posted:

    I'm gonna give $100 to Susan G. Komen and rest easy knowing my dollar went to breast cancer research.
  • MizTV had Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair as guests to discuss retaining and winning their titles respectively. Becky put over Sasha and she and Charlotte talked a little poo poo to each other.
  • Asuka and Kairi came out and cut promos all in Japanese, then rushed the ring and brawled with Becky and Charlotte but got knocked out of the ring because I think Vince thinks they're the heels or something. The show went to a commercial break as they all faced off.
  • Asuka and Kairi defeated Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair, after Asuka used the Green Mist on Becky from outside the ring so Kairi could pin her. Postmatch, Charlotte attacked Asuka and Kairi from behind but they beat her rear end instead. Good.
  • Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross raced in to make the babyface save (what the Christ?) and double-teamed Kairi. WWE still seems to think Asuka and Kairi are heels.
  • A recap of Roman Reigns' leukemia announcement, treatment and return aired.
  • A recap of the stupid loving dumb bullshit loving idiotic lovely rear end dogshit crap Rusev angle from the start of the show aired.
  • Apollo Crews was interviewed backstage about his efforts to impress in his match against Ricochet tonight in order to be a top draft pick for the upcoming draft.
  • The Viking Raiders did a backstage promo calling out Roode and Ziggler for a shot at the tag team titles after beating them earlier tonight. Ricochet then was interviewed about his match against Apollo and the upcoming draft.
  • Ricochet defeated Apollo Crews in a rather underwhelming match with a cold finish.
  • They FINALLY recapped the main event of Hell in a Cell. A heavily edited video package put crowd gasps and oohs in place of the booing during the 1000 finishers, cut out the outrage over the stupid loving "match stoppage" and played dramatic music over THE FIEND's post-match attack on Seth.
  • Rhonne posted:

    :lol: that's all they're going to say about it. No Seth or Bray here tonight.

  • The draft takes place over two nights, starting on Smackdown this Friday and finished on Raw next Monday.
  • Viking Raiders vs. Roode/Ziggler for the Raw Tag Team Titles has been made official for next week.
  • Jerry "The King" Lawler introduced Tyson Fury. As he was introduced earlier in the night, they're calling him the lineal Boxing Champion of the World because he's not actually a Boxing Champion.
  • Fury came out and got a cheap (but genuine) pop by mentioning the town name, and said amicably that he was demanding an apology. BRAUN!'s music hit and he came out to the ring, where the crowd chanted,"GET THESE HANDS!"
  • BRAUN! said he was just having fun on Smackdown with him until he saw him looking at him like he wanted a piece. BRAUN! warned Fury that he had no idea what he would be getting himself into because BRAUN! would literally eat him alive.
  • Fury claimed he would have knocked him out if security hadn't intervened, and BRAUN! mocked him getting knocked down by Wilder in their last boxing match. Fury retorted that he's won Heavyweight Titles but BRAUN! never has, and the two went at it, getting hauled apart by an army of security men.
  • Fury beat up the security guards inside the ring so BRAUN! beat up the security guards outside the ring and he and Fury went at it again, but were hauled apart by members of the roster who rushed out. The crowd chanted,"LET THEM FIGHT!" and BRAUN! broke free and charged Fury before being hauled off of him again.
  • Fury got loose and leaped onto BRAUN! but was pulled clear. Finally BRAUN! seemed to see reason and started to leave the ring peacefully... then rushed back inside and jumped Fury again. The roster broke them up and Fury got up on one of the ring ropes and posed at BRAUN! who broke free again. At this point it seemed like the timing was off as there were a couple of minutes to go and nothing more seemed set to happen.
  • BRAUN! was escorted up the ramp by half the roster as his music played. Fury was left in the ring with the rest of the roster (and D-Von Dudley) where he motioned that he was in control of himself.
  • Backstage, BRAUN! was interviewed where he roared that he was pissed at Fury coming into HIS house and causing this trouble, and Fury was going to "get these hands". Fury in the ring motioned for him to come back and BRAUN! raced back out and into the ring where the roster rushed to intervene again as the show went off the air.
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NXT Results:
  • The show opened with a recap of last week's matches.
  • Lio Rush defeated Drew Gulak to become the new NXT Cruiserweight Champion (which was formerly just the Cruiserweight Champion), hitting his Final Hour giant Frog Splash to get the pin.
  • William Regal came out and presented the title to Lio and started to put it around his waist, but Drew Gulak walked up and hauled the belt off of Regal... then presented it to Lio himself, shook his hand and left. Regal put the belt around Lio's waist and then left the ring to let him enjoy the moment to himself.
  • KUSHIDA was backstage sparring with Fandango and Tyler Breeze, while WALTER was elsewhere doing stretches while watched by the rest of Imperium.
  • A video package aired celebrating Finn Bálor and his history in NXT.
  • Tegan Nox who suffered a bad injury that put her out of action for months, will be wrestling next week.
  • Rhea Ripley absolutely annihilated Aaliyah in a quick squash that she finished with a crazy leg-submission/giant swing move. Afterwards she grabbed the mic and said Shayna had beaten everybody in NXT... but not her, and she was coming for her. With that she dropped the mic.
  • The lights went down and construction barricades were set out, the sound of equipment was heard and the lights came on to show Breezango in safety vests, hard hats and tool pouches (without tools). Breeze had to pull Fandango away as he tried to dance for one of the ladies that came out with them.
  • Everrise were supposed to be their opponents, but Jaxson Ryker carried them out unconscious and dumped them on the floor, and then the other Forgotten Sons came out for the match instead. The Forgotten Sons defeated Breezango.
  • Keith Lee did a promo about how he was going to defeat Dominik Dijakovic in their rematch next week, and make him bask in Keith Lee's glory.
  • Cameron Grimes defeated Chinese wrestler Boa in seconds as Killian Dain came down to the ring. Dain got in and beat the poo poo out of Boa too and dumped him on the announce table. Poor Boa.
  • Damian Priest did a mixed pre-taped promo/video recap of his attack on Pete Dunne, admitting he had targeted Dunne not out of personal animosity but simply to get attention for himself.
  • NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong defeated Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, with The Undisputed Era coming out to ringside to "inspire" Roddy. Post-match, Adam Cole did a promo talking up Roddy and the rest of Undisputed Era as unbeatable, saying that the likes of Finn Bálor and Tommaso Ciampa were dreaming if they thought they could come back and beat him for the NXT Title.
  • Velveteen Dream appeared in the Crow's Nest, summoned by the mention of the word "Dream" and showed a photo of Roderick Strong chilling naked on his couch with the North American title over his junk. Dream promised that when they have their rematch for the title, Roddy would be exposed, and snapped his fingers, causing the title to disappear from the photo and leave behind a tiny little piece of moasic censorship.
  • As Roddy and the rest of Undisputed Era lost their poo poo, Ciampa came out brandishing a crutch and a steel chair. TUE cheesed it as he entered the ring. Ciampa sat in the chair, grabbed a mic and spoke directly to the title belt (Goldie), saying simply,"Daddy's home."
  • Angel Garza tried to approach Cathy Kelley for a chat but she ignored him to try and interview Ciampa as he came backstage. Garza got in the way, in disbelief that she'd pass him up for Ciampa, and started speaking Spanish to Ciampa, who knocked him out. Kelly asked what Garza had said and Ciampa shrugged and admitted he didn't have a clue.
  • Bianca Belair defeated Dakota Kai in a competitive, hard-fought match. Postmatch, Dakota sold that she'd been taken close to the edge by Dakota. She grabbed a mic and said it didn't matter if Rhea had been the first NXT UK Women's Champion, she had to go through Bianca before she could get a shot against Shayna.
  • Dominik Dijakovic did his own promo/video recap of his feud with Keith Lee and insisted that HE was going to win.
  • Pete Dunne did a promo/video package admitting that Damian Priest was doing exactly what he himself had done when he first came to NXT UK, but he wasn't going to let Priest make a name off of him.
  • Dunne vs. Priest was made official for next week.
  • Video was shown of Lio Rush being congratulated backstage by various members of the roster for his winning of the Cruiserweight Championship.
  • As KUSHIDA came out for his match against WALTER, Mauro Ranallo talked about his past with Jushin "Thunder" Liger and made a point of mentioning Liger is in his last year as an active pro-wrestler.
  • WALTER won a long match against KUSHIDA, who put up a hell of a fight but was eventually overpowered. WALTER continued to sell his arm long after the match was over, heading up to join the rest of Imperium on the entrance stage.
  • Next week is Keith Lee vs. Dominik Dijakovic and Pete Dunne vs. Damian Priest.
  • "Breaking news" was announced that next week Tommaso Ciampa faces Angel Garza, and two weeks from now NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong will face Velveteen Dream in a rematch for the title.
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Smackdown Results:
  • Smackdown opened with Universal Champion Seth Rollins from Raw facing Roman Reigns from Smackdown in a match to decide which brand got first draft pick. They fought through a commercial break with the commentators selling that this match might never happen again. Seth countered a Spear by Roman into a "Pedigree" (more he shoved Roman down into the canvas) but then THE FIEND's music played and the lights went down.
  • THE FIEND came up through the canvas and dragged Seth down, the lights came up and smoke poured out of the hole in the ring. Seth pulled himself out and coughed and choked while THE FIEND peeked out of the hole like a cat.
  • After a commercial break, the commentators claimed Seth had won the match by DQ (Roman was just... gone) and they showed boardrooms of FOX/USA reps pretending to be busy looking over papers trying to decide who would be Raw's first pick.
  • There was a robot called Cleatus in the Fox boardroom. I am not making that up.
  • Stephanie McMahon came out, complained about not getting booed, and then announced Raw's first pick was Becky Lynch. Yes, the big reveal was that Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch was going to be on Raw. Smackdown's first pick was Roman Reigns, meaning Smackdown's Roman Reigns would be on... Smackdown. The OC were then announced as a group to be on Raw, and Bray Wyatt was announced for Smackdown. Finally Raw chose Drew McIntyre. These top 5 picks, by the way, match up exactly to the order of the Smackdown Draft Pool listed by WWE.com.
  • Renee Young was shown heading up a draft panel to discuss these choices. Samoa Joe was there too and complimented Renee on being the one keeping the lights on in her household now, a neat reference to Jon Moxley.
  • Baron Corbin came out and did a promo about being King of the Ring ahead of his match with Chad Gable (again), only now Chad is officially being called "Shorty Gable" because Vince McMahon is a loving lunatic.
  • "Shorty Gable" looked really impressive doing a bunch of cool moves, submissions, transitions etc against Chad Gable... then he got hit by the Deep Six and pinned clean as a sheet in dominant fashion
  • Terry Bradshaw was on the Fox Panel discussing their favorite wrestlers, and his favorite was Dusty Rhodes. I wonder what the Rhodes family is doing right now? Everybody else's choices were Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Bruno Sammartino and Killer Kowalski. Not a single modern wrestler, not even anybody from the Attitude Era.
  • Stephanie McMahon came out to read the next set of picks.... and yes they're literally just going down the draft pool list posted days ago on WWE.com in order. Randy Orton goes to Raw, Sasha Banks to Smackdown, Ricochet to Raw, BRAUN to Smackdown and Bobby Lashley to Raw.
  • After the draft panel discussed the latest picks, they advertised the BRAUN! vs. Tyson Fury match at the Blood Money show in Saudi Arabia on October 31st.
  • Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman came out to the ring where Heyman did a promo to sell the Cain Velasquez match at the Blood Money show in Saudi Arabia. Rey Mysterio and Cain came out too and promised to scar up the other side of Brock's face too.
  • It has been stated that Cain/Brock is a non-title match but also that it is a title match, so... uhhh.... I guess you'll have to watchread the results of the Blood Money show in Saudi Arabia to find out.
  • New Day were backstage and getting hyped for coming out for the next segment. Kofi said nothing and made no sign of being upset or even concerned about having lost the WWE Championship. After a commercial break New Day were shown dancing on the entrance platform before a video played of a pair of sisters who had had breast cancer, who met New Day and really liked them :)
  • New Day did a promo about the power of positivity being something they can push as part of WWE's collaboration with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and they called out the two sisters and presented them with a couple of title belts.
  • The New Day defeated The OC in a six-man tag, with Kofi pinning AJ Styles clean following the Trouble in Paradise.
  • Chris James 2 posted:

    Benefits of Twitter and wreddit telling you in real time you hosed up
    https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1182825040519356418
  • Stephanie McMahon came out and picked Alexa Bliss for Raw and Lacey Evans for Smackdown, then Kevin Owens for Raw, The Revival for Smackdown and finally Nattie Neidhart for Raw. So the WWE.com lists are still accurate they're just picking them slightly out of order now.
  • Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch for the first draft pick on Raw was announced. It had been reported that Sasha has suffered a bad tailbone injury so I guess we'll see which report was wrong.
  • Raw gets the Viking Raiders and Smackdown gets Lucha House Party. Nikki Cross is on Raw along with Alexa after all, Heavy Machinery stays on Smackdown, and finally The Street Profits are going to Raw. That wrapped up the Smackdown half of the draft.
  • Huntman posted:

    They changed the list on WWE.com to be in alphabetical order as well oh my god i cannot believe this company is so bad
  • Charlotte came out for her title defense against Bayley, after which they had a commercial break and then a Fox correspondent talking about WWE for awhile before the commentators talked about Bayley throwing a tantrum after her loss of the title at Hell in a Cell. Bayley came out but then her music cut off as she revealed a new haircut and ring-gear, then took a set of shears and murdered the Wacky Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Men, to fully confirm the arrival of Dark Bayley on the scene.
  • Dark Bayley defeated Charlotte clean as a loving sheet in the main event. It was a long back and forth match where Bayley got caught trying to get a pin with her feet on the ropes, which lead to her yelling at the ref that she deserved to be champion, and Charlotte hit the Natural Selection on Bayley... who immediately rolled her up and got the pin.
  • Corey Graves (is he a heel commentator?) suggested she had a handful of Charlotte's hair which nobody else mentioned or noticed at all. Bayley got up on the announce table and posed with the belt while Charlotte just looked kind of mildly irritated to have lost.
  • "Hey bitches" said Dark Bayley in the ring on the mic,"Screw all of you!" and left the ring as the crowd cheered loudly and wooped it up in delight for her well-deserved victory.
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Current Draft Picks:

Raw
  • Becky Lynch
  • The OC
  • Drew McIntyre
  • Randy Orton
  • Ricochet
  • Bobby Lashley
  • Alexa Bliss
  • Kevin Owens
  • Nattie Neidhart
  • The Viking Raiders
  • Nikki Cross
  • The Street Profits
Smackdown
  • Roman Reigns
  • Bray Wyatt
  • Sasha Banks
  • BRAUN!
  • The Revival
  • Lacey Evans
  • Lucha House Party
  • Heavy Machinery
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The following are the Draft Pools for Smackdown and Raw as posted on WWE.com - when it became apparent that WWE's Draft Picks were literally just going down this list in order, they (eventually) started switching up the order of the picks and then changed the lists to alphabetical order. Here they are for posterity's sake:

Friday Night SmackDown – Oct. 11
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Ricochet
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
Lacey Evans
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Natalya
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina

Raw – Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
Titus O’Neil
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
Aleister Black
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
Daniel Bryan
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
Ali
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
Samoa Joe
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Rusev
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Carmella
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Shelton Benjamin
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
Drake Maverick
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Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Oct 12, 2019

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Erebus
Jul 13, 2001

Okay... Keep your head, Steve boy...

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yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

Great show!

Midnightghoul
Oct 1, 2003

COME ON DON'T BE SCURRED
The best way for WWE to win the ratings war is to send Seth Rollins to AEW

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

WWE found the worst possible way to handle that match. And I thought my ridiculous scenario was bad where a bunch of wrestlers dressed like funhouse puppets attack Seth and become the new Wyatt family but WWE managed to top it

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

AEW airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on TNT

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


So nice to see a fed combine 2000's WCW and 2000's Inokism new Japan in one feud

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

Bray just lies there eating finishers for five minutes, looks like a loser
Seth gets destroyed after the DQ, looks like a loser

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

SEE YOU IN HELL

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Edit: double post sorry

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

X-PAC's reaction to Seth/Bray:

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
They established the match could end in a DQ via a Twitter poll

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1179067888499646466

SO YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN.

Kairi heeling it up
https://twitter.com/WWEJapan/status/1181027497342668800

fatherofmustard
May 15, 2018

Of course WWE would make 2 white blonde Americans the top people on FOX.

DuhSal
Aug 16, 2004

I will, brother. I promise.



Pillbug
seems like I saw all the good things before I was unable to watch the rest of the ppv but I really wanted to see that trainwreck of a final match. sounds glorious.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

It was so bad I was seriously considering just giving up on WWE entirely but then it got SO bad that now I'm utterly fascinated in seeing how far down the LOLTNA and Jesus-loving-Christ-WCW hole they can go.

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

rovert posted:

SO YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN.

For those who may be rushing to destroy the man, this is a Joke.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

JUNGLE BOY posted:

AEW airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on TNT

aew dark tuesdays on youtube

OctoberCountry
Oct 9, 2012
You all are officially not allowed to pretend Bray Wyatt is good anymore

TriffTshngo
Mar 28, 2010

Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.
https://twitter.com/MattJackson13/status/1181032392162590720

rovert
Jun 10, 2013

JUNGLE BOY posted:

AEW airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on TNT

https://twitter.com/MattJackson13/status/1181032392162590720

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Sasha/Becky was really good and The Kabuki Warriors winning ruled. Those were good things that happened on the show that made me glad I watched it.

CrcleSqreSanchz
Aug 21, 2002

I'm feeling something new...something...I'm happy??!!

Jerusalem posted:

It was so bad I was seriously considering just giving up on WWE entirely but then it got SO bad that now I'm utterly fascinated in seeing how far down the LOLTNA and Jesus-loving-Christ-WCW hole they can go.

I'm actually MORE interested in seeing their TV show now to see how bad it can get.


I have a feeling it will be middle of the road bad and I'll be bored by the end of the week.

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

A tragedy in 3 acts:

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1181025478787751939
https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1181026016807907329
https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1181030245131898885

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Legit question: Does that HIAC match top the Kennel From Hell match as worst HIAC of all time?

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007


lol Dave is great

Armitage
Aug 16, 2005

"Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."
poo poo i'm going -6 stars for that match lmao. that made Bayley/Alexa at Extreme Rules(?) look like Kawada/Misawa from '97

seth and the fiend are pretty much never gonna be over again after that, that just completely killed them.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

fatherofmustard posted:

Of course WWE would make 2 white blonde Americans the top people on FOX.

Brock is Canadian now.

Fat Lowtax
Nov 9, 2008


"I'm willing to pay up to $1200 for a big anime titty"


I'm gonna guess that they said they can't have Bray Wyatt in that character as a traditional wrestling champion having traditional wrestling matches. Which...maybe? Then every single detail they added was very bad.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1181032531178790912

the lack of self awareness

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011

rovert posted:

They established the match could end in a DQ via a Twitter poll

technically they did it last year when they had a no contest because of weather patterns (F-5s in the arena)

so it's long term booking.

Tweak
Jul 28, 2003

or dont whatever








*reads recap* lmao really

Down Right Fierce
Jan 30, 2011
Epic. Epic, for the win!

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

Tweak posted:

*reads recap* lmao really

Don't worry this is good business. They're building THE FIEND UP

Rhonne
Feb 13, 2012

Do you want to know what we do to artists?

rovert posted:

They established the match could end in a DQ via a Twitter poll

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1179067888499646466

SO YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN.

I mean, clearly the WWE is giving people what they wanted. Why is everyone so mad!?

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
honestly up until the finish, that was a pretty cool match on tv at least

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

I respect WWE's decision to dare AEW to steal it's viewers by putting out the worst shows they can

I gave up a few matches in but reading that recap is something to behold

Bard Maddox
Feb 15, 2012

I'm just a sick guy, I'm really just a dirty guy.
the utter contempt WWE has for their audience good lord

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

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Who had this terrible idea, I wonder.

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

I didn't watch the whole ppv

but was the World Champion Brock Lesnor even on the show?

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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


loving beautiful

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