WWE RAW & SMACKDOWN REACTION
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Check out my great, good, bad, and pathetic from WWE TV this week.
GREAT
I liked the main event between Sami Zayn, Roman Reigns and Finn Balor, for a chance to enter Money in the Bank. All three worked hard, crowd was hot, and it had a satisfying finish with Balor winning. The involvement of Jinder gives Roman another excuse, which sucks, but Vince has to protect his "golden goose". More like a dead duck. Let it go bruh.
Best worked match on the show goes to Sasha Banks, Ember Moon, and Ruby Riot. Shocker, Sasha has a great match and loses. (More on that later.) The real reason this was great is because the three talented performers all are well trained and look like they belong in the ring wrestling, and are not just there because of their looks, while Sasha and Ember both are attractive ladies. This company is going backwards in many respects as it relate to which women are getting pushes lately, and unfortunately in ring work has been devalued. This was an example of three workers putting on a great match because they can work.
After the booking cooled him off at Backlash, Stroman was put on early, and had a very good match with Kevin Owens. Give KO all the credit in the world, because he worked his ass off to make Braun look like a megastar. He bumped all over the place and was excellent here.
GOOD
Seth Rollins actually got a good match out of Mojo Rawley. I still can't believe it. Seth continues to be the best performer in the company right now.
The build of McIntyre and Ziggler continues and I think they should be the tag champions very very soon. There is a star presence between the two that just works. Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy do nothing for me as a tag team, and those titles need to be taken soon.
While I think Sasha should be in MITB, good for Ember Moon getting a huge win and going on to the PPV. She has all the talent you want, she just can't beat Asuka....
BAD
I just don't get why they wasting a talnet like Chad Gable, on Jinder ficking Mahal!! It makes no sense. Gable is a phenomenal talent and Jinder is the worst experiment ever, that just won't die. The match was slow and plodding, because Jinder took 95% of it, while Gable just had to sell, sell, sell, then lose. It's ridiculous.
PATHETIC
This week's edition of how bad can we make this feud, for some reason, Bayley comes out to "save" Sasha, and ends up getting her ass beat, and Sasha still loses. What is the goal? To put them back together? Because I'm still waiting for them to actually establish that they are enemies!!! They fought backstage one week, and the next they teaming togtehr again. And every week after that its been yo yo bullshit! Who is writing this garbage!!!! I'm being subjected to singles matches with Nia fucking Jax as the champion on one show and sorry ass Carmella on the other, while Sasha and Bayley are being dicked around with and booked into oblivion by idiots who clearly don't know what they are doing. Fuck this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREAT
I must say, while Raw did its best to rebound, Smackdown continued the trend set at Backlash with a terribly booked show that had very few highlights. Next to none really.
GOOD
Miz and Jeff Hardy had a pretty good TV match, and the finish was very well executed. I think Miz needed to be in the MITB ladder match more than Hardy, who should be defending his U.S title at the PPV, and not focusing on another title. Hardy is still not as crisp as he used to be, but this was a better match than his PPV match with Orton..... thanks to the Miz!!
BAD
So basically, they took Lana's song and gave a bit of a twist and gave it to Mandy Rose for her new gimmick. Did they think nobody would notice. What the hell is happening here? It's like we have time warped back into the 2000's and Vince is focusing solely on looks again. This match was bad man, and then you book Mandy, a bad wrestler, to beat Becky clean. Smh.
PATHETIC
Let me be clear, the match was in fact very good, but there is a reason this is in the pathetic section, and it has nothing to do with the performers. I can not look the other way and excuse this bullshit booking just because the work was good. WHY BOOK THIS MATCH!?! Bryan and Rusev are clearly two guys the fans like and want to see do well. They both should be getting a push towards the top, if you are listening to the people and trying to please your audience. So why not book each man in a separate qualifying match against separate opponents and have them both make it to MITB? Or how about if you don't want Bryan in the match, don't book him in a qualifier at all. Or why not have Big Cass cost him the match, since clearly that story is continuing.
All very plausible options that doesn't make your fanbase angry at the people who book the fake matches instead of the people in the ring. Its just stupid. You beat Bryan clean on TV in his third singles match back? And he loses not to Nakamura, or AJ, but to Rusev, who you have been trying to bury, and literally had the Undertaker bury just two weeks ago. And then the reason given is because he's too hurt. What? He looked just fine, and stressing this injury crap just makes him look weak. If I'm Bryan, as soon as my contract is up, I'm outta here. This is inexcusable and I am beginning to hate these idiots in charge.
All very plausible options that doesn't make your fanbase angry at the people who book the fake matches instead of the people in the ring. Its just stupid. You beat Bryan clean on TV in his third singles match back? And he loses not to Nakamura, or AJ, but to Rusev, who you have been trying to bury, and literally had the Undertaker bury just two weeks ago. And then the reason given is because he's too hurt. What? He looked just fine, and stressing this injury crap just makes him look weak. If I'm Bryan, as soon as my contract is up, I'm outta here. This is inexcusable and I am beginning to hate these idiots in charge.
I know Charlotte is a good performer, but she has been working with some pretty weak ones lately and she can't make things better. Its not all on her, but this narrative that she is somehow the best on the roster, loses more weight every week she works with these pathetic scrubs Vince keeps pushing out there. Speaking of....
Sends these IIconic chicks back where they came from. they have go away heat more than any other act on the roster and they are shitty at their job. Their mic work is horrible and this performance in the ring was atrocious. Pathetic, and disgrace that they are calling this the women's revolution. That shit is dead.
Sends these IIconic chicks back where they came from. they have go away heat more than any other act on the roster and they are shitty at their job. Their mic work is horrible and this performance in the ring was atrocious. Pathetic, and disgrace that they are calling this the women's revolution. That shit is dead.
Final Thoughts: As I stated in my Backlash review, heads need to role backstage. This is pathetic. The direction of the women is horrible. You have some being being sent for new plastic surgery on their face, and some for new tits. But when are they getting more training in the ring before we are being subjected to their horrible matches. The booking s shit and it's killing my interest in even covering this shit. Wake me up at MITB.