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[talltrekkie]

“They were going to bring him up. The idea was to turn Keith Lee heel, have Adam Cole be his manager. Probably with a different name because of the last name Cole...kind of like a Lio Rush / Bobby Lashley thing, where you have this little guy who is a big talker, and he hides behind this big massive African American guy.”

“That was kind of the dynamic that they were looking for for him, more as a manager [than] a wrestler.”

From Meltzer, the alleged 'plan' for Adam Cole on Raw/SD if he had stayed. No wonder he left.

[Love Buzz]

Vince really doesn't watch NXT or AEW does he. Big muscle mentality forever.

[MasterBates]

WHOA! NXT has a new look! thatll get people to watch...a bunch of mediocre talent that wont make it to the main roster...

[Love Buzz]

WTF, I tried to watch the Big E win on their YT and they fucking faded straight to his celebration. Had to watch a different one. It wasn't a total squash but fuck I'm sick of good guys taking advantage of the bad guy being weakened. The MITB concept is great for baddies in this way but they book the good guys to do the same. Yay, you beat a weakened bad guy. So noble and courageous.

Seems like it's a MNF is back so fuck it we gotta do something response because they know Raw is a bore chore. It's drastically dropped in the wrestling show pecking order. I honestly think the majority of the paying audience go just in the hope they get a blast from the past show up to say they were there when so and so showed up or to be on TV as if there's big credence to that anymore.

[talltrekkie]

I agree that MITB is a tool better suited for heels, but you can't always have a heel win because it could lead to a PPV where all the big matches are won by heels, depending on who the champions are and what not. Plus you look like an idiot if you don't cash-in on a weakened/tired guy. But then you could be Corbin and still be made into an idiot.

I'm especially not a fan of pre-announcing a cash-in for a certain show, makes it look like a ratings/buys stunt. Then again, what they did with Braun and him turning it in early to get a match isn't much better. It really should be used as a surprise thing where anytime the champ is down you wonder if the music is going to hit.

Lastly, the thinking is that the changes that were made to this weeks Raw is because last weeks was beaten in the demo by Dynamite. The changes started on Thurs/Fri after the Wed cable numbers were out, so it makes much more sense that it's a reaction to those than it is to somehow suddenly realizing the NFL regular season was starting.

Not that either of those choices as to why they reacted are good looks, just the NFL one makes them look even stupider because they should know when something that always takes like 10% of their ratings each fall is about to start since it's been happening for the entire existence of Raw.

[Love Buzz]

I heard the changes because of Dynamite argument but they got hammered by NFL so who's the competition, a show on a different day or one on at the same time? It comes off as too delusional and excuse beggy to give AEW cred for me. AEW are doing fine without needing to find things that point to WWE bricking it. I heard Alvarez argue it by shouting, failed to make a convincing argument and reinforced why I stopped listening to f4w. The changes could start whenever, genuine coincidences do happen believe it or not. Not every coincidence is sketchy. Their Rampage show is declining badly yet SD is holding and preferable viewing, although that Pat guy on comms was extra annoying last week for some reason. I hope he doesn't put me off for good. I'm already wondering if I should ditch Rampage. It's no different than Dynamite except for the comms team and that sports like pre-match interview. That's it. I was hoping for a bit better than that but everyone speculated would it be like Dark shows. They've established it can have news worthy stuff but I think it's better off viewed as YT content. I mean they put the entire Punk thing on YT pretty quick so they've already proved they'll put it on there.

[talltrekkie]

Earlier this week New Day vs The Bloodline looked like a good thing they could build up to for Survivor Series, it's happening on Monday. That'll really help quell the talk about hot-shotting stuff.

Just about a week away from Extreme Rules, with now 6 announced matches with a total of 0 stips at all, let alone an 'extreme' one. I'm surprised the newly added Liz/Carmella match isn't either in a cage or a lumberjack match, maybe it gets added on the go-home.

[talltrekkie]

So they stealth added an 'Extreme Rules' stip for the Reigns-Balor match, which one could miss if you weren't actually reading the screen since I don't think they mentioned it on-air during the two times the graphic was up. At least it got thrown on a match that makes sense, combining with it being the rematch and a Demon Balor. Still need to get off the PPvs named for random stips.

Also, new Women's tag champs in Rhea/Nikki, who had only beaten the former champs once before tonight. As opposed to Shotzi/Nox who have 3 different wins over Nattie/Tamina and never got a title shot. I'd say they have the worst 'booking luck' on the roster if not for Naomi who's getting storyline fined for calling out how she's not getting ANY match.

[talltrekkie]

How to tell you have go-away heat, Eva Marie edition: When an sadistic heel 'breaks' your arm/wrist on the ring steps and the crowd chants 'One more time' while you sit in pain.

Inferences from tonight's show: Big E-Drew gets hot-shotted for next weeks Raw, probably while Drew gets drafted to Smackdown. Crown Jewel gets a second 'marquee' match with Goldberg-Lashley, non-title aka Oldberg wins edition.

[Love Buzz]

Hot damn, the EST to Raw, that's her gone off of my weekly viewing. Is she there to "dominate" Raw while all the others on her level stay on Friday? SD Draft was a laughing stock after the first round, such an example being Naomi, who hasn't had a match in forever, got picked lol. I get it they have to save some big names for the Raw draft to make that "exciting" but that's not how it works. You pick the best first then the rest, everyone and their dogs know that. And conquistador Carmella definitely deserved the stupid chant, unfortunately I think that means Vince thinks it's over, so we'll have that cringe every week.