Come hang out with us today as we chat wrestling, sports, pop culture… and of course PTBN GWWE. And then tonight we will chat during SmackDown Live as well!
Also, be sure to check out Brian’s recap of last night’s Raw!
And the brand new episode of the Place to Be Podcast looking at the 10/20/86 WWF Madison Square Garden House Show!
If WWE could create megastars as well as they kill babyfaces dead we’d be in another boom period.
It is amazing the talent at their fingertips and how they have wasted so, so much of it.
All the more maddening that they have literally hundreds of hours of footage of great babyfaces but refuse to learn from their own history.
There could be a book written on how they kill hot babyfaces for seemingly no reason. It is almost a trope at this point. I am trying to think of the first hot babyface they killed for the fun of it. RVD comes to mind but was there someone before him?
You could argue Bret Hart in 1993.
Nash in 95 maybe?
I hope this thread is about Sasha and nobody is pretending that Roman Reigns is a “hot babyface”.
Well, he was for six or eight months in 2014.
(But also Sasha. And Bayley! And and and…)
I think the promo he cut at that year’s survivor series followed by his unwanted pop in at the December NXT Takeover were the beginning of the end.
A new “For Your Consideration” drops tonight – and we have another great written piece from Stacey on the site today as well.
GWWE continues to be a fountain of great content.
I just read Stacey’s article on Layla. Very well done. I don’t know that anyone could have made a better case for Layla.
Thanks mate, much appreciated.
Watching the whole run from 1985 through late 1986 so far, the Heenan vs. Hogan feud cresting with Andre finally turning was really well done. Hogan beating everyone Heenan tries to throw at him until Bobby finally does the unthinkable is a great angle. And I loved Glenn’s old point of Hogan beating on Bobby in the cage at WM2 started this whole grudge and hatred that led to Hogan getting turned on by two close friends.
Bobby is brilliant on the PTW’s leading up to the Andre turn.
Would def recommend the HTFB Marvel Netflix episode show. I’m close to jumping in to those as an appetizer to the Defenders release.
Thanks, Brad!
Can’t stop thinking about John Cena’s promo last night. I’ve always been a Cena guy but when he gets fired up and throws some fire with some snarky comments in his promos it’s great.
As good as it gets with a worked-shoot.
Indeed
“I’m still here because you can’t do your job.” Such a great line.
Reigns’ “you’re nothing but a fake bitch.” Line made me laugh but not in a good way. It wasn’t a “that was awesome” laugh.
I’m curious what they want the outcome to be here. Reigns goes full heel? Reigns wins the match and Cena’s respect and still gets booed? (status quo – this is my guess).
Like what’s the motivation for Cena eviscerating Reigns on the mic? With Punk it was to make Punk a superstar (and it worked).
I think you’re right in that they think Cena losing to Roman at the PPV will put him over in the end. I truly think they’re that dumb.
The list of people they’ve used to try to get Roman over as a mega babyface is fantastic:
The Rock
Daniel Bryan
Vince McMahon
Triple H
Undertaker
John Cena
In fairness it worked with Vince, until they undercut it within like two weeks.
Yes it did for a bit, but HHH buried him with the Rumble angle
Yeah status quo. Cena will probably put him over to start the march to New Orleans for Reigns and then give him the verbal BJ the next night.
I’d like to see Reigns go heel for a bit. You can just see glimpses of it in there with him.
The women on Smackdown are booked so much better than on Raw. They all look like geeks on Raw.
On Smackdown, they have Becky, Charlotte, Nattie, and Naomi as solid workers that fans believe can always win a match. And then the terrible women wrestlers they just have super gimmicky to keep them entertaining.
It’s a good point Mikey. Also not surprising given that SD overall has been better booked ever since the split. They just are better at maximizing the talent they are provided.
Yeah I can’t argue there. The SD Women have been booked better overall than the Raw Women. And I say that as a huge Sasha Banks fan plus Alexa has been really good since her call up.
Eh, I think their booking of Becky has been very poor. But overall I agree with your point.
Sounds like Xavier Woods hurt his knee at a house show.
You know what would be the biggest troll? If they actually did a Southpaw card and the main event was Roman Reigns beating John Johnson for the SRW Heavyweight title.
Kinda hope they do an actual Southpaw card on the Network.
That would be fun.
Unfortunately, Pelvis Wesley received only a tepid response last night.
Jets shopping Matt Forte
Solid tag match for tonight’s SD main event.
Us open challenge any guesses on who gets a shot?
Dolph
That would work since it’s seems like everyone else has something going on tonight
Always liked Benjamin glad he’s back
Me too, was sad when he hurt his shoulder last year. Glad he got healthy and came back.
Wouldn’t have minded a longer Dillinger styles match oh well.
Rusev is the best.
Hey Mike Bennett!
Give Roode the WWE title. Right. Now.
Battle of the best theme songs .
I love that they are pushing Roode as a face.
Wonder who his first feud will be with
Maybe Ziggler?
Ziggler needs something to do, maybe just say he’s frustrated with these guys coming up from nxt and getting chances that he can’t get after busting his ass for years. Even though it’s not really true just something they could go with.
Fun squash
Don’t really care for Owens vs Shane but I liked Owens there
S7, E1 Shameless… cameo by John Morrison!
And the shitty booking of WWE babyfaces continues
Has anyone seen the thing about fans fat shaming Piper Niven from the Mae Young Classic?
The people shaming her are probably marks for Wyatt and KO.
Pretty disgusting if you ask me.
Haven’t seen it. Don’t plan on it.
What’s that?
What people have to say about her. Easy to scroll pass stuff like that.
I haven’t seen the comments either and don’t want to. Just heard about it.
205 Live was not good tonight.
Didn’t watch yet… not worth going back?
Nothing to rush to see. It was pretty pedestrian.
Started up the MYC before bed. The in-ring work is good. JR and Lita are not.
Ive enjoyed the first two episodes. Looking forward to 3 & 4.
WWE needs to sign and push the shit out of Shayna Baszler.
She’s incredible.
Tomorrow in the Wednesday Walk: Lisa Frank’s Baphomet, a potato monument, divorce parties, non-melting popsicles, breakdancing in 1894, the best reason to disown your child, the World Taxidermy Championships, the worst prose of the year, an imaginary business partner, the worst use of contact lenses, and a rhino merrily strolling by.