Stephanie McMahon's split personalities are way more reprehensible and destructive than Kane's. They should "raise awareness" for a cure for her.
Congrats 2 Roman Reigns for his promotion to co-emcee of Brand Strengthening Ceremonies. World champion, top babyface, new franchise face of the company, all still 10 months behind schedule, but 1 Achievement Unlocked. As with everything else he does, shoulda been Lesnar or Ambrose.
I was really hoping the Cena Invitational would lead to someone, anyone getting a rub from it. It hasn't. I am glad he is leaving, but I doubt he is going to down clean. I was hoping Paige turning heel would lead to some wins, I guess not. The Bellas moving on to Team Bad is a good move, because Sasha will just bury them on twitter if nothing else.
Every time Steph is on TV or in an arena, people need to channel their best John Goodman from Big Lebowski and shout "Shut the fuck up, Stephie!" Between the Authority and Cena, New Day is swinging towards the CM Punk level of being red hot then dead in the water three months later.
Hunter/Stephanie flip-flopping is ruining things for me. Two weeks ago, Stephanie loved New Day and was dancing in the ring with them. Last night, she's playing upset principal.
If you need to be happy smiley brand ambassador, do it, but appoint someone else who can be GM and stay on one side or the other.
I had fears of Cena overcoming the odds and beating each member of New Day. Two down, one to go.
Congrats to Sasha for returning from SmackDown purgatory.
About the most fun I had with this show was watching CM Punk tweet about how Komen is a ripoff, and then watching the arguments that followed.
Even Brock throwing around Big Show again wasn't exciting. At least throw somebody else in there. Let Heath Slater get thrown around.
I really really hope we're not getting a Triple Threat for the US belt at HITC (Cena/Big E/Ziggler). That gives the WWE a way to take the belt off Cena without him getting pinned which spikes the whole point of the open challenge.
Even if three belts would make New Day the Midcard Wolfpack.
"To be the man, you gotta beat demands." -- The Lovely Mrs. Tracker
I am simply tickled by how organic the Diva's Revolution has been, as well as how organically that organicness was repeatedly mentioned. No one entity is responsible for it, it just grew, organically, out of nothing.
CM Punk is right, and this isn't the first time he has made that point. People should always research the charities they donate to before making donations and patting themselves on the back for making a difference. Any money used for research is better than no money, but there are much better options than Komen.
I'm still waiting for Flight of the Valkyries to answer the Open Challenge. Ideally it would be Cult of Personality. Realistically, it's Sheamus.
New Day just main evented Raw and left 4 superstars, including Cena, in a heap to close the show. I can't complain about anything that happened there.
Originally posted by StefonicsNew Day just main evented Raw and left 4 superstars, including Cena, in a heap to close the show. I can't complain about anything that happened there.
I was legitimately surprised (for the first time in ages?) when the New Day dragged out a beaten-down Ziggler, since they've never been vicious heels at all. I guess it does prove Cena's challenge to take things more seriously...then again, minutes later Xavier & Kofi were quoting Mr. Owl from the Tootsie Roll Pop commercials..
Originally posted by JustinShapiroStephanie McMahon's split personalities are way more reprehensible and destructive than Kane's. They should "raise awareness" for a cure for her.
Yep. Comes out and soaks up all the cheap pop stuff that literally any other person working for the company could have used more, then goes backstage and makes the New Day look like losers, which I guess she thinks was also a face move, but then why dance with them last month?
All things to all people at all times, that's what Successful Businesswoman and Corporate Lioness Stephanie McMahon must be. The greatest lie going in wrestling today must be that rumor that USA demanded more Authority screen presence. Some investigative wrestling journalist needs to blow that one up.
Originally posted by andy1278Hunter/Stephanie flip-flopping is ruining things for me. Two weeks ago, Stephanie loved New Day and was dancing in the ring with them. Last night, she's playing upset principal.
Got so bad that Xavier Woods, TV character, had to acquire self-awareness and break the 4th wall, literally saying "I thought she liked us?"
Originally posted by andy1278 At least throw somebody else in there. Let Heath Slater get thrown around.
Slater winning the US Open Challenge is the best possible outcome of all this. Just like Slater should have been the one to end Rusev's streak that night he came out and was weirdly over as the One Man American Band, he should soundly destroy Cena so badly at Hell In A Cell that Cena quits the next night, and Slater should then cash in the US title for a spot in the Rumble - even though he's repeatedly told that he doesn't have to cash it in to get a spot - and then win it, eliminating a returning John Cena at spot #30. Cena should then get to fulfill his dream of competing in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal at Wrestelmania.
Probably, though, Slater just gets 3D'ed through a table somehow as the payoff to all of this.
Originally posted by JustinShapiroCongrats 2 Roman Reigns for his promotion to co-emcee of Brand Strengthening Ceremonies. World champion, top babyface, new franchise face of the company, all still 10 months behind schedule, but 1 Achievement Unlocked. As with everything else he does, shoulda been Lesnar or Ambrose.
Should have let Heyman cut a go-home promo on cancer. That's where the money is, bab-eh.
Roman vs. Cena at Wrestlemania in an ironman match where each gets spotted a fall for every sick person they helped this year. Match starts at 300-298 with Roman playing catch up.
Originally posted by JustinShapiroStephanie McMahon's split personalities are way more reprehensible and destructive than Kane's. They should "raise awareness" for a cure for her.
I think they want us to believe that the Authority are neutral at this point, but they don't get that doing face stuff sometimes and heel stuff other times isn't the same, it just makes your character look confused. They really have no idea how to do the thing they want to do right now.
Originally posted by JustinShapiroCongrats 2 Roman Reigns for his promotion to co-emcee of Brand Strengthening Ceremonies. World champion, top babyface, new franchise face of the company, all still 10 months behind schedule, but 1 Achievement Unlocked. As with everything else he does, shoulda been Lesnar or Ambrose.
The thing about this is, as with everything else when they've done it right, Reigns is proving that he can be the guy they want him to be. This isn't a case of trying to shove a square peg into a round hole, which, as good as they are at other stuff, is exactly what you'd have with somebody like Ambrose on top. Reigns can be the guy in the Rock/Cena mold. It's just that they hang him out there to dry so, so many times, and it's become clear that even when they manage to do the right thing with him (like this Wyatt angle, where he's a cool, likeable guy with a bunch of friends that stick with him, not a bad-ass lone wolf, which he has never been), they still don't actually know why it's working.
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Oh my God, I switched to this show on and off between other channels and I don't think I EVER saw people WRESTLING IN A MATCH until the final segment. WHAT THE HELL.