What was the rationale? Didn't watch Smackdown yet
What was the rationale? Didn't watch Smackdown yet
If you're asking about the Universal title match, it was seriously just that clip I linked. No talk about it earlier in the show, nor any explanation after. There was a recap of Elias/Corbin from a week or so ago, the graphic for that, then the graphic for the Universal match, and then on to the next segment as if there was nothing to see there. If you weren't paying attention, you could have missed it.
Sorry I missed that.
That's dumb as fuck lol
To be fair they never bothered to come up with a storyline to explain Roman getting the shot either. Drew had to win the rumble for his, same with Charlotte. Shayna had to win the chamber. Roman just had to walk out to the ring.
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Reigns had just won the biggest feud of the SD on Fox era. I have zero problem with him seizing an opportunity like that. Braun is a dumbass, who was doing nothing but sitting at home generating bad press. Whether one or neither of them "deserve" the title shot isn't even the point. Braun is not a good choice because he sucks and there are other people who are either doing nothing or could be shuffled around. The issue is that after weeks of still promoting Goldberg/Reigns despite knowing it wasn't happening, they've now switched it on the eve of the show as if it was nothing without even so much as a real acknowledgment, let alone an explanation.
Better to just watch the segment than me explain it
https://streamable.com/o2rdbw
Edit: FFFFUUU VIL
Because 16 matches weren't enough. 2 new ones for pre-show:
Cesaro vs. Gulak
Liv Morgan vs. Natalya
The preshow starts at 6 right?
Reportedly AEW has pretaped “several weeks, if not months” of in-ring action and vignettes to keep the show going if corona gets much worse. This was all done in the last week on closed sets. Wow.
I never knew I needed Chris Jericho and a drone feuding with one another in my life.
My friend who idolizes Roman Reigns since day 1 is coming over. We haven't talked anything wrestling in ages it feels like. He like, tonight Mania so we gotta watch!! Real question, do any of the matches tonight actually matter? Like, have their been real programs outside of 50/50 booking and this is their XX match and finally it's the blowoff and we don't even know why they were feuding in the first place?
The only ones that are thrown together are um...
Lashley/Aleister
Liv/Natalya?
Raw tag division has no teams so that they are just putting NXT guys there
Universal title
There are dubious "feuds":
Styles fighting a 60 year old man because I think AJ's feuding with Michelle McCool?
Bayley being punished by Paige, so the latter announces that random women are all thrown in an elimination match
Rob Gronkowski special: Elias vs. Corbin
The other 20 matches all have legitimate builds and/or feuds. Anyway, here we go! Let's get this trainwreck started. (Pre-show time)
I’m supposed to be in Tampa right now super drunk.
Wtf? Triple threat 1v1v1 ladder match for the tag titles? Guessing that decision was made because too much personnel otherwise?
Miz had symptoms
This Miz and Morrison music video slaps lol.