Wrestling thread

Jey Uso is the new Intercontinental champion.

I was very disappointed during the McMahon docuseries to hear Steve Austin say he doesn’t believe in CTE. And in relation to Chris Benoit, no less. Absolutely ignorant.

Bryan Danielson Vs Nigel McGuinness was an absolutely awesome match. Incredible stuff.

MVP is in AEW!

Luchasaurus/Killswitch has been hospitalised with pneumonia in both lungs

oh jesus! Wishing for a speedy recovery!

Ilja Dragunov is out for 6-9 months injury and will be out for the rest of 2025 means he will be unable to enter the Rumble and miss Wrestlemaina such a shame.

Gotta be honest CW NXT wasn’t a good start open was good ending ruined poor Giulia got screwed Jade Cargill and Bianca meh main event was too predictable and finally new logo fine and theme song mid come on Shawn Michaels get back to rock music I’m sick of rap music what’s RAW getting Mid Spice.

Bobby Lashley has signed with AEW and should be making his debut soon

AEW is with WBD which also adds PPV to their streaming service Max and don’t reminds me of them removing Cartoon Network shows Gumball SU Regular Show and Ben 10 leaving only AT and Teen Titans Go remaining

AJ Styles apparently legit injured himself tonight on his return match

Man that’s rough

CM Punk Vs Drew McIntyre hell in a cell match was awesome. One of the best matches of the year.

Probably the best hell in a cell match since Triple H and Undertaker at WrestleMania 28.

Drew should have won

That bump on the lower back on the stairs looked gnarly af.

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
I mean, I assume we’re setting up Punk Vs Gunther for the Rumble. McIntyre will probably go to Smackdown after this.

One thing’s for sure, the blood added a lot to that match.

@Holofan4life
I wanted Punk to lose becuase Drew finally got back into the main event scenes abd I feel like it’s gonna be a while again before he gets back to it

And also becuase I just genuinely don’t like CM Pun

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
That’s fair

Triple H just announced that at Crown Jewel, the Raw men’s and women’s world champions will face the Smackdown men’s and women’s champions. None of the titles will be on the line, but the winners will be awarded belts and considered the Crown Jewel champion of 2024.

This feels like a gigantic waste of time.

Based off on how that segment ended, it looks like Gunther is dropping the title Monday to Sami Zayn all so we can set up Gunther Vs Goldberg at Crown Jewel. I really hope that doesn’t happen not just because Gunther Vs Goldberg as a match doesn’t interest me, but I don’t think now’s the time for Sami Zayn to be winning the world title. He should not win his first WWE world championship on a Raw, it should be reserved for a Premium Live Event.

Coupled with the belt stuff at Crown Jewel and the world champions fighting each other, I don’t like any of this. This is something it feels like Vince would do.

Even if you remove the context of this taking place in Saudi Arabia, the idea of a brand supremacy belt you only defend once every November is stupid. At least with the Dynamite Diamond Ring, you can use it to help you win matches.

Thank goodness for the hell in a cell match, because otherwise this Premium Live Event has been a bust. Easily the weakest one WWE has put on all year. Hopefully the main event delivers.

Jimmy Uso is back!

IT’S THE MOTHERFUCKING ROCK

I thought Raw this week was a good show. Not a great show, and definitely the weakest it’s been in a while. The CM Punk promo was good, I like seeing Jey Uso successfully defend his title at least once, and it being against Xavier Woods furthers The New Day stuff, Sheamus VS Pete Dunne was an awesome match, and Gunther VS Sami Zayn was a fantastic main event. I definitely thought Sami was going to win in the end. It’s hard for me to complain about a show with two at least 3.5 star matches that were both like 15 minutes each. Nearly half the show’s runtime were those two matches.

I will say that if the last few months have proven anything, it’s that Triple H knows how to book a three hour show better than a two hour show. Raw most weeks has been better than Smackdown, and that I contribute to letting things breathe more. It’s funny because for the longest time, I like so many other people were clamoring for Raw to go back to two hours. And now, it’s almost like two hours is not enough. And yeah, prime NXT used to be one hour but that was with a limited roster. I actually think you could make the argument that Shawn Michaels does better two hour shows than Triple H does.

One last thing I have observed over the last 72 hours is that it feels like Triple H is very tapped into hip hop culture. He has his finger on the pulse much like how Vince McMahon did in the ‘80s and ‘90s. It’s smart because what genre of music references wrestling more than hip hop and rap? Why wouldn’t want to tap into that to try and bring eyeballs on your product? You’d be a fool not to.