A Wrestling Unicorn Smackdown began this week on what I assumed would have been the closing segment in the contract signing between Shane McMahon and AJ Styles for their WrestleMania match. Shane began the conversation by explaining how Smackdown LIVE was built on opportunity and AJ Styles was the man who took the biggest advantage […]
A Squandered Story Raw began with confidence in it’s women as Bayley opened the show and immediately connected with the audience by connecting her upcoming appearance at WrestleMania to her experience as a child compiling money from her friends to buy ‘Mania on PPV. Bayley was comfortable on the mic and came across not as […]
The Phenomenally Sympathetic Heel Smackdown opened this week with a fantastic video package recapping AJ Styles loss to Randy Orton last week and his subsequent confrontation with Shane O’Mac over the result which was covered in last week’s Talking Smack (a show which is almost necessary viewing at this point). The editing and aesthetic of […]
Snoozeplex City Raw began this week with a video packaging recapping Lesnar’s attack on Goldberg last week that allowed him to get his heat back and featured some great time remapping and color adjustments which satisfied the video nerd in me. This transitioned smoothly into Lesnar himself entering the arena with his ever-present advocate, Paul […]
The Miz: Alternate Universe John Cena? Smackdown’s first in-ring segment (I wasn’t going to cover the cold open as a proper first segment), saw The Miz and Maryse “interview” John Cena on Miz TV. I put interview in quotes as it was more or less a platform for The Miz to shoot on Cena […]
My posts on this blog have been long…and time consuming. As much as I love talking about wrestling, I feel my current method for covering both Raw and Smackdown is just too much given how much else I have to do this semester. From now on I will be solely focusing on the opening, closing, […]
The End of the Glow Era Smackdown opened this week on a depressing note as Naomi was forced to relinquish her title at the request of Daniel Bryan. This was made even more depressing given Bryan’s history of injuries stopping him short. The promo delivered by Naomi in light of this situation was both passionate […]
The Era of Wyatt Begins Smackdown begun in strong fashion by having Bray Wyatt come out and deliver a promo that seemed as though it had been on his lips for ages. Wyatt completely owned this moment in every possible way: he was decked out in a new maroon jacket and his classic fedora in […]
What a Difference a Year Can Make Raw regrettably kicked off with the Commissioner, Stephanie McMahon, entering the ring to kick off the show where she began to run down Mick Foley (again) and further make her more hated without an inevitable comeuppance to look forward to as per usual. Roman Reigns then interrupted her […]
A Hot Crowd Makes For A Hot Segment Smackdown kicked off this week with Daniel Bryan returning to the same arena he announced his retirement in almost a year ago and delivering an emotional promo before being interrupted by The Miz. It is still amazing how Bryan is probably the most over guy in the […]
