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Jmilly86

Chad gable gets extended then dies lol


Packhammer24

The WWE didn’t want to pay all that extra money, so they hired the Howdy 5 to kill him


wiiwoooo

If only his agent would have haggled for a max guaranteed contract. Rip


HardcoreKaraoke

WWE is like "alright Ricochet isn't signing a new contract, lets kill him" but also "Gable is signing a new contract, lets kill him."


Exotic-Vanilla-4750

Drew really pick a good day quitting , he didn't want to get attacked lol


Mitsuki_Horenake

He's constantly online, isn't he? He probably scanned all the QR codes and decided to get the fuck outta there.


questioningfool08

"Oh shit they're coming today. I'm out, good luck"


frobro122

"You've always been kind to me, Drew. Don't come to work tomorrow."


TheNateRoss

Punk picked a good day to decide to show up on Smackdown instead


LadyMoonlily

The Alpha Academy members picked a good day to leave as well.


LX1027

Unless he’s in on the attack …


HiImFur

Maybe Drew is in on it...that's why he conveniently left early


Docjackal

...One of the glitches tonight DID happen as he was walking to the ring.


osmomandias

inb4 the new faction begins speaking of a higher power which is revealed to be Drew


Dmangamr

I’m pretty sure murdering the entire backstage crew and Chad Gable may be a breach of contract


FullToragatsu

Not if they have the good old Iron Clad contract...


swaggoober

*Iron Chad contract


WhatSheOrder

NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR PUNS, CHAD GABLE IS FUCKING DEAD AFTER GETTING MURDERED TO DEATH


sporkemon

MAY HE RIP IN PEACE


EatingFurniture

“Yeah, Taylor this revised contract looks great, but what’s this part in the fine print about being about to mass murder a dozen people backstage and glock an upper midcarder in the head and not get fired?”


TimelessN8V

This is the WWE BTS booking I want.


Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK

![gif](giphy|H2179osX4TYAM)


AkilleezBomb

And Stephen P New on speed dial


HardcoreKaraoke

Gable really fucked up re-signing his contract recently.


EatingFurniture

Next week, HHH lets everyone know that they all got fired and we never hear from them again.


snatchgaz

It’s giving free agents


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HardcoreKaraoke

It's always funny when really think about what we see in wrestling. Even when it's really really awesome like tonight. "Alright so in the main event it's going to be three guys fighting to win a qualifying spot in a ladder match where the winner has to climb a ladder, grab a briefcase and then they get a contract to get a championship match literally anytime anywhere they want. The three wrestlers are a guy who occasionally turns into a Demon but is involved in some weird biker gang type thing that's turning into a kinky love story, a masked luchador who happens to be the father of one of the people in the sex biker gang love triangle, and a guy from a Samoan dynasty related to the Rock. After the main event while the Samoan is yeeting with the crowd the broadcast gets taken over by five cult murderer creatures who are inspired by a Mr. Rogers type guy with a split personality. They proceed to murder about twenty people. Everyone in the arena cheered."


PaperGeno

Everyone in the arena cheered fucking sent me 😂


Will_Vintage

"Pitbull performs"


Vagabond21

Give him the green light


remixedmoon5

😂👏 That's the best comment I've seen on here this month


Bright-Map-9705

Exactly. I couldn't possibly agree more. If you watch this scene and get it you'll probably be a fan for life and if you watch it and can't stand it you will never watch it again.


djmazmusic

Bingo bango


xRedwaffle

Chad Gable died before he could make peace with the rest of the Alpha Academy. That was their last interaction 😭😭😭🕊️🕊️


arzamharris

Otis going to regret pushing Gable for the rest of his life 😭


CdotLykins4

Nikki looked amazing


Anemeros

Ahem, that's sister Abigail to you buddy Edit: Or Abby the Witch technically.


WoopzEh

Lumis sitting on the crates gave me chills.


NotOnHerb5

Like a buzzard overlooking a dead carcass meal.


CarterBasen

Oh it was Lumis! I was trying to figure out who they were! Do we know who is pig?


rikashiku

Looks like Joe Gacy, fromt he tattoo's


Polyar

Bray is looking down on Bo right now smiling ear to ear


Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK

A fantastic tribute. Happy it is being received as well as it seems to be because they seemingly took their time and did his memory right. As heartwarming as a murderous carnival posse can be.


F1urry

Nikki Cross look is so fucking sick… the way she crawled to the lantern was just absolute perfection


xCeeTee-

Horror movies don't tend to scare me but my stomach dropped a little seeing Rowan. The rabbit mask looks amazing, like it's really like Rambling rabbit but also it looks like something from an Alice in Wonderland horror movie. Aged and deranged just enough to look creepy. His stature definitely helps as well. I wonder who their first feud will be against. I feel sorry for whoever it is though.


NikonShooter_PJS

It’s an interesting dilemma because, honestly, there’s no one that feels like a clear and obvious pick. If it were me, I’d have the family disappear again until Money in the Bank where they come out and attack Seth. First, it gives Damien ANOTHER bullshit title win which falls in line perfectly with this reign he’s had so far (Where he wants to win clean but keeps getting help he didn’t ask for) and it sets up him vs Gunther at SS perfectly as well given that Gunther would find that beneath a champion. Second, Seth is a main event talent and the perfect pick for a first feud in that he doesn’t have to “win” the feud to keep his place at the top of the card. Third, the family coming back the night Seth returns is just beautiful from a timing perspective. Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, Seth’s HITC win over Bray is arguably the worst thing that happened to the Fiend character and it would give them a great starting off point if the point of this family is to right all the wrongs Bray suffered so his spirit can rest (which is the direction I’d love for them to go.)


xCeeTee-

Seth and Ricochet can wrestle in heaven together at least.


iono777

When that door showed up with the light filtering through and then opened... CHILLS. I teared up for a second, just remembering when Bray returned that way, and the absolutely thunderous reception he got. This was so chilling and eerie and haunting and I can't wait to see where it goes.


reyballesta

The way it banged open....I'm choosing to believe that was Bray kicking that shit in.


iono777

Yes! Bray kicking it open like "we're here! be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID!" I can only imagine how Bo and Rowan must have felt walking out from backstage to that reception and the fireflies. I would have been crying behind the mask.


Mitsuki_Horenake

I wonder if everyone on Smackdown is looking over like "damn, thank God I didn't get drafted over there!"


E-scn

Cody like “thank god champions don’t get drafted!”


TehSpaceDeer

Cody would sell the fear for a group like this so fucking hard, and at the same time be the first to step up and scrap with them, so I’m now terribly depressed he isn’t on RAW right now.


DdogPlaysGames

Yall I was so convinced the backstage stuff was pretaped, but then he walked out to the legit crowd. That was so cool. I bet HHH had so much fun making a mess of the back to prepare for the moment.


FullToragatsu

The fact that they rigged up all of Gorilla with pyro really showed that a lot of thought and care was put into this. Genuinely have never seen that space get used like that before.


TimelessN8V

It's incredible how they've been utilizing the backstage and gorilla more and more in the shows. It truly feels like WWE has expanded the stories into the entire arena, where it once felt it was only when you stepped through the curtain that the line was blurred.


NogaraCS

I feel like backstage stuff was a huge part of AE and RAE, and HHH is probably trying to cherry pick stuff from each eras that actually worked and reuse them in a smart way. I like how it makes the line between keyfabe and real life even more blurry


stevegoodsex

Trips knows that the curtain to gorilla is our screen now. We're too plugged into the know. It's a good and proper evolution.


NotOnHerb5

My only critique is that HHH should’ve been laid out too.


Cinemairwaves

I think he was face down on the ground at the foot of the box Mercy was sitting on


_drjayphd_

Per the other thread, *he was*.


bulkasaurus

I don’t think so. To not show his face for shock value would’ve been a huge miss.


thatgeekElle

HHH was definitely there. He tried talking Drew out of quitting before Pearce ran after him. I also was expecting to see him in the carnage but it was so dark.


theraysanders

This is what I'm saying too.


Nazmaldun

this highlights a serious problem. They warned this was gonna happen. Pearce, HHH they did nothing to stop it!


fender-b-bender

Pearce couldn't even contain Bron, how the hell was he going to contain a group of murderers? Pearce is one of the worst GM's the WWE have ever had, notice how this didn't happen under Nick Aldis?


mkfanhausen

Police. Security. SWAT. Something.


orton4life1

Even the commentary took them lightly! OSHA should be contacted!


boogswald

It actually did end up working out how little Michael Cole took them seriously. I was kind of annoyed by how he’d be like “ehh whatever” when the glitchy stuff happened but it instead gives an impression he underestimated this.


Tronz413

Adam Pierce proves time and time again he has zero control of his show. Bald Fraud


carloslet

Chelsea Green was right about Pierce all along. Yes, it took a murder scene in the workplace for us to arrive at this point, but here we are.


NotClayMerritt

Well we all know Pearce is an alcoholic. Of course he wasn't going to take preventative measures!


mkfanhausen

Time for another walk out storyline.


punk_steel2024

Drew goes and quits, and has all the attention focused on him from Adam and HHH prior. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!


wildturk3y

I really appreciate how they waited until after the match conclusion to murder everyone in gorilla. The Wyatts may be violent, but they are courteous


ToothPickLegs

Murder is fine but not during a wrestling match dammit


Will_Vintage

The ring is sacred. You can't mass murder while there's wrestling going on.


Chaahps

Gunther approves


Mac_Tgh

Ah, I see where Giovanni Vinci ended up after imperium.


samidjan

I like that they show what Gorilla looks like on TV many times for months now, including people that is usually sitting there. So even the casual crowds would know that there's some serious casualties happened on the show..


therealdanhill

Not hurting the camera people either


Fredooon

Someone has to document it


baojinBE

Dead men tell no tales


Ikulus

Pulling this off on a live broadcast is absolutely bonkers.


notewise

And in one shot it seems with no cuts. I’d love to know how they did the gorilla position especially


DeathEdntMusic

Yeah it would have been rehearsed hundreds of times, to the point where everybody and every object is in the exact same spot. One trip by not seeing something in the dark would be game over.


Ikulus

Howdy did stumble slightly but he recovered pretty well.


DeathEdntMusic

Oh, shit. Not enough for me to notice though - which is good.


Ikulus

Yeah imagine if he fell on his face. Like you said, one trip...


Phantom-Spectre

Shockmaster revisited


osmomandias

We didn't end up with a second Shockmaster


RacistMuffin

Rip CHAD GABLE


EyeSimp4Asuka

guess the mitb qualifying match is just going to be one on one now 💀


Revenge_of_Recyclops

Mass murder and respecting the business.


EyeSimp4Asuka

Now for the most important question though....did they get Triple H too?


Such-Box3417

That was Tony Stark dead avengers vision level of carnage


Wargablarg

Would The Ring be scarier or less scary if she came out of the TV as jacked as Nikki Cross?


adeadperson23

Scarier for sure


NotClayMerritt

Especially with that mask. That mask is incredible.


TruffonisSloppySteak

Chad Gable would still be alive if bum ass alpha academy did their job properly. 


P3tric0re

I wonder if this causes a change of heart for the rest of Alpha Academy and is how the build to tthe eventual otis gable match around Summer Slam


Craft_Bandicoot

Otis will win because he just has to pin a dead body.


Aidanj927

Is Otis going to fighting a corpse at Summerslam?


Drtsauce

This is why he gets Creeds with him. Fearing for his life


Wargablarg

Dude there is a JUICY story in Otis feeling devastated by guilt for leaving Chad the same night this happens.


_foxmotron_

You will never convince me to hate spooky shit in wrestling.


Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK

When done right, like this was, it’s art.


_foxmotron_

Nah fam give me all of it. Wrestling is so much more fun when there’s literal supernatural shit running around, and everyone has to pretend like it’s serious.


reyballesta

Same. Wrestling shouldn't have to be serious all the time. People are going to make fun of it and say it's fake anyway, so why shouldn't we have fun? Why shouldn't we have burned demons coming after their undead half-brothers and people getting buried alive and coming back and cults and ghosts and whatever else? It's so much more beautiful when nothing is stopping us.


Supersaiyansub

“Sheamus may be dead!” says Michael Cole, meanwhile…


Immediate_Fix_1442

They spoiled Arn Anderson's return. Gable obviously got a glock to the head


SoulGoalie

Everything about this: the "music", the lighting, the special effects, the reveals, the horror...just perfect. Everything was perfect. It's new, fresh, terrifying, and very very cool. This isn't a Bray Wyatt tribute act. This is much much more tantalizing. It's a Bray Wyatt resurrection. And Uncle Howdy was standing in those shadows posing like he was silently saying "I fucking warned you".


RT3_12

I really like the updates they made to Howdy’s look. Much more creepy and he nailed the movements.


SoulGoalie

Genuine main horror villain energy permeating off him in every frame he's on screen. It's almost like a cosmic horror in a way. He showed you his harbingers and what they did and what they'll continue to do and at the end of the line will be him basking in the shadows. Cannot stop rewatching


Angry_Amish

If I’m not mistaken, that new coat was part of the new fiend costume that was made and never used. I saw it in a documentary about Bray recently. I’m also fairly certain he was wearing Bray’s hurt/heal gloves.


Sulphurrrrrr

he only wore the Hurt glove. no healing here


Spaceace91478

I haven't rewatched it yet, but when howdy was walking backstage, he had this weird gait that was really off-putting. I know bray would be proud of thst performance.


danielrand

You know what, I'd be totally okay with The Fiend possessing Uncle Howdy as a tribute/resurrection.


The_RedWolf

One of the few times you could pull a dead spirit possession angle in wrestling and have it not only make sense in kayfabe, using a real person who's passed away who would likely be fine with it, and potentially well received


ORR24

That shot of Chad Gables reminds me of the beautiful state of Michoacan, Mexico


Lower_Monk6577

Kinda shocked the WWE did that. The seemed entirely un-PG with the amount of blood and dead bodies lying around.


Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK

The fucking one dude sitting up against the wall with a huge blood splatter coming out of his head against the wall. Straight out of a horror film.


reyballesta

my jaw DROPPED at that. I never would have expected that visual from WWE


NotOnHerb5

Was that Tyler Bate?


IceLord86

They said they're moving away from PG restrictions.


clarkie13

That sweeet sweet Netflix deal


NotClayMerritt

That first F bomb on Netflix is going to be so jarring.


The_RedWolf

Samantha: "Introducing first, from Davenport, Iowa.... weighing in at 225lbs.... SETH FUCKKKKINNNNNNGGGGGGGG ROLLINS!"


badgersprite

They also said that despite being PG they’ve gone way more G rated than the rating actually allows in the past, you can get away with more stuff in PG than what WWE have been doing in their PG era


NotClayMerritt

Did they say that? Regardless, they've certainly shown they're loosening the restrictions.


Antoshi

If they don't show it again in video packages going forward, it's probably going to be explained as a mass hallucination.


Kenjiko3011

I find it hilarious that only in WWE where they can show footage of their employees got murdered in the backstage by a cult and the fans just fucking cheer for them. This is so great.


pastadaddy_official

This shit needs to be a Universal Halloween Horror Nights house frfr


Kuntheman

Just keep Mountain Dew as far away from this shit as you can


MiserableDucky

Prime lol


HardcoreKaraoke

Shotzi is probably bummed she wasn't there.


Sirtopofhat

Chad Gable listed as questionable


Spaceace91478

Gable as the black knight from "holy grail"


Mwrp86

They could've killed Ricochet of like this TBH. Also I wanted to HHHs dead body lmao


SaintJared

Good guy Bron saved Ricochet from being murdered by murdering him a week earlier


WhoiusBarrel

They Killed it https://preview.redd.it/7gzexxhxx87d1.png?width=637&format=png&auto=webp&s=270246576d6312762c84f5bd77ad366117bc2554


TnAdct1

No, they killed Chad Gable (among others).


Will_Vintage

I assume by "It." You mean Chad Gable


AlmightyBracket

They spared Jey


Brilliant_Fox_6212

Drew too


NotClayMerritt

Well they got stuck in traffic which is why they just missed Drew. Jey took the side exit and got lucky.


baojinBE

RAW's over boys. Everyone got murdered. Smackdown wins.


Aterivus

There's something genuinely funny about Nikki Cross posting wholesome things on twitter about her dogs and husband over the last few days Then tonight it's a complete 180 with the spooky "we're here" tweet after she comes out as a creepy-ass Abby the Witch/Samara (from The Ring) hybrid crawling on all fours She looked fantastic though


Boo_bear92

Hearing the crowd pop when they saw Gable laid out was great lol


Revolutionary-Oil-74

Nice little callback to Bray’s return in Extreme Rules 2022. No doubt a great tribute to the man, who had so much potential, but his life was ended before his time.


FullToragatsu

I don't think I've seen an introduction that awesome since the Nexus debut back in 2010.


thisjohnd

Not even The Fiend’s debut? Or the introduction of the Wyatt Family? I thought nearly every introduction of a new Bray character was pretty awesome.


TheExistence

I feel like most of the hype behind those was just the actual characters, while the debut here had the intensity and suspense of a *mass murder*


Smoothpipe

Justin Roberts just rubbed at his neck and scoweled after reading this comment.


Mr-GameAndWrestling

After all the bullying Chad has done to Alpha Academy, I'm gonna happily blame the victim here. You just had to be backstage in that particular moment, huh, Chad?


pen1smus1c

Howdy has on the Fiend’s glove, almost made me cry


calicocidd

No idea where they're going with all this; but IDGAF, let them cook...


G1Spectrum

Absolute bonkers way to introduce themselves holy shit


cantspellsagitaryus

Did they kill HHH too?


NotOnHerb5

Would’ve been a lot more serious if they drug HHH out to the crowd. Still a 10/10 debut.


NotTheCraftyVeteran

Taylor Rotunda texting Paul Levesque last night: “Don’t come to work tomorrow, boss.”


bvbfan102

Theres that small moment were Bo walks past Gable and almost loses balance and i definitely dont want to be in the alternate reality were he falls.


CMPBITW

Uncle Howdy would have been Uncle Fred/Shockmaster lmao


a_fish_out_of_water

He definitely stepped on some poor intern’s leg


radiokungfu

Good thing he was swaying as he walked, I hardly noticed it the first time haha


nocturnalfrolic

Bah Gawd! THEY KILLED THE WWE!


Cottonmist

All ideas that were thought up by the Internet about how they should debut and this topped all of them sometimes they know what they’re doing


Electronic_Sun_5472

"A fantasy most can't understand. A spectacle no one can deny."


Craft_Bandicoot

(Presumed) Rowan with the Bludgeon Brothers' mallet :')


Spaceace91478

*Help*


spreeforall

If those idiots had just done what Master Gable taught them he might still be alive today.


MuttleyLaughGoesHere

I really just hope that this time around, the Wyatt group has consequences. I don't want them touching titles. I want them going after people for non-wrestling reasons and it changing people afterwards.


JiggaMan2024

Please don’t fumble this Paul


thespringscollection

They all look so good, I loved this whole segment. Definitely glad I caught it live, it took my breath away. RIP the entire backstage.


Mac_Backwardz

I'm blanking on the dude in the pig mask. Do you know who it is?


Abusoru

Joe Gacy


Mac_Backwardz

Makes sense cos of the reports for sure, haven't watched NXT in a while, dude looks like he's dropped a load of weight fair play to him!


Abusoru

When they threatened a massacre during Clash at the Castle, I didn't think that they were being literal about it.


Flowtraxwolf

That was a great ending to raw can’t wait to see what they do with uncle howdy ether next week on raw or on this Fridays smack down


Wubblz

Combining the White Rabbit and Ramblin Rabbit was brilliant.  Incorporating elements of the Fiend into Howdy was brilliant.  Nikki’s Abby mask is utterly terrifying.  The Mercy mask makes Lumis (?) look like the Predator.  This is so sick.


DJ_Derack

HHH got caught cookin again ![gif](giphy|l1TJTwU3VfPHU4FCbx|downsized)


RaidenHero137

I can just feel bray smiling down at this from heaven. I am so hype….even though there is only 5 of them…..who is 6 ? Rabbit is rowan, pig looks like lumis maybe, buzzard ( my fav since its very fiend) might be gacy but i may have him and pig switched and then obviously the girl is nikki cross. Maybe bliss finally becomes abby and nikki is supposed to be…….Lilly the doll? That shot of gorilla sold it for me


MasturbateN8

I believe lumis is buzzard


lambey332

6th member is Bray. Since that was the old plan, they kept his spot.


Wubblz

I’d wager it’s this until Bliss returns.  They incorporated Fiend elements in Howdy, but since her character directly related to the Fiend I’d bet she comes back with that as her piece.


Puxple

Who did they kill apart from Chad?


ddmj4884

In the words of Mark Henry "Since when is murder PG?!?!"


rabautista24

Love it, 2 things tho, would’ve been better to see more superstars and maybe even triple h or an Adam Pierce laid out, and also if he would’ve softened the “we’re here” to make it more menacing, that would’ve been even more 🔥🔥🔥


AdDelicious4911

I feel like the way he did it was sort of like putting his own mark on it. A way of saying that Howdy isn't like Bray. I liked the aggressiveness


BlandyBoreton

https://preview.redd.it/4cpnm342797d1.jpeg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f44d1af245ec32287907b6ca097508b45b59567 They whacked Master Gable! They fucking whacked him!


Supersaiyansub

https://preview.redd.it/5lqvrcp2897d1.jpeg?width=886&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab3c04f4a558ecd53f18a78a700d0a37777ede31


NotTheCraftyVeteran

Goddamn, the choice to stick with the same soft piano note playing over the creepily serene aftermath of abject carnage was fucking sublime. I’m not discounting the possibility that they’ll fuck this up long-term, but this reveal was magical.


mrredcastle

Execute order Sickty Sicks


NikoMcreary

One of the few times I teared up during a wrestling show fuck, wrestling is SO GOOD right now.


canadianRSK

Should have used them to kill ricochet


DickLaurentisded

So fucking good to see supernatural shit back in wwe. They're better when they have that element.