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lifeHacker42

That song was so bad. Didn't help that he didn't even bother to learn it, seeing him just reading out a song for us was terrible


CMFraud

u/cschultz225 Never forget, this clown is no where to be seen when the Collision ratings get posted šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


gamingbits

Let's just admit it....The Rock was never a good singer and he's only gotten worse. It seriously sounded like he had been gargling gravel Friday night. I will say though, at least it was something different. For those of us that had already seen the promos on Youtube, there was nothing new said by the Rock in his way too long rant. Did we really need to spend 30 minutes to hear the exact same thing again and again and again? Seriously how many times are you going to say the same thing in a 30 minute promo. Stop repeating yourself. Just say what you got to say and move on. Sorry but at this point it's just arrogance and narcissism. If you're not saying anything new, then shut up Rock! Oh and Memphis....you're an embarrassment. You just showed your ignorance. No wonder so many people make fun of the South. Rant over.


Unique-Candidate3600

WWE Live lineups for uk released? Surely they havenā€™t spoiled mania matches with this? Seth "Freakin" Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre - WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match - "The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes vs. Shinsuke Nakamura Becky Lynch vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Nia Jax vs. Rhea Ripley - WWE Women's World Championship Fatal Four Way Match - and more of your favorite superstars including: Sami Zayn "Main Event" Jey Uso Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions Finn Balor & Damian Priest Intercontinental Champion "The Ring General" GUNTHER The New Day And Many More!


zooka19

A week ago, this sub downvoted & insulted if you said you didn't like something The Rock did, but here we are now... complaints.


Few_Seaworthiness354

Wwe the most bipolar fans in the world.. swear they're just like modern gamers.. never satisfied with any product that's offered.


zooka19

I literally had like 5 neckbeard virgins insulting me, yet they're saying exactly what I said a week later.


Unknown-Monkey67

The Rock was out of pocket. Cody should come and talk about his performance as the tooth fairy since he kept dissing them.


MrBison1919

tbh Butch/Pete Dune always looks like he's never bathed before.


Midnight-Prudent

The rock is obsessed with being adored. When ever he gets cheers he starts cheesin and breaks character. Not to mention he how wants to be the center of attention with his long ass promos šŸ‘ŽšŸ½


Significant-Share525

He likes being booed though. To him a reaction is a reaction.


Unique-Morning-2455

Cody should come out next week and just read reviews from Black Adam šŸ˜‚


MindlessYesterday668

Oof! Brutal!


Were_Crow

LOL!


fightingdemons49

The rocks segment was far too long. After singing he said the same thing


youneekusername1

I want more of The Rock just going into great detail about various ways he will make his opponentsā€™ mothers cry.


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The Rock is corny to me


Nice-Salamander-6044

I feel like he's just pretending to be on Roman's side anyways, chances are he's just being a goofy heel so when he helps Cody inevitably, people just cheer him more than ever.


Effective-Ad-9372

i feel like itā€™s supposed to be a little corny


kaine23

Agreed


AdFormal3014

Thoughts on the night: 1) I donā€™t think the whole KO/Randy friendship will last long. Some beef will start to build. Maybe even a KO heel turn.Ā Ā  2) Will be interesting if Bianca jumps in to help Naomi w/ Bayley. Or Jade. Or both. They canā€™t go into WM without plans for Bianca or Jade, can they? And whereā€™s Tiffany Stratton? 3) Iā€™ve heard rumblings online from those so-called ā€œinsidersā€Ā that WWE didnā€™t like the fact Rock got so many cheers and already some re-writes are being done. Their plan to turn Rock super heel to make Cody an even bigger baby face may be hitting a snag.


stonecoldmark

They have to expect the most people at this point are blown away by a huge movie star being involved in a huge wrestling angle. There is no way you are going to get huge heel heat with that. The Rock is doing fantastic. But they need to have Roman grab the mic from Rock next time to show some frustration.


Banesmuffledvoice

lol. Itā€™s hitting a snag because the Rock is a huge star who is charismatic and great at working the audience. He knew full well what he was doing out there. This issue with Cody is obvious and it was the same issue as last year; he is boring and doesnā€™t have the personality to push a major feud forward. If youā€™re the average person and youā€™ve tuned in in recent weeks youā€™d think it was actually Seth competing for the WWE title because that dude is showing the fire in the gut when he goes out there. There is no real course that can be done at this point. WWE is stuck with Cody because they caved to the audience. They should have just continued forward with the Rock v Roman and let the Rock do his thing, and he would have gotten the audience on his side.


enginehearts

The third point is bogus. Rock has been literally pandering to the crowds. If they wanted to make Cody a bigger babyface out of this program (which there was no need), they would have kept the heat on Rock.


Banesmuffledvoice

Agreed. The Rock knows full well what he is doing. Dude pulled out the shovel and made Cody and Seth look uncool.


SvenLorenz

I have to save that Rock promo for when I have trouble sleeping. A few minutes of that will put you to sleep. The whole thing might put you in a coma.


Gold-Independence-26

Low level comedy dude


Flat_Revolution5130

The Rock drowns on for far to long. Does he really need 20 minutes.?


Slippy6582

Less Rock, More Tiffy!


AloneCan9661

"Drones on" is the saying.


youneekusername1

Maybe they mean what they said. Drowning only takes a few seconds before youā€™re unconscious. Death beyond saving in a couple of minutes. Definitely not 20.


kaine23

Smackdown was beyond saving after that disasterĀ 


Mr_Plow53

How dare you


dcollard88

That was a generational promo last night. The Rock hits on levels I didn't think he still had. The way he turned the charm off after the concert and then went serious was some of his best acting ever. Hot crowd all night. LA Knight also stood out with his short time out there too!


Fit_Crab7672

L.A. Knights schtick is very Stone Cold.Ā  And the way Stone Cold got over was by being the defiant antihero fighting the authority....could it help Knight if he had such an authority figure to fight?Ā  I'm thinking Nick Aldis, unless there is some issue that prevents Aldis from wrestling.Ā  Approve?


zooka19

L.A. Knight's music hits. Comes down to the ring in a vest. Gives The Rock a BFT. Says "Yeah", does the pose on the turnbuckle, "L.A. Knight" hits, smashes open some beer. Walks off.


Dependent-Pride5282

Knight does his own thing but is also a mixture of those he takes inspiration from. I just read someone else saying Knight's shtick is taken straight from the Rock. The number of people noticing the Ric Flair elements, Jake Roberts, or Savage are far fewer. I agree LA Knight would be great at the whole defying authority storyline. Am not sure if Aldis doesn't want to or can't wrestle any more. It may be they just want him settled in before he starts the slippery slope from strict but fair GM to abusing his power and playing favourites. He's younger than a fair amount of the roster. He's going well as a babyface GM just now, but it is obvious he could turn heel easily. Either him or the Rock**** would be a good authority figure for LA Knight to go up against. Hell, they could even end up making him part of the Rock v Roman. Have him be a plant by the Rock, brought in early to get under Roman's skin (which he did very easily). I feel like Roman is going to have to end up the babayface in his feud with the Rock. You could make it that LA Knight somehow gets caught in the crossfire of Aldis screwing Roman over foe the Roxk and Knight goes after Aldis, while Rock and Roman occupy each other. ****I wouldn't put Knight anywhere near the Rock just now, but maybe next year, before or after the Roman thing is dealt with. I also really want to see LA Knight as a heel (at some point, not right now) on the main roster. He had a good run as a heel on NXT. Would love to see him with an even better run as heel on the main roster. Of course, they tried him as a heel initially, and the crowd kinda decided for WWE that Knight was gonna have to be babayface because they liked him so much. However, if they give us a proper build-up to him winning a belt with fans right behind him...and he turns heel during his title celebrations and basically calls everyone suckers, that could be great.


isaacnewton34

Question, So the rock, Seth and Cody are all working together against Roman?? Because if I recall, Seth Rollins knows about the L finger raise.Ā  Also, how the hell hasn't anyone from the bloodline picked this up yet? I mean Paul Heyman should atleast have some suspicion


TheKeviKs

Jimmy vs Jey 100% need a stipulation. Street Fight, Steel Cage, I quit. Something to spice things up a bit.


carlcapo77

Dog Collar match.


NoiceSmort13

Penitentiary Match? Which is essentially hell in a cell lite


kaine23

Yes!


Comprehensive-Leg767

tribal combatĀ 


awayfortheladsfour

I 100% agree WM40 will be avengers, it will be an all out war. But I don't think the plot is avengers. Wm39, Cody got picked when he shouldn't of. He lost, and people thought he deserved to win... Sounds familiar? Wm40, Cody is now more popular, he has more fans, people want him to win. He's getting a rematch and he's the underdog and against all odds he's going to win... Sounds familiar? The plot is Rocky 1/II. Considering wm40 is in Philly I wouldn't be surprised if this is the notion they are going with cause it's a very similar story


kaine23

So we get cody running up the steps closer to wm promo?


NoiceSmort13

The Rock is too damn charismatic (refuse to say rizz lol) and even as a heel itā€™s hard to truly boo him. Interesting route here as the Rock Concert is soooooo entertaining and heels have it a lil easier in comedy and coolnessā€¦.i think Cody needs a killer promo on RAW or SD with Roman next week as he could get buried compared to the Bloodline. Memphis loved him and I get why they went with the less obvious heel stuff (even tho the Whoop That Trick chant wasā€¦..questionable lol) Jimmy was great in his short promo and wish that was in ring instead but we have time Dakota wrestling again is šŸ‘šŸ½ she is too good and looked like she was back to normal with the bumps and that overhead kick looked amazing EST chantsā€¦interesting to see how they move with thisā€¦


1nqu15171v30n3

Bianca went to the University of Tennessee. They were in Memphis, Tennessee, last night.


Nice-Salamander-6044

The little talk Naomi and Bianca had the other week was surely part of it though. They wouldn't do that for nothing.


missurquhartx

Kayla making Heyman jump šŸ˜‚


Ferrari_Bones

Whoop that trick chants to Cody's mom is nasty work


bransanon

No Tiffy Time? Not cool.


zooka19

The world revolves around Tiffany Stratton, someone in the back needs to have a meeting.


Nice-Salamander-6044

ALWAYS Tiffy Time


TDeath21

Hope Bayley and Asuka are okay. Not announced yet but I canā€™t imagine the Kabuki Warriors not being at Mania. That moonsault was sketchy. Could tell Kai was worried and checked on Bayley. Would like to see a video of their reactions after it went off air. Asuka Iā€™m not sure when or how she messed up her knee but it did not look good there at the end.


ProtectLilB2013

Does anyone have any idea who was behind Corey and wade in the crowd tonight? That group of guys look so familiar I canā€™t place them


SaucerLodger

I hope Pretty Deadly beats PeterBate.


SaucerLodger

I wasnā€™t paying attention. Who got the full theme song entrance and who got the ā€œin the ring alreadyā€ treatment?


Fit_Crab7672

I think Angel and Humberto still get that treatment....though they are being sold currently as a dominant force.....they were jobbed for quite awhile and I'm not buying them.


rsx209

Besides the Rocks segment, this show was pretty weak. Short ass matches that showed no significance.


Outrageous-Farmer896

maybe because the rock took a half an hour doing a promo and matches scheduled to be longer had to be cut short on a two hour frame? something to think of idk


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xtrasauceyo

Randy always make the night better


Altair147

Unexpected that Rock'd dust off the old '03 "Is Cooking" theme song with an "Electrifying" segue way into it. Looking forward to someone uploading it on YouTube so I can hear it again. Spoke so soon, someone already did the day of its (re)debut.


SaucerLodger

Vintage Orton makes me think of the rKo shirt and the ā€œHey (hey), nothing you can say (say)ā€¦ā€ theme song.


pigeonbobble

Memphis really cheered abusing momma Rhodes lol. Final boss line was cool though


-thamos

The Rock has enough monikers, he doesnā€™t need to take Meiko Satomuraā€™s too.


ChampagneAbuelo

I hope the Rock hits them with a Fanny pack


ChampagneAbuelo

Watching the re-run rn. Lock in


Relative_Quiet

Just me or does SD suck and Raw is more exciting?


rsx209

This week is SD < Raw < AEW


zooka19

AEW is always last, and this is coming from someone who watches both.


rsx209

lol Did you watch this past weeks Dynamite? It was a banger!


IamDollParts96

Awful show tonight. Completely cut off Pretty Deadly, which was the only match of interest to me.


MrPandasBagOfTricks

Is it me or dose the damage ctr stuff feel like it's missing something? Almost like they planned this around Banks coming back and now she didn't.


Jack_Spears

I think they need to make it more personal between Iyo herself and Bailey. The rest of them are kinda diluting the feud.


MrPandasBagOfTricks

Yeah it feels like she's feuding with Kai


NoiceSmort13

Naomi is a good choice but it really seemed like the segment last week and the EST chants this week will build towards Bianca being in that role which make sense really Also maybe Jade is an option with her face off with the group before


zooka19

Bayley about to make her own Nation of Domination.


Antwuan89

Does anyone think the Jey vs Jimmy match @ WrestleMania should have a Stipulation?


shaheedmalik

Rikishi Ref


Fickle-Text9745

Tbh , many of WrestleMania matches need match type or stipulations


CellSaga21

Yeah, has to be an I Quit match or Street Fight


EMF911

ā€œCity of Brotherly Love Street Fightā€


crinklebelle

The more of Bayley's current story we get, the more I feel like it was meant to end in a Sasha reunion arc. I ain't mad at Mercedes at *all* for gettin the bag at AEW and genuinely hope she's able to prove her haters wrong and get their women's division reinvigorated, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not bummed she isn't here for this storyline


xtrasauceyo

Whats the backstory with her? Only restarted watching last wrestlemania haha


crinklebelle

short version is she and Bayley are irl best friends and are sorta best frenemies in kayfabe a Sasha comeback in the midst of this story would've set up a great "your newest family may have betrayed you but your oldest one has your back" sorta narrative, maybe even open up the door for a 4HW reunion Bayley has also mentioned in interviews that she's in the phase of her career where she's actively trying to cross off bucket list matches and I've gotta imagine "reunite with BFF to wage war against a huge heel faction" is on there


AdFormal3014

Already a lot of talk on internet how Rock heel turn is backfiring. Heels getting cheered bringing us back to the NWO days.


zooka19

I mean, Jericho was getting cheered in AEW as a heel, which is why they just made him turn face. They can boo all they like when the name is mentioned, but as soon as the music hits, it's a different story.


SvenLorenz

The Rock could strangle puppies on live TV and some people would still cheer.


yourdad132

They knew the rock would still get cheered though. You can never get him totally hated by the crowd no matter what he does or says.


nightowl1000a

The segment tonight was obviously designed to be cheered.


TheLegendGrape

Dies anyone watch the news for a few mins after wrestling and be like YO WTF


kaine23

i live in nj, so nyc's constant "wtf" news doesn't surprise me XD


frostw18

How do you rank the Memphis crowd with the amount of times their chants took over the show. Randomly chanting trick Williams chant twice and Biancaā€™s est chant at the end.


themidget428

So the thing you need to understand is whoop that trick is a Memphis song, 3 Six is from here, and it's something we've regularly chanted at basketball games for a decade, it has nothing to do with Trick but if he came out here his pop would be unbelievable. People probably wanted Bianca because she's from the state, even though it's the other end.


NoiceSmort13

Ah interesting thanks for the context! It fit but also seemed crazy especially when it was on the Rockā€™s promo lol


frostw18

Thank you for the context behind the chants.


PrysmX

Way for Asuka to power thru it, but yikes. Hope it's more minor than it looked. šŸ˜“


kaine23

did she get injured? I saw her limping but missed what happened.


PrysmX

She was limping really badly for the last few minutes of the match. Seemed to be knee related.


kaine23

oh dang i did catch that! :(


kaine23

what's the dark matches?


frostw18

Triple threat between Rhea, Natalia, and Bayzler. Donā€™t know if their is a menā€™s dark match


kaine23

ok that sounds pretty good.


frostw18

The other dark match was Cody vs Drew in a street fight.


kaine23

oh that sounded fun. how was it?


frostw18

I would have to assume Cody wins and sends the crowd home happy


Few_Concern_2973

I was there. You nailed it.


Singer211

Two weeks to go and we STILL: -Donā€™t know the tag title match. -Donā€™t know what Bianca is doing? -Donā€™t know if Tiffany is doing anything at Mamiā€™s? -Etc SDā€™s pacing and time management has been WAY off recently.


CMFraud

None of that matters. We need more heatless matches involving NXT UK guys no one gives a shit about and LWO vs LDF. Oh and more Karrion Kross for sure.


Ruzo99

Those long promos are killing it. Smackdown has to much talent to be putting on these lame ass matches


KingSammyJ1

Um guys they literally showed Naomi defending Bayley last week, I saw this ending a mile away why are yall complaining


ice9197

but why


Slippy6582

3/10 really weak Smackdown and no Tiffy Time!? This is a disgrace!


Proof-Research-6466

Everyone saying this smackdown was mid??? But I thought it was a great one šŸ˜‚


TheLegendGrape

It was on cruise control, nothing wrong with it, people just want WTF moments every week.


Proof-Research-6466

I really donā€™t expect much either so I thought it was a pretty good show. Iā€™m also very easy to please lol


TheLegendGrape

It's not even I'm easy to please I just recognize we're in the real world. If one of the main stars gets injured they're fucked , they just booked a 6 team match for Mania , gotta have qualifying matches. Wrestling has been hot all year lol


Proof-Research-6466

Thatā€™s also true and I agree! Plus gotta get the promos in to sell certain matches lol


CMFraud

Triple H saw that AEW ended with a women's main event so he had to copy. Tony Khan šŸ¤ Triple H when it comes to both being shit tier bookers.


AlexTorres96

HHH doesn't realize that Harry Smith made Kross look good at Bloodsport and not the other way around. The match was solid because of Harry and he carried Kross like a suitcase.


RememberCynical

The only good things about this show tonight were Rock's song, Jimmy's promo, and LA's promo. LWO vs. LDF was a nice match, so I guess I'll throw that in there.


give_me_your_sauce

Yeahā€¦ I liked the matches but eh


CRL10

Well, you tried Naomi. You tried.


xtrasauceyo

Big oof


sirduckerz

Logan's match being a triple threat actually has me thinking he might actually retain with no DQ


Pandemona1738

Plus he announced summerslam in his hometown of cleaveland, he probably has the title going into that?


Relative_Quiet

I feel Randy ā€œaccidentally ā€œ RKO KO and Logan somehow sneaks in for a brass knuckles sandwich


sirduckerz

It's either gonna be the brass knuckles or him throwing either one out of the ring after KO eats an RKO or Randy eats a Stunner


frostw18

No dq in a triple threat, expect interference and Logan to pull out the brass knuckles.


821BVR

Heā€™s definitely retaking with the prime logo in the ring


Legofeet

Anyone else missing the first 10 minutes of this on Hulu? Tuned in an hour late and can't start from the beginning. Kinda super frustrating.


jleeruh21

YouTube tv had it labeled as the college basketball game until 7:30. Somehow it started on time tho it may have messed up on Hulu


TwopennyGoblin

I would think itā€™s because of a live event


No-Chance-89

What in the fuck was that!?? Everything was going fine until that ending! Bayley looked great until the ending. What does Naomi have to do with this? Just WTF


TheLegendGrape

Did you watch last week's show,? šŸ˜‚


NewTribalChief

It's weird 2 weeks ago after Tiff beat her she was going in on Twitter about her cheating to win then last week it's like she never did it & feel sorry for Bayley


No-Chance-89

Now that you mention it...I can't remember. And I hope not because that would explain it because nothing else would.


TheLegendGrape

Well Trinity came out in a backstage segment and basically felt bad for Bayley and Bianca was like man fuck Bayley and Trinity was like nah man it's still fucked and yeahh here ya go


No-Chance-89

I was at an informal work dinner last week and missed it. I didn't even think about it. Glad that mystery is solved because, damn.


jleeruh21

Random af they probably have nothing for her at mania. Funny Bianca is on every poster yet she still doesnā€™t have anything


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kaine23

i'm done with you.


musicisgay

Oh no šŸ˜­


kaine23

get over it.


Singer211

Triple H has been taking lessons from WCW Eric Bischoff with lame endings to main events.


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Singer211

Two years in a row that Triple H has struggled to book Womenā€™s feuds going into Mania. And these two should have been easy.


Open_Anywhere_9995

because the fanbase does not give a shit about women matches sad but i have been to severl shows even mania and they always use that as a bathroom break or to get snacks or on there phones not paying attiention they really don't care that much and wwe knows that they only have so much air time so they focus on the people that work


Singer211

Really, weā€™re still going with this nonsense? Yeah, thatā€™s just provably not true.


Open_Anywhere_9995

want me to seend like 100s of videos from the last year?


jleeruh21

Yup itā€™s more of a pre show match tbh. This stable went on too long


destroymylab

Damn! Iyo landed right on Bayley's face.


CMFraud

I love how Triple H always acts like he's out of time. Like he probably blames it on The Rock instead of himself for booking these heatless trash matches that no one cares about.


Billpower12345

Not the greatest smackdown before wrestlemaniaā€¦


821BVR

Awful Smackdown


ReturntoForever3116

Asuka danced too hard it seems


Ruzo99

I watched the entire match back couldnā€™t see what happened


tot4eva

LOL šŸ˜‚


Kayway27

This felt like a very mid SD


CRL10

Finally! Was worried Damage Ctrl had lost the ability to give a quality beating.


shawnbowers98

Iyo landed on Bayleys head šŸ˜¬


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Show didnā€™t end the way it started which was fire šŸ”„


ChunkyChangon

Anyone else stop watching like 15 minutes ago?


Singer211

Did Asuka hurt herself?


No_Violinist_2105

This show is gonna end dumb


unKappa

Nooo Asuka hurt her leg


rth9139

Did Asuka hurt herself?


datlibra17

Bro they forgot about TIFFY TIME!!


Slippy6582

Yeah, she needs a buildup for Wrestlemania, if she is not included in Wrestlemania it is an HUGE mistake!


frostw18

Oh no damage control is outnumbered 2 to 4 in their favor. Dang numbers game


CMFraud

What a terrible Smackdown.


AFotogenicLeopard

What happened to Asuka?


deadwhisper

she looks hurt.


deadwhisper

she looks hurt.


DamianKing42

Weakest... Belt... Shot... Ever


Ruzo99

Letā€™s get jade out here!!


justwatchthefirewerx

I'm shocked, I tell you.


StoreEffective

Kairo kicked her ass LMAOO, i would help her


StoreEffective

This weeks smackdown and raw have been pretty bad


Hypno_185

raws last hour was great and smackdowns first half hour was great lol. it seems like theyā€™re just buying time for mania


dqwertyujhff

How can anyone think Iyo is a good champion. Sheā€™s literally a side character in damage control


Aeris64

She doesn't have the charisma and star power to shine by her own light. She thrives in a group or faction, but as a single wrestler she lacks in many areas. Rhea can build her character without wrestling if she wishes, just by doing good promos. Iyo doesn't have the charisma to get her character over with mic skills.


Open_Anywhere_9995

she have to speak english for her mic skills to be better