Friday Night Smackdown Thread - 4/26 (Draft Night 1)
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Iceberg_Taylor
THE FINAL BOSS
AND STILL!!
already home_17
Attitude Still on “Fuck It”
At how accurate those super kicks looked off of a moonsault
impactable timing
I really dislike these mf'ers
Great break down by bleacher report
Zayn stopped The Bloodline from exiting and acknowledged Reigns as his Tribal Chief, to which the top dog in WWE responded by asking why the lovable loser continued to tag along with the faction and why he was wearing a Bloodline shirt.
Despite being a great heel, there is a certain appreciation and equity that Zayn has created with fans and their fear for the suddenly serious, potentially dangerous situation he put himself in manifested itself in a tenseness we do not typically see on WWE programming.
By the time Jey Uso ripped said shirt off the man he has spent the last month despising, it appeared as though Zayn was about to catch a beatdown. Instead, Reigns presented him his own shirt, much to the dismay of the tag team champion, and the group left the ring together to close the segment.
This was great character work and an even better example of why Reigns has been among the most compelling of any performers in wrestling. He is condescending, sarcastic and disingenuous at times but always dangerous and capable of punishing anyone before him. It works so well with Zayn's "just wants to fit in" persona and the fans ate it up.
They popped for his inclusion, a sign that the storytellers have the audience in the palm of their hands. As long as the story is not drawn out for too long, this is going to be a hell of a payoff and one that makes Zayn as big a star as he has ever been in WWE.
A great television segment to start the show.
Grade
A+
Zayn stopped The Bloodline from exiting and acknowledged Reigns as his Tribal Chief, to which the top dog in WWE responded by asking why the lovable loser continued to tag along with the faction and why he was wearing a Bloodline shirt.
Despite being a great heel, there is a certain appreciation and equity that Zayn has created with fans and their fear for the suddenly serious, potentially dangerous situation he put himself in manifested itself in a tenseness we do not typically see on WWE programming.
By the time Jey Uso ripped said shirt off the man he has spent the last month despising, it appeared as though Zayn was about to catch a beatdown. Instead, Reigns presented him his own shirt, much to the dismay of the tag team champion, and the group left the ring together to close the segment.
This was great character work and an even better example of why Reigns has been among the most compelling of any performers in wrestling. He is condescending, sarcastic and disingenuous at times but always dangerous and capable of punishing anyone before him. It works so well with Zayn's "just wants to fit in" persona and the fans ate it up.
They popped for his inclusion, a sign that the storytellers have the audience in the palm of their hands. As long as the story is not drawn out for too long, this is going to be a hell of a payoff and one that makes Zayn as big a star as he has ever been in WWE.
A great television segment to start the show.
Grade
A+
PhenomTheMac
OG
They played white rabbit in the arena tonight at 9:23
Time for somebody to lose a title, don't matter which one. Shit is stale
They were chanting his name almost the entire promo...
They know how over he is right now. That Canadian crowd definitely boosted it
It's the opposite of stale... It's one of the hottest.stories they got going right now
Two years too long, wrap it the hell up
Iceberg_Taylor
THE FINAL BOSS
Iceberg_Taylor
THE FINAL BOSS
They were in Utah
But they still adding fresh levels to it.
Sami and Solo make it was more interesting