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WWE : World Wrestling Entertainment

Previously known as the WWF(1998), WWE is the largest professional wrestling promotion in the world.
Professional wrestling is a performance art that combines athletics and theatrical performances.
Outcomes of the matches may potentially be pre-determined, but the risks that the performers do are real.
The men and women that fill up the ranks of WWE right now are some of the most talented in the entire industry!

This thread is about WWE wrestletalk. Upcoming events, nostalgic throwbacks. Not into wrestling?
Give it a shot! Not sure where to start? Just jump into Raw or Smackdown and give it a whirl!
Want to ask questions? I'll try to answer best I can.
For now, I'm going to be focusing on recapping Raw and PPVs. If people are interested,
I'll start updating with additional information about NXT, Smackdown, and 205 Live.

WWE Raw, or Monday Night Raw, airs Monday evenings at 8PM ET on the USA Network in the USA.
WWE Smackdown, or Smackdown Live, airs Tuesday evenings at 8PM ET on the USA Network in the USA.
205 Live airs Tuesday evenings at 10PM ET on the WWE Network.
WWE NXT airs Wednesday evenings at 8PM ET on the WWE Network.

The next upcoming PPV: Wrestlemania, April 10th.
WWE Network and Hulu

The Fastlane Results

New Day def. Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura via pinfall (Kickoff Show)
SmackDown Tag Team Championship -- The Usos (c) def. The Miz & Shane McMahon via pinfall
SmackDown Women's Championship -- Asuka (c) def. Mandy Rose via pinfall to retain the title
Asuka (c) vs. Mandy Rose – SmackDown Live Women’s Championship
New Day confronts Vince McMahon
The Bar def. Kofi Kingston via pinfall in a handicap match
Boss 'N Hug Connection show confidence
Shane McMahon interview
Raw Tag Team Championship -- The Revival (c) def. Bobby Roode & Chad Gable (via pinfall) and Aleister Black & Ricochet to retain the titles
United States Championship -- Samoa Joe (c) def. Rey Mysterio (via submission), Andrade and R-Truth to retain the title
Women's Tag Team Championship -- Boss 'N Hug Connection (c) def. Nia Jax & Tamina via pinfal to retain the title
WWE Championship -- Daniel Bryan (c) def. Mustafa Ali (via pinfall) and Kevin Owens to retain the title
Becky Lynch def. Charlotte Flair via disqualification, earns Raw women's title shot at WrestleMania 35
The Shield def. Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre & Bobby Lashley via pinfall

What happened on Raw Tonight?
3/11/19

Shield Farewell, Seth Rollins vs. Shelton Benjamin, Rollins defeated Benjamin
Intercontinental Championship Match: Finn Balor vs. Bobby Lashley, Lashley defeated Balor to win the title
Ronda Rousey Addresses Her Actions from Fastlane
Aleister Black and Ricochet vs. Chad Gable and Bobby Roode, Black and Ricochet defeated Roode and Gable
The WrestleMania 35 Host Is Announced on 'A Moment of Bliss'
Elias Returns Home
Natalya vs. Nia Jax, Jax defeated Natalya via disqualification
Triple H Calls Out Batista,
Kurt Angle Addresses His Future, Then Squares Off with Apollo Crews, Angle defeated Crews
Drew McIntyre Attacks Roman Reigns
No Holds Barred: Dean Ambrose vs. Drew McIntyre, McIntyre defeated Ambrose

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okay! thread's open guys. i caught most of raw tonight, it was okay. theres some things that i didnt mention in the recap that i liked. did anyone else catch raw tonight? what did u think?

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@love love guilty: You follow any other wrestling, or just WWE?
I really liked Enzo. Too bad he had to cock it up for himself.

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@Rallaa: omg that enzo stuff... i was a huge fan of his as he went up thru NXT. its a shame he ended up a scumbag because he 100% wouldve been a legend on the mic if he could just not be awful. did you see he got escorted out of a wwe event for making a big scene?

as for other promotions, i tried to get into new japan, im just really bad at keeping up with things in general. i hear cody rhodes is making his own promotion though, i'd be interested in that if i can just remember to stay tuned

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@love love guilty: Yeah, Cody is starting All Elite Wrestling.
I heard he's signed Neville (going by PAC now), and Jericho.
I'm interested in seeing how AEW decides to do things.

I don't follow much stuff very closely myself.
I'm just subscribed to a couple wrestling youtube channels, and I watch the WWE pay-per-views with my girlfriend.
She watches the weekly shows and tells me about stuff, but I haven't been watching them myself lately.

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XD I have the opposite experience from Rallaa! My husband watches the weekly stuff and we'll watch the PPV stuff together. We've gone to one Monday Night here and it was really cool, but the next time we go, I wanna be in floor seats.

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Have you noticed 'The One Guy' in the crowd at the pay-per-views?
He's like almost always in a lime green shirt and a cap, and always has a seat next to the barriers.

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@Rallaa: Now I will! XD How much money does this guy have?? haha

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@Rallaa: ive been having a looot of trouble keeping up with WWE these past few years(!!) so i'm hoping this thread helps lmao,
i didn't even know neville left wwe? geeez... it's better off tbh, they were criminally mishandling him. i'm excited though, i love cody rhodes, and iw ant to see him do great things!

what wrestling channels would you recommend? id love to look at ssome

also the one fan i notice is like, some skinny dude with really long hair and sits in the front for every ppv/show? sometimes hes there with his mom i think?

@Mousy: Wrestling is SO MUCH more fun in person!!!! whenever its in town i always try to go, it's great!!! one day i wanna go to wrestlemania;w;

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I like when people in the crowd have weird signs.

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lmao same!! ill see if i cant find a couple good onnes and post them as i find thme, herres a decent onne

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hey all! i've got the laatesst from meltzer, aka the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. for more & the full newsletter,r check out here! i will only be posting wwe-related news from the paper here. ill be posting weekly newsletters here in the thread for anyone interested!

This week’s update on WrestleMania is that HHH vs. Batista is obviously a done deal. HHH said in January that he was able to start training after his surgery for the torn pec although doing a match five months after that surgery would be ahead of the usual six month timetable for that surgery. The match had been planned dating back to an angle on Smackdown before HHH’s injury, but it was only finalized this past week. As noted here before, Batista had no interest in wrestling anywhere but WWE but as late as last week had not finalized a deal. Both Undertaker and HHH had been looked at as opponents.
As of the weekend, Undertaker was not on the card and John Cena and Kurt Angle still were. There’s still not a lot definite for the show and this is the latest period I can ever recall where most of the show wasn’t pretty much finalized. From television, and this has not yet been confirmed, it does look like Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston will replace Bryan vs. Kevin Owens as the WWE title match on WrestleMania. Mustafa Ali, who at one point was to face Bryan at Fastlane, has not returned to action since suffering a concussion more than two weeks ago, although he was being evaluated on 2/26 and his return is expected shortly. An angle was set up on the 2/26 Smackdown show in Charlotte where Vince McMahon pulled Kingston from the match with Bryan and replaced him with Owens, citing that Owens was a higher level competitor and bigger box office draw.
The entire Smackdown show pushed the idea that Kingston had worked there 11 years to get his shot and it was being taken away from him. McMahon in his speech said that Owens deserved it more, with the idea of that making him a heel since Owens hasn’t even been in action since undergoing double knee surgery while Kingston has two pins on the champion. In actuality, it’s a promotion for Kingston and giving him the shot on the bigger stage. Plus, in the old booking, Kingston would have likely had to lose to Bryan to lead to Bryan vs. Owens at Mania.
While it is not confirmed Bryan vs. Kingston will be at WrestleMania, everything on television leads to that conclusion. We were told that a few days before the show Vince McMahon made the decision to put Owens, who was Bryan’s Mania opponent at Fastlane instead. The one negative is that Owens, who was supposed to return as an everyman babyface, hence the videos, that were to peak in a few weeks, was rushed back and put in the position to take the title shot as a handpicked person by McMahon, and take it from the guy people wanted. Even though they affiliated him with Kingston in a tag team match to alleviate that initial response, and also had him pin Bryan in the tag match of Kingston & Owens vs. Bryan & Erick Rowan, and gave him the stone cold stunner as his new finisher, the storyline does risk Owens being treated as a heel.
With the constant changes in Bryan’s opponents, he’s now lost three matches via pin on the last three episodes of Smackdown, two to Kingston (the first on 2/12 to get Kingston into the Chamber and over in the gauntlet; and then, after Bryan had pinned Kingston in the Chamber final, because Kingston got over so big and they decided to put him in the PPV main event they had him beat Bryan in a six-man on 2/19, and then when the decision was made to flip flop he and Owens, to get Owens over after a long absence, he pinned Bryan on 2/26 in a tag match). Granted, the champion getting pinned in non-title and tag situations is just basic booking, when you overdo it, you make the champion look weak and any kind of angle repeated three times faces the law of diminishing returns. Bryan had already back in December dropped a TV fall to Mustafa Ali to elevate him into title challenger level, so it’s actually been done four times, due to booking changes.
The Batista/HHH storyline started back on Raw with Batista clearly positioned as the heel, beating up Ric Flair backstage in a phantom attack, and asking HHH if he’s got his attention now. I’d have positioned Batista as a face against HHH because of his success in the movies since he left, but the last time he came back as a face, the crowd booed him and he at the time wanted to be a heel so that’s probably why it wound up like this. But last time he was brought back to headline Mania as a face in a slot fans wanted Daniel Bryan in, so he was rejected and then turned heel. He’s said for years he wants one last run that would end with a match with HHH, who played such a big part in his career.
There’s talk of a few multiple person matches, which gets more people in big matches but when the main event is multiple person, you probably want to limit those type of matches on the undercard, not that the main event needs protection since it’ll probably be the hottest match on the show. As far as what goes on last, that decision won’t be made until the week of the show but everyone expects it to be the Lynch match and talking about the first woman’s main event in history would seem to make it a lock, but they’ve also referred to Lesnar vs. Rollins as the main event. But clearly the focal point of the promotion of the show will be the women.
For Fastlane on 3/10 in Cleveland, there were only three matches finalized and we’re one week from the show, with Bryan vs. Owens for the WWE title, Usos vs. The Miz & Shane McMahon for the tag titles, Bayley & Banks vs. Jax & Tamina for the women’s tag title and Asuka vs. Mandy Rose for the Smackdown women’s title.
It sure looks like something along with lines of The Shield & Braun Strowman vs. Drew McIntyre & Bobby Lashley & Baron Corbin & Elias and a tag title situation with The Revival against some or all of the teams of Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa (the Gargano/Ciampa split angle on NXT TV airs 3/13 although it’s still weird positioning Ciampa as a face on the main roster), Ricochet & Aleister Black and Bobby Roode & Chad Gable. If Dean Ambrose leaves in April when his contract is up, this is the only shot for a full Shield reunion and that was teased when the McIntyre then-trio did the Shield power bomb on last week’s show. The other question is if a Shield reunion will cause Ambrose to have a change of heart regarding leaving. Something with A.J. Styles vs. Randy Orton is likely for one of the next two PPV shows.

Please ping! I get distracted easily.

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@mousy: heck yeah i did!! i watched the whole thing & the raw after, what was up with that botched finale in the main event? they didnt even address it whaaaa

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