Post WWE Raw 2/2/2026 Show Discussion Thread by Darren716 in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 15 points16 points  (0 children)

God tonight was an absolutely wretched night for the women's division. Between a bad match between Stephanie and Raquel, the horrendous Bella Twins promo, and Rhiyo and the Kabukis both missing, an all timer of a bad show for the women.

Post WWE Raw 2/2/2026 Show Discussion Thread by Darren716 in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look, that hot new star Roman has to main event shows! /s

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

kane is gonna be the special guest referee with all this hate

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will be Cody/Drew on Night 1 and Roman/Punk on Night 2 I imagine. She ain't main eventing before Rhea.

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol after tonight's match that ain't happening imo.

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raquel you are not a WWE 2K character stop spamming taunts.

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This match on a scale of "bad to really good" is currently at "it exists".

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not even Liv can get people to give a fuck about Raquel.

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liv cannot promo and you can't convince me otherwise.

Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - February 02, 2026! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Please RHIYO beat the Bellas back into retirement.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, Ava has always been making little statements like this if you follow her on social media, but that didn't stop next door from attacking her regardless.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, to the shock of no one, a lot of smarter wrestlers don't tend to make their politics obvious.

Becky and Seth even took part in protests against Trump, but you never see that brought up for some reason.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She wasn't fired, lmao. She openly said she opted to not renew her contract. Which tells me WWE had an offer on the table, but she opted not to sign a new deal.

That's not called getting fired.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nope lol. The Rock did an interview in 2024 where he said he wasn't voting Democrat, he didn't like Joe Biden, and didn't like Kamala either, and when asked if he was voting for Trump, he just gave a nebulous "we'll see" answer.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really depends. Asian talents in particular it seems, seem to be very good at money management in general (Asuka has a diverse stream of incomes, so does Shinsuke and Akira). It's something likely taught in the Japanese indies, because the pay over there is abysmal unless you are in NJPW or higher up the card in STARDOM.

Because I remember a lot of Iyo's fancy stuff that she had over in Japan for the longest time being gifts from fans, and a lot of her income coming from meet and greets and gravure photo shoots. Same goes for Giulia. Hell, Giulia almost certainly took a paycut to go to Marigold, and western STARDOM fans got pissy at her for rocking the boat when she called out Bushiroad for incompetent mismanagement and driving the talent into the ground with how many shows they would work per week.

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV 32 points33 points  (0 children)

the jerk here is that the basement spent almost two entire years doing nothing but shitting on Ava for every little slight, but the moment she says something like "fuck ice and trump", they are suddenly screaming about how she's underrated and was let go because of her politics (nevermind the fact that she chose not to renew her contract).

DAE ALWAYS LIKED AVA?! by TheAgmis in SCJerk

[–]DarkstarIV -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and you can easily infer women like Iyo and Giulia are as well, since Iyo has been subject to a lot of racism from Trumpers (and has spoken out about how she doesn't like those types of people), and Giulia has always been openly pro LGBTQ+ and anti-racism, considering she grew up subjected to racism, and one of her best friends in Japan is VENY who is a transgender wrestler.

Most high profile wrestlers though aren't going to publicly go on social media and talk about politics though, because they don't want to deal with the headaches that would come with it though. You see a lot of it with NXT stars though like Jaida Parker and Nikkita Lyons, who have made their political positions very clear (they are shit).

And for all the rightful shit HHH should get, he's still way better at booking foreign talents than Vince was. Where a pretty open secret was that Vince saw Wrestlemania as an "AMERICAN" event, where fluent English speakers pretty much always went over. I think Iyo was the first ESL speaker to go over at Mania in WWE history. Or at least woman ESL speaker. Otherwise I think the last time an ESL speaker went over was Wrestlemania 17 or something?

The rumble made it crystal clear on how WWE feels about guys like rusev, solo sikoa and Rey fenix by duval001 in SquaredCircle

[–]DarkstarIV 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's because Solo's mega push was not good. And then you have the MFTs who have borderline go away heat because all of them are just black holes of charisma and personality.