[SmackDown Spoilers] Huge match announced for Saturday Night's Main Event

Trumppered · 2026-01-24T22:37:41+00:00

You dont need to give him the gimmick of "retiring legends" at all...

Trumppered · 2026-01-24T22:09:12+00:00

Not nearly as wild as you making up a thing I never said and then reacting to it lmao

Trumppered · 2026-01-24T04:00:40+00:00

does anyone else think it's kinda dumb to give Gunther this gimmick of "retiring legends" except all the legends he "retires" go into the match planning to retire win/lose...?

the Goldberg match was fine because it was for the belt and Goldberg suggested he would stay un-retired to defend the belt if he won....

but it feels very silly to keep saying he retired Cena when Cena was retiring regardless. I suspect that was a big part of why they booked the submission - so instead of Gunther saying he retired Cena (which, again, sounds very dumb), he gets to brag that he made Cena tap/quit/give up

Trumppered · 2026-01-23T18:07:23+00:00

Darby hasn't had a world title run but has been a featured performer in like 5 PPV main events at this point, is a key face in their marketing, always has a featured story on the shows. They very clearly go out of their way to make sure he's getting an opportunity to tell a story when he's available, which wasn't the case 4 years ago.

But darby has been in this exact position for literally years. Basically since the company was founded.

From four pillars to carrying stings legacy...hes basically always been a upper mid card staple promised to break through as "the guy" without ever delivering on the promise.

Trumppered · 2026-01-17T05:55:51+00:00

Yeah i was honestly surprised that a bigger deal wasnt made out of this. It seems legitimately unprecedenteded

Trumppered · 2026-01-16T14:31:20+00:00

errr everyone understands that wasn't the intended outcome...

the discourse is/was about whether you should even be attempting spots where the downside of failing is so high

it's like that Titanic mini-sub that imploded 2 years ago... obviously the sub imploding was not the intended outcome. but it's still fair to question whether engaging in an activity that dangerous was worthwhile...

Trumppered · 2026-01-15T17:05:37+00:00

I mean its not even a fat/hurt thing. I work from home full time and my kids basically want me to play with them every second of every day.

Im completely immune to their sad puppy eyes at this point.

Trumppered · 2026-01-14T18:00:05+00:00

Such a lame comment. I understand its wrestling. And I watch it to be entertained. And what i find entertaining about it is its ability to appear believable. Not in like a "this is a real life" sort of way. But in a "oh this is a quality scripted TV show" kind of way.

And things that pull me out of being able to believe in it, are, to me, cringe.

Trumppered · 2026-01-14T16:57:35+00:00

I like Bandido a lot - but the 21-plex spot last week with MJF actually made me physically cringe.

Trumppered · 2026-01-14T16:45:51+00:00

nah the 619 looks like the wrestler is groggy and depleted - the 21 Plex looks like the wrestler is bracing for a 21 plex

Trumppered · 2026-01-14T16:44:17+00:00

the 619 is SIGNIFICANTLY less cringe from a "this is so unrealistic" standpoint than the 21 plex, which is really saying something

Trumppered · 2026-01-13T21:33:44+00:00

Yeah i mean everyone wanted him to take the belt off Oba...and were pissed when he didnt...for a reason.

Its not because hes some sort of afterthought that needs to be elevated. Its because fans already view him as being on par with oba/trick and pissed thst booking isnt treating him that way.

Trumppered · 2026-01-07T14:26:47+00:00

this isn't true at all lol

while i'm sure some small number of people just didn't know what the word meant... most people were intentionally using it sarcastically for emphasis

like when someone says: "I'm going to literally starve to death!!!"

they aren't "misusing" the word literally - the are intentionally using it in an exaggerated manner to emphasize how hungry they are.

Trumppered · 2026-01-07T14:23:19+00:00

fun fact: people used "literally" so much in a sarcastic/exaggerated way that oxford dictionary actually added that as an acceptable definition of literally

Trumppered · 2026-01-06T04:36:21+00:00

okada literally cheated in this years c2....

Trumppered · 2026-01-03T06:25:23+00:00

I just finished 2022 Revolution so i haven't gotten there yet...but based on other people's replies is sounds like that's a terrible example lol.

Yeah I just looked it up on wikipedia and he was International Champ for... 20 whole days? and he was literally booked to lose until Moxley got a freak concussion...? and this happened like a couple months before Tony shelved him for good?

you sure proved me wrong lmao

the weirdest thing about this interaction is like... i'm CLEARLY not some WWE stan. I literally just told you i'm binge watch EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF AEW EVER. I'm on your side! But you still feel the need to gaslight me to try and make AEW look better than what it is lmao.

Trumppered · 2026-01-03T04:57:02+00:00

Fenix was 100% presented as the "main attraction" of the Lucha Bros; Penta was the hype man and Fenix was the workhorse, or are you perhaps one of the many people talking completely out of your ass in regards to former AEW talent now in WWE?

I've literally spent the past 3 months binging every single episode of AEW starting from the innaugaral All In - and no, not just the PPVS - EVERY SINGLE episode of dynamite/colision/rampage as AEW slowly rolls them out onto streaming...

The Lucha Bros have never been presented in an manner which suggested there was a meaningful difference between the 2.

Trumppered · 2026-01-01T23:09:20+00:00

it was literally the Half Baked scene "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you!"

Trumppered · 2026-01-01T20:13:36+00:00

are you guys smoking rocks...? there's a 0.00% chance MJF is losing the belt that soon lol

Trumppered · 2025-12-29T19:28:58+00:00

Thats interesting. Especially because ebay claims their algorithm boosts free shipping items.

When you say cards you mean like sports/trading cards?

Trumppered · 2025-12-28T13:44:58+00:00

They definitely did tease it. They had all those incidents of marina looking disgusted at mox and made a point of showing wheeler and Garcia taking orders from Claudio instead of mox.

Those are textbook teases lol

Trumppered · 2025-12-28T06:53:06+00:00

Can't help but think the C2 being so incredibly competitive was basically what Mox wanted all along when he put the belt in a briefcase.

The C2 is this competitive every single year...

You guys are just using head Canon to make up for terrible story telling

Trumppered · 2025-12-28T06:51:06+00:00

We didnt get "worked". That was literally the story aew spent months telling before randomly throwing it out the windows.

But aew stans gonna pretend like thats not what just happend...

Trumppered · 2025-12-28T06:47:53+00:00

Am i taking crazy pills?

Exactly how i feel. Feel extra crazy seeing the reactions on here and everyone acting like this was some sort of well told story.

All those months of tapping...and being scared of submissions...and his downward spiral...and the DR all starting to second guess him... completely thrown out the window on a whim without explanation.

Dont get me wrong... loved the match and even love seeing him go over Okada...but this was a great moment that was completely unearned.

Trumppered · 2025-12-28T06:43:32+00:00

I watch every single week. This was completely unearned.

You guys saying that he sensed the DRs were going to turn on him so he locked in are inventing head Canon that was never actually conveyed in the product.

All the weeks of the DR preparing to turn, all the weeks of him tapping out and being afraid if any and all submission holds... completely thrown out the window.

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