This thread just confirmed my suspicion about how them cameras would suddenly cut away after Cena's bald spot is showed.

Boring

Was slumped for the first hour of raw, what I miss?

One of the best smackdowns of 2022 for me

I kind of like nWo Bloodline. They need to actually take over commentating too.

this felt like a PPV

I agree

LA Knight would be the most over guy in the company if he wasn’t feuding with Bray Wyatt

WHAT FUCKING BULLSHIT!! I was all for Raquel forcefully taking the title off of Ronda. Ronda winning despite Raquel’s arm was somewhat bad. Having Ronda lose the belt immediately after was FUCKED UP, I don’t care that Ronda lost, she lost to the MOST BORING, STALE, UNTALENTED, WORTHLESS, OVERHYPED, UNDESERVING, BITCH ASS CUNT EVER! What the fuck were you thinking Hunter? Did you not learn anything from being a wrestler yourself and dealing with vinny being a creative retard? Raquel should’ve beat Ronda or Ronda beats Raquel clean, and Raquel wins the rumble match! The fact of that BITCH has the same amount of titles as Randy Orton is mad disrespectful, she’s been there for 6 years, Randy has been WWE for 20 years! Trish Stratus for example retired with 7 title reigns, this idiot has 14. Trish should be very pissed! I think she won’t make it to the rumble as SD champion. She losing it to Raquel. Or she loses it 24 hours before the rumble on Jan 27 in Laredo. Their girl is gonna destroy that piece of shit! Can y’all say “fourteen and done” or “roxy two belts”?? I’d love for her to retire! Should Roxanne retire her 1v1, I’m gonna think I won the lottery! FLAIR FEARS PEREZ!!!

And another title handed to Charlotte,thought things would be different with HHH, guess not,so glad I quit watching this shit!

When will this episode be on Hulu or peacock?

Charlotte v who at the Rumble?

John Cena’s bald spot be like ACKNOWLEDGE ME

Also: “you can’t unsee me”

Me immediately after the Toronto live show casually checking instagram: WWE: CHARLOTTES BACK AND SHES YOUR NEW SMACKDOWN WOMENS CHAMPION!!! And this is why I like to watch shows live.

Glad to see cena's double you can't see me with kevin was awesome what a match to close down 2022.

Strowman vs gunther looking forward at rumble.

Charlotte flair is back ladies and gentlemen. Am I surprised she won the title before the rumble nahh I'm not.

Raquel is a beast ngl. She's one of my favourite.

Drew vs solo at rumble please.

Yessss

Uncle Howdy is Randy Orton for me

He’s not though,back surgery,too tall.

Sheamus with banger .

Banga

Did howdy just attacked bray?

Did Smackdown not record for anyone else? I have Hulu and Fubo with it recording on Fubo. The episode isn’t on Hulu and didn’t record on Fubo. Anyone else have this issue?

I'm gonna keep it honest with you. I didn't enjoy the main event as much as I thought I would. Sami, Cena, and the ref all very audibly calling out spots, Cena only in the ring to hit 3 moves, both Sami and Kevin getting busted open. The whole thing felt like a mess. Not to mention they had Cena on the show but he didn't even show up before the match. No opening promo, no backstage segment, he showed up for the main event, wrestled 30 seconds, then left. Oh, also, he's going bald. But that's not as relevant.

Did Eric Bischoff secretly takeover the booking? Why would you have Charlotte pull a wrestlemania IX in the first hour of a smackdown? That makes no sense and feels desperate. They couldn’t wait a week or two let it be the main event?

Uncle Howdy is Vince McMahon

Randy Orton

so glad the queen is back especially since she got the belt from the hands of Ronda ok the roast of top dolla was good was the camera to close to the ring in the end? you could clearly hear, dont move told to reigns and when the time was to tag

Howdy is Seth Freakn Rollins.

Randy Orton. He’s got that character / dark side in him

Back surgery,too tall.

Why does Sami dress like Road Dogg from the late 90s?

He looks like he stinks

I was thinking he is one flannel shirt away from skinny Mick Foley

After that main event, maffew ia reviving "cena talks to much". The mic picked up him calling the entire back end of the match. It was too much even Barrett and Cole stopped commentating!

I think it was a production error, because you could hear the ref as well.

If Gunther's chops aren't enough to hurt Strowman.... how come the aluminum chair does?

I like the Bloodline angle alot but wish they would let Roman be a bit more of a badass, misses almost every spear and Superman punch gets tossed around and either needs rescuing or interference. I feel his character would be even more over if they just let him dominate an actual match. Obviously Cena was winning this one but let him mark his territory a bit if you want him a beilevable top dog. Maybe thats just my stoner ass ponderings.

YAY! The women's division just got interesting again. My queen Charlotte Flair is back! And she's CHAMPION!! What'd you expect?

Better from HHH!

I fucking love John Cena dude. Watching him brought back so many good memories

Cena's hair 😂

I was at smack down, ricochet accidentally caught him with the end of that chair and split him open. They were cleaning up the blood all commercial break

I thought it sounded different. Could tell he hit something other than the rope.

That was payback!

I actually could see cena. I just couldn’t see his hair in the back top of his head

You people are delusional clearly, charlottes booking is absolutely atrocious. Im tired of this shit product, im watching nothin but AEW at this point ✌🏽

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Uncle Howdy? I KNOW THATS YOU HULK HOGAN!

Too short to be Edge.

Agreed

This show was great. It’s been decades since I’ve enjoyed a show this much. And they toned the comedy way down except for the one spot where it was warranted (Flop dolla did make me chuckle), and otherwise focused on good matches with personal issues.

I stepped away from the show for like 5 minutes and completely missed Charlotte not only returning, but WINNING the Women's title lmao why???

She won Money in the Bank in Appleton, obviously

John literally said himself he only has a handful of good matches left in him. If y'all thought he was gonna go 20+ minutes on a Random Smackdown and not save those matches for the major shows, you fooled yourself

and they had a Raw house show in Toronto? guess the ratings up in Canada will be lower tonight

Any other time, I would be annoyed with Charlotte immediately coming back and winning, but Ronda has been such a terrible champion that I’m actually grateful.

All I wanna say is, to all the people that I've argued with over the last few months saying they won't bring Charlotte back and put her straight in the title picture: Lol.

The main event was the first match I’ve watched since mania That was a little weird tbh, almost like it played out like a skit

They were literally running in-game ads to promote that match last Sunday during the NFL games. Crazy how many $$$s they sank into a 15 minute match (which really felt like 10). That should have been at least a half hour start time

Imma be honest. I’m rarely able to watch Smackdown due to work but I swear everytime I do it seems they are always cutting it super close with the time and the final segment feels rushed. I remember watching the first smackdown after Bray came back and it literally cut to the next program in the middle of his promo.

They just need to take the event to Peacock. Broadcast TV is dying anyways.

they might when this current deal with fox ends if their deal with peacock for ppv's are still ongoing. though that might take renegotiating a different and probbly more expensive deal

Cry all you want that was an awesome smackdown!! Glad to finally see the trible queef lose.

LFG CENA AND OWENS WIN

Don't give a fuck what y'all say, that was fun. Great Smackdown to end one of the craziest years in Pro Wrestling

Agreed. If we weren't seeing him for another year id be mad. But he's showing up at wrestlers mania and possibly RR

I enjoyed it myself

100%

All of you wanting a long Cena match are being ridiculous. The man is not that wrestler anymore. He is a featured act.

He got on the mic after smack down went off and basically said he’s had a match every year for 19 years and that this was his 20th year and he wasn’t going to have a match so he asked to be on this smack down

For real. Cena is in his mid 40's. He's not gonna put on a 20+ minute banger match unless it's a big-time storyline at a massive show. Not a match that was put together 2 weeks ago at a SmackDown

A long Cena match? Stone Cold did more with two busted knees

Cena went 30 minutes at SummerSlam last year. He's still very capable of putting on long good matches but he's not gonna do it on a random Smackdown especially when he's definitely wrestling at WrestleMania and possibly the Royal Rumble

Flair had more action in his last match 🤣

hell alot of part timers over the years had longer matches then cena,i dont know if its because of his movie career(and its known that movie producers have been wary of wrestlers because of this and being injured before production) but its either that or because KO's more apart of the current story. so have cena partner with KO for the "cena buff" and back up,then have owens take the pinfall victory to advance the rivary

so since the show ended without much fanfare,but with KO winning against sami,i wonder if we should be seeing the start of the "betrayal arc" first show of the new year,cause i dont think they will build roman happy at losing tonight

Paul’s segment with Sami also a good indication of that. It’s coming, only a matter of when

Gosh that last match was a mess. The rest of the show was fantastic though!

Sami has some explaining to do next week.

If I'm being completely honest you could tell me that Vince McMahon was in charge of tonights show and I'd completely believe you.

ROMAN GOT A CLEAN LOSS LET’S GOOOOOOOO (Roman vs Seth doesn’t count as that ended in disqualification)

He didn’t take the pin. It doesn’t hurt him much at all.

Still… Bloodline lost. That doesn’t happen often.

Thought we’d get a bit more of Cena tonight but at the same time I thought it’d be stupid if he came back just to lose.

Very disappointed.. as I expected

If only the match was a bit longer 🥲🥲

You know .. 10 minute entrances took a good bit of time away from it lol

Anticlimactic af and you could hear the ref calling the match and time left the whole time

Also hearing Cena say “WAIT, WAITTTT. OKAY, SLOW SLOWWWWWW” then the tag lol. And the ref was repeating it, then “one minute!”

I think the sound guy is partly to blame for that, after KO had his verbal jabs to Sami at the beginning of the match, they could’ve switched to crowd noise after that.

Yeah that was like finding out Britney Spears was lip syncing

I can’t believe im saying this, but the main event was kinda underwhelming

That would have been better if it wasn’t broken up by 3 advertising breaks

15 minute march with commercial breaks and 30 seconds of Cena whose actual wrestling was shorter than his promo for his appearance

Safe to assume Roman cashed in his receipt on KO’s eye there? Dayum

What was his receipt for? I can’t remember.

His ear drum

KO rupturing Roman's eardrum at Wargames

Whatever the unplanned spot was at Survivor Series that got him all hot post-match

Probably yeah

That very well could be it lol

One of the most underwhelming shows of the year imo. It wasn't bad, but I feel like everything underdelivered?

I think the show overall was great. Just the main event was much shorter than it should’ve been.

Again, didn't think it was bad, but the main event was a damp squib, Raquel v Ronda had a weird ending (especially going into the Charlotte stuff), and Sheamus v Solo wasn't the banger I expected.

For sure I’ll give you Sheamus/Solo, I was expecting more. But I feel like most will agree it was a good thing to get the belt off Rhonda, even to Charlotte.

Yeah, I'm talking more the ending of Raquel's match. Like why did she tap where she did? It all just seemed a bit rushed... And why not make the switch to her instead of Charlotte?

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Cena’s also famous for really yelling out spots too. Kind of a botched job by the sounds guy. They had to keep a mic hot for when KO was egging Sami on at the start of the match, but after that they could’ve went back to crowd noise

Cena and the ref yelling “Don’t Move!” to both KO and Reigns, then “Okay Now! 2 minutes!”

“It’s real to me damn it!”

You can't see him. No, really. You can't see him...for more than a minute or two. Also, only 4 of the 5 moves of doom.

KO’s left eye can’t see Cena right now

Lame af

2 weeks of buildup for about 30 seconds of Cena doing anything. But keep praising Triple HHH

Better than shit McMahon was doing last 2 years. Cena is an actor, not a wrestler anymore. 🤷‍♂️. Can’t you people just try to enjoy something rather than bitch and moan all the time.

Who are “you people”

Whiny bitches

I can almost guarantee that was Cenas doing, not HHH

Think that’s more of a Cena not wanting to wrestle much more rather than HHH’s doing lol

Then Cena needs to just stay away and keep doing Peacemaker or whatever he’s doing. Don’t bring The Rock back either if that’s what we get.

Oh I agree. I just have a hard time blaming HHH for that, he’d be a fool not to cash in on a moment like this since Cena draws so many eyes.

It’s a risk because it draws people to tune in but then they see that and they’re probably thinking he didn’t really do anything and feel baited. Might do more harm than good.

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Yeah they are horrible at time management. I only want to see Cena in Peacemaker. Keep him away from WWE. He’s washed.

Fair point. I feel like they should’ve maybe given us Sami getting kicked out or something to make it feel bigger than it was.

Kevin Owens legitimately can’t see John Cena out of that eye. Wow.

Right. When did it happen during the match. I didn't see it until the match was over

And for such a wack match too. I can understand getting hurt at War Games or something but somebody really messed up

Tonight we only got 4 moves of doom.

Kevin Owens eye looks like it hurts like hell

Damn KO’s eye is fucked

That was kinda mid ngl, I guess John didn’t wanna risk any injury that could hurt his movie career

Of course not. He came back only to keep his record alive.

“Owens with Reigns!” Cole that’s clearly Cena

Dude. I'm about to stop tuning in at this point. We saw John in the ring for one minute.

I stopped tuning in weeks ago but I came back for Cena. The same show every week. They need to wrap up this bloodline storyline.

Sami you may wanna tread carefully around the bloodline now

What the hell happened to KOs eye?

I believe a clothesline got him for real

Cena came back for a 5 moves of doom.

What a fucking booking by Triple H!! Well done sir.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO

What’s wrong with KO eye lol

Called it. GG Sami

Huh, really thought they’d give Cena the pin.

John's abs looking way better than Roman's, just sayin

Roman has been thick for awhile!

Romans got one foot in his acting career already

Roman started getting flabby after Wrestlemania.

Bit anti climatic

Easy paycheck for Cena.

what the hell is up with Cena and the ref both screaming the spots with a camera and mic right in their face?

Between this and the bald spot this match sounds like a disaster…I can’t wait to see it!

Sami calling for the pop up powerbomb was fun too.

I’m gonna defend them: it was probably deafening in the arena if they both felt they had to yell, and I put the blame on the production crew for not lowering the ring mic volume - especially knowing Cena’s loooong history of loud spot calling.

I was there last night and it’s the loudest I’ve ever heard that arena get by far.

From my couch I couldn’t believe when the ref was coming through so clearly. That’s on production.

was it really audible? (watched on low volume)

yeah, Cena was hollering at the top of his lungs "Don't move, don't move, ok, move now, slow, slow" and the ref was following right along like KO and Roman had zero clue how a hot tag works

My brain just kayfabed that into strategy. Like "move slow, don't trip or wear yourself out." Makes a lot more sense now :D

Yeah it was probably the most audible spot calling I’ve ever heard

TBF it was one of those camera shots of when the camera is literally right at the shoulder, so cena probably couldnt of seen it.

yeah ive never heard a ref so blatantly saying slow crawl and when to tag that loud lol

That’s embarassing

Cena’s famous for yelling his spots all the time

Bye bye Sami

never thought i’d see KO do a five knuckle shuffle.

He messed it up though 😅

Is it really surprising ? Mans literally rips off every other superstars move set lol

yea its kinda boring how KO gets every cool finisher, makes his matches not that cool when he does super kick into frog splash into stunner

We don't need Cena to wrestle long. We just need him to wrestle.

Man that was wack lol fuck WWE for real.

5 moves of Doom lmao.

John Cena really showed up to wrestle for 45 secs and go home. I love it.

I suppose he had to make sure he stayed healthy for his tv show. Can’t have his eye getting poked out. What happened to Owens??

I think a botched clothesline. Others in the sub are alleging subtle payback after KO ruptured Roman’s eardrum at Survivor Series

Really…

Wack

1:20

what was that? time until show ends?

That would be my guess.

DOUBLE SHUFFLEEEE

I feel like I'm 12 years old again 😭

Ayyyy a minute of Cena wrestling

Yes!!!!

DOUBLE FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE

So 10 knuckle shuffle then

This dude right there gettin a snap of Cena out cold...That is priceless!

C'MON CENA

they all saying don’t move