All Appears Quiet. SmackDown Follows RAW's Lead to Night of Champions...

How’s It Going, Enthusiasts?

 

Happy Juneteenth! Not exactly sure how to properly celebrate just yet but you know, show your humanitarian side and just try to educate yourself. Always a good start. As for the Wrestling World, there’s nothing too crazy going on but I have a few things I can speak on. Shouldn’t take too long. Ready? Here we go.

 

Over in the Realm of AEW, things appear to be moving along nicely. MJF and Don Callis continue to establish themselves and are appropriately unconcerned with the Future. Too busy doing what they do best apparently which is all find and good. It’s exactly what they should be doing.

 

I caught the big old 12-Man-Tag that seemed to be set to put that onery Mark Briscoe in his place. I’d say the best spot was between Kyle Fletcher and Konosuke Takeshita. Fletcher is more technical but I appreciate Takeshita’s realistic style and they have good chemistry so, they won if you ask me 😉

 

Meanwhile the Riders of Death had some business with Brody King and Mistico. King would be far more interesting if he ever gets himself in shape. At present, he’s just benefitting from being a big ole dude but you figure the sky’s the limit if he just trimmed up. Mistico proved to be a high energy performer and it wasn’t all that much of a surprise that they got the win over the pairing of Jon Moxley and Daniel Garcia.

 

However, I noticed how Garcia is beginning to pick up Mox’s “bad habits” as he’s starting to bite people on the face. Tsk-tsk-tsk. They just don’t care about tetanus shots, do they. Regardless, this was less the point as it was to back up Will Ospreay later in the show.

 

Ospreay seems set to face Swerve Strickland at Forbidden Door next weekend and Strickland is noticing a difference in Ospreay. I’m not so sure I’m really seeing it. Yet, I see what he means. The only critique I can give is that I feel Ospreay needs to get wittier when shouting out to his new bride, Alex Windsor. The way he acknowledges her sounds best left for the pub. I don’t need to hear about how he rightly “smashed her” to consummate the union. That’s definitely something some wanker would say.

 

Besides that, I think Strickland has the upper hand going into their bout. Yet, the Riders of Death made their presence felt when Strickland opted to bring out the chains when he managed to set Ospreay off. Can’t say what the endgame is here but we’ll see if it has anything to do with the Future. It doesn’t have to and it doesn’t not have to either. We’ll leave them to it. All I’ll say is that what I’m seeing so far, isn’t more interesting than the Future, so if they’re going to go in a different direction, it should be equal to or greater than the Future. Otherwise, have fun psyching everyone out.

 

Over in the WWE Universe or the outskirts thereof, we got an interesting chime in from Ryback recently. He surprisingly had a mature and respectable take on the flak Roman Reigns has been mildly getting for making an appearance at the White House UFC event. He basically said the man is one of the most professional backstage and shouldn’t be condemned for attending what could be called a company event. It’s no indication of his character.

 

I didn’t even have to know his personal take, my point was the fact this could be called business, but Ryback’s point is not diminished for it. He’s right. I don’t know why everyone got their panties in a bunch. It’s not a good look but at the same time who cares. Cody Rhodes wasn’t going to do it. Someone had to. Give him points for sucking it up and going. You’re entitled to dislike this administration. I think it’s crap too. I didn’t vote for it but it is what it is. People gotta do what they gotta do. Wait for something more substantial to get bent out of shape about. I’ll bitch when he’s preaching MAGA rhetoric and only if it’s not on a WWE affiliated show. Otherwise, he’s trolling in character and we’re supposed to hate him for it.

 

All right, onto tonight’s show. For SmackDown, we can expect more set-up for Night of Champions. Interesting how that an Iran deal was cut just in time. It’s good to have friends in high places. In any case, we have for our viewing pleasure, Carmelo Hayes and Ricky Saints for what…round 4? Only this time the stakes are #1 Contender for the US Championship that Trick Williams currently holds. The MFT Juggalos Talla & Tama Tonga will take on R-Truth and Damian Priest for the Tag Team Championships. Guess Truth is cleared to wrassle. Jey Uso will see if he can keep Je’Von Evans on the ground in an effort to get stomped out by Oba Femi at King of the Ring. For the Ladies, it’s Charlotte Flair up against Liv Morgan for the Queen of the Ring semifinal. Either lady can win there. And it looks like to open, we’ll have a commercial free Championship Match between GUNTHER and Cody Rhodes. Sami Zayn will be the guest referee and that’s gotta factor somehow. We’ll see which version of Zayn prevails.  

 

It’s pizza for dinner for tonight so I’ll be set and ready to go. If you’re staying in, you’re always welcome to swing by and enjoy the show. It’s one of the reasons I love Fridays.

 

 

See You in a Bit,

-Nicole Alexis (^_~)