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[serenewarfare]

People on twitter are pissed

WWE probably loves that. They think "look, Carmella will get heat" when actually the heat is just "WWE sucks, stop watching this".

 

[Bits N Pieces]

Oh Daniel.....

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Or you know, since youre GM, you could have come down to the ring and restarted the match

 

[Hex]

People on twitter are pissed

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.

Or you know, since youre GM, you could have come down to the ring and restarted the match

Not here

 

[spindashing]

Kofi landed...terribly

 

[LiQuid!]

Usos and New Day trying to shoot kill each other???

 

[Anth0ny]

can't address shit if they cash in before you say shit!

 

[Fernando Fernandez]

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D-Bry and The Big Hog collide!

 

[Toki767]

SummerSlam will have all the women in one match.

 

[serenewarfare]

Whooop di doo unless they give us another ladder match.

I told you, they are going to make her defend it in a match. Where she'll win in a BS way, probably because of Ellsworth again, and they'll move on.

Or she'll cash it in tonight so they don't have time to enforce consequences on her.

 

[truly101]

Lana wins, Carmella cashes in, wins the title, says to Shane on Tuesday when he inevitably says she didn't win it fairly that there's nothing he can do about it since she already cashed in. Shane says Carmella must defend her title at Battleground in a eight way elimination match.

BECAUSE WE NEED MORE MULTIWOMAN MATCHES EVERY PPV!

This is probably what happens since half the roster they dont trust in a singles match in a PPV setting.

 

[SomewhatGroovy]

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Oh don't get worked. He doesn't give a fuck. These assholes think they can get away with sexist booking so long as the magic of 50/50 booking erases their sins.

It's bullshit.

 

[somedevil]

Or you know, since youre GM, you could have come down to the ring and restarted the match

Not there but watching.

If they wanted Carmella to win James should of knocked her down and Carmella climbs the ladder to win the match.

 

[ReiGun]

WWE probably loves that. They think "look, Carmella will get heat" when actually the heat is just "WWE sucks, stop watching this".

Yup. It's the "long as you're reacting, we won" mentality.

There are probably a thousand ways they could have booked a fuckery finish that didn't shit all over the match. But they wanted to piss people off. So here we are.

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

Whooop di doo unless they give us another ladder match.

It has already been ruined even if they do. The best resolution would be something along the lines of Becky getting a singles match vs Elsworth and him jobbing to her despite Carmella's efforts to interfere, showing the world she could do better than AJ did when he was champ. But that's not going to happen.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.

Exactly. Don't invoke every historic women wrestlers ever and then do that finish

 

[serenewarfare]

Or you know, since youre GM, you could have come down to the ring and restarted the match

He's not back on the show until Tuesday.

 

[Nocturnowl]

can't address shit if they cash in before you say shit!

With the wording of addressing it on SD live I'm almost thinking this immediate cash in approach before it can be revoked has to be the story as to why they let the cash in roll instead of it being the much more sensible fake out ending that gets the match restarted..
Surely...SURELY

 

[Shadow Broker]

That was a pretty good female ladder match.

 

[Professor Beef]

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FOH D.Brine. You've been Smackdown's disappearing dad for months now, and all of a sudden NOW you wanna make some rulings?

 

[truly101]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.



Not here

Not to mention its the opening match and its left the crowd kinda cold.

 

[Pizoxuat]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.

Absolutely agree with all this. If it wasn't the first it would be a gross heel move, but it wouldn't make me want to stop watching.

 

[serenewarfare]

Exactly. Don't invoke every historic women wrestlers ever and then do that finish

Again, WWE thinks that's part of the heat. They think you'll be mad at Carmella for ruining a historic moment.

 

[Cairax]

One match being good for the women doesn't mean WWE have an excuse to then fuck around with another match because hey, we did it once before, why treat the women with respect a second time around

It's classic heel wrestling 101. Taking this shit way too serious. There will be other women's mitb matches. It was "historic" that it even took place.

 

[BFIB]

Well, that ending of the women's MiTB killed this crowd live.

 

[Fernando Fernandez]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.



Not here

Tbf now thinking about it, that's why all those videos were so historic and nostalgic - so this reaction is ten fold.

Playing us

 

[geomon]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.

I agree and that's pretty much the sentiment going on. Imagine if they pulled this shit for the Women's Hell in a Cell.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

He's not back on the show until Tuesday.

Must be nice to be boss and never have to show up!

 

[excelsiorlef]

Again, WWE thinks that's part of the heat. They think you'll be mad at Carmella for ruining a historic moment.

Lol... which is pretty stupid.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

This better result in Carmella actually getting heat for once.

 

[Sinatar]

You realize that's in kayfabe right? Tune in Tuesday to find out what I think!

Don't get worked mark.

 

[TimeEffect]

Well here is my view....
If they were going to go fucktarded with the finish, do not push the shit as historic.
DO not do pre-match vignettes, do not do all this shit about history being made.
You just shit on history.

If it was just another match, of if it was the second or third MITB, so be it.

The entire purpose of pushing it as historic was to feed into the expectation and then make James and Carmella dishonourable scumbags

Its a fine ending and I dont see the point in forcing this historic moment marketing junk as anything meaningful

Having the entire roster in a ladder match is a giant gimmick anyway and it will be forgotten because the match wasn't anything to begin with.

It doesnt have to be historic and respected just because its a first ever.

One day we'll have a proper ladder match Im sure, but I cant find myself caring about this as a historic moment when only 2 of those stars are worth their salt and the rest are pretty whatever

Hopefully it benefits Carmella into being a top heel since everyone else they have is far away from being a proper villain

 

[Nocturnowl]

Really I'm disappointed we didn't get Charlotte throwing herself off a ladder.

Tbf now thinking about it, that's why all those videos were so historic and nostalgic - so this reaction is ten fold.

Playing us

Are you saying we're getting worked? it's Roman Reigns all over again!

 

[serenewarfare]

Lol... which is pretty stupid.

I mean yeah that's WWE.

 

[ShaggsMagoo]

Must be nice to be boss and never have to show up!

Dude is on paternity leave.

 

[Sparkedglory]

Big e is gonna off himself doing that

 

[Brinbe]

Their any reaction is a good reaction bullshit is what's killing their viewership. Crappy characters, lame, formulaic matches, terrible/nonsense booking. It's amazing that they have all the time in the world to script this shit out and actually build a compelling, long-form entertaining product and it's all on-the-fly mediocre lazy bullshit.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Tbf now thinking about it, that's why all those videos were so historic and nostalgic - so this reaction is ten fold.

Playing us

But no one is mad at Carmella

This makes me feel sorry for her ooc because she deserved to have won it herself

 

[serenewarfare]

Their any reaction is a good reaction bullshit is what's killing their viewership. Crappy characters, lame, formulaic matches, terrible/nonsense booking. It's amazing that they have all the time in the world to script this shit out and actually build a compelling, long-form entertaining product and it's all on-the-fly mediocre lazy bullshit.

I'm almost certain they don't actually believe that "any reaction is good reaction". They just say that because they want to justify their shitty storytelling and laziness.

Same thing when they say "ratings don't matter".

 

[CannonFodder52]

As someone who doesn't watch wrestling, this rounds really shitty. Sorry y'all.

 

[Sparkedglory]

Kofi has learned the dragon sleeper 👀

 

[spindashing]

This match!

 

[Shadow Broker]

Pulling out the Dragon Sleeper after the Tequila Sunrise

 

[somedevil]

Kofi breaking out the dragon sleeper.

 

[Bits N Pieces]

This is a good match going on right now.

 

[Officerrob]

Ummm, that's three...

 

[Anth0ny]

Steph just tweeted:

Regardless of the outcome, I'm so proud of @MsCharlotteWWE @TaminaSnuka @CarmellaWWE @BeckyLynchWWE & @NatbyNature for making history #MITB

they don't give a fuck. they made history. that's the end of it.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

If Carmella doesn't cash in, it'll probably lead to her vs Becky since Becky nearly had the match won until Ellsworth's interruption.

Really I'm disappointed we didn't get Charlotte throwing herself off a ladder.

You know she asked to do a moonsault off the ladder but got told no.

 

[Cairax]

Someone botched

 

[Slizz]

:lol that was 3