Board 8 > All Purpose Wrestling Topic 512: Finishing the Story

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Picks for this Saturday...

Liv retains after Dom turns on Rhea
Nia beats Bayley, Stratton teases a cash in but doesn't yet
Bron beats Sami
CM Punk beats Drew but eats a curb stomp right after
Knight beats Paul
Gunther beats Priest, possibly with help from Balor
Cody beats Solo. This match doesn't main event SS unless Roman returns afterwards.

I read a scenario where Dom "accidentally" helps Liv retain and then Balor assists Gunther, only to have the night end with Judgment Day kicking out Priest and Rhea, replacing them with Carlito and Liv with Balor as the new leader.

Insane? Yes, but I can dream.

that's a lot of gold changing

Well HHH barely changes them outside of the big four PLEs so that's what happens when you get to one of those four

I kinda want Solo to win because its the funny option

maybe through Talla Tonga

I'd love to see Drew win his match against Punk here but it does feel like the 3 are going to a Wrestlemania triple threat at this point. Which is wild to imagine.

TEW IX drops today :3

I will mod it again, but it'll be on the FWA discord, if you want an invite hit me up and you can watch me lose my grip on reality over the course of several years, again

https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/1819038518594994666

I was this close to forgetting he was a miserable human being.

pat mcafee went on his own show and showed his ass about it too

https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/1819055519639720298

CanadaGames

This might be the first time ever that WWE had more ppvs outside America than in it within one calendar year. From Rumble to Wargames...

Florida
Australia
Philadelphia
France
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Toronto
Cleveland
Berlin
Atlanta (Bad Blood)
Saudi Arabia (Crown Jewel)
Vancouver

Can't say I blame WWE. Most of the international event crowds destroy America's, especially France and Scotland

Final card!

Summerslam 2024
Priest vs Gunther for the WHC
Cody vs Solo for the WWE title, conducted under Bloodline Rules
Bayley vs Nia for the WWE Women's title
Liv vs Rhea for the Women's World title
McIntyre vs Punk with Rollins as guest referee
Zayn vs Breakker for the IC title
Logan Paul vs LA Knight for the US title

https://i.imgur.com/yBAH35C.jpeg

very cool of logan paul to take a break from doing hate speech to invite child predator rob feinstein to smackdown

ORIGINAL TRIBAL CHlEF

Solid ppv!

Some of the Man titles changed hands too! Cody wins back custody, while Punk and Ripley lose their titles tonight!

WWE's The Man: Cody Rhodes
Flair's Final Singles Match "The Man": Drew McIntyre
The Man, Female Edition: Liv Morgan
AEW's The Man: Swerve Strickland
Custody of Dominik Mysterio: Cody Rhodes

Priest/Gunther was match of the night with McIntyre/Punk #2 and Knight/Paul #3.

Hope Fatu didn't fuck himself up on that splash.

ZeroSignal posted...

Solid ppv!

Some of the Man titles changed hands too! Cody wins back custody, while Punk and Ripley lose their titles tonight!

WWE's The Man: Cody Rhodes
Flair's Final Singles Match "The Man": Drew McIntyre
The Man, Female Edition: Liv Morgan
AEW's The Man: Swerve Strickland
Custody of Dominik Mysterio: Cody Rhodes

If Punk, Rollins and Drew Mac have a ladder match for that bracelet, can we create the "Larry and AJ Bracelet" Championship

I'm still sad that we retired the Liquor Basket championship

UltimaterializerX posted...

The Man is Roman Reigns. Clearly.

Metaphorically, sure. Dude finally got the crowd reaction in one night that Vince failed to give him over the last 9 years.

Cody ended Roman's 3+ year long run as "The Man" and hasn't been pinned yet in a singles match during this run.

That being said, Idk who actually beats Cody for the title (actual title, not The Man). COULD be Roman.

Still think the Bloodline's Endgame is going to be Roman vs Rock at WM41 though

i heard the show sucked shit

loved that the Punk/Drew match was all about Punk costing himself opportunities. very nice parallel they're working.

ivysnow posted...

i heard the show sucked shit

Nah.

Dom finally traded up
Bron, Knight, and Gunther finally win gold
Punk vs Drew was a good watch
Judgment Day in shambles
Roman gets the biggest pop of his career

Is it the best event of the year? Not even close, but it's still good.

No super amazing matches, but the show told every story you could want them to. It was very good. The only thing you could say is the crowd was a little out of it for certain matches for certain reasons (Bayley and Nia, not doing much for the main event until Roman). Then again, that's what they signed up for with that stipulation.

With Cody's win last night, he became the most recent superstar to win a main event at all the Big Four ppvs at least once (Rumble, Mania, Summer, Survivor) and he did this all consecutively starting with Survivor Series last year.

Others to achieve this feat:
Hulk Hogan
Undertaker
Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
The Rock
Brock Lesnar
Triple H
John Cena
Roman Reigns (Also did consecutively from Wrestlemania 32 to Summerslam 2023)

Stone Cold came very close, but his main event match with HHH at Survivor Series 2000 ended in a no contest.

Finally, if you include Money in the Bank (since WWE added it to the Big Four, making the "Big Five", the list would only insist of Cena, Reigns, and Lesnar)

Key notes tonight...

Bash in Berlin's main event announced tonight: Gunther vs Orton for the WHC.

Balor revealed the new Judgment Day, consisting of him, McDonagh, Dominik, Liv, and Carlito. We're basically getting Damian/Rhea vs everyone, and I'm certain Jey Uso and Sami are joining this battle eventually.

While Drew and Punk continue to feud, Rollins gets ambushed and destroyed by Bronson Reed

Zayn and Breakker to meet in a 2-of-3 falls match for the IC title next week.

Wyatt Sicks win debut match against American Made (Gable + Creed Brothers)

Reed murdering Seth was not what i expected at all and was a pleasant treat. especially with the schizo audience cheering for Reed to kill Seth harder before singing his theme. the hell was that.

that debut match is posted in full, opening and ending included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqbUzzloT4

i'm not sure a debut match could've gone better. all 3 did fantastic, Dexter performed entirely different, and Alpha Academy/Gable were top notch. especially Gable, i love how anytime he does something too Kurt Angle the You Suck chants start. if WWE were to ever introduce a trios belt, man this would be the time.

The lows of Raw:

- No matter how hard HHH tries, I can't get into The Final Testament.

- With the way Xavier Woods reacted to Odyssey Jones, WWE might be preparing to split the New Day

Kevin Sullivan passes away at 74

Bash in Berlin
Gunther vs Orton for the WHC
Cody vs Owens for the WWE title

Not sure what else gets added, knowing WWE's recent history of only having 5-6 match ppvs outside the Big Four

https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow/status/1822265132849770748

USA wrestling getting it done

Bash in Berlin
Gunther vs Orton for the WHC
Cody vs Owens for the WWE title
Priest/Rhea vs Dominik/Liv

Possibly to be added
McIntyre vs Punk in a strap match

WWE about to add the Women's Speed Championship to their library. So with that, we have...

WWE Undisputed
World Heavyweight Championship
Intercontinental
United States
World Tag Team
WWE Tag Team
WWE Women's Championship
Women's World Championship
Women's Tag Team
Speed
Women's Speed

11 titles and that doesn't include NXT. Rumor also has it they might introduce a Women's midcard belt as well for the main roster

every company got too many god damn belts

Nah, just WWE and AEW going overboard, as usual.

Somehow TNA only has 7, and one of them is a Canadian title reactivated after 37 years of inactivity.

yeah after i said it i realized it was more those two than anything else lol

If they were still doing brand vs brand matches, Survivor Series would have cooked this year. You'd have the following...

Cody vs Gunther
LA Knight vs Bron
Bloodline vs Judgment Day
Nia vs Liv (this one would be more dependent on the interference by both Tiffany Stratton and Dominik Mysterio, plus the thought of Dom getting an An-Nia-lator makes it worth watching).

Not sure what the second Wargames match will be (At this point we're all certain that the primary one is the Bloodline Civil War). They usually have an all women's one for the second one, and with SD having the Bloodline one, we're probably getting the women's wargames from Raw.

Prepare for more Damage Control vs Pure Fusion Collective

ivysnow posted...

yeah after i said it i realized it was more those two than anything else lol

New Japan and CMLL have more than both but they also do it for weight classs

As expected, Punk and Drew have a strap match in Berlin.

That's 3 matches from Raw and 1 from SD on the card. If Berlin ends up only getting five matches, the last one's probably Bloodline related or possibly a Women's title defense by Nia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/1ewyxxv/im_ronda_rousey_ama/

Ronda Rousey did an AMA on reddit and got absolutely eviscerated to the point where she abandoned ship and the topic was locked.

lol. lmao

She just appeared with Chris Van Vliet stating she wanted to do a revenge angle with Becky due to the finish at Wrestlemania 35.

That would've been AFTER she took a 2 year hiatus. Fans were still cheering for heel Becky against face Bianca; ain't no way in Hell that Ronda would have the fans' support against Becky.

After that WM finish I thought they were 100% setting up Becky/Ronda later yeah

I think it might have worked if they didn't try turning Becky heel in 2021.

Logan Paul tried to kill his dog for content

I'm past my ability to ignore him being human trash because he's got a knack for wrestling

I rewatched that clip multiple times and I'm not 100% certain that was intentional.

However, Logan Paul's been trash way before this moment, soooooo

A few minutes of thought here. Here's the last 5 people to decisively beat the following main eventers/legends...

Cody Rhodes
Solo Sikoa
The Rock
Drew McIntyre
Brock Lesnar
Roman Reigns

Roman Reigns
Cody Rhodes
Jey Uso
Baron Corbin
Erick Rowan
Shane McMahon

The Rock
John Cena
Goldberg
The Hurricane
Brock Lesnar
Chris Benoit

Undertaker
Roman Reigns
Brock Lesnar
Kane
Chris Jericho
CM Punk

John Cena
Solo Sikoa
Austin Theory
Roman Reigns
Bray Wyatt
Finn Balor

Brock Lesnar
Cody Rhodes
Roman Reigns
Bobby Lashley
Drew McIntyre
Seth Rollins

https://twitter.com/RondaRousey/status/1826859290164166749?t=dkSZ892wgSRTRVRmdgIplw&s=19

Two more last 5s, because why not?

Last 5 to pin/submit/decisively beat one-on-one...

Randy Orton
Gunther
Drew McIntyre
Seth Rollins
Bobby Lashley
John Morrison

(Not sure HOW accurate the Orton one is because he did a ton of tag matches the past few years, but I think Riddle ate the pins most/all the time)

Gunther
Sami Zayn
Bron Breakker
Ilya Dragunov
Drew McIntyre
Jordan Devlin

GTM posted...

https://twitter.com/RondaRousey/status/1826859290164166749?t=dkSZ892wgSRTRVRmdgIplw&s=19

Saw that and was reminded why I hate social media.

Obviously Ronda fucked up and the response to her AMA lead to this apology, but at least she's finally owning up to this.

Bash in Berlin
Gunther vs Orton for the WHC
Cody vs Owens for the WWE title
Priest/Rhea vs Dominik/Liv
McIntyre vs Punk in a strap match
Bianca/Jade vs Alba/Isla for the Women's Tag Titles

Also, SD will be in Berlin next week, where Nia defends her title against Michin and LA Knight issues an open challenge for the US title

I have never seen this before

https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow/status/1827330281478488539