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Ain't watched much wrestling, just seen the Orton rko and Brock coming on smackdown. From reading how the card looks for next ppv, surprised to see reigns chasing the us title but good move by wwe, dunno if there's still a mixed crowd reaction but this can really help him get backing from the fans. If they still boo, wwe can say fuck it, least we tried but it's also probably to do with his suspension i guess.

Gonna prob just watch Finn balor's match as I wanna see how good this guy is!

(12-08-2016 07:56 )shano123 Wrote:  Ain't watched much wrestling, just seen the Orton rko and Brock coming on smackdown. From reading how the card looks for next ppv, surprised to see reigns chasing the us title but good move by wwe, dunno if there's still a mixed crowd reaction but this can really help him get backing from the fans. If they still boo, wwe can say fuck it, least we tried but it's also probably to do with his suspension i guess.

Gonna prob just watch Finn balor's match as I wanna see how good this guy is!

If you havent seen much of his work I would recommend some of nxt takeover specials and recently his match with nakamura on the network, outside of that his run in japan was just awesome with the likes of tanahashi.

bbc did a documentary about finn balor's time in japan before he joined nxt. In the small snippets of his matches he looked really good, it covered the original bullet club of him, gallows and Anderson before aj styles replaced balor.

rusev being a great heel means that reigns will get over with the fans easier than if it was someone else, I wonder if they going to do what they did with rollins by having reigns holding both the us championship and the universal championship belts.

I would like to see reigns and lesnar square off again, I thought their match at wrestlemania 31 was pretty good.

I remember watching the documentary it was a real insight to his time there as a wrestler and the lifestyle of the japanese wrestling scene. Rusev has really impressed me over the last few months he has gradually made the US title mean something again it may not be at cenas level but he has stepped up regardless, this role suits him much more than that love triangle trainwreck of a storyline with dolph and lana awhile back.

Quote:The August 15th 2016 edition of RAW did 2.915 million viewers overall. This is up from last week's 2.911 million viewers. The main event was Roman Reigns vs. Rusev.

Below is the hourly breakdown:

8PM: 2,879M viewers
9PM: 3,083M viewers
10PM: 2,784M viewers.

I thought this weeks show went back to average for the most part, was a couple good moments on the show including heymans summerslam promo with brock and heath slater, jeri-rko are just gold together also. I was disappointed with the lack of time the women has to promote their title match though, 5min segment with a 2min match? im sure the event itself will deliver but the build up could of been far better.

I agree with that,the matches aren't being given enough time to develop,the drop of viewers in the last hour is completely understandable.

Yeah, after charlotte being picked third in the draft you got the impressed they wanted to continue to keep the womens division as credible and at the forefront, havent seen much to say that have changed their ways, if you compare it to the time rollins had throughout the show its baffling they couldnt give them at least 15mins.

Its a strange way to promote the woman's division.Hopefully it will get a decent amount of time it deserves on ppv.

Here is the final card for this sundays summerslam show.

Quote:Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton

WWE Universal Championship
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor

WWE Championship
Dean Ambrose © vs. Dolph Ziggler

WWE Women's Championship
Sasha Banks © vs. Charlotte
Dana Brooke is banned from ringside.

WWE United States Championship
Rusev © vs. Roman Reigns

WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Miz © vs. Apollo Crews

John Cena vs. AJ Styles

WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day © vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson

Enzo Amore & Big Cass vs. Chris Jericho & Kevin Owens

Best of 7 Series Kickoff
Sheamus vs. Cesaro

Eva Marie, Natalya & Alexa Bliss vs. Carmella, Naomi & Becky Lynch.

that does look like a decent match card, hopefully it is a quality ppv. the ppvs since wrestlemania have improved.

It would be great if the night of champions ppv had the champions of raw and smackdown face each other.