Naomi didn’t even have enough time to speak on a segment of this show dedicated to discussing her trends on Twitter last week.
The title of this summary speaks for itself.
Over the span of a decade, Naomi has been mistreated by WWE’s creativity. Last week, after losing a quick and silly match against Lacey Evans, which hasn’t ended in the slightest, many fans took to Twitter with #NaomiDeservesBetter and set it on trend until Saturday night. And what she said on Miz TV is the truth.
BTW, WWE cuts out a lot of their YouTube videos and for them putting Seth Rollins’ vomiting stars first instead of leading directly with Naomi talking is all you need to know. She said the fans support her and she supports them. They are your motivation. Naomi proves it on her social media platforms. As Miz pointed out, she had a strong reaction when she returned to the Royal Rumble this year. Its entry is striking and popular. She naturally has overcome.
But that doesn’t fit WWE’s plans, so it doesn’t get the attention. Yes, she won the SmackDown women’s title twice, but since then? What comes before, besides being a memorable part of the Funkadactyls? She has expressed interest in tagging with Bianca Belair. I don’t see why that isn’t done in two weeks after this silly fight with Lacey is over.
So of course Miz and Morrison bring Lacey Evans and who cares? His poor lipstick broke, making him very angry, but Naomi struggled against him. I hate this. In all a miserable karaoke contest.
Friends fight for a title shot
Sasha and Bayley started this show by giving up the new definition of greatness.
The women’s revolution started with them and will end with them. Boys and girls looking at home will see that their dreams can come true, but Bayley chimed in and said that no matter how hard they try, they will never be as good as they are.
BlissCross interrupted and a furious Cross said he was demanding a championship rematch of which he was duped at Extreme Rules. Bayley accepted a game for next week, but only if he can beat Alexa in one game. And anyone who wins can face it. Stakes!
The game started just after the break and Cross and Bliss did not stop. Cross tried to get a quick pin and Bliss looked angry because she had tried and pointed at Cross’s etched ribs. Bliss escaped from a tornado DDT and kicked Cross in the ring skirt because she knows the movements of her best friend. After a well-fought fight, Cross covered Bliss with a small package. After the game, Cross and Bliss said there was no hard feelings, and Bliss tried to cheer on her friend for her title game next week.
This was the exact conclusion I expected, because I have a suspicion that BlissCross Applesauce has ended next week. I really didn’t feel any genuine happiness from Alexa wishing Nikki long after the game. Yes, you could attribute it to the fact that she only lost, but she didn’t want the fight to start. WWE was clearly based on the Sasha / Bayley breakup and I think Alexa may play a role in Nikki losing her rematch.
The million dollar question: who goes crazy?
Cinematic fight in the bar
Of all the gin joints in every city in the world, she gets into mine.
This certainly wasn’t Casablanca, but in honor of the highly anticipated second encounter between Sheamus and Jeff Hardy, I poured myself a white tangerine claw and toasted the greats.
This was, for all intents and purposes, a standard street fighting fight in a bar. They threw the beer in his face, he had the classic dragging a body through the glasses at the bar, he had a scene in the bathroom, and because it’s a street fight rules bout, he had fighting moves!
Sheamus broke a stool on Hardy’s back after Hardy, but the waiter (same as a few weeks ago!) Walked across a table. Sheamus Brogue kicked a drum, Sheamus put Hardy in the potty face first, Hardy threw a little style of basketball at Sheamus (Sheamus clearly didn’t learn to dodge, duck, dive, dive and dodge), and a convenient ladder happened to lie down so Hardy jumps off him.
The end result was the right man winning. Jeff Swanton bombarded the top and got the count of three. Honestly, I laughed through most of this, so it wasn’t as offensive to me as I originally thought it would be. It could also be because I enjoyed the bubbly a bit myself. In the form of a seltzer. However, one thing must happen: this dispute must be over.
Why the hell was this cinematic and not the eye for a visual match?
United, never divided
I am featuring the small part of Kofi and Big E in my review for a reason:
Big E absolutely positively one hundred percent … deserves a singles career.
Kofi left the coach’s room and told E that he will be gone for up to 6 weeks due to an injury. He said that he and Woods had spoken and that E deserves to be the center of attention because he put himself on hold for Kofi when he had the WWE title.
Give. Big E. An. Intercontinental. Title. To run.
E can easily switch to a Styles program after the game for next week’s title. Give me a program that leads to SummerSlam and E takes the title.
The rest
Braun is back home – Bray Wyatt spoke from Fun House after a recap of the swamp fight at Extreme Rules. His flashlight that resembles old Bray said a few words I couldn’t understand, but Bray said family reunions warm his soul, and Braun Strowman returned home. He knows some of us are concerned that he’s stuck in the swamp forever, but that’s okay, that swamp is 100% certified organic. Je Braun should return as a Brooklyn hipster then.
Not Braun at all on this show, just a little mention of him by Bray and Michael Cole afterwards. There didn’t seem to be much concern for his well-being.
Great Metalik def. Golden Lynx, Chad Gable and Drew Gulak – Whenever Lucha House Party is in the ring, you should keep up to date because they are fast and agile as hell. Gable and Gulak also had a great time in the match where Gulak had a smooth reversal. Gable has incredible moon jumps. Golden Daddy is bad, all of you. I said what I said. He had a frog splash that rivaled Montez Ford on Raw. I didn’t expect Metalik to win this one. Dorado had a better performance in my opinion.
Matt Riddle def. Tony Nese – Riddle started the game with some aggression and Nese was not really offended. Quick victory for him. He called Corbin later and Corbin came out and said that Riddle has that new car smell, but when that fades away, you’re left with a fraternity boy with no shoes who looks like he just got out of bed. He put in a ransom from the king so anyone can prove to him that Riddle can’t hack SmackDown. Nese tried to sneak up on the brother, but he kicked him down. Let’s get this fight over with, please.
The bar fight had originally soured me throughout this episode of SmackDown before it aired, but it wasn’t that bad. Will we see Braun next week? I do not think so. Will Naomi win next week? I really hope so. Who will go after Riddle for Corbin, who hasn’t bored me in the past two weeks?
Otis and Mandy are back next week and I need them in my life.
Grade b
What were your thoughts, Cagesiders?
