Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 461: The Skinny Jeans Avocado Toast Millenial Man

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what the hell was that about

https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1062175642060574720?s=21
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Hey at least it's an interesting storyline. And it's between two people I like to watch!
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1062175642060574720?s=21

Mildly interesting to myself and basically nobody else. I was born the day in between the two!

Also lol at the WWE site putting every Becky photo in black and white from last night to disguise the blood. Great way to build on that...

Replays show that it was indeed Nia who made Becky's nose bleed. That ended up enhancing the end of the show though apparently. Just watched the replay on youtube and they change the colors to black and white once the blood starts, but damn. Lynch is the best thing in this company, and there's nobody that's even close to as hot as her right now.
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R-Truth is hotter than Becky Lynch

That's the truth.
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Please fire Nia Jax.

I hate to see people lose their jobs. But holy shit, how can you keep condoning her injuring people so constantly? How many people need to suffer because she's so fucking clumsy and careless all the time, and that even when she doesn't injure people, she's still hurting them more than she ought to be.

I just don't understand it.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I just don't understand it.

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She causes injuries, Ronda can take kayfabe credit. It all works out
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Is Jax beyond repair at this point? Like could they write her off TV for a while and make her go back into safety training before she can work again? This is all hypothetical, since I'm guessing her ego would have her quit instead of being forced to learn to be safer, but it could be a possible option for her. It's deifnitely getting ridiculous though.
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Jakyl25 posted...

She causes injuries, Ronda can take kayfabe credit. It all works out

Ronda is safer, but not by much. Isn't she the one responsible for Bliss' current concussion situation?
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I think Ronda has a lot more potential to learn how to be safe than Nia

Like Ronda the problem is mostly "you're doing unsafe moves" whereas Nia is "you're doing moves that could be safe but you're clumsy." The latter seems a lot harder to teach but I also feel like they might be hesitant to say Ronda shouldn't do certain things because it 'looks good' or whatever (particularly since Sasha has been doing unsafe moves for years and years and was never told not to) so both of them seem like they're going to likely just keep piling up injuries.
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.... So Becky might have a concussion and be out of Survivor Series according to cagesideseats.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

.... So Becky might have a concussion and be out of Survivor Series according to cagesideseats.

Yup.

Fire Nia. Just do it.

She will never stop and she will never learn. Ronda is teachable. Nia Jax is just awful and kept on board because her cousin is The Rock and so they can pretend like they care about her being body positive.
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RaidenGarai posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

She causes injuries, Ronda can take kayfabe credit. It all works out

Ronda is safer, but not by much. Isn't she the one responsible for Bliss' current concussion situation?

Double post but whatever.

Nia has given Bliss one of the concussions she's had. And didn't she also injure her a separate time?
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scarletspeed7 posted...

.... So Becky might have a concussion and be out of Survivor Series according to cagesideseats.

That fucking sucks. The latest I had been hearding from the rumor mills before that was that she was likely going to win due to outside help (either Nia/Tamina or Charlotte). That absolutely kills the only interesting thing about Survivor Series. Really interested to see if this is true, and if so, if anything happens with Nia because of it given her history.

Guessing nothing will because the Rock, but she should at very least have to go back to the PC and learn how to wok safely.

Also worried that this makes them sour on Becky, since they have a history of not giving people another huge push if they get hurt while they have the belt.

From Uproxx, may or may not be true

As Fightful reported last night, Lynch was checked by doctors following the end of Raw and she did not immediately travel with Team SmackDown to Tuesdays event in St. Louis. SmackDown invaded Raw in the closing segment of the show to build this Sundays event. During the brawl, Nia Jax stiffed Lynch, causing her to be cut open. It was originally reported that there was no heat on Jax for the incident, but with the new information, the sentiment has changed.

If Nia ruined a match this big, there absolutely should be heat on her.
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RaidenGarai posted...

If Nia ruined a match this big, there absolutely should be heat on her.

Who cares about the match.

There should be heat on Nia because she seriously injures someone every other month and constantly hurts people otherwise.
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Everyone is worried about the match, but I just want to point out that Bray Wyatt has a shawl and he could easily challenge Ronda as Sister Abigail.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Who cares about the match.

There should be heat on Nia because she seriously injures someone every other month and constantly hurts people otherwise.

I should have worded that better. What I was trying to say was that if there's something that's going to actually get heat on Nia, it would be ruining a match like this. She seems to have a giant anti-heatshield for all of the previous things, but maybe something this major combined with all of the other stuff gets something going on her. If WWE really cares about the safety of their people, something has to be done about people who are regularly unsafe.
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Btw I absoutely understood your wording. You were talking about viewing Nia's unsafe work from the perspective of someone like Vince.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Btw I absoutely understood your wording. You were talking about viewing Nia's unsafe work from the perspective of someone like Vince.

That's even better than my rewording, and using the Vince comparison never even occured to me (which is shocking because I tend to reference him a lot). I should just write my novel posts and ask you to translate into terms that make sense to people with normally wired brains!

Disregard my prior post, that explains it so much better than I'm capable of (obviously)
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I get it because I often think about how something is viewed from the perspective of management. As best as I would predict, Nia isn't going anywhere until some mainstream outlet actually starts to put her on blast for being unsafe. When it comes to individuals within the company, the WWE execs don't like to have anyone on hand who could provide them bad PR.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I get it because I often think about how something is viewed from the perspective of management. As best as I would predict, Nia isn't going anywhere until some mainstream outlet actually starts to put her on blast for being unsafe. When it comes to individuals within the company, the WWE execs don't like to have anyone on hand who could provide them bad PR.

Except Vince
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Are you saying that Vince is WITHIN the company? Vince IS the company!

Also, that doesn't apply to Shane because he's the best in the world.
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If Becky hadn't already won me over like she did from minute 1 of this angle then her Instagram post alone would have done it

"Main event on my show, main event on your show. Everyone's tough until The Man comes around" with 2 shots of her blood face
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Becky officially out of Survivor Series.

Becky does not deserve this, but WWE does, tbh.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Becky officially out of Survivor Series.

Becky does not deserve this, but WWE does, tbh.

Noooo
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As much as I hate Becky not getting to wrestle, I'm glad she won't have to do the job for Ronda while she can brag about how she would have ripped her arm out if they had a go.

Also yes please fire Nia. I was on her side for the most part but this is a bridge too far.
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What happens in a Nia Jax vs Brie Bella match?
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Jakyl25 posted...

What happens in a Nia Jax vs Brie Bella match?

Somehow Daniel Bryan gets injured.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

What happens in a Nia Jax vs Brie Bella match?

Somehow Daniel Bryan gets injured.

I now have in my head that scene from the mighty ducks where they are coming together. But instead of Ducks Fly Together they say Nash Tears a Quad
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Awww, Reddit reminded me that this was Dustys last tweet:

https://twitter.com/wwedustyrhodes/status/607535912222916608?s=21
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https://twitter.com/TheWrasslingGuy/status/1062453728375136256?s=19

Nia Jax can honestly just go fuck herself. What the hell. How do you do that as a professional wrestler?
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

https://twitter.com/TheWrasslingGuy/status/1062453728375136256?s=19

Nia Jax can honestly just go fuck herself. What the hell. How do you do that as a professional wrestler?

Good lord. I had figured it was a stray elbow and maybe just a freak thing that she did a little too hard while not looking. Theres absolutely no excuse for that.

It does kind of seem like she was really trying to hurt her there. Thats the only explanation I can think of for that. What she did wasnt a clumsy mistake. You dont botch a stiff, lined up punch to someones nose.
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That absolutely can be a clumsy mistake. Note I'm not apologizing for it but yeah if she thought she was aiming for closer to the chest area with the impact instead of the face that's probably safe.
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Lopen posted...

That absolutely can be a clumsy mistake. Note I'm not apologizing for it but yeah if she thought she was aiming for closer to the chest area with the impact instead of the face that's probably safe.

Can be, but isnt in this case. Watch the angle of her arm. Nias arm never starts dropping down towards the chest. It goes straight through the face. She had zero intention of going for anything but face there, and it appears she had time to line it up too. Inexcusable.
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It goes down after contact. If her depth perception was poor or she wasn't paying good attention, yeah, it could be a stupid mistake.

I mean she should get heat either way imo so it doesn't really matter if it was on purpose or not I'm just saying I'd buy it was a mistake because she sucks real bad.
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It looks like she was going for a forearm/elbow more than trying to actually clock her and apparently didn't notice how close she was.

Still super clumsy and unsafe and there's no real excuse
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There is now a report going around that they're considering having Becky compete tonight and lose the title so the new champion can face Ronda at SS.

One of the names being thrown around is Mandy Rose.

Just have Becky vacate the title and throw a Battle Royal/Multi-Way match to decide the new champion or move Ronda into the Tag elimination match at SS, instead.
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Well, you know. Gotta make Ronda look good at the expense of literally anything else
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paulg235 posted...

One of the names being thrown around is Mandy Rose.

I want to see (the reaction to) this so bad
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I'm all in on The Man Champion Mandy Rose.

It's right in her name!
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That report seems pretty off. Becky isnt cleared to compete on Sunday, so they have her compete TONIGHT instead? If shes not good to go this weekend and they know that this far in advance, they shouldnt be letting her go today.

Kill all of this awesome momentum shes built up because Nia is useless and you have to make Ronda look good? Who cares about champion vs champion, just have someone else who isnt injured fill in. They dont need the damn belt.

Maybe its just wishful thinking on my part, but if they fuck up this Becky thing just because they need to keep trying to make Ronda look good, thats going to make me turn in Ronda as a character, and turn on her fast. They have something special with Becky here, and throwing that away because of Nia and Ronda is asinine... which means theyll probably do it -_-

Last night proved that Becky is more popular than Ronda. Pulling that stunt could easily lead to the fans rejecting Ronda like we did with Roman for so long.

Vacating the title is one thing, but having her drop it in what would have to be a really fast, minimal contact match? Nope.
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Well, the media has started picking up on this.

https://www.cagesideseats.com/platform/amp/wwe/2018/11/13/18093020/nia-jax-injures-becky-lynch-wwe-raw-survivor-series
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It's also worth pointing out that Nia Jax not even one month ago gave Zelina Vega a concussion and nearly gave Tamina one as well.
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I saw the report of Mandy Rose, Billie, or Peyton getting the belt tonight.

Why? None of them are even close to Lynchs level, and any match they have with Ronda would be an absolute joke because they arent at the level where theyll be allowed to look credible.

I dont understand why they feel they just have to have a champion vs champion match. Put someone like Charlotte or Asuka against her, or just let Becky keep the belt while someone else takes on Rousey. Brock has shown that WWE doesnt care about the champ having to defend, so give her a few weeks to see if shes cleared and go from there.
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Steph needs to take a page out of her brothers playbook and step in to prove shes the Best in the World
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The real move would be to bring up Kairi Sane for one night only and have a close match with Ronda that gets her over as the never-say-die ultra babyface she is. Make a star in one night.

They'll never do that, though, because WWE doesn't actually know how to create stars and never did.
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NBIceman posted...

The real move would be to bring up Kairi Sane for one night only and have a close match with Ronda that gets her over as the never-say-die ultra babyface she is. Make a star in one night.

They'll never do that, though, because WWE doesn't actually know how to create stars and never did.

i mean - this is a shit idea anyway because ronda is still ostensibly your top babyface. despite the weird promo.

it features a Kairi push and is therefore a good idea automatically tbqh
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