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

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Just announced today:

- Xia Li released from WWE
- Jinder Mahal quits, states he'll be a free agent in 90 days

Jinder's final match in WWE was for a world title. Also, without their manager/leader, Indus Sher is doomed.

ZeroSignal posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/071c5d5d.jpg

They're already one of the best looking belts in the company.

nice, when will they fix cody's belt

I know Cody wants to bring back the Winged Eagle. However, considering the new WWE Championship is less than a year old, this seems unlikely.

WWE has this habit of making their logo's the dead center of attention on belts. Even the new WHC looks off because of the logo.

I'm convinced that if WWE kept WCW has a side project after Invasion, they would've made a big gold belt with "WCW" slapped directly in the center of it.

Backlash so far...
Cody vs Styles for the Undisputed WWE Universal title
Priest vs Jey for the WHC

May possibly get added soon
Awesome Truth vs DIY for the World Tag titles
A Town Down Under vs Street Profits for the WWE Tag titles
Zayn vs Gable for the IC title
Bayley vs Stratton for the Women's title
Belair/Cargill vs Damage Control for the Women's tag titles

ZeroSignal posted...

Also, without their manager/leader, Indus Sher is doomed.

Welp, that was quick. Indus Sher released from WWE today.

unsurprisingly, the indian guys who were all fired from wwe at the same time, think it was kind of disrespectful to fire all the indian guys at the same time

Seems like a great, if not solid, card.

And Draft Night is coming.

ivysnow posted...

unsurprisingly, the indian guys who were all fired from wwe at the same time, think it was kind of disrespectful to fire all the indian guys at the same time

and yet unsurprising, from the all [minority] are a stable guys

I cant decide if the backlash card is great or trash lol

at first glance it looks awful, and then thinking about it it looks like it could hit on a lot, then thinking about it more I switch back to awful

iiaattgg posted...

I cant decide if the backlash card is great or trash lol

at first glance it looks awful, and then thinking about it it looks like it could hit on a lot, then thinking about it more I switch back to awful

To be fair, we only have 2 world title matches locked in. The tag title matches could easily just be done on Raw or Smackdown in favor of other matches. Plus, we surely gotta have something of a non title match added in there somewhere, especially with McIntyre or Knight.

In other events, Broken Matt Hardy returned to TNA last night in their ppv's main event

Grand Slam updates: No new Grand Slam champs have happened since Finn Balor last September. The following WWE stars are just one title away though:

Cody (US title)
Priest (IC title)
Strowman (US title)
Lashley (Tag title)
Sheamus (IC title)
Nakamura (World title)
McIntyre (US title)
Big E (US title - return to action unlikely though)

The following are 1 title away from being 2x Grand Slam champions (joining Miz, Rollins, and technically Jericho and Jeff Hardy)
Rey Mysterio (World title)
Kofi (World title)

You cant argue they didnt give Indus Sher a fair shake though.

They just kinda sucked.

Veer finally finished coming

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/138d2487.jpg

Sad how far Jericho done fell

Dragon/Bruv might be the best match I've seen. Easily top 5.

probably the best match to ever occur on us soil

Im excited to see it when I get some time

Guess it's time for a quick update on who The Man is across all brands and lineages...

WWE's The Man: Cody Rhodes
Ric Flair's final singles loss The Man: CM Punk
AEW's The Man: Swerve Strickland
WWE's The Man, Ladies Edition: Rhea Ripley
Custody Rights to Dominik Mysterio: Cody Rhodes

Finally saw the PPV, good stuff. Lots of great, some crap mixed in, but definitely good overall. I dont think its possible to choose between the match here and Cody/Roman as they were both perfect in their own ways.

I like Strickland and Im glad he got his moment

raw really needs that draft to hit lol

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holy shit

after all these long years he finally finished the story

that's right

chuckie t said shit on tv

First Rhea, now Dom out for 9 months.

Judgment Day is falling apart.

^ And Finn's had issues in the past... This shit happens in 3s.

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1783943141394968976

what a trooper

FFDragon posted...

First Rhea, now Dom out for 9 months.

Judgment Day is falling apart.

https://twitter.com/DomMysterio35/status/1783897037303624111

According to Dom there's no surgery involved so not sure the timeline that Meltzer reported is accurate either

Draft results, night 1...

Raw
Jey Uso
Seth Rollins
Bron Breakker
Liv Morgan
Ricochet
Sheamus
Alpha Academy (Gable, Otis, Maxxine, Tozawa)
Kiana James

SmackDown
Bianca Belair
Carmelo Hayes
Randy Orton
Nia Jax
LA Knight
Bloodline (Solo, Tonga, Heyman)
AJ Styles
Andrade

that Cody botch fall didn't look like a nice landing on the shoulder...hopefully that was just selling and not any legit injury

Backlash France updated card
Cody vs Styles for the Undisputed WWE Universal title
Priest vs Jey for the WHC
Bayley vs Stratton vs Naomi for the WWE Women's title
Belair/Cargill vs Damage Control for the Women's tag titles
Orton/Owens vs Solo/Tonga

Draft results night 2

Raw
Gunther
Ludwig Kaiser
Damage CTRL (Asuka, Sane, Dakota Kai, Iyo Sky)
CM Punk
Braun Strowman
LWO (Rey, Dragon Lee, Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wild, Carlito, Zelina)
Drew McIntyre
Judgment Day (Dominik, JD, Rhea, Balor; Priest was already locked in on Raw)
Ilja Dragunov
New Day
Lyra Valkyria
Final Testament (Kross, Scarlett, Authors of Pain, Paul Ellering)
Bronson Reed

SmackDown
Jade Cargill
Kevin Owens
The Pride (Lashley, Street Profits, B Fab)
Tiffany Stratton
Legado del Fantasma (Escobar, Angel, Berto, Elektra)
Shinsuke Nakamura
Naomi
Chelsea Green
Piper Niven
Pretty Deadly
Candace LaRae
Indi Hartwell
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