SmackDown Live LIVe SmackDown Discussion thread, August 5th 2022: New regime but still no early previews

[Cwalker]

Some fans would argue no

Fans are fickle

 

[Jimmy King]

The boos didn’t sound that bad either tbf but still she didn’t deserve that.

 

[Sabretooth]

Fans are fickle

I mean this has been a huge debate. There's a difference between heel heat and go away heat. Roman had go away heat for 5 years so I'd argue no... he wasn't over. John Cena it was split 50/50 and I think the fans were just fucking with him so I'd say John was probably over.

 

[Dale]

Yeah lets take one promo and disregard everything that's come before it, great idea.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Fucking wild.

 

[Cwalker]

Adam Cole really would’ve been WWE Champion if Hunter took over 3 years ago

 

[Dale]

Then luckily he didn't.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Then luckily he didn't.

I was vibing with you pretty hard in this thread until now.

 

[Cwalker]

Then luckily he didn't.

Dale…

Just…why?

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Being booed by one crowd doesn’t negate how over you over.

It also depends on what you mean by over. I’d think a large negative reaction counts as being over. Just eliciting the wrong reaction, but is easily fixable by a heel turn.

That being said, she’s not Cena yet. They can fix this issue quickly.

 

[Chris]

Just don't replay her tapping out again before any of her segments cause the you tapped out chants is what started all of it lmao

 

[Cwalker]

Yeah they might wanna avoid that

I get it’s a part of Ronda’s story but it makes Liv look like a geek

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Fucking wild.

I think this picture alone shows why WWE needed Triple H (and Stephanie) to take over and why I’ve been riding that train for over 5 years.

Triple H gets it. Vince did once, but he’s an older man that was doing this for five decades. Eventually you lose touch.

Although, to be fair, to me, I was never that high on his style even when it worked. I was always a bigger WCW, TNA, AEW guy.

 

[Cwalker]

Random side note: the hair doesn’t bother me as much as it did when he was on the indies for some reason.

Still would’ve preferred bald Kross though

 

[Chris]

Yeah this was more how his hair first looked when he first started rocking it lol his last few indie appearances it's looked rough