SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, February 2nd 2024: The Road to WrestleMania begins

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When WWE twist this as “LOOK AT HOW MANY VIEWS IT HAS!! THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT!!”
 

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I saw so many people last night saying he’s gonna win it at The Garden, and I’m like dude they don’t really do tv there anymore because it’s to damn expensive

 

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yeah i was just going to say all wwe will see is that it has been viewed 2.5 million times in 24 hours.
 
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I personally think wwe achieved exactly what they wanted to do tbh. It’s something everyone is talking about and everyone is viewing and everyone will watch when it finally happens.
 

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Rock vs Roman is a match i always wanted to see but the way they went about it makes me a little less excited for it.

Should have just had Rock come in at 30 and win the RR and not as much pissed fans would happen most likely.
 
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The show is already sold out and ppv buys aren't a thing. Punk being hurt has 0 baring on the Roman booking or story

Punk was supposed to go after Rollins before he got hurt, that was the story they were starting to tell before the Rumble. Cody was always supposed to go after Roman. Rock deciding at the last minute he wanted a match THIS YEAR had a hand in the plans changing along with Punk's injury, because if Punk doesn't get hurt, and Rock/Roman is definite, then what does Cody do?
 

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they had Cody shirts printed before the match, Cody was always winning the rumble

They have shirts printed for both teams during the Super Bowl, like in the past you could literally pre-order a shirt of either team and if the team you chose lost, you got your money back. So just because they had a Cody shirt ready and waiting doesnt really mean he was the absolute winner. It's quite possible they had shirts ready for Punk, Gunther, Drew etc because those 4 ended up being the final 4.
 

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Yeah real sports and a pre-determined wrestling match are totally the same.
 

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Yeah real sports and a pre-determined wrestling match are totally the same.

Yeah I was talking about the merch they have at the ready. I commend you for thinking they only had one shirt printed for one dude when 2 others were also the favorite to win the damn match.
 
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Regardless of the shirts I don't really think the rumble finish was any sort of audible anyway tho
 
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Yeah I was talking about the merch they have at the ready. I commend you for thinking they only had one shirt printed for one dude when 2 others were also the favorite to win the damn match.
I believe Dale's point is, they know who's the winner ahead of time so they wouldn't need to make fake shirts just to throw off fans
 
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just reminded of this

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Butters said:
I believe Dale's point is, they know who's the winner ahead of time so they wouldn't need to make fake shirts just to throw off fans
I mean they could, but like if there were Punk ones then Drew would have worn it by now