SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, June 28th 2024: Womens MITB Qualifiers continue

[Sabretooth]

Also when Paul Heyman said at 39 that we were only in the third inning I thought he was crazy but he wasn’t lying. I assumed after Roman lost the title the bloodline would end but boy was I wrong. They continuing the fuck out this shit.

 

[Cwalker]

There’s so much money in those matches as singles matches, no way they do a triple threat beforehand.

If it’s Cody/Rock at 41, Rock can easily just win the Rumble. I’m leaning towards that being the match cause I think it’s the match people want to see more.

If it’s Roman/Rock, it has to come back around to Rock calling the Bloodline shots from behind the scenes. Solo can take a line from his dad and say everything that he did, “He did it for The Rock.”

 

[Brandon Blaze]

The only part I really thought was dumb with the whole thing, was afterwards, Jimmy just fell back in line with Roman. Like I guess you can say he did it because of fear or whatever BS, but like I don’t know. Just seems dumb to me if you cost your brother because you didn’t want him to become like Roman, just to fucking get back with Roman lmao.

 

[Chris]

Wrestlers being dumb isn't ever a plot hole to me though or even in TV shows for that matter, you just accept Jimmy is weak willed and a bitch and that's the story. If that's not how they you to perceive him then they've failed but for now it still works for me even if it might not be the best for Jimmy himself

 

[Cwalker]

Yeah I just accepted it as Roman mentally beat Jimmy into submission so even though he knows Roman was a bad dude, he’s still going to fall in line.

Similar to how Roman had Jey in check in 2020/2021

 

[Brandon Blaze]

That’s fair, I still feel it’s a little stupid but I can understand that point of it honestly. Just wish they did something different. I know they wanted to get that Uso match, but there was other ways to go about it.

Have Jimmy leave the Bloodline and keep trying to get Jey back, get his brother back, all that. Then have the match set up in away where Jey just needs to get his frustrations out, and they beat the fuck out of each other at Mania. Then afterwards they can hug and they good. You can still eventually get to Roman turning face, and getting them back to help.

But I guess it makes more sense for Jimmy to want to help with what they did, since they attacked him also, and they might not have a reason for Jimmy to care otherwise. So my way isn’t without flaws also.

 

[Sabretooth]

Jimmy was the first one to leave the bloodline though. He initially turned on Roman when Roman was being a dick to the Usos so why the fuck did you come back

 

[Chris]

Yeah I just think there's a difference between bad writing upsetting you and decent or good writing upsetting you just bc a character makes a decision you don't like, thats an emotion you were supposed to have and not always a bad thing. I think Jimmy's first time joining back up with Roman in like 2022 after the Jey feud was way worse for the reasons you're stating, and also rushed bc Jey had already fallen in line too so they wanted a full strength bloodline and didnt wanna spend the time to tie up Jimmy's story first

 

[Dale]

The only part I really thought was dumb with the whole thing, was afterwards, Jimmy just fell back in line with Roman. Like I guess you can say he did it because of fear or whatever BS, but like I don’t know. Just seems dumb to me if you cost your brother because you didn’t want him to become like Roman, just to fucking get back with Roman lmao.

Funny you say that, same dude actually posted in response to that tweet and mentioned this

"The Reason why Jimmy went back to the Bloodline was because he had no friends and everyone was after him. Unlike Jey, who had Cody and Sami backing him. Jimmy made a business decision and went back."

 

[Cwalker]

It was simply bad writing.

When Jimmy came back from his injury, how whole thing was how he’s Nobody’s Bitch. He even had a shirt that said it.

Then he immediately became The Bloodline’s bitch

 

[Sabretooth]

It was simply bad writing.

When Jimmy came back from his injury, how whole thing was how he’s Nobody’s Bitch. He even had a shirt that said it.

Then he immediately became The Bloodline’s bitch

It’s family

 

[Chris]

WWE Smackdown, Jun 28 on Fox: 2,256,000 viewers; 0.66 P18-49 rating | TV ratings, attendance analysis - Wrestlenomics

TV RATINGS WWE Smackdown on FoxFri, Jun. 28, 2024: 8:00 to 10:00 pm2,256,000 viewers (P2+)P18-49 rating: 0.66 Reported earlier by Programming Insider. P2+ comparisons: This episode vs. last week (2…

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WWE Smackdown on Fox
Fri, Jun. 28, 2024: 8:00 to 10:00 pm
2,256,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.66

Reported earlier by Programming Insider.

P2+ comparisons:

• This episode vs. last week (2,336,000): -3%
• This episode vs. trailing four weeks (2,203,000): +2%
• Current 2024-Q2 P2+ average (2,250,000) vs. 2023-Q2 (2,309,000): -3%
• Current Jun 2024 P2+ average (2,190,000) vs. Jun 2023 (2,427,000): -10%

P18-49 comparisons:

• This episode vs. last week (0.73): -10%
• This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.63): +5%
• Current 2024-Q2 P18-49 average (0.64) vs. 2023-Q2 (0.61): +5%
• Current Jun 2024 P18-49 average (0.63) vs. Jun 2023 (0.66): -5%

 

[Chris]