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Post by theironyuppie on Sept 11, 2021 0:58:54 GMT -5
The only women's match of the night was a pre-show Charlotte/Rhea dark match (the other pre-show match was Drew/Corbin, with a six-man post-show match with Cena/Mysterios vs Roman/Usos):
This reminds me of that Simpsons Stan Lee bit where he’s forcing the Thing on people, including him jamming an action figure and breaking a Batmobile in the process.
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Post by freeze Austin on Sept 11, 2021 1:06:44 GMT -5
Meanwhile, the other program featured a young hometown babyface getting the win in the main event and celebrating with his family, before getting beatdown post-match and then saved by the other, more established, hometown babyface as they beat up the heels and sent the crowd home happy.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
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Post by eJm on Sept 11, 2021 2:49:44 GMT -5
It’s a weird choice I will say that.
Like, I get that she’s a heel and the like but I mean…it’s her hometown, in the world’s most famous arena and on the eve on the anniversary of her Dad passing in a tragedy to at least get a match would have been a nice feel good moment for people.
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Post by PKO on Sept 11, 2021 6:14:15 GMT -5
I remember years ago people criticising TNA for having her on their show on the anniversary of 9/11 portraying a heel. Well, WWE topped that by not even having her on the show, which was also taking place in the arena that her dad used to take her to see WWE when she was a young girl. Wow.
As a nice moment for fans, for Zelina, it would have been incredibly easy to have her come out and introduce a video package or something. It doesn’t matter that she’s a heel, use that to the advantage of bringing people together. She’s a fantastic public speaker, she could have made it work.
Thinking from a PR perspective, honestly it’s kind of worrying how badly they botched this. This was such an easy story, how could they not do…anything? Like, I’m legit a bit shocked by the incompetence. Being incompetent when it comes to creative is one thing, we’re all used to that, but when it comes to PR they don’t usually drop the ball this bad.
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Post by eJm on Sept 11, 2021 6:42:11 GMT -5
I remember years ago people criticising TNA for having her on their show on the anniversary of 9/11 portraying a heel. Well, WWE topped that by not even having her on the show, which was also taking place in the arena that her dad used to take her to see WWE when she was a young girl. Wow. It was more the idea of, like, having her start the show cutting a promo about what happened and then being a heel on the actual show that was so jarring to people. Like you said, even for something like this, having her on a video package even for a brief time would have done the job if you weren't going to book her for it.
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Post by Shy Guy on Sept 11, 2021 7:04:43 GMT -5
I guess this is why both Carmella and Liv tweeted "..." last night
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Post by polarbearpete on Sept 11, 2021 8:10:57 GMT -5
She was booked but match got cut for time.
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Post by marvelocity on Sept 11, 2021 8:16:39 GMT -5
Shes on the 9 11 memorial now.
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Sept 11, 2021 8:45:18 GMT -5
Golly, what a coincidence.
Triple H is in the hospital. Vince is likely preoccupied being with his son in law.
And mysteriously, all the women’s matches disappear. Including the one for the hometown girl that was REALLY important to her.
The brother who was booking tonight must have no love for women’s wrestling. Hope he doesn’t have a long history that says exactly that.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Sept 11, 2021 8:45:42 GMT -5
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Post by cornettesracket on Sept 11, 2021 8:49:12 GMT -5
Shes on the 9 11 memorial now. Which I would think is the more important moment to her and while I’m sure she was disappointed about last night today is more important.
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Post by dbrussel on Sept 11, 2021 9:05:13 GMT -5
Shes on the 9 11 memorial now. Which I would think is the more important moment to her and while I’m sure she was disappointed about last night today is more important. Yesterday was as important since all her family were there sitting front row
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Post by rocket on Sept 11, 2021 9:08:14 GMT -5
I can't help but think this is like Gail Kim's second WWE run. That they just job her out and such to prove a point.
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Post by khali on Sept 11, 2021 9:35:37 GMT -5
You’ve got to give WWE credit. They always find a new way to do something incredibly wrong.
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Post by Totorob101 on Sept 11, 2021 10:07:48 GMT -5
Zelina deserves much better but man has she made an awful decision resigning with them,why she has i still never understand.
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Post by cornettesracket on Sept 11, 2021 10:21:06 GMT -5
Zelina deserves much better but man has she made an awful decision resigning with them,why she has i still never understand. Well yes that’s another question I have considering how vocal she was about her third party stuff and IMO did the right thing but none of us know the conversations that were had between her and WWE when she came back.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Sept 11, 2021 11:47:59 GMT -5
Zelina posted this on Twitter, and it really begged the question of why would you not feature her on an NYC show adjacent to the 9/11 anniversary when you spend the whole night airing video packages about 9/11? On top of that, this was the second week straight of no women's matches on Smackdown. Zelina Vega: Well, I don't know what I expected.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Sept 11, 2021 11:51:32 GMT -5
Which I would think is the more important moment to her and while I’m sure she was disappointed about last night today is more important. Yesterday was as important since all her family were there sitting front row she just needs to explain to them WWE is a business and it'll clear everything up
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 11, 2021 12:31:19 GMT -5
It would have been her in-ring MSG debut too. They could have easily cut 10 minutes from the show to have her match. I think she needs to leave WWE. They brought her back to just to her have lose every match and now this. She could have wrestled in the building that she went to shows with her dad on the eve of the anniversary of the passing of her dad. It's disgusting that she's being treated this way.
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Post by Main Event Mark on Sept 11, 2021 13:14:09 GMT -5
Heels have families too.
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