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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Aug 14, 2022 7:37:13 GMT -5
Updated bracket after week 1 matches. Might as well just scrapped the right side completely and just had the left side for the tournament leading to a very good final match that will for some reason be the semi-final. There is literally no one that I'm interested in on the right side now that Xia and Shotzi are out.
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Post by mistery on Aug 14, 2022 10:11:58 GMT -5
Updated bracket after week 1 matches. Might as well just scrapped the right side completely and just had the left side for the tournament leading to a very good final match that will for some reason be the semi-final. There is literally no one that I'm interested in on the right side now that Xia and Shotzi are out. There's speculation that the finals will end up being Nikki ASH/Doudrop vs Raquel/Aliyah at Clash, because they'll have Alexa/Asuka and Iyo/Dakota screw each other out of the tournament (With Bayley, Iyo, and Dakota costing Asuka and Alexa the match on Monday, and then Bianca, Asuka, and Alexa costing Iyo/Dakota the match the following Monday). Which would be really stupid since even accounting for Nikki and Doudrop being from that general region where Clash is taking place, their gimmicks absolutely suck and they have negative levels of credibility, and putting the tag titles on them would be stupid just because they would end up back on Naomi/Sasha within a month at most. And then the belts would stagnate again, because you know they wouldn't want to lose the titles right away to Control. It would also put Control in a bad spot because it would basically mean Dakota and Iyo are now glorified toadies for Bayley, who is likely getting the next RAW Women's Title match.
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Post by sunnytaker on Aug 14, 2022 10:35:38 GMT -5
i can still see them doing a rehash of dakota and raquel in the finals. since they neglected to mention who raquel's partner was when they brought up her being an NXT tag champ during the match on smackdown. aliyah is there to eat the pin when the time comes so raquel doesn;t have to. plus i don;t see aliyah winning gold so it's finals then bust as far as i see for them.
i think we do get to Double A vs kai&sky in the semis- (cole voice) "this will be just a taste of what is to come at clash in the castle as two thirds of both teams face off here in the semis" then kai&sky win then bayley cheats to help them win the finals.
be interesting to see how the dynamic in Control works out. it seems like Bayley will be the "leader" role since she's the one going for the main title while Kai&sky are the tag team. the SHIELD is about the only three operson faction i can think of that didn;t really have a heirarchy among them. neither seth, roman or dean were really put below either of the other two for most of their run (other than "making roman look strong")
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Aug 14, 2022 10:44:21 GMT -5
I feel like everyone is just expecting Naomi/Sasha to challenge the winners which undercuts the whole tournament in my view. If that happens, then the champions we just spent weeks crowning are immediately positioned as paper champions. Just include them in the tournament if you're bringing them back or just give them the belts back.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Aug 14, 2022 10:51:31 GMT -5
I feel like everyone is just expecting Naomi/Sasha to challenge the winners which undercuts the whole tournament in my view. If that happens, then the champions we just spent weeks crowning are immediately positioned as paper champions. Just include them in the tournament if you're bringing them back or just give them the belts back. Which is why I think it could be A.S.H./Doudrop that win this. But it depends on if they’re doing the tournament final at Clash At The Castle, which… They might? I don’t know. They’ll fluke their way into the finals because of Asuka/Bliss and Sky/Kai costing each other the matches against them, and (if it is at Clash) they’ll end up as de facto babyfaces in a final against the SmackDown bracket winner and win the belts. At which point Banks and Naomi return and we actually do the damn program that they wanted to do in the first place somehow. And yes, this does account for the fact that Nikki A.S.H. is on the third-longest broadcast losing streak for any woman in the last 18 and a half years. Kinda hope they use this whole thing as a vehicle to repackage her and Doudrop, at least.
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Post by asuka007 on Aug 14, 2022 11:21:12 GMT -5
I feel like if anyone except Skye and Dakota are in the finals on the Raw brand it would be a mistake.
This is a case where it’s “obvious,” because it’s obvious.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2022 11:39:02 GMT -5
They pretty much told everyone exactly how this is going BY GIVING AWAY THE BIGGEST MATCH IN THE TOURNAMENT IN QUARTER FINALS!
Now I was thinking about this and there is another route that they could go.
But that is that Nikkeh and Dropper win against Alexa and Asuka but then lose to Sky and Kai due to Alexa and Asuka trying to seek revenge and then come Clash at the Castle...Bayleys group becomes a 5 person crew and thus then setting up Sasha and Naomi returning and joining Bianca , Alexa and Asuka.
This way Sky and Kai still end up winning the tournament and titles and sets up a whole bunch of other things including the inevitably SVS match/Hopefully Wargames.
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Post by PKO on Aug 14, 2022 12:02:59 GMT -5
So the tournament brackets are weird and thrown together which is a shame but a reflection of the roster right now. I feel like it would have been better with just Sky/Kai, Bliss/Asuka, Doudrop/Nikki and then maybe Tamina/Natalya (a little bit of title history) but they obviously wanted to include more women. In the end it just makes it feel diluted.
I was really disappointed with Sky/Kai’s first tag match together; Dana and Tamina getting way too much offence, and of course any time Tamina is in the ring it’s going to be a poor showing.
Raquel and Aliyah’s match was actually much better and I liked their vibe together (despite not really liking either).
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Aug 19, 2022 20:21:11 GMT -5
Brackets updated after this week's WWE TV.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 20, 2022 0:56:49 GMT -5
I haven't really been paying attention... how did Toxic Attraction get in the tournament?
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Aug 20, 2022 1:01:24 GMT -5
I haven't really been paying attention... how did Toxic Attraction get in the tournament? Zoey Stark got concussed when Mandy connected way too hard on a knee (also might have had a brace on? I forget rn) during their match at Heatwave. Between her (Zoey) and Dragon Lee it's been a banner week for brains getting kneed out of ppl's ears.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2022 1:06:05 GMT -5
I haven't really been paying attention... how did Toxic Attraction get in the tournament? Zoey Stark got concussed when Mandy connected way too hard on a knee (also might have had a brace on? I forget rn) during their match at Heatwave. Between her (Zoey) and Dragon Lee it's been a banner week for brains getting kneed out of ppl's ears. I hope Zoey makes a quick recovery, but there's something hilarious in a really dark way about Mandy saying she was going to put her back on the shelf and then doing it (by accident)
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Aug 20, 2022 1:06:45 GMT -5
Zoey Stark got concussed when Mandy connected way too hard on a knee (also might have had a brace on? I forget rn) during their match at Heatwave. Between her (Zoey) and Dragon Lee it's been a banner week for brains getting kneed out of ppl's ears. I hope Zoey makes a quick recovery, but there's something hilarious in a really dark way about Mandy saying she was going to put her back on the shelf and then doing it (by accident) Watcha Say Is Watcha Get indeed Zoeseph Starks.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 20, 2022 2:41:43 GMT -5
Zoey's muscles live in my head rent free, so I am sad that she got taken out by that dastardly Mandy Rose, only for them to just reward Toxic Attraction with a spot in the tourney. Get well soon Zoey, and hopefully your muscles will be even bigger when you come back.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Aug 20, 2022 16:39:26 GMT -5
Zoey Stark got concussed when Mandy connected way too hard on a knee (also might have had a brace on? I forget rn) during their match at Heatwave. Between her (Zoey) and Dragon Lee it's been a banner week for brains getting kneed out of ppl's ears. I hope Zoey makes a quick recovery, but there's something hilarious in a really dark way about Mandy saying she was going to put her back on the shelf and then doing it (by accident) It is darkly funny. Like Mandy of all people talking like this big bad ass threatening to put someone on the shelf and then actually doing it. Like I can imagine some mark out there thinking "Wow Mandy Rose really is a woman of her word. She really is dangerous". Seriously though I hope Zoey's injury isn't that serious and she can come back soon. She's really been snakebit lately.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 20, 2022 16:42:06 GMT -5
I feel like everyone is just expecting Naomi/Sasha to challenge the winners which undercuts the whole tournament in my view. If that happens, then the champions we just spent weeks crowning are immediately positioned as paper champions. Just include them in the tournament if you're bringing them back or just give them the belts back. They did that in late 94/early 95 with the tag titles. Smoking Guns had to drop them due to injury. They held a tournament. Kid and Holly won them at the Rumble and then immediately lost them the next night to Guns. Even being 12 at the time, I knew the whole thing was pointless then.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Aug 20, 2022 16:43:35 GMT -5
I assume Control vs Toxic Attraction is the final. Toxic Attraction pinning Aliyah seems like the easiest result here...
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Post by mistery on Aug 20, 2022 17:52:09 GMT -5
I assume Control vs Toxic Attraction is the final. Toxic Attraction pinning Aliyah seems like the easiest result here... I doubt that's gonna be the finals. Mainly because I don't see Toxic Attraction winning the tag titles right now, especially with as rough as they still looked last night. PWInsider pretty much said that there were no plans for Toxic to be in the tournament originally (which was obvious), but that the decision to replace them at the last minute was made by management, because Zoey suffered an injury from Mandy, and Nikkita was "medically unavailable" (which is a very polite way to say she isn't vaccinated). I feel like they are just gonna have TA get knocked out in the next round by Raquel, I doubt they are going to change up the entire tournament just for Zoey's injury and Nikkita being a dumbass, especially since TA vs Damage CTRL would be a heel vs heel match. It's very obvious WWE sees significantly more in Damage CTRL over Toxic Attraction, especially since they focused way more on Bayley, Dakota, and Iyo's antics last night over the actual in ring action. I also don't see them calling up TA full time until Mandy drops the title, which likely won't be until Worlds Collide at the earliest.
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Post by cjh on Aug 20, 2022 17:52:49 GMT -5
I feel like everyone is just expecting Naomi/Sasha to challenge the winners which undercuts the whole tournament in my view. If that happens, then the champions we just spent weeks crowning are immediately positioned as paper champions. Just include them in the tournament if you're bringing them back or just give them the belts back. They did that in late 94/early 95 with the tag titles. Smoking Guns had to drop them due to injury. They held a tournament. Kid and Holly won them at the Rumble and then immediately lost them the next night to Guns. Even being 12 at the time, I knew the whole thing was pointless then. The Gunns had never been champions when they beat Holly and Kid. Shawn Michaels and Diesel were the last champions before the tournament. The Gunns did vacate the titles in February 1996 due to Billy getting injured, then the Bodydonnas beat the Godwinns on the WrestleMania 12 pre-show to become the new champions. The Godwinns won the titles in May, then lost them just a week later to the Gunns.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Aug 20, 2022 18:11:57 GMT -5
I heard it mentioned on SD last night that the tag Champs will be appearing/representing on all three brands.
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