Just Got Back From WWE Saturday Nights Main Event

[Ozman]

A few thoughts about the WWE live event in Rockford.

-Sami Zayn & Ricochet opened the show, and both men got good reaction.

-Gunther didn’t get as big of a reaction as I expected.

-None of the women on this particular show got a great reaction, but none of the top women were on this show (no Bianca, Becky, Asuka, Ronda, or Charlotte).

-The Bloodline and Drew McIntyre got the best reactions of the night, especially Roman. Butch was pretty over too.

Overall, it was a decent show. My lady came with me, and she hasn’t watched wrestling probably since the Attitude Era. She was into the show for the most part. Has anyone here attended any recent live events?

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I read the results and Cody's "every match matters" mantra is going to be tested a bit here with the house show style situation added back.

We are going to reach an even weirder picking and choosing of what is Cody canon as now Cody and Seth have seemingly worked much more together since his return.

Case in point the fact that they mentioned him vs. Owens on air with the already strange win/loss record.

Obviously this setup of running with these feuds on the house show loop is how it has always been done but it just seems weird with Cody for some reason.

[MiLB Fan]

I’ve been to three since WWE resumed live touring: two house shows last year and the final Raw before this year’s WrestleMania. Here’s a thread I started about being at one of the company’s first shows back in front of real people:

officialfan.proboards.com/thread/612379/wwe-supershow-report-24-pittsburgh

[theironyuppie]

What were Raquel/Natalya and Aliyah/Shotzi like as matches, crowd reactions aside?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

It bums me out that GUNTHER's presentation was kinda neutered in NXT so now that he's on the main roster, crowds have deflated on him

He's doing nothing wrong himself, it's just he's in a holding pattern of jobber squashes so he's pretty much Smackdown's VEER with a Mouthpiece (Which he also doesn't really need) and it doesn't exactly shock me crowds aren't buying into this version of him... really his entire move to go full time felt like a "Let's get this over with and it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't I still have a prime left elsewhere".

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It's the Butch era, baby!

[J is Thunder Justice]

May 22, 2022 1:10:00 GMT -5 Ozman said:

Butch was pretty over too.

[Raw is Doodie101]

I think Gunther's presentation has been great and WWE is doing every right with hun so far. Just need him to get into a real feud with Ricchoet and I think the reactions will come.

[cjh]

And here's the results from the other house show in Canton, OH.

The Street Profits defeated Chad Gable & Otis
Veer Mahaan defeated Robert Roode
AJ Styles & Liv Morgan defeated Damian Priest & Rhea Ripley
United States Championship: Theory defeated Mustafa Ali
MVP hosted the VIP Lounge with Bobby Lashley, who left MVP laying
Cody Rhodes defeated Seth Rollins
RAW Women’s Championship: Bianca Belair defeated Asuka and Becky Lynch

[Ozman]

May 22, 2022 2:09:20 GMT -5 theironyuppie said:

What were Raquel/Natalya and Aliyah/Shotzi like as matches, crowd reactions aside?

Aliyah vs Shotzi both struggled to get a reaction, while Natalya’s music got a decent pop, Raquel’s reaction was similar to the other two ladies.

[polarbearpete]

May 22, 2022 2:17:07 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

It bums me out that GUNTHER's presentation was kinda neutered in NXT so now that he's on the main roster, crowds have deflated on him

He's doing nothing wrong himself, it's just he's in a holding pattern of jobber squashes so he's pretty much Smackdown's VEER with a Mouthpiece (Which he also doesn't really need) and it doesn't exactly shock me crowds aren't buying into this version of him... really his entire move to go full time felt like a "Let's get this over with and it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't I still have a prime left elsewhere".

Gunther’s presentation is pretty great. Might take some time for him to get over on the main roster though as I doubt many main roster watchers followed him in NXT UK. A real feud with Ricochet might get him better heat.

[Hypnosis]

May 22, 2022 8:45:10 GMT -5 Ozman said:

May 22, 2022 2:09:20 GMT -5 theironyuppie said:

What were Raquel/Natalya and Aliyah/Shotzi like as matches, crowd reactions aside?

Aliyah vs Shotzi both struggled to get a reaction, while Natalya’s music got a decent pop, Raquel’s reaction was similar to the other two ladies.

Shotzi lost her tank and energetic weirdness she had as a face, so this heel turn continues to feel like a huge mistake on WWE's part.

[GodzillaIsMyMonster]

May 22, 2022 7:26:29 GMT -5 cjh said:

And here's the results from the other house show in Canton, OH.

The Street Profits defeated Chad Gable & Otis
Veer Mahaan defeated Robert Roode
AJ Styles & Liv Morgan defeated Damian Priest & Rhea Ripley
United States Championship: Theory defeated Mustafa Ali
MVP hosted the VIP Lounge with Bobby Lashley, who left MVP laying
Cody Rhodes defeated Seth Rollins
RAW Women’s Championship: Bianca Belair defeated Asuka and Becky Lynch

Man... it pisses me of to see Roode reduced to this bs. He should have been a top heel & world champion.

[jhbboy198917]

May 22, 2022 10:09:11 GMT -5 polarbearpete said:

May 22, 2022 2:17:07 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

It bums me out that GUNTHER's presentation was kinda neutered in NXT so now that he's on the main roster, crowds have deflated on him

He's doing nothing wrong himself, it's just he's in a holding pattern of jobber squashes so he's pretty much Smackdown's VEER with a Mouthpiece (Which he also doesn't really need) and it doesn't exactly shock me crowds aren't buying into this version of him... really his entire move to go full time felt like a "Let's get this over with and it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't I still have a prime left elsewhere".

Gunther’s presentation is pretty great. Might take some time for him to get over on the main roster though as I doubt many main roster watchers followed him in NXT UK. A real feud with Ricochet might get him better heat.

Same I think GUNTHER's presentation has been fine & think he should take the IC title from Ricochet at HIAC