WWE Day 1 2022 - One Year Later

[The Rick Jericho]

With WWE Day 1 2023 being cancelled.

After seeing WWE upload the WWE title match. How does everyone feel about this show one year later? I remember people were PISSED here with Brock going over clean on Big E and ending his title reign. How do you feel one year later?

Other notable events from this show:

The Usos take the 3D and rename it the 1D for Day 1. Roman gets COVID so he's off the show thus changing the WWE title match. Edge and the Miz feud.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

What was the match with Roman gonna be originally again?

[ChitownKnight]

Honestly i liked having a PPV on New Year’s Day while I was recovering from a hangover lol

[fw91]

Jan 1, 2023 23:25:57 GMT -5 Friday Night SmackOwn said:

What was the match with Roman gonna be originally again?

Brock.

[Gerard Gerard]

Would the world titles have still ended up unified if Roman hadn’t popped for coronavirus that night?

[Nosnorb]

Jan 1, 2023 23:21:26 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

After seeing WWE upload the WWE title match. How does everyone feel about this show one year later? I remember people were PISSED here with Brock going over clean on Big E and ending his title reign. How do you feel one year later?

I try not to be sour, but looking back at his title reign, that is a tall order. The reign started on the first night of Monday Night Football via a cash in on Lashley, and ended a few days before Monday Night Football did. Big E won the belt in what was a heel manner and then lost it to Lesnar in a 5 way match, and the next week, dude was back with Kofi and Xavier.

It was such a lackluster reign. Kofi might have leapt onto the shoulders of Beastie Boy to lose the title, but dude got a Wrestlemania moment, beat Randy Orton in probably the most important feud he had as champ and the entire reign didn't coincide with MNF. Big E won with a pretty cheap cash in, never had what felt like a defining feud and lost the title in a match in which the build was focused on Owens and Rollins, and also had the truly bizarre spectacle of Bobby Lashley, who was heel at the time, winning three matches on a Raw to get himself into the match.

[Andew9001]

It was a disapointing end to Big Es reign. It just never really got started and Brock winning was such a let down. Somehow the title just keeps going back to Brock.

[J is Justice]

Well, I was PISSED that Becky beat Liv (and that Becky botched the finish). I thought that was gonna be Liv's only chance at the title. What a big, stupid dummy I was.

[The Rick Jericho]

Re-watching Big E taking those F-5's and clean was still to this day deflating. What a terrible end to the title reign.

[sarkerpolseng]

R.I.P. TakeOff.

[Hulk With A Mustache]

I'm a little upset it's gone and not an annual PPV, mainly because I wanted to see what they would do when New Year's Day fell on a Monday or a Friday.

[4real]

Jan 2, 2023 0:05:30 GMT -5 Gerard Gerard said:

Would the world titles have still ended up unified if Roman hadn’t popped for coronavirus that night?

That’s the big question really. If Roman is fine for that match Brock never wins the WWE Title…unless they were going to have him win it at the Rumble but then who wins the Rumble?

So no I don’t think they would have been unified.

[welshpenguin]

I missed having a New Years show this year 😞

[The Rick Jericho]

So right on cue with this thread. SRS brings this up.

Was there a locker room confrontation we missed or didn't hear about?

[ayumidah]

I was ok with it not happening this year because last year's show really left me deflated as a wrestling fan and it was difficult to get any sort of interest back

[Chiral]

Big E's run was snake bit when it started with his cash in just being used to pop a rating against football rather than any kind of actual storyline, then got worse when they had him immediately get beat by Roman twice on the next Raw, and lose easily to him again at Survivor Series. Then it just trudged along until it had a deluxe fart ending at Day 1 in Brock Wins Part 209438203984

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Day 1 was a stupid name then and a stupid name now.

Stop naming your PREMIUM LIVE EVENTS stupid names.

[Chiral]

Jan 3, 2023 18:52:01 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Day 1 was a stupid name then and a stupid name now.

Stop naming your PREMIUM LIVE EVENTS stupid names.

I remember the being touted as Nick Khan's big idea like it was this hugely innovative thing he came up with to have a New Years PPV called DAY 1 lol

[mc74]

Jan 3, 2023 18:44:13 GMT -5 Chiral said:

Big E's run was snake bit when it started with his cash in just being used to pop a rating against football rather than any kind of actual storyline, then got worse when they had him immediately get beat by Roman twice on the next Raw, and lose easily to him again at Survivor Series. Then it just trudged along until it had a deluxe fart ending at Day 1 in Brock Wins Part 209438203984

I feel really bad for him. With the right booking, there's no doubt in my mind he could have easily became a top babyface, but what we got instead was an underwhelming reign that ended with him losing the title to Brock and being relegated back to tag team status. No follow-up on him losing the title whatsoever.

[ayumidah]

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