GDT: CLASH OF CHAMPIONS (September 25, 2016) -- Can Raw out-do Backlash?

[Emperoreddy]

Another reason why having a HIAC gimmick PPV sucks.

It means overbooked byll**** endings happen to "justify" putting a match in the cage.

 

[ColePens]

I really liked the PPV, but my only one complaint is that everything was booked like ****. I just feel like if the booking was better tonight, it could have been REALLY good. The booking just stalled things more and i'm not going to tune into Raw. Everything stays completely the same.

Wrestling was very solid. Definitely worth 3 hours of time. But it didn't give me a reason to tune in.

 

[Sheppy]

This episode of Ride Along is already off to a good start. Saxton is a ****ing nerd.

 

[GKJ]

I feel like the crowd was waiting for that finish and didn't want to get into it.


This feud must continue!

 

[Emperoreddy]

I think I liked the wrestling better overall tonight compared to Backlash, but Backlash was a more satisfying show with much better booking.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

This episode of Ride Along is already off to a good start. Saxton is a ****ing nerd.

Cole and JBL hating on Saxton is so ****ing fake though hahaha

 

[SeidoN]

inb4 WWE pulls the ol' switcheroo. HIAC main event is Charlotte and Banks in a HIAC hehe

 

[Balls Mahoney]

I think RAW needs to bring up Joe and maybe Nakamura. Shorten the first hour of matches a little bit and they'd be gold. I love these longer matches but the problem is they burnt out the crowd. I think the first hour, just take five minutes off each match and you're gold.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

It was a consistent show in the sense that every match was good. The problem was that nothing was great and WWE booked the show like an episode of raw.

7/10.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Pretty much all of the matches unfolded the way they should have, just all of them had the wrong result besides Perkins and Charlotte.

 

[Emperoreddy]

It was a consistent show in the sense that every match was good. The problem was that nothing was great and WWE booked the show like an episode of raw.

7/10.

Ya. Lots of TV booking where feuds aren't resolved.

 

[GKJ]

I think I liked the wrestling better overall tonight compared to Backlash, but Backlash was a more satisfying show with much better booking.

Well said.

 

[Isi]

rollins has come so far. he's now the face in that exact same situation. awesome work, great job WWE!

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Ric Flair's face looks like a cheap halloween mask of Ric Flair.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Ric Flair's face looks like a cheap halloween mask of Ric Flair.

This episode is so freaking weird.

P.S.: I wanna punch Saxton in the face.

 

[Virtanen18]

God forbid two wrestlers just wrestle without some bs injured ref or interference. Only tuned in about 1 minute before the DX chop and just shook my head the whole way through. Garbage booking

 

[Del Preston]

Saxton is going to snap one day and murder JBL.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

In 2016, The Miz and Dolph Ziggler had a better match than Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens.

RATINGZZ

Jax/Fox: *1/2
New Day/Club: **3/4
Perkins/Kendrick: ***1/4
Cesaro/Sheamus: **** (would have been ****1/2 with a proper finish)
Jericho/Zayn: ***
Bayley/Sasha/Charlotte: ***
Reigns/Rusev: ***1/4
Rollins/Owens: **3/4

Solid, but nothing great aside from one match either whereas Smackdown had two ****+ matches on Backlash.

Rollins/Owens wasn't even a bad match, it's just two supremely talented workers putting on an extremely underwhelming match bogged down with overbooking which I KNEW was going to ****ing happen but not destroy the match quality or potential match quality so bad. They never even kicked it into the next gear. It was like a super, long-form match with a slow build to an amazing climatic ending that never happened.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Saxton is going to snap one day and murder JBL.

Well, then, we would be rid of both. That's a positive.

 

[ColePens]

Is LAW on tonight?

 

[GKJ]

The people who were rooting for Seth before still are.

Those who weren't don't know why they're supposed to. This is the 4th PPV in a row Seth's been fighting for a title, and each time he's left without it. In all likelihood, there will be a 5th. Casual fans don't get why they're supposed to root for someone who has been handed so many opportunities.

Huge opportunity missed when he should've just been left as a face upon his return. We all knew that then, but it's made clear now.

 

[ColePens]

Yikes looks like LAW starts at midnight ET.

 

[GKJ]

Yikes looks like LAW starts at midnight ET.

Football season, brother.

 

[Emperoreddy]

It is shocking they can put on a PPV with so little in the way of payoffs and think they can get away with it.

Makes even less sense when they have to know tomorrow night's RAW is going to have a really small audience.

 

[ColePens]

It is shocking they can put on a PPV with so little in the way of payoffs and think they can get away with it.

Makes even less sense when they have to know tomorrow night's RAW is going to have a really small audience.

As a consumer, why would anyone tune in tomorrow? Nothing has changed. Everything is just like last weeks and it will start building to the next PPV which is like 3-4 weeks away.