The end to smackdown

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Walmart Nexus have taken over,and I am done with the main roster.

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Until Raw, right?

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It took you long enough. Welcome to the club.

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I’m 100% certain people would’ve had a meltdown if the Nexus invasion happened today. The main joy from this Retribution angle is how many people are clutching their pearls over it.

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Here’s my issue with the angle so far…

The idea of it, I like. I liked the lights and the sound going out on Raw. I liked them attacking the generator, even though they looked like the ninjas.

They look and they’re coming off like a bunch of teenagers though. If we’re supposed to believe these people work for the company, I cant picture anyone who has been acting like these guys are. I’m almost starting to think, these guys may not even be unmasked.

I think there is potential though.

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If they’re this anti-establishment faction that the WWE has no control over, don’t advertise their debut! Kinda ruins the entire concept of being unpredictable and dangerous when its advertised all day…

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Absolutely this! All day long this. For a storyline that’s trying to bleed the lines of reality by messing with the feed and acting like they’re trying to take down WWE from a broadcast and institutional perspective, having WWE promote it just neuters it from the start.

Imagine if in the Nexus debut it had been warned ‘a new faction debuts tonight’ I don’t think it’s nearly as powerful.

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Isn’t it just a bit of a mash-up of Nexus and Aces & Eights though?

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I won’t post spoilers here, but there are pretty credible-sounding reports out there of who is in this group. So WWE apparently knows who they are and has a plan.

But it’s WWE, so there’s a chance that they “know” in the sense that you “know” you’re going to marry your eighth-grade girlfriend someday. You’re not a liar because it doesn’t happen, you just didn’t know any better.

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WWE changing plans on a moments notice? What?

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Yup. But remember, if Meltzer says that plans changed, he’s still a liar.

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I did not see the end of Raw to see the group introduced but the end of Smackdown just went on and on. After a few minutes I just did not care and I wanted the show to end.

It also did not help that I thought Smackdown for the most part was awful this week.

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I’m dead. This was great! Thanks for the laugh.