WrestleTalk Roundtable – WWE SmackDown Live – October 9, 2018

What was the worst part of last night’s episode?

JP Wood

Can someone please make the Rusev Day stuff go away. I’ve watched it all, and I’m still completely in the dark about why Aiden English brought this video up in the first place. It didn’t cast him in a good light, it wasn’t convincingly salacious, it was just… there.

I loved Rusev Day and thought they had something special. WWE disagreed. I can take my lumps like a man, but did they have to torch the bridge so thoroughly? Et tu, WWE?

Nate Craver

A lot of folks were high on One Night in Milwaukee last week. After tonight, they probably should have kept it to just one night. The segment fell flat. Apparently, Russians are good at hacking. Who knew?

It would have been much more effective to have the feud continue with the ultimate payoff being Rusev locking in the Accolade to force English to show the end of the clip or just come clean. This went too far into the cheesy category for me tonight.

Eric Stites

My least favorite moment was the very beginning of the show. I hated the introduction, or lack thereof, to the Women’s Title match between Becky and Charlotte. The match itself was great, but I hated that they didn’t get proper entrances and there was absolutely no introduction to the match other than the ring announcer explaining the rules. Why not have Paige come out first and explain why she’s giving Charlotte another shot at the title?

https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/1049832074453180416

Nicholas Holicki

This might seem trivial, but it speaks to an issue that I’ve had with WWE booking for some time. My worst moment from SmackDown is Byron Saxton claiming on commentary that the feud between Charlotte and Becky is about more than a title, it’s about a collapsed friendship.

No, Byron! In wrestling, friendships shouldn’t take precedence over titles! But it’s a narrative that WWE have been pushing in their women’s division for the past several months. Apparently, as far as women are concerned, all feuds center around newly formed friendships, broken-down friendships, or prospective friendships – making the titles secondary.

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