SMACKDOWN LIVE SUPERTHREAD

Did Conor or Seth give her the coat

Liking Brock's new look too but I'll eat my fcuking hat if this Balor "push" actually leads to him winning the title.

Seeing how good Roman is at the moment makes it even more annoying that Vince forced him to be a babyface which just didn’t work.

They finally managed to put on a good show from start to finish so I'm not really bothered if that came at the expense of dropping a nothing tag match between 4 fairly poor wrestlers. It's no loss.

And as harsh as it sounds, Zelina made her bed. She got sacked once and had her pick of promotions and she went back to them despite knowing what they are like.

8.

Best episode of anything WWE have produced in a long while. Although it's not a high bar when Raw accounts for the majority of that.

Watching a WWE show d=for the first time since live crowds returned and jaysus the piped in fan cheers is terrible and so distracting and takes away from any natural pop the wrestlers might actually be getting.

So there's over a week between Draft episodes. Sept 24th and Oct 4th.

I saw something there on Reddit from Mojo Rawley that said they push people based on social media hits. It makes sense of their absolute persistence with Liv, the latest being a team with Toni.

All the while there's Ruby who after a long injury they cut fairly sharply.

I mean it as no disrespect to Liv, I just don't get how they've repackaged as much as they have yet it still hasn't landed to their satisfaction, but still retain her.

Following Naomi’s unruly approach towards Sonya Deville last night, the WWE Official spoke with Talking Smack correspondent Kayla Braxton about Naomi’s unspeakable actions. According to Deville, the former SmackDown Women’s Champion went a little too far while mentioning she should be lucky she only walked away with a (storyline) fine.

“The way that Naomi talked to me tonight, the way that she treated me tonight, is absolutely unacceptable behavior,” Deville snapped. “Nobody is to talk to a WWE Official in that manner. She is lucky that she got a fine. I don’t know what she thinks stepping to me and getting aggressive in my face is going to do.”

Wrestling Inc

I thought we were going to see Naomi vs. Sonya

Let's hope Finn comes out good from his match against Roman as him getting squished could really damage the demon character.

Hardly a swerve and he will win the title at ER but can imagine the Saudi's been unhappy that Roman vs Brock is not for a title. That title braun won at the Greatest Royal rumble is erased from history and not to be mentioned

Oh lord

Maybe need a weekly game of "Spot the Toni". Thought she was gong to join Nak or Liv to the ring but nope.

If they're going to use piped in noise while showing the crowd, they need to start finding the people who are chanting what they're piping in. I didn't see anyone chanting "EST". Would like to see a live report to see who the people were most behind in that segment.

Speaking of piped in noise, I really wish they would stop using the one with the woman screaming. Unless she goes to every show now.

Fightful reporting that Fox are not happy with the ratings they are getting and the ratings they were expecting when they signed the deal. They are also not happy with the amount of adverting and promoting of Peacock and NBC on the show.

Fightful are also reporting that Murdock thinks his media empire will be the butt of attacks in the Untied States vs Vince McMahon film coming out as his newspapers regularly took shots at McMahon during that time.