7/31/18 TNA SmackDown: Joe/Styles feud; Bar vs Usos; Lana vs Zelina Vega

[RammerJammer]

The Headliners

Also, welcome to the annual Samoa Joe is a contender portion of the WWE schedule!

To be fair, maybe if Raw’s main event wasn’t bottlenecked by an oft-absent MMA star and he wasn’t in his late 30s with a ton of hard miles on his substantial frame, maybe Joe would have held a title on the main roster by now. Injuries and circumstances haven’t made it easy to sustain a push for The Destroyer.

Still, especially with rumors indicating there’s no end in sight for AJ Styles’ WWE Championship run, it’s hard to get too invested in the outcome of the SummerSlam match set up by Joe choking out The Phenomenal One last week. It was a bad ass scene, especially the “tick tock” post-script The Samoan Submission Machine added on to the end. And we should probably just get lost in the story and not worry about the outcome just yet.

But especially coming so shortly after another rematch between AJ and a foe from a former fed that, depending on who you talk to, either never lived up to expectations or took forever to even come close to doing so, this Joe/Styles feud has a lot of baggage to carry from the start. We’ll see how they handle it when AJ responds to Joe’s contract-signing statement tonight.

- Paige also had enough of Zelina Vega and Lana’s internet sniping in the wake of their involvement in Andrade “Cien” Almas and Rusev’s match last Tuesday, so she booked a singles match between the two loud-mouthed ladies for tonight. SummerSlam mixed tag imminent?

- Where does this leave poor Aiden English, other than blamed for ruining a recent string of Rusev Days?

- We haven’t forgotten about Daniel Bryan and The Miz, whose feud seemed to kick off in earnest with last week’s baby-throwing Skull Crushing Finale. We’re just too excited to talk about it. Insert that GIF of Bryan’s Team Hell No partner’s political hero here.

 

[ECA]

Smackdown is appointment viewing again. We byke

 

[MartyMcFly]

Let’s get it

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

impact on tonight???? errr……..my bad.

 

[CM_Burns]

Is this Zelinas first match in the E?

The smark chants for AJ/Joe at Summerslam are gonna be overwhelming.

 

[Broad Street Bully]

impact on tonight???? errr……..my bad.

 

[Big D Bangston]

IN!

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

 

[Fenian]

IN

 

[Silkk]

How the fukk has she not had a title shot since WM33


Guessing Asuka won't even be on the Summerslam card

 

[AquaCityBoy]

F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S-YES

 

[Thebadguy]

Win it for us Becky/

 

[RammerJammer]

Oh look they not wearing their ring attire

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Becky

Mella’ .... If she don’t take that Big Daddy Cool Diesel jacket off

 

[Fenian]

Don’t make them hug and break kayfabe again please.