The OAO Smackdown! thread for 6/17/04

[The Robfather]

I watched it and yeah, it sucked. Too bad, there are a few wrestlers on there I like, but way too much crap for me to put up with. Its like WCW Thunder.

[Fro]

Anyone else get the impression that Classic's moonsault (and other offense) was a big "fuck you" to WWE management, after their "humorous ideas" for him?

 

Also, Doug Basham showed some decent mic work.

 

Overall, compared to past SDs post-redraft, this one wasn't that bad.  Not a great show by any stretch, but better than it's been lately.

I marked for the moonsault.

 

As someone who's watched OVW, it was really nice to see Doug Basham and Luther Reigns get a little bit of mic time.

 

Doug's good on the stick and could get he and his team over if given the opportunity. Like his match with London on Velocity a few weeks ago, he showed some flashes of what he's capable of doing in the ring if WWE would let him go all-out.

 

I'd love to see Reigns become the new GM eventually, because he was *AWESOME* in the role in OVW. He's got a great presence and good mic skills as well.

 

The show's been pretty watchable the last couple weeks. The cement truck thing with Paul Bearer is totally illogical and wrestlecraptucular, but I like the general basis of the angle (Taker being controlled by Heyman for a while, possibly for a feud with Eddy).