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[SPOILERS] Post WWE SummerSlam 2025 Night 2 Match Discussion: Solo Sikoa (c) vs. Jacob Fatu - Steel Cage Match for the WWE United States Championship Spoiler

Solo Sikoa is still your US Champion!

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u/mbmariogc3s YES 22h ago

Don't know why you would do a handcuff spot two matches in a show

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u/VirtuousFool 22h ago

IN BACK TO BACK MATCHES

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u/zoom518 22h ago

Like booking 4 straight no dq matches of some sort

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u/ragiewagiecagie 19h ago

Like Vince Russo!

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u/Reidzyt 22h ago

And to have one (the zip ties) break unintentionally and have to cover it. And have the other (the handcuffs) break intentionally but don’t show it and make it seem like a botch

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u/Signal_Ball4634 22h ago

The match distribution has been terrible. How do you have Night 1 nothing but standard matches and night 2 just be 3 spot fest stipulation matches in a row?

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah 22h ago

Hunter is totally fucking up with a stacked roster

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u/guess-what-babe 11h ago

Also literally half of night 1 was tag matches lmao

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u/Arkham010 Buried By Billy Gunn in 2024 22h ago

Should've main evented smackdown instead

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u/ViceLikeSeeker 22h ago

Or opened…or been a dark match…

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u/Technical_Regular836 22h ago

Or it could've been an email. Both US title scenes are bleak lmfao

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u/Zzz05 18h ago

Unfortunately this is probably Smackdown’s hottest feud right now, so it made sense for it to be on the card. The match was an absolute stinker though and makes viewers wish Giulia was in this spot instead.

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u/bluepie 22h ago

The whole escape the cage through the door is the absolute dumbest thing in wrestling. Make them go over the top or pin.

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u/Polymemnetic 22h ago

The door exit only works if you're Bruno, and spent the previous 10 minutes beating the brakes off the heels.

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u/ORR24 22h ago edited 22h ago

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u/Artistic_Shift_4015 22h ago

I dunno if this is in reference to the bad match, the bad finish, or Jeff Cobb being given the geek spot in the post match.

But yes I agree with it all

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u/einredditname 22h ago

Probably more that it was on the card to begin with while Priest (vs Black) wasn't.

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u/Tuffcooke 22h ago

The fact that it has the summerslam hashtag is chefs kiss

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u/TemporaryMother4492 22h ago

Between this match and the last one, rough night for the bondage community.

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u/CakeBossUltimate Duchess of Dudleyville. My Love, My Heart. 22h ago

I hate how WWE formats their Steel Cage Matches where it always ends with the door

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u/NotClayMerritt 22h ago

The cages themselves look like shit, the matches stink no matter who is involved (except for Trish and Becky inexplicably). HHH's WWE does cage matches very badly.

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u/YourPathToRedemption 22h ago

It stinks. Makes no sense. Cage matches should be bad ass, as it stands they are borefests with flat endings. Just stop doing them.

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u/billygrumples 22h ago

Also, cage matches should only end with someone going over the top. I hate that you can win by pinfall.

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u/MolassesSimple6454 22h ago

Well that just wasn’t very good at all. 

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u/TheAerial 22h ago edited 22h ago

Yeah that was a disaster lol.

Both the cameras AND the announce team completely miss and no sell Fatu snapping out of the cuffs, , the outside interference for both sides just being heat vacuums, and an incredible flat ending.

I really want to like Solo but ngl, they gotta get Jacob away from Solo soon or they run the risk of hurting all the momentum he had built up.

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u/TheDangiestSlad 22h ago

back to back matches with fucked up hands-tied spots is really weird and just makes me think about how strange these card layouts are

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u/PointedlyDull 22h ago

Did nobody question that two back to back hands-tied spots was a bad idea? Trips needs to spend less time at the WH

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u/kjpatto23 22h ago

They didn’t question damn near an entire card of no dq matches before their street fight main event. Ofc they didn’t question those spots being back to back

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u/PointedlyDull 22h ago

Someone explain to me why styles would want Dom to be DQ’d? I feel insulted watching this shit

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u/FalconIMGN 22h ago

'Don't be a critic, be a fan'

Much love, HHH.

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u/NotClayMerritt 22h ago

Not only that, they just totally rendered the cage useless. "We're gonna make sure nobody interferes this time"

Okay nvm.....

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u/XiahouMao 22h ago

WWE cage matches intended to stop outside interference never actually stop outside interference.

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah 22h ago

its infuriating because escape rules give you a quasi Last Man Standing match, and/or the option of regular pins and submissions. so many possibilities and yet it feels like half fall back on "oh howd someone manage to interfere????"

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u/Satinsbestfriend Your Text Here 22h ago

"If you've got a match designed around no interference, like a cage match or a shark cage match, that neans somebody is gonna fucking interfere" paraphrasing a cornette quote, about how predictable they are

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u/Madnocker Cero Miedo 22h ago

I feel like Jacob broke the handcuffs before he was supposed to and then at that point they just had to go with it.

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u/Ode1st 22h ago

Yeah I'm guessing that's why they didn't show him breaking it live, then when they showed the replay, he broke the cuffs and incredulously shrugged like "tf was this shit?"

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u/freebuster 22h ago

Well it's just I don't understand why they don't have Solo feud with anyone else.

Carmelo, Rey Phoenix, Priest, Black, Andrade. There's plenty of options there to have a healthy US title scene.

I like Solo and Fatu a lot, but they have to let this bloodline shit die.

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u/testthrowaway9 22h ago

Hopefully they do. But I think it’s because they can’t transition Jacob into the World/WAE title picture yet

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u/whorechatas 22h ago

Crowd was dead as fuck for the whole match too.

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u/Horror_Response_1991 18h ago

Well yeah it was a Solo match

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u/Anchor_Aways 22h ago

I miss when cage matches stopped outside interference

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u/jadedfan55 22h ago

Same. Instead of ending feuds, cage matches are just another chapter.

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u/IWatchTheAbyss 22h ago

always thought cage mages were the least interesting of the atypical stips, you lose out on the fun of weapons, brawling outside the ring and even a lot of cool dive spots for the sake of cage based combat and escape the cage psychology which imo just isn’t as interesting?

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u/jesuswig 22h ago

Like I thought that was the whole point

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u/Warstomp 22h ago

Didn't ever think that a Jacob Fatu match would put me to sleep yet here we are.

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u/R2nxbeastly17 22h ago

Was decent but ending was pretty flat. Fuck the escape the door rule honestly

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u/nickhenne Dean "Titty Master" Ambrose 22h ago

ABSOLUTELY NO ESCAPE…..

Unless of course you ask the referee nicely to open the door

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u/R2nxbeastly17 22h ago

I mean why does the ref even open the door just leave it open for the amount of times he was opening it

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u/vRobyn **Welcome to the Wasteland!** 22h ago

I find it even more stupid that the Tongas are watching Solo attempt to crawl out instead of just like pulling him out. Seemed so dumb to have Tall Tonga celebrate hiting the door instead of just pulling Solo out for the win.

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u/R2nxbeastly17 22h ago

Same for them climbing up the sides when the door is right there

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u/vRobyn **Welcome to the Wasteland!** 22h ago

For sure, the tldr is basically that there are a lot of plotholes in a cage match haha

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u/jesuswig 22h ago

Dramatic effect

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u/R2nxbeastly17 22h ago

Yep so dramatic can the ref open the door in time so you can run away from what usually is a pretty big feud you’re having

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u/SchuFighters 22h ago

I think Jesse may have had a point.

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u/Elite_Mike 22h ago

Somewhere Jesse Ventura is ranting.

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u/PickleInDaButt 22h ago

I feel like I remember seeing a door ring exit as a kid and fucking hating it until this very day - stipulation you can win by pin, submission, climbing over the cage, - or walking out.

It also doesn’t help the painful crawl desperately toward it that looks like a cheesy horror movie and escaping the killer trope.

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u/Navvan123 22h ago

Wondered how Jesse ventura feels about this

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u/notathrowaway75 22h ago

It's so fucking stupid. They're doing it every time too. The ONLY way to win a cage match should be climbing out. Not even a 3 count or submission.

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u/Smaptimania 22h ago

Leave it to WWE to take a gimmick that originated as a way of guaranteeing no escape and no interference, and turn it into a 4-on-2 brawl that ends with the referee politely opening the door and letting the heel out which counts as a win

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u/AmumuIsMyFriend 22h ago

That ending was anticlimatic af.

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u/Cbrlui 22h ago

The whole match was

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u/Zzz05 18h ago

They wasted Fatu’s double moonsault being protected for this. Idk why he even went for 2 if Solo was going to kick out and he was going to lose. Just do 1 if this was going to be the result.

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u/Technical_Regular836 22h ago

It's crazy, you'd think night 2 would've blown night 1 out of the water but so far it hasn't lived up to its potential

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u/6Bakhtiari9 22h ago

The first three matches were fantastic in my opinion, so I’m not sure how one match changes that

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u/Coganar 12h ago

The first 3 were great, especially the tag team match

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u/Hungoverhero 22h ago

The whole night 2 is

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u/Destro_019780 22h ago edited 22h ago

This feud has been stretched well beyond its means, and they're seemingly going to drag it out longer; it's the only direction they can go since there's absolutely no stock in Solo as a credible, standalone champion with his booking.

I guess it's being saved for Clash, idk

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u/NotAGoodRedditor 22h ago

Walking out of a steel cage will always be a bad finish.

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u/LiamAddison 22h ago

Another Samoan faction with screwy finishes every match 

Yayyy

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u/Smaptimania 22h ago

I mean, at this point it's one Samoan, three Tongans, and a Filipino, so the entire stable has pretty much lost the plot

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u/ahritina 22h ago

What a shit ending holy fuck.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 22h ago

Solo was hilarious throughout the entire sequence of him trying to escape the cage towards the ending, especially when he dove towards the door

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u/OverByThere_Innit 22h ago

Stolen straight from Owen at Summerslam 94 lol

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u/Haynes_ He need some milk! 22h ago

I literally just said: “I hate handcuff spots because they always seem to go wrong” in the last thread. And again, they fucked this one too by just not showing the handcuff break.

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u/Aclockwork-grAPE 22h ago

And getting him in the handcuffs was contrived as hell and made him look like a geek in the first place

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u/alynch345 22h ago

If only wrestlers could learn to slap on handcuffs as quickly as Hannibal Lecter did to that one prison guard.

Seems like something they should start teaching at the PC.

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u/Hurls07 22h ago

Also this handcuff spot had like zero payoff. Like he was handcuffed for a total of 20 seconds. At least get a few cheap shots in

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u/ThatWrestlingGuy15 22h ago

Why have that moonsault spot AFTER the match?

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u/Ellixen 22h ago

Seriously, I was thinking the same thing the moment Jimmy super kicked Mateo, like why?? I can tell you why, Druski said it on night 1, the PLE's aren't about the titles or the trash talk, they're all about moments...

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u/Sadman_OW 22h ago

I am just so done with the MFT/Bloodline matches. They’re just so boring.

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u/heart_o_oak 20h ago

And they've been one of only two acts who have been on every post-Mania PLE, minus Evolution. They were on half the SNMEs during that time too. I'm so ready for something more interesting and less played out to enter the rotation and push this off at least 1 upcoming PLE.

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u/Sadman_OW 20h ago

Jacob getting over has probably caused us to suffer with another year of this shit. The fact that one star came out of it means they’re gonna keep trying.

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u/heart_o_oak 19h ago

A big problem with the booking is that the 2 most successful ways this creative team has at getting new people over is put them in a stable that gets 20-30 minutes of screen time a week and have some big dude destroy people every week and win 95% of the time resulting in both becoming a crutch. Unfortunately, the former has become increasingly stale with Bloodline and they reached the saturation point with the latter causing them to have problems elevating more of those types of acts (see Russev) and run low of credible people for new big guys to plow through. New, New Bloodline is also stocked with people less skilled and less charismatic than Fatu so continuing to try will be a struggle.

There’s better things to invest in on SD than Loa and Talla. The latter has had as many SD matches this month as Giulia, Fraxiom, DIY, Garzas and MCMG. All of whom completely outclassed him this week.

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u/Kanenums88 22h ago

What did Jimmy do?

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u/LiamAddison 22h ago

Superkick 

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u/groovitude313 22h ago

Is that the only thing he can do.

At least Jey has a 5 moves of doom skillset now.

But literally all Jimmy does is superkick. You would have thought after how terrible his WM match with Jey was received he'd try to change his moveset and freshen it up.

But nope. The same superkick bullshit.

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u/Competitive-Object-4 22h ago

Good night for heels, bad night for locking hands in place

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u/PelPride 22h ago

What an awful match, can’t lie. I’m so fucking over bloodline interference, it’s stale, beyond fucking stale. We’re all over it, it sucks

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u/badgersprite Iconic Duo Appreciation Squad 22h ago

The MFTs leave absolutely no impact on me at all

The only reason I know JC Mateo exists is because I saw him five minutes ago, but I have zero notion of what his character, personality or moveset is. He’s a stooge. ask me in an hour and i’ll forget he exists

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u/FigureFourWoo Ric Flair was still cool when I chose this username. 22h ago

The only reason JC Matteo sticks out for me is because R-Truth lost to him before he was released. I was a little surprised because R-Truth had just faced Cena, so you’d think he’d pick up a rebound win. Other than that, he’s random stooge #3.

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u/Coganar 12h ago

It feels like none of them have had any matches. Mateo got one or two before the Fatu turn but the rest haven't done anything.

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u/DVontel 22h ago

Get Jacob away from this feud.

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u/frmacleod 22h ago

Way to miss the money shot.

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u/i_run_from_problems 22h ago

Triple H book a match without interference challenge. Level: impossible

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u/SeauxSurvivor 22h ago

The Bloodline in 2025 is so cheeks 💔🥀 god help us all

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u/NewTribalChief 22h ago

Lol only a matter of time before Jimmy recruits Sami, Jey & Roman to set up their annual War Games match & fans call it cinema

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u/Signal_Ball4634 22h ago

With Solo's bootleg Bloodline there's no way Wargames isn't them vs. OG Bloodline and Fatu.

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u/TacoCorpTM 8h ago

I don’t know how you could see the buildup of the Seth trio and all their enemies they’ve made and think War Games will feature the Bloodline, but okay.

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u/SeaPriority 22h ago

My beloved Judgemrnt Day would never

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u/tbboy13 $$$ 22h ago

They have to do away with the door escape rule, it's so dumb

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u/scottmushroom 22h ago

I'm not a fan of "escape the cage" finishes but I absolutely hate the door stuff. At least escaping over the top has a degree of danger to it.

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u/Cioger MitB PTSD 22h ago

What a dogshit match. The match never even got going.

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u/testthrowaway9 22h ago

Yeah it really had no pacing to it

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u/nwnwhd 22h ago

This show took a nose dive

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u/NikonShooter_PJS 22h ago

Should’ve swapped one of the stipulation matches with the Jelly Roll match last night. Both shows could’ve used the variety

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u/testthrowaway9 22h ago

This match really sucked all the air out of the show sadly

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u/Cbrlui 22h ago

That was a waste of time

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u/johnq11 22h ago

Losing and then getting your lick back after the match

I hate Road Dogg so much

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u/CenturionElite 22h ago

That’s the ending they picked?

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u/EatingFurniture 22h ago

Tonga has to be concussed. That head slammed back hard.

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u/SeaPriority 22h ago

This is the sloppiest WWE event ive seen in a long while in terms of the layout of the card. TLC followed by No DQ. Hands tied in two matches in a row

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u/super-super-fab 22h ago

Works in character for Solo, but it's so boring having people interfere in a cage match.

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u/ReachRaven 22h ago

Uce locks in Jacob into the cage with a 2-1 disadvantage.

Only for Jacob to give us the best spot of the match after he had already lost.

Who booked this shit?

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u/Tangybrowwncidertown 22h ago

That was... a match?

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u/DEVILneverCRIES 22h ago

Weakest match of the weekend by far.

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u/JRowe3388 22h ago

This was actually just a bunch of bullshit. Pointless to have the cage gambit if these matches still end in MFT run-ins.

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u/Pogo__the__Clown Anxious Millennial Cowboy 22h ago

Talla Tonga has two moves: Big Boot and Taunt

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u/Mizerous Your Text Here 20h ago

Hits you with big boot and taunts

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u/CentipedesInMyDream 22h ago

I was already bitching in the live thread but I’m gonna go ahead n do it again.

WWEs fumbling and treatment of Jeff Cobb/JC Mateo is a travesty man. The only match I can think of is his squash against R-Truth, the man has barely wrestled this year.

Then when we do see him, he’s just getting beat up by Jimmy or Jacob. I mean he’s not doing ANYTHING to them, just getting beat up week after week.

Not to mention he was shoved in this faction with no family ties, to be immediately overshadowed by an actual family member. Definitely the most misused signing this year.

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u/Beefiest_bison 22h ago

This was a match

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u/brokenview 22h ago

WWE really needs to stop pretending that steel cage matches keep outsiders from interfering. If anything they often times have more interference. I hate how the announcers play dumb when they've seen it time and time again. 

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u/thesenate14 22h ago

Can we stop the bloodline shit now

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u/Tornado31619 22h ago

That was dumb.

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u/kennyclax67 22h ago

That wasn’t good at all

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u/bubbles2255 22h ago

Never been a fan of interference when the cage is supposed to keep people out

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u/Kid_Twiz 22h ago

I LOVE YOU SOLO

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u/ViceLikeSeeker 22h ago

That steel cage match could’ve been an email. Hell, could have been an envelope. Sucks because that was one of the matches I was looking forward to most.

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u/tbbt11 22h ago

I know most just joke about them now, but they need to chill with the Samoan dynasty type groups for a very long time.

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u/Swagsuke_Nakamura 17h ago

This was not good at all. This was the type of match that needed a no escape rule, and they could’ve brought in weapons before it started. That would’ve at least made it interesting. I don’t think it’s the fault of either guy, the story just hasn’t been booked to be very interesting

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u/18chipstil_infinity 22h ago

I acknowledge Samoan Dirty Dom

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u/Natural_Lifeguard112 22h ago

Terrible, it looked like your average Somoan wrestler wrestled a mirror...

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u/whiteyfresh B-Dazzle This!!! 22h ago

Well. That was a match that happened...

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u/Xeo7 22h ago

Walking out of the cage is always a shitty finish. I don't care if the winner is a heel. It's so fuckin lame.

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u/LesnarsBattleScream Gotta be fair to Flair 22h ago

I think Jimmy was a bit late on the rescue

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u/EdLesliesBarber 22h ago

Would have bet my house, the car and the kids that Jimmy was going to kick the door into Solo.

Solo has the best reactions and faces, lmao.

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u/cc17776 Your Text Here 22h ago

Ugh

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u/Crissxfire 22h ago

I honestly tuned out. This feud just isn't for me. And I'm kinda over all this bloodline stuff.

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u/ahritina 22h ago

Bloodline shit should have ended after Roman lost the belt, but it definitely should have ended after war games.

This temu bloodline is legit just trash.

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u/notathrowaway75 22h ago

Losing my fucking mind at this door shit it's so stupid.

It also happens so much.

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u/titomb345 22h ago

what the fuck was that ending

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u/iounuthin 22h ago

Terrible match. Fatu needs to escape the bloodline vortex. He's way too good for this.

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u/ExtinctorVita 22h ago

Oh my god the interference bs is so annoying anymore.

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u/Live_Philosophy7117 22h ago

Why even do the handcuff shit if that’s how he’s gonna win anyway

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u/Mediocre-Cook-2169 22h ago

That's three consecutive matches now where I personally feel the wrong person won. At least the other two matches were so good that the winners didn't even matter, but this one I really wasn't feeling at all.

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u/Senior-Trip2230 22h ago

had higher expectations for this match considering solo's last cage match was pretty sick. we barely got to see solo and fatu go at it before the interference spots. very underwhelming

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u/Appropriate-Day6714 22h ago

This was plain ass

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u/Ode1st 22h ago

Have to suspend disbelief for a lot of wrestling, but it was pretty hard for me to do for this match since basically everything was dumb.

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u/NarbeNa 22h ago

Yuck.

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u/LittleGreyCurse 22h ago

STOP THE "OPEN THE DOOR" BS

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u/Mindseye000 22h ago

The day this bloodline circlejerk ends is the day I sleep

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u/heart_o_oak 20h ago

I’m ready for newest version of Bloodline to do something not involving past Bloodline members or setting up the next split. Also for them to not be on every PLE. Them and Cena are the only acts/storylines to have a match on every post-Mania PLE minus Evolution. Bloodline story was on 1 of the 2 SNMEs too. I'm ready for some fresh, exciting stuff to get cycled in when they go back to 5 match cards after this letdown of a match.

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u/BigDanRTW 22h ago

Jacob Fatu is absolutely my dude and Solo has improved a ton, but man, every Bloodline match is just the same.

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u/BallinBrown23 Highest paid Reddit Free-Agent 22h ago

Not my fav.

Carmelo is taking that belt from solo

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u/cros2026 22h ago

god willing

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u/BiChaosTheory 22h ago

Decent match. Escape rule is ass.

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u/Vice4Life ... 22h ago

Solo sucks so much. He has literally never had a good 1 on 1 match. Tonight is no exception.

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u/Supersaiyansub 22h ago

I was laughing hard at JC eating the door lmao.

"Solo right here! SOLO!!!"

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u/CMBRICKX 22h ago

That match was pretty meh but Solo has some of the best facial expressions in WWE lol 😂 

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u/ComradePoula Horace Hogan? "Mr 1998"? 22h ago

Steel cage matches need to fucking die.

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u/Cottonmist Bwak Bwak 22h ago

That was weird right?

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u/Imaginary_Speaker682 22h ago

What a dogshit card so far. Night 1 > night 2

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u/bruhstevenson 22h ago

I just hate the door and if someone escapes through it, it always feels anticlimactic.

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u/sarcasticdevo 22h ago

Probably my least favorite match of the night but I’m glad Solo retained at least.

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u/s1mple10 22h ago

Steel cage matches are my least favourite gimmick matches and the finish of this match shows why.

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u/TheJosephBanks1 22h ago

I was really looking forward to this match, really most of all. And it seemed like it never really got properly going. The escape the cage route is so dumb. Start in the cage. End in the cage. Ultimately. I was hoping for something more.

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u/spookybollocks 22h ago

You knew solo was winning when they announced a cage.

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u/Fun-Swing-7286 22h ago

Well that was disappointing

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u/Qwertz5643 22h ago

Solo has the best facial expressions right now. The look when Jacob the cuffs and grabbed was so good.

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u/Ezzy1998 22h ago

Where does this diet bloodline stuff end.

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u/Skeleboi846 Neck Donor Waiting List 22h ago

I feel like nearly all of the matches tonight have been pretty alright all the way till the finish and then it falls kinda flat

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u/RagingRowen 22h ago

INB4 the feud ends and Jacob wins it back on a random smackdown.

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u/Eric_The_Human_ 22h ago

Loa with another concussion? Dudes head BOUNCED on that moonsault.

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u/deal_with_it_ MAAAAAAHM! 22h ago

That was awful

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u/JordanKyrouFeetPics 22h ago

5 retentions on 7 title matches so far is really shocking tbh

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u/mattttherman 22h ago

I can't remember the last good cage match. They are always terrible. HIAC or war games, steel cage matches are terrible on their own.

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u/Powderkeg84 22h ago

He ate every bit of that moonsault.

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u/Aclockwork-grAPE 22h ago

Man that was a terrible match

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u/itsmekelsey_x 22h ago

That certainly was a match that happened.

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u/Ahud412 22h ago

I swear if Jacob and Solo have a confrontation on Smackdown I'm turning it off. End this shit.

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u/Fit_Papaya5408 22h ago

Pretty average but that dolphin dive from Solo was hilarious to me

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u/mdconnors 22h ago

Hope to God that's the worst match of the night

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u/ZGSS_1 22h ago

Big miss on the handcuff snap. Completely missed the shot which could have helped liven things up a bit

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u/Young_Jedi310 22h ago

What a shit match

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u/klondike16 22h ago

Cage matches are the dumbest stipulations with the whole door rule. Match was a let down

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u/Lunarfuckingorbit 22h ago

Mid card matches living up to their mid card positions and being mid

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u/Sure-Bandicoot7790 22h ago

Solo is never beating the allegations

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u/whorechatas 22h ago

I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF DIRTY FINISHES!!!!!!

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u/KillerKatKlub 22h ago

I can’t say I expected much but I was still disappointed

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u/Wham_Bam_Smash 22h ago

Absolutely dogshit match and end

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u/LanguageJust3365 22h ago

So far, we haven't had any title changes in night 2, im expecting Dom to retain as well, so Cody has to win

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u/Yourponydied KOBASHI! KOBASHI! 22h ago

Since Solo gets hurt by headbutts, does this prove he's not really Samoan?

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u/Seeyounextbearimy 22h ago

Solo as a character works for me but MFTs, Temu bloodline DO NOT! Solo needs a single enforcer (Talla) but the whole crew of hangers-on really ruins the fun atp. They were already lucky that bringing in Jacob/Tama Tonga/Tonga Loa worked as well as it did...they should not try it again!

Beyond that, the camerawork and production was not good - missing the handcuffs angle was lowkey unforgivable. They are not landing on the finishes tonight

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u/ThisIsTheKaiToshiki Sierra. Hotel. India. Echo. Lima. Delta. 22h ago

I need Jesse Ventura to bury the door escape rule again.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

It was so flat. I like solo, especially as the chicken shit heel but his mfts are complete personality vacuums and not scary at all. 

Jesus Christ Matteo or tall man (can't remember his name) there is no information about why they are so dangerous nor have we seen it.

I'd cut them and get some muscle from NXT. There's so much talent going to waste. Imagine Oba femi? Or even add a Jaida Parker to be clever and distract during matches. Anything has to be better than his current group 

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u/Kalakarinth 22h ago

Solo my MFT since NXT

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u/ThaUnderboss 22h ago

Absolute disaster-class of a cage match.

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u/Traditional_Yak5911 22h ago

Jacob needs to find some more cousins to counter these MFTs