Welcome back to the channel guys!
We have a few great topics to touch on for today’s wrestling news.
We have a big update to some retribution rumors as well as another update to the Sonya Deville
situation
So let’s start off with Retribution.
Retribution has been at the forefront of WWE’s television programming for a few weeks now
and have just been dominating
I like a lot of things about how retribution is being booked, but I also see a couple of
flaws and a few things that I think could be tweaked a bit, so let me explain that
I love their style and their whole vibe.
The all black clothing, that entire mystery of trying to figure out who’s under those
masks, I absolutely love that
If you wanna call them cowards for covering their faces, I guess you can, that’s a valid
thing to point out
But in retribution’s defense, they are committing a lot unlawful acts against WWE by interrupting
their live programming, destroying sets, and attacking the talent, so maybe they cover
their faces as a way to protect themselves from being identified by WWE
that makes a lot of sense why they hide their faces, so I’ll give them that, that’s
a valid reason
I guess the main issue I have with Retribution right now is the lack of actual background
information and story
This group has been on television for well over a month now, yet we still don’t know
their motives or what they’re after
We’re still as clueless as we were back on day 1 of retribution
So I wanted to get into this new report on Retribution and a few rumors that are going
around
Rumors claim that retribution was a Vince McMahon idea that he came out up with real
quick on the spot
They acted fast and brought that idea he had into reality and that’s when we first saw
retribution
But one important huge thing to note that I think is bad news for retribution is that
there is no longterm story planned out.
Reports believe that WWE is winging retribution’s role on the shows on a week to week basis
and that is not what I like to hear at all
Judging by this report, it sounds like Vince McMahon came up with this idea of retribution,
but no backstory or longterm storytelling was planned in advance
They’re just winging retribution’s story on a week to week basis and I just think it’s
a bad sign for us, the viewers, when WWE doesn’t even know where they’re going with a storyline
So what’s the point of even discussing and speculating it when the actual writers themselves
don’t know where the story is going
I would’ve at least expected them to have some sort of goal or endgame for retribution,
but it’s looking WWE and the viewers both have no idea where this is all going
Another thing to note is that WWE still hasn’t decided on the groups’ members
The original 5 members who destroyed the Smackdown set was 3 men and 2 women, but after the fans
poked fun at all 5 members being under 5 foot tall, WWE has replaced some of the members
with much taller talents
Even though the masks are covering their entire faces, fans have still been able to discover
some of the NXT superstars that have been filling in as the retribution members
Dio Maddin, Dijak, Vanessa Borne, Jessi Kamea, and a few others have all played retribution
members in recent weeks
However, it’s still unknown if they’ll actually be the final members of the group.
These superstars in retribution right now are basically place holders, they’re not
the final members
Which brings me to the second bad sign for retribution.
WWE doesn’t even have the final members decided on for retribution
How in the world do you bring a faction on television without knowing the official members
and without having a story planned out for them?
There’s just so much red flags for the future of retribution right now that I’m a bit
worried about their direction and their future
Which brings me to the third little flaw with Retribution and that’s the need of their
appearances to have a bit more variety to them
They started off strong with the destruction of the generator, destroying the Smackdown
set, attacking the backstage area, and all those other appearances
It was always something new every time and it really kept us guessing and was a bit unpredictable
Now we’re sort of starting to see the retribution just head into this reoccurring theme of just
attacking random superstars during the shows
And that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that per say, but I just think you can
only do that for so long
You have to switch it up eventually and that’s my main criticism with Retribution right now
I think they made their point with the random attacks.
I think it’s time for them to be given a direction or an objective
The example I used before is the leader stepping up and explaining the groups actions and why
they’re doing the things they are doing to the WWE, that’s what I’m really waiting
for because I feel like the group desperately needs some background information about themselves
There’s already lots of rumors about the possible leader of the group.
The Miz, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and a few others have all been suggested by fans
to be the leader of the group
I like the idea of the leader being a big WWE name, but I think the leader should hide
their identity for a while as well
Maybe the leader can sort of be like the WWE hacker where we see him all masked up on screen
and they talk with a robotic voice, something like that is acceptable, I wouldn’t mind
that at all
I love retribution, as always, I think there’s a lot of potential there for them as a group,
but as a fan that loves storytelling, it worries me to read reports that say WWE is winging
their story on a weekly basis, not a good sign at all
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Now for another update regarding Sonya Deville’s situation and her possible return
As expected, Sonya Deville lost her Summerslam match which forced her to leave the WWE
WWE also moved Sonya Deville’s profile to the alumni section on their website and Sonya
took to twitter to tweet out the word “...goodbye” and that was it
Obviously this is just a long extended break for Sonya as she continues to battle the case
in court
There’s been some updates to the case as well
Apparently the media was trying to get hold of some of the evidence from the case to publish
it, but the judge thankfully stopped that from happening
The judge reportedly wants to keep all that evidence and extra details away from the public
and I think that’s a great move
Sure, the general public all knows about the case and the situation, but as far as all
the extra details and evidence, it’s really noone’s business outside of that court room
Everything should just stay in that room.
A lot of things were coming out last week from the case, but I’m glad to see they
locked things up this week
Another reports claim that it was Sonya’s lawyer that advised for the “Hair vs hair”
match to be postponed because they didn’t think it was the appropriate time for Sonya
to shave he head and walk into court room after that match took place
So that’s official reasoning for the hair vs hair match being dropped
That’s also confirmation that Sonya was set to lose the hair vs hair match as well,
so that’s Interesting
As far as Sonya’s WWE return goes, my early guess right now is that we’re not even close
It’s not like she written off with a little injury angle, no, WWE used the “loser leaves
WWE” stipulation, so from my understanding, that stipulation is used for much longer breaks
away from WWE
Especially with the circumstances of this situation, I don’t think WWE will rush her
back and really give her a date to return
I think the best thing to do here is to give Sonya as much time as needs off and let her
come back in a couple of months or whenever she’s ready
That’s the best thing to do for her and her situation right now.
I don’t want Sonya to come back until she is 150% okay
I just wanna make sure her mental health and everything around her is back to normal before
they bring her back to WWE because obviously all that is more important than a WWE return
But what are your thoughts on what we touched today?
If you were writing it, who would you reveal as Retribution’s leader and what would you
have their motives be?
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