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Hit Row WWE Return! WWE SmackDown & AEW Rampage Aug. 12, 2022 Review

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Sports, Tv & Film

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Hit Row has made their return to WWE! Well, most of Hit Row, since Swerve Strickland is currently holding tag team gold in AEW. Chopper Pete and Tempest discuss this and more from the August 12th editions of both WWE SmackDown and AEW Rampage!


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0:00.0

picture this static cars idling engines angry horns now picture you zooming

0:12.0

past it all light and breezy the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic book

0:21.0

your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk

0:25.0

a vantewescoast feel good travel

3:21.0

there is something missing with swerve not there i felt like something was a little bit off from their presentation just because we are used to seeing swerve with them that's just the the dynamic that we used to but

3:33.0

i still think they are very good they still came out with that level of charisma very incredibly charismatic trio and i think that is why we kind of fed in love with the quartets of them originally is because of that level of charisma and swerve help with that but

3:48.0

they are still very very good by themselves i hope this was a great showcase of that level of charisma that we can come to expect from hit road

3:55.0

yeah it was a really good reintroduction because they didn't really get a chance to do anything on the main roster last time

4:02.0

or knows bfab was on the show like once and then was released and then the others were on there like maybe two more times after that so you really never got a chance to know who hit road were

4:13.0

and this was a really good shot to just have them do a quick squash you get to establish what their finish is going to be a much better finish than the one they were using an NXT with a shanti coming off the top rope that they can never time right

4:25.0

and then they got to cut low promos just introducing who they are and why you should care and it was just simple pro wrestling done right with people that i am excited to see again

4:35.0

and that's the thing with this presentation is the main thing you need to get across was their charisma which they did through their entrance and the promos afterwards but also it gave you something to latch onto when the in ring stuff as well

4:46.0

they had a couple of really cool impressive spots they had a shot to the adanis doing a move and then a little kippa parcel is that look very smooth you had a top dollar doing the body slam and fireman's carry position at the same time with two guys it's like there's exciting things

4:58.0

all that chance for casual fans who don't know who are what hit road can do and they just look at it and go oh that's fun it's just like that surface level instant thing to get you to care about a new act you need that initial thing to just go

5:10.0

oh okay right I get why I should care about these people and I think they did a very good job at displaying their strengths like we were talking about on the restaurant podcast episode that went up yesterday the new format we've got for the blackpool content club

5:22.0

we were saying how something the trip like is very good at is noticing people's strengths and weaknesses and enhancing the good things and downplaying the negative things and I think this was a very good portrayal of all of hit rose positives

5:34.0

I completely agree I will be very interested I again have my reservations about you know what this group can and will be without swerve as the as the focal point but these guys have a lot of charisma and top dollar for all credit has done a very good job on the indies of continuing to work and continuing to improve

5:56.0

so I'm not like it's not like they're coming fresh off NXT where it's like oh they're all still they could use a little bit more time and that sort of thing I think that they could go very far under triple H on the main roster they really don't have too much to inhibit them at this point

6:12.0

and it will just be a sense of of hiding the weaknesses and accentuating the strengths like you said triple H is good at so this again is another set of former stars returning that I can be excited about

6:24.0

and can start to think about what are they going to do what are we going to see out of these guys are top dollar and a shot you're going to go for the tag titles or something like that all of a sudden now there's a bunch more tag teams in WWE there's a new faction there's there's a new I don't know if beefab is going to wrestle very often but there's a new voice there's a new manager possibly

6:45.0

there's a lot to get excited about and there's plenty of possibilities what they could do here 100% and at the very very least like you just said it's just another tank team to mix it up with people and it just makes stuff more fresh when you have much more possibilities especially for the tag division because it's been a little bit stale for a little while

7:03.0

I don't like the tag division of the Uso's and the street profits is literally anybody else those like the Viking Raiders and lost letharias but like I lost the tharios would never on TV apart from like sure this was like a shock return for that that's what I should have done for the thumbnail shock return and it's the loss of the

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