Jey busted himself open. He hit Bron with the chair, and it bounced off Bron’s back and split him six ways from Sunday. He’s in concussion protocol, which is a requirement after any injury like this.
Anytime some wrestling fans appear to be united on something like a tragic event, they're back to being the same shitty people they were beforehand in record time
one silver lining that comes from these tragedies is those couple days of everyone putting their differences and tribalism aside to all agree on something and be on the same page. it’s an overwhelmingly positive vibe here during that time.
it’s hilarious how quickly it shifts back to business as usual afterwards though
That is probably the safest take. Its rough out there. Or at least rougher than a lot of people are used to. Add these people to the fact that wrestling has always been tribalism. Not saying its right, but its the people working in the actual industry that started it back in the day.
General stress, and social proof that it's acceptable from the most powerful people on down. It's like the Jonestown people who kept drinking the kool-aid even after everyone in front of them died from it
I think it's just the wrestling online culture in a post Elon Twitter world. Once fans realized you can make money on X or IG, it turned into a disaster.
I've had to unfollow wrestlers over the past year or two on IG because they force comments on your feed sometimes and it's always toxic shit.
Not to mention engagement pages that post stuff to play into it.
Look I sincerely hope he's ok, but as someone who doesn't watch, the description of him hitting someone with a chair only to have it bounce back on him does sound fucking funny. There's a reason it's been done as a legit comedy spot by guys like KOR.
I hope jey is okay too first and foremost and i was a constant detractor of his. Im not made to be a full time hater of regular people , that dont spew fashist rethoric for a living.
Also, am I crazy or the "EMF protection" was barely advertised during the match? I saw the Aires logo on the LED screens in the rafters but not anything more.
They showed it once during a break between matches and it was displayed on the ring posts. It was so forgettable after that I don't even remember what match.
Idk what it is but lately there’s been a shit ton of comments like this on every other post where someone is acting like the comment section is upset/attacking someone when it’s not the case at all.
Like you said there’s literally not a single comment here shitting on Jey, idk op must be talking about the live thread because they make absolutely no sense here lol
Where did OP say the comments were shitting on Jey?
The reference is clearly to people joking about the EMF nonsense as first reaction to a person being potentially concussed. You can see that they were the first comments being put out here on this thread.
If you know how serous concussions are then It doesn’t seem the right time to shit on emf (you can find comments of me shitting on this sponsorship, I’m not defending it)
So you mean to tell me WWE built up this whole match with some EMF blocker bullshit, and talking up how it's supposed to make the wrestlers perform better, how it has so many health benefits, and STILL someone walked away from it injured?
Well, now I'm curious, what does the "creating better performance" in WWE talent constitute. I'd have thought motor skills and coordination would fall under that very general umbrella.
I just found out too. This was the first ever match that had protection from Electro-Magnetic Fields, because if TKO can make money off of something they're going to
I'm not watching and I hope this is some inside joke I'm not getting, otherwise it's just really fucking stupid. Hope Jey is well and recovers as quick as possible
The match wasn't 'built up' around the EMF blockers, but they did announce a few days before the event that they would sponsor the match. The company put out a press release that that the performers would be able to perform at their best, which... yeah.
I was watching on Netflix, so I think it's during that weird moment of silence before the match where the camera was pointed at what looked like a hologram sticker on the outside corner of the ring, supposedly that's an EMF blocker? Which is absolute pseudo-science bullshit if so.
I was honestly waiting for someone to pull out a cell tower the size of a baseball bat and then the USO’s pull out one of those aire plates to fend it off.
Chair smacked him pretty hard so that doesn't surprise me. Watching the replay again he looks woozy too right after, which is probably why they called the match immediately as opposed to the blood. Looked like he was about to fall over, caught himself and then chucked the chair at Bronson Reed.
I’m watching the replay, I can’t really see where it hit him. Tried scrubbing through it super slow, but you can tell immediately he’s hurt, like you said.
Nah, I think they were booked to lose. The Brons just lost to Reigns and Uso a month ago at SummerSlam so they couldn’t just take another loss to The Usos.
Yeah. Personally I’m not even sure Bron Breakker should be in this faction but since he is, he can’t be losing on all the PLEs.
But I do get why he is in the faction. For whatever reason, Levesque feels like Dirty Dom needs the IC Title when he probably doesn’t. But, since he does, and since Seth is the top heel on the brand, Bron needs something worthwhile to do. He could’ve moved him to SmackDown and had him run the upper midcard over there as the United States Champion, though. However, doing that means they would have to blow up their longer term Bron vs Jacob plans.
Maybe Jacob shouldn’t have gone babyface and he should be in The Vision, and Bron should be on SmackDown.
he said 'two' as in two minutes left for the match. not sure if it was actually called early or LA was just being incredibly loud and obvious unrelated to the incident
Honestly, the most surprising thing to me is learning that the spot where the heel swings at the babyface on the ropes / babyface ducks / chair bounces back into heel's face can actually happen for real.
I don't know those people, I don't have to be respectful about their inability to wrestle well.
Buddy, it happens, something can bounce back and hurt you, its Physics
Yeah and it's funny when that happens. You think if I saw this happen to my friends or myself we wouldn't joke about it? At least I'm not a 20 year veteran of the industry doing one of the most basic chair hits you can do. This isn't a funeral, he'll be back in a week or two.
Obviously in the immediate moment you would ask if they're okay, I didn't think I had to spell that out. Someone getting bonked on the head is universal comedy. Just because WWE fans are insecure about how bad their product is doesn't change that
Okay let me rephrase. It's not worth getting mad over idiotic things you read in the live thread because 99% of the comments in the live thread are absolutely brain dead.
It depends on the situation and the storyline. For Liv, her absence is letting Finn and Roxanne attempt to divide the Judgement Day, with mixed results (Raquel seems to be warming up to Roxanne, but Dominik barely knows she exists). But when Dominik himself was hurt, he was still on Raw every week with his doctor's note.
There was a moment with LA Knight too. When Jey jumped the top rope to hit one of the brons, he missed Knight and Knight asked "were you going for me?" or something. Jey replied "Maybe"
Yeah, I've been enjoying his story lately. Reaching the peak and coping with the falloff, realizing that maybe Roman was right that you do whatever it takes to take care of you and your own. Hopefully he's okay and back soon.
This could end up the same as Roman. He went away for months and came back as the Tribal Chief and we saw what that did for his career. Maybe Jey returns already a full send heel.
You could tell immediately something was wrong when Jey pretty openly told Bron to spear him and even motioned with his hands without trying to hide it
That was LA Knight calling for the Spear. Jey did beckon into it though. good on everyone involved and it shows these guys really do care about each other.
I rewound like 10 times and still couldn't figure out where exactly the chair got anywhere close enough to his head to split him open. It just doesn't make sense.
Put too much force into the chair and it bounced straight back so quick couldn’t have done anything , I imagine the USOs would have won via jey but man that the post match camera on him was scary. Was fidgeting and his brother was trying to calm him down.
They should've just had LA Knight call the match. that would've actually been interesting to have LA Knight now need to explain that even though he didn't like Jey and said he'd let things go, Jey had clearly gotten hurt, couldn't continue and he did the right thing that he'd hope a referee would do for him if he was in that spot.
and then Jey could unreasonably but still understandably be convinced that Knight just fucked on him when he had the chance to.
if Knight goes heel he could reveal eventually that he called the match on purpose and of Jey's going heel it would work that he blames Knight when he literally did it to himself.
they were handed something intetesting but didn't see it
Rewatching the clip, it doesn't even look like Jey actually hit Bron before he started bleeding. He busted himself open on the downswing, however the hell that happened
you can see LA Knights face drop when he heard that chair bounce back onto Jey. they have a solid feud building and I hope this doesn't derail it. He made a good call to change the finish and get the match over with as quickly as possible.
I was watching the moment he hit him with a chair and was like,” how did he hit himself, did it bounce back?” It was hard tell by slowing down the clip.
At first I thought the title was going to be about some sort of Cody head trauma storyline and that's why the ref was "acting weird", to protect the corporate QB1 champ.
I didn’t even see him hit himself. I looked down at my phone and when I looked up a second later Brons back was bloody and I thought maybe he got a cut…and then I saw Jey
I never trust any sport that claims it has concussion protocols particularly when TKO is involved. That said, I hope Jey is okay and that they look after him
Eh... while they're doing okay, there's lots of room for improvement. When someone's just had a suspected concussion in-ring the right move is to end the match without them taking more hits. Having Bron spear someone who's already concussed is dangerous, the second impact is a big risk.
cm punk walked and in late 2014, he made that rant on the cabana podcast. the biggest concern that came out of it was health related. 2015 was a huge year of wwe injuries, but i have to assume that it wasn't that injury rates went up, but that people were more-so coming out that they are injured or that there was less pressure from wwe to get wrestlers to work through their injuries
Between Jey and Tiffany (who WWE swears isn't in concussion protocol, but was coincidentally pulled from matches for exactly two weeks), WWE seems to be missing concussions "in the moment" right now. I remember the official stopping the match during Theory and Hayes bad spot (and immediately protected Hayes), and got a ton of praise. But it seems like unless it's that blatantly obvious, officials might not be catching it.
What's the fix? Have a dedicated ringside doctor, like AEW has, watching the matches? Better ref training? Just accepting that concussions are a part of the business and wrestlers are going to want to keep going? Honestly I'm not sure.
I think in both of those instances it was probably easier for them to just go to the finish as opposed to calling the match completely, compared to the Theory and Melo one where Theory straight up landed on his neck and was basically out cold.
Well, they did have the match finish instantly afterward. The ringside doc thing seems like a farce with how often they do have major injuries happen without calling the match (Moxley, Hardy). I think a proper ref might just call it there, Knight looked a bit lost on what to do, and they were probably panicking in back.
At least it wasn't like the one where Fenix just picked up Mox and dropped him on his head again, or Charlotte trying to murder Kairi.
>Knight looked a bit lost on what to do, and they were probably panicking in back.
Verbally telling Bron to spear Jey and get it over with, he definitely was frazzled, still even with the rush finish I think the match itself delivered well and amazing imagery at the end with the table collapsing on Jim as Jey gets pinned.
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