Raw 26/01/2015

Insect Overlord

kronsington wrote: »

What exactly are ye watching with reigns and heyman? I thought raw was cancelled..

The live arena show was cancelled, but they put together a show from the studio at WWE HQ in Connecticut. Royal Rumble highlights, "analysis" and interviews.

rovert

The stuff of note from Raw:

rovert

And the money angle:

kronsington

rovert wrote: »

The stuff of note from Raw:

Heyman was simply superb in that segment.. The dismissive attitude was brilliant. I've been realy impressed wth Rollins on the mic these last few weeks and his ability in the ring is exceptional. I wonder will bubba stick around for a
Bit. Didn't see any of tna, but perhaps he could work as a main event heel like he did there

rovert

Do you really need to quote ALL the videos?

kronsington

rovert wrote: »

Do you really need to quote ALL the videos?

Do you really need to be so pedantic?

Rock Lesnar

Heyman once again the star of Raw, and when Lesnar and Reigns stood face to face, it became even more unbelievable what will happen.

and poor Rusev, what has he done to deserve getting saddled with Cena, it took Wyatt nearly 6 months to come back from Cena at mania, Rusev must be dreading it.

Tugboats

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Heyman once again the star of Raw, and when Lesnar and Reigns stood face to face, it became even more unbelievable what will happen.

and poor Rusev, what has he done to deserve getting saddled with Cena, it took Wyatt nearly 6 months to come back from Cena at mania, Rusev must be dreading it.

I doubt Rusev minds have a wrestlemania match with the biggest guy in the company. I'm afraid Wyatt just isn't very good or appealing. He was a novelty for about 5 minutes now the majority just snooze through his promos and matches

Rock Lesnar

Tugboats wrote: »

I doubt Rusev minds have a wrestlemania match with the biggest guy in the company

Im sure money wise, he's delighted, but career wise, We'll see afterwards what happens to him.

brianregan09

rovert wrote: »

And the money angle:

All jokes aside where would they be without Paul Heyman, That certainly sold the match to me , The issues as many have said weren't to do with Reigns winning anyway

Lord TSC

If anything is to be salvaged from Reigns/Brock, it's going to be Heyman who has to do the heavy lifting. He's the one who'll have to give the fans a reason to get behind Reigns, cause it seems they will be taking the "haters gonna hate" attitude that still sees Cena being booed all these years later. That said, Heyman also has to make sure he doesn't completely destroy Reigns and utterly expose Reigns' lack of ability to respond....which, I imagine, is like asking the summer sun not to make an ice cube melt....

Palo Alto

Maybe they can do some hilarious comedy skits where Reigns bullys Heyman and pours water on him and stuff!

For 2 months...

hufpc8w3adnk65

rovert wrote: »

On the Network replay they removed references to Lesnar cracking his rib.

No they didn't. I watched it yesterday morning on the network and they mentioned it

hufpc8w3adnk65

An File wrote: »

Looks like they left Titus O'Neill's botch out of tonight's edit of the show.

What he do?

Lord TSC

MrMac84 wrote: »

What he do?

Climbed into the ring, Ambrose and Reigns went for a quick clothsline, he ****ed up and didn't go over the ropes and his 1 second elimination took 4 seconds.

Cheese Wagstaff

hufpc8w3adnk65

Lord TSC wrote: »

Climbed into the ring, Ambrose and Reigns went for a quick clothsline, he ****ed up and didn't go over the ropes and his 1 second elimination took 4 seconds.

Ah I remember now! I was hyped up on cough medicine yesterday!

Jerichoholic

Casket match makes no sense, has to be good ole' tripper's having a laugh about burying Daniel Bryan.

Agent Coulson

Any chance the Casket match on a live Smackdown will have the Undertaker appear.

It would be a good time to start to build him up to WM as we are now on the road to WrestleMania.

Scavenger XIII

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Any chance the Casket match on a live Smackdown will have the Undertaker appear.

Taker to make the save and drop a line about how only he is qualified to be burying anyone. :pac:

Cheese Wagstaff

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Taker to make the save and drop a line about how only he is qualified to be burying anyone. :pac:

Ironic that he has lost every Buried Alive match he's ever been in :eek:

Omackeral

Seth being Seth.

SlickRic

it just astounds me that we won't be getting Brock v Bryan.

it writes itself for this year's Mania.

Just like Triple H in 2002, and just like Austin for WM X7. so Vince knows it works. it's literally just his fetish for good looking, tall, muscle-bound guys that stopping him doing what he'd always have done.

so sad.

Scavenger XIII

Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »

Ironic that he has lost every Buried Alive match he's ever been in :eek:

Makes you wonder...

How did he get into the funeral business? Was it like "collect 10 crisp packets and become an undertaker?"

Mr.Nice Guy

I thought the segment with Reigns, Brock and Heyman was tremendous. Then again, when you've got one of the greatest talkers in history coupled with one of the most menacing, badass monsters in history (a guy who can just sit there motionless and yet seem scary as hell) it's hard for it not to work. I thought Reigns held up his end well. This is all the guy needed to be from the start. No stupid, goofy nonsense. Just serious and focused.

As much as Heyman will do what he can to get this over, I'd still be worried about the Mania fans crapping all over it. I recall Goldberg vs Lesnar had a pretty good build to it also before it leaked out that both were leaving.

Only way I can see this being salvaged successfully as a one-on-one contest is if they can get Brock to stay on for another month and publicise beforehand that Brock had signed a contract extension. Then you plant a seed of doubt about the outcome.

If they can't get that then I think at the very least Rollins has to be inserted into it via the MITB contract.

gerrybbadd

Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »

Surely Tits O'Neill will be soon released?

OMG Taz, what's Neil O'Titus doing in the Impact Zone?

Cheese Wagstaff

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Surely Tits O'Neill will be soon released?

OMG Taz, what's Neil O'Titus doing in the Impact Zone?

His arse is huge aswell. As in, outrageously big for a male. Almost like a separate entity to the rest of his body. A genuinely scary looking lad.

bradlente

The sound gate on the last segment made it a bit hard to get into I thought.

Moneymaker

Funny, if you had more segments like that, people would not have crapped on Reigns half as much as they did.

Loughc

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Surely Tits O'Neill will be soon released?

Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »

His arse is huge aswell. As in, outrageously big for a male. Almost like a separate entity to the rest of his body.

Bringing a whole new meaning to TNA wrestling... :pac: