RAW Superthread

J. Marston

Sad reflection on Raw that Drake's wife was the highlight of the show. Sign her up, Vince.

sky88

Drake giving every short bloke a sign of hope getting Renee

sky88

Sirsok wrote: »

Andrade can do no wrong.

His match with Gargano up there with one of the best matches ive ever seen

2nd favourite match of all time really hope they let andrade go far as he has star written all over him

Jerichoholic

Heyman's run of hope is over after one week. That was WCW 2000 levels of bad. Actually, it was far worse.

Time to give Russo a job.

ERG89

The only thing more unintelligent than having Lashley (and Braun) come back so quick was squashing Rey Mysterio like they did. Its easily the worst he's been used since WCW. Thankfully Vince hasn't had the 'let's take everyone's mask off' epiphany yet.

super_furry

They've seen what HHH has down with NXT. They've seen how fans absolutely love it. Would it not make more sense to give him the reigns 100% on at least one show rather than going back to the same guys that have been running things on and off for nearly 40 years now?

J. Marston

Becky ate that one...

Jerichoholic

What on earth was with that ending? Roman, the babyface who earlier on said that he was playing mind games, still lost with a real professional wrestler as his partner in less than 3 minutes.

I mean Jesus, it made no sense whatsoever. And zero reaction from the "crowd".

How can anyone defend this?

Also. Why was Becky standing on the ring after she beat Selina? They said that women couldn't wrestle the men, so what was she waiting for?

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

gerrybbadd

Omackeral wrote: »

Lads, they're honestly calling Rey Mysterio The Greatest Mask in WWE History. That's a nickname they are going with. It was said multiple times. My lord that's bad.

Drake Maverick's wife is smoking hot. Check her out.

Is she? She looks very greasy to me. And i hate those fake contacts

CastorTroy

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Also. Why was Becky standing on the ring after she beat Selina? They said that women couldn't wrestle the men, so what was she waiting for?

I was wondering that as well. What's the sense in a tag team elimination match if eliminating 1 person renders the person of the same gender obsolete on the other team.
Meant to say last week, how did Becky and Seth win by Becky making Mike tap? She wasn't the legal man.

So my understanding of this Bayley/Nikki thing is that Nikki is the face and Bayley is the heel. Dana hiding outside the ring and joking with Bayley is a very heelish move.

Surprised the 24/7 thing happened during the Raiders match and not Cesaro's, though what was the deal with Truth in there?
And if they're trying to avoid losing their title, why does the 24/7 champion go to Raw and Smackdown? Going by Renee's reaction/Drake's announcement, he didn't have to be there.

lawlolawl

super_furry wrote: »

They've seen what HHH has down with NXT. They've seen how fans absolutely love it. Would it not make more sense to give him the reigns 100% on at least one show rather than going back to the same guys that have been running things on and off for nearly 40 years now?

HHH already has a lot of say on the main show.


It's not going to make that much of a difference.

SureYWouldntYa

Jerichoholic wrote: »

What on earth was with that ending?

Because you have to lose the go home so you can win at the ppv

Creating a story

/s

Jerichoholic

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Because you have to lose the go home so you can win at the ppv

Creating a story

/s

Yes, but what has the revealing of a masked garbage man to be Cedric Alexander to do with making anyone want to watch that show on Sunday? Also Cedric was delighted that he just lost a match.

It's straight out of the worst of TNA.

J. Marston

Bayley: "Sarah Logan, she spreads chaos to gain victories."

1. Real people don't talk like this.

2. Has Sarah Logan ever gained a victory in a singles match?

PTH2009

Is corbin banging Lacey ?? Ha

CastorTroy

Has Sarah Logan been on the Dana Brooke regime? Seems smaller, somehow

PTH2009

Btw Drake Maverick done well for himself

764dak

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Yes, but what has the revealing of a masked garbage man to be Cedric Alexander to do with making anyone want to watch that show on Sunday? Also Cedric was delighted that he just lost a match.

It's straight out of the worst of TNA.

Maybe saving a janitor from getting destroyed made him happy.

CastorTroy

Think biggest shock on Raw: $15 for a beer?

johnnyryan89

CastorTroy wrote: »

Think biggest shock on Raw: $15 for a beer?

That seems to be the normal price for beer at a US event. Barclay and MGS charge similar prices, Met Life charge similar but they did have a $6 value beer when we went to Wrestlemania.

PTH2009

CastorTroy wrote: »

Think biggest shock on Raw: $15 for a beer?

jesus would work out at €13.33 for a beer

€6.50 is bad enough for one at the 3arena ha

lawlolawl

Big Bob Lashley turning up and destroying Rey in 3 minutes (after Rey had to vacate a title because he wasn't going to wrestle for 3 weeks, you know, like most people in the mid-card who completely cease to exist for weeks at a time) after being literally OMG ambulance murdered last week by Braun is a prime example of why WWE booking is so stupid now.


They just wants moments for social media. None of it has to make sense or have any kind of consistency. They went of their big stunt with pryo and everything and then just "noped" out of it and acted like it didn't happen and went back to Shane doing stuff being most of the show.

Autecher

Next Monday's Raw is being promoted as Raw Reunion Special. Advertised to appear so far are Eric Bischoff, Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Christian, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, The Boogeyman, Shane Helms, Ted DiBiase Sr., Jimmy Hart, D-Von Dudley, Jerry Lawler, Sgt. Slaughter and Santino Marella.


It's an obvious attempt at a ratings grab but next Tuesday I will do something I haven't done in months, go on YouTube and watch a video from Raw, specifically the Stone Cold one.

Rock Lesnar

Autecher wrote: »

Next Monday's Raw is being promoted as Raw Reunion Special. Advertised to appear so far are Eric Bischoff, Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Christian, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, The Boogeyman, Shane Helms, Ted DiBiase Sr., Jimmy Hart, D-Von Dudley, Jerry Lawler, Sgt. Slaughter and Santino Marella.


It's an obvious attempt at a ratings grab but next Tuesday I will do something I haven't done in months, go on YouTube and watch a video from Raw, specifically the Stone Cold one.

No doubt they'll have Austin put KO over in some way, maybe a stunner or two from both of them

lawlolawl

The entire thing will be the auld lads burying the current roster whilst Vince sits wondering why no one is over at the moment.


Maybe there will be a rare appearance by the elusive Brock Lesnar!

Jerichoholic

I wonder will Ron Simmons say Damn?

RollieFingers

Does anyone actually want to see all these lads appearing on Raw in 2019?

Was hoping with Bischoff and Heyman coming in things would be freshened up a bit, but instead WWE are wheeling out the Boogeyman, Slaughter and Dibiase in the same week that NJPW are offering Okada vs KENTA and Ishii vs Naito amongst others in the G1. Just wish WWE would look to the future for once instead of constantly looking to the past.

Rock Lesnar

RollieFingers wrote: »

Does anyone actually want to see all these lads appearing on Raw in 2019?

Was hoping with Bischoff and Heyman coming in things would be freshened up a bit,Just wish WWE would look to the future for once instead of constantly looking to the past.

See the problem is, Yes people still still want to see the old guys, me personally, i look forward to seeing Austin, unlike the others, its a rare appearance and he still looks good, he still gets the biggest reactions, nobody on the current roster in the 16 or 17 months since Raw 25 has got a reaction like Austin got that night and nobody after next weeks Raw will get a reaction like he will get.

Bischoff and Heyman still answer to Vince, things can only be freshened up on his say so.

As for wwe looking to the future, due to their senseless booking, apart from Rollins, Styles and Reigns, they have booked everybody below them into the depths mediocrity, nobody cares, why should i care about Balor and Joe (who are not exactly young) Owens, Zayn, or The Miz, wwe have given me no reason to

J. Marston

If Sasha doesn't show up tonight I reckon she is legit gone.

gerrybbadd

I'd love to see them bring back the Old School Raw's.

JP Liz V1

RollieFingers wrote: »

Does anyone actually want to see all these lads appearing on Raw in 2019?

Was hoping with Bischoff and Heyman coming in things would be freshened up a bit, but instead WWE are wheeling out the Boogeyman, Slaughter and Dibiase in the same week that NJPW are offering Okada vs KENTA and Ishii vs Naito amongst others in the G1. Just wish WWE would look to the future for once instead of constantly looking to the past.

Hell yes for Christian

RollieFingers

I get the nostalgia trip part of it and fair enough if that's what people want to see. Just think it's slightly strange timing to wheel out the old timers for a Raw at what's supposedly the beginning of Heyman and Bischoff coming in to shake things up.

The last show of this type I remember watching wasn't great, when Taker did the promo from the Manhattan Centre, would rather see them focus Raw on the current roster than legends and Shane McMahon.

CastorTroy

Bischoff, Austin and Christian are about all I want to see. For Bischoff, it's more to see if there's any mention of his new role. I hope most of the guys are just in a backstage bit involving the 24/7 title.

J. Marston

Two big matches set for Raw...

Natalya vs Naomi vs Alexa vs Carmella in a fatal four way to determine Becky's Summerslam opponent.

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent.

CastorTroy

What brand split?

Loughc

J. Marston wrote: »

Two big matches set for Raw...

Natalya vs Naomi vs Alexa vs Carmella in a fatal four way to determine Becky's Summerslam opponent.

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent.

Alexa doesn’t deserve a title match after losing 2 matches against Bailey recently

Also to hell with the brand split and that

battle royal lineup is just bland

martyos121

J. Marston wrote: »

Two big matches set for Raw...

Natalya vs Naomi vs Alexa vs Carmella in a fatal four way to determine Becky's Summerslam opponent.

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent.

My preferences would be

Alexa to face Becky. Let’s be honest, none of the others are remotely interesting at this point or could carry a decent feud for an A-level PPV. Bliss is the only one of those that could make me care about a title match, because Becky’s shtick is getting a bit stale for me now.

As for the men, Big E is definitely the one I’d like the most out of that bunch, but it’s simply not going to happen with Kofi still holding the other world title. Strowman has already faced Lesnar enough and they’ll never fully commit to him it seems, so it’s going to be Reigns or Rollins whether anyone likes it or not. I’d love to see Bryan face him again, their match at Survivor Series was top class, but even Mysterio would be interesting, he’s always worked well with the big men. The rest of them shouldn’t even be in with a shout IMO.

Jerichoholic

J. Marston wrote: »

Two big matches set for Raw...

Natalya vs Naomi vs Alexa vs Carmella in a fatal four way to determine Becky's Summerslam opponent.

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent.

I wouldn't consider the first one a "big match".

Pretty much everyone in that 2nd match are coming off losses.

No continuity.

Loughc

Jerichoholic wrote: »

I wouldn't consider the first one a "big match".

Me neither too many vanilla midgets in it brother.

Jerichoholic

Loughc wrote: »

Me neither too many vanilla midgets in it brother.

I might wait and watch it on Botchamania next week.

JP Liz V1

J. Marston wrote: »

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent

No Shane or KO

Jerichoholic

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

No Shane or KO

Only losers are allowed championship "opportunities" in WWE

Big Spoiler alert if true

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/cdnvg8/raw_spoilers_so_wwe_youtube_might_have_screwed_up/

ERG89

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

No Shane or KO

I always wanted to see what Lesnar's reaction would be to an errant punch by Shane

CastorTroy

J. Marston wrote: »

Two big matches set for Raw...

Natalya vs Naomi vs Alexa vs Carmella in a fatal four way to determine Becky's Summerslam opponent.

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Bryan, Orton and Big E in a battle royal to determine Brock's Summerslam opponent.

Isn't Alexa the only heel in that group? And it was Nikki that got pinned. As with any 3 or more person match, the one who doesn't get pinned or submitted always claims they're entitled

I really hope it isn't Orton

PTH2009

Reigns for the win

I wonder will it be a screwy finish and it ends up being a multi man match at summerslam for the title

Sirsok

Swiss superman all the way!

ThePott

Rollins, Reigns, Corbin, Cesaro, Braun, Bobby, Rey, Sami, Orton and Big E

This is such a dumb list, half the people here recently lost or have done nothing. Hell why is Cesaro there when Black beat him. Why is Corbin there at all or Bobby for that matter? Bryan got swapped out for Sami too.

If that leak is true (I don't think it is)then it seems really short-sighted to put the

Tag Titles back on New Day

Normally, I'd be game but when you have such a large roster and we already have a problem with talent not being utilised putting all the accolades on 3 guys seems dopey.
Even doing this in a battle royale is a bit crap IMO then again Vince hates tournaments.

Agent Coulson

Well it was nice while it lasted for Drew.


The Chosen One is done again.

Agent Coulson

So Bray wants the Demon again.


Really original WWE.

Agent Coulson

Well Mike is going to be humiliated and jobbed out for next 5 years.