Raw 16/05/11 - *Spoilers*

D2D

WWE will be broadcasting Raw and taping WWE Superstars tonight in San Antonio, Texas at the AT&T Center. This is the go home show for Over the Limit. No matches have been announced but John Cena vs. The Miz is advertised as the main event locally.

JP Liz V1

Looking forward to the R-Truth V Rey Mysterio feud, their OTL PPV match will be made tonight

It will interesting to see who Alberto will feud with now? Maybe back to Kofi or Santino (they have history)

Hopefully the legend that is Zack Ryder will actually be on the show

Ridley

A contract signing between Cole and Lawler.

Insect Overlord

Is this on already?!

If there's a contract signing, you just know there's something hookey in the small print! :pac:

Ridley

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Is this on already?!

If there's a contract signing, you just know there's something hookey in the small print! :pac:

Advert during Tough Enough.

Adam Ant? :eek:

Insect Overlord

Ah, cool, it's just starting now.

Yeah, I needed a change after a few months of Ferris Beuller. Keeping the 80's theme running though.

waltersobchak

This is the first time I've stayed up to watch Raw, since before Miz won the title... Coincidence... Nope

starviewadams

Sick of Cena/Miz.
Meh couldn't be arsed staying up to watch this.

At least Cena didn't go for a poopy joke.

Ridley

My only problem with Cena during I Quit matches is that he always delivers a flat "No." with little variation when asked if he wants to give up.

Eire-Dearg

GTR63

CM Punk vs Kofi this could be good but I can't help but feel Punk is going nowhere at the moment not that he's alone.

waltersobchak

I dunno why but everytime i see CM Punk these days, i think he looks just like this..

GTR63

At least Punk won,cue rushed US Title match for Over the Limit,hope it gets more time.

waltersobchak

Jesus.. I hope Kong eats at least one of the Bella's

Eire-Dearg

Hahahahahaha, the ref made a legger there.

GTR63

waltersobchak wrote: »

Jesus.. I hope Kong eats at least one of the Bella's

Is she ever going to wrestle in a actual match you'd swear she was useless.

Insect Overlord

Better than any pedigree!

waltersobchak

GTR63 wrote: »

Is she ever going to wrestle in a actual match you'd swear she was useless.

In fairness when her music hit. She got a pretty decent little pop...

ricero

Beth pheonix to save the day for the divas

GTR63

waltersobchak wrote: »

In fairness when her music hit. She got a pretty decent little pop...

For a diva yeah but put her in there wrestling.These film plugs are a load of crap,only wwe films are in the cinema one week & on dvd the next.

Tom1991

Fair play to the lads at ringside in the ref shirts keepin the banter goin

super182

R-truth is an amazing heel

Insect Overlord

Insect Overlord wrote: »

If there's a contract signing, you just know there's something hookey in the small print! :pac:

Called it!

Eire-Dearg

Of all the match stipulations he could've created.........

Ridley

"Foot-age"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMo1nkMztA

GTR63

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Of all the match stipulations he could've created.........

One could only wish it would of been a stipulation to end this terrible feud that overstayed its welcome back in March.

Tom1991

i hope miz struggles to find someone and resorts to zack ryder to do it severe lack of fist bumping this week

Ridley

Swagger volunteers to face Cena because of Cole saying no-one remembers Swagger's WHC run?

That's... quite good actually.

Insect Overlord

Ridley wrote: »

Swagger volunteers to face Cena because of Cole saying no-one remembers Swagger's WHC run?

That's... quite good actually.

Good match as well!

GTR63

Cena's selling is comically bad hit by a pipe several times & recovers like superman on steroids. Pretty meh Raw overall.

Eire-Dearg

That was a terrible Raw.

grames_bond

GTR63 wrote: »

Cena's selling is comically bad hit by a pipe several times & recovers like superman on steroids. Pretty meh Raw overall.

time and time and time (and time) again!! I'm f*cking sick of no sell super cena!
and again his punches are pathetic - the mad swings at miz was just shocking!

Insect Overlord

I didn't think it was all bad. R-Truth's madness is getting very believable. Kong/Karma was very impressive. Sure, even the Swagger/Cena match was good, whatever about the rubbish afterwards. The reference back to Lawlor's match with Bret in the 90s was a nice touch too.

parker kent

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I didn't think it was all bad. R-Truth's madness is getting very believable. Kong/Karma was very impressive. Sure, even the Swagger/Cena match was good, whatever about the rubbish afterwards. The reference back to Lawlor's match with Bret in the 90s was a nice touch too.

I'd agree with that about R-Truth. R-Truth is the man on Raw these past few weeks. Nice to see Swagger in the main event.

Overall all though, it was a pretty meh Raw. Not exactly the most entertaining TV I've ever watched.

I imagine Miz has a cunning plan for Sunday which will probably involve replaying Cena saying I quit from last night or else attacking his mother or something hokey like that.

DM_7

R-Truth steals the show again. I was also glad to see Nexus have a good night. When did perfect jr last pin anyone on raw? And what sort of top rope move was that from Del Rio?

rossie1977

GTR63 wrote: »

Cena's selling is comically bad hit by a pipe several times & recovers like superman on steroids. Pretty meh Raw overall.

miz sold for no more than a split second when cena hit him in the mid-drift with the pipe, anyway raws become the no sell show, kong no selling all the other girls offense and punk no selling the rko the other week

SlickRic

Cena is actually getting worse.

i've had all the patience in the world for him, but even i'm starting to get sick of it.

not necessarily the Super Cena, but the bad selling, and fúcking horrific punches. they're horrendous, and destroy my suspension of belief completely in an instant.

as i say, he's getting worse. i'm not even joking.

parker kent

I've reached the point where I don't care how bad Cena is any more. I have found peace and accepted his awfulness :pac:

spiritcrusher

Not a great Raw alright. Think the draft has really damaged the show, it lost an awful lot of its actual "wrestling" talent. Bryan, Sheamus, Sin Cara and, can't believe I'm saying this, Randy Orton. Most of those seem quite dependable in the ring to put on entertaining matches, I know Cara started off shaky but he clearly has talent
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While Raw still have talent there like Punk, Del Rio, Ziggler a lot of those are in serious danger of getting lost in the squeeze beneath Cena's disgustingly built weight, and have lost serious momentum recently. Del Rio's in no man's land, Ziggler has done F.A. since changing his image and Punk badly needs to get into singles action and lose the Nexus (but I doubt he will as long as he owns the rights to his name).
Swagger isn't bad either but I can't stand his character.

Really don't want to be jumping on the Cena bashing bandwagon but he really does seem to be getting incredibly lazy in his matches. Take a beating for the vast majority of a match, do his few moves and win.
Nice to see him giving screen time to Zack Ryder though!

Lord TSC

Monday's WWE Raw scored a 3.08 rating, which is down from the 3.18 rating the show drew last week. The show averaged roughly 4.7 million viewers.

Powell's POV: The rating continues to drop and in this case the company can't point to strong NBA playoff competition. It was the lowest rating the show has drawn since January 10. Obviously, this doesn't bode well for Sunday's Over The Limit pay-per-view.

JohnMarston

I've only started to watch raw again since The Rocks return, so can someone explain to me this Kharma plot? Cos they're really trying to sell the idea hard

gimmick

Its funny. You can tell how good/bad Raw is by looking at the amount of posts the thread has the following day. Sure enough, this weeks was terrible. Managed to get through it in about 25 mins. Fast forward all the way. Watched the Punk Kofi match alright which was decent. The rest was utter rot.

Lord TSC

JohnMarston wrote: »

I've only started to watch raw again since The Rocks return, so can someone explain to me this Kharma plot? Cos they're really trying to sell the idea hard

Not much to explain thus far. So far, all she's been doing is attacking divas. They seem to be going down a route where she's somewhat obsessed with K2, having not attacked her but having got real close to her a few times, but that's all we've seen so far...

cena

gimmick wrote: »

Its funny. You can tell how good/bad Raw is by looking at the amount of posts the thread has the following day. Sure enough, this weeks was terrible. Managed to get through it in about 25 mins. Fast forward all the way. Watched the Punk Kofi match alright which was decent. The rest was utter rot.

I too have been thinking this the last two weeks just by the amount of posts on the raw threads

parker kent

gimmick wrote: »

Its funny. You can tell how good/bad Raw is by looking at the amount of posts the thread has the following day. Sure enough, this weeks was terrible. Managed to get through it in about 25 mins. Fast forward all the way. Watched the Punk Kofi match alright which was decent. The rest was utter rot.

Yeah the forward button on Sky Plus was needed by me as well.

Jazzy

K-Kwik 'stealing' the show, lol. i watched that raw in 15 mins, so much crap. wrasslin needs fixing

parker kent

Jazzy wrote: »

K-Kwik 'stealing' the show, lol. i watched that raw in 15 mins, so much crap. wrasslin needs fixing

In fairness I'm sure there were people lol-ing when Rocky Maivia stole the show on Raws past as well.

Before the hordes descend, I'm not saying R-Truth and The Rock are one and the same. Just that even the most successful wrestlers (HHH, The Rock, Steve Austin etc) have had poor spells in their career.

JohnMarston

The way they depicted Miz picking an opponent for Cena, like Swagger was the bottom of the barrel.

JP Liz V1

Why couldnt they have Cena and Ryder go against Miz and Riley in a tag match

Truth's new look reminded me of 50 Cent

The Volt

I'm not minding Miz too much at the moment. He's playing the perfect heal. They should probably allow Riley to score a pinfall at some stage though.

JP Liz V1

I dont get why Riley was drafted to SD since he is always on Raw