RAW 18-5-2-15

Lithium93_

In the aftermath of WWE Payback, the entire locker room is bracing for the carnage that awaits at WWE Elimination Chamber, live on the award-winning WWE Network. We already know that the vacant Intercontinental Championship and The New Day’s WWE Tag Team Championship will be on the line inside the dreaded structure, but what else will be revealed about the May 31 event? The treacherous road to Elimination Chamber begins tonight on Monday night’s hottest show.

Also, after impressively defending the United States Championship against Rusev in an hellacious “I Quit” Match, John Cena has vowed to continue his U.S. Open Challenge tonight. Who will step up to face The Champ for the star-spangled prize?


1. Is Rollins really as good as he says he is?

2. What ‘I Quit’ Match aftermath lies ahead for John Cena, Rusev and Lana?

3. Who’s going into the Elimination Chamber?

4. Heavy hangs the crown?

5. Will Naomi become the next Divas Champion on Raw?

Lithium93_

6. Someone edit the date because i ****ed it up

the groutch

7. Cena Vs Rusev Part 5 to be announced, a Burried Alive match.

Loughc

the groutch wrote: »

7. Cena Vs Rusev Part 5 to be announced, a Burried Alive match.

8. Match to be renamed the Rusev gimmick buried already match

rovert

https://twitter.com/WWEJJSecurity/status/600402560655196160

Star of the show

Machismo Fan

We're coming up around big summer angle time aren't we?

CastorTroy

When I read "She's back" I just thought of Bischoff's music

rovert

More:

WWE announced the following matches for tonight's WWE Raw television show.

-Big E and Kofi Kingston vs. Tyson Kidd and Cesaro for the WWE Tag Team Championship for tonight's Raw television show. Xavier Woods will be banned from ringside.

-Nikki Bella vs. Naomi for the Divas Championship.

-John Cena's open challenge for the U.S. Championship.

-Bray Wyatt in action.

-Stephanie McMahon returns.

Machismo Fan wrote: »

We're coming up around big summer angle time aren't we?

Yeah also NXT is on Wednesday so we could she some NXTers. Owens and Balor didn't post "going back to Florida now" on social media so they still could be on the road. Becky could also be on the road too.

I've seen people fantasy book Owens answering the US title challenge. Or Cena standing up for Zayn and challenging Owens for NXT on Wednesday. NXT does need to be rebooked. I know Zayn is apparently just hurt and not injured but who knows.

CastorTroy

If they have any NXT ones on there, I hope they wrestle each other and aren't put against someone from the main roster who beats them, like they did with Charlotte.

rovert

Boo! Becky is Orlando:

rovert

Balor up to his old tricks
https://twitter.com/wwebalor/status/600443696484655105

J. Marston

Pft, fool me once...

RollieFingers

I thoroughly enjoyed Payback last night, and thus am looking forward to watching Raw for the first time in a long time!

ricero

A slow build for Seamus v Bryan at summerslam I sense if Bryan will be ok by then

ricero

Gotta love the ryback

Mr.Nice Guy

I enjoyed that opening segment but I can't help but feel the match will end in some sort of BS finish like Sheamus walking off.

Mr.Nice Guy

I stand corrected. :pac:

Stereomaniac

That was pretty good. I hope my prediction for this year comes true, with him winning the title.

Insect Overlord

That was very well done. Seriously intense!

Stereomaniac

So where do they go from here, does she start appearing backstage watching him on the monitors?!

Insect Overlord

Stereomaniac wrote: »

So where do they go from here, does she start appearing backstage watching him on the monitors?!

Probably gets involved with Fandango at some stage. Maybe trying to make Rusev jealous and take her back.

Stereomaniac

Well at least Fandango would have some sort of purpose in that scenario. Every cloud has..

ricero

Big e is killing it lately. Great charisma from him

Insect Overlord

No Mega-Powers.

Stereomaniac

I don't think that tribute act warrants any further appearances any time soon. It's a waste really.

Professional Griefer

O ****!

RollieFingers

Things just got very interesting, please let him go over!

Mr.Nice Guy

Not much of a pop. Glad Finn didn't debut tonight.

rovert

rovert wrote: »

I've seen people fantasy book Owens answering the US title challenge. Or Cena standing up for Zayn and challenging Owens for NXT on Wednesday. NXT does need to be rebooked. I know Zayn is apparently just hurt and not injured but who knows.

Story lads.

Professional Griefer

Theyve made KO and Sami look good having to fight Cena, theres hope yet.

Insect Overlord

2 damn good shows in 2 nights.

What is this, Bizarro World Mania Weekend?!

Moneymaker

That was better then them having a match.

Mr.Nice Guy

How did Truth get put into that Chamber match? :rolleyes:

Stereomaniac

Well I guess it makes more sense than Stardust, who Corey Graves was mentioning on the Pre-Show.

J. Marston

Ziggler is just dreadful.

Mr.Nice Guy

Poor Rusev.

paconnors

To get a kiss of Lana like that I would take a beat down of Rusev meself. :P :P

Stereomaniac

If I was Rusev I'd be snapping. It would've been more realistic if Dolph had just legged it afterwards.

Insect Overlord

At least Dolph was a better choice than my idea of Fandango! :eek:

Stereomaniac

Ah I dunno. I think Fandango is the man for the job whenever there's a woman going stray!

rovert

A Raw after Wrestlemania level show.

Kevin Owen's wife put up Kevin's son Owen's reaction:
https://instagram.com/p/22PFlyvYx8/

Owen is on the autism spectrum. Kevin loves him big time. John Cena is Owen's favorite Wrestler. Owen & Kevin went to a WWE Live Event when Kevin was still on the indies. Owen asked his Dad could he wrestle Cena for him. That was the impetus for finally losing weight and actively pursuing getting signed.

Stereomaniac

Kevin Owens and John Cena were great together in the ring. I've high hopes for that match now. Owens doesn't need to win, but if he gets to take Cena to the limit and make it look as though he might have him beaten it will do a lot for him I think. The family stuff with Owens makes it very difficult not to empathise with the character when he mentions them.

Lord TSC

That was a great show. But more importantly, it was a great set-up for a PPV that's not even a PPV.

It's as if they thought "We need to appeal to the internet fans ahead of this internet PPV". So we get Ambrose vs Rollins as our main event. We get Kevin Owens walking out to not only confront Cena, but to lay him out. We get a very exciting (imo) tag team chamber line up, and the IC title one should be very good as well. And no Reigns...

Right, I didn't like Ziggler and Lana together and felt they lacked any real chemistry, and it didn't help that it felt like Rusev utterly missed his que. The divas match at least made quasi-sense when Paige floored Nikki, not choosing to ignore the fact the two hated each other mere weeks ago.

I enjoyed the show, and actually think they did a good job building to the EC special, and the NXT special. Mission accomplished on multiple fronts.

That video of Owen's kid is amazing as well

Griever931

Delighted for Kevin, so strange to see him in the ring with Cena.

brianregan09

I would love for Owens to beat Cena now , Considering Zayn and Neville both failed be lovely to see Owens win it and continue to disrespect the title and really piss off Cena

Lord TSC

Wait, I just reliased.....the kid's name (kayfabe) is Owen Owen's? :pac:

Rock Lesnar

Just finished Raw there, quite decent show, loved Owens laying out Cena, as well as the lovely Paige flattening Nikki Bella.

Really disliked Lana and Ziggler, looked akward and makes no sense

Stereomaniac

I guess it just gives them some sort of narrative to spin during the Elimination Chamber match. It would be cool if they added one more diva and had a chamber match for the title.

brianregan09

A couple of things about the cena-owens segment, I hated the way they acted as if no one knew who he was at the start.

I loved how owens shot cena down telling him hed Ben at it longer than cena, cena must hate facing these ex indie guys because they always have that over him, punk Bryan rollins and now owens

JP Liz V1

Nikki and Steph's good friendship is over now too

ceegee

brianregan09 wrote: »

A couple of things about the cena-owens segment, I hated the way they acted as if no one knew who he was at the start.

I loved how owens shot cena down telling him hed Ben at it longer than cena, cena must hate facing these ex indie guys because they always have that over him, punk Bryan rollins and now owens

Owens had his first match in May 2000, Cena had already won a title in UPW by then. Rollins didnt wrestle his first match til 03 and Cena was already main roster by then.
Punk and Bryan were around slightly before Cena but I'm pretty sure that fact annoyed Punk far more than it did Cena