RAW Superthread

RollieFingers

J. Marston wrote: »

Had to laugh at Renee saying Dean is leaving for "greener pastures" which was followed by about 3 seconds of silence before Graves said "This is WWE, Renee!"

Laughed when she was questioning why there's cameras in the locker rooms too! Possibly in the minority here but actually don't mind Renee on commentary, she's much easier on the ear than Beth Phoenix.

sirmanga

I can only assume that Batista was supposed to be on Raw last night to do the explanation promo but had to legitimately pull out for some reason and they had him quickly film his little Instagram video to keep the storyline going.

Maybe Triple H went out to cut an ad lib promo to keep the feud in everyone's minds, but he lost the run of himself and started waffling about characters and real names in an attempt to separate this Batista angle from his heelish persona in the Becky storyline for the last month.

That's the only way to excuse this rubbish promo, because if it was planned, written, and approved to be like that, and this is the direction they'e going in with the Batista/Triple feud, then they need to scrap the entire angle and act like it never happened.

ThePott

Thought that Raw was rubbish.

Stop trying to tell us it's fake, we get it but you completely ruin any immersion. All you're doing is undercutting other feuds as not being 'real'. Jesus Christ, it can be personal and in character. We don't need to see Paul v Dave in a REAL fight ffs.

That ending was a mess, I mean good Ronda is heel now but aside from that could have been much better planned. Why bother taking the belt of Ronda at all, plenty of reasons for Charlotte and Becky to fight already and there was a lot of ways to get Becky reinstated too. Not to mention, why the hell did we need to hear what Stephanie McMahon thinks of the whole thing, what sort of way is that to go off the air.

Another Shield reunion. Has this ever worked? It always ends in disaster and this was the most rushed attempt at it ever, would have been way better to lay the seed here for a truce with Dean and then get one last curtain call at Mania if Dean does leave. Really hoping they're not gonna just throw Roman straight into the main event scene again, I have a horrible feeling that Seth could lose and Roman will top Brock.....again.

CastorTroy

So nice of them to give Becky a chance at being in the match she already qualified for.

And nice to hear Elias finish a song for a change.

Oh and the guy questioning if it was fake followed by Braun holding him up by the neck for the duration of an ad break and the guy being grand.

PTH2009

So were too forget the winner of the women's royal rumble gets a mania title shot ??

TimesArrow

ThePott wrote: »

Thought that Raw was rubbish.

Stop trying to tell us it's fake, we get it but you completely ruin any immersion. All you're doing is undercutting other feuds as not being 'real'. Jesus Christ, it can be personal and in character. We don't need to see Paul v Dave in a REAL fight ffs.

That ending was a mess, I mean good Ronda is heel now but aside from that could have been much better planned. Why bother taking the belt of Ronda at all, plenty of reasons for Charlotte and Becky to fight already and there was a lot of ways to get Becky reinstated too. Not to mention, why the hell did we need to hear what Stephanie McMahon thinks of the whole thing, what sort of way is that to go off the air.

Another Shield reunion. Has this ever worked? It always ends in disaster and this was the most rushed attempt at it ever, would have been way better to lay the seed here for a truce with Dean and then get one last curtain call at Mania if Dean does leave. Really hoping they're not gonna just throw Roman straight into the main event scene again, I have a horrible feeling that Seth could lose and Roman will top Brock.....again.[/QUOTE]

I just had a sinking thought they could well pull a WM9 moment (like what happened with Hogan/Bret/Yokozuna)... Brock could beat Seth, roman comes down and seth tells him to slay the beast, which of course he does, giving us a wrestlemania moment (sigh) of roman closing the show as champion..

CastorTroy

I think there were ones booing when it seemed he was going for the title

ThePott

TimesArrow wrote: »

I just had a sinking thought they could well pull a WM9 moment (like what happened with Hogan/Bret/Yokozuna)... Brock could beat Seth, roman comes down and seth tells him to slay the beast, which of course he does, giving us a wrestlemania moment (sigh) of roman closing the show as champion..

Eww, hope not

CastorTroy wrote: »

I think there were ones booing when it seemed he was going for the title

If only booing had stopped them before, I definitely heard boos too, it was Philly though so they're pretty hardcore

SureYWouldntYa

CastorTroy wrote: »

I think there were ones booing when it seemed he was going for the title

No wonder really, sad circumstances of his absense or not we’re in the same situation as last year with Lesnar holding the title hostage essentially

Reigns wasn’t really gone long enough to be truly missed, he might never get the near universal boos he got before, he’s now a real life superman instead of just a scripted one but that doesnt mean it wont still be a bit crap

PTH2009

When will they go back too normal with Roman and not have all the love ins with brother Seth every week ??

Think we will see the 2 on separate brands after mania with Rollins and the universal title going too SD and whoever has the were title going too Raw

gerrybbadd

PTH2009 wrote: »

When will they go back too normal with Roman and not have all the love ins with brother Seth every week ??

Think we will see the 2 on separate brands after mania with Rollins and the universal title going too SD and whoever has the were title going too Raw

The Universal title won't be going too Smackdown. It's a Raw title, down to the strap.

If anything, Roman will start back slow, and ultimately, end up feuding with Seth for that title somewhere towards Summerslam time. Que a heel turn for one or the other, or maybe it'll be a face vs face situation either.

TimesArrow

Ive rewatched some of the recent segments with ronda/charlotte/becky.. to be honest, Im finding Becky a bit tiresome on tv now. I think she's awesome on twitter and arguably, her stuff on social media has played the biggest roe in where she is and fair play to her. but I find a lot of her promos in ring etc a bit lame

TimesArrow

TimesArrow wrote: »

Im finding Becky a bit tiresome on tv now. I think she's awesome on twitter and arguably, her stuff on social media has played the biggest roe in where she is and fair play to her. but I find a lot of her promos in ring etc a bit lame

Couldn't disagree any more.

J. Marston

Omackeral wrote: »

Couldn't disagree any more.

As for the content, that's a matter of opinion. But for actually promoting the match loads and using social media effectively, she definitely is great at that.

It's something someone like Rollins could do to try to fill the hole that Lesnar leaves when he's never on TV.

Necro

TimesArrow wrote:

Ive rewatched some of the recent segments with ronda/charlotte/becky.. to be honest, Im finding Becky a bit tiresome on tv now. I think she's awesome on twitter and arguably, her stuff on social media has played the biggest roe in where she is and fair play to her. but I find a lot of her promos in ring etc a bit lame

It's like anything that's popular though I think, they drag the arse out of it and make it unbearable.

As soon as the authority gets involved you just know it's gonna go downhill. Happens every single time.

It doesn't help any of them that the storyline is an absolute mess at the moment with motivations for all bar I guess Becky unclear.

Why did Ronda give up her title only to return and beat the holy sh1t out of Becky who she wanted in the match with her just last week for example.

Why is Becky still walking around on a crutch is another.

Why is Charlotte giving the same lame mundane promo every week and giving it stupid socks with the pointing to the sign.

They're all guilty of looking foolish due to the crazy direction the story has taken. And it's because they didn't relax themselves and shot their load the night after the Rumble, two months away from Mania.

The match will still happen and will likely be excellent but at this point the shine has well and truly wiped off it due to stupid booking decisions as usual.

J. Marston

Shelton Benjamin thrust into relevance out of nowhere. Still a shame they took away his old theme music.

Agent Coulson

Shelton Benjamin vs Seth opening RAW is a bit of a cracker so far.

PTH2009

Feck forgot it's a 12 start

What happened so far?

seandotcomm

FFS... did ya just hear Cole almost break the WWE speak code and say he was in "hospital" for 3 days before pausing awkwardly, panicking and changing it to "seeking medical assistance for 3 days"

PTH2009

Isn't the 11th Aug a bit early for summerslam

Agent Coulson

Balor vs Lashley is turning into Sheamus vs Orton.

What was that thing the McMahons all said a few weeks ago we’d get new matches etc etc.

J. Marston

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Balor vs Lashley is turning into Sheamus vs Orton.

What was that thing the McMahons all said a few weeks ago we’d get new matches etc etc.

They said we, the fans, are the new Authority.

If that's case then we should be sacked.

PTH2009

Finn drops the IC title

Hope he wins it's back at mania

Agent Coulson

Awesome promo by Ronda.

Agent Coulson

Ronda owned that segment.

J. Marston

"Anyone who believes in this carny charade is a joke."

Suffering Jesus....

Agent Coulson

Miss Bliss the host of Wrestlemania

I guess her wrestling days are done.

seandotcomm

How... exciting....

Deeper Blue

Alexa must be up there as one of the best females ever on the mic, she's great

PTH2009

Poor Braun thrown into a mania programme with 2 non wrestlers