RAW Superthread

CastorTroy wrote: »

I'm guessing from the Curt Hawkins bits on Raw that they'll do a return/debut at Payback with him.

Mark Henry

Who else is there really too return/debut ???

Clearly that's the connection. Reigns left and Balor came back

Reigns gets a lot of flak but there is a noticeable lack of star power when he isn't on TV. Same goes for Goldberg.

Loughc wrote: »

That's only because WWE have pushed the two of them so strongly. If they got behind more of their stars other than using them as food for Reigns push they'd have more star power on the roster.

Well they gave Balor a win over Reigns on his first night drafted to Raw and Reigns gave him props after the loss. Soon after he got injured. That left their plans for the end of 2016 in tatters as Balor was set to be the big star for that period.

Loughc wrote: »

That's one person on Raw other than Reigns they strapped a rocket to. Who else have they built up since. Vince is so focused on making Reigns look strong he's wasting some serious talent.

You'd swear Roman was being booked like Hogan circa 1988, burying people left n right. Roman isnt being winning every single match. There booking of Roman isnt the problem, the booking with the rest of the roster is the problem.

Sure last year after the beat Hunter he was booked in a great feud with AJ Styles, in which it elevated Styles to the point where he was considered WWE Main Event material. he was putting Balor over.

Then he lost to the title to a returning Seth Rollins. He wasnt even close to the main focus of Summerslam. Balors injury obviously changed the plans of what was happening and Roman was put back in the mix as a result.

Then Goldberg Lesnar happened and Goldberg unexpectedly stayed on. Maina was changed so much as a result of these two occurrences.

Reigns isnt booked right IMO but theres no doubt he gets a reaction and he has a main event presence about him and he is missed when absent.

ERG89 wrote: »

WWE completely fu*ked up his booking post Mania. He was getting huge reactions the next night on Raw & then 1 week later they have Braun crush him like a grape. Made no sense to me as everyone forgot he retired Taker then which should be a HUGE deal.
I'm still wondering if they will back up on the Taker retirement as they have used words like "allegedly" to describe it.

Thats just one instance in a long line of bad WWE creative decisions in recent years on how to book him. Hes a capable wrestler, very charismatic, connects with the crowd (albeit in terms of heel heat rather than a face reaction), looks the part, yet time after time he's booked horribly.

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

had to write reigns off tv somehow. there are bigger things than wrestling.

He was written off before his brother past IIRC.

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

was his brother not sick before he died.

Ive actually no idea, I assumed it was sudden. Im probably wrong

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote:

had to write reigns off tv somehow. there are bigger things than wrestling.

Pretty sure he was at Raw this week but just wasn't used.

PTH2009 wrote: »

So y2j is going too back too fozzyland after next Mondays raw so I assume he is not winning the us title at payback

They could have him do an interview backstage and then an angry Braun Strowman (pissed off cause he lost to reigns at payback) beats the living crap out of him and y2j is wrote off tv for a while

Now thats not a bad idea.

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Well with Jericho soon to be reverting back to Rockstar Jericho and waving goodbye for now, my interest in RAW will plummet further.

Then again he's earned it, Fozzy are a great band.

Ah the gimmick was always gonna be harder when he turned face. Perfect time to leave

Great balls of fire ??

Going to be an hillarious few weeks with cole and co tryin too hype it with it a cheesy and terrible title

Vinnie is losing his mind

I can imagine the poster for that already involving a certain Big Dog, but even describing it wouldn't be PG!