RAW Superthread

https://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2019-08-19/article/king-of-the-ring-tournament-returns-raw

The following Superstars have been confirmed to represent their respective brands in the tournament.

Raw

The Miz
Ricochet
Cedric Alexander
Samoa Joe
Drew McIntyre
Baron Corbin
Sami Zayn
Cesaro

SmackDown LIVE

Kevin Owens
Ali
Apollo Crews
Chad Gable
Elias
Andrade
Buddy Murphy
Shelton Benjamin

Loughc wrote: »

Is this a one night tournament or spread over a few weeks?

I'd guess a few weeks. If not, they're squeezing 15 matches into one Raw.

Wonder will it be an open draw or one half of the bracket all the Raw guys and second half all the Smackdown guys so the finals will have someone from each brand in it.

martyos121 wrote: »

Might as well be an open draw, given that nobody remembers who’s on which brand anymore.

Thought they were cutting back on the wildcard rule before phasing it out altogether before the move to Fox.

Looking at the Smackdown reps, 2 of them were on Raw this week

martyos121 wrote: »

Hopefully, but I can’t imagine the split will last long when they move to Fox with two different major networks wanting the biggest stars on their own show.

Given how poor they've been at creating stars, is there anybody on the roster that lets say Fox would be unhappy they haven't got them on their show but USA does. Brock and Ronda were the first two to come to mind as they're special attractions and merging the Women's and Men's belts could also solve if both shows wanted Becky and let's say Roman.

Think Bubby Murphy should have been in the other half of the bracket instead of Chad Gable. Let him run to the semi finals to face Owens.

The Raw matches seem more random than Smackdown. Owens/Elias continuing the Shane storyline, Buddy/Ali are both from 205 and Gable fighting his former partner.

J. Marston wrote: »

Betting odds

You can get Corbin at 6/1 third favourite to win it. Bookies are rarely wrong but it's worth a fiver to me!

That’s a bet I’d actually like to lose money on tbh.

Sasha is on the King's Court tonight. Why is Lawler still on TV? His orange, greasy head annoys me. Only way I'm interested in this is if Sasha batters him.

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

She's going to cut the "all you people" promo isn't she?

EACH
AND
EVERY
ONE
OF
YOU!

Good match between Reigns and Ziggler

They managed to kill any interest I had in Sasha's return in just a week. Well played.

Instead of giving her a big promo, like Becky had done earlier in the night, they had her talk about her blue hair. Then they did the "Haha your Dad is dead" stuff with Natalya again.

It wasn't interesting when the Riott Squad did it last year. It isn't interesting now.