WWE Raw Discussion Thread

[T.A]

Has he even been charged with anything?

 

[Luke]

Good riddance to Enzo, woeful wrestler and an annoying fucker to boot.

Raw 25 was shit, so much hype for what? Nothing major happened bar the IC Title win which I'm glad Miz won it back.

 

[Scott Barton]

RAW 25 achieved nothing, it wasn't even that great of a nostalgia celebration

 

[T.A]

The coach is back!

 

[Stevencc]

Anything is better than listening to Booker T.

 

[Leewilson]

Braun Strowman is awesome.

 

[Scott Barton]

The idea that a match was going to go on for the first 2 hours of the show initially filled me with dread, taking away the illogical prospect of the 7-men in an elimination chamber having to go for so long in a match 6 days before, i really enjoyed it. Rollins easily stole the show, but it was different and entertaining.

The problem is, they filled the remaining hour with some awful segments/matches. Asuka should stick to speaking Japanese and then the odd word of English. Titus Worldwide make a terrible tag team, Apollo is really sloppy. Finally the 6-woman tag team match, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville have potential but they should in no way be the last on the show. It was sloppy and at times painful, the only saving grace in the match was the quality from Sasha Banks.

This week’s episode from Philadelphia drew 3.28 million viewers on Monday night on the USA Network according to a report by Showbuzzdaily.com.

This is up from last week’s show that drew 3.11 million viewers. WWE was once again the top rated show on cable on Monday night coming in at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3.

Hourly breakdowns were as follows.

Hourly breakdowns of the WWE RAW Ratings
Hour 1: 3.518 (up from 3.262 million viewers last week)

Hour 2: 3.509 (up from 3.216 million viewers)

Hour 3: 2.821 (down from 2.837 million viewers)

RAW, headlined by Bayley, Sasha Banks and Mickie James vs. RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, averaged a 1.14 rating for the night. This is up from last week’s show that drew a 1.03 rating among adults 18-49.

 

[Stevencc]

Spoiler

Fuck off Lashley, you boring charisma-vacuum.

 

[Luke]

Remember when Raw's after Mania used to be good.

Hopefully the shake up will do some good next week.

 

[T.A]

I thought it was pretty decent Raw but yeah I agree it’s needed a shakeup long before Mania.

 

[Leewilson]

WONDERFUL

 

[Libertine]

Enjoyed the episode. Returns, debut, hot crowd, all you can ask for really.

I can't help but think though, the rosters are getting absolutely stacked. I know Vince likes competition and all, but there's gonna be so many floating around being wasted I feel.

That backstage segment with the Matt, Jeff and Wyatt - then panning to Finn and Seth - was absolute gold.

 

[Luke]

Not a bad Raw with some good additions, as posted in the Smackdown thread I wonder if Seth or Jeff will turn up tonight as SD has no major title.

Full list here:

• Jinder Mahal
• Sunil Singh
• Rudy Riott
• Liv Morgan
• Sarah Logan
• Kevin Owens
• Sami Zayn
• Zack Ryder (announced via Twitter)
• Tyler Breeze
• Fandango
• Natalya
• Dolph Ziggler
• Drew McIntyre
• Konnor of Ascension (announced via Instagram)
• Viktor of Ascension (announced via Instagram)
• Mojo Rawley (announced via YouTube)
• Baron Corbin
• Bobby Roode
• Mike Kanellis (announced via Twitter)
• Chad Gable (announced via YouTube)

Gable teaming back up with Jordan when he returns, all though Gable going alone could do very well.

(I've posted about Miz to SD in the SD thread, fantastic move that)

 

[T.A]

Balor v Rollins is a MOTY contender for sure.

 

[Stevencc]

I only caught one of those Raw highlight videos on youtube but the Balor/Rollins match did look excellent, yeah.

I'll have to watch the full thing.

 

[Leewilson]

This is the strongest the IC title has been for a long time. It feels important again. Back in 2000 or 2001, whenever it was, you had some great matches with Jericho, Angle and Benoit all going for it.

Now you have Rollins, Balor, Miz, Joe etc in the picture. It's very strong and probably the most entertaining title to watch at the moment. Much more exciting than the actual title where Lesnar and Reigns are boring everyone to death with finisher only matches.

 

[Stevencc]

Picture Lashley beating Roman next week.

Picture Lashley beating Brock at SummerSlam.

Picture Hulk "not racist anymore, brother" Hogan holding Lashley's hand aloft and basking in the spotlight.

Picture vomit in a toilet bowl.

 

[mase]

Picture Lashley beating Roman next week.

Picture Lashley beating Brock at SummerSlam.

Picture Hulk "not racist anymore, brother" Hogan holding Lashley's hand aloft and basking in the spotlight.

Picture vomit in a toilet bowl.

You just know that's where they're going with it

 

[Libertine]

Nah, Roman will get his win back.

 

[Stevencc]

Normally they do go with the 50/50 booking, yeah, and in that scenario Roman would get the win after losing last week but Hogan's return and Lashley's potential title shot feel linked to me.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[T.A]

Normally they do go with the 50/50 booking, yeah, and in that scenario Roman would get the win after losing last week but Hogan's return and Lashley's potential title shot feel linked to me.

I hope I'm wrong.

I’d rather Lashley faces Brock and maybe Braun cashing in. I’m fucking bored of Reigns facing him and failing. Of course I’d rather neither of them faced Brock but that’s probably asking too much of Vince.

 

[Stevencc]

I’d rather Lashley faces Brock and maybe Braun cashing in. I’m fucking bored of Reigns facing him and failing. Of course I’d rather neither of them faced Brock but that’s probably asking too much of Vince.

I can't stand Lashley. Awful on the mic and boring in the ring.

Reigns isn't much better but I prefer him out of the two.

 

[Stevencc]

Normally they do go with the 50/50 booking, yeah, and in that scenario Roman would get the win after losing last week but Hogan's return and Lashley's potential title shot feel linked to me.

I hope I'm wrong.

Wrong I was.

 

[iesty wfc]

Lashley seemed to be used so much better in TNA, more a case of big fish small pond scenario though i guess.

vastly improved either way since his last WWE spell

 

[iesty wfc]

Liv Morgan took a very nasty Brie Mode kick to the face and suffered a bad concussion... a few people saying they should have pulled here there and then from the match as she was totally out cold but they left her in and she took a dangerous triple move after it too.

naive producer covering the match maybe? either way it looked bad, especially given the focus on head injuries in recent times

 

[T.A]

Brie is a fucking danger to all wrestlers I’d refuse to get in a ring with her if I were a female wrestler in the wwe

 

[iesty wfc]

anyone see this weeks, the Owens/Elias segment was brutal!

 

[T.A]

Sad news about Joe (Roman ) hope he fights it off again.

 

[iesty wfc]

i actually teared up watching some of the videos from it all, as much shit that Reigns gets he has shown how much of a man he is doing that - hopefully he beats Leukemia again

 

[Scott Barton]

really shocking - it's even on the BBC News website