WWE RAW 28th March 2011 - LIVE Discussion Thread

[Troy]

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The Rock will be LIVE on RAW this week, no satellites, he will actually be in the arena to confront The Miz and John Cena.​

Triple H and The Undertaker will face off as well.​

This is the go-home show for WrestleMania so expect some heavy selling by everyone involved to convince the fans to buy the show. I am still expecting a match to be announced for The Corre vs Big Show/Kane but that will probably be added on Smackdown.​

What do you want to see on RAW this week?​

 

[Prodigy]

Well you say Big Show/Kane vs The Corre would be added on Smackdown, but there's no Smackdown next week, so this Raw will probably be used to announce any unannounced matches and finish off the build. Not expecting anything impressive though.

 

[Troy]

??? So what happens on Friday? Why is there no Smackdown?

The rating dropped to 3.3 last week so they better deliver something amazing to boost the rating and the buyrate for WM. The Rock actually being there will help and they need to take full advantage of it by having him open and close the show plus appear sometime in the middle of it.

 

[Prodigy]

I think it's because they're showing a Axxes highlight show instead. Stupid if you ask me.

 

[Troy]

Strange decision. Did they do that last year or did they just have Smackdown like normal?

So are the Smackdown wrestlers going to be on RAW?

 

[Prodigy]

No idea bro. They're just showing axess matches aparantely, but idk if they will appear on raw.

 

[The New F'n Show]

I believe SD was all axxess stuff last year. It was boring as hell.

 

[Troy]

JR mentioned in his blog that the second biggest name for this year's HOF should be announced on RAW and that it would be fitting to do it in Chicago. Any ideas?

 

[The New F'n Show]

Clearly the Road Warriors. They have been rumored and they were billed from Chicago so that is the point of that reference.

 

[Troy]

Would be a great choice and I recall reading recently that WWE had, or was planning to have, Road Warrior Animal host a house show event so they have had him around.

Supposedly a video was filmed with Snooki and LayCool that will air on RAW this week.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

It looks like Kofi Kingston is on his way out of WWE. The new match signed for Wrestlemania. Big Show, Kane, Kozlov, and Santino vs. The Corre.

 

[SpectreVLV]

It looks like Kofi Kingston is on his way out of WWE. The new match signed for Wrestlemania. Big Show, Kane, Kozlov, and Santino vs. The Corre.

I think Kofi will need to make a return sometime later to regain his momentum. Hopefully, he is not leaving for good.

If he stays out for a couple of months and then makes a powerful return, he can quickly climb the card again.

On Taker, HHH, HBK:

Wow, that was pretty damn intense. I enjoyed this, even though it kind of predicted the WM outcome.

On Rock, Cena, Miz:

The Rock for some reason felt a little bit old or tired to me? Maybe it was just me. He didn't have much of an argument to build off when he was facing Cena.
I even felt a little weird (maybe even sad?) when he got AA'ed by Cena. I don't know why either.
Cena, with that AA on Rock, just made a heel turn in the faces of the fans. Invading Rock like that from the back is a guaranteed heel turn. It's probably unintentional as well.

 

[Troy]

Reading the results and I was surprised by the ending. I didn't expect The Rock to be hit with the AA, I assumed that The Miz would have been the one to hit his finisher on him since he is a heel. Like Spectre said that is a heel move by Cena and at WM he is going to be booed big time. Might not lead to anything but it could be the start of something. I also didn't get why Cena was asking why the Rock had a problem with him, Cena was calling the Rock out for years for no apparent reason so to me Cena is the one with a "problem".

Didn't expect HBK to show up on RAW so that is a nice surprise.