WWE RAW 18th March 2013 - HHH Responds To Brock

[Dale]

1. Triple H to respond to Brock Lesnar

Last week , the beast Brock Lesnar crushed The New Age Outlaws with a pair of painful F-5s and laid out his requirements for facing Triple H at WrestleMania. (WATCH) The vicious attack caught the attention of The Game, who later in the week confirmed he will be at this week’s Raw with his response. (FULL STORY) Never one to back down from a fight, odds are The King of Kings will say the fight is on for WrestleMania!

2. Intercontinental Title Triple Threat Match

In perhaps his biggest challenge yet, Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett must defend his title in a Triple Threat Match … and he’s not happy about it. (WATCH EXCLUSIVE) With his wealth of experience, nine-time Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho could very well claim his 10th title. And former WWE Champion The Miz is no doubt eager to get back in the limelight, as well. Will a new champion be crowned on Raw?

3. The battle for the grandest prize of ’em all

The stage is set for another epic clash between WWE Champion The Rock and John Cena at WrestleMania 29. (TRACE THEIR PATH TO WRESTLEMANIA) With both Superstars equally passionate in their belief that they can win, who will make the next move to build momentum for victory on The Grandest Stage of Them All?

4. The World Title war of words

With a win over U.S. Champion Antonio Cesaro on Raw, World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio overtook WWE Champion The Rock on this week’s WWE.com Power Rankings. With wins over Sin Cara and Chris Jericho, Jack Swagger also enjoyed a boost in the Power Rankings. In their ongoing and bitter war of words, can either Superstar find an edge as their WrestleMania clash fast approaches?

5. Has CM Punk gotten inside Undertaker’s head?

At the start of last week’s Raw, the WWE Universe shockingly witnessed CM Punk interrupt The Undertaker’s tribute to the late Paul Bearer. By the end of the night, Punk hightailed it with Bearer’s urn, resulting in a seething Phenom. Is this the lowest Punk has ever sunk? (WATCH PUNK’S DIRTY DEEDS) Does he still have the urn in his possession? More importantly, what will The Deadman do to Punk the next time they cross paths?

Discuss.
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[Captain Charisma]

I watched last Raw, it was pretty good. I am looking forward for Punk/Taker, HHH/Lesnar angles. Also I am curious about Intercontinental Title match. Will it be 10?

 

[Franco]

Triple H feud buildups seem so lackluster in recent years. They don't have any real substance so simple things like responses and accepting/declining matches drag out for weeks.

 

[Troy]

Why they can't just save that IC title match for WM I do not know. It may still happen at WM but I don't know why you would give it away on tv before then.

Hope that we get some more direction on what is happening with Ryback/Henry and with Show and The Shield. The match announced on Smackdown for WM made no sense considering everything pointed towards a match between Ryback and Henry at WM. Maybe on RAW this week something will happen to lead to a change in the match.

I don't think Punk crossed the line last week with Undertaker/Bearer but hopefully he doesn't go too far this week. One thing I don't want them to do is claim that his ashes are in the urn because that would just be wrong. The urn is meant to give Undertaker mystical powers don't take it down the wrong road with Bearer's ashes inside the urn.

Will The Rock or Lesnar be there this week?

 

[Andrew]

I'm expecting some sort of dusty finish with this IC match.

Looking forward to the angles and the build ups.

 

[Troy]

Even if there is a dusty finish and we end up with a rematch at WM it still ends up being a rematch rather than a new match booked for the show. I don't know why you would give away a match for free three weeks before asking people to pay to see it on a PPV.

Hopefully we get an Undertaker promo tonight to respond to Punk taking the urn.

Would like to see them announce a couple more matches to fill the card. HHH vs Lesnar will be confirmed tonight but the US and Tag Team champions don't have any clear challengers at the moment.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

I am expecting the Big E & Ziggler vs. Hell No to be announced, and if they really wanted to get Ryback & Henry together for Mania it is as simple as adding Henry to the shields team & Show to team WWE, wouldnt seem odd either with the way Henry distracted Ryback for Shield to get the upper hand.

Hope the IC match does lead to a WM storyline in one way or another, at this point I feel every title should have a good story running.

 

[Gimmick]

I really hope we see Lesnar make an appearance tonight. Having Triple H respond to Lesnar's response to Triple H's challenge is no way to build up such a heated feud.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I really hope we see Lesnar make an appearance tonight. Having Triple H respond to Lesnar's response to Triple H's challenge is no way to build up such a heated feud.

I agree but we did get that awesome, little brawl just a couple weeks ago that split open Lesnar's head. So Lesnar is keepin' his distance.

 

[Andrew]

Apparently contract signing for HHH/Lesnar as shown on US Network just then during commercials.

Looking forward to RAW!

 

[Andrew]

That shirt is seriously hideous.

 

[PHX]

Seriously going to go with the pick a side thing with the guy who always gets mixed reactions.

 

[Crippler]

Hot blonde chick in the front row alert :

 

[John McHenry]

LMAO at the guy in the front "What is it John? What is it?"

Great that John Cena is now making his entrances song relevant how many years later.

 

[Crippler]

Black Cena and Cena promo together

MINDBLOWING!