Last Sporting Event You Watched?

[Travis40]

Cena/JBL at GAB was awesome....except the fire part. That was kinda gay. But I think the JBL/Cena PLB was much better than Eddie/Cena PLB on Smackdown in 2003.

 

[Airfixx]

Manu leaving Legacy was bad. Sim Snuka joining is even worse. I am pleading you, bring back Ted DiBiase before it's too late. he wasnt over enough, and fans more easy than not could have already forgotten about him.

My fears are being realised.... They're gonna fuck this up!

Bad break for Manu.... I don't see very much for him without being part of this faction... He's certainly no break-out star.

 

[Seventh Reason]

I think the return of Umaga could open up a door - a mouthpiece for him is possible. Otherwise, he might as well be jobbing.

 

[Kaedon]

Talk about a year-ending yawnfest. Just reading the live blogging of Raw will prevent me from watching it tomorrow.

Shawn Michaels' short and sharp promo was probably the most interesting moment all night.

We had two scheduled matches - the Fatal Four-way which had many predictable outcomes considering both HBK and JBL were involved, and a bunch of Women's contenders in a battle royal.

The battle royal was a blink-and-you-missed-it event, and eliminating both MEs from the fourway to leave us with two upper mid-carders vying for the title shot at RR who were not going to legitimately compete for the chance as it was ... so bland.

Is Creative in a quagmire of what to do with John Cena? He's the Raw flagbearer and has competed in two gimmicky or pointless tag-team matches this past fortnight. Are they holding back on any decent storylines until ratings return or something? (It's Xmas/NYE week so I assume ratings have taken a break.)

Highlights of 2008 show, anyone?

Thats a great attitude to have. How about you check out the actual matches before shitting all over it? The 10 man tag was fun and the main event was great. Also, John Cena doing Harry Carey was fucking money. :trumpet:

 

[C4]

At least the HBK vs JBK storyline took an interesting twist, and it showed that this storyline might produce some interesting swerves and moments, with HBK having to confront everyone for his actions in the name of JBL.

This storyline has the potential of being a classic, they seriously need to add some extra spicy ingredient to it.

 

[CenaMark54]

I was at Raw last night. Just a few observations...

1. The crowd was hot for the JBL/HBK angle. I'm not sure how much was shown on TV, but the crowd wanted to rip HBK apart for not doing the honorable thing and wrestling Rey. Also, there was actually a pop when JBL flattened HBK to end Raw.

2. The crowd was also hot for the 10 man tag match. Obviously, Cena is over in New England with everyone. There was one wanna be smark sitting behind me who booed him, but thats about it.

3. The crowd could give two shits about Cody, Manu or Sim. Honestly, I'm not sure if this Legacy angle will last another month with those three (or two depending on what hapopens to Manu). They are like dead weight holding Orton down at this point. For one, they are booking this angle horribly. Secondly, none of those guys have any personality.

4. There was actually a large contingent of people cheering for Dolph Ziggler.

5. Randy Orton is getting the HHH booking treatment. He is in like three different storylines simultaneously.

Biggest Pops:
1. John Cena by far
2. HBK (during his initial entrance)
3. Orton (when he played the face opposite JBL and HBK)
4. Mysterio

Biggest Heat
1. HBK
2. JBL
3. Jericho

 

[Airfixx]

3. The crowd could give two shits about Cody, Manu or Sim. Honestly, I'm not sure if this Legacy angle will last another month with those three (or two depending on what hapopens to Manu). They are like dead weight holding Orton down at this point. For one, they are booking this angle horribly. Secondly, none of those guys have any personality.

If they'd have built on the initial momentum born of Ted & Cody screwing holly to win the tag belts and their later ambushing Punk then things may have been different (Pricelss WERE getting over), but I just can't fathom how the hell WWE thought they were gonna keep peeps interest having been teasing realisation of this faction for, what... 4 months or more.

If nothing else we should have at least seen Manu, Cody & Ted in action in 1-on-1 OR tag matches, even independent of Orton/Legacy... i.e. to further establish their characters for when/if they finally did pull the proverbial trigger.

Sending Ted off to make some crappy straight to DVD movie is a totally dumbfounding business move... Maybe if it the faction was being teased to include existing stars then they may have got away with it, but crowds are just too fickle and up for the short-term pay off, so much so that they're never gonna maintain interest in the mere PROSPECT of something that contains relative rookies.

 

[Lord Magnus]

I was at Raw last night. Just a few observations...

1. The crowd was hot for the JBL/HBK angle. I'm not sure how much was shown on TV, but the crowd wanted to rip HBK apart for not doing the honorable thing and wrestling Rey. Also, there was actually a pop when JBL flattened HBK to end Raw.

2. The crowd was also hot for the 10 man tag match. Obviously, Cena is over in New England with everyone. There was one wanna be smark sitting behind me who booed him, but thats about it.

3. The crowd could give two shits about Cody, Manu or Sim. Honestly, I'm not sure if this Legacy angle will last another month with those three (or two depending on what hapopens to Manu). They are like dead weight holding Orton down at this point. For one, they are booking this angle horribly. Secondly, none of those guys have any personality.

4. There was actually a large contingent of people cheering for Dolph Ziggler.

5. Randy Orton is getting the HHH booking treatment. He is in like three different storylines simultaneously.

Biggest Pops:
1. John Cena by far
2. HBK (during his initial entrance)
3. Orton (when he played the face opposite JBL and HBK)
4. Mysterio

Biggest Heat
1. HBK
2. JBL
3. Jericho

Cena got booed hard as hell when he came out to help Rey at the beginning of the show and that promo got booed and awkward silence as well.

 

[CenaMark54]

Cena got booed hard as hell when he came out to help Rey at the beginning of the show and that promo got booed and awkward silence as well.

Lol...you are right...i could distinctly hear 3 or 4 people booing him hard as hell.

Everyone else was cheering.

 

[monkeystyle]

Also, John Cena doing Harry Carey was fucking money. :trumpet:

k, it wasn't an awful show, but that Cena promo was one of the worst things I've heard in a long time.

 

[monkeystyle]

Even the Goldust bit wasn't as painful as that Cena promo.

 

[Kaedon]

I loved the Harey Carey thing, it was dead on. And dead on imitations are money.

 

[the dark knight]

k, it wasn't an awful show, but that Cena promo was one of the worst things I've heard in a long time.

worst and gayest promo in raw's history*

last thing i remember that was close to that degree of homosexuality was his interview with todd grisham...im sure you know the one. oh, and his him interviewing himself isn't so far away.

 

[C4]

John Cena isn't funny.

He better stick to the "I'm going to beat you" promos.

 

[Airfixx]

Suprisingly little comment on this weeks raw bearing in mind how much went down...

*We were told VKM returns in 2 weeks,
*Legacy is down to just 2 members,
*JBL reveals his specific desire is to go into the silver anniversary WM as champion,
*We got the Punk v Regal re-match (w/DQ-stip) + HBK/Cena on next weeks (i.e. tonight's) show to look forward to.


A touch light on ring action, but an entertaining show none-the-less.