Raw Live Raw discussion thread, January 1st 2024: Day 1 - Seth Rollins defends the WWE World Heavyweight title

[Comrade Khan]

entitled to different opinions tho, mine just is if you ducking Roman and going for a lesser belt, yeah, ur kind of a bitch lol

 

[O-Blaze]

There’s a few who can get away with it, Punk, Drew, and Damien to name some. All have stuff currently kind of going there with him, so those I can see not exactly looking like a bitch. But Punk is the only one who has a chance of those lol. Someone like a Jey, Owens, Knight, Styles, or Orton winning, and not picking Roman, definitely a bitch.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I just think the choosing thing made more sense when both world titles were equal. now, not so much.

 

[Lethal]

Punk could excuse it by saying yeah he could end the tribal chief, but he wants to destroy everything Rollins has built himself up to have because of his unfair hatred of him

 

[Lethal]

unless Cody just wins it again and Punk wins the chamber

 

[Lethal]

cos you also have to get Cody to Smackdown to even challenge Roman now the belts are on 2 shows

 

[Lethal]

and Pearce would look stupid trading Cody over to SD unless it was for someone huge

 

[Lethal]

Profits and Bianca for Cody? Hmmmm. Opens up Bianca vs Rhea

 

[Cwalker]

I really don’t think they go the back to back Rumble route with Cody. It hasn’t been done in almost 30 years.

Might’ve been possible before Punk’s return but I think Phil got it locked up.

 

[Lethal]

but ngl it's interesting and not predictable anymore, so I'm happy

 

[O-Blaze]

Tbh when they done the Elimination Chamber thing before, to determine a challenger for the title the Rumble winner didn’t pick, they’ve done 3 Raw and 3 Smackdown stars, so no trade has to be done. Just have Cody win a match on Raw to qualify for the match.

 

[Dale]

After the on-off defenses of 2023, Roman defending back to back to back against Randy, Rock & Cody would be a huge chance of pace

 

[Jimmy King]

I didn’t even see the Vinci injury happen at first so I was confused when the bell rang. There were people around my section that were chanting “bullshit” because we didn’t even get to see Jey wrestle, but then chilled out once they realized a man was legitimately hurt.

The loudest pops of the night had to be Rock and R-Truth.

As for Rocky’s announcement, I can see Roman dropping the title at the Chamber to Cody and we get Rocky and Roman at Mania. Then I think about though that Roman dropping the title at Mania after this historic reign would be much bigger. Maybe we get Rocky vs Roman in Australia, Roman wins and Cody wins the chamber, and then Cody hopefully finally finishes the story. I don’t think Rock and Roman necessarily needs to be for the title though tbh but I guess we’ll see how it all plays out.

 

[Shane]

Plot twist: they do Cody vs Rock at Chamber for the right to challenge Roman and Cody wins.

 

[Jimmy King]

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Samantha is the best.

During one of the commercial breaks they did a DX cam where they show people in the crowd doing the DX crotch chop, and they have the DX music playing and she’s singing along to it getting into it.