Raw Live Raw discussion thread, September 11th 2023: Cody returns + Rhea vs. Raquel for the title

[Dale]

Thinking Dwayne actually gives a shit whether she's hired or not

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

So Bobby Roode produced imperium vs. Alpha Academy & Tommaso

 

[Comrade Khan]

 

[Comrade Khan]

Thinking Dwayne actually gives a shit whether she's hired or not

did not realize you know him personally send him my regards

 

[Samoa Looch]

Stevie is awesome

 

[Cwalker]

I doubt Dwayne had anything to do with it.

Wasn’t she in the Rumble this year? I’m assuming someone liked her showing

 

[Comrade Khan]

I doubt Dwayne had anything to do with it.

Wasn’t she in the Rumble this year? I’m assuming someone liked her showing

Me too but Dale mocking ppl for throwing stuff out there is douchy

 

[Samoa Looch]

Wasn’t she in the Rumble this year? I’m assuming someone liked her showing

I think it was always in their mind to possibly bring her back and they just wanted to check the response with that Rumble appearance. Had probably nothing to do with what she did in the match. (Which wasn't much anyways...)

Some people in the comments section of that Stevie Richards video have the same "give her a chance, she's been training" and "can we wait on judging her" etc. approach and it's just funny to me. Her first run with the company went 7 years and the unsafe shit didn't just fell into the first year or something like that... if she can't get better and safer to work with in that amount of time, then she won't be better after being out of the ring for 2 whole years.

Also, with the whole discussion about how and why female Wrestlers seemingly been injury prone these last 12 months or so, why the fuck would anyone want an unsafe worker like Nia Jax, especially with 2 years of ring rust, back in the company right now... and immediately push her into the title picture nonetheless?

 

[Comrade Khan]

one of my theories is they were forced to fire some ppl who werent vaxxed and brought them back now that it doesn't matter anymore

 

[Samoa Looch]

one of my theories is they were forced to fire some ppl who werent vaxxed and brought them back now that it doesn't matter anymore

Also very much possible, yea...

 

[Cwalker]

People keep saying she’s unsafe…

I was gonna bring up Seth Rollins’ year of breaking people; as a 12-13 year vet at the time.

Cause after a while, Seth lost that reputation. But it will stick with Nia forever

 

[Comrade Khan]

I respectfully disagree that Seth's accidents were anywhere the same and Seth reputation of being unsafe was driven mostly by internet haters. Nia's recklessness has been on full display for literal YEARS.

I respect that you are a fan, but yeah, I think that is a pretty misguided comparison.

 

[Sabretooth]

I also think they only fired Nia because she was an anti vaxxer. If it wasn’t for that she’d still be with the company so they’re just bringing her back now.

 

[Cwalker]

Can we just be honest…

They brought her back because…

She’s not like most girls…

 

[Jimmy King]

I think only good thing she did was get Becky more over than she already was at the time when she broke her nose, and we got that iconic image of bloody nose Becks. I credit that more to Becky though as well for making something out of that with her character.