It all pretty much boils down to what we talked about yesterday in the other thread regarding our overall thoughts on the PPV. With such a poor build-up, with barely one interesting storyline going into it and with the majority of the matches either worthless or meaningless, how hard could it have been for the actual PPV to exceed expectations?
Don’t get me wrong, this was still a poor show overall but it at least had a few good moments here and there that kind of made it okay at the end of the day. Personally went with a 4/10, basically giving it a point each for the good preshow match between Sanity and New Day, Lashley winning, KO taking that crazy (as long as scary and dangerous) bump and AJ vs. Rusev. Everything else, even including the main event, was below average. Quick thoughts:
- It’s no secret that the RAW tag team division has become a joke but I guess WWE decided to take it to the next level, didn’t they? No disrespect to either Dallas or Axel for their work ethic and effort but, seriously, this is the lowest of lows. They never gave the belts to Enzo Amore and Big Cass when they were white hot, they never treated Gallows & Anderson as serious as they should, they haven’t given the Revival a chance and then they got AOP feuding with Titus and co. Yet Dallas and Axel get the tag titles…just like that. I’m sure it will be a short lived reign but still, you get my point…
- It has now come to a point where the word “coincidence” gets thrown out the window because the bottom line is it actually takes talent to take something so successful from NXT and destroy it within a few months upon its arrival on the main roster. Aside some of the aforementioned tag teams noted above, what can anybody say about Bailey or now Asuka? How can you possibly mess up Asuka’s story?
How do we go from a woman impossible to beat to almost a jobber? As if it wasn’t enough that they just couldn’t resist ending her undefeated streak against Charlotte, they now have her basically job to fucking Carmella of all people. And, granted, while I get the idea that they have to make Carmella look legit, the way she keeps winning is just ridiculous, not to mention it makes Asuka look like a complete fool.
And here’s some stupidity for you: we supposed to believe that she got knocked out when Carmella shoved her and Asuka’s head hit the steal shark cage, yet…two minutes later she’s up kicking ass between Ellsworth and the “security people”.
- So they finally acknowledged Brock Lesnar and the Universal Championship situation by having Kurt Angle making the announcement he did.
Talked about this about a month ago in another thread and the gist of it is this: Brock has one more match on his contract and that match is happening at Summerslam. Whatever it is WWE think they are doing, this ain’t the 1990’s anymore where most of the fans were, no offense, more ignorant or to put it better, less informed. Nowadays with thousands upon thousands of outlets, whether it be social media, wrestling related websites, podcasts or basically the internet as a whole, we all pretty much know what the deal is.
As far as RAW tonight, if I were a betting man, my money is on Brock NOT showing up yet again. If anyone will show up, that will be Paul Heymann to sort of address his client’s situation. And if I were WWE, I’d cut the crap and have Braun Strowman just come out and call out Brock Lesnar, announcing that he’s cashing in at Summerslam. It’s not Braun’s character anyway to choose an opportune time to cash in, nor is he the typical chicken shit heel, so just have Strowman call out Brock, do the match at Summerslam, crown a new champion and let us all move on.
The way I see this, if Vince hasn’t pulled the trigger already with Roman Reigns, it almost tells me he may have realized the obvious and got cold feet about it. We can all joke about the old man and accuse him of many things but being stupid ain’t one of them. Can’t say I know too many stupid billionaires, do you?
Granted, I could have this all wrong but maybe, just maybe, Vince has swallowed that “pill”. This situation almost reminds me of Lex Luger, when they were seemingly pushing him as the next top guy at the time whilst looking for a new Hulk Hogan. For Christ sake, they had the guy literally touring on a bus, the infamous Lex Express, for over a month, almost as if he was running for president and when the match with Yokozuna was set for Summerslam, everybody considered him winning a lock, just like we thought with Roman Reigns against Brock Lesnar at Mania a few months ago.
And what was the outcome? A…count out win for Luger, thus meaning no title, only because Vince could see the reaction was not there (and it wasn’t nearly as bad as it is today with Roman) and just changed his mind; cold feet.Could it be a simillar situation? Alls I know is that Roman was...barking "my yard", only to be speared and pinned five seconds later...
The argument, of course, to all the above is, what do you do with Reigns and Lashley, which is why I'm guessing they will eventually hold off on Braun and not make my proposed Braun announcement. Likeliest scenario? A triple-threat will three men (Reigns, Lashley, Lesnar that is) involved at Summerslam and maybe a cash in midst of the match by Braun...
- Looks like we got us a Randy Orton heel turn. I'll drink to that...
- Also looks like they just planted the seeds for the inevitable Aiden English/Rusev decention...
- Alexa Bliss vs. Ronda Rousey at Summerslam I also consider a lock and we can all expect that visual spot with the arm bar and then Alexa doing her thing, being double jointed and all, for a great visual...
P.S.: You could probably tell the World Cup is over
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