Rate Raw 03/14/2016

[Prince Bálor]

Can't argue that and I guess that's just unfortunate for me - not being able to join the fun in the Chat that is - since I live overseas (Greece) and the time difference is a no no. When RAW starts at 8:00 E.T, that's 3:00 in the morning for me and by the time it's over, that's when I pretty much get up and ready for work so, yeah, sucks for me....

Well, hello there, brother! I'm from Serbia.

DST (in USA) started on the 13th, so the shows start an hour earlier here. Meaning they start at 1 AM here in Serbia and an hour later in Greece.

I used to stay up in Chat for the first hour of RAW only, but I stayed up for the full show last night.

 

[Prince Bálor]

I still fail to understand why they didn't have Roman help Ziggler beat chicken legs. A Ziggler W over HHH is far more worse than getting hit by a TV. Not to mention the crowd might would've reacted better. It really is like they're trying to make him a heel at this point.

Oh, and Foley giving Ambrose Barbie is great. +10 if he actually gets to use it.

Because Vince thought Reigns attacking an-already-spent HHH would receive a better reaction! 1:

Oh, I can't wait! There will be blood at Mania!

 

[Rogue]

Just feels phoned in at this point. They could at least try to lessen the reception he'll get. Reigns vs HHH will no doubt be good, but they're giving absolutely 0 reason for the crowd to get behind Roman.

Also, Jericho vs Neville in that Tokyo special was pretty good. Who would've thought giving people time could warrant a good match.

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

This Raw gets a 7

I liked the tag title match which opened the show, also establishing a face New Day, heel Jericho on Robinson. Triple H competing on Raw and winning clean, I also liked Roman's beat down. He used the regular entry way and we got the beat-the-living-shit-out-of-people Roman, but the crowd still couldn't get behind him since we know this Reigns never sticks around. Also Roman talking to security when hitting Triple H with the TV didn't sound right either he was like "oh yeah i'm gonna do it" when he should of said "SHUT UP GET THE HELL AWAY" like he was pissed. I also realized Roman wasn't wearing a vest, just a tank top. The ending segment wasn't right either, I honestly feel this whole Taker story line is just McMahon sheneanigans all over again

 

[Snowman1]

No spoilers please, but thirty minutes in and at this Triple H promo that's pissing me off. Yes, that's what it's supposed to do, but it's striking way too close to home and I just shut the show off. Any reason to try to get through this thing? What about the rest of the show?

 

[Gman003]

I gave a 7. Great show!
And I agree with Snowman, that promo was hars. I have my first child on the way, not a particularly great time to see something like that haha.

But other than that I thoroughly enjoyed the show.

The Roman beat down I was expecting to be pretty lame....but I was way more thrilled than I thought I would be.

Took me back to childhood like some one else said with the attitude Era.
It feels like a slight changing in the tide. Maybe it's wishful thinking but I'm 3 weeks away from my 1 year watching again after 10 years away. And the past couple weeks have been ok, then I went to road block. And for all the shit it's been catching about being a waste of time it was actually a great event to be a part of. Very entertaining throughout.

I feel like I'll be watching again for a while and this week made it that much better.

BTW amazing thing Jericho did by ending the match. Fuckin referee should have ended it smoothly.

 

[Prince Bálor]

No spoilers please, but thirty minutes in and at this Triple H promo that's pissing me off. Yes, that's what it's supposed to do, but it's striking way too close to home and I just shut the show off. Any reason to try to get through this thing? What about the rest of the show?

Well, I guess then you should check out Trips vs DZ.

Honestly, just skip these things: Ryback vs Sin Cara, Naomi & Tamina vs Brie & Alicia, The Usos vs Social Outcasts, Goldust and R-Truth stuff and Charlotte's promo.

 

[Snowman1]

Thanks, Prince!

It's weird that I'm more inclined to rate this shown higher than most due to just seeing the good stuff, but that didn't work on this occasion.

4/10. Not in my top 100 Raws.

This'll be post edited with actual content later. Insert Smackdown joke here.

 

[Just Kevin]

No spoilers please, but thirty minutes in and at this Triple H promo that's pissing me off. Yes, that's what it's supposed to do, but it's striking way too close to home and I just shut the show off. Any reason to try to get through this thing? What about the rest of the show?

It's just acting tinged with a dab of truth, it hit pretty close with me too but you have to keep in mind that he is in character... even if he might not be.

If you've already seen the opening tag match, just fast forward to HHH vs Dolph and the Ambrose/Lesnar "confrontation" and the Anbrose/Foley promo and that's pretty much the whole show. The Shane/Vince/Taker ending was shit and as I previously stated there is still no solid reasoning for Taker to be wrestling on behalf of Vince.

 

[Jacob Fox]

I just couldn't put this match into the negatives category simply because Neville got legitimately injured.

It's sad to see another talented guy injured. Now, he didn't scream in agony when the injury happened, so hopefully the injury isn't too serious, although it did not look pretty. Hopefully Neville will make a speedy recovery.

Also, kudos to Y2J for improvising and making the most out of a situation like that.

I was absolutely unaware of that at the time or I wouldn't have listed it.

 

[Snowman1]

It's just acting tinged with a dab of truth, it hit pretty close with me too but you have to keep in mind that he is in character... even if he might not be.

If you've already seen the opening tag match, just fast forward to HHH vs Dolph and the Ambrose/Lesnar "confrontation" and the Anbrose/Foley promo and that's pretty much the whole show. The Shane/Vince/Taker ending was shit and as I previously stated there is still no solid reasoning for Taker to be wrestling on behalf of Vince.

Think part of that was the obligatory Hulu plug. After finally finished this segment, I noticed I was 50 minutes into the show and saw one match... a formula tag. That Ryback/Sin Cara thing sounds like filler for sure, but after a New Day promo and eternal LOL beatdown and Ambrose/Heyman and these three talking for 15 years it would have been nice to see some action... before seeing the long Roman beatdown (which ruled with the sound turned down!!!) and the main event talkathon, with 3 matches in-between and 2 of them sliced in half to save time. I'm usually not a stickler for "not enough wrestling" - hell, prefer talk-heavy shows and the promos on this show were FANTASTIC, but this felt like an infamous Impact at this point. The other part was that the verbiage he used just personally hurt me. That's a me issue, not him, and if you enjoyed the promo more power to ya!

My main issue with the Shane story isn't so much why Taker doesn't compete - although that should be explained better (Lucha Underground, Wednesday nights, 9 PM, El Rey) - as he's a contracted talent that's free to do what Vince can do, or even that the company's on the line in a wrestling match... but what is Shane fighting for? What's in the lockbox, as well as "If Shane wins, is Vince ousted as kayfabe owner of WWE? From what I understand The Authority have all the control over what happens on Raw, and Vince handles touring and marketing and other boring backstage stuffs."

"You have hope in Roman Reigns (BOOOOOOOOOOO) standing tall and removing the Authority" No, that's Shane's job. Aren't their jobs on the line in the HIAC match? Why don't they care?

Main event talking segment still sucked though

 

[Snowman1]

 

[Just Kevin]

@Solidus there needs to be a LOVE button for posts like this!

 

[Gman003]

Haha I saw that meme on a fb post today