Rate Raw 08/08/2016

[Prince Bálor]

- Glad to see I'm not the only one complaining about the blond bimbo...

- Indeed awkard but I think it may lead to a trade or two in the near future, most likely Cesaro to Smackdown being the first one. If anything, I think DB's line of Cesaro being underutlized was quite the hint...

- Haven't heard anything but simply guessing they gave the guy a night off; God knows he could use it after all these great matches lately and the bumps he took. Hmm, come to think of it, would Zayn be the second trade for Smackdown? There's no doubt Smackdown could use a Cesaro or a Zayn and perhaps now even more since they got a big blow in regards to Shelton Benjamin...

- She's obviously green as gooseshit and needs some polishing, same as Nia Jax. Her NXT run hasn't been good either. I mean, she had a pretty solid match with Asuka, in Asuka's debut (where Asuka was a carryjob machine while Dana just stood there), and that's about it. Oh, and this: 1:

- That's all I got from the segment - Cesaro being traded for someone in the near future. Other than that, it was a pretty awkward segment. It came off as if they were trying to manufacture some heat 'tween RAW and SD and putting on the last minute ME. Speaking of the ME and how it was booked, I think we may be getting a Fatal 4-Way at SummerSlam, but we'll see.

- The event is 2 weeks away, he should've already started some sort of build for his program by now, but we'll see. Maybe he gets to be on the pre-show. LMAO

 

[MGS32]

0/10, worst show i've seen in the last 5 year's.. not even Rollins promo was good.

Have you ever rated a Raw show anything above a four?


Good show, Rusev and Cesaro main eventing was really cool. I like how the US Title is regaining its credibility and having it main event and having its feud end the show is a good step in the ring direction, I hope Reigns does not win the title and not because I dislike him but more because Rusev's reign shouldn't be another meaningless reign like Kalisto and Del Rio, I obviously don't want or expect Rusev to go over clean I think Reigns has had 3 major clean losses recently and another would hurt him really badly, he's been great since his return and I hope he keeps it up and I think some time in the mid card will help him a lot, his reputation among casual and internet fans has significantly improved since he dropped the title and mainly because he wasn't ready for it and the next reign they give him shouldn't be for at least another year. I am a little concerned that both Rusev and Cesaro did double duty tonight in terms of segments for Rusev and matches for Cesaro, I know the roster is tight but is it that tight?

Balor's promo was great, probably his best so far. It was short, sweet and to the point.

The Club is fucking great, their segment was the highlight of the night. They should definitely go over at Summerslam.

I liked the Foley/Bryan promo, Foley was a little bit too heelish for me because by god if there is a heel authority figure in WWE within the next at least 2 year I will be pissed because it was god awful last time. I did like that Bryan was trying to swerve Cesaro to Smackdown I really liked it.

Now onto the negatives

Braun Strowman ew, get off my TV.

The womens match was okay and I would've much preferred a segment setting up the match before hand rather than just a random match. Dana Brooke I've seen wrestle way too much recently and its all a result of splitting up the womens division, we will see these same match ups A LOT.

The tag match was weirdly random, it was fine I guess.

I swear to fuck if they do Darren Young Vs Titus O'Neil again I will break something, it sucked the first time and it sucks now. Both these guys just flat out suck and putting them together is just a bad bad BAD idea.


Overall though, good show. I'd say 7/10.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Have you ever rated a Raw show anything above a four?


Good show, Rusev and Cesaro main eventing was really cool. I like how the US Title is regaining its credibility and having it main event and having its feud end the show is a good step in the ring direction, I hope Reigns does not win the title and not because I dislike him but more because Rusev's reign shouldn't be another meaningless reign like Kalisto and Del Rio, I obviously don't want or expect Rusev to go over clean I think Reigns has had 3 major clean losses recently and another would hurt him really badly, he's been great since his return and I hope he keeps it up and I think some time in the mid card will help him a lot, his reputation among casual and internet fans has significantly improved since he dropped the title and mainly because he wasn't ready for it and the next reign they give him shouldn't be for at least another year. I am a little concerned that both Rusev and Cesaro did double duty tonight in terms of segments for Rusev and matches for Cesaro, I know the roster is tight but is it that tight?

Balor's promo was great, probably his best so far. It was short, sweet and to the point.

The Club is fucking great, their segment was the highlight of the night. They should definitely go over at Summerslam.

I liked the Foley/Bryan promo, Foley was a little bit too heelish for me because by god if there is a heel authority figure in WWE within the next at least 2 year I will be pissed because it was god awful last time. I did like that Bryan was trying to swerve Cesaro to Smackdown I really liked it.

Now onto the negatives

Braun Strowman ew, get off my TV.

The womens match was okay and I would've much preferred a segment setting up the match before hand rather than just a random match. Dana Brooke I've seen wrestle way too much recently and its all a result of splitting up the womens division, we will see these same match ups A LOT.

The tag match was weirdly random, it was fine I guess.

I swear to fuck if they do Darren Young Vs Titus O'Neil again I will break something, it sucked the first time and it sucks now. Both these guys just flat out suck and putting them together is just a bad bad BAD idea.


Overall though, good show. I'd say 7/10.

Saying this for the 100th time: Ignore him. He's a silly little troll.

 

[Snowman1]

Ya know, sometimes I wonder if I'm secretly the same WWE hater I used to be. :haha: After another edition of Hulu Raw, I thought this was the "Impact 7/10" phrase I coined back in 2013.
It was an enjoyable show full of some fun progression that never left you bored, but nothing really memorable... but I'd figure it was like a 4/10 live. This show must have draaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggged.

- Glad to see I'm not the only one complaining about the blond bimbo...

:tough: haha

- Indeed awkard but I think it may lead to a trade or two in the near future, most likely Cesaro to Smackdown being the first one. If anything, I think DB's line of Cesaro being underutlized was quite the hint...

I'd say Cesaro and Zayn for Cena would be a fair trade, no? When you think about it, there's 2, maybe 3 (Rollins) top guys you can trust with these Raw opening promos, and those are Ambrose and Cena which are... well...
Weird way to have the rosters right now. Plus that way we get Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles and :gusta:

Spoiler

So this week for the Long Boring 20 Minute Opening Promo to start Raw it... wasn't all that boring because WHOOOOAAAA ENZO AMOOORE! This crowd was weird, I made a mental note about how he and Jericho had to beg this crowd to get into anything, but by the 3rd hour when most crowds are asleep they were super into the show...

Anyway damn is it nice to have Enzo Amore on Raw, and I feel SUPER DUPER TERRIBLE for thinking he'd be a bust! Dude's a perfect fit and feels like the biggest damn star on this show. He's certainly the coolest! So this segment went on too long even for THESE four guys and... then there was a match that was okay, but had a lot of fun shenanigans, and Kevin Owens yelling stuff at ringside which made this a 5 star match in it's own right. Bonus points for JeriKO saying "How you doin!" in proper English. HOW ARE YOU DOING? IT'S S-O-F-T! YOU TWO CAN'T SPELL! I can't help but think Owens will get more shots in next week, which will only make things better!

this week in small nitpicky crap that annoys Snow: If you replace "Hey Mick, I want my Diva's title match to be a handicap match!" with "Hey Mick, I want Dana banned from ringside during my Diva's title match", this show instantly becomes an 8/10. This was the worst line I've ever heard for the next 45 minutes. Mick is fun backstage, and these segments are 100000000000000000000x better with no Stephanie.

-So Seth Rollins is shockingly an amazing promo. As much as he's obviously improved, I just feel like there's so little to talk about with this feud. "New Belt! I'll be the first champ! No, I will!" Like the only bit of added layers to this is Steph "rewarding" Rollins with a shot at the top, which you already got all the money you can out of it with Balor's excellent line last week, so... he's talking about being the guy who does all the firsts! Which is cool. And then digging into Balor and setting up a pretaped video package in response to the live promo... it's wrestling, it's seriously fine - which was FUCKING AWESOME. Two more good segments! :win:

-Speaking of good video packages...
Randy: "When Brock Lesnar debuted in OVW, we were all intimidated by such a physical presence...
Brock: "I don't give a fuck, I'ma knock your teeth down your throat!"
Randy: "Then we debuted around the same time, we won championships fairly quickly"
Brock: "Then I'll watch you shit said teeth back out and knock that down your throat as well!"

The 2 minutes I saw of Sheamus vs Cesaro was good, yet again! And watching one of the worst overpushed babyfaces look like he can't buy a win warms my heart. Fuck Sheamus.

1: Congrats to Gallows and Anderson for being the first team to not have their heat completely pwned by the New Day! (Maybe the Wyatts) Most teams get overshadowed so massively in feuds with the Day, but I'm digging these guys as Doctors. LOL that was pretty great, and Xavier running in with a chair to run those two off felt like shit was going down. Thumbs up for this, minus Gallows stealing the Roode Bomb. :tough: Inglorious bastard.

I... Take it Sami Zayn was just cut from Hulu? I'm sure there's NOTHING on this show they could have cut to fit him in, so oh well. Gotta do what you've gotta do, I guess.

Anyway thank you @GrammarNazi82 for the forewarning about this friggin' segment. :facepalm1: I bet you thought I'd get no enjoyment out of this. I'd know the misery you felt watching this live... well, you'd be wrong! :haha: Mostly because I misheard Lana as saying "renew our vowels" and that got me saying "Wait, what? :haha: " and then Lana and her ridiculous dress started to seem eerily similar to Vanna White 20 years ago and... Yeah time to get to the actual anal-ysis. (hehe lana backwards)

so these two came out to be a lovely little couple and the crowd instantly started berating them because people are a bunch of assholes and Rusev yells "RESPECT MY WIFE" and I'm like "Yeah! You go!" before... as mountains eroded, the sounds of the birds outside became the squawking of the new dinosaurs, as humanity was wiped out by a new ice age as I was warm under my blanket watching this never ending segment go on. and on. and on. and look photos. and on. and on. and on. and......... GET TO THE POINT :angry: OH NO GET BACK AWAY FROM THE POINT! POINT BAD TOO! The pretty photos and stuff were nice! lease:

MY GOSH ROMAN REIGNS IS A DICK. This dude makes Cena look like the freaking Pope by comparison. Over here crashing this perfect vow renewal ceremony as this dude's celebrating his new wife to call her a mail order bride, get the hell out of here. I feel weird judging Roman so harshly by saying "fight me for the US Title" and interrupting this garbage while hating Cena for being like "look at me hosting the ESPY's while all you can do is wrestle!" Can I pay 19.99 to see a special Summerslam where Styles and Rusev totally squash these two douchebags? Please? I mean that's what wrestling's about, right? Paying to watch someone you want to see beat up get his? Sheesh. Mail order bride? That's your toast? Sufferin' Succotash, son. So Rusev defends his wife, and Roman steals his champagne to say more crap before Rusev goes to teach this intruder to keep his gigantic nose out of their business which he's totally justified in doing and Lana accidentally goes into the cake and Rusev is DOUBLY PISSED and storming around backstage and begging Foley to rectify this situation that damn sure needs to be rectified and he's like "yeah that challenge is on though, bwahahahahaha!"... Poor Rusev. Now fighting against unjust authority figures rewarding ruining weddings on top of everything else. :

*sigh*

hey look it's Dana. Ya know, my idea of "Call up Asuka, then have Dana run away from her all the way back to NXT" still works! There's no reason to keep her on the main roster at this point.

DANIEL BRYAN! clapclapclapclapclap DANIEL BRYAN! so this segment happened and Our American Hero Rusev comes out to mention how he has a belt already and he's the top champion right now - and he's right - so Cesaro came out, and he did earn a title shot and all this is fair but now just to spite Rusev they get this match going RIGHT NOW and Rusev vs Cesaro was the quality match of the night! I had a lot of fun watching this one minus some chickenheaded motherfucker coming out and ruining everything! Cesaro can do no wrong right now. Or any other time. And they match up well, and... apparently not satisfied or bothered in the least by what happened to Lana earlier, Roman spears Rusev to add icing on his penis-shaped cake, and I start wondering if Sheamus and Cesaro could be added to the US Title Match to pile on poor little RuRu and COME ON! You can fight back! Overcome those odds, Rusev! Stupid Foley is piling so much on you and muscleheaded morons are ruining your (insanely boring) weddings and also looking way too much like Ron Jeremy and FIGHT RUSEV! FIGHT AGAINST EVIL AND TYRANNY! SHOW US THE LITTLE MAN STICKING UP FOR HIS WIFE CAN GET IT DONE! lease: GO WIN SOME OLYMPIC MEDALS FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION WHILE BEATING UP ROMAN AT SUMMERSLAM! YOU GOT THIS! :woohoo:

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[Prince Bálor]

Prince Bálor Forgot To Mention It, Part 55: Rusev sucking up to Mick Foley prior to the ME was so great. 1:

 

[Ryan Gunn]

Week show but expected with the Olympics. Hopefully they pick up next week. 6/10

 

[Prince Bálor]

Week show but expected with the Olympics. Hopefully they pick up next week. 6/10

What's Olympics got to do with RAW? lol

 

[¡Tranquilo!]

What's Olympics got to do with RAW? lol

Whenever a sport event is happening RAW ratings are lower than usual, allegedly. So they don't try when they're up against NFL, NBA or the olympics...allegedly.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Whenever a sport event is happening RAW ratings are lower than usual, allegedly. So they don't try when they're up against NFL, NBA or the olympics...allegedly.

That's the exact reason why they should try stepping their game up whenever they're going up against NFL or NBA or whatever.

By putting on a fantastic show, they'd be sending a message "Hey, fuck you! We just put out a killer show and will continue to do so and we'll outdo you fuckers in ratings."