Edit: I apologize to the marks offended by my assessment/opinion. I tend to think that not everything WWE does is gold. =)
How dare you? :blackshock:
Edit: I apologize to the marks offended by my assessment/opinion. I tend to think that not everything WWE does is gold. =)
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AdrianNeville debuted. I don't really care for the little vanilla midget. Frankly I was rooting for Axel, even though I think his "hey I'm deliberately being lame isn't that funny" gimmick is horrible. Byson Jackson called this match with the enthusiasm of a rotting carcass.
How would you rate tonight's RAW? Spoilers inside!
-Heyman & Steph Segment
-Daniel Bryan def. Dolph Ziggler to retain the IC Title.. Sheamus made his return during this match and attacked Bryan & Ziggler.
-New Day & Lucha Dragons def. Kidd Cesaro & Ascension.
-Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar were schedule for a rematch but Seth came out and said he'd give him a rematch another day.. Brock attacked Seth but he managed to escape when Mercury & Noble got involved.. Lesnar started going on a rampage, Steph came out and pleaded with him to stop, he proceeded to drop an F5 on the cameraman and got suspended indefinitely.
-Damien Sandow def. Stardust, after the match Miz attacked Sandow and gave him the Skull Crushing Finale.
-Neville debuts and def. Curtis Axel by pinning after laying the Red Arrow.
-John Cena def. Dean Ambrose in an open challenge for the United States title in a good back and forth match.
-Naomi, AJ Lee & Paige def. Natty & the Bellas.
-Rusev def. Goldust via submission.
-Reigns, Orton & Ryback def. Seth Rollins, Kane & Big Show
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You know... I remember a discussion I had with CrayJ Lee about Bayley and Sasha, as she was asking why Bayley's so popular and I didn't really have an answer, while she started talking the way we normally do about Sasha. She's a tremendous worker, improving on the mic, plays her character to perfection... and all I can say in return is "Bayley's wonderful and awesome and adorable and bad things should never happen to her! lease:" and she just laughed... and it kinda dawned on me that it's SO nice to feel about professional wrestling. Talking to each other is McMahonanese is great and helps us love characters to an awfully large extentbut damn do I wanna just FEEL a character and not just witness it.
Enter Brock Lesnar. After that epically epic display of epic epicness of epic proportions dude started the show off and I was audibly slamming on the keyboard in all caps. "LIUFLAIUSGNFLAUIBGEPAUIL:WIOJ:APOITHNEIUNLAUIJNHAPIBRHFPSIU BITCH!!!!". Direct quote. Brock Lesnar gonna FUCK you up! No "well he only knows one move", no "well he can't talk"... Nah. Murdering time, party of YOU, SETH.
Somewhere between Lesnar Lesnaring everything in sight and the Bryan vs Ziggler championship match, it hit me. One thing Raw (and Impact when not in the UK) is lacking is just this overall feeling of joy that this Raw and Wrestlemania provided. This feeling of how there's no need to be jaded. Things you want to see happen could happen. Everything doesn't stick to a formula. You're free to like people without feeling like the "machine" or "the powers that be" or "Cena" is out to get them. You can cheer returning old guys and boo young talent without jeopardizing the future. You feel like the things that happen on Raw/Wrestlemania are what these things should be, the things we see on the regular on NXT, or Lucha Underground, or New Japan... All the shows we love, maybe Raw is salvagable and has a chance to get to that point if the writers actually start finding their box of fucks and start giving them out. Hell, during the Cena/Ambrose match I actually said "They may actually make the IC/US titles matter." Snow. Talking about midcard belts in a positive light. :blackshock: Believe that's written in the Book of Revelations. And even though it's JUST Wrestlemania season. Just 2 days... Dammit, I want to believe. Just give me these bread crumbs and make me feel like a loaf of bread with an NXT logo branded on it is attached.......
Then Big Show and Kane wrestled in the main event and all that happiness went away. Fuck this company. : 4/10
- The camera man who took F5's from Brock Lesnar on RAW last night was California indie wrestler Dylan Drake.
lol although i love your post and agree with like all of it, they can't get it all right man. I agree that big show and Kane need to retire or be completely on the back burner; but, WWE will always mess some things up.
It honestly feels like a struggle with raw. On the one hand, you have triple h: nxt, Rollins, Ambrose, DB, all for pushing young stars or actually talented stars. Then you have Vince: Kane, big show, taker, listens too much to his own ego, and favors older guys (which is fine sometimes).
It seems like they're trying to make everyone happy, yet the end result is a partially good raw because they have all this talent and they're not using it properly. I can honest to god see Vince and triple h back stage starting to argue about what the main event should be/needs to be. It'll be like this until Vince steps down.
There's nothing wrong with having opposition. It builds character and can make your product better. However, the only opposition Vince really has is triple h and maybe a couple others. If ratings go down slightly, not a lot, but maintain at a rate that keeps tons of money in his pocket, he will just beat that dead horse until it stops spitting out money. And that's bs. It ruins creativity, story's, and superstars.
All in all, this was best mania I've ever seen. So I pat wwe on the back for that. The raw was awesome, but definitely could've had things better. The brock segment, IC title match, US title match, and nxt stuff easily made raw at least a 9.
If they had saved the good shit for the end an 8 was within reach. With how they did it instead it really killed it.If I'm being serious here, this was a 7 or an 8 raw. MUCH more good than bad.
Although watching on Hulu means I literally missed all the NXT stuff. :facepalm1: