Raw WWE RAW 28th April 2013 - LIVE Discussion: Can anyone stop Kane?

[Dale]

Can The Authority control Kane?
Brie Bella and the entire WWE Universe looked on in horror last Monday night as Kane viciously assaulted Daniel Bryan with a sadistic succession of Tombstone Piledrivers. As a result, Bryan was diagnosed with a cervical cord neurapraxia — a contusion of the spinal cord — that could have put his WWE World Heavyweight Championship reign in jeopardy. Bryan was fortunately able to recover and has vowed to appear on this week’s Raw, where Stephanie McMahon plans to apologize for the heinous actions of The Devil’s Favorite Demon.

Although Stephanie seemed to protest Kane’s attack last week, is The Authority truly repentant? Or is Stephanie merely doing some “damage control” to save face? Regardless, it will be interesting to see if The Authority is able to extinguish the wildfire they’ve started — or if they intend on letting it burn everything in its path.

Snikt! Wolverine pops his claws
Remember that one time when Wolverine showed up on Raw a few years back and punched Dolph Ziggler in the face? The Showoff certainly didn’t forget, but he seemed to forgive the Academy Award nominee last week on Twitter, extending a digital olive branch to Jackman and gushing about the latest trailer for “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” in theaters May 23.

However, Ziggler’s Twitter hatchet-burying with this week’s Raw guest star drew the ire of perennial malcontent Damien Sandow, who ignited a war of words with his fellow former Money in the Bank contract holder. In the social media skirmish, Ziggler promised that he and Jackman will teach The Intellectual Savior of the Masses “something about respect.” By the time Raw’s over, Sandow might wish he had Wolverine’s healing factor, bub.

Hounds on the hunt
On SmackDown, The Shield faced seemingly insurmountable odds when they were placed in an 11-on-3 Handicap Match — their second such encounter in as many weeks. However, rather than face the same unfair fight that left the trio vulnerable to an Evolution assault on April 14, the crafty Hounds of Justice appropriated their Extreme Rules opponents’ “adapt or perish” credo to whittle the larger team’s ranks down to just five Superstars. Although they were still technically outnumbered, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose picked up the victory and left their foes battered, bruised and breathing hard.

Now that The Shield has laid waste to all those who have stood between them and Evolution, what will happen between these two powerhouse factions before they go to war at Extreme Rules?

Bad News meets rad dude
And then there were two. In the final round of an intensely competitive tournament to determine the No. 1 contender to the Intercontinental Championship, Rob Van Dam and Bad News Barrett will clash on Raw to earn the right to challenge Big E for the illustrious prize this Sunday at Extreme Rules. As a six-time holder of the coveted title, the veteran RVD seems to have the upper hand going into this must-see bout, but the bare-knuckle bearer of bad news has been on a tear of late as he vies to become a four-time Intercontinental Champion himself.

Even though Big E has been nigh unstoppable as Intercontinental Champion, he’d be wise to watch closely as his potential challengers collide on Raw. Will the tournament winner go on to unseat this titanic titleholder?

When we say ‘Uce,’ y’all say … ‘RybAxel’?
Announced exclusively on WWE.com after SmackDown went off the air, Ryback & Curtis Axel will challenge The Usos for the WWE Tag Team Championship on Raw. The unorthodox pairing has displayed new ferocity in recent weeks, with Ryback defeating Jimmy Uso one-on-one last week on WWE Main Event and Curtis Axel pinning Jey Uso on SmackDown. In the aftermath of this singles sweep, the intimidating duo has cemented their standing as the greatest threat to the twins’ title reign. Will #RybAxelRules be trending on Twitter with the crowning of new WWE Tag Team Champions on Raw?

Pretty sure I also read a few days ago that Flair was scheduled for the show to reunite with Evolution so will be interesting to see if that happens or not.

DISCUSS.
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[Chris]

I was pretty skeptical on Kane/Bryan, but Jesus WWE just went for the "when in doubt, have Kane kill someone" plan to make him look like a beast again. Probably the best way they could've went about that.

 

[John McHenry]

I was pretty skeptical on Kane/Bryan, but Jesus WWE just went for the "when in doubt, have Kane kill someone" plan to make him look like a beast again. Probably the best way they could've went about that.

Until two months from tomorrow, when he's a joke again. He'll demask once again because of publicity tour for the movie. And become a joke. @deezy (for a record of my prediction)

 

[Deezy]

It's like I pretty much keep saying, booking heels is easy. Win/loss records don't mean anything.

 

[Chris]

Until two months from tomorrow, when he's a joke again. He'll demask once again because of publicity tour for the movie. And become a joke. @deezy (for a record of my prediction)

Who cares? They only need him to be a monster for this PPV, and they succeeded at that.

 

[Crippler]

So Bryan is gonna be on Raw tonight, has to be in a neck brace and wheelchair right?

 

[Dale]

So Bryan is gonna be on Raw tonight, has to be in a neck brace and wheelchair right?

Kane's gonna push him off of the stage I reckon.

Flair has been confirmed for RAW by HHH on Twitter

 

[Crippler]

wonder what Flair will do

 

[Crippler]

I'm still not a fan of this new cage style

 

[Crippler]

oh shit it's serious cena

 

[Crippler]

Cena losing his smile, poor guy

 

[PHX]

Was hoping they'd make Cena question why the fans voted for that.

 

[Dale]

Cena annoyed with the Universe

 

[Crippler]

pretty sure that draft was 2005, 9 years Cena you fool

 

[PHX]

pretty sure that draft was 2005, 9 years Cena you fool

That is why he said almost 10 years ago lol