Official Raw is Bryan Thread Featuring Vito Cruz

[ron the dial]

lol fantastic line

[Swiss Ultimate]

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Wow.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Feel like WMXXX will be phenomenal.

HHH/Bryan has the potential to be a classic. Taker/Lesnar a little worried about but have hope.

Cena/Bray I think will surprise people as well.

CM Punk will make it certain that Taker/Lesnar goes down in history.

[James Steele]

I just hope Triple H doesn't lose his heat.

[James Steele]

LOLJK

[James Steele]

Holy shit, Daniel Bryan just cut a Dusty Rhodes promo on Backstage Pass. He should have held his hand out to the camera and said "MY HAND IS TOUCHING YOUR HAND! YOUR DREAMS ARE MY DREAMS! YOUR STRUGGLE IS MY STRUGGLE! I'VE WINED AND DINED WITH KING AND BRIE AND I'VE SLEPT IN MOTELS EATING VEGAN BAKED BEANS!"

[el bobbo]

Yes! Daniel Bryan is a hardcore anti-gov anti-corp activist character.

[Swiss Ultimate]

And a vegan.

[James Steele]

Hogan just said he feels "cray cray". Ugh...I'm glad I wasn't a kid in the 80s that is mentally scarred enough to love his shtick.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Did you enjoy Raw Vote on Facebook current totals

Yes, Yes Yes! 4606
No 465

[parkmania]

LOL that Daniel Bryan dropped a "We the People" in that backstage interview.

[KIRA]

Pretty funny that his biggest enemy in WWE was probably Michael Cole for 3 years.
I'm still mad he never got tie Cole into complicated painful knots in the ring

[Swiss Ultimate]

Hogan just said he feels "cray cray". Ugh...I'm glad I wasn't a kid in the 80s that is mentally scarred enough to love his shtick.

People that love Hogan in 2014 also love Bubba the Love Sponge.

[KIRA]

Holy shit, Daniel Bryan just cut a Dusty Rhodes promo on Backstage Pass. He should have held his hand out to the camera and said "MY HAND IS TOUCHING YOUR HAND! YOUR DREAMS ARE MY DREAMS! YOUR STRUGGLE IS MY STRUGGLE! I'VE WINED AND DINED WITH KING AND BRIE AND I'VE SLEPT IN MOTELS EATING VEGAN BAKED BEANS!"


DB is wrestlings Katness (or Peeta depending how you look at him)

[James Steele]

I feel like Big Show will win the battle royal as a "lifetime achievement" type award/moment for him.

[slik]

I feel like Big Show will win the battle royal as a "lifetime achievement" type award/moment for him.

I could see that happening as well.

[slik]

Andre The Giant's son wins the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

Disney ending to the Giant family legacy.

[Flash Funk]

Cesaro should win the battle royal. And KOTR AND MITB and then break Sammartinos record.

[KIRA]

People that love Hogan in 2014 also love Bubba the Love Sponge.

I don't get the love for Hogan and never have

As I said growing up for me it was all Taker.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Sgt. Slaughter here.

[Shisen Kopf]

Ain't is now a word.

Even if ain't is now a word, it's still terrible grammar. Let's look at this shall we: ain't is a synonym that hillbillies and ghetto people use in lieu of isn't. Furthermore; isn't is a contraction of "is not". So let's look at the song title in it's basic form: "Is Not No Grave". Just awful. 1/10.

[Shisen Kopf]

#grammarhammer

[Poit]

DB is wrestlings Katness (or Peeta depending how you look at him)

I don't know what either of these things are.

[Shisen Kopf]

I think it's from that Hungry Games movies Poit.

[Heisenberg]

hey Peeta

http://austenacious.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/peeta-m.jpg

[#1-norm-fan]

Well I was hoping they would find a way out of this but they couldn't. So this is pretty much what had to happen. Still say WWE backed themselves into a corner and got their hand forced into making a WrestleMania main event they didn't really want to. I'll hold out hope that something insane happens at WrestleMania.

[Swiss Ultimate]

They want money. I think this will give them what they want.

[ron the dial]

Well I was hoping they would find a way out of this but they couldn't. So this is pretty much what had to happen. Still say WWE backed themselves into a corner and got their hand forced into making a WrestleMania main event they didn't really want to. I'll hold out hope that something insane happens at WrestleMania.
lol

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Andre The Giant's son wins the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

Disney ending to the Giant family legacy.

Yeah because it's totally fake like the end of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Andre only had a daughter.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Anybody call/text the guy with the sign?

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>This had to happen. There hasn't been a truly triumphant-feeling "underdog face overcomes months of obstacles to win in the main event of WM" moment since Benoit 10 years ago, and that is forever tarnished. Time to make a new moment that will live in infamy.</font>

[Shisen Kopf]

Unless DB goes psycho and kills people

[#1-norm-fan]

lol

lol. I love it when people get condescending about other grown men not sharing their boner for internet workrate heroes.

[#1-norm-fan]

<font color=goldenrod>This had to happen. There hasn't been a truly triumphant-feeling "underdog face overcomes months of obstacles to win in the main event of WM" moment since Benoit 10 years ago, and that is forever tarnished. Time to make a new moment that will live in infamy.</font>

Yeah, that didn't turn out very well even before he became a murderer.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

<font color=goldenrod>This had to happen. There hasn't been a truly triumphant-feeling "underdog face overcomes months of obstacles to win in the main event of WM" moment since Benoit 10 years ago, and that is forever tarnished. Time to make a new moment that will live in infamy.</font>

Living in infamy denotes that it will be bad. I think you forgot to add "not" in live in infamy. Benoit's lives in infamy this one cannot.

[ron the dial]

lol. I love it when people get condescending about other grown men not sharing their boner for internet workrate heroes.
that's not it at all. i'm laughing at your insistence that wwe doesn't want this.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh. Well that's also a silly thing to laugh at.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I still don't think it was THE plan. Batista being booed was not in their frame of mind.

[ron the dial]

people generally laugh at silly things.

[#1-norm-fan]

I still don't think it was THE plan. Batista being booed was not in their frame of mind.

Holy shit, even STD is making a clear observation about the situation.

How does that make you feel, rtd?

[ron the dial]

i'm not saying it was THE plan, either. but something must have convinced them otherwise along the way. maybe it was all of those arenas full of people chanting for daniel bryan.

[#1-norm-fan]

i'm not saying it was THE plan, either. but something must have convinced them otherwise along the way. maybe it was all of those arenas full of people chanting for daniel bryan.

So you're saying it wasn't their plan and they got their hand forced by the crowd.

... Which is exactly what I said happened.

So... yeah. Stop saying silly things.

[ron the dial]

i'm going to enjoy this no matter how it turns out. i'm just glad to see them actually acknowledge what people want. if batista walks out with the title at WM, so be it. i get it,and have no problem with it. but bryan will get his eventually, and in turn the fans will get theirs.

[ron the dial]

So you're saying it wasn't their plan and they got their hand forced by the crowd.

... Which is exactly what I said happened.

So... yeah. Stop saying silly things.
you're insisting they wanted to find a way out of it. i think that's stupid. why would you want to find your way out of an angle that has the crowd so hot? just because their hand was forced doesn't mean they don't see that it is a good thing. don't be so dense.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Holy shit, even STD is making a clear observation about the situation.

How does that make you feel, rtd?

It should have been the plan from the start though. So they are correcting something they shouldn't have had to correct in the first place.

[ron the dial]

and honestly, nobody forced their hand but them. if they didn't want to push daniel bryan into the main event, they didn't have to. they set the wheels in motion long before needing to put him in the main event of WM. they put themselves in this position. to think that they don't want it is absurd.

[ron the dial]

with that, i need to go to sleep. enjoy yourselves, lovers.

[#1-norm-fan]

They put themselves into the position where the crowd was desperate to see Daniel Bryan as champion.

They probably did not originally want to put him in the title match at WrestleMania but they booked him to a point where the crowd wouldn't accept that.

Thus the crowd went on to force their hand.

Seriously. You're arguing about nothing here.

[Corndad]

I really think starting with the Rumble crowd it made them start thinking Batista as a Face in the Main Event of Mania might not work. The follow up shows where that didn't die out I think made them have to play this hand. Punk leaving also I believe had a huge hand in this as they are needing to push a Strong Babyface at this point to fill what even Cena being injury prone anymore can't fill.

[Poit]

Seriously. You're arguing about nothing here.

Arguing about the intent of the bookers, people who (whom?) none of us have any contact with, seems pretty pointless.

[Poit]

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[Bad News Gertner]

"Sorry guys, I just can't get over how Bryan was booked at Summerslam to enjoy this."

[Poit]

There is a very clear difference between being unable to enjoy tonight's Raw, and wishing that elation had happened more since Summerslam.

[#1-norm-fan]

Meanwhile Orton seriously needs to stop jobbing so much. My God. The heel going into the biggest show of the year as champion shouldn't look like one of the more beatable guys on the roster.

[#1-norm-fan]

I wonder if this Andre the Giant battle royal is gonna become a Royal Rumble tradition. Kind of a King of the Ring-like big multi-man event to catapult a guy as a new star every year.

[Bad News Gertner]

Well I was hoping they would find a way out of this but they couldn't. So this is pretty much what had to happen. Still say WWE backed themselves into a corner and got their hand forced into making a WrestleMania main event they didn't really want to. I'll hold out hope that something insane happens at WrestleMania.

They read my booking idea. I'll be expecting a large cheque soon.

[#1-norm-fan]

I'm sure they'll be able to send you a large check when Daniel Bryan wins this title and viewership and PPV buys skyrocket.

[NormanSmiley]

where is this mysterious 9th mania that Hogan main evented???

1,2,3,5,6,7,8.......9 is iffy...and............??

[el bobbo]

I wonder if this Andre the Giant battle royal is gonna become a Royal Rumble tradition. Kind of a King of the Ring-like big multi-man event to catapult a guy as a new star every year.

I hope so. It sounds like a great way to get everyone on the show and spend time on Raw focusing on 5-6 big matches for the event.

[#1-norm-fan]

where is this mysterious 9th mania that Hogan main evented???

1,2,3,5,6,7,8.......9 is iffy...and............??

They're counting the match against The Rock as a main event too.

[NormanSmiley]

They're counting the match against The Rock as a main event too.


well thanks for playing Jericho and hhh

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

They're counting the match against The Rock as a main event too.

also he was the marque match of the WrestleMania IV tournament so sort of like a main event.

[#1-norm-fan]

well thanks for playing Jericho and hhh

They've thrown the "main event" label on pretty much any match involving a main eventer nowadays.

[#1-norm-fan]

Not that Rock-Hogan shouldn't be designated a main event. Because it was definitely the marquee match of that WrestleMania. I'm just saying in general, it doesn't even take a match that could potentially close out the show for it to get the "main event" label anymore.

[Shadrick]

Fan is right.

[Shisen Kopf]

Guess who was there in person? Go on, take a guess

[Lock Jaw]

Vince McMahon.

[rob11]

Bryan should make a smelly hippie stable. He sets a coffee shop up in the ring and serves gluten free food with vegan friendly brownies. They come into the ring with the Macbooks and drink dark coffee all day. Okay that was terrible but he is a vegan.

[BigCrippyZ]

Guess who was there in person? Go on, take a guess

The Rock? Hogan?

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: Lawler's shirt

The Bryan takeover segment was great. Would have laughed if they actually tried to have a match occur with all those people around.

[Swiss Ultimate]

It looked great.

[parkmania]

So, were the people in the YES Movement mostly WWE employees/family, contest winners, local indy folks or random shirt purchasers?

[Dark One]

So, were the people in the YES Movement mostly WWE employees/family, contest winners, local indy folks or random shirt purchasers?

- Many of the fans used during Daniel Bryan's "Occupy RAW" segment last night were WWE crew members, members of the catering staff and backstage staff workers. WWE did, however, use some actual fans, including Rick "The Sign Guy."

[Malfeitor]

I would thoroughly enjoy Punk returning at WrestleMania to screw Triple H in his match with Bryan. Just popped in my head.

[Droford]

Daniel Bryan needs to have all of them show back up at Mania and carry him back up the ramp after he wins the title.

[slik]

I would thoroughly enjoy Punk returning at WrestleMania to screw Triple H in his match with Bryan. Just popped in my head.

I would also like this.

[James Steele]

Bryan needs to beat Triple H clean.

[Bad News Gertner]

TheBeardBuds

[MIZantine Empire]

I think it's from that Hungry Games movies Poit.

This is the second time I've heard it called this.. Makes me think of hungry hungry hippos every time (hunger games btw) and yes that's a good reference to katniss.. In the third book she leads the revolution against the capital. Very fitting for bryan

[ClockShot]

I watched last night. But didn't get around to posting in here.

The "Andre The Giant Battle Royal". Who's genius idea was this? And don't say Hogan.

I'd rather the trophy be a 1-off super deluxe edition of The Princess Bride.

[XL]

My call: Cesaro wins the Battle Royal lastly eliminating Swagger and ending their alliance. Zeb and Swagger beat down Cesaro until Hogan jumps in the ring and helps Cesaro run them off. Cesaro and Hogan do the poses as Hogan puts Toni over as a "Real American".

Then Cesaro swings the life-size Andre statue around.

[Rammsteinmad]

Am I the only one who was bored shitless during the Undertaker segment? I mean, we all love Heyman, and Undertaker deserves every bit of respect he gets, but generally it's been the same angle four/five years in a row now.

And that Andre battle royal thing doesn't excite me. I guess that's the best excuse they could come up with for the default "get all the guys on the roster who aren't at the caliber of our part-timers on the card" match. Would have been better to have a Money in the Bank match.

[Swiss Ultimate]

I wasn't happy about the importance of the surprise, but it does fit and it was probably a good thing his announcement wasn't that Bryan would get to face Triple H at Mania.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Am I the only one who was bored shitless during the Undertaker segment? I mean, we all love Heyman, and Undertaker deserves every bit of respect he gets, but generally it's been the same angle four/five years in a row now.

And that Andre battle royal thing doesn't excite me. I guess that's the best excuse they could come up with for the default "get all the guys on the roster who aren't at the caliber of our part-timers on the card" match. Would have been better to have a Money in the Bank match.

There was nothing Undertaker could say, but me personally I enjoyed it. Maybe it's because I didn't really pay attention last year and I was super into the HBK matches, but it feels fresh to me. (Also haven't been watching regularly for a long long time).

[Lock Jaw]

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[Krimzon7]

This is the second time I've heard it called this.. Makes me think of hungry hungry hippos every time (hunger games btw) and yes that's a good reference to katniss.. In the third book she leads the revolution against the capital. Very fitting for bryan

GODDAM SPOILER ALERT!! :rant:

I mean I've never even known that there was a book version of this movie, and now you're telling me that they wrote the third and fourth movies' book already??? Goddamn you to hell Miz

[Lock Jaw]

http://i.imgur.com/YmdUxOJ.gif

[Savio]

http://i.imgur.com/lqrddAj.png
http://imgick.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/pgmain/img/detroit/photo/2013/09/-3a931648c5829c44.JPG
http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/08/Vince-McMahon-Money.jpgThis was not the plan the day of the royal rumble, an audible was definitely pulled.

[Lock Jaw]

Been thinking... Why would Daniel Bryan occupy RAW... in order to stack the deck against himself at Wrestlemania? I can understand he wanted both to fight Triple H and to get into the main event.... but he could have just said something like "Yo, Triple H, fight me next week" instead of double booking himself.

[#1-norm-fan]

lol I thought about that too. And if he wanted both matches to happen on the big stage, why wouldn't he just say he wanted both matches instead of forcing himself to beat Triple H in order to get into the main event?

[#1-norm-fan]

http://i.imgur.com/lqrddAj.png


http://www.memegene.net/media/created/drrwuz.jpg

[Savio]

Meanwhile Orton seriously needs to stop jobbing so much. My God. The heel going into the biggest show of the year as champion shouldn't look like one of the more beatable guys on the roster.
Jericho was (WMX8)

[Savio]

lol I thought about that too. And if he wanted both matches to happen on the big stage, why wouldn't he just say he wanted both matches instead of forcing himself to beat Triple H in order to get into the main event?
Fo Respect son!

[#1-norm-fan]

Jericho was (WMX8)

I don't remember specifically if Jericho jobbed a lot going into WrestleMania that year. I do remember the way they built him up sucked too. I can't imagine he jobbed nearly as much as Orton has over the past couple months though.

[Lock Jaw]

lol I thought about that too. And if he wanted both matches to happen on the big stage, why wouldn't he just say he wanted both matches instead of forcing himself to beat Triple H in order to get into the main event?

That is less puzzling. He is a face and would want to "earn" his way into into the main event and not be handed it.

But he could have said he wanted to earn it next week instead of on the same night.

[Lock Jaw]

Or maybe he isn't that confident he can beat Triple H, so he wanted the Triple H match to happen at Wrestlemania so at least he would be booked on the show.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Unless DB goes psycho and kills people

HGH

[Swiss Ultimate]

Been thinking... Why would Daniel Bryan occupy RAW... in order to stack the deck against himself at Wrestlemania? I can understand he wanted both to fight Triple H and to get into the main event.... but he could have just said something like "Yo, Triple H, fight me next week" instead of double booking himself.

He is a member of the forum and he liked the idea that Gertner came up with.

[Bad News Gertner]

Big Show is going to win that Battle Royal since he's Andre the Giant's son.

[MIZantine Empire]

GODDAM SPOILER ALERT!! :rant:

I mean I've never even known that there was a book version of this movie, and now you're telling me that they wrote the third and fourth movies' book already??? Goddamn you to hell Miz

To be fair, you learn she is the leader of the rebellion in catching fire, however, your spoiler is there are only 3 books.. So they are splitting the 3rd book into a two- part movie

[KIRA]

To be fair, you learn she is the leader of the rebellion in catching fire, however, your spoiler is there are only 3 books.. So they are splitting the 3rd book into a two- part movie

The reluctant whiny leader not so much in the movies which are making her more of a straight forward heroine.

I just felt I had to add that

[Bad News Gertner]

You guys are giving us wrestling fans a bad name. People will think we are nerds!

[MIZantine Empire]

Better to be considered a nerd, than a basement dwelling virgin.. Lol

[Bad News Gertner]

I believe the two might go hand in hand

[#1-norm-fan]

Can you imagine anyone randomly tuning into Raw and seeing that mass of FBDVs all standing in the ring wearing the same shirt? Good Lord!

[Krimzon7]

The bald one who was so intent on hugging bryan was particularly creepy

[Bad News Gertner]

St.Jimmy lives.

[Blonde Moment]

I think it might have gone over more if they actually involved fans in this rather then crew

[Swiss Ultimate]

Looked like fans. After all, if that was the crew, who was running the show?

[MIZantine Empire]

Def was crew and such., the old lita look alike I remember seeing in wwe magazine as a backstage assistant or something.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Pics or gtfo.

[Savio]

tits or gtfo

[Swiss Ultimate]

tits or gtfo

[DAMN iNATOR]

Even if ain't is now a word, it's still terrible grammar. Let's look at this shall we: ain't is a synonym that hillbillies and ghetto people use in lieu of isn't. Furthermore; isn't is a contraction of "is not". So let's look at the song title in it's basic form: "Is Not No Grave". Just awful. 1/10.

And “ain’t” is a contraction of “are not” and “is not”. Just thought I’d point that out, but yes, it is horrible that people still think it’s ok/proper English to use it.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Big Show Defeating Cody Rhodes.

Wrong. Miz defeated Wade Barrett last year, it was just the Pre-Show match though, so that may be why that fact is so overlooked.

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[James Steele]

...that and Wade won the title back the next night on RAW.

[Savio]

And the fact that it involved Miz

[Shadrick]

zing.

[Swiss Ultimate]

This is probably my highest rated wrestling forum post.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Nah, just most replies. My highest rated thread was: http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=109251

[Swiss Ultimate]

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