WWE RAW 4/27 Feat. Gatekeeper Kane and the WWE remebering which trash bin had the King of the Ring crown

[Emperor Smeat]

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Several Superstars were battered and bruised in the wake of Extreme Rules, but they’ll all be bringing the fight to Raw for the return of the King of the Ring Tournament! As the WWE Universe awaits the first round of this exciting eight-Superstar tournament, WWE.com examines what lies ahead on Monday night’s hottest show.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Did <a href="https://twitter.com/WWERollins">@WWERollins</a> cheat by using the RKO? Tune in &amp; find out. Even if you don't care, please still watch. We have families. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAWTonight?src=hash">#RAWTonight</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/592776902940762114">April 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Bracket for this year's tournament:
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[ClockShot]

That's a sad bracket if you ask me. Can easily throw a lot more names in there and stretch out the tournament over some Raws and smackdowns.

[Dark One]

No Reigns? Why the fuck did I make this graphic last night?

http://i.imgur.com/sOaK2qD.jpg

Going to take me a while to come up with something obnoxious to run into the ground on this thread.

[Dark One]

Also, go post your prediction here: http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=129340

So that when you're wrong, we can mock you mercilessly. It's a lot like Tipsters, except you're more likely to fail.

[Corndad]

King Ambrose might be the greatest thing ever.

[Corndad]

SKO lol

[ClockShot]

Cryptkeeper?

[Emperor Smeat]

Thought the RKO was just banned for Randy. Rollins should have called his the Seth Cutter or something.

[Dark One]

Thought the RKO was just banned for Randy.

So did half of WWE creative, despite them just saying "the RKO was banned" repeatedly, so no worries man!

[Fignuts]

Ziggler vs Sheamus final

Sheamus avenges his loss at Extreme Rules and becomes a 2 time KOTR

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Cryptkeeper?

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[ClockShot]

I want a shot! NO!, I WANT A SHOT!

Over/Under 4 people come out here.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

underwhelming pop from "it's me"

[Poit]

Seth needs Big Cass to spell it out for him.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

He needs to spell it out?

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[ClockShot]

Spotted a couple fans wearing ref shirts a few rows up.

Hope the WWE Fun Police ain't around tonight.

[Poit]

JBL just tried to force a pop culture reference.

Drink.

[Dark One]

Can't believe they're forgetting King Billy.

[Dark One]

Barrett should win and rename the Bull Hammer to "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!"

[Corndad]

Awesome! That means Sheamus won't be winning. I'll take it.

[Emperor Smeat]

:| Ziggler lost.


Awesome! That means Sheamus won't be winning. I'll take it.
Yeah really hope this leads to Ziggy getting his "revenge" on Sheamus or else the feud is starting to get a little too one sided. Sure Ziggler won last night but Sheamus got the last laugh and the arse kissed.

[Dark One]

Looks like New Day is indeed freebirding it.

[ClockShot]

Damn Natalya. National Superhero Day ain't til tomorrow.

Nice outfit regardless.

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Winning King of the Ring can change your life. Hell, it gave Booker T a British accent. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAWTonight?src=hash">#RAWTonight</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/592848207476056064">April 28, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[#1-norm-fan]

New Day needs to have custom socks that they wear to the ring and throw pairs into the crowd before their match. Then they can pretend the crowd loves them and they're chanting "New Day socks!"

... I've had a couple Jack on the rocks.

[Dark One]

Is Cesaro wearing two sets of headphones?

[Dark One]

New Day needs to have custom socks that they wear to the ring and throw pairs into the crowd before their match. Then they can pretend the crowd loves them and they're chanting "New Day socks!"

... I've had a couple Jack on the rocks.

Seven suplexes out of sixteen.

[#1-norm-fan]

Russian chain match wasn't televised. It was on TV.

[Poit]

Is Cesaro wearing two sets of headphones?

Well, Tyson can't wear any while wrestling. Cesaro needs to wear two to balance it out.

[Dark One]

The middle-aged balding guy in that crowd shot does not get this Ryback shit.

[#1-norm-fan]

The more I think about it, New Day jumping around excitedly and throwing socks into the crowd while the crowd chant "New Day Sucks" would be just alright.

Would the crowd keep chanting it if the message is actually serving the wrong purpose? Would they start actually chanting "New Day Socks!", thus turning New Day face in a weird way?

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[ClockShot]

Bo got a beard.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[KIRA]

C'mon pull the trigger he's wearing the beard

[owenbrown]

BOLIEVE MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Dark One]

No idea what they're chanting, but that's some Vickie Guerrero heat.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Russian chain match wasn't televised. It was on TV.

Still confused about the difference between television as a medium and a TV as a device?

[Dark One]

Bozarro Dallas probably isn't going to win this one.

[KIRA]

bo stepping it up

[#1-norm-fan]

Still confused about the difference between television as a medium and a TV as a device?

No. Michael Cole is. He said that match was televised.

[ClockShot]

Please, oh please let the Rotunda Bros. get together.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

YOU HURT MY BROTHER! PREPARE TO DIE!

[Dark One]

Oh, hey, the feud's actually starting now.

This time it only took four or five weeks as opposed to eight.

[Ruien]

I don't want Ryback to lose his next feud :(

[KIRA]

This might be a feud Bray will actually win

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

No. Michael Cole is. He said that match was televised.

It was carried on cable stations as well as the WWE Network. It was televised. Just not viewed by anybody who is smart enough to pay 10 bucks (or free for new user) instead of 50.

[owenbrown]

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[Emperor Smeat]

Feel like this is going to be a weird feud. Neither guy is going to really benefit but whoever loses is going to be in bad shape for a while.

[Savio]

That promo made steph look strong.

[Volare]

Bolieve in the Buzzards. :)

[Dark One]

This might be a feud Bray will actually win

Again, he lost to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania. You know what he did before that? Beat Dean Ambrose thirty times. Before that he won a majority of the matches with Jericho.

Before that he lost to Cena a couple of times, but won a couple too.

It's not like he's Dean Ambrose or Wade Barrett.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Is that a big TazzDan head in the front row?

[#1-norm-fan]

Goddammit, Ryback or Wyatt (probably Ryback) gonna lose another feud and continue to be under-utilized to a ridiculous level.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Cena complains about Rusev getting an extra re-match when he lost a title match as a challenger and got a title shot rematch anyways? What?

[owenbrown]

Is that a big TazzDan head in the front row?

lol that would be awesome if it's true

[owenbrown]

yep Rusev getting buried at Payback

[#1-norm-fan]

Vince Law Mbardi

[KIRA]

Again, he lost to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania. You know what he did before that? Beat Dean Ambrose thirty times. Before that he won a majority of the matches with Jericho.

Before that he lost to Cena a couple of times, but won a couple too.

It's not like he's Dean Ambrose or Wade Barrett.
Yea after I typed it I had a similar though but I didn't bother to change what I said because the fact still remains that as a real threat Wyatt has been so watered down his creepy promos aren't really worth taking seriously thus he isn't taken seriously.

[ClockShot]

WE'RE A 1-MAN BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!

[KIRA]

YES!

[Poit]

"One of these days, Cena's going to to stick it out too many times"

[Volare]

HEATH SLATER!

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

MASTERSLATORS UNITE!

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh my God, Heath Slater is awkward.

[KIRA]

Slater.....no

[owenbrown]

so this means Slater is one step closer to future endeavors?

[Bad News Gertner]

Woooooo!

[Volare]

United States Champion of the World!!

[owenbrown]

and of course Cena does jack shit

[Emperor Smeat]

One of these days Slater will be able to get that glorious Open Challenge match.

[owenbrown]

we want Lana chant lol

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Will nobody come out to help Heath Slater? He's a national treasure!

[#1-norm-fan]

Slater had a song with "one man band" in it instead of "three man band". Why don't they just start using that again? Or at least take a minute to replace the "three" with "one"? It's been a while. Makes no sense.

[Dark One]

Yea after I typed it I had a similar though but I didn't bother to change what I said because the fact still remains that as a real threat Wyatt has been so watered down his creepy promos aren't really worth taking seriously thus he isn't taken seriously.

That's fair, and I agree with his promos losing a lot of their impact lately, but I don't think it's because he's losing feuds. He's won more feuds than he's lost. He's only really lost to the Undertaker and John Cena--during Wrestlemania time.

The real problem is that they've just been having him cut promos every week without much to break it up. If The Rock came out and cut a promo every week without pointing them explicitly at someone half the time, people would probably get tired of him too.

Blaming it on "he's going to lose another feud!" just becomes background noise, because that's pretty much what people shout every time anyone loses ever.

[Dark One]

Slater had a song with "one man band" in it instead of "three man band". Why don't they just start using that again? Or at least take a minute to replace the "three" with "one"? It's been a while. Makes no sense.

Because he's carrying on the memory of his two fallen bandmates you insensitive prick.

RIP Drew and Jinder.

[#1-norm-fan]

lol Good job trying to convince the crowd of the last thing the heel wants them to vote for, Seth.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

LONG LIVE 3MB!

[Volare]

Triple threa.....meh.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Should be a mini-tournament. Make the authority have Randy and Reigns fight and the winner gets Rollins in the main event.

[Poit]

RIP Drew and Jinder.

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[#1-norm-fan]

That was some Crispin Glover "Hey you get your damn hands off of her"-caliber acting by Rollins. lol

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: R-Truth

[#1-norm-fan]

Alright, I'm on board with King R-Truth now. Fuck spiders.

[Dark One]

http://i.imgur.com/w2ChDSw.jpg

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Bull moved before he even jumped. What an asshole.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

So now I guess we know why R-Truth and Bray Wyatt have fought 10000 times. R-Truth doesn't like the spiderwalk.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

What the hell?

[#1-norm-fan]

Thinking Wade Barrett now. Because he's British and therefore needs to have a royalty gimmick at some point.

[Dark One]

I would approve of King Barrett, again, so he can rename his finisher "OFF WITH HIS HEAD."

Also, because it will make most of the "the winner will be jobbing again in two weeks" predictions accurate.

[KIRA]

That's fair, and I agree with his promos losing a lot of their impact lately, but I don't think it's because he's losing feuds. He's won more feuds than he's lost. He's only really lost to the Undertaker and John Cena--during Wrestlemania time.

The real problem is that they've just been having him cut promos every week without much to break it up. If The Rock came out and cut a promo every week without pointing them explicitly at someone half the time, people would probably get tired of him too.

Blaming it on "he's going to lose another feud!" just becomes background noise, because that's pretty much what people shout every time anyone loses ever.

Good points but still him beating the snot out of Ambrose over and over only to lose to Taker(granted it is WM )and then just casually brush it off not even a mention is just stupid and in the process of elevating Wyatt for that eventual loss they also killed Dean's momentum and he was on fucking fire.

[Emperor Smeat]

Thinking Wade Barrett now. Because he's British and therefore needs to have a royalty gimmick at some point.

As long as he gets Regal as his royal adviser and maybe even bring back Lalya as the adviser of the adviser or whatever she was when Regal was king.

[Poit]

Little Naitch!

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Crowd doesn't care about that awesome flip spot? Fuck these fucks.

[#1-norm-fan]

WWE still too dumb to see that Johnny Curtis is the biggest potential megastar since Hogan.

[Dark One]

I'm really glad they're expending the effort to give the bottom of the card guys an actual feud, and not just "Hey. Let's fight again and again!"

But this is weird.

[KIRA]

sigh I'd kill to see Regal on the throne again such an epic promo the night after he won.

[KIRA]

Why is her speaking voice so stillted

[Dark One]

I can't tell if Brie's just that bad at talking on camera or this is a work and she's that bad at acting.

[Volare]

Damn Naomi a bitch.

[KIRA]

Also I guess the Adam Rose character isnt gay....totally bi though

[#1-norm-fan]

If this whole thing with Fandango was just to get Adam Rose and Rosa over, I will fly to Connecticut and picket outside of Titan Towers, I swear to fucking Christ.

[KIRA]

You can try all you want lady you'll never be Alicia no one can be Alicia!

[Dark One]

If this whole thing with Fandango was just to get Adam Rose and Rosa over, I will fly to Connecticut and picket outside of Titan Towers, I swear to fucking Christ.

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[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>How didn't Ryback see Bray Wyatt??? <a href="http://t.co/TdRoaWsZ8d">pic.twitter.com/TdRoaWsZ8d</a></p>&mdash; J (@DrJonoSuave) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJonoSuave/status/592860398107435011">April 28, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Emperor Smeat]

So I guess the Bellas did suddenly turn as faces now. Brie might be reaching Big Show levels of random turns outta nowhere.

[KIRA]

Its weird that the bellas can only be passable talkers when they are being cruel high school bitches

[Corndad]

King Dean. Make it happen.

[Volare]

ALL HAIL THE TITTY MASTER!!

[KIRA]

I'd like either that or Luke Harper

I wonder if they will remember that winning king of the Ring is supposed to mean something

[Lock Jaw]

I hope Ambrose wins. Would go a long way to reestablishing Shia credibility.

[Corndad]

Ban Pop Country LOL I love Ambrose hahahaha

[KIRA]

Fuck KotR I want Ambrose for president!

[Dark One]

Dean Ambrose has the best platform for running for king so far, with R-Truth's anti-spider holy war as a close second.

[#1-norm-fan]

So I guess the Bellas did suddenly turn as faces now. Brie might be reaching Big Show levels of random turns outta nowhere.

At least with Big Show, there's actually a moment where he signifies he's good/evil now by turning on someone.

Brie just says "My sister just cost me a match against the woman who made my husband's life a living hell, told me she wished I died in the womb and then made me her slave for 30 days... K, we're friends now."

[Dark One]

So, like, are they just going to ignore the fact that Sheamus was King of the Ring once before already, or did I miss it?

[#1-norm-fan]

Ambrose sold me with his ban of pop-country.

[Dark One]

There, a casual mention, at least.

[Poit]

Damnit JBL, stop trying to force GoT references.

[KIRA]

Dean Ambrose has the best platform for running for king so far, with R-Truth's anti-spider holy war as a close second.

I fully support a spider Jihad eight legged 4 eyed freaks they shouldnt exist damn it(I own a tarantula but shes my baby and its not the same)

First My Little Pony then The President now WWE EVERYBODY making game of thrones references

[OssMan]

no one cares about you or your husband

[OssMan]

really happy for Adam Rose

[Volare]

That camera pan on Ambrose is an instant gif.

[Dark One]

Glad to see the cloverleaf come back, and Sheamus aplies it well.

[Emperor Smeat]

Match has been pretty good so far.

[Dark One]

Oh god damnit.

[Corndad]

Oh No. Sheamus.

[Dark One]

Great. Sheamus continues on by DQ.

[KIRA]

Ambrose just left laying I hope Ambrose targets Dolph for this

[Corndad]

Barrett over Neville in Finals.

[Dark One]

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Ambrose :D the one time in my life I didn't do it!

[Emperor Smeat]

:y: Sandow back to holding the mic like a wine glass.

[KIRA]

CONTINUITY!

[Dark One]

Kind of a make or break promo opportunity for Sandow here.

[KIRA]

So far I like it

[Corndad]

Don't Change the Channel!!!

[KIRA]

LOL POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

[#1-norm-fan]

The crowd does not seem to be eating this up as much as they should.

[Poit]

Sandow is reminding me of Edge here.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh, now they're chanting "Yes!" I guess that's something.

[Dark One]

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[Poit]

Huh. Sandow's new music seems kinda Chrono Trigger-ish. Like the racing scene in the future.

[KIRA]

Bray Wyatt plays the pronoun game so that we have to ask who he is talking about....except we know who he is talking about,this promo is a week late *ding*

[Mercenary]

even drunk this raw sucks!

[#1-norm-fan]

Wyatt is still probably the best promo in WWE but they really need to give him reasons to feud with guys. Pretty obvious the idea is usually "He's good enough at being cryptic with his promos that we don't actually need to think of a story for the feud". Hate when guys feud because the heel just randomly decided to attack the face.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at some of those videos. Some of the videos they showed weren't even horizontal like they asked though.

[Dark One]

"Shoot the video horizontally you fucking cavemen."

[KIRA]

Wow zero reaction for Adrian Neville

[#1-norm-fan]

Neville just mentioned Owen Hart and defying gravity in the same promo.

[Dark One]

Can't wait for him to add "The man that creative forgot" to his list of nicknames.

[Dark One]

Neville just mentioned Owen Hart and defying gravity in the same promo.

That's why Neville will be a better king.

[KIRA]

Roid monkeys who can't shoot a proper video

[KIRA]

Shit Neville looks small next to Harper

[OssMan]

King o fring neville longbottom

[Poit]

"Good 'ol American uppercut right there."

[#1-norm-fan]

... Wait...

[Dark One]

Oof. JBL. "I guess Owen was a high flyer, but not like this."

Apology posted on WWE.com in 5... 4... 3...

[#1-norm-fan]

Did I just hear that conversation between JBL and Booker about Owen right? I've been drinking a little but I couldn't have hallucinated that. lol

[#1-norm-fan]

Oof. JBL. "I guess Owen was a high flyer, but not like this."

Apology posted on WWE.com in 5... 4... 3...

Booker's response was a little worse I think. lol

[Dark One]

I was too stunned at JBL stepping in it, realizing he had stepped in it and that it would only get worse if he didn't continue walking through, so I didn't hear Booker's response.

[#1-norm-fan]

I was too stunned at JBL stepping in it, realizing he had stepped in it and that it would only get worse if he didn't continue walking through, so I didn't hear Booker's response.

"He didn't defy gravity, though."

[KIRA]

"I guess Owen was a high flyer, but not like this."

What the WHAT JBL seriously?

[OssMan]

i wonder which wwe championship match the wwe universe is going to pick for seth rollins

jesus

[Dark One]

"He didn't defy gravity, though."


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[Corndad]

Apparently Verne Gagne passed today :(

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[Dark One]

I would really like a "none of the above" option for this app vote.

Orton/Rollins doesn't excite me any more. Their Mania match was great, and it seems like it's going to be downhill now. That's probably why you probably don't have a feud continue for two or three PPVs after Mania.

Rollins/Reigns would be okay, I guess, but I don't want to deal with the bitchfest.

Cramming all options into one is just going to also cram all of the problems.

Meh.

[KIRA]

Yea Reigns still bores me like crazy

[Ruien]

Should really keep Roman away from the title picture for awhile. Should have put Ryback for the next filler ppv. Could have stacked it with Orton vs Reigns for the number 1 contender at the MITB. Big Show could cost Reigns the match against Orton. Basically, keep Reigns away from Rollins until SummerSlam where he can win the title there.

[Dark One]

They really need to stop saying "YOU GET TO DECIDE THE MAIN EVENT? HOW COOL IS THAT?"

No. We don't. There's already a leaked promo for the triple threat. I've seen them accidentally put up the results for a vote they haven't announced yet and then show the same image for the results later in the night at live events.

[Ruien]

I mean hell, why are they using their big names for this next filler, crap, ppv. This is why you have people like Ryback around to fill the void (He should not be a filler but he is) and keep things fresh. And the crowd would go NUTS for Ryback to come out and just crush Rollins in the upcoming weeks.

[#1-norm-fan]

Ever since that Owen Hart conversation, I've been under the assumption that I drunkenly fell asleep and this is all a weird dream right now...

So I hope this main event ends with Fandango interrupting and inserting himself into the poll and winning it based on just 2 minutes of voting.

[Dark One]

When does Brock Lesnar come back?

[Dark One]

This should have been the final image of the final Raw.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-2SypAyh7lk/hqdefault.jpg

[Ruien]

Hopefully Brock comes back at Battleground and just destroys the hell out of whoever is the champion at the end of that pay per view (Preferably Rollins).

[Ruien]

Really enjoying Kane's character right now. Nice change up from what has been going on with the Authority's storylines.

[Heisenberg]

American as Fuck Cena got me all amped up

[Dark One]

I am shocked by those results.

Shocked.

[#1-norm-fan]

Part of me wishes just Reigns would have won to avoid the easy "Rollins sneaks in to get the pin on Orton after Reigns hits the spear" thing but... meh. It was pretty stupid to make it a poll in the first place.

[Emperor Smeat]

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