RAW is GENERAL MANAGER Mania - Sponsored by Ghostbusters 2016

[Lock Jaw]

:heart: Rusev

Drop the giant flag!

[GD]

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[Frank Drebin]

Anyone else think they should make the US Title the defacto TV title and just have the champ defend it once a week via open challenge?

[Dark One]

What a world we live in where Ziggler is getting beat up and Ryder makes the save.

[GD]

Pretty sure he has achieved it, my friend.

My friend, I am telling you :o

[Emperor Smeat]

Going to feel weird if Ryder actually wins at Battleground and gets a legit reign or push with the US title.

[GD]

14 years in the making

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[Simple Fan]

Anyone else think they should make the US Title the defacto TV title and just have the champ defend it once a week via open challenge?

Smackdown could create a TV title to counter the Cruiserweight title.

[James Steele]

Mick Foley will get fired after Holy Foley Season 1 ends. Then, Stephanie will make the obvious hire:

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Think of the heel heat he would get for disowning SmackDown! and he could help lead the Cruiserweight Revolution!!

[Dark One]

14 years in the making

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Okay, thirteen years and 10 months.

[GD]

Remember Orton's horrifically boring reigns as WWE Champion?

[GD]

Mick Foley will get fired after Holy Foley Season 1 ends. Then, Stephanie will make the obvious hire:

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Think of the heel heat he would get for disowning SmackDown! and he could help lead the Cruiserweight Revolution!!



Would love for this gentleman to return

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[GD]

What a world we live in where Ziggler is getting beat up and Ryder makes the save.

If Dolph Ziggler gets drafted to Smackdown, I'll have my fingers crossed for a possible World title reign.

[Lock Jaw]

Miz should be saying that he would have been a better host.... #kayfabe

[Droford]

Pitch and putt

[Dark One]

This is only like the second time Cole's explained it, right? That's roughly 90 times less than I expected.

[slik]

fell asleep for an hour...anything cool happen

[Lock Jaw]

Mick Foley looking more and more like a lumberjack....

[GD]

Now kiss already.

[Lock Jaw]

Champion entering first.

[Emperor Smeat]

fell asleep for an hour...anything cool happen

Just a bunch of people beating up a bunch of other people and a recap of Cena hosting the ESPYs. Rollins did an empty arena promo which was pretty good.

[GD]

Champion entering first.

And he has to stand in the ring like a goofball for the entire duration of the commercial.

[Dark One]

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

So nearly every channel works for this cable box except USA right now. So pissed.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Have to watch it in SD like a peasant.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Pitch and putt

Those are fun. :y:

[Frank Drebin]

lol @ JBL calling out Cole's "Ambrose has never beaten Rollins 1 on 1" fun fact.

[slik]

watched part of Melania Trump's speech...very classy lady even though her husband is a heel

back to Raw now...Ambrose/Rollins going 'at it'

[Dark One]

watched part of Melania Trump's speech...very classy lady even though her husband is a heel

back to Raw now...Ambrose/Rollins going 'at it'

She also starred in a commercial with the Aflac duck.

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[Droford]

Smackdown should bring back the midg..juniors division

[GD]

Smackdown should bring back the midg..juniors division

Swoggle would be the John Cena of the division.

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

SUPER PORKY!

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Pretty cool the draft is happening in Worcester. First ever Raw is War happened there.

[slik]

want something 'big' 2 happen to close RAW tonight for some reason

[Droford]

What the hell

[Poit]

Those kicks were bad. Like, Naomi bad.

[Lock Jaw]

Rollins look like he almost died via rana in the corner....

[Dark One]

D-Bry and Shane visibly marking out in the background at the end of that sequence was tremendous.

[Poit]

Shenanigans!

[GD]

Not a fucking draw :nono:

[Droford]

Oh boy

[Dark One]

And that's how you get referees on concussion lawsuits.

[Evil Vito]

lol come the fuck on

[Dark One]

Abeyance is now a four time WWE Champion!

[Dark One]

YOUR WINNER AND NEEEEEW FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK...

ABEEEEYANCE

[slik]

Shenanigans

[Dark One]

Didn't they do the draw thing in one of these Ambrose/Rollins matches, and the original champ, Rollins, retained?

[Savio]

this is dumb

[Evil Vito]

Well...that's one way of ensuring Rollins is the #1 pick.

[Lock Jaw]

Ambrose looked obviously "on top" to me....

[Droford]

That was stupid

[Dark One]

This match ending is like someone dropping a turd at the end of an orgy.

[Dark One]

Here's a graph of Raw's quality tonight as the show progressed.

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[Lock Jaw]

Seems "dumb" to switch the title......

[Savio]

This match ending is like someone dropping a turd at the end of an orgy.

The ending didn't make it better, it made it worse.

[Evil Vito]

Pretty clear this was done to make it obvious that the top two picks, regardless of champion status, will be Rollins to Raw and Ambrose to SmackDown.

The next debate is who goes where between Reigns and Cena as they're probably the next two picks after that.

[GD]

Ambrose looked obviously "on top" to me....

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[Lock Jaw]

Was a "great match", though.... dunno why they did it all, since they will be fighting this Sunday with Roman Reigns.....

[Emperor Smeat]

Meh ending to a good match between Rollins and Ambrose.

[Frank Drebin]

Well....ok....guess we'll sort it out tomorrow.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Decision being made on WWE Network.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Draw Game.

[Dark One]

This match ending is like someone dropping a turd at the end of an orgy.

The ending didn't make it better, it made it worse.

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Dean retains.

[GD]

Go to the WWE Network, you fuckers!

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Not sure why they didn't have the time to do that live on Raw? Da fuck.

[GD]

Wait what!

[Lock Jaw]

What did they do?

[Dark One]

Did they even say it was continuing on the network?

At least Dean retains, but weird thing to do.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Dean is still da champ. Vroooooooooooooooooooom.

[Dark One]

What did they do?

The whole "in a draw, reigning champion retains" thing.

[Evil Vito]

Rollins is still going 1st tomorrow. I took that whole ending with Steph hugging Seth and shit to be her wanting to make sure the guy she wants to draft first has the belt.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Did they even say it was continuing on the network?

At least Dean retains, but weird thing to do.

Nope. On Facebook they did.

[Sepholio]

Well that was obvious.

[Dark One]

Nope. On Facebook they did.

That is exceptionally dumb.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Guess that's how they decided to create the "need" for a world champion on both brands...Seth probably will represent (pending outcome of Shield triple threat) RAW as WWE Champion, while Ambrose is drafted to SD! and awarded the World Heavyweight Championship.

[GD]

Facebook is paying a lot of money to the WWE for content.

[Emperor Smeat]

Rollins is still going 1st tomorrow. I took that whole ending with Steph hugging Seth and shit to be her wanting to make sure the guy she wants to draft first has the belt.

Still seems dumb if Rollins doesn't have the belt tommorrow or loses the WWE title match this weekend.

Could have done a heelish promo tommorrow about picking Rollins based on his potential of becoming the new champ than the wonky finish done tonight.

[GD]

1. Steph drafts Rollins to RAW.
2. Steph awards Rollins a belt and announces him as the new (RAW) Champion.
3. Hunter returns and costs Rollins the title (and possibly wins it).
4. Rollins versus Hunter at Mania for the (RAW) Championship.

[Simple Fan]

I thought that was a great ending to the match and figured it would be something like that. Opens up them bringing in another World Title. I don't like 2 titles but they've set it up for that.

Not real sure about this brand split though. Feel like they are going to split The Club and New Day. Feel like Reigns will end up on Raw with Rollins which I also think is a bad idea. Reigns should be away from any other Sheild member or else I don't see him ever succeeding like the WWE wants. I'll wait and see how the Draft goes but I don't think I'll like the results.

[Droford]

Funny they didn't plug the network the one time they should plug the network

[Dark One]

Enjoy the pop over and over and over:

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[Simple Fan]

I get the reasoning behind having the Cruiserweight division on Raw for the extra hour but I feel like the Women would be a better pick to be exclusive. Now it doesn't make any sense for SD to draft any cruiserweight talent.

Raws every 3rd pick should have to be someone under the 205 weight limit. I guess they are going to have like a cruiserweight hour on Raw every week.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Nitro 8-9 was the crusierweight hour. They probably have it on Raw also to make Triple H important and helping Steph. He is behind the Cruiserweight Classic at Full Sail.

[Droford]

Next year they should do a women's tournament

[Lock Jaw]

Shane remind anyone of an Oompa Loompa tonight?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Why the fuck do they have General Managers and Commissioners? So fucking convoluted.

[GD]

So technically, Mick Foley got demoted, right? 'Cause he was the Commissioner at one point of time.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I like the idea of RAW having cruiserweights in order to bolster their roster. I imagine Kota Ibushi and Gran Metalik are killing it on RAW every week before too long. It doesn't really make sense to have Kalisto and Adrian Neville anywhere else but on RAW now. I wonder if Tyler Breeze is going to be featured in that division too? It makes sense to call up Austin Aries to RAW now too. I imagine that Sami Zayn will be drafted to SmackDown and given the "underdog" push. He's technically a cruiserweight, but he's kept away from that division because Daniel Bryan sees the same qualities in him as he had.

I'm imagining Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura on SmackDown now too. If Kota Ibushi gets a run on RAW, I can see them wanting to keep their Japanese guys on separate shows. It seems vain, but I can see them thinking that way. I'm not sure if Nakamura is going to be called up in the draft however.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Seems like Seth Rollins is going to be heading up RAW while Dean Ambrose takes SmackDown. Triple H isn't eligible, because I could have seen him being drafted to SmackDown as a twist.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I hope RAW picks Becky Lynch early as a Mick Foley shoot. I imagine Stephanie McMahon would want a strong women's roster too. Charlotte and Becky seem like the two that they would agree on.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Why the fuck do they have General Managers and Commissioners? So fucking convoluted.

Because Shane is not actually in power at all in WWE. He is under a talent deal. This writes Shane off as Daniel Bryan will be his proxy. Shane can show up from time to time to feud with Steph but he probably will not be on as much. Also it can give Steph time to be off TV to focus on production, behind the scenes stuff and family stuff.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Then just take them off TV.

[rockman725]

Honestly, after seeing that ending...then seeing the continuation online, I think it was done as a ploy to set up Reigns winning at Battleground. Ugh.

[Evil Vito]

Then just take them off TV.

At minimum I think Shane will be off TV most of the time. His return was only meant to be temporary as he still has a real business outside of wrestling to worry about.

I'm less optimistic about Steph not continuing to be a focal part of television and emasculating half the roster. I bet she'll fire Foley within a matter of months.

[Dark One]

Honestly, after seeing that ending...then seeing the continuation online, I think it was done as a ploy to set up Reigns winning at Battleground. Ugh.

You shut up.

[Dark One]

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[Mr. Nerfect]

Steph's improvisations are fucking annoying.