Raw Thread 3rd October 2016: The same old thing, we did last week. Not a thing to do, but watch RAW

[Lock Jaw]

WTF Emmalina

They are gonna screw up her gimmick/character just when it was going good, aren't they?

[Dark One]

R.I.P. Emma's career.

[Triple A]

What the hell

Feels like her heel gimmick was actually "good"

[Dark One]

If you're gonna gimmick change, you gotta go #BROKEN, not -lina.

[Triple A]

Really good entrance theme too...

RIP

[Lock Jaw]

Also really think Emma should have gone to Smackdown, they could really use her there.

[KIRA]

Should've had a better demogorgon than Erick Rowan.

Summon the one from Stranger Things

emmalina....god.

[Emperor Smeat]

Why not just keep her as Evil Emma.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

emmalina wot

[Dark One]

Can anyone confirm for me if the jobber in Peter Pan tights is Jake Robert's alcoholic nephew?

[Lock Jaw]

http://38.media.tumblr.com/e16dacf5a132658b550362e1f6616a07/tumblr_ntq3i7nMW01u1ljrzo1_500.gif

[Dark One]

The Best of 7 Series was definitely a Wrestlemania-caliber feud.

By which I mean: the very next night it didn't matter and they went with a nonsense detour.

[Emperor Smeat]

Feels like Sheamus-Cesaro pairing should be the other way around with Cesaro as the serious guy and Sheamus as the one arrogantly trying to take all the credit for the team or acting like a goofball.

[slik]

emmalina lol

[slik]

alberto del rio STABBED, details in wrestling forum thread w/ graphic photos of incident

[KIRA]

DDT was sick how long till they are beating up The Club?
You know it's coming

[Lock Jaw]

Forgot about "SASHA'S RATCHET"

[Droford]

Sasha wins because Charlotte doesn't lose on PPV

[Lock Jaw]

Would they do two Hell in a Cell matches maybe......

This match ends in some sort of shenanigans, and then they fight in the cell to "finish it"

[Droford]

The BFFs Collide

[Emperor Smeat]

So that's what happens when Dana's head tap gets interrupted. She snaps although no evidence of her becoming a badass submission machine yet.

[Lock Jaw]

Wonder if we will see another stabbing in this match

http://dailyddt.com/files/2014/12/Sasha-Banks-and-Charlotte.jpg

[Dark One]

Sasha wins because Charlotte doesn't lose on PPV

Also because Dana is now apparently dead.

[Droford]

Bayley gonna turn on Sasha and help Charlotte and replace Dana

[Lock Jaw]

Kid from Stranger Things being in this bank commercial seems weird...........

[Emperor Smeat]

If there is one really good thing about 2K getting the WWE license its them making some really good commercials for the games.

[Droford]

The women are gonna main event RAW

Yay!

*gets 7 minutes and a screwy finish*

Booo

[Dark One]

The women are gonna main event RAW

Yay!

*gets 7 minutes and a screwy finish*

Booo

WE'VE FINALLY REACHED EQUALITY!

[Lock Jaw]

Like Charlotte's black robe..... much better than her other ones it seems.......

[Droford]

Lol commercial 45 seconds in to this huge match

[slik]

I love that the ladies are main-eventing!

Let's go Sasha!

[Dark One]

The women are gonna main event RAW

Yay!

*gets 7 minutes and a screwy finish*

Booo

WE'VE FINALLY REACHED EQUALITY!

Lol commercial 45 seconds in to this huge match

WE'VE FINALLY REACHED EQUALITY!

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE really needs to time these commercials better.

[Lock Jaw]

Just wait until Emmalina main events RAW!!

[Droford]

If WWE charged $29.99 a month and let you watch RAW and SD without commercials live id pay

[Droford]

Lol let's do that spot again

[Lock Jaw]

Feel like Charlotte/Sasha botch one major spot a match every time they fight

[Droford]

Rue Thesz press

[Triple A]

This is a title match right

[Droford]

Twist and a miss

[Lock Jaw]

WHAT

Charlotte

[Emperor Smeat]

Charlotte almost completely whiffed on the corkscrew moonsault.

[Dark One]

Well that was an unexpected dive.

[Droford]

Corey Graves puts his fists up off camera

[Emperor Smeat]

:D BOSS wins.

Really great match between Sasha and Charlotte.

[Droford]

Sasha wins because Charlotte doesn't lose on PPV

Hey now

[Lock Jaw]

Well, that was an unexpected win.

[Dark One]

Should be a fantastic three week reign.

[KIRA]

cool match kudos for this feeling like a real fued I can see a few paths to go from here

[Droford]

It's Boss Time

Ugh

[Emperor Smeat]

Ha the cameras caught Charlotte with a small smile for Sasha right near the end.

[Stickman]

Charlotte is so much better. Did Sasha get any offense in?

[slik]

Charlotte did really good post-match heeling it up IMO

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Lock Jaw]

Charlotte is so much better. Did Sasha get any offense in?

Yeah, didn't you see her win with the Bank Statement?

[Stickman]

Yeah, didn't you see her win with the Bank Statement?

Nice to see a submission mean something again.

[Fignuts]

Damn it, I liked evil emma. Especially her theme.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

That Emma promo was like every photo in the women pic thread of Emma in a row.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Yeah, WWE have worked out how hot Emma is. She's going to get a MASSIVE push.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Normally, I'd be against this title change with Sasha getting it, but both her and Bayley are sort of dead in the water at the moment. They probably want to keep Charlotte's PPV record in tact another month too. Stretch things out a bit and have justification for the rematch headlining a RAW.

Plus, Emmalina is going to be like Eva Marie except she can wrestle. She'll win the belt and then drop it to Bayley, with Sasha possibly turning on Bayley out of jealousy.

[Fignuts]

The fuck was the point of taking the belt off sasha in the first place if they were just going to give it right back?

Just want Asuka to come in and murder everyone and hold the belt til mania, where bayley finally gets the win on her longtime rival, and becomes womens champion.

[Cool King]

• I didn't expect the United States Championship to be defended in a Hell in a Cell but ok. I'm fully expecting Reigns to retain because of the match stipulation, which is good really because it'll be the end of the feud and Rusev can chase the Universal Championship.

• I can't stand TJ Perkins.

• I like that Braun Strowman actually cut a promo. His voice reminded me of the big guys from yesteryear. Maybe him asking for "real competition" is the beginning of him eventually facing Reigns for the US Title in the future.

• I was skipping past Kevin Owens, even though Jericho was there and Jericho is great but I did stop when New Day came out due to curiosity. The "sick burn" from Woods to Owens about him being too fat to jump got a little chuckle out of me.

• I'm surprised the WWE didn't censor Sheamus calling Cesaro a bastard during the backstage segment. I can only assume it went undetected due to the boys in the back finding Sheamus' accent hard to understand. I dunno.

• #MakeItAWin begins with a loss. In under 3 minutes. To Sami Zayn. Yeah, this isn't going anywhere.

• Foley appears halfway through the show. Yelling as always.

• Anderson complaining that the Tag Team Division is like a freak show is weird, considering just about six weeks ago both men were pretending to be doctors and making dick jokes/puns.

• Emmalina? What? Why would you change someone's ringname to one that sounds like a pudding or a moth?

Anyway, from what I got from the vignette was that the gimmick will be "Female Tyler Breeze"/"Female Sylvain Grenier" or some kind of egotistical "look how attractive I am" gimmick for the "Instagram Generation", due to the high usage of modeling photography and "selfies" used in the vignette.

• Speaking of women, the Women's Division on Raw is really bad. Now that Sasha has won the title (somehow), I'm curious how long she'll hold on to it before dropping it back to Charlotte. After that, I wonder how long Charlotte will hold on to it before dropping it to Sasha, or maybe we'll all be surprised and Bayley will win the title?

Seriously though, the division is just Charlotte and Sasha with some special appearances from Bayley every now and then. I thought Nia Jax would at least be expressing an interest in the title by now, but she isn't, so I can only hope that Emma(lina) chases the title when she returns, because having a division which is just mostly two people is just awful and it gets boring, fast.

• Overall, Raw was it's usual self. A struggle.

[Cool King]

Also, I didn't notice how big Sasha Bank's forehead was until last night.

[Cool King]

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[RP]

Charlotte and Sasha are nuts. At this point i would buy a DVD of there matches just to watch how many times they nearly kill themselves selling out for the womens division.

Mad respect. Mad respect for Sasha running over and actually catching Charlotte too. FFS!

[Fignuts]

Fuck, Asuka is probably going to go to smackdown tho.

[Evil Vito]

Yeah, WWE have worked out how hot Emma is. She's going to get a MASSIVE push.

This can only be a good thing. Don't really understand the name change, though.

[Evil Vito]

Zack Ryder is probably begging to be switched over to Raw now.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

If Kendrick's finisher is Slice Bread #2 then what is Slice Bread #1 supposed to be?

Actual sliced bread. It's Sliced Bread #2 because it's the best thing since sliced bread.

[Cool King]

Should actually be Sliced Bread #3, as Jillian Hall is clearly the hottest thing since sliced bread.

[Dark One]

The fuck was the point of taking the belt off sasha in the first place if they were just going to give it right back?

Just want Asuka to come in and murder everyone and hold the belt til <strike>mania, where bayley finally gets the win on her longtime rival, and becomes womens champion</strike> forever

[Big Vic]

The fuck was the point of taking the belt off sasha in the first place if they were just going to give it right back?
She was injured for 2 weeks.

[Evil Vito]

heh...I didn't realize that Emma and Ryder broke up, apparently back in August :o guess that explains Emma going to a different show than him

how on earth do you fuck that up if you're Zack Ryder?

[Lock Jaw]

Where did you read that.......

[Evil Vito]

Well I was looking at Emma's instagram for....umm...research. :shifty: And I noticed that all of the pics of them together got removed. ditto for Ryder's page.

then a quick twitter search and apparently there was a blow up about it in August

[Lock Jaw]

I totally have a shot now

Cool

[slik]

The October 3rd 2016 edition of RAW did 2.8 million viewers overall. This is up from last week's 2.5 million viewers.

Below is the hourly breakdown:

8PM: 2.9 million viewers
9PM: 2.9 million viewers
10PM: 2.6 million viewers

-ShowBuzzDaily

[Mr. Nerfect]

I can understand people hating the name change, but I think the idea is for it to be annoying and make her more "Diva-like." I think that's going to be her gimmick. Basically Eva Marie, but she can wrestle.

[Mr. Nerfect]

How the fuck does Zack Ryder still have a job?

[Lock Jaw]

I can understand people hating the name change, but I think the idea is for it to be annoying and make her more "Diva-like." I think that's going to be her gimmick. Basically Eva Marie, but she can wrestle.

thought she had a lot of mileage on her old character of "super aggressive Terminator chick who had a huge chip on her shoulder from not succeeding and being left out of the revolution"

[Mr. Nerfect]

I think it's really cool people liked it, but it never really came together for me. I didn't mind the look, with the gloves and shit, but something felt really "forced" about it. She needed something to do though, and that gimmick gave it to her.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I didn't feel like she could really go up the card with it, if that makes sense? She was always going to be behind Charlotte or whoever as top heel. This gimmick will hopefully give her a chance to stand outside them a little bit.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Gosh, you know what I'd like to see (and I'm probably alone in this): Mojo Rawley gets fed up when Ryder takes a pinfall too many, turns on Ryder. Rawley then squashes him on SmackDown and announces that he's been signed to RAW.

Rawley comes out with new music and a "RAW is Rawley" t-shirt alongside Emmalina. Rawley cuts a promo about how weeds like us always wondered how guys like him always get the girl. It's because he's a winner. Kids, look at your father. He can't beat me. Look at your mothers. They can't be her. Zack Ryder, I beat you up and I took your girl. I'm raw power; raw skill; Rawley.

[Mr. Nerfect]

On the topic of Emmalina's name: I always assumed that Tenille Dashwood was a gimmick name Emma used before signing with WWE. It's her real name. Her real name is Tenille Dashwood. Your work is already done.