RAW ***May 8th, 2017*** Official Thread

[slik]

RAW Spoilers to be posted soon, the taping is beginning...

[Big Vic]

Are they both from the UK this week?

[slik]

Yes

[slik]

WWE Main-Event Spoilers:


* Aleister Black defeated Curt Hawkins
* Noam Dar defeated Gran Metalik

[slik]

RAW opening



*RAW General Manager Kurt Angle is not in the UK - Dean Ambrose and The Miz will be co-General Managers for tonight's show. The show opens with The Miz, Maryse, Braun Strowman and WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose in the ring. Braun Strowman vs. Kalisto is announced - but Strowman will have one arm tied behind his back. Dean Ambrose booked the The Miz in a match that starts...right now!

1- The Miz vs. Finn Balor is next.

[Evil Vito]

UK shows?

It'll be an especially phoned-in week of TV, then.

[slik]

The ratings might be 'not so good' via being taped this week, as that always seems to happen -- on the plus side, when RAW is taped overseas it is usually a good show since they can do some editing before it airs

[Evil Vito]

Feel like "important" stuff rarely happens on the UK shows tho

[slik]

1- Finn Balor defeated The Miz via pinfall. During the match Maryse got on the apron and accidentally got knocked off by Balor. Miz got on the mic and said as acting GM, the referee was required to DQ Balor. Ambrose came out and said the DQ has been overturned and the match was being restarted. Ambrose then had Maryse banned from ringside. Balor hit the Coup De Grace for the pinfall.


*Backstage, Nia Jax told Alexa Bliss that she wants the next shot at the Women's Title. Alexa said she would talk to Angle when Angle returns. Nia said for right now, Alexa has a new best friend.


2 -Alexa Bliss with Nia Jax defeated Mickie James with Bayley via pinfall. Nia tried to get involved but Bayley went attacked her. Due to the distraction, Alexa was able to pick up the win. Bayley chased off Alexa to the back. Nia took out Mickie with a splash into the corner and a big elbow.

[Emperor Smeat]

Going to assume the RAW stage either has the phone booth, the buggy car, or both since the WWE gets lazy with giving the UK shows a special feel most of the time.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Joe cutting a backstage promo and attacked by Seth. Decent backstage brawl and they are separated by security.

Braun and Kalisto never started. Roman and Braun are brawling. Good brawl. Braun has his arm in a sling and Roman is all taped up. Roman comes out on top after beating Strowman's injured arm with a chair and Braun runs away

[slik]

more on Hasney's spoiler:



Braun got a massive face pop and Roman was heavily booed.

Tag Team TURMOIL is up next! Starting with Enzo/Cass and Sheamus/Cesaro

[slik]

BREAKING: There is not a Phonebooth or Buggy Car on stage


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[Emperor Smeat]

BREAKING: There is not a Phonebooth or Buggy Car on stage


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Boo that man <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWELondon?src=hash">#WWELondon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash">#RAW</a> <a href="https://t.co/0UxtusNLoH">pic.twitter.com/0UxtusNLoH</a></p>&mdash; Bad News Ryder (@James_Ryder) <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Ryder/status/861670937627963392">May 8, 2017</a></blockquote>
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:eek:

Guess WWE figured if last week broke a record, might as well break the UK car/booth streak record for this week.

[slik]

Tag Team TURMOIL




4 - Cesaro and Sheamus won a Tag Team TURMOIL match. Enzo/Cass were defeated first when Enzo tapped out to Cesaro's sharpshooter. Heath Slater and Rhyno came out next. Sheamus pinned Heath Slater after a Brogue Kick. Rhyno never wrestling during the match. Anderson and Gallows were next and Sheamus pinned Gallows after hitting a Brogue Kick. Golden Truth were the final team and Cesaro pinned R-Truth with a roll-up.

[owenbrown]

Where's Owen White? :fu:

[slik]

Owen White appears!



* Owen White came down to the ring and issued a challenge to anyone in the back. Rick Steiner came down to the ring and said he might be retired but he is always looking for a good fight. The crowd was torn on who to chear for. Owen White hit a snap-mare takedown followed by a hip-toss. It looked like Owen White had this in the bag when Rick Steiner hit a moonsault and then removed his skin to reveal he was actually Max Moon, the dreaded arch-enemy of Owen White. Owen White stood back in shock and rolled out of the ring, giving the eye very shiftily to Max Moon.


5 – Seth Rollins defeated Samoa Joe by DQ when Joe threw Seth into an exposed turbuckle. Joe continued to attack Rollins after the match.


* A Graphic on the screen showed Owen White vs Max Moon was announced for SDLive this week.


6 - TJP pinned Jack Gallagher using a handful of tights.

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Final Segment:



7 - Sasha Banks defeated Alicia Fox using double knees off the top.


* Dean Ambrose will face Miz for the IC Title on next week's show.


8 -Bray Wyatt defeated Dean Ambrose. The Miz was on commentary. At one point The Miz grabbed the IC Title and hit Ambrose with it while the ref was distracted. Wyatt then nailed Dean with the Sister Abigail and scored the pinfall. Miz posed on the turnbuckle with the IC belt to end the show.

[slik]

anyone going to watch?

[ClockShot]

Just up to BRAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

Then I'm out.

[ClockShot]

BRAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

[ClockShot]

Make Braun happy.......................................................................................OR ELSE!

[Lock Jaw]

Ha ha at Kalisto interrupting with his dinky new theme

[rez]

He did win on a technicality

[slik]

what is Kalisto's new music, that should be a Nope

[slik]

crowd mic seems turned wayyyyy down...there is zero chance Braun got anything other than the loudest face pop of the night

[rez]

Spoilers are no match for Bliss in the flesh.

[Emperor Smeat]

http://i.imgur.com/qJA8l7u.gif

[Sepholio]

Wow the thread is jumping tonight.

[KIRA]

One arm Stroman is still gonna eat kalisto

[KIRA]

Internal injuries folks remember.

[Sepholio]

Doesn't matter how many cheers they pump in over the speakers...doesn't matter how low they turn the crowd mics.....Roman still gets deafening boos.

Serious question...has anyone ever gotten booed to the level of reigns? Why does Vince refuse to see he has gold by making reigns a heel?

[KIRA]

How the fuck is Roman less injured than Bruan man, fuck you Vince

[Poit]

what is Kalisto's new music, that should be a Nope

I thought it was slowed-down, evil TJ Perkins music.

[KIRA]

BOOOOOOOOOO

[Emperor Smeat]

Doesn't matter how many cheers they pump in over the speakers...doesn't matter how low they turn the crowd mics.....Roman still gets deafening boos.

Serious question...has anyone ever gotten booed to the level of reigns? Why does Vince refuse to see he has gold by making reigns a heel?

Cena and Vickie.

Although Cena's mega boos didn't start till the WWE went more into Super Cena for his booking and Vickie was a heel so her mega boos made sense.

Closest comparison to Reigns might be puffy hair era Rock since he was getting death chants at him prior to the big heel turn.

[slik]

I fell asleep for a bit and woke up to Braun getting beat up by Roman

:(

[rez]

Whoa..there's actual Enzo fans in Britannia. That explains Brexit, I guess.

[slik]

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[slik]

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[Triple A]

I'm home and watching now I guess

These threads don't seem to do well 4 taped shows...

[Triple A]

I didn't read the results, did you guys

[slik]

yeah I did!

[slik]

damn...it took 7 hours to crack pg. 2

[rez]

It's only 2:36am across the pond. The Brits need to suck it up and attend these shows later in the night. Not much worse than the east coast putting up with the west coast for live sport start times.

[Sepholio]

What r u guys talking about this is the most hype raw thread ever. I'm on page 9 already!

[Triple A]

Lots of commercials...

[rez]

Lots of commercials...

Fish and chips breaks for the audience

[slik]

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[rez]

DELETE DELETE

[Lock Jaw]

I've had this on but I haven't really been paying attention at all

[Sepholio]

Lame ending

[Emperor Smeat]

Tag Gauntlet match was pretty good overall.

Not sure if it was a good idea though for Sheamus and Ceasro to dominate the entire tag division though. Creates another Smackdown situation where only 2 teams are decent and the rest are just seen as filler.

[Ruien]

The interviewing chick is so damn hot.

Love Sheamus and Cesaero. Lol at Cole wanting them to fight the Hardys after just beating 4 teams back to back to back to back.

[Poit]

So, Sheamus and Cesaro just beat the entire Raw tag team division. In a row. Without a break.

That's a very... underdog face thing to do.

[slik]

The Ultimate Thrill Ride

[Ruien]

Did I miss Bliss?

[Ruien]

WOOOOO ROllins. If Braun is injuryed then I hope Rollins gets to face Brock at the ppv.

[rez]

Joe's theme sounds like him farting down the ramp more so than usual.

[rez]

Did I miss Bliss?

Yes. Punish yourself.

[Triple A]

Don't like when people say "______ is in a bad way"... Corey Graves says that a lot of times per night

[RP]

am i the only person on here that dont get as hyped about RAW if it's taped? I know thats weird, but i just dont get excited about it.

[Ruien]

I didn't even know it was taped until an hour into the show. Nothing else to do tonight so I didn't read the spoilers. First time I ever did this I think.

[rez]

Screw this London shit. I'm ready for a pre taping show for Smackdown in Dubai

[Triple A]

am i the only person on here that dont get as hyped about RAW if it's taped? I know thats weird, but i just dont get excited about it.

Cause seems like u know "nothing big" will happen cause if something happened, U would have already heard about it, maybe imo

[Ruien]

Does this mean Rollins has to beat Joe again at the next ppv? Joe seems boring. He's like Owens but yawn worthy.

[rez]

If it were big news, Ryan Clerk would have announced the spoilers earlier before they even happened

[Triple A]

Feels like it is impossible for Bray Wyatt to ever be interesting or credible again... seems like he has no place at all on Raw... feel bad for him kinda (due to dramatic demotion from SmackDown to Raw) but also don't like him and think he "sucks" so w/e

[rez]

Joe has the shittiest theme. gg

[Ruien]

What is the main event tonight?

[Ruien]

So many people jumped ship due to reading spoilers. AAA is a trooper though.

[slik]

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[Poit]

What is the main event tonight?

I think Ambrose vs. Wyatt.

[KIRA]

I didn't read a thing I just didn't feel I'd contribute much

[Lock Jaw]

TJP's shirt still has "Perkins" on it.....

[Emperor Smeat]

am i the only person on here that dont get as hyped about RAW if it's taped? I know thats weird, but i just dont get excited about it.

Probably doesn't help WWE usually puts little to no real effort whenever they do a taped RAW.

[Lock Jaw]

Annoyed at how many times Michael Cole has said TJP in 20 seconds. Like 20 times in 20 seconds.

[Ruien]

Have a feeling Cass will be entering singles competition soon while still being friends with Enzo. Maybe make Enzo jealous after a couple months of his success so, as Cass's manager, he starts putting Cass in harder matches until he loses.

[KIRA]

Neville makes this show better just by being there

TJP makes me want to kick him in the face

[Ruien]

I think Ambrose vs. Wyatt.

Oh, guess I am done after the TJP match then. Thanks :)

[slik]

@triple a

Bray is a #topheel on RAW tho

[slik]

are bray/finn still feuding or did that get dropped, I am kanefused

[Lock Jaw]

I feel like TJP would do good with a "meth addict" gimmick......

[Ruien]

are bray/finn still feuding or did that get dropped, I am kanefused

It will randomly resume 1 week before the ppv to set up a HUGE match.

[Ruien]

Haha love Neville.

[Ruien]

TJP!!!!!

[Lock Jaw]

He should do a Raven's Flock Kidman...... dark circles around his eyes, baggy shirts, and constantly scratching himself......

[Emperor Smeat]

Even though its just his initials, TJP might have the worst name change in WWE history.

[rez]

WWE has always and will always suck at this Cruiserweight/X-Division'ish sports entertainment

[Ruien]

Hate Sasha. Like in a she should be a heel kind of hate. Why is she still a good guy? Bayley lost the title. Should have had her crush Bayley the week after that calling her a loser for not being able to give Sasha a 1 on 1 title shot.

[rez]

Promo for Orton/Jinder is the best thing outside of Bliss tonight.

[Triple A]

@triple a

Bray is a #topheel on RAW tho

I guess ur right... (due to there being no other heels really)

Braun Strowman "not really" a heel

Neither is Brock Lesnar

Then u just have The Miz and Samoa Joe

[KIRA]

God I must be tired I'm hallucinating Alicia Fox in an actual wrestling match.....

[Emperor Smeat]

Hate Sasha. Like in a she should be a heel kind of hate. Why is she still a good guy? Bayley lost the title. Should have had her crush Bayley the week after that calling her a loser for not being able to give Sasha a 1 on 1 title shot.

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

Wouldn't be surprised if whatever heel plans they had for her got ditched because of the Superstar shakeup. It did wreck a bunch of other stuff mainly on Smackdown's side.

[Lock Jaw]

Alicia Fox doesn't even get to job to her finisher.....

[KIRA]

GODDAMNIT!

[Emperor Smeat]

Think ref screwed up the ending.

[rez]

The women do more "Cruiserweight" style moves than the actual division.

[KIRA]

bullshit finish! Alicia should've beat her ass post screwjob.

[rez]

Pretty sure these men would lose to their women counterparts outside of Goblinville and Aries.

[rez]

bullshit finish! Alicia should've beat her ass post screwjob.

Alicia wasn't looking too bad tonight, am i right

[slik]

I guess ur right... (due to there being no other heels really)

Braun Strowman "not really" a heel

Neither is Brock Lesnar

Then u just have The Miz and Samoa Joe

yeah and even Miz is only 'sort of' a heel...like casual fans enjoy the Miz too (...I think)

[rez]

Why do these people waste their cellphone batteries? They'll never get to their uber/lyfts

[rez]

The former lunatic fringe versus the former easter bunny of worlds for the 100th time.

[KIRA]

Alicia wasn't looking too bad tonight, am i right

Her ring game is flawless just wish she had more chances for people to see it.

[slik]

Big Meltz's answer to if Bray/Finn are still feuding


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last week they were feuding. You know how it goes. <a href="https://t.co/PunoFV8qRI">https://t.co/PunoFV8qRI</a></p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/861777111505174528">May 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Triple A]

Can't believe David Otunga will be back soon

Why would they hire him in the first place..................

[slik]

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[rez]

so....now that bray and braun are on the same show....nevermind. bray's booking is so shit.