RAW Thread (12.18.17) - The Road to the Royal Rumble Continues

[KIRA]

Thats why one of your Tube men died you happy whore!

[Evil Vito]

That was a great Elias segment. I love completely delusional heels with no sense of self-awareness.

[KIRA]

That was a great Elias segment. I love completely delusional heels with no sense of self-awareness.

What are you talking about Elias music is the soundtrack to life itself

[Lock Jaw]

That was a great Elias segment. I love completely delusional heels with no sense of self-awareness.

My old e-fed character back in the day was definitely this

[Anybody Thrilla]

My old e-fed character back in the day was definitely this

So was mine.

[Lock Jaw]

Free Agent John Cena back on RAW

[Anybody Thrilla]

Looks like they're syncing up their color scheme, at least.

[Savio]

Damn did I tune out of a good raw?

[Emperor Smeat]

"All the ladies want to walk with Elias. Now if you'll excuse me...RHODE ISLAND YOU'RE NOTHING SPECIAL..."

:lol::lol::lol:

Soooooo good

:mad: Drifter crossed the line with that remark. Rhode Island has a lot of special things like ummm water version of clam chowder and coffee milk. Then again never liked coffee milk as a kid.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Good lord, Mandy Rose. So hot.

[Lock Jaw]

Looks like they're syncing up their color scheme, at least.

Mandy looking good in black.

[owenbrown]

John Cena is back for the Christmas night "we mail it in every holiday" edition of RAW next week huh?

[Evil Vito]

My old e-fed character back in the day was definitely this

The first e-fed I ever joined circa 2001 you had to be a real wrestler. I decided to be Jerry Lynn for some reason.

I mean, Jerry Lynn was boss. But it was quite the unusual choice considering everyone else was Austin, HHH, The Rock, etc.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Sonya Deville is hot too. And Paige. And every woman in this match. Maybe not so much Bayley.

[owenbrown]

So who loses to Cena this year after "insert heel here" accidentally hurts Santa?

[Evil Vito]

Also I think somebody had already picked Tazz.

Was probably AAA.

[Lock Jaw]

The first e-fed I ever joined circa 2001 you had to be a real wrestler. I decided to be Jerry Lynn for some reason.

I mean, Jerry Lynn was boss. But it was quite the unusual choice considering everyone else was Austin, HHH, The Rock, etc.

I did one of those and I was Billy Kidman and also Kanyon. Not sure who I was first.

[Dark One]

So who loses to Cena this year after "insert heel here" accidentally hurts Santa?

Elias is going to interrupt Santa Claus to run down Chicago to the tune of Jingle Bells, which will draw out Cena. Cena will unwrap a guitar from a present by ringside during their match and smash him with it.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Stephanie better have some sort of blockbuster announcement to close this out.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Where's Enzo to come save Nia from Absolution?

[Anybody Thrilla]

This is building to the women's Royal Rumble, isn't it?

[Evil Vito]

Women's Rumble time

[Lock Jaw]

Paige attacking from behind and chopping out the knee..... but only after letting Nia kill her teammates.

[Emperor Smeat]

Absolution's booking has been weird. 2 of RAW's biggest stars get fed to them, tease a feud with Asuka and had the beat down moment occur way too soon, and now randomly having Nia get involved with a beat down moment also included.

[owenbrown]

a Women's Royal Rumble perhaps?

[Lock Jaw]

Leather Mommy Steph

[Anybody Thrilla]

Dana switched into wrestling gear. BOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[owenbrown]

shit... I posted about a minute too late

[Anybody Thrilla]

No balls to chop here, lady.

[Evil Vito]

Also, Mandy and Sonya are hot as fuck.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/51/c3/9b/51c39bf4a1fbee7be99fc6cabc66b3f1--daria-rose.jpg

[Emperor Smeat]

:| Steph invoked Fabulous Moolah's name for praise.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Fuck, I'm gonna be there for the first women's Royal Rumble, aren't I?

[rez]

ugh. i wish the gods would gift us a new episode of GLOW every time we had to listen to Steph.

[Evil Vito]

Asuka's obviously winning. But it could be interesting.

[Anybody Thrilla]

The main event of Raw was Stephanie McMahon hugging Nia Jax.

[Lock Jaw]

Sweet..... looking forward to a woman's Rumble.... wonder what the winner gets, if it will just be a title shot? Not as "valuable" a commodity in the women's division via everybody getting a chance eventually.

[Emperor Smeat]

:y: Women's Rumble happening.

Amazing how much things have progressed with women's wrestling in the WWE during the past couple of years. Now just got to hope Vince doesn't suddenly change his mind or fight this idea like he did with the Women's Hell in a Cell match.

[KIRA]

didnt they have a womens Rumble already?]

nev mind

also can't just ask for a chant

[Anybody Thrilla]

Should I watch Table for 3?

[Lock Jaw]

Regardless, really looking forward to it. Hopefully they add in even more women from NXT and the Mae Young Classic into it.

I don't care what it takes, book Toni Storm to be in it.

[Evil Vito]

I'm surprised they didn't put Steph up on their shoulders to really sell her as the true hero of women's wrestling.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Isn't two Rumble matches in one night a bit much?

[Emperor Smeat]

Isn't two Rumble matches in one night a bit much?

Could go the extra step and pull a WCW by having it occur at the same time like old World War 3 matches.

Actually go even farther and have 3 rumble matches going on exactly like World War 3. One ring is just Smackdown guys, one ring is just RAW guys, and the other is the Women's rumble.

[Evil Vito]

There are 19 women on the main roster if you don't count the champions. If you add Nikki Bella it brings it up to 20. I assume that's what they'll go with, but who knows. Maybe they'll have Lita or somebody take a spot.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Could be anyone with all of the Mae Young and NXT women. I don't think numbers will be a problem.

[Evil Vito]

I was more just making an educated guess on how many would be in this Rumble. Not sure if they'd go whole hog with another 30 person Rumble. Guess we'll soon find out.

[Frank Drebin]

Welfare Queen better be in the Rumble or I roitt.

[A.J.K]

Susan will show up.

[#1-norm-fan]

:y: Women's Rumble happening.

Amazing how much things have progressed with women's wrestling in the WWE during the past couple of years. Now just got to hope Vince doesn't suddenly change his mind or fight this idea like he did with the Women's Hell in a Cell match.

It's basically been just the women doing all the matches the guys do and WWE over-using the word "revolution".

[#1-norm-fan]

Did they say anything about the rules for the women's rumble? Hope they don't cut down the time between entrances in the actual rumble to save time.

[#1-norm-fan]

Also, over the top rope or no revolution, Goddammit.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Is it going to be over the top rope or just out of the ring?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Yeah, exactly.

[#1-norm-fan]

Over the top rope and both feet must hit the ground ONLY.

[Anybody Thrilla]

...was Zack Gowan ever in a Royal Rumble?

[Evil Vito]

Emma not being in the Rumble is a tragedy. She started the women's revolution. :(

[Emperor Smeat]

...was Zack Gowan ever in a Royal Rumble?

Nope. Nor was he ever in a Battle Royale either in the WWE according to website profightdb.com

http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/zach-gowen-383.html?prom_id=2

[Anybody Thrilla]

He could have won every one.

[Evil Vito]

Ha, I booked that in a TNM7 game was back in the day.

Had Gowen enter and get thrown out a bunch of times but he kept re-entering until Flair or somebody finally figured it out, grabbed his prosthetic from ringside, clocked him with it, and then threw both Gowen and the prosthetic over the top.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Haha, nice

[Emperor Smeat]

According to the Observer, Ambrose suffered a legit shoulder injury recently and WWE ran the injury spot on RAW likely as a way to write him off for a while.

Dean Ambrose has a legitimate right elbow injury, according to Dave Meltzer.

The severity of the injury is not known, but Ambrose reportedly was injured when he arrived at Raw and the show was re-written to turn it into a storyline and possibly write him off TV for a while, depending on how serious it is.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Vince probably screaming at Cole for not wedging in enough branding.

Let me try...

"Two Thirds of the Original Shield (TM), Seth Rollins (TM) and Dean Ambrose (TM), are about to face off with the team of Cesaro (TM) and Sheamus (TM) who call themselves THE BAR (TM) right here on the longest-running episodic TV show in history, MONDAY NIGHT RAW!"

GDYC!

[#BROKEN Hasney]

:| Steph invoked Fabulous Moolah's name for praise.

Losers of the Rumble will be pimped out.

[Big Vic]

...was Zack Gowan ever in a Royal Rumble?

He was in a battle royal for an indy fed before, I'm not sure how they addressed it.

[Evil Vito]

Asuka got eliminated by Eva Marie in a battle royal on NXT. But it was all of three months into her NXT run, probably before they knew they were gonna do an undefeated angle that was still running two years later. The casual audience doesn't watch NXT and will have no reason to know this.

While they can have her lose the Rumble and still be unpinned and unsubmitted going into Mania, I really don't know why they'd want her to carry her streak into Mania on a massive technicality.

If Asuka is penciled in to a Mania title match, and I'd be surprised if she wasn't, they should keep it simple and give her the win.

[Draken]

So how long is the rumble gonna be? I understand Mania being 6+ hours, but you have to figure that you'll have at least 2 hours of rumble plus other matches. How many people are actually willing to watch 6 hours of wrestling?

[Heisenberg]

*coats post with Necrophage Oil*


So Jason Jordan is not the man you want opening RAW, why can't Seth or Dean open, the ladies will pop and then the men will pop too cause they want those ladies, but those ladies belong mentally to Seth or Dean, the men taking the ladies home won't know or care, they are getting it. That's how you get it Saxton, you blubbering idiot.

[Heisenberg]

Asuka should open RAW with at least 3 ladies running for their lives. Samoa Joe and Asuka choking everyone out for the first hour then Vince deploys Braun Strowman for the next 2 hours

[owenbrown]

Asuka should open RAW with at least 3 ladies running for their lives. Samoa Joe and Asuka choking everyone out for the first hour then Vince deploys Braun Strowman for the next 2 hours

Hell yes

[Stickman]

That was really a terrible main event.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Definitely not the best.

[Emperor Smeat]

Good/Bad news regarding this week's ratings. The good being it was higher than last week and the bad being the 3rd hour once again was under 2.5 million dragging the average down.

Also some more bad news of last year's show being almost 200k higher and WWE has lost all the gains they had from earlier in the NFL season. The hour drop from 8pm to 10pm was the 2nd biggest since June according to the Observer.

Monday’s Raw drew an average of 2,786,000 viewers, up from last week’s 2,684,000 viewers ...

Hourly breakdown:

8PM: 3,085,000
9PM: 2,803,000
10PM: 2,470,000

[Heisenberg]

Put me down as a leaver in the 2nd-3rd hour live, caught everything on Hulu while dying at office. When you can be Geralt of Rivia who slays monsters and poon over watching the same script of a grappling play you're gonna log on as The Witcher

[#1-norm-fan]

So how long is the rumble gonna be? I understand Mania being 6+ hours, but you have to figure that you'll have at least 2 hours of rumble plus other matches. How many people are actually willing to watch 6 hours of wrestling?

I'd be down if it was all Royal Rumbles. Love Royal Rumbles. Even the bad ones are still kinda fun.

Give me a 6+ hour show with just a Raw rumble, a Smackdown rumble, a women's rumble, a 205 Live rumble, an NXT rumble and a "backstage workers" rumble and I'm in it for the long haul.

[Frank Drebin]

Looking forward to the Backstage Workers Rumble. Betting on the return of the guy who accidentally set the pyro off while Taker was in the middle of it at Elimination Chamber.

[Frank Drebin]

I'm with FAN. No such thing as too many Rumbles. I look forward to the RR every year. When the show starts, its always a slog for me to get through even if the matches are sweet. I just want to get to the Rumble and whatever surprises are in store.

[Sepholio]

They should have a mystery rumble with a bunch of random former stars and indy wrestlers and what not showing up to participate and the winner gets a contract.

[#1-norm-fan]

They should have a mystery rumble with a bunch of random former stars and indy wrestlers and what not showing up to participate and the winner gets a contract.

Would actually be a pretty great way to use up an hour of the pre-Rumble Raw. That shit would be ratings.

[Emperor Smeat]

They should have a mystery rumble with a bunch of random former stars and indy wrestlers and what not showing up to participate and the winner gets a contract.

Better lead to the greatest ever wrestler in history, Owen White, getting a contract in the end. Maybe Vince would finally stop mistaking him as some random ring crew guy.

[Evil Vito]

They should have a mystery rumble with a bunch of random former stars and indy wrestlers and what not showing up to participate and the winner gets a contract.

I've thought about something like that before. I'd love it.

Deuce n' Domino's theme hitting and Cliff motherfucking Compton running out to get a contract would make me mark so hard.

[KIRA]

1million nerds strong congrats bellas

[KIRA]

Why would anybody associated with Bray Wyatt have a problem with pagan rituals?

[KIRA]

How is Bray STILL GETTING A POP

[Lock Jaw]

How is Bray STILL GETTING A POP

His entrance is still cool "af".......