WWE RAW ***Official Thread*** The Backlash from Backlash

[KIRA]

Bray is finally going to go against his brother again

[Dark One]

Would pay good money to see Senor Benjamin hit Cole with a shovel.

[RP]

John Cena and Nia Jax are a couple now.

[Droford]

Dallas and Axel will get involved with Goldust i bet

[Lock Jaw]

Hi. I'm still alive.

[xrodmuc316]

Lol Bray kicks Bo, Cole says "No brotherly love there".

Bobby Lashley smiles in the back and says "you should live your siblings"

[KIRA]

Lol Bray kicks Bo, Cole says "No brotherly love there".

Bobby Lashley smiles in the back and says "you should live your siblings"

I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that

[Dark One]

Lol Bray kicks Bo, Cole says "No brotherly love there".

Bobby Lashley smiles in the back and says "you should live your siblings"

"Renee, did I ever tell you about the time my youngest sister put rat poison in my cereal and then rolled me down a hill while I was choking on my own vomit? FAMILY, AM I RIGHT?"

[Droford]

Baron Corbin winning again ..lol

[KIRA]

"Renee, did I ever tell you about the time my youngest sister put rat poison in my cereal and then rolled me down a hill while I was choking on my own vomit? FAMILY, AM I RIGHT?"

It would be great if what Lashley was driving at was that he was raised by a family of psychopaths and he's been suppressing his own psychotic nature until that interview

[xrodmuc316]

It would be great if what Lashley was driving at was that he was raised by a family of psychopaths and he's been suppressing his own psychotic nature until that interview

Why do all his sister's act like Perry Saturn? A broom, a towel, and a helmet. R.I.P. Moppy

[Emperor Smeat]

https://i.imgur.com/sPJzl5r.gif

[Dark One]

I am contributing to the forums (http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?p=5119817)

[slik]

lol at sami during his entrance

[Droford]

Balor club back to being non inclusive

[slik]

Wow, must be another non-traditional crowd again who boo the wrong person

[KIRA]

I'll say it again I love it when wrestlers Jam to their own theme music

[slik]

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[KIRA]

"TURN ALL THE HOUSE MICS DOWN DAMNIT WE'LL FIX IT IN POST"

[Dark One]

Roman will win MitB, cash in after Brock retains, and then immediately lose to an F-5.

He will receive a title match for Summerslam the following night, which he will also lose.

The following night, he will challenge Brock for Survivor Series.

He will lose Survivor Series via double count out.

So he will declare his entry into the Royal Rumble.

The sun will explode and consume the earth on December 29th, 2018.

[KIRA]

One of the things that really pisses me off is podcast where people like Jericho try to defend Roman and say that it's just a fad to boo him now completely ignoring that he's horribly booked and boring as s***

[Droford]

Roman vs the midgets

[RP]

Crowd cheering at Roman getting beatdown lol. This is really sad. WWE needs to stop this madness.

[Lock Jaw]

ha ha at Roman getting beat down and massive YES chants

[Lock Jaw]

Roman getting beat up way too much. Obviously winning.

[Emperor Smeat]

Nice of Balor to give Roman his weekly 5 minute nap time.

[Jordan]

Coach is horrible tonight.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The crowd just erupted and chanted &quot;Yes!&quot; when Sami Zayn and Finn Balor stomped away on Roman Reigns. Geesh. This isn't going to get better.</p>&mdash; Wade Keller (@thewadekeller) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewadekeller/status/993687661020934145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Lock Jaw]

Did I "imagine" Sami Zayn having a "six pack" in NXT? Or at the very least a "flat stomach"? Seems to me that his gut continues to gain flab........

[RP]

This crowd is waiting for the train wreck to happen.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at all these quick ringside camera cuts because some guy in the crowd keeps teasing the cameraman with a giant head poster.

Someone backstage really hates that poster.

[Lock Jaw]

Got the "image" in my head of Sami doing the "Helluva Kick" while Balor was against the barricade..... and Sami's leg "continuing on" to knock out that kid in the front row

[xrodmuc316]

lol at sami during his entrance

I must say, all of what Sami does worked for him as a babyface, but as a heel it is pure gold. There is nothing he does now that isn't amazing and perfect for his character, and he has consistently been the most entertaining guy on the show.

[Dark One]

BEAT THE TRAFFIC *clapclap clapclapclap*

[Emperor Smeat]

Nice of Balor to give Reigns extra nappy time for this match ... or not.

[rez]

THANK YOU, JINDER

[Emperor Smeat]

OMG the Jinder-Reigns feud is actually going to happen.

Guess on the bright side, Reigns didn't win.

[KIRA]

Raines feels unnecessary in this match

[RP]

We may have to see Jinder vs Roman Main Events for the next month or two. Fuck my life.

[Dark One]

Wow, must be another non-traditional crowd again who boo the wrong person

"It's the Raw after backlash!"

[Lock Jaw]

oh no

[Droford]

I can hardly wait for Mahal Reigns. oh boy

[Dark One]

We may have to see Jinder vs Roman Main Events for the next month or two. Fuck my life.

Can we get sub-2.0?

LET'S FIND OUT

[Dark One]

Y'all ready for Jinder vs Roman PUNJABI PRISON MATCH to main event MitB?

[Dark One]

The Punjabi Prison match was probably invented by Bobby Lashley's sisters.

[Dark One]

The crowd cheered Jinder Mahal for costing Roman Reigns a match.

This is the world we live in now.

[KIRA]

The washboard abs prince has saved us all and simultaneously Doomed us as well l

[rez]

short term gains, ya'll. RR out of MITB.

[xrodmuc316]

Id love to think this means they might actually do something with Balor again, but I think this is just Vince putting a guy in a ladder match for some cool spots

[KIRA]

The pay-per-view where those two headline should be called the Doom that came to sarnath

[slik]

Jinder vs Roman has begun

The darkest days of RAW are here

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Roman Reigns Vs. Jinder Mahall.

Piss Break Piss Test Match.

[KIRA]

These Roman versus Jinder matches are going to make me look back on Triple H's reign of terror with nostalgic glee

[Emperor Smeat]

Trying to think how doing a Jinder-Reigns feud would ever be a good idea and can only come up with this being a sinister ploy by Vince to do a show in India during the feud.

Considering they are way more pro-face and pro-WWE booking than Saudi Arabia, this would be the ultimate attempt at getting a crowd to overwhelmingly love Reigns. If he can't do it there, he's truly doomed as a top face star.

[Dark One]

Trying to think how doing a Jinder-Reigns feud would ever be a good idea and can only come up with this being a sinister ploy by Vince to do a show in India during the feud.

Considering they are way more pro-face and pro-WWE booking than Saudi Arabia, this would be the ultimate attempt at getting a crowd to overwhelmingly love Reigns. If he can't do it there, he's truly doomed as a top face star.

Nah man

When that fails they're going to book Roman Reigns vs Hulk Hogan in Compton for Greatest Great American Bash.

[Corkscrewed]

I don't know why people are complaining about a Reigns vs Jinder feud.
- Gives you a piss break.
- Saves someone people like from getting buried.

Why is this a bad thing?

[RP]

I don't know why people are complaining about a Reigns vs Jinder feud.
- Gives you a piss break.
- Saves someone people like from getting buried.

Why is this a bad thing?

because the match will be a Main Event.

[Tom Guycott]

How long til he's just Jose

When he finds a way.

Meh, who am I kidding. That will make him One Way Jose. Then he will just keep adding ways. Finds an old pager; Two-Way Jose. Implied menage with a couple of the Divas; Three Way Jose. Wins some high-stakes Fatal 4 Way...

Then, at some point, he gets sucked into the Hardyverse, and after a bath in the Lake of Reincarnation he learns of *every* way, and becomes Infinite Way Jose.

[Tom Guycott]

Kinda weird that John Cena just goes from diva hole to diva hole.

I don't think he's top CM Punk yet

Give it time. That will be yet another record WWE looks to scrub out of spite as Cena bones diva after diva every PPV cycle.

[BigCrippyZ]

Holy fuck. I'm glad I've had better things to do in the last 6+ weeks than follow these "shows". :lol:

[slik]

wrestlinginc reporting Roman vs Jinder will be a multi-month feud on their podcast apparently

Dark One found dead

[Simple Fan]

Just finished watching and RAW was just bad. No progression what so ever in WWE except time and theme. They just book to the theme of the PPV which they've conveniently named after gimmick matches so each month has its own flavor. Braun has won the tag titles on his own and the biggest Royal Rumble yet still has to go through Money in the Bank. Still looking at Brock/Braun and AJ/Nak in the World title scenes. Charlotte has actually decreased along with Asuka. They put Sasha/Bayley on ice, tag divisions have barley got any time, and Lashley has a family.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Trying to think how doing a Jinder-Reigns feud would ever be a good idea and can only come up with this being a sinister ploy by Vince to do a show in India during the feud.

Considering they are way more pro-face and pro-WWE booking than Saudi Arabia, this would be the ultimate attempt at getting a crowd to overwhelmingly love Reigns. If he can't do it there, he's truly doomed as a top face star.

India doesn’t care about Jinder Mahal. We established that last year when the nation didn’t miraculously begin to support him winning the belt. India couldn’t sell. In the story, Roman Reigns is a little bitch. He gets beat up by Brock and looks sad. There is not going to be a crowd, let alone one that supports Reigns. Vince is doing this because he likes big jacked vaguely ethnic men fighting, and he believes that putting a “true heel” (someone no one likes or gives a shit about) might help Roman.

[Danny Electric]

Roman will still be in MITB, they'll just do what they did with the Elimination Chamber and have some of the losers of the qualifying matches fight for the final spot.

[XL]

because the match will be a Main Event.

Even better. If it was on in the middle of a show you’d have to “sit through it” (you wouldn’t have to of course, you could find literally anything else to do). At least if it’s at the end of the show you can just turn off early.

[ClockShot]

Sounds like I ducked out at the right time. After Braun destroyed Kevin Owens.

[erickman]

Even better. If it was on in the middle of a show you’d have to “sit through it” (you wouldn’t have to of course, you could find literally anything else to do). At least if it’s at the end of the show you can just turn off early.

yeah as long as no belts are involved let jender and roman go at it for the rest of the year.

[Dukelorange]

I started watching WWEGames's Forever a Movement old shows after the women's match. I think I made the right choice.

[Evil Vito]

lmao this company is terrible

[Cool King]

• They've switched the colours of the MITB Briefcase around and now it looks horrible.

A gold case with a green logo looked much better.

If I had it my way though, the MITB Briefcase would just be a plain black one like Edge had.

• The only thing that makes No Way Jose watchable is that for as long as he hangs out with Titus Worldwide, he'll have Dana Brooke with him.

• Nice little vignette about Bobby Lashley there. I can't help but think however that they got the black guy who does the voice work for their Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month vignettes to do Lashley's vignette just because he's black.

Kinda like how they seem to get a women to do voice work for their vignettes on female subjects.

• I'd really like to see Chad Gable have success on Raw. He's pretty good, but I don't think that'll happen until Vince & Co. get the whole Gable/Jordan feud out of the way first.

It seems inevitable.

• Och Aye, it's Drew McIntyre.

In case you didn't know where he's from, here's some bagpipes.

• I was a bit surprised that Rawley showed up to challenge Rollins.

I get the feeling that this is the beginning of a Rollins/Rawley feud, so I'm expecting to hear more "Monday Night Rollins" and "Monday Night Rawley".

Personally, I think Rawley should have said "Monday Night Mojo".

It has a better ring to it and it just rolls of the tongue.

• I like that Axel and Bo have stopped being associated with The Miz now. I'm not surprised that they've continued to do the "Eh? Eh? Eh?" thing too, as I had a feeling they would continue doing that after doing it for the first time.

• Why was Corbin doing his promo from the back of a moving van?

[slik]

I don't think I could handle Rollins vs Mojo and Roman vs Jinder happening at the same time

That might check me out of RAW for a bit until both feuds are finished

[Evil Vito]

You didn't have to look much further than the Shakeup to see that they were setting Raw up to be terrible.....even moreso than the usual post-Mania swoon.

[LibSuperstar]

Strangely I believe that Reigns-Mahal could be good.

[Cool King]

The only person that really wins from a Reigns/Mahal feud is Mahal.

Working a feud with the company's "Top Guy" is always a good sign that you're doing something right and are good at it.

It means more exposure, more legitimacy and more money.

[Ruien]

I dont mind Jinder. I just dont see him as champ material but hes fine as a solid mid card heel.

[Dark One]

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[Emperor Smeat]

The only person that really wins from a Reigns/Mahal feud is Mahal.

Working a feud with the company's "Top Guy" is always a good sign that you're doing something right and are good at it.

It means more exposure, more legitimacy and more money.

If that was the case, the booking and handling of Jinder would have been way better than its now. Right now it still only comes off as him getting these pushes because of India and not because WWE sees him as a legit big star.

Supposedly Jinder's WWE reign was such a bust that WWE changed how they report drawing revenues from their markets in order to hide it.

[slik]

Just posted raw ratings in ratings thread, they went down almost half a million viewers from last week

[Mr. Nerfect]

If that was the case, the booking and handling of Jinder would have been way better than its now. Right now it still only comes off as him getting these pushes because of India and not because WWE sees him as a legit big star.

Supposedly Jinder's WWE reign was such a bust that WWE changed how they report drawing revenues from their markets in order to hide it.

Yep, they grouped India in with Asia-Pacific, in general. Never mind that India actually borders onto the Indian Ocean; not the Pacific. Hence the name.

It was obvious he was not a hit from day dot. If he was, you'd have seen Indian people living locally support him. Attendance, ratings and Network subs would have gone up. It was an asinine and racist idea to assume that Indian people are that stupid. If WWE did not know that it wasn't working in April, or whenever the fuck they put the belt on him, then it's because they're ignorant. I think they did know and just didn't care.

I think Mahal's push was more about sowing the seeds in case India ever does emerge as an economy. Instead of just jumping in there when that happens, they've got this history of pushing Indian "talent." Never mind that the guys they have pushed are The Great Khali, who fucking sucks, but is popular, and Jinder Mahal, who fucking sucks, and no one gives a fuck about and likely never will.

Vince's frustration with all the talent coming through looking like geeks probably aided Mahal too. That and it may have been done to pop the boys and make them think that their careers, too, can turn around in an instant.

There is no way they can still have dreams of going into India right now. There is just no way. No one filled that arena in India.