RAW - Eric Rowan reveals what is in the cage - March 2nd 2020

[slik]

Kairi replaces Asuka, who it out with an injury

[Emperor Smeat]

Was dumb to even book Asuka vs. Shayna with no build or care given to begin with.

Despite not being a fan of Shanya's matches in NXT, Kairi was one of the very few who managed to get good to great matches out of Shayna's style of wrestling. Hopefully they keep that streak going tonight.

[Emperor Smeat]

Drew's Claymore Kick to Lesnar was pretty great. Helps that Lesnar sold the effect of it like a million bucks.

:lol: He laid out Lesnar again.

[slik]

I don't think Brock has ever put over someone like that before. WWE is attaching the rocket ship to Drew McIntyre.

[rez]

and again

[Emperor Smeat]

I don't think Brock has ever put over someone like that before. WWE is attaching the rocket ship to Drew McIntyre.

Goldberg?

Gave him a lot in their feud before getting the decisive win in the end.

[Sepholio]

Yeah, they had Goldberg straight MURDER Lesnar. Bout the same way he did Bray the other night.

[rez]

Street Prophets. nice

[Emperor Smeat]

RAW tag title match was very good.

Bit dumb to not just wait till the weekend to do the title match though. Then again WWE also booked themselves in a corner by making it the last chance for the Street Profits.

[slik]

Ricochet keeping the new look

Thumbs up from Slik

[Sepholio]

Ricochet won the 24/7 title during the commercial break apparently

damn, did he lose it already too?

[Emperor Smeat]

Remember when WWE said rematches were no longer automatic for title losers?

That lasted like what a month tops before WWE forgot.

RAW tag title change ended up being a change just for the sake of it since Rollins simply invoked his rematch clause for the Chamber ppv.

[Sepholio]

I wish they had forgot so Bray could get a rematch with Goldberg and destroy him this time. :(

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A group of about 8 guys in suits just sat down near ringside. They were escorted over too, interesting. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Raw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Raw</a></p>&mdash; Matt Degnan (@degnan_matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/degnan_matt/status/1234656956226375680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[slik]

Please don't job out Ricochet...

[slik]

damn, did he lose it already too?

I misread the tweet and edited my post, I guess they were just tweeting that Riddick Moss was out next and Ricochet had been standing on the stage the whole break waiting for his music to play

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE really needs to rename the 24/7 title to something else if the rules are constantly being changed or paused for matches.

[Emperor Smeat]

Guess Heyman lost interest in Ricochet as one of his favorites.

His booking these past couple weeks has been pretty bad.

[slik]

WTF

Ricochet should not be losing clean to Riddick Moss

[Droford]

Sonic got rid of the two white dudes again

[xrodmuc316]

WTF

Ricochet should not be losing clean to Riddick Moss

Seriously, who did Ricochet piss off after last week's Raw?

Got 0 offense in vs Brock, and now this. Did he stop Vince McMahon from walking in before Stephanie or something?

[Droford]

The phenom vs the phenomenal one

[rez]

How dare Markie Mark

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The 24/7 Championship is so unimportant that nobody came out to attack Riddick Moss before, during or after his match. At least, that's what they've led you to believe tonight, based on prior presentations.</p>&mdash; Brad Shepard of ProSportsExtra.com (@TheBradShepard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBradShepard/status/1234661123380502528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[rez]

Is this the year of the Cesaro tape?

[Emperor Smeat]

If there is one good thing about Black's entrance, its that it fits Black way better than had it been used for the Taker.

Black revealed in an interview last week he originally wasn't meant to have that entrance since WWE wanted Taker to use it instead but for some reason they never went ahead with the plan.

[Evil Vito]

Wait...Ricochet lost to Riddick Moss clean?

Stick a fork in him, he’s done.

[xrodmuc316]

Styles is so damn good.

[Emperor Smeat]

:| at WWE throwing away Black's undefeated singles streak just for a Styles-Taker feud that very likely will be meaningless after Mania like almost every Taker Mania feud.

The booking and/or planning of tonight's show has been weird.

[rez]

Ruby looks like a villain in the Aquamanverse.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He looked pissed walking through the curtain RAJ <a href="https://t.co/lOzU47E8z5">pic.twitter.com/lOzU47E8z5</a></p>&mdash; Justin J. Lopez (@stellar_jl319) <a href="https://twitter.com/stellar_jl319/status/1234663614314766338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Droford]

I like how wrestlers can just randomly be guest referees. I know it's a fundamental wrestling trope, but still.

Itd be like baseball getting a guy off one teams bench to umpire a game

[Emperor Smeat]

RAW started off really hot and great but the last hour or so has been just as bad and/or boring as RAW usually is.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He looked pissed walking through the curtain RAJ <a href="https://t.co/lOzU47E8z5">pic.twitter.com/lOzU47E8z5</a></p>&mdash; Justin J. Lopez (@stellar_jl319) <a href="https://twitter.com/stellar_jl319/status/1234663614314766338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Probably should start befriending Zack Ryder in catering since his WWE career likely peaked after that #1 contender's match.

[slik]

The crowd is dying

[rez]

Sarah ain't havin none of that shit!

[Droford]

Lol
3 months of what's in the cage for that

[rez]

......

[rez]

Noid will find this shit brilliant.

[Sepholio]

LOL wut

[Sepholio]

Gonna take a universal remote to a RAW house show and then during Rowans match use it to walk his spider out of the cage and up the entrance ramp, where it will dive off into a trash can.

[Emperor Smeat]

:| It was a freakin spider this whole time in Rowan's cage.

Whoever came up with this Rowan storyline probably should have been tossed out of a window afterwards.

[Droford]

Coming soon: someone's gonna get bit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cb7WUXVW8AABesQ.jpg

[slik]

So the thing in Eric Rowan's cage this entire time was a giant fake spider.

That is so lame.

[Droford]

Coming soon: someone's gonna get bit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cb7WUXVW8AABesQ.jpg

Oddly enough this could be covered in my Candyman: Brad Armstrong biopic I want.

No idea why I quoted it to add that, but..yeah

[rez]

Could they not have actually gotten a real goliath birdeater tarantula? PETA be damned.

[slik]

What an odd song for WM, sounds like it's from a 1980's romcom

[Emperor Smeat]

Baszler vs. Kairi has been pretty dull soo far which is a shame considering those two fit well together in the ring.

[rez]

Becky trying out for Flavor Flav's spot in Public Enemy now that he's been shown the door?

[Emperor Smeat]

Ouch at Kairi's face. Either Baszler messed up going with boots instead of knees or Kairi mistimed her jump since she got kicked hard in the face.

Match sucked as well.

[slik]

This is one fucking weird episode of RAW

[slik]

The Dominos commercial is the new Frank Thomas Nugenix commercial

[Sepholio]

Why are all the Hispanic rasslers always rassling each other and not anybody else lol

[Sepholio]

Did Humberto just do like a no look flying reverse shoulder bite?

[slik]

crowd chanting "this is boring" during Kairi vs Shayna was a yikes.

[Emperor Smeat]

Rey & Humberto vs. Team Blue Pants was pretty good overall.

[rez]

Randy needs to come out and RKO Beth

[slik]

Beth about to eat an RKO

[Emperor Smeat]

Wait ... Beth and Edge named one of their kids "Lyric" as in music lyric or one of those names with a weird spelling?

[Emperor Smeat]

Orton's promo has been pretty great but Beth's acting has been pretty bad.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the reaction from that one guy in the crowd.

Wonder what Orton mouthed off to Beth before her kick.

[rez]

so horrific they have to replay it!

[Droford]

I wonder if theyd hold off Edge vs Orton and instead do Orton vs Beth at WM.

[rockman725]

:lol: at the reaction from that one guy in the crowd.

Wonder what Orton mouthed off to Beth before her kick.

He either said "you bitch" or "you Beth" which was probably the cue for her to do the kick.

Amazing that the year is 2020 and the most somewhat interesting storyline heading into Wrestlemania is Randy Orton vs Edge.

[Emperor Smeat]

If it wasn't for the very hot start and the last 30 minutes or so, RAW would have been dire tonight for quality.

That middle part of the show might have been the worst of the year soo far.

[Jordan]

Raw was literally 10 minutes from my apartment tonight and I just didn't go... didn't even watch after like 30 minutes.

[Tom Guycott]

I don't think Brock has ever put over someone like that before. WWE is attaching the rocket ship to Drew McIntyre.

Hopefully Vince doesn't get bored with him like he did the very first time.

[Tom Guycott]

Remember when WWE said rematches were no longer automatic for title losers?

That lasted like what a month tops before WWE forgot.

RAW tag title change ended up being a change just for the sake of it since Rollins simply invoked his rematch clause for the Chamber ppv.

To be fair, I believe that was a Smackdown specific rule, but even then, they didn't really clarify. But this is also the company that put on a live show then expected everyone to just roll along with pausing for the benefit of commercials for the viewers at home.

[Tom Guycott]

WWE really needs to rename the 24/7 title to something else if the rules are constantly being changed or paused for matches.

They've stated before that they suspend the rule if the current champion is in an "actual" match so there is no outside interference shenanigans.

However, they should just give it the Madusa treatment. All it does is signal all the jobbers that they think nobody should ever care about, and is about as useful as pre "Women's Revolution" Divas multi-woman 4v4 or 5v5 tag matches that only served as an excuse to get a bunch of them on TV that week. Most of them wouldn't even participate in the match and just be on the apron for no reason.

[Tom Guycott]

Why are all the Hispanic rasslers always rassling each other and not anybody else lol

Because we are at late stage WCW territory with this company. All we need is the "It's time for the Luchadors" generic trumpet music before they would have a match between El Dandy and Silver King or somesuch.

[Splaya]

I just want noid to come in and say Ortons promo was awful

[Mr. Nerfect]

I just want noid to come in and say Ortons promo was awful

Haven't seen it. Raw was good after the Royal Rumble, but I didn't have time to watch today so I doubt I ever will.

[erickman]

:| It was a freakin spider this whole time in Rowan's cage.

Whoever came up with this Rowan storyline probably should have been tossed out of a window afterwards.

stealing from terra in tna 10 years ago, wwe might as well hire her back to be with rowan.

[XL]

I watched the YouTube clips as I have done pretty much since just before Xmas. It hides a lot of the shit.

I was really impressed with how McIntyre came across; the crowd were into him. Hopefully WWE can maintain/follow through with the momentum.

Same for Street Profits, crowd seemed to eat them up (unless they’re tampering with the reactions for the YouTube videos?). I also liked that Murphy is dressing like Seth now. Can’t see the same reactions in the rematch on Sunday.

The AJ/Taker/Black stuff has me more interested than I expected.

The Orton/Beth promo was great.

The Rowan reveal was lame. Not interested in Riott/Morgan. Skipped Baszler/Sane. The Ricochet thing is disheartening. The Latino Division, whilst great performers, have been going backwards and forwards with each other in various permeations for months now, I need some sort of progress in a storyline here.

[Tom Guycott]

Dammit! I meant to ask (because I didn't watch this shit) if the cage reveal was better or worse than the inital reveal of Kane's "burned" face?

[Evil Vito]

Seriously though, what's the deal with Riddick Moss?

He's gone from being in a jobber tag team on NXT to being Mojo's stooge for all of a week to pinning Ricochet clean on Raw in about three months, after being in NXT for five years and never showing a thing that would make you think he'd get over with a crowd.

Did he marry a previously unknown daughter of Vince McMahon?

[xrodmuc316]

Dammit! I meant to ask (because I didn't watch this shit) if the cage reveal was better or worse than the inital reveal of Kane's "burned" face?

WAY WORSE!

That was the best version of Kane. Even with the mandatory being dragged down by a fued with Shane McMahon, that version of Kane was incredible. Lighting JR on fire, amazing!

[slik]

Seriously though, what's the deal with Riddick Moss?

He's gone from being in a jobber tag team on NXT to being Mojo's stooge for all of a week to pinning Ricochet clean on Raw in about three months, after being in NXT for five years and never showing a thing that would make you think he'd get over with a crowd.

Did he marry a previously unknown daughter of Vince McMahon?

The million dollar question

[Emperor Smeat]

Seriously though, what's the deal with Riddick Moss?

He's gone from being in a jobber tag team on NXT to being Mojo's stooge for all of a week to pinning Ricochet clean on Raw in about three months, after being in NXT for five years and never showing a thing that would make you think he'd get over with a crowd.

Did he marry a previously unknown daughter of Vince McMahon?

Either Triple H totally BSed his star value in order for Vince to not take anyone of real value from NXT or Moss did some amazing reverse psychology to get a new hefty deal and main roster push.

[xrodmuc316]

Either Triple H totally BSed his star value in order for Vince to not take anyone of real value from NXT or Moss did some amazing reverse psychology to get a new hefty deal and main roster push.

I think it's more like Elias or Alexa Bliss, where Vince pushes someone with no NXT success just to rub it in Triple H's face.

[screech]

Baszler vs. Kairi has been pretty dull soo far which is a shame considering those two fit well together in the ring.

This match didn't make the Hulu cut so I guess I don't need to go find it.

[Helmsphere]

Despite all of Rowans Rage. It was just a spider in a cage.