RAW After Mania - April 6, 2020

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Folks, it’s time for the most exciting show in wrestling every year: the Raw after Wrestlemania. Its that night where the most passionate fans come out really let their voices be heard. You know they say that these fans are so passionate, they boo who they’re supposed to cheer and cheer who they’re supposed to boo!

In fact, this year I heard the fans are so crazy, they’ve decided to not come to the show at all! What a concept.

Let’s watch!

[teamXtremist]

This will be historic! cant wait to see who debuts

[ClockShot]

RAW AFTER MANIA! ALRIGHT!

THE CRAZY CROWD!

THE ATMOSPHERE!

Wait. That's not right.

[Sepholio]

I'm almost as hyped as the thousands in attendance!

[teamXtremist]

What an opening!!

[ClockShot]

You would think by now they would fill the seats with cardboard cutouts of people/roster or old WWF Wrestling buddies dolls.

Nope. Empty.

[ClockShot]

Oh hey, Liv.

Where's your blue tongue?

[Emperor Smeat]

Oh hey, Liv.

Where's your blue tongue?

No more smurfs around after she ate them into extinction.

[ClockShot]

No more smurfs around after she ate them into extinction.

You mean Gargamel missed a few?!

News to me.

[Evil Vito]

Lol WM37 ad.

Until mass gatherings are banned until a vaccine is out in summer 2021.

[ClockShot]

Not the smartest idea to be hyping next year's 'Mania right now in the current state of things.

[Evil Vito]

Apparently they’ve only taped through tomorrow’s NXT. The plan is for live shows at the PC to resume beginning with Friday’s Smackdown.

And Vince was on a conference call with Trump and all of the major sports/entertainment executives this weekend, so he presumably was given the green light to proceed forward without fans.

[ClockShot]

Sure. Let's blackout the pinfalls. They're not safe for TV. :roll:

[teamXtremist]

Apparently they’ve only taped through tomorrow’s NXT. The plan is for live shows at the PC to resume beginning with Friday’s Smackdown.

And Vince was on a conference call with Trump and all of the major sports/entertainment executives this weekend, so he presumably was given the green light to proceed forward without fans.


Nope ,it was just trump hoping the nfl is up and running by september but completely unsure

[Evil Vito]

When I was there live to see Becky win the main event of WM (and I barely reacted because I was long dead by then and I needed to bolt out of there and get on the train)...I certainly didn’t expect her to hold the title for a year.

[Emperor Smeat]

Lol WM37 ad.

Until mass gatherings are banned until a vaccine is out in summer 2021.

Speaking of Mania, apparently WWE caught a very good break last night.

Had they not moved Mania to the PC, likely would have needed to delay the show at some point due to it raining at the Raymond James Stadium.

[rez]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CROWD IS ELECTRIFYING

[Lock Jaw]

Guys, in the absence of a live crowd, please use this thread only to loudly shout:

YOU DESERVE IT!

[Lock Jaw]

YOU DESERVE IT!

[Droford]

Ciampa/Gargano is the real victim of this

[Emperor Smeat]

Apparently they’ve only taped through tomorrow’s NXT. The plan is for live shows at the PC to resume beginning with Friday’s Smackdown.

And Vince was on a conference call with Trump and all of the major sports/entertainment executives this weekend, so he presumably was given the green light to proceed forward without fans.

Likely going to end up upsetting Orlando's mayor if that happens since his stay at home orders are a lot more strict starting this week.

WWE messed up big time not taping more episodes last week for their weekly shows instead of wasting a lot of time on Mania's tapings. Or pull an AEW and find someplace elsewhere for the emergency tapings.

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Street Profits take on <a href="https://twitter.com/austintheory1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@austintheory1</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelGarzaWwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AngelGarzaWwe</a> in a WrestleMania rematch that's totally not us just re-airing the match from last night or anything... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1247314647755026432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[rez]

Gimme da smoke!!! LISTEN TO THE CROWD

[dronepool]

Did they tape this after WM or something?

[Sepholio]

Likely going to end up upsetting Orlando's mayor if that happens since his stay at home orders are more strict starting this week.

WWE messed up big time not taping more episodes last week for their weekly shows instead of wasting a lot of time on Mania's tapings. Or pull an AEW and find someplace elsewhere for the emergency tapings.

They just need to come to Georgia like AEW did. No one cares about the stay at home orders here, least of all the government.

[ClockShot]

They just need to come to Georgia like AEW did. No one cares about the stay at home orders here, least of all the government.

QT Marshall was nice enough to let them use his school and they pulled it off nicely. Granted a good chunk of the roster was in the Jacksonville area. So they just snuck across the state line.

Unless WWE has contacts with the same setup and in states where quarantine rules are less strict, AND the fact they have to get there, they're screwed.

[Emperor Smeat]

Did they tape this after WM or something?

Before. They taped tonight's show and RAW's Mania go-home show last Tuesday.

[Emperor Smeat]

RAW Tag title match was decent.

At least WWE didn't do the typical dumb thing where they have a champ suddenly lose their belt the day after Mania.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at Bianca not even looking at Zelina when she gave her promo.

[Droford]

Bianca Belair should be able to do well in the call up.

[Emperor Smeat]

Whelp the last 15 minutes or so were useless.

:| 3rd match in a row involving some combo of the Street Profits, Belair, Zelina, and Zelina's Pals.

[rez]

first 90 minutes are gonna end up involving all these peoples

[Droford]

Buddy Murphy and Seth Rollins should attack the Profits and then KO and..Alister Black come out

10 person coronavirus maximum super mega match

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at WWE already doing a breakup angle with Lashley and Lana.

[Volare]

Rut Ro Lana!!

[Droford]

Draft picks expiring?

[Volare]

Oh shit Jobba Crews.

[Emperor Smeat]

:| Apollo Crews getting the RAW After Mania surprise debut-like treatment.

[Volare]

Oh look, black on black wrestling.

[slik]

Shane McMahon should return and feud with Drew McIntyre for the title until August

[Volare]

Heath Slater.

[Emperor Smeat]

Unless the second half of tonight's show has a mega spike in quality, should be a safe bet that this week's RAW is going to set another all-time low record.

[Volare]

Lol building Apollo as a threat.

[slik]

I wonder if they retired the 24/7 title with Gronk

[Emperor Smeat]

Match itself has been somewhat good but RAW has also been boring so far.

[Emperor Smeat]

WTF another commercial break for this Crews vs. Black match.

[Volare]

Winner gets what...a tuna sandwich?

[slik]

No heavy hitters in the first 90 min of RAW probably won't be great for ratings, but who knows, since it's the RAW after Mania.

[Droford]

At least it's not old matches

[Volare]

The 4th quarter commentary just said...yeah...and into the 8263rd overtime.

[Emperor Smeat]

Black vs Crews was pretty good I guess. Only paid half-attention to it after it went on another commercial break and started playing Animal Crossing New Horizons instead.

[Volare]

Allllright I'll catch a recap later.

[slik]

I'm glad both Crews and Aleister got to work what was the longest match I'm sure both have had in WWE.

[slik]

Ricochet in a tag team with Cedric...if it gets Ricochet on TV i'm fine with it.

[Emperor Smeat]

Cedric & Ricochet vs. Oney & Burch was pretty good.

[Droford]

Nia Jax is back

Yay

Said no one

[Emperor Smeat]

Outside of the Black vs Crews match and the tag match with Alexander & Ricochet, this hasn't been a good RAW After Mania show and on track to be the worst one since this became a special thing years ago.

[Sepholio]

Called up for a squash. Womp Womp.

[Emperor Smeat]

Deonna Purrazzo went from being a notable name and one of the best female wrestlers on the indies to being mostly just another nobody on the roster since joining WWE.

[xrodmuc316]

Nia Jax is back

Yay

Said no one

And she stole the Ram-Paige.

[Emperor Smeat]

Besides WWE not bothering to follow their own coronavirus rules for this Boneyard match tapings, it also apparently took around 8 hours to film this match.

WhatCulture has some more exclusive news about the filming of the match. The match was taped over 8 hours from 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25th to 5 a.m. on Thursday, March 26 in Florida in a location that was not near the Performance Center. The company contracted an outside production company to create the set, which took five days.

WWE reportedly wanted to use an abandoned ditch, bridge and roadside for The Undertaker's entrance, however they didn't have time to secure a permit to film there since it was city property. It was still scheduled to include Metallica's Now That We're Dead single.

[slik]

Talent getting a fresh push tonight:

Street Profits
Zelina
Bianca Belair
Apollo Crews
Liv Morgan
Asuka
Ricochet
Cedric Alexander
Nia Jax
Humberto Carrillo

[slik]

I prefer this week's RAW bc of all the new pushes

I have a feeling most people will dislike it though because it will feel 'boring' and 'lackluster on star power'

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE finally stops with their outdated habit of only using photos for PPV match recaps and yet still ends up doing something dumb by censoring out match finishes.

Also Charlotte seems to have gotten worse on the mic over the past year. That was a pretty piss poor promo by her.

[Emperor Smeat]

I prefer this week's RAW bc of all the new pushes

I have a feeling most people will dislike it though because it will feel 'boring' and 'lackluster on star power'

Is it them actually pushing those people or most are only getting quality screen time because the roster is way too thin at the moment.

Someone like Crews would benefit from finally getting a real big push on the main roster but his long match with Black likely was more due to WWE not wanting to replay a past match to eat up time and not because they have something meaningful for him.

[Sepholio]

Oh man.

[slik]

Why did Drew make an entrance after he won the title?

[Droford]

Big show time

[slik]

Big Show vs Drew McIntyre

No Thanks!

[Droford]

Lol if Big Show beats Drew

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at Big Show randomly turning heel/face again.

[Sepholio]

Big Show bout to win the title isn't he?

[Droford]

Big Show bout to win the title isn't he?

Gotta promote big show show

[Emperor Smeat]

Ummm did WWE screw up editing this part of the show?

Saxton saying its only been 20-30 minutes since Drew won the belt.

[Droford]

Ummm did WWE screw up editing this part of the show?

Saxton saying its only been 20-30 minutes since Drew won the belt.

This took place "last night"

[slik]

I swear if Big Show wins the belt I am DONE

All the goodwill earned will be GONE

[Emperor Smeat]

This took place "last night"

Yeah just noticed the Mania sign in the background. Got distracted by my dog and missed everything up until Big Show was suddenly in the ring.

[Sepholio]

Thank God.

[Droford]

Disaster averted

[slik]

Whew, Thank the Lord

[Emperor Smeat]

Show vs. Drew was decent but not worth being a special hidden match from Mania.

This week's show was pretty boring overall, especially for a RAW After Mania show.

Really hope WWE spices things up with their next set of tapings since these empty arena shows have been mostly uninteresting to watch.

[Evil Vito]

Really hope WWE spices things up with their next set of tapings.

Narrator: They won't.

[Lock Jaw]

Good thread guys! As this is the RAW after Mania, I would like to propose another chant!

WE ARE AWESOME!! WE ARE AWESOME!!

[slik]

I thought Nia injured her for a second

https://media.giphy.com/media/dTX7SkpmLp0KPJEvUA/giphy.gif

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Nia Jax sucks. That's all I came here to contribute.

[Droford]

Show vs. Drew was decent but not worth being a special hidden match from Mania.

This week's show was pretty boring overall, especially for a RAW After Mania show.

Really hope WWE spices things up with their next set of tapings since these empty arena shows have been mostly uninteresting to watch.

Didnt you hear

<iframe width="932" height="699" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eUFY8Zw0Bag" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Triple A]

Heard the Aleister Black vs. Apollo Crews match went through THREE commercials... in an empty arena... jesus...

[Mr. Nerfect]

Nia Jax kills not only my interest in wrestling, but my interest in living.

[Gerard]

I thought Nia injured her for a second

https://media.giphy.com/media/dTX7SkpmLp0KPJEvUA/giphy.gif

All that time out and still came back a heifer. Her and Tamina reforming team Thunder Thighs ?

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Nia one of those annoying girls who claims to be curvy and proud when in reality she's just fat and lumpy.

[Sepholio]

cmon you guys. Shes not like most girls.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Based on the average American's diet she's definitely like most girls

[Mr. Nerfect]

She's so fucking shit, has no charisma, isn't aesthetically pleasing, and seems to be a giant fucking cunt as a human. She's like AEW in human form.

[drave]

Noid has a hard on for AEW. He hate wanks to it daily.