WWE RAW 8/24/20 feat. Dawn of the Limitless Era and More ThunderDome Shennigans

[Emperor Smeat]

https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/wwe_16_9_l/public/all/2020/08/20200823_RAW_Lee_FC_mondays--cc737f8e77bbb849b0d653bd347799a6.jpg

Raw preview, Aug. 24, 2020: Keith Lee to make his Raw debut

Keith Lee is set to make Monday Night Raw Limitless, and Aleister Black joins the "KO Show."

Raw Preview : Quick Hits

Keith Lee to make his Raw debut tonight
Aleister Black returns on the “KO Show”
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre set to open Raw tonight
Mark Henry to officiate Arm Wrestling Competition between Apollo Crews and Bobby Lashley



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RAW is Thunder...dome <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1298048029312856064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Emperor Smeat]

Whoever has been in charge of the ThunderDome crowd audio stuff has been doing a terrible job these past couple of days. Even Drew's rambling opening promo was getting drowned out by the audio.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Just turned on Raw and saw Shayna Baszler call Nia Jax Haystacks Calhoun.

Which, yeah kinda.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at that "Haystacks Calhoun" insult by Baszler to Nia.

Nia does seem to have gotten a lot more bigger recently and not in a good way.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chris Benoit watching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a> during Drew McIntyre's promo. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEThunderDome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEThunderDome</a> <a href="https://t.co/56vdZfynME">pic.twitter.com/56vdZfynME</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Rift of NoDQ.com (@aaronrift) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronrift/status/1298052990197260289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Emperor Smeat]

The idea commentary even teased a potential SD Women's title match between Bayley and Baszler despite Baszler being RAW exclusive really underscores how bad SD's women's division has been in general these past few months.

[slik]

Socially distance kicking people in the head

https://i.postimg.cc/gchyF1WY/P3oX07zy.jpg

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chris Benoit watching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a> during Drew McIntyre's promo. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEThunderDome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEThunderDome</a> <a href="https://t.co/56vdZfynME">pic.twitter.com/56vdZfynME</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Rift of NoDQ.com (@aaronrift) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronrift/status/1298052990197260289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Considering how very quickly people started to troll and pull shenanigans with WWE's virtual crowd setup, only a matter of time before a dong is getting flashed.

[Emperor Smeat]

Guess no room on the stage for Black's lift entrance although Punished Black looks pretty cool.

[Volare]

HEEL TURN!

[Emperor Smeat]

Considering Triple A isn't a fan when AEW goes overboard with the crowd audio for taped shows, can easily see him hating tonight's RAW since this fake crowd stuff is just as bad if not worse.

:lol: at the random heel turn by Black.

[Volare]

WHERE IS MY GIANT NINJA WITH A FUCKING CHAINSAW!!

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Why do they always have minorities fighting against each other

[Volare]

Ninja Power ftw lol.

[Emperor Smeat]

On one hand, a 24/7 title match didn't completely suck for once.

On the other hand, that could have been a pretty sweet fatal 4-way if it didn't have the 24/7 title shenanigans involved.

[Volare]

McIntyre wants PAYBACK....for...NOT SEEING IT COMING!!

[Emperor Smeat]

Keith Lee's old theme was a ton better than this new one he has.

Sounds like something right out of the WWE Day of Reckoning series during matches.

[Sepholio]

Considering how very quickly people started to troll and pull shenanigans with WWE's virtual crowd setup, only a matter of time before a dong is getting flashed.

I'm shocked that (or something similar) hasn't happened yet. I'd have pulled my wiener out on night 1 if I was on it just to see if they get fined by the FCC.

[Volare]

Good Keith Lee promo. WHY DID THEY CHANGE HIS FUCKING THEME!

[xrodmuc316]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chris Benoit watching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a> during Drew McIntyre's promo. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEThunderDome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEThunderDome</a> <a href="https://t.co/56vdZfynME">pic.twitter.com/56vdZfynME</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Rift of NoDQ.com (@aaronrift) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronrift/status/1298052990197260289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They stole my idea damnit!

[slik]

Was not a fan of that Keith Lee promo...felt really cheesy and not Keith Lee-like

[Emperor Smeat]

I'm shocked that (or something similar) hasn't happened yet. I'd have pulled my wiener out on night 1 if I was on it just to see if they get fined by the FCC.

If I had to guess, the final night of WWE's ThunderDome stay is going to be WWE's worst night ever for the amount of dong attempts that probably will happen.

[Volare]

Turkey Leg hahahahahahaha

[Emperor Smeat]

Was not a fan of that Keith Lee promo...felt really cheesy and not Keith Lee-like

Yeah. He was speaking that way a lot more often near his end in NXT.

Before he usually did that type of promo style only when he was in a relaxed or carefree mood and not when he was in a serious mood.

[Volare]

Montez Ford vs Dominick Mysterio on who gets more height on their splashes. Jeeeezus!

[Volare]

I really really hate Aleister Black....

[Emperor Smeat]

:| at Banks & Bayley vs. Baszler & Jax for the Women's Tag belts at Payback.

Last week's tease of Asuka & Baszler being the challengers would have been way more interesting.

[Emperor Smeat]

6-women tag match was decent at best.

Bianca vs. Zelina feud might be the most one-sided feud since Drew's feud with Zelina's group a few months ago.

[Volare]

Damn, why do I feel Ricochet is gonna be the one who turns?

[Volare]

I see Mark in a suit and I'm just waiting for him to clobber a mofo and come back.

[Volare]

LMAO CEDRICK THE ENTERTAINER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Emperor Smeat]

Take away the text on the back and that Hurt Business shirt Lashley is wearing would be great. As is, its a pretty good shirt and better than most shirt designs from WWE.

That might have been the lamest ever Arm Wrestling contest segment.

[Emperor Smeat]

Oh shit, Dominik's mom showed up again.

This time for sure someone is getting whacked with a shoe.

[Volare]

Oh shit, Dominik's mom showed up again.


This time for sure someone is getting whacked with a shoe.

CHANCLA (watch speaking spanglish with Santana and Ortiz :lol:)

https://media.tenor.com/images/941bdf771e4bc57c1de73b64f548c1fc/tenor.gif

[Volare]

Nice outfit Mickey.

[Volare]

Was gonna say Main Event already with no Underground?

[Emperor Smeat]

Was gonna say Main Event already with no Underground?

Maybe this time it actually starts at 10PM and not earlier like everyone other time WWE has advertised it for RAW shows.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at Lashley pouncing Ziggy right into a wall.

[Volare]

OK DOLPH VS LASHLEY WAS BAD ASS DON'T @ ME!

[Volare]

Ugh theme is still a thumbs down....sounds generic af.

[Volare]

Joe is really good on commentary, that's for damn sure.

[Emperor Smeat]

Lee's shorts sort of makes it look like he's wearing a skirt instead with how baggy or free flowing it is.

[Volare]

Annnnnnnnnd fuck off with that run in...

[slik]

I guess Keith Lee didn't care Drew cost him his first match on RAW

[Emperor Smeat]

That might have been the worst ever pounce spot Lee did to Orton.

Not sure who's fault that was, Lee for not getting enough lift on Orton or Orton reacting as if it was a different move instead.

:| Lee loses via DQ.

This past week has been like the worst ever week for him in WWE. Got made to look like a fool with the fireball attack spot on NXT, lost his NXT title in one of the worst ever TakeOver matches, debuts on RAW with a bad new theme and weak promo, and now lost his debut match via DQ.

[Volare]

I don't shit on the match since Kross seperated his shoulder....fucker is tough for going through but...

[Volare]

45 minute Roman Reigns promo!!!!

[Emperor Smeat]

This might be the most spotlight treatment Smackdown has ever had on RAW during this Brand Split era and all because WWE is probably going to go right back to things as usual with Reigns booking.

[Volare]

Aren't Triple Threats automatically No Holds Barred? WTF with the extra verbage.

[Volare]

Drew's skull is made of adamantium.

[Volare]

I guess Keith Lee didn't care Drew cost him his first match on RAW

"I don't need him fighting my battles...so I screwed his first W"....yep lol

[Emperor Smeat]

I don't shit on the match since Kross seperated his shoulder....fucker is tough for going through but...

My main issue is that match was on pace to be just a typical NXT title match that is way too long drawn out before Kross simply couldn't continue.

Supposedly he got hurt around 6 minutes in and instead of calling an audible right there, they let him struggle through the motions for a good 15 minutes afterwards.

Ended up making neither Lee nor Kross look good in the end, especially for a big title change moment.

[Volare]

Oh I forgot Sasha/Asuka...oops.

[Emperor Smeat]

Remember that time WWE decided to get rid of automatic title rematches.

That lasted like what a month at most before WWE completely forgot about their new rule. Think it even lasted longer than their Brand Invitational rule earlier this year that got quickly dropped after like 2-3 weeks.

[RP]

Covid Reigns baby!

[slik]

I wonder if Retribution has been wrestlecrapped out of existence

[Emperor Smeat]

I wonder if Retribution has been wrestlecrapped

WWE probably just remembered all the money they spent on the ThunderDome and gave a big nope on Retribution wrecking any of it.

Wouldn't be surprised if it costs them over $1 million do RAW shows now with all the new bells and whistles added.

[Volare]

I'm sure Retribution could pound one of the production cases with a hammer or something.

[Volare]

LMAO The Ambulance just stopped at the end.

[Emperor Smeat]

Only 1 RAW Underground segment tonight seems odd considering it didn't even feature the one match that had been built up last week for this show.

Wonder if WWE quickly soured on the idea and Retribution as well since both have been lacking tonight. Retribution's only involved on last night's SummerSlam was just a quick vignette video.

Edit: Nevermind, RAW Underground got another segment despite Tom Phillips saying Rey & Dominik vs. Rollins & Murphy was next.

[Volare]

TAG TEAM UNDERGROUND!! YES!!!

[Volare]

Gotta be honest, fucking cool to see Dom and Rey teaming up.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at everyone in production missing Rey's spot on the outside.

[Volare]

I know Dom has been working his ass off for this, but he looks pretty damn good.

[Volare]

Welp so much for that....

[Volare]

So the locker room who was so hell bent on stopping these guys said fuck it tonight I guess???

[Volare]

What was that 3 chicks and 3 dudes this time?

[Emperor Smeat]

:n: at lame Retribution ruining what was a pretty good match.

Carmella might have been one of the masked people tonight.

Even though he's only been in two matches and currently in his first feud, Dominik is right on tract to being one of the best ever sons/daughters of a WWE wrestler in WWE history based on what he's shown and his potential so far.

Outside of the main event tag match, rest of RAW was very skippable.

[Emperor Smeat]

Apparently some dumbass decided it would be a great idea to air video from a KKK rally on their virtual screen during the show.

At the end of this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, some fans picked up on what appeared to be an image from a KKK rally on one of the screens. The image was seen during the final segment of the show.

Earlier in the show, a fan displayed a photo of Chris Benoit. Click here to see the image of Benoit that was shown on Raw. During SummerSlam, a fan displayed a “Fire Velveteen Dream” sign. The fan later took to Twitter and claimed that he was kicked out of the ThunderDome after someone in WWE saw the sign.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's an image someone grabbed of it. <a href="https://t.co/8qoVxLyYJp">pic.twitter.com/8qoVxLyYJp</a></p>&mdash; TheBrianJ -DotR- (@TheeBrianJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheeBrianJ/status/1298094334252785664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yo KKK was on the Thunderdome on raw <a href="https://t.co/XdnoLsqtcF">pic.twitter.com/XdnoLsqtcF</a></p>&mdash; Chief Lots-a-Dough (@ODamnDell) <a href="https://twitter.com/ODamnDell/status/1298096822544740354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

People doing harmless trolling and having fun with their screens like the guy who fell asleep during SD or Pikachu showing up on SummerSlam is one thing and Benoit's picture while somewhat tasteless was also a bit funny but its another thing to actually show off racist and/or hateful stuff on screen.

[slik]

Agreed

[Volare]

Like I'd expect somehow maybe a TPWW "note" written in sharpie.

[Emperor Smeat]

Turns out the Klan stuff wasn't the worst thing shown tonight because for some unknown reason WWE didn't cut that person's feed and the same screen showed an actual beheading video right after.


https://twitter.com/TheMexicanFurby/status/1298098594373873669

[Volare]

Wooooooow.

[Sepholio]

Thunderdome bout to go bye bye

[Droford]

Why do they always have minorities fighting against each other

The 24/7 title is basically the WWE Minority Title

[Triple A]

Still basically the same matches and feuds for like the 12th week straight... insane... what's the point of watching when it's basically the same exact show every single week for 3 months straight

iiconics vs. riott squad

street profits vs. garza & andrade

apollo vs. hurt business

24/7 shit

asuka vs. bayley & banks

mysterio vs. rollins

same thing every single week...

[Droford]

The video screens will eventually just have wrestlers and wwe employees on them

[Droford]

Good Keith Lee promo. WHY DID THEY CHANGE HIS FUCKING THEME!

TBH I didnt even notice til it was mentioned today

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE ended up getting some mainstream frontpage coverage from ESPN's website regarding last night's RAW episode but for all the wrong reasons.

Instead of reporting on anything about the show itself, it was all about the idiot fan who aired very inappropriate stuff at the end of the show.

[Droford]

Kkk
Beheading
And Beniot

And I feel likev theyre more pissed about Benoit probably

[Emperor Smeat]

According to r/SquaredCircle, last night's hooded members of Retribution are rumored to have been Kayden Carter, Mia Yim, Shane Thorne, Dominik Dijakovic, Dio Maddin, and Chelsea Green.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/igj4t5/retribution_members_found_on_ig/

Toni Storm might have been a member instead of Kayden based on others claiming that masked person's body type and butt resembles Toni's more.

[Volare]

According to r/SquaredCircle, last night's hooded members of Retribution are rumored to have been Kayden Carter, Mia Yim, Shane Thorne, Dominik Dijakovic, Dio Maddin, and Chelsea Green.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/igj4t5/retribution_members_found_on_ig/

That would explain the 3 men 3 women comment I made in the RAW thread last night.

[Bad News Gertner]

There's something really creepy about the Thunderome. Such a weird visual.