*Spoilers ahead: RAW 4/17/06. Thoughts?

[The Heat]

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Charlie Haas!! I'm glad to see WWE have finally brought him back to feud with Benjamin. I kinda like the new look [black hair & beard, new tights]. It was especially cool when Haas kept repeating to Benjamin that he "forgot about him". I say have Haas screw Benjamin @ Backlash and then challenge RVD for the IC belt on RAW. This frees Van Dam from the IC title and sets up his MITB shot @ ECW ONS.

Glad to see WWE is giving Haas a shot to succeed[as they didn't before]. Hopefully, WWE will continue to use Haas and make him a champion. All Haas needs now is a finisher[as alot of people use the Exploder suplex].

One good point of a mediocre RAW.

[ddpBANG]

I actually think Haas looked a little wooden in that match. He might have just been anxious. Him and Benjamin seemed like they didn't know what to do a couple of times in the match. But it was a nice match.

It'll be interesting to see how this Benjamin/Haas thing plays out. If they'll keep them feuding or if they'll reform the WGTT.

[Lock Jaw]

The way they brought him back was very bad. Pretty much buried him from the start.

People don't get too impressed with a guy who goes in, gets beat down most of the match and then wins with a rollup.

I hope they don't just misuse him again.

[ddpBANG]

Also, I didn't think Raw was that mediocre. I missed it last week though, so everything that happened last night prolly happened last week, but it was new to me.

[Pardeep 619]

I was quite surprised to see Haas back on Raw, but I was quite impressed with him. Coach was right when he said he hasn't got any ring rust.

[Innovator]

His armdrags were pretty sick in the beginning

[McLegend]

Yeah his arm drags were the best part of the match.

[Dorkchop]

Maybe his finishing move can be an arm drag.

[Xero]

His armdrags were pretty sick in the beginning
I wish I had detected a hint of sarcasm in that post, but as anyone who knows indy fans knows, you're being as serious as humanly possible.

[Dorkchop]

BAW GAWD! He hit him with the arm drag. Of all my years in professional wrestling, I have never seen a more pure athlete.

No one has ever kicked out of the arm drag.

PUPPIES!

[Nark Order]

I liked his return...







You bastards...

[Innovator]

I wish I had detected a hint of sarcasm in that post, but as anyone who knows indy fans knows, you're being as serious as humanly possible.nah the best arm drags were Punk's at Final Battle, where he kept yelling STEAMBOAT before doing them

[Xero]

Fucking arm drags and their arm draggieness.

[Fox]

The way they brought him back was very bad. Pretty much buried him from the start.

People don't get too impressed with a guy who goes in, gets beat down most of the match and then wins with a rollup.

Yeah, like when Shawn Michaels returned in 2002 for a Street Fight with Triple H then pinned him with a rollup?

Or when John Cena debuted on Smackdown and pinned Kurt Angle and then Chris Jericho with rollups?

Yeah, it's a forumla for failure. :roll:


I enjoyed his return last night, and actually felt like it was the only thing RAW did right. I just have a really bad feeling that this isn't going to go anywhere for Haas, and before we know it he'll be drafted to Smackdown and jobbing on Velocity and house shows to JBL.

But who knows, maybe they'll give him a push and actually create an interesting character out of him.

[CYCLOPTERSAURUS]

I think the Haas of Pain is an awesome finisher, and it got pretty over when he started using it. He should use that.

[James Steele]

A rollup finisher works in certain situations, but this wasn't exactly the "ultimate underdog" situation where a win period would be huge.