Official Raw Thread (3/17/08): The Final Raw Before WRESTLEMANIA!

[Azriel]

Bye Flair :(

[Londoner]

superkick next?

[KingofOldSchool]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !

[Innovator]

stILL PROFILING BABY

[Fox]

Flair pins Orton tonight. I'm calling it.
(from page 3)

I was almost right.

[Londoner]

damn ah well, good enough ending

[Innovator]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Destor]

Flair's last vitcory, in Naitch country, with the figure four, against the WWE champion. Very nice.

[ClockShot]

Meh. Not the best pre-wrestlemania raw.

Night everyone.

[Londoner]

lol, they're booking the edge/taker match now as title vs streak rather than streak vs streak

[Azriel]

Well yeah TL, Edge doesn't have a streak anymore

[Loose Cannon]

call me old school (actually watching Tuesday in Texas DVD as I type ( :cool: ) and I know nothing means anything anymore, but beating the WWE Champion right before the biggest event of the year by a guy who has nothing to do with the Championship match?

I know it's Flair and all, but (Jake DDT's Savage wooo) errr, I just don't like when they do stuff like that because it makes Orton look like shit, which I guess they are trying to do. Looks like they are putting more emphasis on Cena/HHH. Still, Orton is the champ though. He should be looking strong going into Mania.

ok show though. Flair/HBK was good and I liked the Carlito/Jericho match

[Destor]

Flair needs to look strong going into Mania more than Orton. he's a cicken shit champoin. his threat is his ability to steal wins. Not by being the better competitor.

[NYDon]

That Flair-HBK exchange is making me read Old Yeller on Google Book Search.

[Azriel]

Plus, I think WWE knows more fans are looking forward to the Flair match.

[Dave Youell]

I bet they were begging to put flair over, all of them.

JBL should of taken it and personally I think they should of kept Finlay and JBL apart, but I don't think he could of gotten the Figure 4 on show or Umaga, the legs are too big

[KingofOldSchool]

call me old school (actually watching Tuesday in Texas DVD as I type ( :cool: ) and I know nothing means anything anymore, but beating the WWE Champion right before the biggest event of the year by a guy who has nothing to do with the Championship match?

I know it's Flair and all, but (Jake DDT's Savage wooo) errr, I just don't like when they do stuff like that because it makes Orton look like shit, which I guess they are trying to do. Looks like they are putting more emphasis on Cena/HHH. Still, Orton is the champ though. He should be looking strong going into Mania.

ok show though. Flair/HBK was good and I liked the Carlito/Jericho match

Orton got abandoned by his whole team, plus Show chokeslammed him. And it took him around 10 seconds to tap out to Figure Four, which is a lot longer than most people have lasted in various submissions.

[Loose Cannon]

lol 10 seconds. that's not really saying a lot. I would hope he would last longer then a Carlito. He is the World champion.

I understand he's a chicken shit champion, but you can be a chicken shit champion and still look strong. Honky did it perfectly. There's so many other ways I could think of that would of made him look a little stonger going in as the champ.

1) HBK goes for the superkick on Flair, (instead of just punching him) Flair ducks, HBK goes "oh well" and Flair puts the figure four on Orton

2) Orton takes all the finishers and Flair puts the figure four on last

3) Orton is in the ring with all the babyfaces, he looks like he's going to fight them and instead, runs away.

4) HBK goes for the superkick on Orton, Orton ducks and he hits Flair.

I just think a clean submission in 10 seconds by the champion from a guy he isn't even feuding with is crap going into Mania. They should just get Orton out of the match and make it Cena/HHH.

[Destor]

They're setting it up like Orton doesn't matter with all of the promos last night it was all HvsCena. Makes a guy think could steal one. (Flair is more important than the world champioship imo anyway so I could honestly careless what they do with Orton. Flairs last win was over the reinging world champ via submission with the figure four in flair County. World title be damnded.)

[Xero]

Was it just me or was that the worst Mania go-home show (RAW) since before the Attitude era?

[Mr. JL]

Didn't even watch the show.