I give it about a month before Vince/Creative gets bored of an Andrade push. Outside of his title run in NXT, both NXT and Smackdown struggled to handle him well.

ooof

I didn't expect Rey to RAW, interesting

If Finn stays I want Rey vs Finn too

Poor Rey slipping on the top rope.

Wish they would dim the lights, blast fog into the arena and play Lars's theme for the entire time while he destroys people

Lars bores me

worried about crowd reaction towards Lars...

fuck @ six man tag match

Holding out "a shred of hope" that they will try to give him his entrance for actual matches.....

sigh . . .

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UUUUUCCCCEEEE

OHHHHH

way to spoil it wwe

:lol: at the production botch revealing the next surprise change.

LOL @ Usos graphic

Would be funny if the Usos suddenly had their old Samoan gimmick...

lol they just spoiled The Usos with the nameplate :lol:

Did the Uso's lose the belts?

A lot of good Smackdown peeps going to RAW..... I predict it will not make RAW more watchable, but rather make me not care about a lot of the former SD people.....

cant wait for sd to get the ascension

Ya to the Hardys

RAW's tag division went from being a disaster of epic proportions to really great in one day.

Usos
Black/Ricochet
Viking Experience (:lol: at the name)

Smackdown's tag division probably going to suffer big time now since last time it was SD that got a huge boost and RAW getting the useless scraps.

I was kind of excited about seeing The Usos vs. Gable & Roode on paper. Now it's happening and then it's done. I imagine Gable & Roode will go to Smackers.

Dunno..... RAW is so "infused" with "negative energy" that even just seeing Usos wrestling in between the red ropes and the red graphics and lighting, etc.... just makes me instantly 80% less interested in watching them on the TV and paying attention

Lol at The Viking Experience. Glorious.

Roode's WWE status died for all of mankind's sins

I don't know if I hate the Raw vibe, or if it's just because Raw has been a show I haven't looked forward to in years. I imagine a good show would change the emotions the aesthetics instill in me.

Commentary emphasizing that Roode & Gable's careers would be better off on Smackers.

Either they're moving or Roode turns on Gable after the match.

Oh jeez, Cole yelling "Welcome to the Uso Penitentiary" each week will suck.

COCKS OUT BOIZZZZZZZZZZ

The way I imagine "The Viking Experience" rename going is that Hanson/Rowe had no idea about it until seconds before they stepped through the curtain, and Vince was all "Hey! I forgot to tell you! You're gonna be called The Viking Experience now! It's gonna be great! Your names are also Igor and Ivar!"

I can't believe they are going to call them "The Viking Experience." Zero effort. They will shorten or change it soon, don't worry.

Why did Graves spoil Sami as Bliss guest early?

My first thought as to who Seth & Roman's partner should be was Daniel Bryan. I know he's a heel, but that's just where my heart went.

Will probably be Owens because they are in Montreal.

Would also accept:

* Luke Harper doing his new "Fighting for My Family" gimmick.

* Cesaro, breaking away from Sheamus.

* AJ Styles -- if they're going to move him, that would be a way to do it.

"LOL" at Sami's dancing

@Smeat

Rico/Black/LARS not officially on any brands yet per Michael Cole/Graves/Renee

:lol: at Sami's music randomly playing a second time.

This week's show has been full of production and commentary botches soo far.

Edit: Never mind, it was on purpose by Sami.

I don't think the music playing again was a botch

Lets send Sami zayne out there and kill time.

GREAT DO THAT!

Can hear the Canadian accent when the crowd chants "Sami"

BEST SEGMENT EVER!!!

"That's it, Raw's cancelled."

Don't get my hopes up, Corey.

lol enjoying this... good heel gimmick

Didn't Zayn show up as a babyface and turn heel last week by "shooting" on the fans for not automatically liking the WWE product?

Zelina channeling her inner Sasha Banks

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One of my pet peeves in modern wrestling is when they act like moderate reactions in this era are comparable to major reactions from others. When you don't watch every week, it's really noticeable how feeble the crowds are. I mean, they are showing up for this segment, but they don't feel like they're "in full force."

Heel Sami is great

Alexa face turn

This is fucking unbearable.

no one cuts Alexa off

NO ONE PUTS ALEXA IN A CORNER!!!!!!!!!

So is Alexa a face now?

If so, then last week's squash of Bayley makes even less sense now.

Alexa is a weird face, such a natural fit as a heel

Alexa is such a heel she "heeleds" on other heels.

r u sure? Did they really def say that?

Looking at the Twitter and it seems like at least Ricochet is def on Raw, so assuming Black is too...

I didn't hear anything about Lars

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With Naomi now on RAW due to being married to one of the Usos, wonder if Charlotte is also going to RAW since she's currently dating Andrade.

interesting @ Graves saying "Sasha lost her ball and quit the game"

When they came out they said Ricochet/Black were on RAW, but then during the match they were all "anything can happen! This could be any of these men's last time on RAW!"

She was a face for this segment, and she'll be a heel next week when it suits them.

So much bad pantomime in the two of the three segments I've seen. The Iconics and Alexa are terrible actors. Sami Zayn has good delivery, but that content was cheesy as hell.

Obvious she was coming over to RAW. lol graves throwing more shade at Sasha by saying Naomi is a definite upgrade for Bayley. Incredible.

Women tag champs with another meaningless squash match.

Only this time, they lost it.

Missed the "Sami Zayn-Alexa Bliss" segment due to a phone call. Hope it wasn't eventful. Also where is Sasha Banks?

Lol and then they squash the champs. Wow.

It's amazing how much WWE killed EC3. Dude just got zero reaction.

Dixie Carter's baby nephew is in the house.

I wonder if there is some kind of underlying situation involving Sasha at this point, more than just the being fed up with creative. How often does WWE go to this length to smear someone?

IIconics are pretty much the female version of Elias.

Great with their shtick outside the ring but are somewhat bad once the bell rings.

So they just saved time and skipped over the middle part where people care for a bit

Alexa Bliss introduced Zayn who got a big pop. He led the crowd in an "Ole!" chant and acted like it was the coolest thing ever, despite it being tepid to anything at any sporting event. Bliss said "It must be great being in Montreal" and Zayn said he likes the city, but hates the people, *wink* *wink*. Crowd boos and Alexa says "Rude." And Zayn rips on people from Montreal and Bliss stands up for them delivering some awful lines about Zayn blaming fans.

It was not eventful.

Sami Zayn segment was good imo... not really eventful but was entertaining

And they showed a backstage "earlier today" segment with Bayley trying to call Sasha on the phone but not being able to reach her, so the IIconics made fun of her and Bayley said she'd find a new partner... Then later in the match, Graves said that Sasha "quit the game"

All the time when it was JR.

The Aussie accent is awful on TV. Not sure if it's because they are from Sydney/Melbourne or it's just because we can't talk properly.

EC3 got a shot. He wasn't very good. I mean, they could have tried harder, but they also could have not tried at all.

If Jeff Dunham coming to RAW?

Jesus Christ, they can't even make a new stupid ass buzzards video? We have to see the same one for the 3rd time?

Feel annoyed @ it being unclear who is "officially on Raw"

Because..of course

Braun gets no reaction either.

Poor EC3, looks like he was finally going to get some time to shine but now probably getting shipped back to Main Event.

wonder what EC3 did wrong backstage

I wouldn't bank on it not changing by next week, but I imagine that the wrestlers who appear on Raw this week and win are going to be on Raw moving forward, and whoever shows up on SmackDown this week are on SmackDown.

Poor EC3

When? The 2 months he spent backstage looking at himself in the mirror not talking? Or the 2 months they had him jobbing to Apollo Crews on Main Event?

Michael Cole can probably make the second coming of Jesus underwhelming.

When he got two weeks against Dean Ambrose and didn't make an impression despite all the bullshit hype about him. He wasn't exactly turning heads in NXT either.

"OH MY!!!"

True, but Graves and Young aren't much better. The commentary is objectively awful bullshit white noise.

Cole just called Becky "The Man" about eight times as "The Man" is all that is shown on the screen. I guess she's The Man?

The 2 weeks when he didn't talk and Dean treated him like a jabroni to turn back face after his horrible Bane heel gimmick? Where EC3 got a win and instantly gave it right back the next week, again without talking...

Random Eric Young draft

Wish Pat McAfee had laid Cole out backstage at WrestleMania

I find it kind of weird that Mattel does that ad where they are so pumped to have these action figures. "You two can walk out your favorite and pretend they are cutting a 20-minute promo or going 50/50 in meaningless matches!"

Lol Eric Young to Raw, by himself, not even shown on TV. WWE sure builds stars

Poor Eric Young.

Haha, welcome to Raw, Rey!

Eric Young lol

Y'all notice how Liv Morgan started doing her walk again after ABT stopped posting?