Maryse is back. Very good. And she brought her valet Mike with her.

Edge dropping an AEW reference and a John Morrison release reference in his promo.

PrettyGood segment

I do not enjoy Matt Riddle, his character is basically an over-excited six year old. Miz/Maryse's new gear looks good.

Street Profits v Alpha Academy could be a Wrestlemania worthy program. Let’s give it 7 minutes on Raw.

Garbage match there

Waste of talent

Assuming Omos eliminates AJ at the Rumble

Vince shitting on Raw’s booking lol

Just die already

Vince looking 'not great' on camera these days

I do like Austin Theory tho

Dana Brooke's superstar render on wwe dot com cracks me up

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Absolutely not interested in a Miz vs. Edge programme. A Miz/Maryse vs. Edge/Beth programme is strangely more interesting.

Although I do appreciate how hard Edge fart to came back.

Looking forward to the first ever Tag Team Blindfold Match.

That could have been bad for Damien Priest.

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Surprised they haven't changed Lynch's name to McGregor at this point ffs. :roll: All these supposed writers and the best they can do is basically copy someone in mma.

I saw a picture of Carmella & Zelina with the Women’s Tag belts and my first thought was “Nikki might be getting a phone call.”

I haven’t seen that much Becky since she’s been back, but they are clearly just trying to make her a star. Her being a “heel” seems bonkers, but if the alternative (and this shouldn’t be the alternative) is to make her “I’m just happy to be back” Becky, then this is a value add to her. I really like the presentation of her. It feels “evolved.” I don’t think the plan will be to have her be a heel for long. She might lose the belt at Mania and then “turn” the very next night.

You've spent more time sharing your thoughts and opinions about a show you don't watch. Do you realize how illogical and absurd you come across? You lack self awareness.

They have been trying to turn Becky heel since 2018. It has not and is not working. Yes she can get boos, but that is just audience participation (or piped in boos). She is still as Manchild Tony Khan would say, "over AF".

@Noid

Gable lost in a tag match against the Street Profits, he took the fall.

Can they just call her Becky McGregor at this point?


It's like someone in the back just caught up to watching his past 5 years of interactions with the general public and thought "Becky has a similar accent, let's do this!".

https://www.tpwwforums.com/showpost....postcount=1914

Indeed.:$

I know nothing of Connor McGregor so I just see Becky being entertaining and good in her role.

I'm sure I would be enjoying her a lot if I actually watched the show.

It's painfully obvious. She has to keep her shit talk "PG".... but still. Everything is a direct rip off McGregor.

I would heavily suggest that it’s Becky’s idea.

Not obvious to those of us who don't care/know how McGregor acts..... even if it is a rip off, why should I care if she is being entertaining

Wrestling is built on plagiarism.

Does McGregor have a patent on being Irish and cocky?

Not yet, the patent is pending.

its not like this is new. Billy Graham, Jesse Ventura and to a lesser extent Hulk Hogan are all knock offs of Muhammad Ali to varying degrees

if thats the perception of how a skilled fighter handles themselves culturally then it makes perfect sense to carry that into wrestling. infact its smart.

I guess it was more of "seen it already" that made me yawn.

nothings new. least of all in wrestling. theres only 7 stories after all.

I mean didn’t McGregor base his own persona off of wrestling? He’s basically doing what Ric Flair and the Rock were doing during their prime heel runs but with an Irish accent.

It’s fine.

She’s acting like a star.

Forget McGreggor, her and Seth wearing the most over the too stuff is the best gimmick going today!

Big Time Becks!

Guys, I just skimmed through the results on TPWW.net and I think it is fair to say that Monday Night RAW blew anything AEW has ever presented out of the water. I can't wait for Chad Gable and Otiz to simultaneously hold the WWE title.

Legit felt bad for Nikki tonight, not only losing her match, but then being asked by King backstage if she wanted his autograph - I don't blame her for walking away, poor girl. Maybe she'll rebound next week.

Saw Liv Morgan was trending and am surprised at how many people are mad that she didn’t win the title.

Don’t really see why anybody would think Becky is dropping the title before Mania.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see Nikki Ash released.

This psychopath really wants her gone. What a creepy old xenophobic fuck.

Otis just pinned Riddle clean and then took out Orton after the match

Let’s goooooooooooooo

I will start watching Raw again religiously if they make Alpha Academy a legitimate tag team

RKBro vs Alpha Academy vs Street Profits is the biggest “styles make fights” match in the company

Bianca and Doudrop was pretty good!

Holy shit! Did Chad Gable just pin Orton with an O’Connor roll? Jesus Christ :eek:

Liv Morgan is extremely basic in terms of mic and in-ring skills. Which means she’s perfect for the market at large.

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Holy shit man, Miz inducting himself into the Hall of Fame is about the greatest thing ever lol

Alpha Academy can save this company.

They are slow playing Omos turning on AJ pretty well, but I dont know if the likely plan of an Omos babyface run will work.

I like how the 24/7 segments have just become Reggie trying to bang Dana Brooke and Truth and Tozawa are also there in disguises cockblocking him :rofl:

I liked Liv Morgan more when she didn't speak

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The pacing thing with the entrances is really one of the dumber things they do. Having a wrestler start their entrance and then cut promos and commercials. It feels so awkward on tv, I can’t imagine how bad it looks live with the wrestler just standing in the rind for 5 minutes waiting for the promos to end.

On Smackdown last week, the Viking Raiders made their entrance before it cut to commercial. Came back to a Natalya promo and I think another promo before Jinder and what's-his-name made their entrance. Then there was another commercial before the match started.

Did Erik and Ivar stand in the ring thumping their chests going "RAID! RAID! RAID!" that whole time?

This is pretty shitty for sure. Doubly so when the 30 second-looped entrance themes started (looking at you CFO$).


House shows can be fun tho, get talent interacting more with the live crowd and being responsive. Fink was the greatest. Very humble dude. Used to holler "FINK IS THE MAAAAAAAAN!" all the time. 100% of the time the dude would interact with that.


There was one house show where I recall seeing Kane (like, the 1st mask-covering-voicebox-busted Kane) do the People's Elbow, only to be followed up by Pall Bearer doing the same thing to The Rock. Fun stuff.

They've done the whole "entrance and then segment" thing for ages, even before it was at the level it is now.

The wrestler usually just fucks around chatting with the referee and ring announcer because they all have nothing to do but wait.

Hahaha, WWE are killing themselves by focusing on presenting themselves for social media and YouTube. They are ignoring their greatest fans when they should be GRATEFUL that they are keeping them alive.

Alpha Academy has decent entrance music

Tuned in to see the Street Profits vs Mysterios match which was very good. Finish was a doomsday blockbuster which may be my favorite dumb psychology move.

A whole lot of this tonight since the only big names on the show are RKOBro, KO and AJ.

Dolph Ziggler standing in the ring for like 15 minutes after his entrance before his match...

Entrance
Commercial Break
Video Package
Backstage Interview
Commercial Break
Back to the person in the ring
Video Package
Entrance of opponent

Bad Bunny should have taught Priest some chill

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Who did Chad Gable wrestle this week?

Reading the Raw recap on WWE.com and here is how they described Edge's segment:

Jesus Christ :lol:

Lol, Eric Bischoff still yo-yoing between these companies.

This is how CBS covered it:

“Maryse has served as The Miz's ace up the sleeve in the latter's feud with Edge. Monday's episode of Raw angled the veteran to take a vampire-sized chomp out of The Miz and Maryse's morale.”

Veer is Coming graphic is Coming :rofl:

Paul Heyman already makes this easier to watch

Roman vs Brock is definetly still the WM plan

Heyman and Farmer Brock are hilarious and gold, A+ opening segment

Could see Lashley/Brock at the Rumble with Lashley actually winning via Roman interference. Then Brock assaults an Uso during their Rumble entrance, takes their spot and wins.

Whether it happens or not is one thing but Paul Heyman definitely deserves to headline the HOF one year for WWE.

That's my guess too.

Sets up Lashley/Big E rematch for WM (presumably) and Roman/Brock

I hate how much I like RKBro. They are pandering, lowest common denominator cliche bullshit. And I’m totally into it.

Matt Riddle is 'must NOT watch tv' for me

can't stand him

Matt Riddle is like if they got Orange Cassidy high and chatty :rofl:

Becky wrinkles her forehead a lot while talking...very distracting...wish she'd get botox so she couldn't move her forehead when speaking

Outside of the opener with Heyman/Brock this ep hasn't been real compelling for me personally thus far...

Even AJ Styles can't get Omos to a good match

holy shit they are giving us Lesnar/Lashley at Rumble. I'm sold on that event just for that and the rumble match itself.

I'll say this. I didn't like Big E losing his title so soon. But damn if this means we get Lesnar/Lashley and I'm guessing Lesnar/Reigns at Mania, possibly title vs title then who cares. Works way better like this.

Damn....so Lesnar is gonna confront Reigns on SD this Friday. Reigns was on there last week, but out for Day 1 so obviously he tested positive on Saturday sometime. They are going to have him back out there 6 days after testing pos. This makes me wonder if it was faked (or as they'll claim if it is, a "false positive") even more now.

I can see Heyman screwing Lesnar just to prolong the fued with Reigns until Wrestlemania.

Kinda cool to see Lashley and Lesnar finally. I bet it's a total squash though and Lesnar destroys Lashley.

This is still my prediction even though logically, there's no reason why Roman should want anything to do with Lesnar. Nor should Heyman (assuming he's still working for Roman).

Lesnar winning a belt on the other show was the perfect outcome for Roman. It creates separation between them. The last thing Roman should want to do is provoke Lesnar into coming back after him to seek revenge. There isn't a believable motivation for why he'd want to do that, other than stupidity.

I think a fake Covid thing is very unlikely. They don’t even like to acknowledge it really. And they’re publicly traded. Getting a dude with a potentially compromised immune system to fake a potentially fatal illness is just…horrible.

Reigns got it. He’s doing fine. Tough customer. Is coming back to not fuck up Mania season. They’ve just got unpredictable creative for a program that could have run into roadblocks if fans knew every beat (even if it was good). And that’s probably Heyman. The man deserves a medal. And they should really let him be involved in more things, if not the whole show.

Whole show Heyman gets to pandering. He wants to push the Buddy Murphy and the Cedric Alexander. He wants to get over with his booking. But if you can give him just the right amount he wants to get over…gold.

I thought for sure it would be Saudi. I’ll admit I was wrong. They might do something hectic like a title change and then a title change back, or a no contest that sees them both in the Rumble to really hype the Saudi match. Or the Saudi show is off.

Maybe Lashley wins at the Rumble. Not with Roman interference. He just does (maybe not cleanly, but his own shit). Brock wins the Rumble, he challenges Reigns, but he also gets a rematch with Lashley. Why? Because Heyman did his contract special. Isn’t that why he’s a free agent?

Brock and Roman for all the marbles, Lashley and Big E in a grudge that gets a tiny bit of a rub from Lashley actually getting it done against Lesnar. It enhances both matches, even if the WWE Title changes around a bit.

I always thought Lashley would win the first Lesnar match. My thinking is that Brock is just the bigger star. Plus, I think USA wants black stars. Sorry, but representation is real. Lash “gets more” from beating Brock. Ugh, but it gives Brock silly hiccups.

I don’t know. I’m thinking no contest.

Heyman's promo was a masterclass in how to promo.

LOL - watching it again and at 4:35 in the video someone can audibly be heard saying "SHUUTTT UP AND WRESSSSTLEEEE!!!!"


I will always sit and enjoy a Heyman promo.

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Last Friday was a recap show, Roman wasnt there.

Ah I didnt watch, figured it was a regular episode considering it was the night before a PPV.

I guess the most obvious thing to do if Roman doesn’t have complications and can come back is maybe to have Lashley beat Lesnar and Big E win the Rumble. That feels a bit underwhelming though. Lashley as champion to drop to Big E was a leading possibility though.

Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley face to face!

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