What the chantin

the crowd is singing its own praise

Disgusting "We Are Awesome" chant....

"WE ARE AWESOME" ... eh... not so much, getting a bit much now

nobody cares for the main event

Poor Reigns still getting booed

I liked that move from Reigns

+1

lol Big Show's spear

I believe that one was "We are awesome". They've stopped trying to reference wrestling in any way I think.

Ryback looks like Kurt Angle

DA BIG GUY

Did Ryback just do that?!?!?!

That Shellshock on Show was amazing. Why couldn't they let him do that at WM?! and still let Big Show win, but give Ryback that moment..

Saxton reminds me of the Color Commentator from Major League 2 but less funny.

<font color=goldenrod>Come on. Kane takes the RKO but totally no-sells it so he can get up and be in line for the Spear. Hate endings like that.</font>

poor Lord Byron did really poorly...

After the Sting interview, their showing the Randy Savage doc. God bless Vince McMahon and the WWE Network!

lol at the subdued "out of nowhere" from Saxton

That ending was shitte. Can't they hear everyone taking a huge dump on this dude?

Well Raw ended softly.

to be fair they would take a shit on anyone who wasn't an NXT wrestler at that point, so that doesn't tell us anything

Despite Reigns, that face team was the massive crowd favorites even with a smark crowd. Wrestling actually made sense.

Kane is an awful seller anyway, goes down on one knee for every move like that. Pedigree, RKO, you name it.

They pretty much killed the aura around the post wm raw

Shellshock to Big Show was great but King/Saxton did a really bad job hyping it.

Crowd hyped for themselves or not, still the most entertaining match involving Big Show & Kane in a long while.

So based on this entire thread, I get the sense that they started RAW on the high that was an excellent WrestleMania and amazing show ending, then spent the entire rest of the show dialing it back all the way down to normal meh rest-of-the-year WWE programming. And now we're back at ho hum.

when you've been the company's whipping boy for as long as he has and mired in midcard hell your entire career, you're allowed to take moves off IMO

Hang on, the sting interview is in-ring. Cool.

P.S. The dial was Saxton.

Best since that one match where they randomly decided to be mat technicians and it was hilariously awkward.

Honestly Saxon killed a ton of momentum on the broadcast. May have been much better in person.

one of the title matches should have closed the show

The show definitely climaxed at the start of Hour 2, like this:

http://i44.tinypic.com/5pihjb.jpg

Lesnar murdering everyone was obviously going to be way better than the main event. I think the show would have probably gon ea bit better had they not tried to have Byron Unisom Saxton try to pull a Joey Styles.

Cena/Ambrose was a really good match that did more for Ambrose than anything in the past four months, but, you know, you couldn't tell based on Saxton calling a fucking golf tournament.

Divas match was great, and people are starting to care.

Main event was decent, but given the rest of the show up to that point--and especially the first hour--a generic six man tag between guys where half the guys are generally greeted with apathy isn't going to compare.

All said, this is still a better 24+ hours than WWE has put out in a long long time. I'd say all of Mania and at least the first half of this show buys enough good will for them to skate by with a bit of a drop off in hour three.

Just never ever ever put Byron Saxton out there alone--or ever--again.

That was awesome, wasn't that the lead in for the May 19th crap?

See addendum to my statement. :)

<font color=goldenrod>LOL Bo Dallas</font>

Money in the Bank lol

Bo Dallas.. fuck you, WWE

LOL STING BETTER BOLIEVE

IT'S HAPPENING.

Yeah guys, if you have the network, raw kinda isn't over.

lol I think so. Wanna go find and watch that now.

did that mean he's done?

Bo Dallas looks like Carlito with normal hair

Bo Dallas pleading for his life into his microphone as a Scorpion Death Drop awaited him was great. Not victory lap through a bull great, but pretty good.

I'm watching the hall of fame.

Sting def not done. Word.

does this mean Taker at WM?

If the idea was to sell the Lesnar carnage as a really heinous thing, doing the somber thing with Saxton was initially good. Problem was they dragged it on way too long and should have ended once King showed up.

Either have King be the one to bring back the commentary to normal or send out a new team earlier. Saxton isn't good enough yet to pull the somber style or announce by himself.

Pretty much.

It's Bo Time Folks.

I didn't know The Genius was MachoMan's brother

<font color=goldenrod>Pretty much. Saxton coming in didn't help matters. Have no complaints from a match standpoint, though. Ziggler/Bryan, the 8-man tag, Cena/Ambrose were all good. The divas tag dragged at bits but at least they're given proper time. Main event had its moments.

Glad Sheamus is back as a heel. He looks like an idiot, but heel Sheamus will freshen him up nicely.

I presume we're getting Rollins/Orton or Rollins/Reigns for the belt at Extreme Rules.

All told I could see myself going back to DVRing Raw so I can watch the good matches and skip through the filler. I think the PPV could be good...most of the PPVs last year delivered except for TLCS that I remember.</font>

Byron Saxton basically took a shit and then farted over the entire mood of the show.

Things chanted during the main event:

Worse than Cena
Don't tag Reigns
NXT
Hideo
Finn
How you doin'?
Breeze is gorgeous
Sami Zayn
Kevin Owens
We want Ryback
Same old shit
Please retire
CM Punk
This is boring
We are awesome

I did not like the last one.

I've lost my voice. Lot of young Cena fans eyeballing me

cause you had no voice to chant it Poit?

No. It's a terrible chant.

So I wasn't high, I thought some of this shit was being said.

I hear the drums echoing tonight

Looks like Naomi is finally getting a title push.

Tonight had two main goals, I think.

1) Write Brock Lesnar off so that people are even more feverish for him to come back and maul Seth Rollins.

2) Somehow convince the world that the usual Raw commentary team isn't that bad.

INFINITE CHECKMARKS.

Byron Saxton should be fired. That was absolutely fucking horrible. Fail.

Who would be ready to do that job without a real seat standing the whole time? Nah.

Sting should have never gone to the WWE, he was right to stay away all those years. They're ruining him more every time he appears.

Brock freaking out may be my favorite moment in all of the modern era or whatever

So fucking sick

Since you complained about Rollins' 4 and 46 record being misleading since it included house shows

Roman Reigns was 44-6 going back to August on TV PPV

I'm not sure how the show came across on television, I had a great time. Will go through the highlights.

Poor Byron.

"Here comes Rusev....maybe not...we were expecting Rusev..." :rofl:

I was making my way back from the washroom when I heard "you suck Cena", "you suck Bryan", and "you suck Tyson" chants (for the respective ladies) in the arena. It was ridiculously amusing.

The kids sitting next to me were confused as hell when I was marking out for Neville.

lol

Don't forget "you suck Uso".

I missed that one :p

It was tits

Energetic RAW. Loved it.

* With the Divas getting time, I wouldn't be opposed to them getting to do their own Ladder Match at Extreme Rules. It'd be a novel concept, given that the main roster ladies have never had a chance to do anything of the sort.

* They'll probably do some sort of multi-man main at Extreme Rules, but at this point I'd rather they had Randy Orton face Rollins one-on-one and have Ryback & Reigns take on Big Show & Kane.

* I cannot believe just how well Kalisto went down. This was a great way to debut him. Cesaro is a fantastic choice to play against him right now. Tyson Kidd will also have great matches with him. Let them tear it up and have Lucha Dragons face Cesaro & Kidd at the PPV. Cesaro & Kidd can win that match and sell the Dragons as a major threat. They might be ready to take the titles as early as Payback, but I imagine The Usos will be back in the chase then too.

* I really want them to go further with Cena vs. Ambrose. Imagine that Chicago crowd in Ambrose's corner at Extreme Rules? Have Ambrose beat Harper in a #1 Contender's Match and have Cena be all respectful towards Ambrose, but Ambrose is all "Don't give me that, give me a fight!" Have Cena lock in the STF and choke Ambrose out at the PPV to retain.

* Rusev should have been kept off TV after his loss to Cena. Sell it like losing shook Rusev's entire world to the ground. Have him keep working on things, but also move his character into darker territory so when he is ready to return, people can buy him wanting to kill Cena.

Surprised to see Ryback cheered by this crowd

I'm not. He's The Ryback. Even smark crowds can't bring themselves to shit on him.

Any one here think Saxton was bad to help convey the gravity of the situation that took place?

I feel like Vince was in his ear saying, "don't get excited, some shit just went down."

I only watched the first hour though, so I'm not sure how the rest went.

lol

That's obviously what he was doing, but for fuck's sake don't pull the faux-tragedy angle on arguably the most important Raw of the year.

Feel like Paul Heyman should have done commentary for the rest of the evening with Brock by his side. Could have made for AMAZING commentary and tense moments during the 6 man clusterfuck.

Well I think they should have done it, but only for one segment. It went on for way to long.

I think the idea was that if the audience at home falls asleep they can't turn the channel.

Yeah I felt the same way. If they're gonna do it, have it last til like the next commercial break, not a full damn hour or whatever.


Kind of ironic that they had to have King come out to comment in this situation, considering the last time (that I remember) the "somber tone" of the announcers was when King himself almost actually fucking died on commentary.

<font color=goldenrod>That was one of, if not the most uncomfortable Raws I can remember. They decided to not have any commentary out of respect for King, they only cut to Cole when he'd have updates on King's condition.

Just hearing the matches with zero commentary made it feel like you were there live. But what was really weird was when they'd show the PPV hype graphics and such and you'd just hear the PPV theme but no commentary over the top to explain the feud, etc.</font>

Incredible moment. I really loved with Rollins flipped out of the suplex then bicycle kicked Lesnar like "hell yeah", then Lesnar just bounced off the ropes and looked at him like "for real?". Amazing stuff.

I love the hearty chuckle Brock had at the Suplex City chant

I kinda want to go back and watch this now, to see how it was on TV.

If you put it on in the background, Byron's dulcet tones will put you to sleep

So Brock was in Offense and Defense mode....when he comes back will it be Murder mode?

I'll switch my Brock Lesnar to murder mode and end my turn.

Fuck I hate those douchebag crowds so much

i thought the crowd last night was better than most of these crowds until the "we are awesome" chant. that was weak as fuck.

yeah that was the breaking point for me